#about clove

[dread0narrival]

I am so obsessed with Clover rn. I am so excited to see how dark his character can get, since he seems so chill in the demo 💞

[hextechmaturgy]

❝ One downside to being immortal – I can't play dead! ❞

[droewyn]

Tumblr Meme University: Life Skills 101

This works with any stainless steel object! They actually sell "magic soap" for this purpose, but save yourself the $7 and just grab a piece of flatware from your kitchen drawer. I use serving spoons for the larger surface area.

[coffinkissez]

[clovemaysilee]

Katniss: Would you punch your best friend in the face for a thousand bucks?

Clove: I would punch Cato in the face for free.

Cato, tearing up: I’m your best friend??

[flowerakatsuka]

after trying to figure out his design for awhile, i finally finished a reference for kuroba's granddad, chouji!

[ more info under the cut! ]

YOTSUBANA CHOUJI ( first name meaning clove )

~ 70 years old • he / him • 6'2" ( 188 cm )

Kuroba's maternal grandfather and the previous florist at Yotsubana Florals. He opened the shop with his late wife, Hibiki, but after her passing and experiencing a severe fall at work, he retired and Kuroba took over the daily operations of the store. Currently, he lives with Kuroba's parents in Yokohama and checks in on them every other month, ( they talk over the phone almost daily, though. ) Despite his grumpy appearance, Chouji is actually pretty level-headed and kind. He can be fairly stubborn at times, though. Kuroba and him are very close, especially after Hibiki's passing. They respect him quite a lot as their grandfather and their mentor. His accident at the store rattled them quite a lot and lead to them fretting over him a lot more.

Born and raised in Akatsuka, but both of his parents were from Osaka.

Met Hibiki and fell in love at first sight while visiting Okinawa to study Okinawan Hibiscus, which her family was a supplier of.

His cat, Giku, was a former stray that hung around the shop near the time Hibiki passed. Eventually, she refused to leave the store so Chouji took her in. Her coloring reminded him of daisies, which were one of Hibiki's favorite flowers. Because of that, he also says that she sent her to keep an eye on him.

He started taking care of the family's garden when he moved to Yokohama, as well as getting really into tending to bonsai. Giku is the garden's " guardian " and chases off beetles that try to munch on their plants.

Karamatsu was EXTREMELY intimidated by Chouji when they first met, but they actually hit it off pretty quickly, ( especially when Karamatsu showed a lot of interest in hearing about Hibiki and his love story. ) He's grown kind of fond of him, which makes sense since Kuroba and him are pretty similar. Also, he's started looking into getting a Dwarf Blue Larix bonsai. No particular reason why.

Kuroba typically calls him Ochoujii-san, but will sometimes drop the honorific.

[solar-halos]

ways i think thg characters would get (social media) famous (a very mixed batch of modern au/canon compliant hcs)

• i’ve mentioned this before but finnick would get very popular singing popular songs in his caesar flickerman impression. “hellomy nameiscaesarflickerman. and this is MY COVER of espresso by my late greatgreatgreatgreat grandmother sabrina carpenter” (inspo: this fucking guy. this is exactly my type of humor bc i laughed so fucking hard at this when i first saw it i couldn’t breathe. anyway onto the rest of the post)

• because alt/goth annie owns my heart, she is making get ready with mes that are completely silent save for the pitter patter of her feet (inspo: malloryheartsyou). however one day she drops a five hour analysis on her fav piece of media and everyone freaks out over the sound of her voice

• brutus and gloss are the token guy best friends that everyone is weird about who sit in their rooms and watch stupid movies and give even stupider commentary

• cashmere is doing a little bit of everything! baking, makeup, sewing you name it. i feel like when she’s not in the capitol she just tries to stay busy (inspo: mia maples! love her our diy queen)

• glimmer THRIVES on doing shorts on how she thrift flips her clothes into something y2k inspired. she also makes questionable items into the cutest items ever (inspo for last part: this fashionista original diva. love her southern twang)

• clove is doing her makeup while telling crazy fucking stories “yeah he cheated on me—“ *checks her lipgloss, dabs at the excess “—so i drove his car off a cliff. while he was in it. i am excellent with a snorkel”

• cato is saying something stupid as fuck for views + comments. “isn’t it crazy how there isn’t a single color that starts with an O and ends with a E?” “women have it one day out of the year, but men have it all the time. what is it?” “there are no words that rhyme with pillow”

• johanna would have a podcast talking about various conspiracy theories like she believes them. sometimes finnick joins her and he continues the bit

• beetee is just straight up matpat. i dont think i have to link him but specifically his fnaf era. idk something about him making passionate youtube videos defending arguments he didn’t even believe with his life is just very young adult beetee to me that guy would be contrarian just for the sake of it

[renabe4life]

that meme except this time he actually did something oops

[mariigoldzz]

Reminder that the majority of characters in the hunger games are canonically minors. Many of the cast members were minors during filming. Saying shit like “why didn’t katniss and Peeta have sex in catching fire?” Is weird af. She was 17 in that book.

[dread0narrival]

"No refunds and no returns"

Is that even something Clove would allow?

Absolutely not. You can try to dump him in an empty field in the country side and Clove would still show up on your doorstep eager to please.

[dovesick]

heart in a cage

[firstkil]

MAYSILEE DONNER AND CLOVE KENTWELL — UNSAVEABLE, UNSALVAGEABLE. @enobariasdistrict2

[iamprometheus]

I understand people have concerns about Clove's identity being steamrolled, but I also feel like it's a Very Weird critique to say they should've been more androgynous to 'fix' that

[anonymusbosch]

this is the only-large-cloves garlic head of good luck. reblog for your next garlic head to be only large cloves

[clovemaysilee]

treech having a sort of physical similarity to haymitch and his same black cat vibe, treech failing to protect lamina and only killing people (with her axe!!) after he finds her dead -> haymitch also using an axe as his final weapon after laying maysie to rest

clove 🤝 haymitch -> using knives

clove and maysilee both being more brutal and vicious than their district partners

the boys being unable to save the girls and instead hopelessly watching them die/staying with them in or after their final moments

tragic district partners trope my beloved <3 ✨️

[goodluckclove]

Is AI Art "Real Art"? What is Art Anyways? (Yeah that's right we're going there)

Hey y'all it's me I'm back in the hammock and back on my bullshit. I was thinking since yesterday about that one guy I found online who said that AI will soon be able to "so art better" than a human being, and my resulting confusion towards that claim lingers. Mainly it got me thinking what art is - or, more accurately, how I personally define it.

It's an eye-rolling caricature of a question that a cartoon Artsy Person might ask. But like - this fake person has a point. There is a ton of history backing the inability of our species to define art into solid, set parameters. Things dismissed in their time are then praised and studied rigorously generations after. Things respected at launch are disregarded by many others to this day. Art is subjective.

Yes, that also sounds like a shitty joke thing to say. But if you can do me the favor of not picturing me in a turtleneck and jaunty beret I would love to offer the idea that most concepts created by human beings with no solid foundation in physical reality are pretty arbitrary and very from person to person.

So I figured out how Clove defines art. Aside from the base idea of - you know, paintings and movies and such - this is my general vibe: art is anything with the potential to leave a long-term effect on a person who sees it.

Yeah that's vast. You can argue - but since I prefaced all this by saying that my definition is specific to me, it would be a strange use of time and energy. I can picture very clearly seeing Edward Hoppers' "Intermission" in person and being able to stand close enough to see the texture of the brush in the thicker strokes of paint. I can still recall watching It's Such a Beautiful Day before going to bed one night, then waking up the next day and immediately watching it again.

I also remember a particular street in downtown San Jose lined with trees, and in the summer the light would go through the veil of their leaves and cast shadows on the sidewalk. I remember a strange tunnel under an overpass lined with abandoned clothes, half-soaked in mud, and the feeling of haunted unease that sight gave me. That's also art in my mind.

It doesn't have to be good. I still think about movies so bad I either saw them once or watch them repeatedly. Art is not connected at all to supposed "quality" to me. If it made me feel something or think about something, and I can still remember it even just a few months after the fact, it's art.

So based on that standard, does AI art fit?

My answer to that is yes, but not most of them. I can think of forms of AI creative work that stuck with me. The thing is, that the ones I still hold in my brain have some form of "imperfection". Will Smith eating spaghetti. The old site This Person Does Not Exist. These are cool and interesting to me. There are some contemporary artists who expand their work using AI in ways that are interesting and impactful to me - though most create or train their own models. And the ones who don't have quoted stances on like copyright and nfts that are annoyingly indifferent and disingenuous to their skill set as a trained, professional artist.

These image gen tools, owned and controlled by massive tech companies and available to virtually anyone, are not usually used by professional, career artists. Because of that, it's far more likely to produce something that is some variety of forgettable (edit: looking back I forgot to mention that I believe this is a product of prompt phrasing resulting in the generator defaulting to repeat aesthetic choices). Not remarkable in its mundanity, just - aesthetic white noise. I looked into what people consider their favorite AI artists, and they tended towards the photo-realistic or the sort of polished, cleanly abstract. And it's fine. It's impressive that you can type a prompt and a software creates something that looks essentially like a photograph.

I can't really explain it. Maybe it's the lack of any distinguishable flaws, the smoothness and the crisp cleanliness of every pixel. In minimalism I can enjoy those same qualities, but perhaps part of that enjoyment comes from knowing every choice was intended. My issue with a lot of AI art, even ones with changes created by the prompter, is that it lacks the human touch and the new perspective of technology. So it's in a weird liminal space of being kind of nothing.

It's like hotel art. It blends in to the background to me. I see it, I think "mm okay", and move on. And when people say that you won't be able to tell the difference between that and a human artist, my main response now is that like - that's the interesting part to me. Inevitably an artist creates an impression on their art. Their background shapes their perspective and shapes what they create. Early AI art had a perspective, and the result were works that were kind of wonky in some way.

Now that many make an effort to remove every initial quirk, so much of what I've seen has been polished into fine. It's fine. It's pretty. It looks nice. I looked through a lot of AI art galleries and thought it all looked fine and now I struggle to remember any particular piece.

It's fine. It looks fine. Some of them are interesting. Most leave me with nothing.

Those are my hammock thoughts. I saw a lot of AI art subreddit referencing the rise of more people making their own datasets and I would really enjoy seeing more of that. The few examples I've seen so far have been really interesting.