#Yapping as always

[torturedcoveydepartment]

Here’s how I think the capitol managed to brainwash career districts into voluntarily signing up for possible death

Brainwashing is a complex process that involves manipulating a person's thought patterns, beliefs and attitudes to change their behavior. There are several methods and techniques used by people who engage in this practice.

Repeating a message or idea over and over again can help to reinforce it and make it more likely to be accepted. This can be achieved through different techniques such as propagandizing posters, chanting, or simply repeating a phrase or idea. Emotional manipulation plays an important role in decision making. By deliberately manipulating a person's emotions, such as making them feel fear, uncertainty, or guilt, it can be easier to control their behavior. This is also pointed to the pride of voluntary participation and winning.

Reward and punishment can be used to condition behavior. If a person receives rewards for doing something, they are more likely to repeat the behavior. Such as people serving time as peacekeepers for the available food supply. Conversely, punishment can be used to deter a person from doing something.

Both districts got a loyal relationship to the capitol, with assumed better standards of living than other districts. If looking at 2, they are militaristic & in training of peacekeepers - lecturing of fighting for the honor of Panem (just like after the French Revolution, when nationalism has its rising) I think D1 had a good providence of privileges and favors made with the capitol - being kept subservient as the capitol used examples of other districts (therefore loyal, yet not crackable during the rebellion)

District 4 is also considered a carrier district, though I believe training kids into weapons doesn’t prove loyalty, but is an answer to oppression and a survival mechanism. But then - it’s all about pride and glory - what we’re willing to do for it. As if the games are a contest such as the Olympics. Everything we do in a certain extent will become normal. Humans kill animals like it’s a game - in hunting packs, rewarded with points, money and pride. The next step is killing your own kind which ain’t far away.

What these three districts have in common got an array of requested products by the capitol - leading to a better ability to get fuel in forms of food. District 4 is pretty obvious since they got the fish. One and two are both privileged, wealthy and needed - making them wealthier. When a society doesn’t need to focus on the light insurance of food - people specialize as a group and can develop skills and knowledge on what they know will happen annually. The other districts are weaker, and that’s just a fact. So volunteering with the echo of authoritarian propaganda saying that the other districts are as weak as the mosquitoes they smash - it’s all just a easy child’s play.

[zae-heeyyy]

From the Bottom of My Heart

In real life, I am deeply sentimental and believe everything and everyone has a purpose and a reason for being. I’m known to write very long letters because I just want to make sure I don’t leave anything unsaid. Here goes...

My fiancé bought Red Dead Redemption II for me for our first Christmas together in 2018. My grandad, who loved cowboys had just passed away a month earlier. I didn’t get to actually play the game until March, but I kept thinking about how much I wished my grandad and mom, who also loved westerns, was there to see it. Neither of them were huge fans of video games, but I think we could’ve bonded over this one. They for sure would have laughed at my love for RD now because I was never interested in the various cowboy shows they’d have playing super loud all day long: Bonanza, The Rifleman, Cheyanne, and Gunsmoke. 

I often think about how the game forces you on after the death of everybody especially: Sean, Hosea, Lenny, and Arthur. No chance to stop and catch your breath. I felt similarly after losing my mom and then my grandfather 4 years later. They, and invariably, the loss of them, are part of the reason I feel so strongly towards this game and towards this community. They were my two best friends, the people always in my corner, and I will always always feel their loss, especially this time of year.

That being said, my heart is so full. This is now the 7th Christmas I’ve spent with my lovely lovely husband to be. It's funny; he pretends to (or maybe not so much) get annoyed at my love for Arthur, but he started it all. 

To you, this wonderful community, thank you for helping me find passion again. Creating is what I love to do the most, whether I'm writing, crafting, making silly edits on canva, or drawing up things on procreate. I’ve been writing since learning cvc words. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with a box of crayons and pain paper, making picture books about adventures I'd go on. In middle school, started writing cringe fan fiction about some guys in rock band in , then “matured” to writing and speech competitions in high school. I stopped creatively writing for a long time, and while I’ve been successful with academic writing: placing in competitions, publishing in academic journals, and being published in a book. (Not so humble brag, sorry lol) I did not/ have not gotten as much enjoyment out of that as writing fan fiction and my own original fiction. My biggest dream has always been to publish a novel one day, to tell an amazing story and have it touch people in some way. I've started playing around with my own original fiction ideas again, and it's been so much fun. I look forward to where that goes, even if it just stays on my hard drive.

Thank you, to each and every single one of you, for touching my heart in the way you have. This community is so beautiful, one of the best I’ve ever been apart of, and I hope you feel the love. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or Happy December 25 if it’s just a regular day for you. As my mom used to say, I love you to the moon and back.

With lots and lots of love,

Zae

[feddy-34]

checo is rapidly losing his will to live someone help him

the lestappen thirdwheel experience reaches a new low every week

[herzgestolper]

Why write "normal" postcards when I can also confuse people with my actual thoughts about the places I'm visiting?

"Greetings from vacation. Let me tell you about my favourite tiny alleyway in this city and also about how many frogs are on the outside of this church!"

[o3o-lapd-o3o]

(any time after the events of the vengeance saga & ithaca saga)

*under the ocean in poseidon's palace*

poseidon: *talking with amphitrite*

poseidon: i wouldn't wish that upon my worse enemy!

poseidon: *pauses and feels phantom pains from his old impalement wounds/scars*

poseidon: *eye twitching* ...unless of course...we're talking about my enemy, odysseus.

poseidon: *looking up at the ocean's surface from his underwater palace*

poseidon: fuck you odysseus, you know what you did!

amphitrite: ...

amphitrite: *sighs*

*meanwhile on ithaca*

odysseus: *yapping away with penelope whilst on a walk through the palace grounds*

odysseus: so then i said "cause i don't even have to kill you, i just have to avoid yo-"

odysseus: *violently sneezes*

penelope: ...

penelope: are you feeling unwell, my love?

odysseus: no i'm fine.

odysseus: i just get the feeling im being bad-mouthed...again

odysseus: *turns head and glares at the ocean*

[puppppppppy]

learned something about myself lately

[joejhang]

i just think from an outsider pov andreil is insane because you have neil abram josten, the prettiest boy you've ever met, insane colouring because he has auburn hair and electric blue eyes, son of one of the most infamous serial killers in america, connections to the mafia, was part of the reason the worst team in the nation won championships, mouths off to the press, and then you have andrew, who, for all intents and purposes, is just Some Guy™.

[hinamie]

shhhh

[go-star-sailor]

transfem wirt truthers wya

[peanutseagle]

bro will master art just for her

[torturedcoveydepartment]

Probably time for me to create a proper introduction eh? so be my guest dear <3

Welcome to my blog ୨ৎ

My name is Ida, and too bad for everyone - I’m not a tumblr writer (so go weep in a corner if you came to request a fanfic) °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

Jokes aside, I am pretty much a multi fandom yapper who got more or less to say about things. With that said, there is no plot attached to me. My brain is like a snowstorm.

Fun facts bout me is that I love pigeons and croissants, and tried to convince people I could speak parseltounge at the solid age of 7. Been a swiftie for a decade, but with that said I freaking love newer fans and couldn’t give less of a damn.

More general things on me for the curious ♡: Taurus ☼ Aries ☾ Cancer ↑ ENFP 4w5 Slytherin

[reeksandfumes]

"I feel bad because i dont really like sucking dick honestly"

"I'm not a fan of eating pussy really, whichsucks because I wanna make my partner feel good"

that is actually completely valid!! you shouldn't feel like you have to do something you dont enjoy just to please your partners! there's lots of ways to make someone feel good, you dont have to force yourself to do ANYTHING that you dont enjoy or that makes you feel uncomfortable!! and if anyone tells you otherwise, they're wrong!!

[fruityventure]

u cannott reveal a new hero and then have his teammates have more interesting designs than him :head in my hands:

[v-poreons]

That's it that's their dynamic

[sagisbrainrot]

wangxian au where wei wuxian keeps getting kidnapped cause people think he's powerless and depends on lwj for everything. kidnappers always think "well if he's so strong, why is he always trying to hide behind hgj??"

and like, wwx COULD easily free himself. but why would he? they aren't a real threat and above all, he LOVES to see his beloved hanguang-jun annihilate any threat that steps towards him

and lan wangji is never really worried. everyone always doubts wwx, writes off his abilities because he can't possible be "that strong." he knows wwx could handle, really, any situation.

but why should he have to?

wwx has been "handling" situations non stop his whole life. as far as lwj is concerned he shouldn't have to lift a finger anymore

[mattscoquette]

i need him to spread me open and literally fuck me until i break in half