books fucking hurt

i don't damage books, but they sure as hell damage me.

[katehflynn]

alex: *has a sad thought*

darlington, immediately waking up from a deep slumber: something’s wrong.

[honeyedwildflower]

[rosiethorns88]

Yes, good morning.

[kataravimes-of-the-shire]

Something about Darlington immediately striding alongside Alex in the final pages of Hell Bent in direct contrast to the flashback mere chapters before where she waits and wants desperately for Hellie to follow her out of the apartment after Babbit Rabbit dies.

She's always been prepared to be the cannonball for other people but by the end of Hell Bent she finally has a family willing to barrel forward with her.

[bonkailuvr]

leigh, hurry and announce the ninth house 3 release date. missing them :(

ART BY sashac_art!

[galaxyspeaking]

I don’t know if any of you will remember the bottom piece, but I finally finished this Alex Stern fanart and I’m quite happy with it so, here goes nothing!

[landstedelesbian]

shout out to percy for being boyfriend of the year. by which i mean he was a boyfriend for a year and then he went missing

[murasaki-cha]

MY FAVORITE RELUCTANT FOUND SIBLINGS!!!!!

[murasaki-cha]

"Blackjack! Where the hell have you been loca?"

[katnissisbrown]

Thinking about how in the Titan’s Curse, Percy can’t bring himself to tell Tyson that Annabeth is missing because “Tyson thought Annabeth was just about the coolest thing since peanut butter, and he seriously loved peanut butter” 🥺

[minjimunji]

The titan’s curse dance scenes!!!

Collab with @lilsillustration !! Pls go follow her she’s amazing :)))

Bonus:

[effervescen1-deactivated2026040]

The whole songbird and snake part of tbosas is interesting to me. Because when you start reading the book you’re thinking ‘oh, sure, so the guy who’s been consistently associated with snakes in the trilogy is going to be the snake, and his love interest is going to be the songbird’. Snakes eat songbirds, easy symbolism all around.

And then you meet Lucy Gray, and she’s just put a snake down someone’s dress. And immediately you have to reassess. And you figure out that it’s a little more complicated — they’re both the songbird, and they’re both the snake, but whereas Lucy Gray is associated with wild animals she befriends in the woods, Coriolanus is associated with Capitol mutts he first meets in a lab. Gaul’s rainbow snakes, the jabberjays.

And then the plot thickens even deeper, right, because it turns out the snakes represent their methods. They’re both cunning, good at improvising, not apposed to lying and performing when need be. They get each other! They click with each other, really well and really easily, because of that synergy in how they work with each other! SC isn’t saying that being ‘snakelike’ is bad or evil in and of itself. She’s cautioning you to think about what you’re using those methods for.

Because the songbirds, those are about their ideals. Lucy Gray, like her songbirds, wants to sing what she likes, treasure her freedom, and care for her family and whoever else she can in Twelve. Those are her highest ideals. But Coriolanus? He’s like his jabberjays. Free him, put him in the wild where he has the space to think for himself, and he’ll still only want to sing what the Capitol tells him to. He’ll still fly for a Capitol cage at the first opportunity. And he’ll still use his voice against the people living in Twelve at every chance he gets. It’s what the Capitol made him for, after all, and old habits die hard.

[cheap-pack-of-cigarettes]

While we’re here let me say, the writers who did the pwmov movie need to exit stage right when its time to start working on beach read😃 miss emily henry needs to be in that writers room like a drill sergeant, if the most iconic lines from that book are taken out, i will set in place a generational curse so strong it’ll shift the earth’s axis. that movie needs to be nothing less than a perfect 5 stars!!!!!

[cherylblossom]

THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES (2023) SUNRISE ON THE REAPING (2026)

[cherylblossom]

Snow's eyes zoom in on the flint striker, as they did last night. “That's a striking necklace.” (...) [He] rubs his thumbs over the bird and snake heads. “There's a pretty pair.”

[slaymitchabernathy]

snowbaird in this day & age y’all, the dream never dies!!!

[atefingersdagger]

One part of Katniss' character that I think is underrated is her lack of anger towards the undeserving.

While she does have a lot of misconceptions (especially of D2, imo), she never has full-on hatred for those who are victims, too. With Cato, she was full of fear and sometimes payback, but she was never hateful towards him. He was tortured, too. Finnick, at first, she was just uncomfortable and assumed he was full of himself, but she never hated him. These are characters that she was so sure would kill her, but she still never had any true hate towards.

Katniss' anger is justified to those she feels it for (Snow), and when it is hatred, she knows where it needs to go and who it's for.