forgive me great sage, for I have fucked up

The Great Hating Cunt of Good Intention🪻AO3

[cyberxbattalion]

[biaderunners]

annie annie annie.. they don’t make ships like this anymore

[gayvampyr]

if you want to dress gay but aren’t sure how, you need to focus more on finding clothes you actually like and that make you feel good when you look in the mirror. develop your style independently of what you think looks gayest and trust me the homosexuality will follow

[didanagy]

A ROOM WITH A WIEW (1985) dir. james ivory

[ongreenergrasses]

that hivemind fandom thing that is so common truly is super annoying, which also manifests not just to fics but to metas, takes etc. Because not only does it lead to creators who divert from those headcannons getting harrassed but it creates these insular repetitive takes for characters and at a certain point it just gets fucking boring, along with people treating the hc's as fact regardless of the source material. plus unfortunately for me i always end up hating the popular headcannons 😭

this is jumping the line because YEAH. I didn’t mention the harassment in that post but that is a very real and very tangible issue and should be brought up! I am lucky in that nobody has harassed me for my hcs specifically but I know that happens all the time and it’s terrible. it does awful things to people’s psyches and their creativity, I’ve seen how destroyed people are from that (which is often coupled with racist bullying in this fandom. btw. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the fans most severely targeted are fans of color) and I think the homogenization and hierarchization of fics and meta absolutely feeds that behavior.

my firmly held belief is that fandom should be transformative. transformative of the source material, yes, but also it should continue to transform and build upon what came before it in terms of fanworks. I’m always deeply flattered when people say they’re inspired by my work and go and create something that has their unique spin, because to me that is the ideal state of fandom. it is not clustering around and uncritically uplifting the same takes from the late aughts over and over (which. we gotta critique a lot of those as products of their time I think). instead, it is finding inspiration from fellow artists and writers as well as canon and using that inspiration to create something new and innovative and exciting that echoes the creator and keeps things fresh. this is also a series designed for teenagers! there’s a whole crop of teenagers out there with fabulous takes and ideas and the idea of them coming in maybe new to writing and fanart and feeling like they’re getting those ideas squashed because of Agreed Upon Fanon that in some cases was developed before they were even born kills me. absolutely kills me

and I tend to hate the popular hcs too so I get you there, lol

[procrastinationstationxx]

outfit repeater, movie rewatcher, same post mutiple times reblogger

[qhorin]

“Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?” I ask. “No.” A long time passes before he adds, “She crept up on me.”

Finnick and Annie for anonymous

[tomfordvelvetorchid-deactivated]

I love when someone I don’t even know has me blocked. An unknown storyline

[kcrabb88]

I feel like we really lost something when we started looking at writing as a reader-centric product meant to appeal to the desires of a specific audience rather than a writer-centric approach of someone writes whatever particular thing particular compels them/whatever weird thing the demons in their head want to talk about, and people out there who are also compelled, and/or relate, find that writing. A lot of discussions of writing really center around what readers want rather than a writer's exploration. Sometimes as a reader I don't know what I want. I click on a fic or pick up a book I'm not sure about but that looks interesting, and I love it. Reading what I expect to get is it's own joy, but we always need to expand our horizons and not get mad at creators for not always writing what we want/expect.

[ghost-sound]

A Tender Dissolution - Hand Shibari

Ropework by Paul Kabzinski

Photography by Aaron McPolin

[iamthecrime]

[hayden-christensen]

People aren't so bad. It's what the world does to them. Like what they do in the arena. I think there is a natural goodness born into us all. No, really. You can either cross that line into evil, or not. And it's our life's work to stay on the right side of that line.

THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES (2023) dir. Francis Lawrence

[reputayswift]

love the journey he goes on here

[ongreenergrasses]

katniss's 'this would've happened anyway' but not specifically towards her being in love with peeta in the way she ended up being, but in the way that she would have to marry + have children with peeta (what she realizes in catching fire) and of course having some semblance of a relationship and love for him- without catching fire + mockingjay it very well never have sprung up as romantic (i think she realizes and accepts that for a myriad of reasons, a specific set of domino events happening lead to her growth as a character and her feeling towards peeta. i digress) but she would have had to learn to live with him and prior to the quell games we see that happening. katniss herself acknowledges the blurry definition of their relationship, but the comfort she seeks from peeta because no one understands like him (and haymitch to a degree, i love the line about him being the only other person who loves peeta in MJ) but them being dual victors adds a facet we see nowhere else in the books because they both got to survive + live the games together and get to process + deal with it together. so tl;dr - katniss is 100% correct that she and peeta would've likely had a life together, regardless of what their relationship was defined as and regardless of the intricacies, also regardless of the quell, but i think people and fandom like to 1. put a nice bow on things and say 'yay my ship was always going to be canon!' and 2. not acknowledge the multi-faceted nature of relationships outside of their heteronormative views, ESPECIALLY for a series penned and popularized in the 2010s before (especially in canon/fanon media) non-straight and complicated relationships weren't as normalized nor understood. but i know you get it because you understand the annie/finnick/johanna dynamic

there’s nothing I can add to this, it’s said beautifully. it’s always just that pesky heteronormativity that gets people!!!

[nobodytellyouhow]

Truly amazing that (some) THG fans have the ability to just assume what SC really meant to write when it comes to what would otherwise be straightforward things like race. It can't be that SC can write a white character's description easily, but starts speaking in riddles when it's time to write someone who is maybe a black person, obviously it's simply that THG doesn't just take place in some unnamed future, but a REALLY distant future where everyone is post race, and the only two real races - if any - are blondes and ambiguous. It's certainly not because THG has "I don't see race" neoliberalism in the movies AND books. It's so convenient that these types of fans can write the world of THG for her to explain it for everyone else.

[plus-size-aesthetics]

Ester Manas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Exhibit, 2026

[ongreenergrasses]

More a 🥀 than a 🌹

this makes me think you’d be open to more of it festers…

“Do you remember,” Annie asked, and tugged lightly, feeling the slipperiness in her hands, “when you did this to me?”

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