#I’m still dying about this

[heyclickadee]

Doodle based off the Scarf Lore in the new Age of Rebellion reference book.

[atelierlili]

I always wondered why Katniss factored marriage and children into the equation when it came to reciprocating Peeta’s feelings for her. It’s a rather large leap, especially when Peeta himself never expresses wanting children at any point in the story. He uses children as a tool to persuade Katniss and the Capital to save her life, but the only time we see him express any desire/feelings of having one of his own is when he’s crying after the baby bomb. But we never hear his real thoughts.

But you wanna know who does express wanting children? Gale.

It’s one of the first thing he mentions in chapter one. And it pisses her off so much.

(I also want to add that Gale reframes/establishes the dynamic of Katniss and him caring for their siblings from something that is sibling-sibling to parent-sibling. And he is not wrong. Katniss doesn’t refute him. Both Katniss and Gale are surrogate parents to their siblings. Which is also why Katniss love and affection of Prim, is not just sisterly. I’ve seen people say Katniss is only sisterly to Prim- but she’s not. She’s parentified their relationship to the point she subconsciously see Prim as her child, which makes this a tragedy because she’ll loose her first child no matter what she does by the end of the story.)

But Gale’s phrasing here elevates himself as a potential suitor to Katniss by placing them both as the parental roles to these children. (Which irritates her a lot ). Which is why she brings the topic up with her relationship with Peeta. Because she’s subconsciously aware of Gale’s efforts and knows it will be a point of contention between them. It hangs over her head in a way.

With Gale, children are extra mouths to feed. (But Gale will do fine. He can work. He can hunt.) It’s all framed with calculated survival in mind. But it’s also not something she had planned in the future at any point.

But Peeta’s children? Oh they deserve to be born because Peeta deserves to be a father. He would be such a good father. They deserve to exist in a world where they can be safe and happy. (Even if it’s not with her.)

This is also why I think she subconsciously sees Peeta’s baby as her own. And I don’t think of it as a cruel/heartless thing, it’s just you’d be more protective of your own child compared to someone else’s. Katniss sees Gale as a reliable person who’s equipped to look after a kid. She doesn’t express the same kind of maternal instinct/yearning for the Baby Hawthrone’s safety as she does with the idea of Baby Mellark, because she doesn’t think of Gale’s child as her own. She never hopes for a better future for them, but she does with Peeta because he and that baby gives her hope. And she loves him that much.

[stuckinapril]

Just a girl who wants to be her mother’s daughter in the ways that matter

[rystiel]

he wanted to grow old with jack 😐😐😐😐 even if jack couldn’t grow old with him 😐😐😐😐😐😐

[heartstopperthoughts]

[wolke17]

nah I know I’ll never heal from choso’s death, that shit has me traumatized for the rest of my life I’m not kidding

[librarygf]

sorry but genius episode to me. it’s all a play and and they’ve all been cast in their roles since the beginning. and yet the truth strains against the cloth of the fake thing. lestat has his lines but they’re written by the coven, and no one but the audience truly believes him. his victimhood is too convenient and it’s not the even the story he wants to tell. instead, with the help of his sidesteps and the lines he refuses to say, something true emerges from the fog. a story where everything is real, the love and the horror and most of all the way claudia was always a daughter, as some daughters are. immensely loved but also immensely failed

[a-random-allison]

imagine, if you will, when everything is ok again… a stolitz dance scene

not even necessarily at a fancy ball, could just be in blitz’s living room or something. imagine it comes up in conversation, and Stolas mentions that of all the balls and parties he’s been to, he never got to dance with anyone he really loved (save for “better than blitzø” guy but Stolas was really drunk and just having fun)

and blitz just silently offers his hand, and Stolas takes it.

the romance, the height difference, the EVERYTHING

[twistedappletree]

mdzs where everything’s the same except jin ling rides fairy around like a horse into battle

[samglyph]

Those who remember my Michael Shelley lives fic from *checks calendar* April 2020 Jesus Christ will know that I love bringing avatars back from the dead. So now it’s Mike’s turn.

[mossiestpiglet]

The way Izzy presents the legs to the crew makes me really think about what happened each time he lost a toe and the fact that the crew was aware of it. How much he must have felt their gazes, their attention, a spectacle made of him all because he didn’t do his job right. It is not enough to take the unicorn’s legs, they must be made an example of.

[umemiyan]

if there’s one thing about me it’s that i will be horny over fictional characters even on my death bed

[petrichormore]

Also I just had a Thought about ElQuackity’s second death.

We know that cc!Bad really wanted q!Bad to lose a life in the explosion, and therefore to some extent q!Bad also wanted to die but…

But Bad wasn’t holding a totem like ElQuackity was and well, a totem presumably repairs any lethal damage done to its user’s body - just enough to keep them living and nothing more - so ElQuackity must’ve still been heavily injured and near deaf from being blown sky high even after popping a totem.

But Bad wasn’t holding a totem, and he also got caught in the middle of the explosion alongside ElQuackity - the difference is that none of the wounds Bad sustained healed at all. Bad survived the initial explosion on 2 hearts (which is insane) and then was attacked by ElQuackity who brought him down to half a heart - HALF A HEART - before Max finished him off. One more hit and Bad would’ve gone down, and I don’t think ElQuackity would’ve given him the chance to get back up.

Except as ElQuackity was slowly but surely killing him, Bad barely fought back. He swings his sword half-heartedly a couple times, but out of those attempts he misses quite a few.

My Thought? Maybe it wasn’t just that q!Bad wanted to sacrifice himself and that’s why he didn’t fight back as q!ElQuackity ignored q!Max in favor of trying to kill him - maybe it was because he physically couldn’t defend himself. Maybe he was too injured, maybe there was blood in his eyes and he couldn’t see. Maybe he couldn’t hear past the ringing of his ears and couldn’t think past the spinning of his head. Maybe it was all he could do to stumble backwards away from q!ElQuackity (which he does if you watch his POV - he stands there stunned in the aftermath and then turns just in time to see q!ElQuackity slam into him).

Maybe it was all he could do to just blindly call out to q!Max for help and hope he heard it.

[threeawfulfruits]

My brain, stirring all my interests around like peeps in a chili pot:

[hello-eeveev]

it's hot boi summer y'all

(aka all the essek merch corners through c3e62 in one place)

[banditblvd]

limnu.com was special I think