Hopelessly Optimistic @kitkat404 - Tumblr Blog

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My name it Lyn (she/her). I love art, fantasy, and everything theater!

You’ll find content focused towards Hunger Games, Starkid, Percy Jackson, Epic, The Prom, and occasionally The Owl House, and some other random stuff that might have caught my interest.

I hope you can find something on this page that you’ll enjoy, and if not, thanks for stopping by!

firehelpmeforget

I’m sorry but the funniest thing Katniss Everdeen has ever done is assume the other Victors were trying to protect Peeta simply because they also knew he was the most pure-hearted and deserving person to win the Quell!

Like no babes! You’re just in love with him and everyone can tell! They figured out very fast that the revolution is DOA if bread boy dies!

tenaciousmoneymuffinzine

Comparing Haymitch and Katniss' narrative styles is so funny to me because he's a yapper and she's a gatekeeper. He drops more lore on D12 in the first two chapters of SOTR than she does in the entire trilogy.

Haymitch is like "Yeah, so this person is related to this person who's related to this person and things are this way because of this and this thing actually came from here and this person is actually my best friend and also here's this extra tidbit of random info cause all my lore dropping comes with it's own additional bonus content and all my unnecessary commentary."

And Katniss is over here like "Tf do I care for if y'all know all the lore of District 12? I'm talking about my beautiful husband's beautiful eyelashes."

I know she did not just call herself his “Hunny Bunny” bsffr 🤭🤭🤭 we chenford stans are being FED this season gd

#the rookie #lucy chen #tim bradford #chenford #the rookie 8x12 #spoilers

sparemoon

real or not real 4 (3) (2) (1)

kitkat404

Lmao poor baby 🥺😂

skribblegurl

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

heywriters

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

bumblewyn

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

breelandwalker

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

myfairkatiecat

LIFE SAVED

REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE

sirowsky

I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!

theclonewriter-blog

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

onewordtest

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.

joehywheelah

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

tenoko1

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

cj-amused

Things I didn’t know

prismatic-bell

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

jawnwats-deactivated20160713

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

notesoftruth

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

flootzavut

“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“

“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”

She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”

She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.

dechart

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

eddiestarchild

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

magpiefngrl

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

heywriters

Thank you, because having more than one way to interrupt dialogue is not confusing at all lol (I’ve only seen em dashes inside quotations, the other way hurts my brain—I prefer commas).

theartofangirling

I’ve been waiting a year to post this

theartofangirling

it’s that time of year again

amagicalduck47

The amount of people lately that have felt the need to tag polytrix in their post about how they don't ship it (usually because of some imagined sibling-like relationship or just homophobia) is so fucking annoying. Just pathetic loser behaviour

kitkat404

Personally, when I don’t like a ship I don’t post about it. If I REALLY don’t like it I filter it out of my tags (I feel like a lot of people forget you can do that here). Polytrix isn’t my #1, but just because there are other ships I prefer doesn’t mean I’m gonna go around shitting on other people’s opinions. Fandom culture has gotten so toxic in recent years—just let people like what the like, if you don’t like it, don’t interact. It’s really that simple.

#polytrix #kpop demon hunters

sunderwight

Mulan AU where she does get caught by the other fresh recruits while she's bathing but Mushu helps her spin it like the lake is cursed by an evil lizard demon and will turn men into women if they stay in it for too long.

From there it's not actually difficult to get the other soldiers onboard with covering up the fact that poor Ping took one for the team and got afflicted by the vagina curse, especially since it would have been all of them if they hadn't gotten the warning ahead of time. So they agree to help him cover it up, because obviously the army's not going to understand.

Shang is... tentatively glad that the men are bonding and getting along, even if they continue to be deeply weird about it.

great-art-and-a-purple-tongue

Ling: Hey man, what's up— you've got boobs?!?!

Mulan: Uh, what boobs? Huh? Where did these come from?

Mushu: *facepalms and thinks quickly* (speaks from the shadows) I AM THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKE! BEWARE MY CURSED WATERS FOR THEY WILL TURN MEN INTO WOMEN!

Ling, Yao, and Chien Po: Oh no! The spirit of the cursed waters!

metazanni

I love tumblr's dedication to solving problems in the funniest way possible.

sailorsol

Chien Po: Now that we've saved the emperor, we can help Ping break the curse!

Mulan: Yeah, so about that.....

Shang: Oh thank fuck.

kitkat404

Harry should have shown more obvious signs of the abuse he endured:

Spending a decade of his developmental years in a tiny cupboard fucked up his senses. Harry gets overstimulated very easily—lights are too bright because he’s used to the dark, sounds are too loud because he’s used to things being muffled.

He gets claustrophobic because the cupboard was too small for him, but he also finds comfort in small, dark places because darkness meant safety. The cupboard was his prison, but it was also the only place small enough that the Dursleys couldn’t reach him. It was the only place he wouldn’t be forced to work, and he couldn’t be hurt while he was in the cupboard.

Harry has a habit of pocketing food at meals and stashing them in the bottom drawer of his dresser because he’s so used to having his meal privileges taken away at the drop of a hat. He’s gone his whole life hoarding food and being made to work for every crumb; he can’t bring himself to believe that food at Hogwarts is just given freely to anyone who wants it without conditions.

At first, he flinches when people raise their hands at him. When Hermione’s arm shoots up to answer a question, Harry jolts back. When Ron goes for a high five, Harry’s hands come up to shield himself.

He’s deeply mistrusting of adults and authority figures, because the only adults in his life have always hurt him. He’s especially terrified of Snape because he so clearly hates Harry, and seems like he would gladly cause him harm if he could.

For most of his life, Harry has been treated like a waste of space. He grew up hearing “we already spend far too much money on you” when the Dursleys were doing the bare minimum, sometimes not even that. So for the Weasleys, a family that can barely afford to put food on the table and books in their children’s school bags, to be so willing to take him in as another mouth to feed is incomprehensible.

It all comes to a head one day, and he snaps at Molly, completely overwhelmed by the amount of unconditional love he’s being shown. Harry can’t understand how they can be so kind to him and care about him so much when he’s wasting their money and taking up space they don’t have.

clockwork76

This, all of this! I’ll write a oneshot about this bc I love this

kitkat404

You better send me a link when you’re done, I wanna read it!

Harry should have shown more obvious signs of the abuse he endured:

Spending a decade of his developmental years in a tiny cupboard fucked up his senses. Harry gets overstimulated very easily—lights are too bright because he’s used to the dark, sounds are too loud because he’s used to things being muffled.

He gets claustrophobic because the cupboard was too small for him, but he also finds comfort in small, dark places because darkness meant safety. The cupboard was his prison, but it was also the only place small enough that the Dursleys couldn’t reach him. It was the only place he wouldn’t be forced to work, and he couldn’t be hurt while he was in the cupboard.

Harry has a habit of pocketing food at meals and stashing it in the bottom of his trunk and bedside table because he’s so used to having his meal privileges taken away at the drop of a hat. He’s gone his whole life hoarding food and being made to work for every crumb—he can’t bring himself to believe that food at Hogwarts is just given freely to anyone who wants it without conditions.

At first, he flinches when people raise their hands at him. When Hermione’s arm shoots up to answer a question, Harry jolts back. When Ron goes for a high five, Harry’s hands come up to shield himself.

He’s deeply mistrusting of adults and authority figures, because the only adults in his life have always hurt him. He’s especially terrified of Snape because he so clearly hates Harry, and seems like he would gladly cause him harm if he could.

For most of his life, Harry has been treated like a waste of space. He grew up hearing “we already spend far too much money on you” when the Dursleys were doing the bare minimum, sometimes not even that. So for the Weasleys, a family that can barely afford to put food on the table and books in their children’s school bags, to be so willing to take him in as another mouth to feed is incomprehensible.

It all comes to a head one day, and he snaps at Molly, completely overwhelmed by the amount of unconditional love he’s being shown. Harry can’t understand how they can be so kind to him and care about him so much when he’s wasting their money and taking up space they don’t have.

Harry doesn’t understand Hermione’s fixation on protecting House Elves—after all, their lives don’t look much different than his before coming to Hogwarts. It’s normal, right? Sure, it’s a bit cruel, but “freaks have to earn their keep.” When he says so, he’s confused by all the horrified stares he gets. He asks Hermione why she’s crying, she just hugs him. And yes, this new information makes her fight even harder.

#harry potter #harry potter headcanon #character analysis #you don’t sleep in a cupboard and live like a slave for 10 years #and not come out just a little bit fucked up #like boy came to Hogwarts way too normal given everything he went through for ten years #do better joanne

athamad

Pov: You think Odysseus didn't love his wife and wasn't a sa survivor

valiantvillain

Yo, I literally wrote about Odysseus as an SA survivor in my MA thesis (albeit not at as great a length as I would have liked given time constraints and it was a component of a larger argument), and Homer's language itself implies this. The word he uses in describing Odysseus "sleeping" with Calypso is ἀνάγκῃ. It means force and when used in the dative case as it appears in the Odyssey (dative of means specifically, aka meaning you did something "by means of x"), means that Calypso made him sleep with her by force. The use of force in any manner eliminates the possibility of enthusiastic consent, thus Odysseus can hardly be an active participant in that sexual relationship.

But to go further back to Circe, Odysseus never outright states any interest in sleeping with Circe. If you read Odysseus' encounter with Hermes on the way to Circe's house, Hermes tells him that Circe is going to try to bed him and that he must insure Circe will not hurt him BEFORE he sleeps with her. This implies some degree of inevitability and if memory serves, Odysseus never states he's happy with this arrangement. Granted he does not argue about it with Hermes, but when a god tells you to do something, do you really have a choice in telling them they're wrong and you won't do that? Typically when a god tells you this is the way you'll succeed, the hero does it because the god has divine knowledge and they are correct because their way is then shown to work.

So imagine you're Odysseus trying to save your men and are told by a god that the way to do that is that you have to outwit and then win over the woman who turned them into pigs with magic. And you know that historically you don't argue with a god or diverge from their advice if you hope to succeed. So you sleep with Circe because you're told this is the way you save your crew. Did you really have a choice in that matter? Not really.

And I don't think this is just extrapolation by us as modern readers or reading our own modern attitudes about sex and power dynamics into the story. Rather I think this was done with purpose as an exploration of what a Greek man could expect were he to wander into a foreign land where women held the institutional power normally held by men (yes, this is rooted in misogynist thinking but bear with me). Circe and Calypso inhabit lands without men and thus are free to rule them as they please, including having the same sexual agency as men normally would because there are no men to enforce Greek gender roles upon them. And so when mortal men such as Odysseus stumble upon these women-ruled lands, the roles are suddenly reversed and they are now placed in the position inhabited by the women in their homelands. One where they lack the real ability to consent because the law of the land deprives them of sexual agency.

Circe and Calypso are basically an ancient representation of men fearing what women would do to them if they were the ones in charge. Aka, ancient men fearing that women in power would treat them as they treated women.

And so Odysseus really does exist as a male victim of SA and I truly believe Homer acknowledges this, however subtly, in the Odyssey's narrative.

And it's why I have some conflicted feelings about girlbossing Circe and Calypso bc uh...maybe we don't have to glorify the female characters who committed sexual assault?

kitkat404

If you’re gonna glorify a woman from the Odyssey, she better be Penelope.

This woman stayed loyal to her husband for 10 years (I’m only counting the years after the Trojan war because he wasn’t presumed dead before then) despite literally everyone telling her to remarry.

She ruled Ithaca in her husband’s place BY HERSELF for twenty years (and let’s keep in mind that solo female leaders were practically unheard of in ancient Greece because misogyny) while simultaneously fending off over 100 suitors all vying for the throne, and raising a child from infancy to adulthood (and protecting him from the suitors who were after his birthright). She actively came up with schemes to deter them, and when those schemes ran out, she presented them with an impossible challenge, knowing that none but Odysseus could do it.

And when Odysseus completed the challenge and revealed himself? She still took the extra precaution of ensuring he wasn’t secretly a god trying to take advantage of her by asking a question not even the gods knew the answer to, only Odysseus.

She was smart, she was calculating, she was inventive, all while maintaining an immense level of compassion and decency. Even when her situation would have been cause enough to lose herself, Penelope refused to fold. She is the definition of a girlboss, and a certified badass