forgive me great sage, for I have fucked up

The Great Hating Cunt of Good Intention🪻AO3

[cyberxbattalion]

[driflloon]

lam museum: lam loves

[antoniabishop]

illustrations for a poem I wrote called The Invisible Palace about a kidnapped princess and her best friend's attempt to rescue her.

I dream to see it published someday 🫥

[sapppphho]

katniss is given grace for being a seventeen year old girl thrown into war (as she should!), but gale is never given any grace for being a seventeen year old boy who suffered the exact same way she did all his childhood and then chose to walk into the fight for whatever he had left. gale didn’t have a cinna or an effie; he didn’t see capitol people growing to care for katniss, he saw them walking her to a death match and then dolling her up as a child bride who got pregnant at seventeen. he had three younger siblings and a mother to take care of, he was hunting way before katniss. he’s the revolutionary people want katniss to be when in reality her story is about the effects of war on innocents.

[ongreenergrasses]

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I was talking with the gf about booktok tonight and explaining what I see as the deterioration of writing in that environment, in that people are no longer interested in crafting narratives across a piece. the priority is to include as many snappy and quotable lines as possible. in reality, a well constructed story has very few quotable lines (if any) because all the writing is working to support a larger narrative goal and the individual sentences either don’t make a lot of sense or don’t have the same impact without context. and I think it’s fine to have writing that orbits around quotable lines! there’s nothing wrong with that! but what bothers me is when people uphold that type of work as good writing, because it’s not. “good writing” is subjective, yes, but I think we can all agree that what makes a piece of writing good is if it can convey a story or not, and if you’re jumping from quotable line to quotable line, it’s almost impossible to convey a story effectively.

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[thghorrorcollection]

opinions requested!

There has been some interest in having an October reopening of the horror collection. The same guidelines would apply, with the two main differences being that the collection would remain open for only one month and there would be a short prompt list provided that people could choose to use for additional inspiration.

would you be interested in participating in the horror collection, October edition?

yes!

unsure/more information needed

no

Remaining time: 6 days 14 hours

[ongreenergrasses]

methink katniss would do something similar to hazelle. possibly even work with her if the opportunity presented itself

ooh, like washerwomaning? Katniss and Hazelle get along really well, there’s a lot of respect there. it’s something that Katniss could support her with and also have a flexible schedule that allowed her to hunt so I could see that!

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

"Accusations of rape ruin men's lives and careers."

You only have to look at how many footballers who have rape accusations against them that happily represent their countries in huge tournaments like the World Cup without anyone really giving a shit to see what bollocks that is.

Women are rarely taken seriously, rarely believed, rarely stood up for, especially when their abusers are rich and famous.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

2026 FIFA World Cup players who’ve been accused of rape and/or physical abuse:

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), Thomas Partey (Ghana), Gonzalo Montiel (Argentina), Thiago Almada (Argentina), Junya Ito (Japan), Kaishu Sano (Japan), Ryan Mendes (Cabo Verde).

At least one of these men, Thomas Partey, is currently actively awaiting criminal trial on seven charges of rape and sexual assault but was still able to play at one of the largest sporting events in the world.

[leoholzer]

The Old Guard 2 (2025)

[ongreenergrasses]

that illustration keeps cracking me up like if my sort of brother and I ever texted I’d straight up send him that and be like “this you?”

[ongreenergrasses]

Have you seen the wedding illustration? I thought you might like to see it

I would like to see it! where do I see it lol

edit: so I went through my mutuals’ blogs one by one until I found it and first impressions. Finnick looks so uncannily like my sort of brother in this illustration that I let out a wheeze and nearly fell off the bed, love that he has pierced ears though. Annie’s hairstyle is pretty! I’ll take that and incorporate it into my belief system for her wedding look. I wish it was clearer that her dress wasn’t white but black and white illustrations, obviously limited there. I think it’s cute I just wish we saw more of them and they weren’t as starkly in profile, their expressions also aren’t as radiantly happy as they are in a lot of fanart and the way it’s acted in the movie and tbh I think I prefer the interpretation of them being super openly happy to a more resigned and peaceful look. but it’s cute!!

[ongreenergrasses]

What do you think katniss’s job mightve been if she was never reaped? I think she alluded to going down in the mines but she also said she gets panic attacks and would get sick during field trips down there. I cant remember what the other career options there were so I am curious if it wasnt mining what else she could do

if she’d never been reaped is tricky…if her panic attacks are that bad that she gets sick she would definitely be a liability and unable to work so I don’t think they’d put her in the mines, but as someone from the Seam, I don’t think she has a lot of other options.(at the same time, we never actually see any women working in the mines despite what SC says.) her mom is already training her sister, not her, and I think Katniss wouldn’t be able to work full time out of the Hob doing illicit trading of the game she hunts, that would probably push it too much. I think Katniss would probably end up doing something manual labor wise (people are always needed to do that) during the day but make most of her money hunting and trading the game like she was before. she probably would’ve married Gale, she says as much, and I think they would’ve set it up so that Katniss is doing something that allows her to prioritize hunting and getting their income and a stable food source that way while Gale basically covers for them by working in the mines.

[fishandshesmygills]

the point of fanfiction is to write something so self indulgent that nobody else has thought of it before or cares

[ongreenergrasses]

thinking of doing an October extravaganza for @thghorrorcollection that’s a little more structured than it was initially…coming up with a short prompt list for it, etc. I’ll make a formal poll soon but I’m gauging interest now informally. what do we think squad. is there enough interest to do an October limited edition reopening of the collection

[female-eren]

Not gonna gaf about mainstream monster romances until it's a gorgeous man desperately in love with a grotesque female monster. Sorry I don't care if Guillermo Del Toro made another woman x monster man movie. I won't think he actually cares about "finding the beauty in the monstruous" until a woman is the monster and the man is the pretty waif

[pmamtraveller]

A collection of Moroccan doors

[tsarina-anadyomene]

uh i understand your knight kink post is engaging with the literary construct of the knight rather than the historical actually existing social role but you really failed to engage with the themes and tropes of late medieval grail literature