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everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3

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Bro I can’t ever watch videos about Jane Austen things now bc people are constantly missing the point. I only trust interpretations from autistic lesbians with a strong sense of humor atp (/hj)

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One of the more subtle but biggest takeaways for me from SROTR is how the wealth inequality is portrayed. District 12 doesn’t seem as poor, the capital doesn’t seem as rich. I know others have commented on this, but to me it read as an obvious commentary on “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer”.

What’s striking to me is what this implies about Katniss’s parents, specifically Asterid. The gap between the Seam and Town is still very present, but daily conditions in the Seam are described very differently by Katniss and Haymitch.

For Haymitch, life is hard for folks, but there’s no talk of people dropping dead from starvation. Whereas, for Katniss, she describes this as a real danger and likelihood multiple times. There’s a possibility that it still occurs as broadly during SROTR, but the exclusion seems purposeful on Suzanne’s part.

Anyway, I couldn’t stop thinking about Asterid and how, when she chose to leave Town for the Seam, it wasn’t the same “death sentence” that it would become in Katniss’s books. I don’t think this makes Burdock and her love any less meaningful, but it made her loss even more impactful.

When he dies, she’s left poorer and more vulnerable than when she married him, and she’s left without the life partner that would have made it all bearable. Ouch.

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fire and ice spoilers (real not fake not clickbait)

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‘Trappings of Starlight’ Cinderella’s castle fanart based on the work of J.C.Leyendecker because yes, I am that obsessed with these characters that I’m doing digital painting.

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brushing up on preproduction skills and using (some of) the impulse gang to do so :)

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hihi. kill me

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Sorry, but in my mind, Maysilee Donner is either a lesbian with a one sided crush on Lenore OR a gay trans man pained by having everyone calling him “sister” and carrying a one sided crush on Haymitch.

Or something else (like gnc, bi, and polyamorous). Idk I JUST KNOW SHES QUEER SOMEHOW!!!! And queerness is a danger to the capital and the games, so she was reaped.

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Louella and Lou Lou

Variations under the cut

I didn’t see that the quote was actually “which of us is which” (page 352) until after I had finished so I only edited the one

Edit to add:

Edit2: I added alt text, sorry I hadn’t earlier!

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me talking in the tags on tumblr dot com

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Sorry, but in my mind, Maysilee Donner is either a lesbian with a one sided crush on Lenore OR a gay trans man pained by having everyone calling him “sister” and carrying a one sided crush on Haymitch.

Or something else (like gnc, bi, and polyamorous). Idk I JUST KNOW SHES QUEER SOMEHOW!!!! And queerness is a danger to the capital and the games, so she was reaped.

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superboy ☀️🕶️💪

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How I feel being one of the three Haydovelee (or haydovesilee) shippers on here seeing people arguing about how haysilee shippers are awful (they are gonna hate me)

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Or hear me out… let people ship what they want?

You know how many times my mlm ship had a moment where it sounded like they were gonna confess gay love, but then they called each other brothers??? Yeah. There is nothing wrong with Haysilee.

Personally I even ship Haydovelee. (And also hayffie ofc)

This righteous and purity ship culture will get us no where. I love when it’s platonic haysilee AND I love when it’s romantic haysilee. I just love the characters, and I like finding different ways for them to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

Haydove and Hayffie shippers do not fight, unionize against the real enemy (Haysilee shippers)

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Whenever Haymitch insulted Effie's outfits during the main triology, it wasn't his fault, he was being possesed by Maysilee's ghost

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Do you like minizines?

Hi! I've recently been getting into making zines, and something I've noticed over time is that most fandom zines are closer to books then what zines were in the past. Those are great, but I also love being able to print out and fold a minizine and have a small book!

This won't work exactly like a major zine project. I'm not interested in having people apply to be contributors or having multiple mods or having merch around it. Also, this probably won't be just one, minizines (imo) are fun to make and not terribly complicated to design so if there's interest I'd love to do multiple of these! Lastly, I want to include stuff beyond just art and fic, like meta or comic rec lists or cosplay or photography. However, like most zine projects, this will be collaborative and include mostly other peoples' creative output!

Do you have a suggestion for a theme? Submit one here!

Check my page for what themes are currently accepting submissions, and for how long!

Interested in submitting something to be included in the minizine? Or just interested in reading more about how this will work? Look under the cut!

What even is a minizine?

Typical fandom zines in 2025 tend to be, essentially, books filled with fandom content. Which is fun, and I like it! But minizines are older and more DIY. They're mini booklets made from one sheet of paper folded & cut (and sometimes stapled). I have some examples on my zine sideblog, @zinesinjars.

My favorite two versions are the 8-page folded classic and the 16-page stapled mini booklet. Instructions for how to fold them are here and here, and will also be included in all posts.

What is allowed as a submission?

Most stuff, so here's a rundown of what is not allowed:

NSFW isn't allowed.

Neither are the following ships: brudick, brujay, dicktim, jaytim, brutim, dickjay/jaydick, jaydami.

(intentional) Plagiarism. All submissions must be your own work. Including comic panels is fine as long as you state the comic that it's from and it's transformative in some way (like a comic edit or a redraw or smth). If you're really genuinely unsure, you can totally ask me but it's probably fine.

Any use of generative AI. To me, what makes fandom worthwhile is its collaborative nature. It's built on labors of love and exists in conversation with both the original piece and with other fans. Anyone has the capacity to be creative, and anyone has the capacity to learn something new. Generative AI steals from artists, is environmentally damaging, and is something I never want to support. So absolutely no use of generative AI is allowed for this.

Pretty much anything else is allowed! Like, literally anything that can be creative. I would say, as a guideline, writing over 1k is unlikely to be allowed simply due to constrictions on space. In addition, minizines are vertical, so if your picture or drawing is square-shaped or taller than it is wide, it will print better than if it is landscape-orientation.

This being said, I'd be willing to accept almost anything that fits inside those guidelines. Traditional art, digital art, fiction writing, nonfiction dc-related writing, recipes, photographs, etc. Have fun and be creative!

How do I submit?

You can either submit a post on here, or email it to me at unofficialdcminizine@gmail.com.

Please include a name that you wish to be credited by, the theme that the submission is for, any socials that you want to be included, and the submission itself.

What else should I know before submitting?

These zines will be 100% free to print and distribute. Submitting is consenting to have whatever you submit in a zine that could be printed by anyone.

Since there's no money being exchanged or anything, pieces don't have to be exclusive to this zine. You're allowed to make something for the purpose of submitting it to this, you're allowed to submit something that you made a year ago, and you're allowed to post stuff that you submit both before and after the zine is published as much as you want.

Also, if your piece does not end up in the final product, that doesn't say anything inherent about it! It could mean anything, from the way it'll print to the amount of space it takes up to how it'll print to having a ship that isn't to my taste. It can even just be that there's a broad theme and I want to represent a broader scope-- like, I wouldn't want a green lantern zine to be 90% hal and 10% kyle if i could have something more like 30% hal, 20% kyle, 10% jo, 20% jess, and 20% john, yk? Something can be amazing and not make it. (I mean ideally that won't happen, but it might! Ideally as many things as possible will make it into end products lol)

Lastly, as this is a project run by one person, I'm not going to pretend to be unbiased. I have favorite ships and characters. I'm not going to intentionally favor them, but I may unintentionally favor them. If someone wants an end product more catered to their own taste, feel free to start your own! I don't mean this spitefully, I love zines and I love minizines and I would love to see more fandom minizines going around lately, and I fully intend to promote any other fandom minizines I see :3

Have fun!