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"They're going to love you, like I do." ❤️‍🔥✨

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Everyone say hi to Asher, this is @lolliputian OC for her piece Time Again and Zevlor's late* husband (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)

I love the scene in Nimona where Ballister is brooding over his knighting ceremony and Ambrosious comes to cheer him up. I thought it would be so cute if I made a parallel to Zevlor's promotion to Commander.

Yes, Asher had to crane his neck to get between those horns to give him a smooch. And it was worth it (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

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lolliputian asked you: 2012-07-11 15:26

HUNGER GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES

1.   Sorry this took so long for me to get to!

   1. The first character I first fell in love with

Katniss. I wonder if there can be Hunger Games fans that this isn’t true for, the entire story is so built around her point of view on the most basic level. If you can’t identify with her ‘I’ then you’re pretty much lost. I love her for her lack of emotional intelligence and her practicality. It’s very different from me, I can’t imagine being so pragmatic or decisive in the face of gigantic but terrifying decisions. I would be more caught up in emotion, projection on what was going on, how things would look or come across. That would all manifest as essentially curling up, crying and dying, of course.

  2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now

Hmmm...Haymitch? I’ve partially been talked around to interest in him by meta etc. but I remember as I was reading the thing that really won me over was the actual description of his own Games and imagining him as a kid/teenager. I think what it is is that the series of books is so teenage in me that I find it very difficult to get invested in the adults. I can easily project over the other tributes that barely have any characterisation but I never got a real sense of complete relatable humanity from most of the adults. I’m just thinking about this now and I realise that I don’t feel that way about Johanna or Finnick. Maybe it’s a more basic and specific thing about requiring some kind of sense about how the person confronts the Games themselves, they’re a metaphor for difficulty, injustice, expectation etc. It was only when I fully imagined Haymitch as a teenager and what he suffered and triumphed in to be the victor (particularly in a Quarter Quell) that I truly sympathised with him and was deeply interested.

  3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t

Hmmm, I don’t really like Prim but I expect, knowing fandom that there are others that feel like that that are probably dicks. I just never really felt her presence in the story as anything other than plot gubbins. Katniss loving her sister doesn’t need explanation, obviously, but I wish the book had tried to make more effort at getting me to love her too.

4. The character I love that everyone else hates

Lol Peeta forever and always.

Apart from that though the characters I’m going to say are more ignored than hated. I love Lavinia and Darius the two avoxes.  The role of the avox is one of the most underexplored things that appears in the series for me – their stories seem compelling in a way that few others really do.  The only interesting narrative space, for me, in The Hunger Games as a fictional world is the place where the world of the Capitol and the world of the Districts meet. Not many characters occupy that area – everyone back in District 12 just seemed like an empty cipher to me that I didn’t really care about, everyone of the Capitol seemed similarly one dimensional. The Districts themselves are apparently implausible monocultures that act collectively  and are more symbolic than they are alive. No characters up to and including the tributes apparently have the ability for as much mobility in their life path as an avox. Lavinia is a woman from the Capitol (that coincidentally suggests a complexity and internal conflict barely seen otherwise) turned into a voiceless slave which is a fall more dramatic than any other figure in the world universe.  Darius is a District 12 native that is a peacekeeper and ends up in the Capitol – other people from the Districs seem to have no chance of ever leaving their District unless they are a Tribute. Lavinia and Darius end up side by side as absolute identical equals which can’t be said of any other characters. I wnat to know how they felt and what they saw, why they did the thing sthey did and how they felt about that in retrospect. From a storytelling point of view I don’t think it’s fully satisfying to introduce a character that is literally voiceless without at some point allowing them to be heard in some way.

5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer

Hmmm, I’m gonna say Madge. When she was introduced at such an important point as the source of such an important symbol and in such an oblique way I immediately feel for her. I was hooked and imagined that she would emerge as a key character, the aspects of her social class and her clear love of Katniss seemed like an amazing nuance to things. Nothing came of it even though I really expected it, throughout the series I kept expecting her to show up and be incredibly important. I assumed she would be a Tribute the next year while Katniss had to mentor and we got a view behind scenes in Capitol society tbh.

6. The character I would totally smooch

I would smooch Finnick but it would make him sad.

7. The character I’d want to be like

Katniss for sure, I’m nowhere near like her, particularly right now. Having just a drop of her strength and prosaic ability to act would be amazing.

8. The character I’d slap

Gale...doofus.

9. A pairing that I love

Finnick/President Snow – a perfect microcosm of the relationship between the Capitol and the Districts condensed into a single relationship.

10. A pairing that I despise

Katniss/Gale – There is no point to this relationship whatsoever.

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lolliputian replied to your post: dude shit is getting so real i can’t deal 

I’m blaming you guys for having ATLA in a dream of mine WHEN I HAVE NOT SEEN IT.

OMG I TOO had an atla dream before I had seen it! DASHCEPTION, MAN.

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Random numbers go! 3, 12, 28, 32, 46.

3.Are you a jealous person?

Depends. When it comes to certain things (namely, things relating to academic recognition), then I can get very jealous. I was also jealous of the girl who got the head spot in musicals for a while, before I realized she was actually really sweet. I'm much more of the person to just give up on something that's not working out, rather than get jealous of others. With people, I'm really not at all, though I can't say I have much experience. 

12.Are you mad at someone right now?

No more than usual. There are things I'm not happy about, but those are generally things that I've no hope of changing through anger, and thus have largely given up on. 

28.Are you a forgiving person?

I don't know. I hope so. I think a lot of things don't really make me angry anymore, but that if something does actually make me really angry, it takes a long while for me to get over. 

32.What’s the last thing you put in your mouth?

Garlic bread. 

46.How many kids do you want to have?

I don't know. Sometimes I daydream a bit about having a kid, but the vast majority of the time it seems unrealistic. I don't think I'm good with children at all (they make me very nervous), and I don't really see me having any sort of girlfriend who'd want to do that either. Plus I'm probably no good with responsibility, and I'm not much of a role model either. Also, that stuff Sarah Silverman said got me thinking (which is probably a bad sign, since the vast majority of her stuff really shouldn't be taken seriously); she mentioned that having biological kids with her depression might wind up just being a problem. Now, obviously, I would never try to apply that statement to anyone else, but it's (and other things obvs, but that quote is a nice tidy example) made me think that maybe I'd be better off not having kids. Aside from the genes aspect, I just don't think I have much to offer ngl.