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crystal. 31 years old. she/her. asexual. if i follow you it will show up as my main blog, jingerines.

[ohmovie]

I am obscene to you, but to myself I simply am.

JACOB ELORDI as The Creature in FRANKENSTEIN│2025

[blacksheepcolorfulskin]

Can we talk about Francios Arnaud absolutely BODYING this Vulture interviewer??

Heated Rivalry’s Elder Statesman

As out hockey star Scott Hunter, François Arnaud surprised himself, too: “I was like, ‘I’m ready to say these words.’”

[usermovies]

FRANKENSTEIN

2025, dir. Guillermo del Toro

[devinellekurtz]

My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

[beatbizzle]

I overheard a woman at my job say "Your whole personality revolves around what you hate instead of what you love and thats an awful way to live." to the resident vocal Maga in the breakroom.

He was stunned into silence for at least 60 seconds so that was nice.

[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.

[heywriters]

As a nonfan, one thing I’ve always appreciated about the “love triangle” of THG is that it’s the one YA love triangle I’ve ever read where the heroine DOESN’T choose the brooding, violent bad boy. Every YA novel that has love triangles is copying Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre where the broody guy is “not like the others” making the heroine “original” and oh so special for falling for him when he’s literally an abusive jerk.

My FAVORITE part of this though, is that in violent, oppressive, dystopian Panem Peeta IS the different one. Every person Katniss meets has dark, broody feelings for completely valid reasons (another thing shallow Bad Boy archetypes usually lack). Peeta (sry it autocorrected to “pasta” and I cracked up) is one of the only people in Katniss life who’s telling her “Hey, you can do this, we’ll get through this, people shouldn’t have to die for it though.” And that’s, like, the most revolutionary mindset in a world where brutal violence is so normalized it’s broadcast on television as mandatory entertainment. Katniss didn’t pick the “nice guy” she picked the healthy worldview she and her society need to heal.

Moreover, Peeta picked well too. He’s a child abuse victim from a houseful of people who wouldn’t stand up for him in a town that derides him for having a minimally better station in life than them, and here’s this girl who willfully stands up to every injustice she can. Seriously, how often does the love interest in copycat YA lit have a convincingly compelling reason to love the heroine other than she’s pretty or “different” or “we’ve always known each other so I guess let’s get married”?

[redshiftsinger]

Also, their initial interactions, he’s not kind to her because he has a crush on her. He’s kind to her initially because he’s a kind person.

It’s also never *definitely* clear exactly when he developed romantic feelings for her. Sure, he claims he had a crush all along, and that might be true, but also he’s shown to be an excellent improviser who can and will lie extremely convincingly on the spot to manipulate public opinion when he feels it’s warranted (fake pregnancy, anyone?), and also a deeply kind person, and in combination? He may not have loved her yet when he first claimed to, in the first public interview. But he knew she had more to win for than he did, and if she won, it would help their whole community, by extension everyone he cared about, PLUS she has the kind of skills that are useful in the Games, far more than he does. She wasn’t ever going to get the public-opinion support that would improve her chances on her own, she’s too blunt, too rough around the edges. She’s already pissed off the elites enough to manipulate the rankings to punish her.

But a tragic, star-crossed-lovers story? THAT might get people rooting for them, and by extension, for her. That might be enough that Katniss, whose family primarily rely on her to feed them since her father’s death (unlike Peeta’s family, who can fend for themselves), gets to go back home alive at the end of all this. He never had a ghost of a chance anyway.

And Peeta is a kind person.

[xanaxfarts]

Arches National Park, Utah photo: Elliot McGucken

[verych3rrygirl]

forever mourning quizilla

[queer-is-future-deactivated2025]

so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”

but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.

ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.

if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Also because my exact address in Queertown is usually nobody's business.

[tarragonthedragon]

In either case, you only need all the details if you're coming back to my place.

[pahorans-letter]

hey y'all I posted about this the other week (and I will be reaching out to those who responded to that post saying they were interested), but basically I'm writing a paper about asexuality in mormonism and I'd like to get responses from you all!

Asexuality in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

This survey is for a university study on asexuality among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Here is the link to the form! It should only take ~15 minutes to fill out, so please please please go ahead and respond!

[huffylemon]

[swankyjami]

This is what happens when you’re still on tumblr as an adult, you start reblogging shit like this

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[nerdygaymormon]

[shinraalpha]

i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

[sweetvinegar]

[spatialheather]

"i saw your name in the kudos list of the devil's sacrament"

[sage-nebula]

Okay, but what were YOU doing in the kudos list of the devil's sacrament? 👀

[lunerabo-deactivated20250206]

“Get his ass” Is so unreasonably funny to me. A huge win for the English language. Today’s version of “seize him” imo

[feluka]

cats being capable of understanding accidents and even giving you a little head bonk to let you know you're still cool makes it infinitely funnier that they don't understand when you're trying to help them

cats when you step on their tail: i'll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.

cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,

[thecatwars]

Me: I'm excited for the LADS Valentines banner. It'll be nice to have some cute cards and moments.

Infold: CHAINS. MULLETS. GROWLING.