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Paper stars series masterlist
The version everyone has is that Jesse has been missing for a year and presumed dead for a month. The version Willow has is that Jesse is writing her notes and won’t explain anything to her. Or, Wishverse!Willow before becoming a vampire.
Paper stars, empty caskets - Read
Paper clouds, open windows - Read
Paper butterflies, something amiss - Read
Paper dolls, lonely houses - Read
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Suzanne really said with sotr that-
by the way Haymitch has a really great memory!! like a really great memory!! like he remembers 49 other tributes names with ease! isn’t that a wonderful aspect to add to this deeply traumatised character who has watched two children (alongside 22 others) die every single year for 23 years in the same circumstances that he was put in at 16 years old?! he remembers everything! like, everything!
can’t believe Suzanne Collins had Wyatt Callow, who knew the odds of all the tributes’ deaths better than his own name, die protecting Lou Lou, who he statistically knew wouldn’t make it anyway. had Louella McCoy, who was immediately ready to try and stick it to the capital any way she could in the games, die before she even reached the arena. had Maysilee Donner, who constantly talked back, who wanted to die with her head up, who didn’t want to be treated like an animal by the capital, die mangled on the ground after having her vocal chords ripped out by a capital-manufactured bird. had Haymitch Abernathy, who from the moment he learned of Beetee’s plan, knew he was ready and willing to give up his life so that his friends and family could live, be forced to live without them, knowing all he did in the arena was for nothing. that everyone died anyway. sick and twisted.
I do think some part of this disproportionate anger we're seeing directed at south american countries stems a bit from a failure to admit that a country can be exploited while still experiencing the same flaws that first world countries experience. That being exploited doesn't make you noble and incapable of evil. There's racism in exploited countries. There's a ton of fascism in exploited countries (it helps the exploitation run smoothly). We have the same societal flaws that exist in the first world, they're just obscured by the fact that the minimum wage is currently around $250 dollars. And I'm not trying to say that having racism and fascism in any country is okay, but we should maybe question why we think global south countries have a moral obligation of being socially flawless (according to first world standards of what is and isn't socially acceptable at that) to deserve some fucking dignity. Exploitation is wrong, full stop.
We assume that Katniss doesn't convince everyone in the districts of the authenticity of her love for Peeta because Snow says so. Snow believes that convincing the districts will calm them down. But Snow, as characterized in the prequels, fundamentally does not understand love.
Katniss DOES convince most everyone in the districts. The only district people to question the love story are the other victors, because they alone understand how the Capitol's propaganda works, how stories are controlled and victors are forced to play their part.
But when Katniss visits District 8, everyone seems fully convinced. People assure Katniss that they know Peeta was just speaking under duress. They're so upset about Katniss "losing the baby" that one woman actually weeps over it. The everyday District citizens buy into it fully.
The issue is that Snow doesn't understand how powerful love is. Katniss and Peeta's act fuels the rebellion instead of tamping it because choosing love over violence is rebellious. Like when Katniss and Peeta hold hands and Haymitch calls it the perfect touch of rebellion, or when Katniss covers Rue with flowers, or when all the victors hold hands on interview night. Compassion, love, friendship between competitors, it's all in defiance to the Capitol's agenda.
Snow thought that the districts would hear, "I'm just a silly little harmless teenage girl doing impulsive things because I'm in love! How nice of the Capitol to let me keep my boyfriend!" Instead they heard, "My love gave me the courage to defy the Capitol." They heard, "My love held firm in the face of all the Capitol's power and cruelty. I refuse to kill him or even passively let him die." They heard, "The Capitol is not strong enough to corrupt a steadfast heart." And if the Capitol can't even overcome two teenagers' puppy love, it certainly can't overcome thousands of adults' love for their neighbors, children, and homes, or a unified people's passion for freedom and justice.
Snow underestimated love, and it was his downfall.
my fav thing about sunrise on the reaping was when haymitch was like yeah caeser i'm a lone wolf 😏 i'm with the newcomers but i'm not WITH the newcomers, yknow? they call me a rascal. a rebel against the gamemasters. I scored a ONE and that is a THREAT. you do not want to mess with me 🙅
cut to him with like 20 kids following him around like ducklings, him hiding in his t-shirt, him letting a bunny guide him to safety because it reminded him of his girlfriend, and him making nightlights out of potatoes.
the soft animal of your body needs, and i cannot stress this enough, a yoga class
yoga has unfortunately been swept into the "crunchy granola mom who thinks sunscreen gives you cancer and turmeric can replace vaccines" pile but i assure you, it's REALLY good for improving your flexibility and mobility. i regularly leave class having found a stretch that fixes an ache i didn't realize i had. i've been going to class weekly for a year or so and my range of motion is improved, my overall stiffness and pain is down, and my core strength and balance are notably better as well.
plus you get ~*~floor time~*~. like that urge to lie on the floor. it's your body asking for a yoga class. if you don't want to go to a class, there are one million instructional videos online! i feel like everyone should give it a shot, especially if you are "not flexible enough for yoga".
why do i have to speak why is it not enough to show up somewhere and have big giant eyes
you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.
recently saw a comment section full of people, primarily women, talking about loving living with their best friend and being sad about having to live separately one day. some people talking about missing living with their best friend, some talking about “getting” to live with their best friend “until” they find partners. saw one person mention that moving out to move in with a partner felt like a divorce. it makes me so genuinely sad… all these people recognizing the joy they can find living outside the norm, letting themself live with a friend instead of a romantic partner, but still feeling like they have to live with a spouse eventually. like it’s not even a decision, just an inevitability.
similarly, it makes me sad when someone shares their happiness from living with a friend with others and the biggest response is people insisting/assuming they must have a secret unrecognized romantic connection. just taking over a moment of joy to insist they’re wrong about their own life and feelings; all to reinforce the lifestyle everyone is already expected to conform to eventually…
my actual vampire hot take is that if you're going to be a 'vegetarian' vampire (a vampire that only drinks the blood of animals) you MUST have hunter education. i'm so sick of people being like oh well predator animals are mean and scary because they kill cute 'harmless' animals like NO they're crucial for the environment and if you're going to hunt animals for blood you still need to stick to regular people hunting guidelines and only hunt things that are in season and abide by your areas bag limits
vampire that did a detailed study about whether vampires can get prion diseases and concluded they can't and preferentially hunts animals with chronic wasting disease. and then incinerates the corpses.
vampire who is a woke predation abolitionist and so exclusively hunts predators, leaving primarily herbivorous and scavenging animals alone
"For miles around the foul creature's lair is nothing but barren wastes"
"because of The Curse?"
"Because of the deer and rabbits, fucking thing ate all the wolves"
Fun fact microfiber cloths (the thing you use to wipe your glasses and phone) are called that because they are really high on fibre, if you are ever constipated try eating one or a dozen 🥰
Actually if we're honest Willow is quite frequently callous and strange and I love her for it
something strange going on with my wip where nothing is happening because im not writing. does anyone know how to fix this
so strange when people assume 'waking up early' means increased productivity bc no??? im awake so i can read fanfic in bed before breakdown
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i think the reason i can't get behind the bender/nonbender conflicts as they're presented in the atla movie & lok is that in atla, the primary bending-based oppression is firebending vs literally every other type of bending - the genocide of the air nomads and southern waterbenders, the treatment of earthbenders in "imprisoned". in the southern water tribe and many parts of the earth kingdom, the idea of nonbenders being oppressed by benders would be completely ridiculous. you're hiding your bender loved ones from the people who want to take them away. maybe fire nation nonbenders would feel oppressed by benders in their own country, but they're not exactly being oppressed by water and earth benders. the idea that people 10 years after this war would think of bender and nonbender as more meaningful distinctions than nation just does not make sense to me. i can maybe be a bit more forgiving of lok bc it's later in the timeline & specific to a city with more unity amongst nations (thus allowing new divides to emerge) but i still don't feel like there was a ton of acknowledgement that nation was the primary axis of oppression for 100 years
At least in the Earth Kingdom we are shown that bending soldiers who aren’t actively on the front lines / engaging in combat against the Fire Nation were fully willing to abuse their power and authority against a largely non-bending villager population. Probably those divides went fairly deep and went deeper once the war ended, so it makes sense for at least one nation to feel that way.
that's a great point, soldiers in both earth & fire are predominantly benders and that means when the soldiers come home there's going to be a sudden influx of benders into civilian society and that adjustment could be hard. maybe there's a sort of men-coming-back-after-WWII dynamic where benders come back to find nonbenders occupying roles usually filled by benders and get upset that the nonbenders are "taking their rightful jobs", and then there's a sort of return-to-tradition push to get nonbenders out of prominent positions. i can totally see a phenomenon of former soldiers used to having their asses kissed being upset at their perceived loss of power and trying to maintain the wartime hierarchy.
but see, this is why i said i can't get behind bender/nonbender conflicts as presented. this conflict makes a lot of sense - it comes out of existing divides we see in atla. it's not all nonbenders vs all nonbenders, it's specific to certain nations and their post-war environments. the obvious villains are the people trying to oppress others, not people fighting against oppression. there could be good bender vs nonbender storylines in atlaverse but the bender vs nonbender conflicts in the atla movie and lok just feel so disconnected from the society established in atla
does anybody know if the hadestown proshot is ever going to be on streaming? 🥺🥺🥺
