formerly vasilissadragomir

maya • she/her • eng/עברית/esp • sometimes a multi-fandom fantasy acc, but mostly part of the hunger games rennaisance • also jewish/linguistics stuff • ao3: aspiringpandabear

[evermarch]

Everlark Fic Drop: Us Among the Living

hi y'all! it's been a longgg time coming but i'm so excited to share my first fic in over 10 years (and my first thg fic ever)!

Us Among the Living is a canon-compliant, pre-epilogue growing together fic exploring Katniss and Peeta's relationship as well as their lives in District 12 in the months following the second rebellion. it's gonna be long, it's gonna be a slow burn, and according to @everdares and @belikov, it's gonna cause tears.

i am on temporary hiatus due to personal reasons. however, when i return i will update as much as possible. i hope y'all enjoy <3

update: after sotr comes out i will be making changes to ensure this fic is canon-compliant! depending on how many changes i have to make, i may post the original chapters in another place.

18 chapters out now posted on a03!

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Matzo Ball Soup Rats 🥣🐀

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[rosegardeninwinter]

so, fun fact: your partner’s desire to have children actually can be a totally healthy reason for you to start considering it yourself

[rosegardeninwinter]

I guess I should clarify something about this for my child-free friends out here because I don’t want you to think this is a jab at you somehow — it’s the furthest thing from that! *as a woman who does not want children right now* this post is in no way meant to invalidate anyone’s relating to Katniss’s feelings (because I relate to them myself) … what I am saying is that it’s not unhealthy for a loving partnership to have conversations about these things … if it is unhealthy, it’s not a loving partnership

[youcantseeus-fan]

I would tend to agree with this. The thing that I’ve never understood about this whole debate is that people on both sides never seem to acknowledge that it’s perfectly normal and even recommended for couples to discuss whether they would like to have children. Maybe it’s because a lot of people first read this series when they are like 13 years old? But two adults in a longterm relationship absolutely should discuss where they stand on children. And these conversations can happen without one partner exerting pressure on the other.

Like, everyone talks about it like there are basically two options. Either Peeta pestered (or forced????) Katniss into having kids. OR they never once had the kids discussion in fifteen years of being together until Katniss just one day intuited that Peeta would want them because he was making puppy eyes at a baby or something.

And I always just think … she probably knew that he wanted kids because this is a normal thing to know about your partner? Because they’d discussed it in a healthy and adult way?

I’m a middle-aged childfree woman, btw.

[rosegardeninwinter]

I love this addition. Thank you. This is what I was trying to say.

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making a collection

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adding to the collection

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[podcastenthusiast]

Not my posts but an interesting thought.

[beatrice-otter]

[image description: screengrab of a series of tweets from @ rootsworks: “When I was in college, part of our university’s graduation requirements had a community service component that they called service learning.

One of my service learning classes involved work at a local homeless community center, helping people write resumes and cleaning bathrooms.

Our instructor told us to expect to see the bathrooms trashed a lot–like you will clean the bathroom and immediately someone will wreck it.

And it’s not because they disrespect your work or don’t value having access to clean bathrooms or whatever, but because of control.

When you feel like you have no control over your life or your environment, your brain is going to want to assert control however it can.

Which results in trashed bathrooms.  It’s control exercised over the one small part of your environment that you still have the power to affect.

I see kids on tumblr using the language of social justice as cudgels on people who actually do care about and listen to them

or holding the creators within their communities to an impossibly high standard that they never apply to mainstream media properties.

I just see trashed bathrooms. ‘These are the people my voice will reach,’ they rationalize, ‘so these are the people I’ll hurt.’

But the guiding principles of social justice are aimed at correcting and dismantling systems.  Stop using them to dismantle people.”]

[neonprotagonist]

Girls Scouts encounter Bigfoot the most frequently. Part of their oath is to keep him a secret because he’s very kind and makes up 30% of their revenue due to his fervent love for thin mints.

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As a Girl Scout leader, I am telling you that this is NOT true, and any former girl scout that says it is, should think about what they are saying and what oaths they may have sworn in the past