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More of our favorite ladies🥰

Credits: (c)

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Danielle and Stefania - Station 19 Takeover

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should we study ?

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hi hello does anyone know that one fic where maya and carina go on a vacation (i think) and then the ending was like they were in a hotel room and each of them had a ring inside their bags but neither of them knew that the other was proposing necause they were so busy in love

i don't really remember the whole story. just bits and pieces like they were in a different country exploring. and then that last part where they each had a ring in their bag but neither of them knew and then the end.

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I wanted everything to never end. Can we start again and leave a light on?

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when maya whispered, "but first what?" let me tell u my knees were on the floor 🛐

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This is the scene we’ve been missing the entire second half of the season…….. 💖💖💖💖

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The definition of love 💖💖💖

I understand why Stefania loved 5x17…it’s because it’s back to just Maya and Carina… 

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when im in a bookshop or library and im trying to read the titles of the books on the shelves

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I unironically love the character names in the Hunger Games series.

Haymitch, Peeta, Hazelle, Leevy, Maysilee, Finnick and Greasy Sae look bizarre when you first see them written down, but then if you think about how they look and/or sound it's pretty clear that they're meant to be modern names, only modern names that have changed spelling and pronounciation over time— as you would have expected them to have done so over how ever many hundreds of years it's been since our modern day.

(Remember, though The Hunger Games themselves have only been going on for 75 years, the universe they're in is canonically post-apocalyptic— the reason nobody ever mentions what's happening in the rest of the world is that everywhere except America was destroyed in a nuclear war. We're not given much of an indication how long it's been since then.)

Peeta is Peter, Haymitch is Hamish, and Hazelle is Hazel, Maysilee is Maisie— the changes in pronunciation are slight (Peeta and Peter are already virtually identical in my accent), and the spelling has changed to match.

Leevy is either a corruption of Lily, or more likely I suspect 'Livvy', a common nickname for Olivia; Finnick is probably from Finnegan (shorten in to 'Finneg' and then say it over and over very fast); Sae could be short for Sarah, or Sally or even Susan— it's not uncommon for nicknames to become real names in their own right (look at Harry or Molly as examples).

I also love the trend of having District 1 parents give their kids names relating to the luxury items their district produces— Glimmer, Marvel, Gloss, Cashmere, Velvereen (presumably a corruption of 'velveteen'), Facet— because those things are all a) objectively pretty/nice (like naming a kid 'Diamond' or 'Star' today) and presumably status symbols in their district.

Meanwhile District 3 does the same thing, but all the pronunciations are corrupted. You've got technical names to do with the manufacture of electronics— Wiress (wireless), Circ (circuit)— but you've also got what I'm pretty sure are meant to be corruptions of modern brand names— Beetee (BT), Teslee (Tesla).

To me this kind of suggests that District 3 is less conscious of this influence than District 1. Like, parents in 1 are more likely to deliberately think "I'll name my kid Glimmer, because things that glimmer are pretty" whereas 3 as a culture might have genuinely forgotten that those names used to mean something, in the same way that most of us don't think much about how the name 'Arthur' comes from the old word for 'Bear'.

And of course, then you've got the Capitol leaning hard into those ancient Roman vibes with names like Fulvia, Plutarch, Seneca, Tigris… but still using the European/American personal name+family name format, which the Romans didn't really do. Like it's very clear that this is a future society fetishising the classical era, rather than an actual resurgence of Roman culture.

It's just such a cool world-building detail. So many dystopian novels just go for modern names (and there's nothing wrong with that, especially if you're only looking a couple of hundred years into the future) but thinking about how names might have evolved over the centuries and the different naming traditions that might have developed in different areas really adds a whole new dimension to the culture of Panem.

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You know what we really need? A How to comment on smut tutorial

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Maya being the kick-ass firefighter she is // Station 19 s05e14 Alone in the Dark

request for @englishstrawbie​

BONUS:

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THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (2012)

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Look, I know you doubt me. I know…I know you always have. And you’re right, I often think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my arm chair, and my garden. See, that’s where I belong. That’s home. And that’s why I came back, cause…you don’t have one. A home. It was taken from you, but I will help you take it back if I can.

THE HOBBIT: An Unexpected Journey (2012) dir. Peter Jackson

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if chickens were big enough to eat us do you think they would

without question

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“What are you guys smiling about?”