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The lion does not concern itself with the bank account balance when a little treat is calling

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Every single day I am disrespected by Google Docs who thinks I shouldn't be writing in present tense.

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I know furniture HATES to see violet and xaden coming

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dain and violet's entire interaction in fourth wing

dain: violet, please, you have to quit and get into the scribe quadrant

violet: it's not clocking to you. it's not clocking to you that i'm standing on business

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cute idea! thanks for the tag from my lovely moot @unnamednarrator

L: labour - paris paloma

I: i see the angels - ashton irwin

B: briogais - mànran

E: exuent - the oh hellos

R: rhiannon - fleetwood mac

A: arabella - arctic monkeys

L: leah - seeing double

K: kiwi - harry styles

1: 1979 - the smashing pumpkins

T: this is the life - amy mcdonald

S: smile - wolf alice

C: crystal - stevie nicks

H: honest - the band light

i never realised the truly absurd amount of songs i have liked until now😂

open tag to anyone who wants to join!

thank you for the tag, @vvrong. This was hilarious, complicated and fun.

Task: Pick a song for every letter in your tumblr-URL. Tag at least as many people as there are letters in your URL.

Daydreaming - Nx Worries

After the Storm - Kali Uchis

Nightcall - London Grammar

Its only us - Monophonics

El Bueno Y El Malo - Hermanos Guitiérrez

Love Me Like You Hate Me - Rainsford

Life Will Be - Cleo Sol

Exile - Bon Iver & Taylor Swift

Shades of Blue - Sophia Bel

Jamming - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Old Money - Lana Del Rey

Unholy - Sam Smith & Kim Petras

Rebel Paradise - Common Saints

No One - Alicia Keys

Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish

Your Love Is King - Sade

XO - Beyonce

Over - Portishead

Apparently i can‘t post that many songs due to post restrictions, that‘s why everything‘s written out.

i‘ll tag:

@elle-mood @simply-natalie @thesirencult @theworldisherstage @just-inthevoid117 @thebonesofwoe @rosljakova @daugtherofgaia777 @desigirlbombshell @sigmararete @theweightofdivinity @erosinbloom @mizzundrstood @mora-333 @ladylavenderstone @perpetual-wedgie @freakyslim248 @palesofterass @introvertedsage

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taking up this tag game from @porcelainlacy cos i’m procrastinating on studying and it looked fun

search up aesthetic, song lyrics, & character<33

low pressure tags for funsies: @unnamednarrator @annoying-vegan @thesunpersists @peettamellarrk @millennium-queen @loungemermaid 🩷🩷

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i cannot fully express my hatred for ai generated «fanart»

i fear you’re not a real fan of a creator’s art if you steal other people’s work to generate an uncanny valley-esque composition bc you refuse to do it yourself or seek out a real artist bc your own imagination is lacking

go touch grass, i’m so fucking tired of ai character depictions (i refuse to call them art) being the primary form of content when i look up a new character/ship

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I measure the success of my fic by how much it messes up my readers lives. Today, someone stayed up until 3am and someone else was late to work. Massive wins for me. Sorry to ya'll for the inconvenience. I shan't change my ways

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Sorry if you've got this one before, and it's a repeat, but what do you think about the headcannon that Katniss is autistic?

first off, i love your username👀

secondly, i 100% believe she’s autistic. i do think a good part of her behaviour can be attributed to the cptsd and the fact that she’s unreliable and thereby hides a lot of details, but there’s an element to her social interactions that not even that can explain. i’m not saying to what degree she’s on the spectrum, but i do think she’s on it fs

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Unrelated to everlark or Hunger Games, but I was looking at your spotify playlists and was wondering what your top 1D and 5sos albums are?

um is it too basic to say all of them?? lol this is like asking me to choose a favourite child

but in all honesty, probably four and sgfg if i really had to choose. i can’t in good conscience say mitam bc as amazing as it is, it could never be my fav without zayn, and as for 5sos, i do prefer the older pop-punk sound just bc i also grew up w the late 90s/early 2000s pop-punk music too, so it holds a special place in my heart.

though if we’re talking most played, my fav for 5sos is technically self titled b-sides and rarities cos wrapped around your finger and disconnected are crack to me

but i really do love all of it and have been a fan of both for over 10 years🥹 i still wear my 2011 1d messenger bag to uni every day

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suzanne AND stevie/lindsey coming out with new material in the same year? god is real and she’s bringing her best baddies outta retirement

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“Peeta is so gaslight gatekeep girlboss” WRONG. Katniss is. Katniss didn’t tell us her mother and father’s names! She doesn’t tell us Peeta’s birthday! She says shit like “it could be possible now, couldn’t it” about being pregnant when she’s only said that her and Peeta snuggle. She gaslights herself constantly! She wrote a paragraph about his damn eyelashes and then says “I wish I loved him 😔”

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- katniss everdeen on an average night whilst literally sleeping next to him

up again yearning for peeta mellark 😔

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earlier this year, I read Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, which chronicles the Nazi Adolf Eichmann's trial after WWII. Interestingly, it heavily parallels the character most closely tied to trains and scheduling in the Hunger Games: Effie Trinket.

Neither Eichmann nor Effie are monsters by appearance or intellect, but rather bureaucrats, ordinary, dutiful functionaries of deeply violent systems. They don’t directly kill anyone. They merely make sure the trains run on time.

Eichmann was not in charge of policy. He orchestrated transportation under the implemented polices. He followed orders and made it happen. His orders came from above him, which was the crux of his defense in his inevitable trial. He claimed he was just following orders, and that he was acting under oath.

The thing is, Eichmann wasn't a particularly notable man. He was not physically imposing, nor was he particularly intelligent. He was normal. He was an every-man. He was someone people would picture as their neighbor or someone they would see on the street.

Under his cross examination, he admitted he viewed the Jews as adversaries, but didn't think the atrocities they endured were justified. Eichmann grew up in a culture saturated with antisemitism. According to historians, he "was socialized and politicized in an environment in which Jews were routinely denigrated." However, as Arendt says, "he did not enter the Party out of conviction," but it seems, because the opportunity was presented.

Arendt puts it best:

Despite all the efforts of the prosecution, everybody could see that this man was not a "monster," but it was difficult indeed not to suspect that he was a clown. And since this suspicion would have been fatal to the entire enterprise [his trial], and was also rather hard to sustain in view of the sufferings he and his like had caused to millions of people, his worst clowneries were hardly noticed and almost never reported.

Eichmann didn't ever pull a trigger himself. He signed papers and organized transportation. He said he was just following orders. He believed that the things around him, the political climate, and the orders were what he was supposed to blindly obey.

In fact, in his trial, he claimed to be upset by the conditions of the transportation he organized, but letters at the time showed he was more concerned with carrying out his work with "minimal disruption" and "economically" to support Germany's operations.

Effie Trinket and Eichmann:

Effie was also raised in a political system that looked down upon people, which explains her repeated usage of dehumanizing language when discussing the districts:

"How you’ve both successfully struggled to overcome the barbarism of your district."

"The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages."

Similar to Eichmann, Effie views the Games as a way to subdue the Capitol's adversaries, the districts:

“But they really are for a greater good. The Hunger Games.”

The language she uses in SOTR is also reminiscent of Eichmann's reasoning for complying with the orders. He claimed he did everything to support his "highest duty".

Effie enters SOTR with a monologue about the Games. Like Eichmann, she speaks highly of the overarching political system, calling it her duty to honor the Games:

"And this is our chance — no, it is our duty — to honor them!"

Similar to Eichmann, someone extends the opportunity to join the party, or in this case, Games, to Effie. She takes the opportunity.

She parallels Eichmann through her association with train schedules, transportation, and getting the tributes where they need to be on time.

In Catching Fire, Effie is shown to have a role in scheduling:

And her comments about the necessity of someone attending to the schedule only last about five minute.

Specifically when it comes to trains:

But Effie has this all down to a science, and at exactly one o'clock we are back on the train and it's pulling out of the station.

And transporting people to their inevitable deaths of the Hunger Games. She signs the papers, sets the clocks, and ensures the tributes arrive where they’re meant to die. She may not conduct the train, she may not drag them to the train, but neither did Eichmann. He was not on the front lines. His job was to ensure the trains ran on time, the papers were signed, the bodies arrived at the camps. Effie performs a near-identical role: she doesn’t kill tributes, but she delivers them. She ensures they arrive on schedule, coordinates appearances, and keeps everything orderly.

Neither Effie nor Eichmann think. They exist within the system, and refuse to think critically. Effie goes so far as to claim a type of thinking is forbidden. Not a limitation on speech, not art or action, but thought. Which is indicative of the fact she doesn't think. She just obeys:

"That sort of thinking... It's forbidden, Peeta. Absolutely. You'll only bring more trouble on yourself and Katniss."

Both Trinket and Eichmann comply. They do not think critically, they do not examine their position or their role in that position. They lack thought:

"absence of thinking—which is so ordinary an experience in our everyday life, where we have hardly the time, let alone the inclination, to stop and think."

Which is Arendt's overall thesis on how people begin committing arm chair atrocities. She does not say Eichmann is incapable of thought (although, she does note he is not as intelligent as he attempts to make himself appear) but she says his lack of thought is what allowed him to commit the evil he carried out. He refused to examine the morality of his actions, preferring the ease and safety of routine and obedience. His complacency was what killed thousands of people.

Remember. Eichmann never pulled a trigger. He maintained, until his death, that he was only following orders. In the trial, he was said to be cold, but at work, he was said to be "above average" and "a good comrade".

It doesn't matter that either of them "ended up" in their position. For Effie, just as it was for Eichmann, it was a career. It doesn't matter if they were pleasant to be around, if they were nice or "reliable in his work, very conscientious, a good comrade".

Effie isn't evil in a villainous sense. She doesn't relish in the cruelty, doesn't design the games, and doesn't ever kill anyone directly. She's nice. But being nice doesn't exorcise the complacency in which evil thrives.

Effie embodies the very banality of evil Arendt describes. It's an evil that lives not in blatant sadism or hatred, but in thoughtlessness, obedience, careerism, and social conditioning. It exists in the active upholding of a system that murders people. That's evil. Not because she intended harm, I don't think she ever did, but for 25 years, she refused to think, she refused to resist, and she continued to work to directly maintain the machine of the Games.

Banal evil exists in compliance. It's catching a train when you could have missed it. It's signing the paperwork you could have lost. It's doing a good job in a system you know is bad.

Effie is not a monster. I'm not arguing that she is. She is nice. But being nice is not being good. You don't have to be cruel to uphold cruelty. Eichmann was a "good comrade". Effie was nice. Neither were good.

At the end of it all, they both facilitated, scheduled, and maintained the transportation of innocent people to their deaths. Neither were the top of their careers. Both were just following orders under very, very similar political systems. They complied. They did not take the chances presented to them to put an end to the horrors. They looked away, all for a leg up in their careers:

"I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I finally get promoted to a decent district next year!"

As Arendt puts it, "obedience and support are the same." Evil exists in the banal. Sometimes it exists in remaining complacent every big, big, big day.

If you're interested in a sister essay I've done over how banal evil presents itself as obedience and unchecked ideologies under fascism, check out my other essay: Effie Trinket as José Ortega y Gasset’s Mass-Man.

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Do you think Snow and Gale are similar in the way they both view human beings as animals? Specifically people they doing consider like themselves?

i'm gonna get crucified by the gale stans for saying this, but yeah, i think they are similar in the way they reduce people to less-than-human, especially when it comes to justifying violence. gale literally says in thg that killing tributes is no different from killing animals, long before the rebellion is even a concrete thought in his mind. it shows how deeply survivalist and utilitarian his worldview is, even from the jump.

but the difference between him and snow is mostly where that dehumanisation comes from. snow's view carries elements of classism, power, and control — pure superiority complex. gale, on the other hand, i do think believes he's doing what’s necessary to survive or to win a war. but that doesn’t excuse it. it just means he’s internalised this idea that other people’s lives are expendable for the greater good. which is definitely a more redeemable source of morality, however, still not totally excusable.

so yeah. both of them are willing to draw lines between who’s worth mourning and who isn’t. snow uses that to uphold a fascist regime. gale uses it to fight one. but in the end, the logic still ends with innocent people dying needlessly.

that being said: anyone who says gale is worse than snow is insane and has missed the point of their characters entirely.

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Do you think Suzanne Collin’s was trying to make a point about Mrs Everdeen’s depression by making Katniss break down similarly after losing Peeta in Mockingjay? I have issues with Mrs Everdeen’s, but I can’t help but wonder if the author felt differently about her, given how she wrote Katniss. I know she didn’t a is on Prim, but still.

tbh i don't particularly see katniss' breakdown in regards to peeta as being all that similar to asterid's catatonia after burdock's death. the big difference being that katniss doesn't go unresponsive, nor does she have anyone in her care at the time who would be detrimentally affected if she did happen to react in that way.

i do think a massive contributing factor to that is, of course, the fact that even when she's lost him, he's never truly gone. tortured and held captive, yes. brainwashed to fear her, yes. but not dead. there's always the small chance that he'll come back to her, and even when she pretends that she's given up on that, she's a terrible fucking liar and makes out with the pearl bc she's just so clearly unattached.

as far as if peeta had been killed, i do think she would've reacted almost exactly the same way that she does when prim dies, by falling into that same catatonia that asterid did when they were kids. but i think by having katniss mirror her mother in her symptoms, it actually draws clearer lines as far as the differences between them.

in asterid's episode, she's unmedicated and unprepared for her body's reaction to the grief. and while her mental illness is obviously not her fault, it directly leads to the neglect of her daughters as a result. in the aftermath, she medicates herself and gets it under control so that it doesn't happen again.

when katniss experiences this catatonia, for the first time since she was 11 y/o, she doesn't have a single person to care for. she gets to just wallow in her misery without any external consequences. thing is, she's still a child.

when asterid was unresponsive, katniss shouldn't have had to assume the responsibility of caregiver and breadwinner. but on the opposite side, asterid absolutely 100% had a duty to care for katniss when she experienced the same illness.

she just didn't.

and what's worse is that she knows how to treat it. she's got her own catatonia under control — as katniss puts it, her mother buries her grief in her work, but having no work of her own, katniss' grief buries her. but as a working healthcare professional who knows precisely how to treat her daughter's symptoms, why is it the only person she refuses to treat the same person who needs it most?

she doesn't just need medical care, she needs a mother. she doesn't get either (even if her refusal to take her pills is voluntary).

"it would've been too hard for her:(" okay? and? she's a mother — she doesn't get to pick and choose to parent her only living daughter exclusively when it's most convenient for her.

parenting isn't supposed to be easy, but asterid certainly takes the easy way out whenever it suits her.