Daphne

Storyteller, Healer, Lover 🏳‍🌈 | Netherlands | 24 | IG @daphnenatasja

[cottageaesthetic]

[cinemapix]

FLORENCE PUGH as YELENA BELOVA BLACK WIDOW (2021) dir. Cate Shortland

[oldladyhouse]

tutter moodboard 

[catchymemes]

[monsttarchive]

she let the baby stay in there the whole night and decided to check in the morning lmao

[40ouncesandamule]

If her baby has to fight a ghost, that’s between the baby and the ghost

[catchymemes]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[etherea1ity]

(via)

[puppersofnewyork]

[dongboss]

not for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[happifying-things]

massage bed

[kafaminguzelligi]

[bloodenjoyer]

being alone in a public restroom is like i own this place and then someone else walks in and it’s like get out of my fucking house

[bakwaaas]

[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.

[belles--rose]

[nickelbackthatassup]

damn this is such a good song let me play it 86 times an hour until I hate it

[danubedogs]

omg i found this video on youtube called “elk hunting chihuahua” and the guy is like “make sure you have a good hunting dog” and just opens his backpack to reveal his lil chihuahua named coco and tells us how amazing she is at hunting

and then he just whips her out and says “you gotta have one of these things, they can track, and they’re just the best hunting dogs in the world” and that was the whole video and honestly i’ve never wanted a chihuahua more in my life

[tangarang]

IM CRYING HES HOLDING HER LIKE AN ORANGE

[vinca-majors]

ok ok ok this post is a great intro but!! the whole vid is an unexpected wonder

like

he talks for a while about general hunting prep without even a HINT of a chihuahua. i was watching it thinking, where is the dog??

“hey everyone. it’s that time of the year, september 18th, elk are in full rut, they’ve been bugling, just want to go over a few things that i bring with me. always have an extra layer of gear, rain gear, looks like we’ve got weather coming in, it was 32 degrees this morning. i always have my cow call in here, i’ve got glasses, i’ve got rain gear, i’ve got beef jerky, gun, water, all that good stuff, so, most important thing though is make sure you have a real good companion. i like to bring my hunting dog, if you don’t have a good dog, this dog—”

AND THEN

FROM THE BACKPACK HE HAS BEEN CASUALLY HOLDING BY HIS HIP

SHE EMERGES

“—can hunt.”

COCO BLINKS BLANDLY IN THE SUDDEN SUNLIGHT

“name’s coco, don’t let the size fool you, she’s all business when it comes to hunting so, she’s a good watchdog”

CAMERA GETS TOO CLOSE TO COCO, WHO GOES ABSOLUTELY FERAL

“ow ow, wow, see— she will take your fi— [to coco] come on, settle down settle down, here we go, we’re going hunting right now”

*slings coco into the air like a bag of trail mix*

“you gotta have one of these things”

*coco furiously wags her tiny tail*

[stonedbabyygirl]

drink some water you beautiful and capable but dehydrated bitch

[whitepeopletwitter]

[savedby-thebell-jar]

I’m hard for her

[thatdisasterauthor]

Reminds me of my coworker who, whenever she sees a Tesla at a gas station or something, she’ll look over and go “Wow! The new Toyotas look really cool!”

The drivers LOSE THEIR MINDS.

[elfwreck]

There was a quote in the original Sharks Are Smooth As Hell thread (which I can’t find, at least not with this comment, attributed to raptorific): Apparently for dudes who’ve got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, “someone who’s wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they’re smarter than you” is their kryptonite. You can play dumb on almost any subject and their ego, their staunch belief that the masses are so far below them, will blind them to the fact that you’re just fucking with them, and as long as you don’t admit you’re fucking with them or acknowledge that there’s anything Off about what you’re saying, they won’t be able to stop themselves trying to get you to Respect Their Authority, and they won’t be able to see that will literally never happen.

[christopherbarnard]

NYC Pride, 1986