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[familywhitesilk]

My first winter without you

[kittiescat444]

Bonnie and Twill are such important characters to me and I think they should’ve been included in the movies. For one, they’re from the first district that started the uprising. Second, they’re the whole reason Katniss thinks about District 13 possibly somewhat thriving. They are just sooo important and I’m so upset that they’re not in Catching Fire because they’re so crucial. At least, to me they are.

[district8workitearnit]

I’ve seen people talk about this already and do a better job than me but it’s crazy to me how the Hunger Games series started out with a very beautifully written complex female protagonist in Katniss but now it seems to mostly center the male characters of Snow and Haymitch. I really blame SOTR for this, TBOSAS may have had Snow as the narrator but Lucy Gray was central to the story and despite Snow’s obsession with her we still got to see her as a full person with a personality of her own.

It really is sad to me that we don’t get that with Lenore Dove, she seems to exist mostly just as Haymitch’s idea of her that she’s infatuated with. People ack like Haymitch’s love for LD is more wholesome but in my reading he is just as possessive of her as Snow is of Lucy Gray honestly. And he is every bit just loving an idea of her and not really seeming to bother to truly know her as Snow is. I wish we had gotten to see more of her as herself not just his idealization. She deserved better than just existing to serve his plot.

Overall SOTR seems to make Haymitch central in everything and suddenly everything is about him. Katniss’s allies have to have been Haymitch’s allies, her dad has to have been Haymitch’s bestie, Katniss herself has to remind him of Louella. She can’t have shit of her own. Or else everything is about Snow and his inability to get over his situationship. It’s very frustrating. Before SOTR characters like Lucy Gray and Katniss were the heart of the story but now the men are centered instead while Lenore Dove is such a comparatively flat character. And Collins now seems only interested in flattening her female characters into a monolith instead of celebrating what makes each unique.

Honestly it also illuminates an existing tendency in the fandom to be centering male characters over the female ones (Peeta and Finnick are great examples of this happening) but SOTR makes it worse because the narrative actively makes everything about him. I do think despite there being much that was amazing about the first 4 books there was always still misogyny there, there’s plenty to talk about with that, but SOTR just was especially bad and the lack of interesting writing made it more prominent.

[yantarnii]

Retro guardians as school girls! 🧚🏻‍♀️

[official-skips]

had a stroke of genius earlier today with the upcoming release of Zibai

[kymikymber]

I host a small show at my Telegram Channel with music and Dushek, some have been written: Chewing gum – Noize MC.

This art is my representation of this pair under the chosen song.

__________

У себя в тгк сделала челлендж на песню и Душек, некоторые скинули: Жвачка – Noize MC. Этот арт моё представление душек под эту песню)

[bandaalarga]

Whatever, man...

[vermivox]

// genshin leaks

dottolone is soo doomed yaoi. what do you mean your man died of old age but his clones kept you immortal by his request. and you had to have a close personal relationship with them for probably hundreds of years while knowing they are just a shadow of the man you loved. and now they are gone too, and without them, you will slowly age and die

[nomohmoss]

she's the fire he's the smoke

[spicymochi]

your month, your seal!

[wnwnmemo]

[tigerbaulm]

smea cmreaturem

[most-adoptable-grown-man-contest]

Most Adoptable Grown Man Contest - Round 2, Poll 52

Which grown man is more adoptable?

Sword - Phighting!

Olegsey Dushnov/Elijah Douchnov - My Student Spirit/дух моей общаги

Voting ended onJun 8

Got the Olegsey image from last round's propaganda for him because...idk this just makes him look more like a lil fella and I like that. The propaganda people submit is often an opportunity for me to find better images than Google gives me

[literaljeanregrettedblog]

VOTE FOR THIS LIL' GUY!!!

[llamathilde-art]

teaching her how to shoot 🏹

Katniss and Madge, from Catching Fire

[hirsuteandcute]

I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.

[most-adoptable-grown-man-contest]

Most Adoptable Grown Man Contest - Round 2, Poll 52

Which grown man is more adoptable?

Sword - Phighting!

Olegsey Dushnov/Elijah Douchnov - My Student Spirit/дух моей общаги

Voting ended onJun 8

Got the Olegsey image from last round's propaganda for him because...idk this just makes him look more like a lil fella and I like that. The propaganda people submit is often an opportunity for me to find better images than Google gives me

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.