#odonism

[fairycosmos]

I wanted to share the source of that adorable mouse pic you reblogged since that one seems to be a repost. they’re called mouseshouses and make so many amazing and delightful mouse photos that I think you would love https://mouseshouses.tumblr.com/post/733428627853721600/beach-moonlight

:o thank you so so much!! had no idea that was a repost i love that they have a whole archive of this .... <3

[saturdaysky]

your art is like a really delicious fresh pastry to me… all the flaky beautiful mouthwatering layers…! I could just stare at it for hours on end honestly. wishing you well!

Gosh, I missed this ask in my inbox! What a lovely (and delicious) compliment, thank you so much 🥐💛🥐 i hope you have a wonderful day!

[grecoromanyaoi]

I’m a bit late but I’d love to know 26 & 32 for that ask game! 🌞

ur not late at all!

26. fave colour and why? umm i think orange. shes just so versatile...

32. how many tabs do you have open right now? 2. im built different

[jewfrogs]

I have only seen the first movie so my only experience was with the marketing rather than the film portrayals, but rereading the books as an adult and remembering how I interacted with them as a middle schooler definitely had me critical of how central the love triangle was to the cultural conversation surrounding the series. it’s certainly an important element in the novels, mostly in that it represents two different potential character arcs for katniss. when the films and even the books were being marketed, however, the focus shifted to the aesthetic and surface-level emotional appeal of the love interests rather than the central conflict to katniss’s character. which like, I don’t expect a more nuanced approach from marketers who clearly just saw an opportunity to make money off 12-year-olds. the unfortunate factor is that 12-year-olds are absolutely capable of literary analysis, but they are also highly impressionable and so a lot of otherwise keen readers, myself included, did end up overly focused on the superficial aspects of the “peeta vs. gale” debate rather than engaging with the text more meaningfully. sorry to write an essay in your inbox! I am unfortunately obsessed with this series.

no apology necessary!! i love an essay 🩶

i was also of a similar age seeing the movies as they came out (i read the books around 8/9 and was 10 when the first movie premiered), and my memory of the marketing/cultural conversation is very limited (i have maybe three clear memories of interacting with the series as a kid and one of them is crying over prim in an outback steakhouse), but i completely buy that much of the reception of both the books and the movies was very very shallow!

which sucks because rereading as an adult i find myself loving the love triangle as a plot point, even beyond the ramifications for katniss’ arc/further development. i love the way the love triangle serves to underscore on one hand how much she is a teenager and on the other hand how much she is unable to be a teenager. katniss is 16/17! she’s so so young! it’s so so normal that she’s wrapped up in romantic considerations, that she has crushes on boys, that she doesn’t know how to communicate with them; and it’s so so upsetting the way that weaves into the theft of her childhood as a continual theme. she should be able to figure out her feelings for peeta in her time and on her terms, but her autonomy is stolen and she’s corralled into this relationship where she has to remain for the rest of her life. she can’t choose peeta and she can’t choose to leave peeta. and even outside of the capitol controlling her, on an interpersonal level, everyone involves themselves in her private life and leaves her no room to ever make a choice (the scene where coin casually asks if katniss wants them to start presenting gale as her new lover…). the romantic drama is arguably the most normal part of katniss’ time as a teenager and it’s still stolen and corrupted and made public property because katniss cannot be a teenager and cannot be or belong to herself.

i don’t know!! it’s good. it’s good writing. and it is so sad that the conversation is/was ‘which boy should katniss choose’ and not ‘growing up under an oppressive government denied katniss both adolescence and autonomy and her relationships with peeta and gale are fundamentally formed in those traumatic circumstances’ etc. etc.