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Over the Hilltop
A life we see together built Just over the hills come to We've climbed so far, with tired arms That ending the ascent feels new
Yet to go on towards our goal A last fork in the road to bear I know the journey will be over soon But still a fond ache to share
So close now to the home we seek With time to pass, apart I'll keep this ember burning bright Until I see you again, my heart.
a lot of pieces of media will show characters catching fireflies with just their bare hands. in some cases they will just land on the persons fingers. to gently be placed inside of a jar..
for people who live in areas who donât have fireflies, i want you to know that is not made up or exaggerated for those scenes. fireflies are really like that. they are slow and not cautious at all. while camping i would just walk up to one flying in the air and grab it. and it would sit on my hands like âoh ok.â they are my friends.
also i think itâs funny when fireflies are portrayed as round light bulb-ish shapes. they are skinny.
also their butts are yellow even when not lit up. theyâre not just all black until suddenly lighting up yellow! they always got little yellow asses!
they are such friends
fireflies our beloveds <3
Thought people might appreciate this video I got of a firefly that landed on my momâs ring and sat there flashing for about a good minute or two. They really are just like that
every year when the fireflies returned, my sister and I would go out into the yard at dusk to play with them. I usually just held my hand in the path that one was flying so they would bump into me, and Iâd watch with delight as they crawled around my hands, blinking like tiny stars. their little antenna would tickle my palms as I gently cupped my fingers around them, and after a minute or so I would raise my hand up towards the sky and watch them fly away. sometimes even having to give them a little nudge to get going, as relaxed and content as they were to just stay there with me
theyâre wonderful little friends!
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Polaroid
The alarm goes off, still dark outside
I hear your breathing, slow
Moving light, to not disturb
The morning's memory's glow
A remembered happiness as I rub my eyes
Thinking of our story till now
I kiss your cheek, you sleepily smile
As I remember our kiss long ago
In March as we flew oversea
We chose to be explorers
Little we knew, though we'd definitely seen
That neither of us were cowards.
One kiss, up high, that started it all
As I kiss you once again
A flick of the hat, fondly recalled
By me at least, to your chagrin
A turn of the handle in the shower
And the waterfall reappears
From high above, on beams we crossed,
I saw our future years
In every city, dish, and drive
We deliberately set our footing
To best appreciate, and utilize
This chance that we'd been given
Now as I slowly close the door
The light o'er horizon breaks
Just one more kiss before the last
To hold at bay the ache
Our treasured days of months ere past
The days of morrow create
I see our days, just as they have,
A sunbathed story elate.
Slowly, with you, on the couch
As sun sets through the window
A polaroid, in how I feel,
To capture this memento
So one more kiss before we part
Staving off the chapter's end
Though there be new adventures to start
I'd capture these moments, forever, in film.
'We write to taste life twice. One in the moment and one in retrospect' - Anais Nin
Waiting for Godot (and the bus)
I like the cool, summer early mornings. Reminds of me of Chennai, where I guess was the last time I'd wake up so early willingly and the temperature was still comfortable most of the time. Early mornings usually mean losing late nights though, and though I only found out about the term "revenge bedtime procrastination" recently, I feel like I've been feeling that urge for a long time.
For the uninitiated, "revenge bedtime procrastination" is the phenomenon in which people who don't have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours. Going to sleep becomes basically the end of your free time, the time you actually enjoy spending, and the start of your next day's responsibilities.
In that vein though, I do think I remember a few very distinct mornings where I've been up this early and actually wanted to be, and by extension remember being happy, or rather, content, to go to sleep the night before because I was excited for tomorrow because it's such an otherwise rare phenomenon. Most of these memorable instances were, perhaps not-so-strangely, in the last year or so, with the first being the night before starting my internship at Johns Hopkins for the Preventive Medicine elective. The last time before today, was the night before I went to Camp Moria for the first time. And despite my initial difficulties while in Geneva, I remember nights were I was content enough to go to sleep because I was looking forward to the next day.
I wrote about a similar feeling with regards to Geneva before, but in the vein of not feeling restless while I was there, to be doing something extra, something that would contribute more to the cause(s) I wanted to affect. I related it then to feeling like I was already where I wanted to be, doing the work I wanted to be doing, so I didn't feel like I needed to do more. It left me content to use my free time as actual free time, to enjoy the summer barbequing and biking and swimming with the new friends I'd made.
It's a similar feeling this morning, waiting for the bus to come at 5am, and last night when I didn't mind going to bed around 10. I haven't written anything yet about my experience at BMC, in Boston, summer here, Kat, the feeling of finally having a more distinct sense of agency with regards to my career; mostly because residency's schedule has been taking up my time, expectedly. But I hope to be better about writing more often and not just during instances of relative inspiration like at a bus stop in the chilly air at 5am, if not for the blog, at least to make it good practice to formally bear witness to medical and medical-related disparities, like so many written pieces by others have been so successful at doing before. I'm still getting used to my schedule being what it is, and already dream of being able to work more reasonable hours doing more directly the work I want to do. But in the mean time, what one of my attendings said to me about residency seems to be wiser and wiser advice: to treat residency like a clinical education retreat for three years.
It doesn't feel like it yet, but maybe by the end of these three years I'll finally start to feel that sense of competence I feel like I've been chasing.
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The captions are also really cute, although they mostly describe whatâs in each photo:
Bulbasaur: Somehow, nomming on my clothes⊠has become a weird habit of theirs.
Venusaur: That hasnât changed now that theyâve grown, but theyâre very gentle.
Charmander: Itâs my first attempt, but I made a plushie so that he wouldnât get lonely.
Charizard: That plushie seems to be his favorite even now.
Squirtle: Squirtleâs a bit timid and hides behind me at the smallest things.
Blastoise: Looks like theyâre scared of the first Pichu theyâve seen. Youâre not really hiding!
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You forgot these!!!
Iâm disappointed that these were left out
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The Hunger Games, Actual Teen style!
On the left, 15-year-old Josh Hutcherson.
On the right, 16-year-old Jennifer Lawrence.
Think how much creepier it would be to see them killing other kids when they look so squishy-cheeked and little.
âThink how much creepier it would be to see them killing other kids when they look so squishy-cheeked and little.â
THATâS THE POINT SUZANNE COLLINS WAS TRYING TO MAKE
Think about these cute squishy kids being forced into a romance in order to survive
And the threat of these cute squishy kids being forced into prostitution after the games are over.Â
REBLOGGING THIS AGAIN WITH A REMINDER THAT FINNICK WAS 14 WHEN HE WAS REAPED/WON THE GAMES AND WAS FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION SOON AFTERWARD
wait the kids were forced into prostitution after they won???
Some of the Victors were, especially if they were attractive to lots of rich people during the games. How do you think you pay off the parachute things people send you to help you win the game? Those books were so fucked up
Thatâs why I feel like actual teens should have been cast in the movie. It would have hammered in the message of the books so much more.
And if they had cast actual teenages, Iâm sure they wouldnât have focus so much on romance in the films. They would have focus on the horror of the hunger games, like they damn well should have.
The hunger game movies are the exact thing the hunger game books was trying to warn us about
Just going to add in a few other things that a lot of people seem to miss because it was either de-emphasized or cut entirely from the movies:
-Haymitch Abernathy was 16 when he won the Hunger Games, and the Capitol attempted to force him into prostitution as they did with Finnick and many other popular victors. He refused, and in retaliation, they gradually killed off everyone he loved one by oneâhis friends from home, his family, his girlfriend. He began drinking heavily at a young age to deal with the trauma of the Games, the loss of everyone heâd ever cared about, and subsequently having to continually relive the trauma of the Games in mentoring roughly 50 children, two each year, whom heâd then have to send to their deaths in the Arena.Â
-The Capitol also attempted to force Joanna Mason into prostitution. She, too, refused, and like with Haymitch, the Capitol retaliated by killing off everyone she loved one by one. She alludes to this in both the book and the movie version of Catching Fire, not flinching when she enters the Jabberjay area of the arena because thereâs âno one leftâ that she loves. The movies donât really explore this, though, while the books do more exploration both with everything the Capitol has taken from her and the lingering effects of her PTSD from her imprisonment by the Capitol.Â
-The only reason Peeta and Katniss werenât forced into prostitution was because the Capitol was too invested in the âStar-Crossed Lovers from District 12âł narrative.Â
-Also, Katniss spent the latter half of her first Hunger Games deaf in one ear and had to have her middle and inner ear reconstructed after the Gamesâthe explosion at the Cornucopia permanently fucked up her hearing in that ear. Sheâs able to hear again after the surgeries but never quite the same.Â
-And Peeta had a prosthetic leg! He was severely injured while fleeing the âMuttsâ at the end of the Games and was bleeding out from his leg by the time he and Katniss reached the Cornucopia. Katniss gave him a tourniquet using one of her last two arrows to tighten it. Doing so saved his life, but by the time the Capitol doctors took them out of the arena, the leg was beyond saving and had to be amputated. Katniss finds this out in their âpost-Gamesâ interview with Cesar Flickerman.Â
-Just generally the movies glossed over or completely cut a lot of characters whose experiences in the games left them physically disabled (Katnissâs partial deafness and Peetaâs lost leg being cut entirely, Beeteeâs spinal damage from the forcefield leaving him wheelchair-bound being largely kinda glossed over) or with PTSD (Katniss and Peetaâs PTSD isnât really explored that much, Joannaâs PTSD is pretty much skipped over entirely, Annieâs barely in the movies at all, Haymitchâs entire backstory is cut, the fact that Finnick is basically just constantly putting on a show and barely holding it together under the surface isnât ever really explored, pretty much all of the addiction subplots including Haymitch attempting to quit drinking and Katniss starting to drink at one point and everything related to morphling are cutâŠ).Â
-Basically as âroughâ as the movies are they sanitized the FUCK out of the Hunger Games and the world surrounding them, and thatâsâŠnot a good thing.
TL;DR: @isashi-nigami is completely correct, The hunger game movies are the exact thing the hunger game books was trying to warn us about.
Two things:
The only reason Katniss and Peeta were saved from prostitution was timing. After their own Games, the rumblings of rebellion had really started to gain traction. All victors have to do a celebratory circuit of all the Districts, but Peeta and Katnissâs celebration circuit was being used by Snow as a âeverythingâs fine, please donât rebel, weâre just a pair of teenagers in liveâ prop tool for Snow to try and supress the rebellion. Peeta and Katniss were much more useful to him as teens in love than they were as prostitutes. Then we went straight from there to the 75th Games, in which Peeta and Katniss were fighters. Between being used to quell a revolution and having the Quarter Quell go the way it did, there was no time for Snow to loan them out to people. But had the timing been different â had there been no rebellion or had Peeta and Katniss not been central to it or had it all been delayed long enough for the post-games celebrations to die out, then yeah, they would have been sold to the highest bidder just like Finnick was.
I actually thibk that the fact that the filmâs focussed on the romance and the glitz and glamour and etc was⊠accidentally clever, on Hollywoodâs part. They certainly didnât mean to do this, but they 100% replicated the Capitolâs attitude to the Games. They made it all about the entertainment, all about the story and the romance and the drama. So many people would have watched those movies and been taken in by the romance plot, and the revolutionary plot would have been secondary. The social commentary wouldnât have even registered. Even the fact that they used older actors for the teens â in the books, Katniss and Peeta are never seen in public without a full face of make up once theyâre Reaped. Katniss undergoes a full beauty treatment and not only is she wearing make up that makes her look older and more mature, but so is Peeta. The Capitol didnât want them looking like fresh faced babies, and neither did Hollywood. If you watch those films merely for the entertainment they provide, then congrats. Youâre the canon target audience of the Hunger Games. Hollywood was never going to make a movie that focuses on the true horrors of such a story, the way it should. Especially when the social commentary in the Hunger Games is terrifyingly similar to a social commentary on our society as a whole. No, no - they were always going to focus on the romance and the glitz and the glamour and the heroism. Which isâŠâŠ. kind of poetic, really. That they went and did the exact same thing that the villains did.
THIS MAN ^^^ I wrote an essay about the lack of humanity in this book and man I shouldâve read this first
The whole youthful and innocent vs older and sexy thing actually gets brought up at the end of the first book.
Cinna puts Katniss in a dress that is consciously designed to make her look much younger than she actually is, so as to play up the âteens in loveâ angle theyâre trying to sell the Capitol.
But the dress also has padding, so as to make her breasts and hips seem larger than they are, since sheâs been literally on the verge of starvation for weeks, and wasnât eating that much before that, and as a result she isnât that curvy. Katniss is shocked by this, but Cinna explains that the dress was actually a compromise, because the original Capitol plan had been to give her plastic surgery.
Katniss then realises that none of the male tributes grew facial hair in the arena, even though several of them were old enough (note: she doesnât say that all of them were old enough. Though Rue was the youngest, this suggests that there were other tributes who were young teenagers) and that something must have been done to them to prevent that from happening.
Also, itâs worth considering that Katniss and Peeta probably looked even younger than your typical sixteen year olds.
Katniss makes a big deal about how much they both get to eat at home, but if you read between the lines, Peeta lives off stale bread from the bakery and the odd bit of meat, and Katniss is essentially living the hunter gatherer lifestyle, supplemented by what they can buy from the baker and what they can get from Primâs goat.
Theyâre much more well-nourished than the bulk of District Twelve, but Katniss can still easily spot the Career Tributes, because theyâre the ones who have always had enough to eat. Sheâs one of the older (and therefore almost certainly heavier) tributes, but she still gets to hide in trees to get away from the Careers, because sheâs significantly lighter than all of them.
Malnutrition tends to push back puberty. Katniss would probably be less well-developed than a modern teenager of the same age.
Notably, we donât hear about her getting her periodâ or even wondering about that like she does with the facial hairâ in the arena. Which, yeah, could be because of our cultureâs habit of viewing menstruation as less kid-friendly than graphic child murder and mentions of prostitution, but itâs worth considering that in real life she might well have not started it yet.
While wearing the final interview dress, even with the padding to give her bigger breasts and wider hips, she says she looks about âfourteen at mostâ, which even accounting for Cinnaâs borderline magical design skills, suggests that she probably tends to look like a younger teen even without it.
The Hunger Games would have been almost unbearably disturbing, if they hadnât decided to cast almost all the characters as incredibly fit twenty somethings.
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