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Anaid. 22. Sarcastic asshole in love with fictional men. Fucked up characters are my babies. 90% The 100 (or rather Bellarke). Hand kisses gave me life and killed me all at the same time.

[1-crazy-dreamer]

Olicity + The Greek Types of Love | Requested by anon

[princessrhcenyra]

CLARKE GRIFFIN APPRECIATION WEEK ♕

Day 2 — Best Dynamic(s) — BELLARKE

[kanechroniclesgraphicnovel]

Percy Jackson on Disney +!

https://twitter.com/rickriordan/status/1261008593077374977?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[clarkgriffon]

make me choose: @hostagetakerandhistraitor asked Bellamy uselessly trying to ignore ALIE-possessed-Raven calling him out on his devotion to Clarke or Bellamy uselessly trying to ignore Josephine-possessed-Clarke calling him out on his devotion to Clarke ↪ “I guess you just care about her more.”

[fictionadventurer]

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

[writerchic6]

Say it again for the people in the back!!

Also note that the movies did the exact thing the Capitol does in the books in terms of the message surround Katniss and the whole ordeal of the hunger game

[starlightomatic]

me: interdependence is important and i want to live in a commune with friends who are practically family and we will support each other and help each other through life also me: i hate everyone and never want to rely on anyone or be relied on, i just wanna fuck off into space by myself

[ethanhunt-deactivated20230911]

I’ll be your captain. I’m Steve Harrington. Joe Keery as Steve Harrington in Season 3 of Stranger Things (2019)

[lesbellamy]

— I’m not letting you go.

[hopeamikaelsons]

Bellamy Blake in S06E10 “Matryoshka”

[bellameblake]

#head tuck 

[yiangchen]

You know what’s insane? There are so many heroic (and often times heartbreaking) things that Bellamy’s done that Clarke doesn’t even know about. 

Trading his life for Jasper’s in s1 and being hung by Murphy for it. Scaling a cliff for a girl (Mel) he had never met before in s2 even though another kid (Sterling) just tried to do the same and plummeted to his death. Crossing a field occupied by an Ice Nation army in s3 and still trying to go after Clarke on a bleeding leg even though he couldn’t walk and had no way of tracking Roan, but he almost had her, so he couldn’t just give up, and it wasn’t until he screamed that they couldn’t lose her that Monty was finally able to talk him down. Going after Peter and his dad in the acid rain in s4, wearing a radiation suit that he had used fucking duck tape to patch up to get to the rover, and then having to sit there, stuck in the mud, and listen to two people die over the radio because he couldn’t save them, all the while thinking this meant he couldn’t protect anyone. Not Peter or his dad, not his mother, not his sister. No one. 

Of course there are heroic things that Bellamy has done that Clarke does know about, but we see the whole picture and she doesn’t, and yet, she loves him just as much as we do. She’s seen so much in him from day 1, and she still sees so much, to the point where she has sacrificed other people for him. 

She acted as if she didn’t care about him in s2 but then let a bomb drop on her people and the grounders (300 people total!) so that he wasn’t discovered and killed in Mount Weather. She gave up fighting, potentially giving up her life, in 3x02 when Roan was about to kill him. She wrote him on the list over someone else with a more essential skill set in 4x03. She chose him over fifty of her people in 4x05. She sacrificed the ensured safety of the entire human race for him in 4x11. She was willing to die for him in 5x08 even though they both killed Cooper. 

She’s just so devoted to him. 

She literally radioed him every day for six years. She always knew he would come back to her one day. She wasn’t sure he had forgiven her for leaving him in s5, which was her biggest regret btw even though she did it for her child, and still had faith that he would save her from Josephine. She refused to leave him in 6x09 and wouldn’t until he told her she had to. 

That’s how much she loves him.

[odonowest]

Colin O’Donoghue and the ayebrow in OUAT bloopers through the years

[commandermadi]

Just two Bros™ platonically staring into each other’s souls.

[ohbellamy]

i made a thing yall, lmk what you feel

[captainheroism]

list of my favorite characters | I spent more time than I care to remember trying to leave this place and to kill Rumpelstiltskin. And here I am, sailing right back into its heart with him as my guest of honor. It’s not quite the happy ending I was hoping for. (Killian Jones, Once Upon A Time)

[lumadreamland]

[blakescaptain]

Do you have any idea how much cares about you?…She called you on the radio every day for 6 years.