forgive me great sage, for I have fucked up

The Great Hating Cunt of Good Intention🪻AO3

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Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) feeding in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, USA

by Tom Hamilton

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Ainu robe, Meiji period (1868–1912), cotton and wool with applique (kiri-fuse), 48 ¼ x 50 ½ in. (122.6 x 128.3 cm)

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Tile flooring at the Oceanário de Lisboa, an aquarium in Lisbon, Portugal

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Chasing across the South Plains and Midwest

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The chandelier in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s ハウス Hausu (1977).

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USA, NYC, 1983. Thomas Hoepker.

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Annie Glass, contemporary artist

Steel thread sculpture of a woman in the rain

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reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

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Dialectics is when you agree with both of your mutuals who disagree with each other

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David Lynch, selected paintings and lithographs.

“When I’m not painting, I’m thinking about painting.”-David

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not everyone can be a tumblrina

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we were chosen by god

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I keep seeing this misconception so I must speak. I think some of the main friendships for characters in thg are better developed than the romances (Katniss and Gale in particular, Coryo and Sej is great but imo equally developed to snowbaird), but I don’t think it’s true that side relationships with minor characters are specifically better developed than the main pairings. everlark may not be my thing, but SC invested a lot of writing time and energy in that relationship and it is better developed than Katniss’s other relationships with all but Gale. I don’t think it’s a fair equivalence to say that everlark is less developed than something like madniss or odesta or another side pairing (canon or not). everlark is well done and there’s a lot to unpack and work with there. I love critique and I say have at it but I also think it serves us to ground critique in reality…

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i don't support all women's rights & wrongs some of you are terfs

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exactly

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from caught in the act

Finnick starts backing out of the room, already reaching for the doorhandle, when she smiles.

send a 🌹

[ongreenergrasses]

put on glittery nail polish. forgot that shit chips the second you breathe

[ongreenergrasses]

Sorry to continue the everlark discourse but That other anon kind of touched on why I struggle with shipping Everlark. Sc’s writing for them sometimes comes across as forced, like that one quote, its just not believable that katniss and peeta would have always ended up together. Its almost like I can see her writing their scenes and I know what she wants me to think and feel but it feels almost contrived and comes across inauthentic. Like with their bond due to the games. I understand why an attachment/bond would form due to that unique and traumatic experience yet the way she writes it makes it feel like she’s telling me they have this understanding of eachother without actually showing it really. And in MJ when almost 90% of katniss thoughts are on peeta when I don’t think they would be, her number 1 focus would be Prim, but since Collins needs an everlark ending she writes katniss thoughts to mostly revolve around him. I find it frustrating when it feels I am taken out of the story and instead of hearing the characters, I hear the author.

anon is referring to this ask

I mean I think you hit on the prime issue in this ask and it’s an issue that is not unique to SC…it’s the telling and not showing issue where readers are told that a couple is perfect together and they love each other so much and they’re meant for each other and understand each other like no one else does but then within the narrative, outside of those explicit statements there’s very few actions that affirm those statements. the moments we have of everlark together imo do not show this perfect inevitable endgame. they show a lovely story of two people beginning a burgeoning relationship against all odds and trying to learn about each other on their own terms. but they don’t know each other well, they don’t have some special connection, and their trauma does not make them uniquely well equipped to understand each other. which I think is fine and still a great story! maybe even a better one! but that’s not what SC is trying to convey, so what she shows and what she says about the relationship conflict and it makes it feel forced. this is incredibly common in a lot of romances, the author decides that these two people are together but never fully writes those moments that make you understand why.

and in contrast, I feel like if you look at snowbaird or odesta, we are very clearly shown why they are together and their feelings without SC having to tell us them. Lucy Gray and Coryo’s relationship is way more complex than I can distill in this ask response, but Lucy Gray’s actions (her joy upon seeing him in D12, writing him a song) as well as Coryo’s (asking to be assigned to D12, taking risks for her during the Games) show very clearly how they feel. with odesta, the way they respond to each other even in the brief moments we see them together, how happy they are, how quickly Annie responds to Finnick and he can calm her down, and how both their walls come down around each other show how deeply they care for each other.

my point is SC can write a great romance! she can definitely write one that’s convincing and shows the relationship’s strength through the characters’ actions outside of her narration. I just don’t think she wrote that with everlark, I think the story she wanted to tell and the story shown in the characters’ actions doesn’t quite match up. and I love your final comment where you’re taken out of the story and instead of hearing characters you hear the author, that’s exactly how I feel about some of her work as well and I think it’s a great critique.