District Four Mermaid

Maural. 30. Lover of The Hunger Games and the ocean. Art blog is @deepgrotto

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[thepigeonsart]

I want to make like a series of illustrations of hunger games characters as I saw them in the book, anyways Prim is the first one cause I love her and I never draw her

[heavenpureheart]

[requiem-on-water]

Gerhard Marx / Cumulus / 2011

[wovi]

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems; “Penis Blues”

[meangirlnurse]

fascinating how often men expect women to sympathize with their fears of being perceived as or treated like a woman

[meangirlnurse]

so much "masculinity" is constructed around the certainty that being gay or being a woman is inherently demeaning. and we're supposed to nod along supportively

[meangirlnurse]

"male loneliness crisis" ok so like.....what would happen if you started acting like a better friend to other men in your life? what's stopping you? is it the fear of being perceived as one of your inferiors?

[meangirlnurse]

"men aren't allowed to show emotions" ok so like…..what would happen if you started being more emotionally expressive? what's stopping you? is it the fear of being perceived as one of your inferiors?

[meangirlnurse]

#patriarchy hurts men #patriarchy hurts boys

i think you've VERY fundamentally misunderstood the point of my post tbh

men and boys first and foremost hurt themselves to avoid being perceived as their lessers (i.e. women and gay men)

they could stop. but the punishment is being perceived as one of us, and that would be just terrible. so they won't.

[kickair8p]

“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.”

— The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004), p. 66, by bell hooks

So, yeah, those tags seem to me to be reasonably related to your point.

[meangirlnurse]

yes, your tags would be appropriate for an entirely different person's book. not my post. well observed

the entire point of the of the post is that i'm not going to sympathize with men experiencing "rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem" when that self-esteem is built on and maintained by the foundational belief they must be inherently superior to me

if they gave up that belief, those "rituals" would have very little power. but they clearly understand that they benefit from patriarchy more than they are harmed by it, which is why they won't let it go

hope this helps

[dragon-png]

nodding my head to show that i approve of all the shitty things this character has done because i'm a bad person

[aldoodles]

Guess what I’m rereading yet again

[districtfourmermaid]

Watched the Avatar Aang movie tonight, and my husband mentioned that the creators had a hard time not conflicting with Korra canon. I had one of those Elle Woods moments, "What, like it's hard?" Just don't kill anyone who lives, don't keep anyone who isn't there, turn significant events or people into dark secrets, keep sensitive information within the inner circle. Bing bang boom.

[its-not-fate-its-destiny]

Fandoms stopped being a fun escape from reality when people started spreading the belief that you should prioritize purity over pleasure and the art you create must be a reflection of your moral standards at all times.

[sokapolka]

The prettiest songbird in all the lands 🕊️🌈😻

Book Lucy gray is so colorful and fun I love her 💖💖

Idk what else to say… love ya 😽💕

[ryebreadgf]

[sashadechagny]

“𝚂𝚑𝚎’𝚜 𝚊 𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚟𝚘𝚛, 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚎.” — 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙷𝚄𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 𝙶𝙰𝙼𝙴𝚂

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I’m so excited to finally be able to share my completed 74th Arena costume! I’ve been dreaming of putting this together since the films first came out however I didn’t have money or skill set to do so… now that I can, I’m just over the moon with how everything came together!

I also decided to keep my hair and makeup as simple and very “book” in appearance as I decided to embrace my Indigenous features for a character I’ve always felt seen by.

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Jacket is the NECA Replica sourced from EBay

Boots are the screen used Vintage Shoe Company “Jennifer Tanker Boots”

Backpack, quiver and arrows all made by me.

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Photo by J. Moysa

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Other photos and progress pics can be seen on my IG @sashadechagny!

[rimonoroni2]

i think we should be talking about the semi-recent advancements in cystic fibrosis treatment like all the time every day. there hasn’t been a drug like this since AZT medications for HIV infection it is truly fucking miraculous and very important

[rimonoroni2]

basically: cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which makes the mucous a person generates extra sticky. it used to kill people in infancy, then with advancements in medical tech it killed people in young childhood, and until very recently cystic fibrosis patients could expect to live until about thirty years old with consistent painful lung infections and complications.

in 2019 the FDA approved a drug called trikafta (which is really three drugs in one) for cystic fibrosis treatment. what it essentially does is patch up the malfunctioning proteins that cause the extra sticky mucus. trikafta is effective on about 90% of cystic fibrosis patients.

people who had spent their entire lives in and out of hospitals, on and off of ventilators, suffering from pneumonia and sometimes treated through painful procedures like intubation took this drug, got out of bed, coughed up an entire lifetimes worth of mucus out of their lungs over the course of a few hours, breathed clearly for perhaps the first time in their lives, and now go on to live well into their seventies.

like isn’t that insane. isn’t that amazing. doesn’t that give you hope for the future of medical advancements and treatment. fuck. i think about it all the time……

[sobadbad]

OUR PLANET 1.04 • Coastal Seas

[introspectres]

moray eel + skeleton for a printmaking class