On to R, Once More

Mav/Frick; 29; she/her. Almost-lawyer. You'll find a lot of things on here, and many of them without excuse or explanation.

[hauntingyourself]

night in the city

[obscurenothings]

I'm all for nuanced asterid takes but personally for me leaving katniss alone in 12 post war was unforgivable. like sure she can have other factors that redeem her and working on a hospital is noble and stuff but. imagine how abandoned katniss felt AGAIN. and just after she was starting to let herself lean on her mom again in catching fire. katniss would have DIED if greasy sae didn't come back. you can't tell me asterid genuinely wholeheartedly thought haymitch was going to be a good responsible guardian, and even if she did he wasn't. if greasy sae didn't show up and force katniss to eat and encourage her to go outside katniss would have died alone, wounded and abandoned by her mother for the final time.

""You know why she can't come back." Yes. I know why. Because between my father and Prim and the ashes, the place is too painful to bear. But apparently not for me." Mockingjay, pg. 380

im genuinely curious to know what her life was like in 4 after the war (fic idea? 👀) but personally if I was a parent no matter how traumatized I am (and like she said asterid now has medicines for her depression) I can't imagine leaving my freshly burnt to a crisp, morphling addicted, psychologically irreparably traumatized teenage daughter entirely alone with a man who is at best a functioning alcoholic and at worst 100% neglectful. I feel like the bare minimum would be going with her to 12 and helping her stabilize and prepare her life before leaving for 4. not just cutting her loose as soon as her trial is over without so much as coming to see her. and I'm not saying asterid didn't care. katniss mentions the fact that she would sleep in the chair by her hospital bed, but after katniss recovers and after she shoots coin, it's never mentioned that her mother comes to visit her or speak to her. she just gets the letter with her new number.

so yeah long story short I do have sympathy for asterid but imo it is incredibly selfish and cruel to abandon katniss yet again to face the home and district all of those traumatic memories are held in without so much as a little support to get her on her feet. like katniss said, asterid felt going back to district twelve would be too much to psychologically bear but apparently she just left katniss to deal with that same weight entirely alone. imagine if greasy sae had decided to start a business in the capitol or move to a new district and katniss died alone and starving in her house, abandoned again, this time fatally, by the primary adult that was supposed to protect and support her.

[filmgifs]

A Cinderella Story (2004) dir. Mark Rosman

[dragon-in-a-fez]

does the body ALWAYS have to keep the score? maybe we could just have a friendly game this time. maybe we can just have fun without putting numbers on it

[polartss]

wild geraniums🌸 the last one of the pieces I made for Illumicrate’s special edition of the Six of Crows duology!!

[emmaalovesbooks]

The Girl on Fire ❤️‍🔥

I actually love how this turned out ♥️🔥❤️‍🔥

I feel like Cinna would totally give her a high neckline for this dress! I really liked drawing the candlelight one so I might do her Mockingjay one next hmm..

art by @emmaalovesbooks don't trace/steal/re-upload anywhere

[mummersknight]

There’s a recurring motif throughout the books where an innocent man, woman or (really most often) child of low birth, with no other connections to the games of the noble houses, is passed off as a highborn lord or lady and then harmed and usually even killed in their place. This happens to the miller’s boys who Theon kills and presents as Bran and Rickon, to Penny’s brother and the many other dwarves whose corpses were presented to Cersei as Tyrion, to Gilly’s baby who is switched for Mance’s son, and the list goes on and on. In the series, it functions as a very poignant metaphor for how the fighting between the lords of Westeros ends up causing more damage and suffering for the smallfolk than it ever really does for those directly involved, those who actually are responsible.

However, there are two instances where this motif is inverted: when Theon saves Jeyne Poole and when Brienne saves the children at the Inn at the Crossroads. In ADWD, Jeyne is made to pose as Arya Stark and then forced to marry Ramsay Bolton so that he can use Arya’s claim to Winterfell. At the Inn at the Crossroads, Brienne first mistakes Gendry for Renly, but, notably, there’s also another little girl who she briefly thinks might actually be Arya. To me, it seems significant that in both cases the girl is mistaken for Arya, specifically. Moreover, the two events are even further linked, as in both instances it’s the color of the eyes that don’t match, referencing the highly important theme of learning to “see” through deceptions in Arya’s arc.

Usually, with this motif, the POV characters believe that the lives of these smallfolk people are worth less in the grand scheme of things compared to the highborns they are replacing. Often, we as the reader are tricked into believing this as well. We’re meant to be relieved when we learn that it wasn’t really Bran and Rickon who died, just two random boys we don’t even know. But when the motif is inverted, it directly challenges this notion. When Theon saves Jeyne, it signals that his road to redemption doesn’t start with making it up to the Starks, it starts with saving a girl from a situation so similar to that of the two lowborn boys he murdered. And when Brienne, after she’s spent the entirety of her arc in AFFC looking for Sansa and Arya, finally has her big, climactic hero moment, it’s not about saving the lost princesses, it’s about saving a group of innocent orphan smallfolk children because, in the end, they are worth just as much.

As I said, I doubt it’s a coincidence that both of these inversions are linked to Arya of all people. Firstly, it of course mirrors how she herself has spent most of the series posing as a lowborn child and experiencing the suffering of the smallfolk firsthand. But there’s also a lot of Arya’s story that’s signaling that she, in the future, likely will be taking on the role as a champion of sorts for the common people. And so I think it’s very fitting that she’s then also so closely connected to these events where the smallfolk, for once, are protected.

[laurenillustrated]

Pride and Prejudice Art

A few recent scene redraws from the 2005 Pride and Prejudice film! One of my favorite movies ever.

Prints available in my shop!

I’ve been on a big Jane Austen kick this year and currently reading my way through all the books! So far I’ve read Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and I’m almost finished with Northanger Abbey!

[little-lynx]

Katniss

Happy belated birthday to Katniss Everdeen — the girl who keeps reminding me not to lose hope (which is not an easy task).

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

[zagreus]

[whenimgod]

Something I love about the Sinners movie is it reminded me that some of the best stories are "one night" stories. There have been so many long con world ending save the universe humanity at stake the villain is the government stories for a while that I lost sight of one of my favorite stories- where some fuck shit goes down for One Day maybe One Week with a small crew of people Inextricably Familiar with each other and the end is like "ay that shit was crazy"

Thanks for the reminder Ryan Coogler

[frick6101719]

There are so many reasons to watch women's hockey but I would like to add to the list that players in the PWHL are better at celebrating. Like YES I want to see the OT goal-scorer jumping up and down on the ice with a huge smile on their face while their teammates scream and swarm around them PLEASE I want that JOY

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[thememedaddy]

[princesspufflesposts]

Inspired by @ongreenergrasses and tagged by @justafewberries … well I guess I’m fuckin dying

quiz

[charlunday]

You might be dying but I'm dying before you

[frick6101719]

Rest in pepperonis 🫡

[jester-nonconforming]

btw i love when dubcon is used in fiction as a way to explore characters. i love when characters don’t understand how to “properly” ask for consent because they have never had their consent respected in their lives. i love when traumatized adult characters make potentially unwise choices about what to do with their bodies because they have the autonomy to do so. i love when characters make choices that i personally wouldn’t make, but i can totally understand how they got there. i love when characters have complex, fucked up, unhealthy dynamics, but still care about each other and want to do better. i love when writers trust audience members to read between the lines instead of spoon feeding them moral lessons. i love when characters are allowed to actually fuck up and have mistakes to learn from!

[frick6101719]

catch up game!

Thank you very much for the tag, @the-sun-and-the-sea 💚

🎵 Last song I listened to: Let's Get Married by the Proclaimers, whom I have been really digging into in the past few weeks. They've got more great songs than just 500 Miles and I'm On My Way! Everyone should go listen.

📺 Last series: the bf and I are slowly SLOWLY making our way through Age of Attraction... we probably spend an hour and a half on every episode because we pause so often to discuss whether the couples are being normal or insane

🎬 Last movie: The Secret Garden (most of it--it was late and we went to sleep)

🏅 Best thing about the last month: the birth of my wee niece! She's just the cutest little thing and I am so obsessed.

📚 Currently reading: also nothing! But I'm supposed to be starting The Shadow Cabinet, book two of Her Majestie's Royal Coven soon. Book 1 was good!

📺 Currently watching: So. Much. Hockey. I've been watching every Canadiens and Avs game, cheering for both, with mixed results (and to the deep displeasure of my entire family, who act like even cheering a little for the Habs is an affront to everything they taught me. Which it is, in a way, but the Leafs are golfing so) and also trying to catch more Victoire games!! And some Hurricanes games too, since I still support Freddie Andersen, former Leaf and countryman to my beloved.

🎮 Currently playing: also wordle every day. There's also a new devine le station metro game for Montreal which is so fun and which I have been half decent at

👾 Currently working on: I'm trying to finish an outline for a book, I suppose? It's an original work I've picked away at for over a decade, but never been able to nail down, but I'm going back to my roots and trying to plan it all out in a notebook. It's going well, and helping scratch the itch left by IMKM

🌶️ Sweet/spicy/savoury?: Sweet!

🎨 Favourite colour: chartreuse

🤩 Current obsession: Too Good to Go, lol. We have eaten so many more pastries and goodies since I've been going nuts with this app. I tell myself I'm stopping food waste and that justifies everything imo

☕️ Tea or coffee?: Tea without a doubt. Tea of all kinds. I've tried to like coffee so hard, but it has never worked.

🌐 Last internet search: Laura Stacey and Marie-Philip Poulin: to make double triple sure it really was them I was seeing with my own two eyes in this very cafe. And it was!! I'm still starstruck.

tagging @im-doing-hot-girl-shit @asoiastarks @rivkah94 @kayohtemis if you feel like it 🩷