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back on my bullshit … resuscitating an old wip … adding a little art nouveau

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Ultimately the reason why it makes me roll my eyes every time there's a post that makes fun of the way americans don't know shit about the world and someone adds a response about how it's not niceys to make fun of people for not knowing things and everyone has blindspots and you weren't born knowing everything and blah blah blah today's lucky 10.000 UwwwwwU etc. is because, ultimately, I don't think what's wrong with the average online american is that they're ignorant, ignorant people are everywhere, and everyone is ignorant about a lot of things.

What's wrong with the average online american is not that they're ignorant, it's that every time they have to confront the things they're ignorant about they immediately construct a narrative where their ignorance is the product of some uniquely and exclusively american disadvantage that they, and apparently no one else in the world, have to deal with ("our educative system doesn't teach us anything about the world, you don't understand how bad it is", "we're bombarded with propaganda since birth", "we're subjected to a culture that punishes curiosity instead of rewarding it", "we're so overworked and underpaid, you think we have the energy to try to learn anything in our spare time?", or my favorite I saw a couple months ago "well you might not know this but for the average american traveling abroad is not really accessible so it's not like we can visit other countries to learn about their culture" as if the average person outside the US is constantly taking international vacations or something) when, in reality, their ignorance is a product of immense cultural privilege, a product of the fact that they even have the ability to go through their entire life without needing to learn shit about anywhere else in the world, which is something that no one else in the world has (well people from other first world countries kinda have it too but not to the same degree as americans because in terms of cultural hegemony the U.S. is the first world's first world)

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“this fanfic shit is easy” except it’s unironically the current state of my drafts folder

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sunrise on the reaping sketch sheet I did not that long ago 🫶

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I humbly present some book accurate katniss and haymitch to the courts 🫶

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give your characters exes.

give them a variety of exes. give them relationships that shaped who they are but did not last. give them people they tried very hard to love but it didn't work out. give them situationships that taught them things. give them something deep that was real but could not endure. things that hurt. things that ended amicably. people with whom hot passion cooled to warm affection and became undying friendship.

no more first and only. give me the context of what made them know the next or one after was final and right.

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Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater TITANIC (1997)

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yall does anyone have that photo of haymitch looking at effie during the wedding in mockingjay? can't find it

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*uses an em dash and a colon in the same sentence* we're done when i say we're done.

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Hi, I'm SOO EXCITED to hear you're taking prompts!! There's so many good ones to choose from on that list, but if you're interested, I'd love to see 16, 17, or 22 from the fluff list. Thanks, love your work!!!

thank u so much bestie ur so kind!! and i hope u enjoy :)

night at the cinema. (by mirixmoya)

Effie enlists Haymitch to help her with a task of the utmost importance: breaking off her engagement.

OR; silly, in-between era fluff.

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if you don't understand just how crazy katniss is about peeta DON'T TALK TO ME. she wants to live in his heart and eat him alive (affectionately). open your eyes.

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Headcanon that if Lenore Dove had lived, she would have grown up to be a schoolteacher.

Her love of books and philosophy, how she's always trying to teach Haymitch something new and doesn't get irritated if he struggles to understand, how she teaches Sid the constellations in the night sky.

Plus the idea that education is the greatest weapon against facism. I know the Capitol would probably demand that she stick to a specific curriculum, but I think she would have been like one of those teachers who subtly undermines the teachings of the school and thus shows her students how wrong they are. Like that one pro-gay teacher in Catholic schools.

And imagine students bringing her apples. Imagine her staying after school for hours to help a kid with an essay or reading assignment. Imagine her opening her classroom to vulnerable kids to sit in during lunch. Imagine her taking kids outside to learn about plant life. Or just taking them outside for a lesson because it's a nice day and she doesn't want to keep them cooped up in a stuffy classroom. Imagine her creating a library in her classroom of books for her students to borrow and read. Imagine her teaching kids how to make flower crowns during recess.

I think Lenore Dove would have been a schoolteacher.

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Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde

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post-war effie trinket making a rare appearance on a capitol red carpet.