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powerful-owl

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your ship goes canon

your favorite ao3 writer drops 100k of your ship + your favorite trope

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abbielauren2024

Reblog if you’re grateful for your commenters <3

If the key relationship in my fic is Haymitch and Coin actively hating each other do I tag it Haymitch & Coin or would that be confusing?

#genuine question: is there an enemies tag?#mutual dislike to mortal enemies #fic writing #ao3 #thg #the hunger games #haymitch abernathy #alma coin

allthingswhumpyandangsty

wdarlingyap

"But I don't like the ending/the character/the plot point. I would have done it differently."

Yes. Good. Go get a pen. This is where it begins.

effieotto

Sometimes I open this app to see people saying that Effie going to twelve after the war is incredibly uncharacteristic for her, because she would never settle down for a place so out of her comfort, after being a shallow, materialistic, wealthy woman for so long, and it really struck me how the fact that she was a torture survivor is conveniently kept out of this conversation every.single.damn.time

Yes, Effie wouldn’t settle down for a place so far from her Capitol comfort in any normal conditions. She was a force of the wind driven by the hustle of the city life, and the monotony of living in a country house, after so many tempestuous years being delighted by the chaos of her routine in the city, would eventually become unbearably boring to her if she had not been perpetually traumatized by the exact same hectic city that had once thrilled her.

The Capitol stopped being a safe space for her the moment Snow locked her underground. The comfort, the clothes, the familiarity…these were all gone when her sense of security was weaponized against her. Her identify was used to determine her punishment— she wasn’t ever going to look back at the things that once represented her, with anything but terror. Therefore, I believe it’s safe to assume that, once she was properly recovered physically, emotionally and, more importantly, financially, and could finally make her own decisions, she would want to stay as far from anything that may trigger her memories as possible. A place where she wouldn’t remember the Capitol so vividly; a place where the citizens of her torment wouldn’t be seen, a quiet place where she could forget, or at least try to survive, the aftermath of the emotional turmoil and grief she was forced to endure during the war.

District One was too close to the Capitol, the architecture, the people, the expansion building that would happen once the gates were open— it would resemble too much. District two were full of the peacekeepers that tortured her. District Three, Five, Six, Seven etc had nothing to offer her. Twelve was not only perfectly fit for her to disassociate from her trauma, but also the only place on earth that still held people she cared about, so why not?

virgo-writer

Apologies for the self-promotion, but this is kinda the thesis of my first Hunger Games fic (pre-SOTR obviously): Redemption (five women Haymitch couldn't save and one who saved herself)

Not even going so far as being reminded of her torture and imprisonment by everything Capitol, but the dissonance of trying to live her life in a city largely untouched by the war when her entire world has been flipped on its axis.

I'd also point out that Effie and Katniss' prep team are likely the only non-rebel Games officials to survive the purge - all her colleagues are dead, but also probably her baby sister who was training to be a stylist 25 years ago. There's not a lot of reason for her to stay in the Capitol after that.

#hunger games #its fascinating to me that people can understand the idea that Haymitch would be so changed by his games and the loss of his family #to be complete unrecognisable as a character between SOTR and THG #but cannot extend that same reasoning to understand why Effie might not be interested in the same things she used to love #hayffie

Just thinking about how if we are to believe that Kaylie Cruz went on to win gold at the 2012 Olympics, then Sasha and Marty are really bad at coaching.

Sasha is repeatedly 'underestimating' Kaylie. So she proves him wrong at Nationals and then Worlds. The only time that Sasha kind of believed in her was the China meet and even then it was his belief in her strength of character, not her gymnastics skills. Contrast this with Payson, Lauren, and Emily who Sasha is constantly pushing because he knows what they're capable of.

Like I get that they wanted to tell a story where Kayla was this underdog who came out of nowhere and was never backed by the establishment. But imagine if you found out one day that Simone Biles' coach never thought that she had what it takes to make it to the Olympics, let alone to win gold. You would say that is a bad coach, because identifying talent is a thing that gymnastics coaches are supposed to do.

And I hate agreeing with the NGO, but maybe they were right to randomly hire a guy from the men's team to be the coach. At least that guy knows talent when he sees it.

#miobi #make it or break it #still not over miobis framing of kaylie as the number one gymnast in the US let alone world #sasha belov #kaylie cruz

freelancepolice

The Signs as Bad Fanfiction Writers

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Aries: turned off spellcheck and never looked back

Taurus: “lol fuck canon”

Gemini: would actually be a pretty good writer if they would stop calling characters by their hair color all the damn time

Cancer: can’t imagine a fanfiction where they write their favorite character shagging anyone but their OC

Leo: three words: Throbbing Meat Wand

Vigro: can’t describe anything without writing at least 30 fucking adjectives for the same thing in front of it

Libra: “Ohayo, Snape Sensei,” Harry-kun said blushing, “You are looking Sugoi today, desu.”

Scorpio: solely responsible for their fandom’s Auschwitz AU

Sagittarius: “Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears”

Capricorn: has written 10 different fanfics about their most hated character dying within the past month

Aquarius: writes the most anatomically impossible sex you’ve ever seen

Pisces: “hi this is my first fic sorry i suck at summaries hope you enjoy”

#accurate

It's great when you work out the exact thing that isn't working about your current WIP. I just wish it wasn't six chapters back and the basis for several subsequent plot points.

#writing process #and now the rewrite begins