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batcavescolony · 9 months ago

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Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

#katniss everdeen #the hunger games trilogy #the hunger games #primrose everdeen #hunger games #batcavescolony reads the hunger games #suzanne collins #'now it seems i have become someone precious' NOW? GIRL BFFR you're their hunter girl #and this isn't negative just bffr girl #your WHOLE DISTRICT did the three finger salute that you yourself says means admiration thanks and goodbye to someone you love and on top is #old a rarely used. your WHOLE DISTRICT decided in that moment that they needed to bring back this sign of respect for YOU #...................................................................#idk why some people are thinking i mean this as negative i don't she is unreliable but its not intentional. like when Peeta heart stoped in #CF she doesn't know what Finnick is doing at first cus she doesn't know off the top of her head what cpr is. she also thinks Peeta after the #reaping is acting for the cameras. he isnt we dind out later his mom basically told him Katniss was gonna win and he would die. obviously #shes not doing it on purpose shes just for lack of better words uneducated? as in she doesn't know everything shes not omnipotent #so when Plutarch (? second games guy) shows her his mokingjay hiden watch shes like *wtf that's weird?* then the people traveling to #district 13 show her the mockingjay cookie and explains it and she then goes on the difference between his watch and their cookie #and why does eveyone act as if district 12 is as bad as the capital? they CANT help Katniss and Prim in the way you want. they cant give #them food. none of them have any! and im not putting iton Katniss but they hid they needed food so they could stay together. it sounds like #some of you are in this our world mentally of what people do after a loved one dies (brings food constantly checks on them etc) district 12 #cant do that. they dont have food and they're all suffering. you cant give someone food when you have none to give. then theirs the fact #that peeta DID help. Peeta buring the bread and tossing some to her then taking a beating from his mom is a HUGE thing in the books.#he used his resources to help her like you all said someone should.#district 12 DID (rip) care about Katniss before the hunger games. why do you think she was allowed to hunt? or how her trades were good #these are the little ways 12 can shows Katniss they love her. but again Katniss doesn't see this and YES its because she had ptsd before the #hunger games as well. i swear some of you make it seem like d12 was all living a life of luxury and glaring down at Katniss.#other things that show Katniss is in hight standing with at least her people of d12 is her dad was known enough through d12 for peeta dad to #comment on his singing along with his commenting on her mom. also her mom is a healer in the community. yeah her parents arnt the top but #of d12 but they are/were definitely high staning in the Seam.

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egophiliac · 4 months ago

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I don’t think we’ve ever seen you draw knight of dawn before 🤔 what are your thoughts about him? Or take?

I've drawn him a couple of times, just really little/in the background. but I should draw him more, I love this guy a lot! I have many, many thoughts about him and the way he parallels Silver...and also I think it is extremely funny that his ghost is stuck in a ring. especially considering where that ring has been for the last 16-ish years.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #don't mind me just killing time waiting for maintenance to end so i can stick my face directly into 7-12 #i mean i'm on the record (read: constantly posting) about how much i love the whole tragique backstory behind mal's birth #and. look. hold on it's a day ending in y time to be embarrassing about anime characters online again #no but really i love him. i love how he's such a vague figure but also the way his and silver's stories contrast #i cannot articulate it very well but just #i love how he's essentially like...bad end silver #he let himself go along with the big evil plan because he wanted to save his dad and not betray his king and all that #and when he finally did take a stand it was too late to stop the worst of it #meanwhile silver was immediately like NOPE WE'RE NOT DOING THIS #silver is NOT going to end up slaying the dragon thank you very much #me kicking my stupid little legs in glee over it all #and! the retrospect when you realize! that he was the one leading silver around lilia's memories!!!!#he is so happy that silver and lilia have each other!#he's so happy for them!#i want to put him in a can and hold him in my pocket for 16 years #also: his ridiculous hair. it's so silly and so good.#may vil never meet him #the knowledge that there's someone with naturally gorgeous hair who has somehow done it even dirtier than silver would destroy him

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knightingale · 1 year ago

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The "Sansa reminds Sandor of his sister" motive that some people try to hitch to his character really just flies in the face of his actual attachments to her, doesn't it? Sansa reminds Sandor of himself. He sees the little boy who used to love knights in this girl who's been swept up by the same romanticism. He sees his abuser in her abusers, the much larger knight(s) beating on the helpless child. He sees how she is betrayed by every level of authority that should have saved her and remembers his father's neglect and Tywin and Robert's apathy for Gregor's crimes. He's protective of Sansa because he was Sansa.

And GRRM's design, that one of the strongest warriors in the series, a fearsome and cynical 6'8" guy who's "muscled like a bull" and has the face of death itself, sees himself in this soft and effeminate teen girl, and empathizes with her because he was an abuse victim too, is INFINITELY more compelling than "Oh yeah I bet she just reminds him of his sister," who he's never mentioned and who we know literally nothing about. Way to unnecessarily water down a character, you couldn't have ignored the black and white text more efficiently if you tried.

#sorry for the rant i saw this sentiment in a yt video recently #sansa stark #sandor clegane #sansan #asoiaf #asoiaf meta #and this is only one facet of why he has so much affection for her too #these people act like his attachment to her is limited to projection and not also bc she treats him like he's an actual human being #or that they can be themselves when they're with each other -that he can openly show his weakness to her and be comforted and validated #or like even just the physical attraction aspect - which is so obvious that you'd have to be willfully ignorant to miss it #how do you read him trying to kiss her and come away thinking “he thinks of her as his sister” lmfao #things that make me feel like people dont actually read the books

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erinwantstowrite · 4 months ago

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can you tell us anything about friendsgiving since it’s thanksgiving?

i can give you some out of context comic 🥰 this takes place during Friendsgiving (which i fear my turn into a short arc...) anyways i can't tell you what's being discussed here and it'll be funny watching y'all try to figure it out

#hint: bruce is being emotionally intelligent for once #and his kids ARE side eyeing him like “what parenting book did you read”#bruce is trying not to cry in the last panel #i have other art i wanna share but won't be able to for a WHILE #(fic 2)#erinwantstowrite #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #leap of faith ao3 #peter parker #bruce wayne #leap of faith catch me if you can #peter parker in gotham #thank you for the ask!#peter is actually just like dick in the physical touch being his favorite ever #which the batfam figure out in the next arc #because peter trusts them now so much that he's like a different kid #god it's so funny to imagine their reactions to 12 y/o peter who was down for murder #this Thanksgiving im thankful for all of you

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thewirewitch · 5 months ago

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Made a silly low-effort thing

*PLEASE NOTE: I do like Moominvalley (2019)'s Joxter, but I decided to read Moominpappa's Memoirs today and boy howdy are these two different lol.

#my stuff #ask to tag #Moomins #The Moomins #Joxter #The Joxter #Moominvalley season 4 spoilers #Moominvalley #idk how many variants of this meme have gone around but I saw one a while ago and was reminded of it like yesterday or something.#After reading half the book I can see where feral Joxter fanon came from. Dude's a bit of a menace and I'm all for it.#Also he canonically carries a knife with him in the books.#ALSO fun fact: My copy of that book uses “The Exploits of Moominpappa” as the title instead

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vaguely-concerned · 1 year ago

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sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go

#the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #john gaius #harrow the ninth #this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL #this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships #(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think #the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real #but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed)#there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone?#yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't)#the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god #when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care #(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution)#and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on #it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there #while john is -- well he sure is being john huh #this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end #(with john slam dunked right into hell that is)#it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up #john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too

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piosplayhouse · 1 year ago

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"Oh dear," the unicorn thought. "I must've really mucked up the story beyond compare! The Red Bull Luo Binghe is protecting the last unicorn scum?! Unconscionable! He should have driven me off the cliff by now!!"

#dont ask why binghe gets to be a human but sqq has to be a unicorn #maybe hes prince lir in this au actually wait omg that would be good #half human half red bull sxy was freakay #the unicorn turning human to disguise herself is obviously sqqs plant body allegory #binghe sniffing around the castle: where is shizun i can still smell him? suspiciously sqq shaped human: gulp #binghe's tragic backstory in this au i guess is that he meets shen qingqiunicorn as a kid and sqq can sense that hes half fae and so #takes him semi under his wing but is like a prick about it until binghes seal breaks and they find out that hes a red bull fae #and shen jiu stabs him into the ocean something something abyss he comes back gets adopted by haggard kills every unicorn by throwing them #into the ocean as well before picking off shen jiunicorn last. and then sy fucks it all up #it's been like a decade since i read the book sorry #svsss #scumbag self saving system #scum villain's self saving system #bingqiu #shen qingqiu #sqq #lbh #luo binghe #my art #svsss last unicorn au

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radpool · 10 days ago

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I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself

to hold on to these moments as they pass

- counting crows, a long december

detail below the cut (and wolverine angsty musings in the tags lol)

#poolverine #the song lyrics are supposed to reflect upon logan's pensive facial expression #I imagine even after he's settled in with wade and feels like that dumpy lil apartment is a sort of home #he would still be waiting for the other shoe to drop #because he's never been able to hold onto happiness for long and he sees no reason this time would be the exception #and when wade is asleep he isnt there to distract him from these thoughts #so he just. drifts off into a melancholic daze #vaguely wondering what will happen to wade #to althea #to puppins #to laura #what bizarre universal machinations are already at play to tear what joy he has been able to scrape together #and quietly ruminates on what he'll do next once it is all inevitably ripped away again #which is why he secretly prefers when wade us awake and Constantly Talking #(though he would never openly admit it)#because then he can just listen and block the weight of knowing deep down it can't last because it never does #I wonder how long it would take him to accept that he couldnt lose wade if he tried #deadpool and wolverine #deadclaws #wolverine #deadpool #logan howlett #old man yaoi #wade wilson #deadpool & wolverine #anyway just always thinking about them on some level #also I'm reading that “psychology of wolverine” book and it just. damn. he never gets to hold on to anything or anyone for very long #especially not worstie

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marivanilla05 · 2 months ago

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My favorite scenes from The Odyssey (books 18 to 21)

Odysseus fighting a random beggar being its own book was not something I expected to enjoy this much when reading The Odyssey, but here we are.

#the odyssey #odysseus #penelope #odypen #telemachus #athena #eurymachus #antinous #irus #aka the beggar #eurycleia #anyway I've read the odyssey three times now (Emily Wilson's translation twice) it's become a hyperfixation #there are so many scenes I like that I'd probably have to draw the entire story #like I have several in book 1 alone #examples being the olympain gods waiting for poseidon to go to some party in ethiopia just so they can make a decision without him #telemachus telling his mom not to stop their bard (aka personal dj) from singing a song about his father's death #keep in mind he says that the bard is free to sing about whatever he wants while in a previously it was mentioned that the bard was forced #in book two (in think) Telemachus calls the nobles for a meeting and then throws the “speaking staff” to the floor #and proceeds to trauma dump #back to book one: Athena making some long excuse of how she is totally a human man and immediately transforms into a bird #in front of Telemachus' face #all of this and its not even halfway through the Telemachy

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fandommothfreak · 2 months ago

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I think movie buff Duke Thomas should force Jason to watch the LOTR movies and literature nerd Jason Todd should force Duke to read the books.

They should make a movie night out of it and then a weekly book club that's really just Jason periodically hacking comms during Duke's patrol so he can yell at him to finish each chapter like a deranged English teacher that follows you around at work. And then they should get into heated arguments about Tom Bombadil; and Duke should get really invested in overanalyzing all the poetry in the book trilogy; and Jason should rewatch all three movies like seven times at least so he can scribble thoughts into the margins of his paperback copies, write dissertations in his head about the effectiveness of different story changes, and cry at Sam's "But I can carry you!" without having to stop reading.

And then they should repeat all of this with The Hobbit. They're both a little psychotic about it and the rest of the family is tired.

#added the tags and more stuff to a reblog!#genuinely I think tom bombadil would frustrate the fuck out of duke #that boy loves the thrill of discovery and putting all the puzzle pieces together and tom bombadil is unsolvable #and I think jason would resonate a lot more with the movie ending than with the book ending #coming home from a life-changing journey to find that everything has stayed the same #like that would hit different for him than the scouring of the shire #duke thomas #jason todd #signal dc #signal #red hood #batfam #batfamily #jason also tries to get duke to read the silmarillion AND beren and luthien #“but you said beren and whatever is already in the other one!”#“that's just one version you need to read all of them for the full experience!”#“NO”#“YES”#EDIT: I've decided that duke and jason have a tom bombadil murder board #it's got cutouts of book lines and Tolkien quotes and artwork and written snapshots of Tolkien's history #all connected with color-coded string and littered with sticky notes and scattered scribbles #some parts are highlighted #it takes up two sides of a whiteboard in the batcave and a whole wall in one of jason's safehouses #one of the other batfamily members sees the safehouse version once and wisely does not comment #duke and jason can go on about this shit for hours and as soon as you get one going the other will materialize and cause problems #but anyway #duke and jason the brothers ever

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xxplastic-cubexx · 2 months ago

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i didnt plan to spend my sunday this way

#xmen #xmen comics #charles xavier #professor x #snap sketches #'snap how do you keep finding yourself in these situations' I DONT KNOWWWWWWWW LISTEN TO ME #so all i did last night was draw erik in his lil robe from ToM cause my twitter was liking that old drawing i did #and then i woke up wanting to draw his stupid Lougne Wear when he's on the meteor yk the one Sanctuary From 92 #so i started flipping through my 92 art book to find the ref for it then i just kept reading until i got to the end where i saw the #how they say 'anime influenced' designs and i had already wanted to draw charles' chari from that at some point #but THEEEEN I NOTICED HE HAD A LIL RING WITH A RED STONE ????#its on his right hand so Whatever but charles xavier you are not slick i know what you are ........#if i make that ring a staple in my classic charles drawings dont look at me itll depend on the weather tho tbh ANYWAYS #and then i remembered i had my old Cave Dweller Charles sketches from ever ago and i was like #'well i might as well finish those' but then i draw two more. and then i was like #'well since im here ive always wanted to draw charles in that robe erik gives him after saving him from the snow storm'#'in' is a very generous term it is falling OFF him but STILL #i should do something about that lil snow storm rescue now that ive mentioned it .. tho maybe i can tie it in with my 309 thing ..#SO FUNNY I WAS GONNA CONTINUE WORKING ON T HAT TODAY. AND NOW WE'RE HERE #this is what i mean guys its a nightmare and a miracle i can get anything done ever when i get distracted so easily #.i was gonna include another doodle of charles in his lil battle outfit but then i figured id done enough solo charles doodles today #anyways. plesae enjoy !!!!!!! i MUST objective charles more.....

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javierduffy · 14 days ago

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different.

#can’t help but recognize how kieran is a fantastic unspoken representation of autism #i see a lot of myself in him and the way that he is so isolated and lonely and yet cannot help but perform and find solace in his daily #routines is so heartbreaking in its own way to me. like no matter what you do or where you are you have no choice but to be yourself and fun #nction the only way you know how and it will never not be vastly different from everyone else. and when you’re surrounded by people who DONT #like you and will not accommodate and are not at all willing or curious in understanding WHY you are the way you are you’re left to just ….#live in your own head forever. i’m certain kieran thinks many wonderous things and sees the world in a beautiful light and i know this becau #se i am autistic myself and because of that i see the world in colours that neurotypical people will never comprehend but we’re never allowe #d to see the world through kieran’s eyes. we are never allowed to see where his heart rests or the poetry he waxes or what he believes or wh #at his triggers are or what’s a stim and what’s just habit or anything. anything. the breeze sounds different to him and he can hear birds f #or miles and the sun makes every hair on his arms tingle and that’s why he wears layers everywhere and every green he sees sings a beautiful #song to him and yet we’ll never know. because he is too different even for the van der linde gang. he is incomprehensible to them and he doe #s all of his 4/5 daily tasks over and over and over again and while he would always do them and will always do them because they are innate #to him no one will ever know just what they mean to him. no one will ever know that kieran duffy can distinguish the horses behind him by th #eir breathing cadences behind him as he scrubs the spare saddle with the sun high above his head and he can know when something is wrong bec #ause he can hear it. no one will ever know that he CAN read but the only thing he’s interested in is books about wildlife and horses and fis #h in particular and no one will ever know because he knows no one will ever understand or even care and if they do they’ll be sure to make #it a point to tell him how DIFFERENT he is. and realistically even if the vdl’s DID come around to liking him he STILL would NEVER be unders #tood. i know for certain he would always be described as odd and despite its new affectionate approach he would still be the odd one out wit #h his daily routines and his texture preferences and his inability to make eye contact and his erratic seemingly random triggers and his #anxiety that seems to have a mind of its own. no one would ever know how bright the tree leaves are in his eyes or how every horse smells di #fferent or why sometimes it’s more fun to reel his rod in over and over instead of actually catching a fish. he will always be …. different.#sorry. novel moment. he means a lot to me.#i’m not super happy with how he looks in these but i’m just trying to draw more :’) i always say that but i always mean it too #also if my novel makes no sense then just ignore it. it’s late and my head hurts. i tend to get tangential #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #kieran duffy #image #art #hero draws sometimes

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brainrotcharacters · 7 months ago

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Logan at the convoy where he must have barked at Johnny "Hey, hey! Shut your fucking mouth. Let him sleep. 😡"

Wade absolutely knocked out leaning on his shoulder.

#and when wade does wake up logan goes “not all of you was asleep 🙄”#adamantium gays #deadpool and wolverine #deadpool #wolverine #deadpool 3 #logan howlett #wade wilson #poolverine #deadclaws #deadpool 2024 #logan was absolutely the type to be gentle and tender when wade was confirmed unconscious throughout the film #ive been that type of bitch i can read him like a fuckin book

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platoapproved · 7 months ago

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OH NO I'VE JUST REALIZED SOMETHING. It's so obvious how did I just catch it.

So Lestat and Armand meet up earlier in Memnoch the Devil, and Armand is wearing all denim and is super dusty. Lestat sees him and lovingly thinks about wanting to clean him up, do his hair, etc. Armand responds 'yeah, you're always wanting that, back in Paris you wanted to perfume me and comb my hair and put me in velvet and embroidery'. (see here for excerpts)

WHEN LESTAT GETS BACK NEAR THE END OF THE BOOK ARMAND IS WAITING FOR HIM! Wearing velvet and embroidered lace! He has left his hair down and uncut like it was back all those years ago in Paris, only it's cleanly washed. (see here for excerpts)

He.... he gave himself the Lestat-likes-it-when-I-look-like-this makeover while Lestat was out.

#lesmand #the vampire chronicles #memnoch the devil #armand #lestat de lioncourt #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FEEL CRAZY. I FEEL CRAZY.#is it romantic? is it deeply sad? i keep swinging wildly between the two #on the one hand it's so fucking cute imagining armand giving himself a little makeover thinking how much lestat will like it when he return #on the other hand.... always always always molding himself into whatever style of object is desired by the men around him.#cute. and also. agonizing. it can be both i guess. that's the joy of armand.#i am sure this is not groundbreaking scholarship but i'm new to these books ok let me gasp at things everyone else already knows #rose reads tvc #interview with the vampire

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meggsssart · 6 months ago

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