hyperfocus queen

late twenties, undiagnosed ADHD, obsessed with a bunch of random things, acute vitamin D deficiency.. she/her, Taurus

[darkorchiid]

🖋️ Of Magic, Minds, and Shadows – Chapter 3 is now live!✨

“Tell me to stop.” Musa’s eyes lifted slowly to meet his, her head tilting as her lips curved into a smile that was half challenge, half promise. His heart skipped a beat, then started hammering away in his chest as Riven sucked in a breath, bracing himself for her response. “Why would I do that?”

Season's greetings lovies, consider this my (non-official) HEX gift to my FTWS community🎁🧚🏻‍♀️

Wishing you all the best for the coming year (and looking forward to all that HEX deliciousness!)💞✨

🖇️ Read now on AO3

[stuckinapril]

Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

[stuckinapril]

She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real

[mintedwitcher]

read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.

our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

[relentlessescapism]

- Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

[darkorchiid]

🖋️ Of Magic, Minds, and Shadows – Chapter 2 is now live!✨

As shadows encroach upon the Otherworld, Musa’s powers grow stronger and strange things begin to happen, pulling her into a web of visions and haunting dreams.

Riven, always walking his own path, finds himself drawn to the mind fairy who hides more than she reveals. Thrust together—and with the help of their friends—they uncover a darkness far more complex than they ever anticipated as they search for the exiled Dragon Flame.

In a world where secrets carry weight and trust is rare, they must decide what they’re willing to risk… and if the bond growing between them can withstand the shadows closing in.

🖇️ Read now on AO3

[theconcealedweapon]

Yet again, more proof that capitalism was never about "freedom" or "small government".

[theconcealedweapon]

[whydousernamesevenexist]

*listening to music* hey that was a fic title

[simsfindsdotcom]

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[theconcealedweapon]

[theconcealedweapon]

[existennialmemes]

The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

[a-list-of-moods]

They’re gonna start with trans folks and then use that as a precedent for the rest of us. Don’t let them establish that precedent.

Frankly, we should care about trans people and not have to say that it’s going to extend to everyone else to make people listen, but it’s also important that people do know this.

Remember that one poem?

“First they came for the Jews, and I did not stand up because I was not Jewish…”

You know how the rest goes. You know how it ends:

“When they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.”

So stand up now before it can get to that.

[shadowofnight]

FTWS Rewatch Promptfest: Aster Dell

[bakedgoodsforbucky]

Thinking about tbosas from the other perspective is so funny to me because imagine you’re Lucy Gray and the way you make a living is by singing and being a charming, charismatic performer. The people in your district love you, you have a nice family, sure your parents are dead but things aren’t so bad.

Then you get Reaped because your boyfriend cheated on you - so now you have to fight for your life in an arena.

When you get to the Capitol you’re met by a guy around your age who says his job is to take care of you in the arena, so you figure you should probably use some of those charms you live by on him so you have a better chance at survival. So you flirt with him a little, save his life etc. It works! He helps you! Now you’ve won the Hunger Games! You get to go home and see your family! Thank you random Capitol guy for your help, bye bye now.

And then you’re singing on stage, with your family who you literally killed people to see again, thrilled to be alive and this fuckin Capitol guy has followed you home.

Oh and also he’s a peacekeeper now so is legally allowed a gun.

And now he kind of won’t leave you alone - the charm worked too well and he’s obsessed with you. Brilliant. But you’re a survivor. So you let him get closer, just enough to feel safe. And as you get to know him better, maybe you’re thinking, hey this guy isn’t so bad, he’s kind of cute with his buzzcut and he seems to really like you, maybe this could be something. Also it might be useful to have a peacekeeper on side - everything in your district is about survival.

Things are going well, you write a song about him, he cries, your little cousin loves him.

And then he murders someone in front of you and you’re like oh shit he crazy. And THEN you realise that because of the person he murdered, the mayor is now out for your blood and you’re probably gonna die so you have to get out of there ASAP so you say bye to this guy and he INVITES HIMSELF TO YOUR ESCAPE PLAN and you have to be like “oh sure, that’s super news, would absolutely love to have you along with me, I’m so glad you asked.” So now you’re stuck with him again.

And THEN you’re in the middle of escaping and he fuckin tells you he’s murdered an extra person you didn’t know about and when you ask him who, he says his old self and now you’re thinking oh shit he CRAZY crazy. And THEN he finds the gun he used and you realise that if he destroys that evidence then you’re the only loose end and he has a kind of crazy look in his eye so you’re like, okay time to nip this in the bud, I’m outta here gotta go pick some katniss. So you run away from him and THEN he follows you again and fuckin shoots at you so you run FASTER and now you’ve disappeared and no one will ever find out what happened to you which drives him absolutely crazy for 60+ years.

Oh and also they’re going to erase all footage of your Games so no one will remember you and he’s going to become a tyrannical dictator who has personal beef with three different sixteen year olds from your district over the years, all because you hurt his feelings one time.

[briarlovesclara]

Haymitch who knows something is wrong with Coin's government from the get go, but can't say anything until they've won. Haymitch who swears he has the piece of evidence that will cement this somewhere in his mind as Katniss recovers from her burns, but can't quite place it. Who shakes Plutarch's hand even though something in him is screaming not to (even more than usual).

Haymitch who meets Katniss's eyes as she votes yes to another Hunger Games, knowing instantly she is trying to tell him something. Haymitch who, the moment she mentions Prim, finally sees it-- can almost picture the meeting between Coin and Plutarch, can see the Gamemaker's stamp as easily as if it had been on screen as the children exploded. The live broadcast. The flair. The silver parachutes. He sees is all, and he looks at Katniss and he knows she knows, and Peeta is screaming at him in his ears and he knows he DOESN'T know, because this is how Haymitch and Katniss will always communicate. Haymitch who, of course, votes yes.

[seaglassdinosaur]

The doubling of tribute numbers. The miscarried Abernathy twins. The Donner sisters who Haymitch carries a fascination for as consequence. Louella being replaced by Lou Lou, a name that only mimics the first half of her name, and a girl who matches her in appearance only. Tam Amber’s set of pins, one dropped down a well, the other discarded. The two versions of the games: the one that Haymitch remembers and the edited, falsified version of them without the real content. The two bags of gumdrops. The fraternal affection he feels for Louella and Lou Lou, the artificial twins, and Maysilee’s offer to be his sister—the second one she gives in the book. A bond with a real twin, both pairs healing the sisters he never did know. The split between what is natural and what is manufactured or forged, bonds that that grow on their own, or are forced into existance. And if the distinction makes any difference to the person it impacts.

[dramaticallychill]

a thing that i particularly love about the hunger games prequels is how it shows that people have been fighting against the games since their inception

when i was younger and read the original trilogy for the first time i was so bothered how it was 74 years of games, i remember thinking how could it have gone on so long without anyone doing anything

these prequels highlight that people have been fighting from the get-go: lucy gray's defiance, reaper ripping down panem's flags to cover the fallen tributes, haymitch's games and how many others shared his ideologies - the capitol just drowns them out, they rewrite their stories so their efforts are forgotten

liberation takes time and it's built upon the actions of those in the past

[eaglerayys]

Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.