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[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.

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”A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman - dark tangled hair, sea green eyes - runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. “Finnick!” And suddenly, it’s as if there’s no one else in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible…”.

Mockingjay chapter 12

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“Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”

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[ongreenergrasses]

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another from it festers. in my defense I’ve been mentally working on it all day

She tried to block out the blood sliding down her side, pouring out of her, pooling underneath her, sticking to her skin, and did not let the grey at the edge of her vision creep in any farther, digging her nails into her palms to keep it at bay.

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[ongreenergrasses]

omg also guys. I finally ordered the fanart and then finally unpacked it and the gf was like wow this is so beautiful. who tf are these people. so I told her and she was like …who’s Annie? and all I could think to say was “well she’s got four lines”

[ongreenergrasses]

behold. a terrible photo of my bookshelf and an equally terrible closeup of the fanart by the incredibly talented @irlplasticlamb

[ongreenergrasses]

the thing about it festers is that I have it mostly planned out in my head but it is so graphic that I have to go extremely slowly while writing (500 words max a day) because it does Bad Things to my brain. very cathartic very fun a great new writing experience but I think out of all my posted fics this is gonna be the one that fucks me up the most

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[ongreenergrasses]

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💜💜💜 from confessional…

“Finnick,” Annie murmurs against his lips, and it snaps him out of it, sending him backwards, all but falling off the bed and nearly taking her with him.

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another from it festers…

She didn’t bother to wipe her hands off before she kissed him, smearing the blood across his face, up into his hair, swallowing down the moan he made as their lips brushed.

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[ongreenergrasses]

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from something that doesn’t have a title, but is for day 15 of kinktober. I just typed this straight into the text box and if there’s one thing we know about my first drafts of smut it’s that they’re bad so. forgive me

The heat tears through her body, burning in her cheeks, trailing down her spine, distracting her, consuming her.

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[ongreenergrasses]

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from caught in the act

Annie pauses in the doorway wearing nothing but a towel, tilting her head slightly to the side, trying to see into the room.

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[ongreenergrasses]

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from it festers

There was no concern on his face.

“I’m going to help you,” he said.

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from the bond has reached the bone

She hangs the flowers to dry above the bed, tucking them into the ceiling vent and tying the stems together to secure them.

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