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Clove Kentwell’s Defence Attorney turned 12 today!

Just incase anyone wondered how long I’ve been in the trenches of District 2 support… my account is now eligible for the reaping. I’m unc lowkey

#tumblr birthday #tumblr milestone #Reaping age #sunrise on the reaping #the hunger games #Hunger games #clove kentwell #Clato #thg #thg series

secretsfromthelighthouse

IM ABSOLUTELY INLOVE!! honestly i can't stop staring at these!! here's annie and finnick and their respective cards in the lighthouse ghost fic, commissioned to the INCREDIBLY TALENTED @lambf4rm! AREN'T THEY STUNNING?! everyone RUN to her page cause she deserves all the hype!!

secretsfromthelighthouse

Wake up everyone! New cover for Lighthouse Ghost dropped!! It was done by my beloved @hadleyswhore !! She's super talented and an absolute angel for doing this for me. I feel like it represents the story SO WELL, so, once again, thank you so much friend. I'm literally obsessed with it and I cannot stop looking at it.

hadleyswhore

CHECK OUT MEI MEI’S FICS!! An honour of the highest order to get to design this for her!

#the lighthouse ghost #hunger games fanfic #hunger games fanfiction #the hunger games fanfic #finnick odair x oc

sugerblondie

i'm an angel who the fuck are you

secretsfromthelighthouse

Sonna Maac aesthetics.

iiterative-deactivated20240319

‘the point of fiction is to build the world we want to see!’ respectfully. No It Is Not.

valentinedagger

the point of fiction is to make up some guys and then be like “wouldn’t it be fucked up if this happened to them?”

fictionadventurer

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”. The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA.

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

ulibeanzz

everything is a competition unless I’m losing and then fuck off not everything has to be a competition asshole

capricores

happy new years guys!! i hope you all have beautiful, fulfilling years where you achieve all your goals and are blessed with so much happiness and abundance! be gentle with yourselves and proud of yourselves for making it through another year, especially one so mentally draining! here’s to next year being better and brighter for everyone! ✨

#new year 2021

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ichigoumi

Tag your favourite flower, fruit, colour, scent, season and tea!

airysunfierymoonx

Roses, Kiwi/Banana, Coral / Mint Green, Fall & Blueberry Tea.

ascendingaries

peonies, strawberry, earthy light greens, summer, English breakfast tea!

hadleyswhore

Roses/Hydrangeas, Raspberries, Light pink, Vanilla/Banana, Summer, Yorkshire Tea

#me #for fun #I don’t drink any other type of tea #flavoured teas do not exist in my caffeine allergenic world #summer is the best season and i’ll die on that hill #not astro

blaekswan-deactivated20210428

me, age 15: i cant wait to be 20 when i will finally reach my full potential, peak me,

me, on my 20s: i cant wait to die

capricores

when ur a sagittarius and/or pisces moon/mercury/dominant and you’re trying to figure out how you can study and become fluent in 10+ different languages at once in under a year somehow

#me #sagittarius moon #i already speak italian and irish gaelic #but I’m trying to learn russian spanish french and greek all at the same time #while doing uni work too #my brain is on fire #someone please shut me up

beetlegarden

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!! we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!