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Cecelia/Pipes She/Her AO3: ClearedPipes FFN: ClearedPipes

[clearedpipes]

All about me and Pipes' Directory

Well, hello Tumblr in general and writeblr in particular! Had this account for a while (Branding is important), and with the return of my enter key I can actually format this stuff appropriately!

So heya! I'm Cecelia/ClearedPipes, I'm British and all of 23 years old! I use she/her pronouns, and am an employed individual (So may not be available 24/7).

I read the Hunger Games for the first time at 12, and have spent a hell of a long time since (from ~15) reading the fanfiction people produce! I started properly publishing it in June of 2024, and that's (not) all she wrote)! My AO3 and FFN accounts are both ClearedPipes, and how I got to that name is courtesy of a not so long story I've prepared to post on Friday, June 13th 2025 (my 1 year anniversary)I am also a District 1 (Hunger Games) enthusiast, so treat that as you will!

Outside of the Hunger Games, well. I'm soon to be engaged to a lovely woman, my favourite musical artists are too diverse to talk about in certainty (Amelie Farren, Nightwish and Ramin Djawadi being my 3 most listened artists speaks to this), and my favourite books are Angels and Demons, The Hunger Games (hope you'd expected this) and the ASOIAF set. Stannis Baratheon haters DNI (For legal reasons this is a joke).

In visual media, my favourite movies are The Rock (1996), National Treasure 1/2 and the first 4 Pirates of the Caribbean because 5 is... also there. My favourite shows are Game of Thrones, The X-Files, Doctor Who and Andor (Arcane is also up there)

I'd expect most of you are here for the writing, which I do way too much of. I've got a few active projects at the moment (Albeit have fully handled one of them and got it all predone), so that's fun! Posting dates for my big fics are every Friday (Alternating between LIAB and NBC), so that's when you can expect me to get handling things!

Pipes' Mainline (Canon-Compliant until SOTR hits like a plane into a tower)

None By Chance

This is my main one. My firstborn daughter, arguably the one I love the most, and the one that's expected to be the longest (Current projection is 432,000 words). An anthology of the Victors between the 1st and 75th Games, and providing a glance into their world because they need that glance.

None by Chance AO3 None by Chance FFN

Lightning in a Bottle

My second child, and one I've spent significant time writing to make sure it's all ready for posting ^^. The story of the 67th Games, and one girl's journey through it, written as an addition to None by Chance.

Lightning in a Bottle AO3 Lightning in a Bottle FFN

Pipes' Secondary Line (Written in a divergent universe from canon, so the stuff is not Canon-Compliant)

Mentor's Guide to the Reaping

Lol guys what if mentors had a little guide to make sure they stayed on track with what the Capitol expected of them? Well, it was certainly fun to write, and helped me canonize a lot of details, so that's that!

Guide to the Reaping AO3 Guide to the Reaping FFN

TFIMW: I promised this for 31st January 2025, so until then I'll leave y'all with a nice beefy lore document to tide you over!

Justice's monthly prompt sets!

SunnyJustice popped out some incredible sets of prompts in Careertober and Tributember, so I've thus far been endeavouring to follow them to get lore all handled for TFIMW! I will also promise that there are spoilers for both of my longfics in here, so do read with warning!

Valiant: Careertober (AO3) Valiant: Careertober (FFN)

Viable: Tributember (AO3) Viable: Tributember (FFN)

And that's all, folks! If you have gotten to the end, many congratulations, and feel free to HMU here or elsewhere!

Until next time, Pipes out!

[grimmscythe]

Reblog to cast heal on prev

[clearedpipes]

6, 13, 27 & 31! :)

6. What moment do you feel is underappreciated?

Well, ignoring that there's a lot (/lh), I think that specifically for Mockingjay; Madge's dying is glossed over a lot relative to the other 'original' friend in Gale leaving and frankly I think that's a travesty. Like - Madge ;-;.

13. What's your all time favourite fic?

Going to call up a currently updating one - Kiliflower's Champion is so fun! Same format as Chance as a Victors fic, and he's doing brilliantly! It's a redux of an original and I love it so very much!

27. Do you have a WIP you'd like to share

Legally banned from posting content, but I have a couple I'm working towards at the moment (WIPs Georg)

For the 7th of May 2027 (coming soon) should be the first chapter of 12 in an anthology tentatively titled Ascendancy - covering the events that took place on the final day of the war/first day of the peace in each District (canon compliant)! From first to last - so starting in 8, going through 6, 11 and so on through to the Capitol, and then beyond - holdouts in 2, 5, 10.

Heart of Darkness, with a posting date of [WHENEVER] is to be the second post-Fish-Fic - covering the 99th Games, through the Victor's eyes, straight to the 3rd of July before the 100th Games. Then (I intend) Deliverance is to cover the 100th to the 3rd of July, 101 is unnamed before 102 and Lucifer's Court, so on and so forth to 108 and (tentatively) No Songs Sung.

There is also a Victor fic for Fish but no comment on who c:.

31. Do you have an opinion that changed over the years?

Hahahahha yes. Many.

The one I'll talk about here is Annie, though - because I lowkey saw her as an aid to Finnick's story at first. Last couple of years have seen me drastically hook up my views of her competence and her, up to now where. Well, I'd argue my Finnick is actually less competent relative to Annie - and I do think I've thought more critically about the impact her disability has on her.

Also Cashmere's involvement in the rebellion - with how I've treated One's rebellion I've gone back and forth with how I've viewed Cashmere in relation to the rebellion and her fellow Victors (particularly Citrine, Eden, Palladium, Laurel and Sable - One's rebel court). Finally settled on her mirroring (in the literal sense) the course of how I have Cecelia and Blight go - aligning with the rebellion at first (naturally) and then trying to bow out when the 75th is announced and the stakes get *real*.

Ask Game!

[peaonfire]

THG Fandom ask game

I love a good ask game, and I thought this would be a good idea to get people to interact a bit more! Send an ask and reblog to get questions yourself <3

Most questions work for other fandoms as well, so do with that what you will ;)

What's your favourite memory connected to the hunger games?

What's a moment that made you gasp?

What's your favourite moment in the books?

What's your favourite moment in the movies/something the movies did well?

What's your favourite line from the books?

What moment do you feel is underappreciated?

What advice would you give to which character (can be at any point in the books)?

What's your favourite ship?

What's your second favourite ship?

Which book is your favourite?

Which book have you read the most?

You're going to a concert and you have a spare ticket! Which caracter are you inviting to come along? And where are you going?

What's your all time favourite fic?

What fic are you currently reading?

What's your favourite fic/fanart/post etc. that you made?

What's your favourite fanfiction trope?

Who's your favourite character?

Who's your least favourite character?

What's a fic from your tbr?

You walk into a bar, there are 3 empty seats next to (character A, character B, and character C). Where do you sit?

What's your favourite headcanon?

What's your least favourite headcanon?

What's a take you've seen that you disagree with?

If you were a tribute, what would your strategy in the arena be?

What's your honest opinion on (character or ship)?

Badly describe a character of your choice. People have to guess who you mean in the comments.

Do you have a WIP you'd like to share?

Who would be the big spoon, (character A) or (character B)?

What is a fic you wish existed?

Who's a person in the fandom you've been too shy to talk to yet?

Do you have an opinion that changed over the years?

Which character's personality is most like your own?

Fuck, marry, kill, (character A, B, and C)?

[clearedpipes]

Feel like I should offer this up - I've got a lot of thoughts on this fandom, and am more than happy to talk through them ^^

[midwinterhunt]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[narrettwist]

Homie gonna share this

[clearedpipes]

Catch up Game

Tagged by: @foxiesashum

🎵 last song I listened to: Royal Pain by Serenity: Everyone go listen to it now I love music that has historical reference

📺 last series: The X-Files! Specifically S4E24, Gethsemane!

🎬 last movie: I rewatched National Treasure (my favourite movie ever even if it is completely stupid). Looking forward to seeing Mandalorian and Grogu later this month ^^

🏅best thing about the last month: Got approved for my PhD inclusive funding ^^ Which is very exciting

📚currently reading: I'm rereading Starfighters of Adumar (Aaron Allston) for some light fun! More seriously, I'm about halfway through Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe and it's one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever read.

👾 currently working on: Chance's 45th Games (featuring a certain Canon Victor) and screwing up the courage for the bloodbath of To Fish in Murky Waters (Submit your Own Tribute) to start in earnest.

🌶️ sweet/spicy/savory?: Feed me all the sweet - I love sweet and have a dreadful sweet tooth I fear.

🎨 favorite color: Deep Purple. Like Royal Purple but darker!

🤩 current obsession: Portuguese history (specifically the early voyaging into the Indian Ocean)

☕️ tea or coffee?: Coffee - Black and Sweet, but Coffee is the only answer I have.

🌐 last internet search: Mohyliv-Podilskyi as part of some fic-related research I'm doing

Tagging @frolicinaforest @yawningautumn @salemscafe and anyone else who wants to join in

[melovibes57]

Happy international Asexual day 🙌🏽

A message from Yasmin Benoit and The Humans Right Campaign on IG

[atleasttheyvegotstars]

uk friends, don’t wake up friday wishing you’d done more to stop reform. remember your photo id and vote against them to save lives 🌟

[ryan-sometimes]

One of my biggest “tinfoil hat” conspiracy theories that I believe with my whole chest is that many, if not most, of the beauty standards surrounding women’s bodies are artificially plugged into the media by abusers whose sole purpose is to make women as easy to oppress as possible. They tell you that you should be delicate and skinny because it’s harder to fight back that way.

[zonky420]

i think one of the main issues with britain rn, is that we as a society are so obsessed, with "catching out" people who, "arent really disabled" or, "arent really trans" or, "dont really need benefits", that weve constructed the entire system around those things, to actively harm people who really do need help, just to get at a vanishingly small percentage of people who dont.

[binarisunset]

you weren't "tricked by the Capitol's propaganda" for believing Haymitch's games went the way they did for so many years. the author just rewrote the story she had presented initially in a very weak attempt to portray an example of propaganda, but she sure as hell wasn't thinking about it when she first wrote about Haymitch's games in Catching Fire.

that was the original story. you weren't tricked by any propaganda for believing it. that's the original story the author wrote. what she's doing now is a retcon. which is okay, happens all the time in other franchises. but the way y'all are making it look like it was intentional, like it was a stroke of brilliance from her part is not it. it's just a retcon. a bad one at that, that undermines a lot of the themes and characters and dynamics from the original trilogy, but a retcon all the same.

[stealingpotatoes]

Honestly my personal favourite interpretation of how the OT trio line up with the sequel trio will always be

Luke = Finn

Leia = Poe

Rey = Han

idk why my first thought was "well now ive gotta draw them as that one tremendously slutty ANH poster from the 70s" but anyway that's what happened

(commission info // tip jar!)

[clementine-kesh]

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

[clementine-kesh]

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

[black-quadrant]

when in doubt about whether or not to make a thing, do it for your 3 hardcore fans.

[black-quadrant]

nothing is too niche. even if it's 1 person. even if the 1 person is you. just create. make it exist.

[clearedpipes]

Heart of darkness 👀? (for the ask game)

Finally got to this ^^

Heart of Darkness is a (very WIP) fic about the 99th Games, taking place on a year's timeframe from March 4th of 99 PTD (0 PTD being Jan 1st, the day the Treaty of Treason was signed, and 1 PTD having ths first Games) through to July 3rd of the following year ^^. Legally not allowed to comment on how the Victor is, but I will say it explores something I will admit I have not explored enough - in a lot of depth (District 1 my classist beloved).

[writes-too-much]

For every ___, I'll headcanon about ___

👑 a Victor (Games/arena-vibes)

🫂 a friendship (not necessarily a ship-ship)

🫦 a ship

🧠 the Games (arenas, Mentorship, banquets, idk)

👨‍👩‍👦 a Victor's parents/family

✍️ the govt of Panem

👩‍🏫 a Victor's training (even if not Career, just something that helped them prepare for the arena)

💅 a Victor's talent

😶‍🌫️ a Victor's bad coping mechanisms

🕰️ post-MJ/Rebellion (you specify if my lore or the canon)

🕯️ fuck, marry, kill (give me 3 characters AND who's answering (can be another character or myself, idc))

🫆 for a District fact

🤬 for something I hate about ___ (you give me character or topic)

For all of these, YOU specify the topic (Victor, District, etc) or I'm going to. And that's a threat. And please do share/steal!! <3

[ringofthenibelung-blog]

The portrayal of President Coriolanus Snow in Sunrise on the Reaping is not a revelation of the man from the original trilogy—it is a replacement wearing his face. This is not character development. It is character demolition. The only thing the two versions of Snow share is the name.

The Snow of the original series was many things: cruel, authoritarian, manipulative, and morally bankrupt in countless ways. But he was never incompetent, never erratic, and never reduced to a slobbering caricature of villainy. He ruled Panem for roughly three decades. You do not maintain power over a fractured, resentful nation for that long through random tantrums and cartoon sadism. You do it through intelligence, discipline, patience, and a terrifying understanding of systems. Original Snow was a strategist. He knew how to calibrate fear, privilege, spectacle, and scarcity so that the machine kept running.

That is what made him effective as an antagonist. He was dangerous because he was believable.

Even in Mockingjay, where his crimes are undeniable, he is not written as a mindless monster. He clearly loves his granddaughter. That single detail matters because it proves some ember of human attachment still exists inside him. He also genuinely appears to believe that his tyranny is necessary—that without brutal order, society collapses into chaos. Twisted? Absolutely. But it is still a worldview, still a framework, still the kind of self-justifying logic real rulers use.

And then there is his honesty with Katniss. Snow lies through institutions, propaganda, and coercion—but in his direct conversations with her, he treats truth almost as a personal code. A warped code, yes, but a code nonetheless. He wants to be seen as the man who understands reality better than everyone else. That consistency gave him texture. It made him more than a stock despot.

Now compare that with Sunrise on the Reaping.

There, Snow is stripped of calculation, dignity, restraint, and coherence. He is no longer the glacial statesman who weaponized order; he is rendered as a grotesque farce, a shrieking bundle of impulses whose behavior resembles a total breakdown rather than the mind of a long-standing autocrat. The sharp edges of his intellect are sanded off and replaced with spectacle. The moral rationalizations are gone. The poise is gone. The sense of a man who could actually run a country is gone.

What remains is a parody.

It is the difference between a chess player and someone flinging pieces across the room. Between a serpent and a foam rubber prop. Between a ruler whose evil emerged from control and a buffoon whose evil emerges from nonsense.

And that loss matters. Villains become memorable not when they are merely disgusting, but when they are formidable. Original Snow was formidable. He embodied the terrifying idea that cruelty can be orderly, intelligent, and stable. Sunrise on the Reaping trades that chilling complexity for cheap grotesquerie.

So no—this is not the same Coriolanus Snow. It is a counterfeit assembled from exaggeration and noise. The original Snow was a ruthless architect of oppression. The retconned Snow is a hollow impersonation, stomping around in borrowed shoes.