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[tumblingghosts]

intro.

hello! i'm backpacks, your local time travel & found family enthusiast :D

my time travel fics: 📚 time travel my beloved <3 📚

-> currently obsessed with the falcon and the winter soldier & thunderbolts. may also post about the umbrella academy & the hunger games (all books/movies).

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📚 2027!john walker talks to 2012!olivia (thunderbolts)

📝 katniss everdeen in tbosas times (hunger games)

[little-de-vil]

Question for the Ballad Bitches (/lovingly)

Hello, I need someone to confirm something. I have been seeing Tik Toks with the caption about how SOTR gave them the real meaning behind The Old Therebefore.

My question is:

Didn’t TBOSAS already give us confirmation of it being a funeral song? Bc it sure as hell sounded like one!!!

Like, did these people just need to read that it happened during a funeral in 12 to “canonize” it as a funeral song? Did Lucy Gray singing it in the arena, awaiting her death and the death of her fellow tributes not signify it as such? Or am I just confusing myself with movie!TBOSAS? Because that very much could be the case!

Then again, I could be wrong because I’ve only read TBOSAS twice, but I highkey felt like it was at least implied!!!

[writes-too-much]

People love to aggrandize Sunrise as if anything in it (being a prequel written literally 15ish years after the OG trilogy and 4ish years after Ballad) as 'rewriting' the entire series and this is just another example of it. I didn't necessarily see it as a funeral song in the sense of it being a traditional song specifically for funerals. (Then again, I've only ever been to 2 funerals and one CoL in my life and one very black-Christian had the gospel choir while my grandfather's had the Jewish/Hebrew prayer songs so...) It definitely was a 'farewell' song of sorts. Clearly.

The premise of the song is literally "I'll see you in the after life but I've got a little bit of my life left to live" in song form. It's clearly a death/farewell/funeral song in that sense (but, again, I just didn't put together directly funeral bc funerals are something I guess I'm fortunate not to experience many of). Lucy Gray literally sings it in the moment she thinks she's going to die (in the movie she's already watched the rest of the tributes in her arena die, too, tho the book leaves her as one of the last 3 before then). If she's not singing it directly to the tributes already dead (in both versions), she's definitely singing it to the Covey family she thinks she's leaving behind...

The entirety of Sunrise was to retcon (good or, mostly, bad) elements from the OG series. Victor relations, Plutarch's background, the entire canon of the 50th Games, Haymitch's backstory, etc so, duh, Suzanne couldn't risk leaving the Covey-esque singing alone for even a second.

Edit to Add: I will happily be a 'Ballad Bitch' bc we stan an actually effective, entertaining, and nuanced prequel to THG trilogy (yes, that is shade at Sunrise, sue me) <3

[redstairs]

I saw this and had to save this image cause I definitely have a few readers like this.

[little-de-vil]

@tumblingghosts hey buddyyyyyy

[tumblingghosts]

me @ snowfall:

[coloredlion]

Day TWO of filling this with aro and/or ace characters

🧡💛🤍🩵💙

Today we have Five Hargreeves from The Umbrella Academy, who is widely headcanoned and accepted as aroace!

[tumblingghosts]

AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE !!!

[purpldology]

Always writing in that damn notebook

[purpldology]

ok ok not gonna yap before confirming things, but general au is that the commission hires the brellas (from a different timeline where they weren't adopted) for their powers to use in corrections. They hired them all in very very low points in their life, which is why they accepted to join, they still don't like it. Each has an animal mask that somehow helps w their powers :) heres Allie and Viktor

[purpldology]

Have an itty bitty gazelle five and deer viktor from the au, I was doodling designs and fives grumpy face is making me giggle

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[purpldology]

Me actually drawing my oc?? Najma doodle dump:)!

[purpldology]

The way I just hc Five's handwriting to be basically mines, because tell me he Doesn't spell spacial and temporal like this???

[britishalien12]

Examples of Five's handwriting.

The first being what Aidan wrote leaning on his knee (there was literally a side table right next to you) in S1

Not sure about the second- whether that's the example Aidan had to follow or if this is just meant to be a neat version if ever seen on camera.

We also have his constant equation scribbling and the notebook from S4 (not that I want to think about that series but it is another example.)

[laurrelise]

indeed we do

[wariowaregirl]

Hiiii can u draw five being an uncle to claire and stan? Idk if you've drawn stan or claire before but id love to see the goobers in ur style

he wouldnt even try and he'd still be the favorite uncle

[purpldology]

OMGE I LOBE THEM!!!! bald chicken stan<333 claire at claires getting earrings aawwwwwww, five teaching both his niece and nephew to lie lmaoo

[tumblingghosts]

five being the cool uncle (& terrible influence) <33

[jjjuajkaja]

Is pluribus still relevant?

[tendebill]

[part 2]

rocky make sure grace not know a moment of peace. statement <3

[everythingitmeans2b]

4 promise.

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[jun-hug]

I drew cats from stardew valley :D

[jun-hug]

fun fact! I did the pixel cats from scratch (looking at the original of course) cus I couldn't find any crisp pictures anywhere 😭

[wariowaregirl]

anyone else glad he died

[tumblingghosts]

oughh that poor old man :( never catches a break :((