#also... that mask was.... interesting
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You think FNAF Helpy misses Michael sometimes?
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#michael afton#helpy#fnaf vanny#fnaf vanessa#security breach#fnaf pizzeria simulator#you guys think helpy misses Michael post pizza sim#I like to consider helpy basically Michael’s son#just his lil guy#and I find it REALKY interesting how helpy exists AFTER pizza sim#and are seemingly really important#he finds solace in going to Vanessa for comfort#she also wears a mask after all#but I sniffe and sob at the thought helpy may miss Michael
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sometimes people think jena is a man and she would love that actually
#jena#my art#art tag#i was thinking about gender in dragon age and how it could be interesting...#like imagine how all the masks in orlais would work re: perceiving people. and all the emphasis on makeup and wigs#and also....#i dont want to play someone who has a self aware modern understanding of gender. i want to write characters who have done zero introspectio#they need to bring back sexism for this purpose
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tim drake would rather die than kill innocent people and tim drake killed hundreds of supervillain henchpeople with long-range detonation explosives that one time are two separate headcanons that, contrary to what the fandom discourse would have you believe, can actually coexist at the same time.
there’s even a psychologist term for it.
it’s called compartmentalization!
#let’s be honest#the entire batfamliy “stuffers” from this#and while that’s not something generally talked about#I just find the concept so interesting#how they all justify their actions — both socially moral and socially in-moral — to themselves#particularly how they all justify their actions to themselves in different ways#and for more evidence about their compartmentalization: there’s obviously the fact that they all have superhero and civilian identities too#also#this might need to be a separate post#but#the fandom’s perception of each member of the batfamily as individuals#often read more like they have bought into the characters’s “masks” they wear due to trauma#the “masks” being how the batfam are completely willing to be only perceived as one-thing#because that’s easier than being a real human#with blood and pain and fears and failures#they’d much rather be#the nice one#or the funny one#or the smart one#(etc. etc.)#dc#dc comics#dc characters#batman comics#batfam#the batfamily#tim drake#robin#robin dc#red robin
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im not that great at analyzing characters and reading into subtext and all that but tumblr has opened my eyes and made me think more about majimas queerness and then i remembered Hannya-Man and its like. its not even subtext the text is hitting you over the head with The Implications.
#rgg#why a hannya out of all the spirits and demons in japanese mythology and noh theater?#not to be dramatic or anything but as someone whos trans masc and cant do anything about it#all the discussion around majimas relationship to gender has been kind of cathartic#im not familiar with how the character is used in pop culture in japan#or how its meaning varies between how its used in plays and colloquially#but from what little i could find your gender doesnt dictate or matter in how you relate to the hannya but still#originally im sure they just chose that tattoo for him since its like one of the most recognizable “oni” masks and it looks cool#but how that tattoos taken a deeper meaning with the more they develop him as a character through the games is really interesting#majimer#majima goro#goro majima#ryu ga gotoku#hannya man#goromi#like a dragon#yakuza kiwami#also unrelated but why did most of the pages i could find talking about the hannya and its symbolism just full of ai slop#noh masks are like. like. the way theyre crafted is usually with very specific features for specific reasons so just generating something#that “looks enough like a hannya mask” feels especially stupid#not that using ai is never NOT stupid but you get what i mean#its like so In Your Face how Stupid it is#i hate ai#i hate it here#yakuza
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anyway the main interesting thing about the masked empire is that it looks like felassan needed like a special herbs and spices blend to meditate deeply enough to actually contact solas? and even then the impression seemed rather murky and vague (perhaps just bc they hadn't decided what solas' personality was ingame at that time), and solas was pretty detached and still on his "this world is garbage and full of tranquil" mindset prior to dai. i feel like if solas had been regularly able to talk to felassan, he'd 1. be more moved by his argument, 2. be aware that felassan's resolve was waning even before being told, and 3. be less likely to kill him point-blank without even a conversation, since he'd be more confident in his ability to talk him back into loyalty
so i think it makes sense if solas was genuinely Asleep a lot of the time, with some phases of more lucid dreaming where he was able to look at the fade/talk to felassan. so his experience would be vaguely stirring in his uthenera every few centuries, getting a fresh batch of bizarre mortal nightmares, and disconnected updates from felassan that went kind of like this:
"hey boss sooo... we lost all the eluvians and floating cities and stuff, and a lot of people just starved, and the veil is really fucking us. but we're ok! actually some round eared little guys showed up. uhhh actually arlathan's gone now and the population got enslaved by the round eared ones. their mages broke one of the seals on the black city and released a blight. oh the humans got into a new religion :) it's anti-slavery, but it DOES hate spirits. but the people have the dales now! another blight. actually another blight again. ohh the humans really got into their new religion... remember the dales i mentioned? yeah those are gone actually. also the survivors are evanuris loyalists and hate you specifically. two more blights. this last one went by super fast, i barely noticed it! hey actually i trained this mortal girl a bit and she's kind of fun, i think we should rethink the plan, and give her the eluvians and let her cook-"
and presumably solas goes "what the FUCK is felassan talking about. he must be going mad, he could easily foil the whole plan if he's lost it like this. goodbye old friend"
#dragon age#the masked empire#solas#felassan#txt#i do think the idea of solas getting the... sparknotes summary of history every few hundred years#from an increasingly unhinged felassan#is very funny#the dread wolf turns into the ben affleck smoking meme in the fade every time there's a new blight#also felassan in vg is actually SO bland in comparison oh god#book version's main traits is that he's funny and completely ruthless lmao#that dude is a menace and that's valid#vg one is just like ''people... die in wars? solas how could you... 🥺''#my man you were threatening to melt a guy's fingernails and then massacred like 50 dalish without blinking...#they really needed to decide on what vibe he was supposed to have haha 😭#unfortunately he does also come off as a moron in tme bc literally everyone in that book has like 1.5 brain cells#but i choose to ignore that#otherwise it's like he got executed for straight up incompetence rather than any interesting quandary
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psst systems and plurals of all kinds, if you have fictives from books please say hi. we have, quite literally, only met a single system other than ourselves who had more than one fictive sourced from a book. well over 90% of our fictives (which make up 85% of our known collective of 550+ people) are sourced from books. please
#original posts#pluralgang#plurality#plural system#fictive#i don't care what books they're from just please literally anyone#i (Twitch) am partially sourced from Five Kingdoms by Brandon Mull (you'll recognize my name if you've read it i'm sure)#we have a few fictives from the Pantomime/Shadowplay/Masquerade trilogy#and a couple from Mask of Shadows#and most of our fictives come from our special interest book series#edit to note: we also have a couple from Lord of the Flies#(even though we fucking hated the book lmao)
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Wham bam bam! Couple of Agent stuff!! I was initially just going to post the two images but then it felt a bit empty, so I decided to doodle an interaction between Agent and Mysterion.
More process drawings under the cut for those interested!!




#uhhhh gonna type in my thoughts in the tags#just let me get the main tags out of the way#shroomer's art !#shroomer's sketches !#dao hanh#south park oc#south park original character#sp oc#shroomer's archives: south park#south park tfbw#kenny mccormick#mysterion#forgive me i may be a bit delirious im past my bedtime by 2 and half hours#ALSO SORRY I COULDNT GET BETTER PROCESS PICTURES AJSFKSDJL this is all a collection of miscellaneous screenshots ive sent my friends#THIS. THIS WAS A BITCH TO CONCEPTUALIZE.#i think ive shown this to like 10 other people just to nail down the design and lore#definitely a product of blood sweat and tears#well the hardest part's out of the way at least phew#ack oops i made the sleeves slightly too big in the doodle#mysterion's also supposed to have his arms crossed but the poncho covered everything lol#feel free to ask me questions in the comments!! i fear that the tags wont be able to contain all of the lore i have for agent#so id be glad to answer any questions you have 🫶#but yea agent is hanh's tfbw alter ego!!#this design is set in a universe where the powers actually exist and theyre older#im planning on making a “kid” version of the costume that she'd use in the LARPing game#but yea!! she's a speedster/gadgeteer/support class!#and she takes heavy inspiration from a lot of my interests: notably jet set radio/bomb rush cyberfunk. splatoon. rollerblading. theres more#shes got a sweet ass gun that shoots healing and buffing bullets. shes also got spray cans that she can use as a smoke screen or as a bomb!#theres more but i ran out of tags to write in sjlfkl#she also has a gas mask but i havent had the time to design that one yet
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Stabby stabby time 😌✨
(Original meme audio source can be found via this YouTube video!!)
#once again I’m so bad at putting silly short meme stuff onto my main channel without thinking it’s gonna humiliate me HELP 🥲#l’ll get over it this is my exposure therapy hour#it doesn’t help that I told classmates in college about my YouTube channel and didn’t think about how that would fuck with my anxiety lol#like ‘OH NO WHY DID I DO THAT THEY’LL KNOW I’M CRINGE AND WEIRD NOW’#listen if people can’t tolerate you at your cringiest and you feel like you need to mask around them 24/7 then it’s not worth#you gotta be your authentic self and enjoy your interests regardless of how people view it#trying to people please the masses is only going to wear you out and make you feel disconnected from yourself#‘fuck it we ball’ mentality saves lives tbh#….I don’t know I’m still trying to pep talk myself into it being socially acceptable to post sillies :’)#for now this will be a Tumblr exclusive until I stop being a baby about it✨#(also wouldn’t it be funny if my channel has a running joke of everyone not knowing what Puzzles age is? Just a thought)#(first Meggy asks him about it and now I’m asking too)#(no wonder the guy pulled out a knife people won’t shut up about his age lmfao)#mr puzzles smg4 meme#mr puzzles animated#smg4 girl how old are you I’m getting nervous meme#girl how old are you I’m getting nervous mr puzzles meme#hplonesome art
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Family Resemblance
But like look at the concept art, the resemblance is crazy


#this is what he meant when he said he had suspicions about Kazuma’s identity#now I know van Zieks probably never actually saw him without the mask on#but the clothes were probably from him?#lots of van Zieks-ness to them#the mask basically has the Asogi crest on it though so that was probably a Stronghart thing#also I find it interesting that van Zieks says the MD is not allowed to speak to anyone from outside that room (the prosecutor’s offic)#spelling error whoops#anyway doesn’t that imply that he can speak to van Zieks?#something I’ve thought about often#the great ace attorney#ace attorney#tgaa spoilers#dgs spoilers#tgaa2 spoilers#dgs2 spoilers#the great ace attorney spoilers#barok van zieks#kazuma asogi#sorry to everyone who isn’t following me for ace attorney#the brain rot has got my by the jugular#don’t worry though I’ve still got other stuff in the works
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first sound(wave) of the future! (or just: soundwave miku)
i just think they're neat :)
#no greater joy than mashing two interests together#transformers#tf#maccadam#soundwave#tf soundwave#hatsune miku#miku hatsune#miku#vocaloid#luc art#i thought i had this mostly finished last night and then today i kept going “wait i need to add something else” orz#my friends have been subjected to my metamorphosis into a transformers fan of all things and they've been very supportive lol#they should totally do a “Miku with (x) Transformer” thing like Project Voltage...that'd be so epic#also i would have given her a mask with her glasses but with both on she kind of looks like a nerd 💀#anyway the message of this post is that Soundwave and Miku should be friends
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The Nobleman or 양반 (yangban): The smiling face represents the bluff and composure that an aristocrat is often known to have. The chin is a separate piece from the top of the mask, and the actors can lean forward and back to make the mask smile or frown as needed.
This monk who abandons his doctrines, or 취발이 (chwibari): Chwibari was originally a monk, but he had no intention of joining the monastic order, so he came down to the world and wanders. Represented with a forehead full of wrinkles and spots.
The widow or, 부네 (Punae/bune): represented to be a widow, or a kisaeng ( a woman who sang, danced, or played an instrument to provide entertainment for company at a drinking party), or a mistress of the Yangban. She has a very small mouth, round cheeks and forehead- giving a general look of happiness good-humor.
#skz#stray kids#skzedit#bystay#obligatory i am no expert take it with a grain of salt blah blah#theres no changbin bc you cant see the mask clearly and no hyunjin because as best I can figure his mask is a General/high ranking official#but most of those are modern productions and dont have any real descriptions or anything.#these plays were made to mock the upper classes so the nobleman is p much always treated like a fool or bastard lol#also these all change depending on the location- so like the chwibari is usually a negative portrayal of a monk who drinks and parties#and isnt very... monk-ly lets say- but then theres a story where he saves his lover from a lecherous monk and they get married so 🤷♀️#he wasnt a monk that iteration though or he abandoned his studies ?#and then the widow/concubine varies from sympathetic young widow to a kinda femme fatale who seduces the nobleman/scholars#Will any of this play into the concept? probably not. they dont really commit to concepts lbr#but still! it was interesting to look into and the masks are pretty to boot so this was fun :)#it'd be cool if they did a mask dance. i always loved thunderous for the traditional elements so i hope that happens#also YEAH a korean seungmin girl saying she was sad the foreign fans wouldnt get the significance bc she wants to see 'secondary art'#did inspire this (of course i'd wanna know why he was the only one given a womans mask dont act surprised)#bc im pretty sure i know what she means by secondary art and LMAO#i see right through you.... and into myself maybe#long post
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A dialogue on heroes
#ffxiv#ff14#elidibus#emet selch#art#illustration#posting this at 2 am cuz I tried and put so much effort into this but a little shy to show#it was just an idea I had where I wanted to draw the two just having a conversation on what their theories and logic behind heroes#cuz elidibus has wolidibus and emet has innocence#and i think in his own way innocence / vauthry saw himself as a hero as well#so i thought it would be interesting but meh#storytelling is hard#also i need to stop drawing tiny characters and making pikachu face when I can't see their expressions lmao#edit: if y'all saw the error w/ the layer mask...no you didn't...
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No One:
Me: Anyone ever think about how because Tyler was tricking her, he accidentally ended up as the one person who was seeing Wednesday for who she is and not who everyone wanted her to be? Specifically not who he wanted her to be, because he didn’t even have another image of her to fall back upon? Weems saw her as trouble/her Mother, Gates underestimated her, Sheriff Galpin only saw her Father, Xavier as his childhood hero, Enid blatantly assigned her a social mask but Tyler looked her full in the face and took her as she was? From their first meeting to their last, seeing Wednesday as she is, as she comes, all her dark edges and bright ideas and meeting her as an Equal Opponent, never underestimating her, never covering her up…. Just her. Only her. (And that in turn blinds her to who he is, until she pulls his mask off by accident).
Me: Anyone else ever think about that?
#weyler#wyler#wednesday addams#tyler galpin#Grey’s meta#I’ve been rewatching recently and like Tyler really pays attention to who she is and that is a really big factor as to why he does manage t#trick her#Tyler trusts Wednesday as much as she trusts him#Which is implicitly#And in that that creates the basis for their dynamic and how evenly matched they are#As people as enemies as rivals as competitors with one another#And that affords some really interesting insight into both of them#Wednesday trusts Tyler because he meets her where she is#Whereas Xavier projects ideas onto her and gets mad when she doesn’t meet them#And Enid’s whole tangent at the end of Ep 6 exposes the mask she made for Wednesday to talk about her to other people instead of letting#Wednesday set who she is#Tyler doesn’t actively meddle or try to tell her who she is#Weems and the Sheriff only see her parents#Gates only sees the family legacy#But Tyler looks at her and sees Wednesday#His enemy who he happens to trust implicitly because oh he’s never met anyone like her#Can be tagged as ship and non ship#In that I know there’s a romantic angle here but it can also be viewed as a strict character analysis#I LOVE COMPLICATED DYNAMICS#SO MUCH
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Just thinking about these three things together for no particular reason at all...
#michael sheen#welsh seduction machine#david tennant#soft scottish hipster gigolo#nothing moments that add up to something#i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now#at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard#this is for everyone just discovering all of the unhinged things Michael was saying in 2019#it was A Lot#bless his bisexual Welsh chaos#i also find it interesting how often Michael talks about masks#and how expressing one's true self through a mask seems to resonate with him#because somewhere in his soul he *is* the angel#and loves David so deeply#and is able to be Aziraphale so completely because of that#ineffable lovers#thoughts#discourse
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ialso love playign superhero ttrpgs can i ask what the Masks ttrpg is? i love finding neww hero themed ttrpgs ^-^ yay!
Ohhh!! Hey! i love getting to talk ttrpg stuff thanks for the question!
MASKS: A New Generation is a superhero ttrpg about teenagers all trying to figure out who they are in a world filled with people constantly telling them who they are and how the world works. It's less about the powers and the fights and more about the emotional journey of the PCs with mechanics that support that. It's a really narratively driven game!
tldr: try it out! it's fun! it's simple! and it's low-prep (apparently, just not for me, but i'm always just gonna do Too Much). you want a system with mechanics that revolve around telling a story? around your character's emotions and how they view themselves? this is the one for you! it's great and i've really been enjoying it!!
First of all, it's a fail-forward system, so the way your character levels (advanced) is by missing rolls. I like this a lot.
There are ten core playbooks that are essentially the classes you can choose from. They each come with their own powers, some intentionally more impressive than others, but it's not about the powers; it's about the core conflict that comes with each of the archetypes. Here are a few playbook examples:
The Delinquent: You've got these cool powers. But everyone keeps telling you how to use 'em. You know what they need? Someone to give them trouble, to make sure they don't always get their way. And hey! You're the perfect her to do it.
The Legacy: You're the latest in a storied heroic lineage, a family that shares a name and a cause. Now, everybody is watching and waiting to see if you've got what it takes to uphold that tradition. No Pressure, right?
The Nova: You're a font of power. Channel it, and you can remake the world into exactly what you want. Unleash it, and you can do miracles. It's wonderful... and terrifying. Lose control for even a second, and other people get hurt.
Your stats are your Labels. They're how you see yourself, and how others see you. The Labels are DANGER, FREAK, SAVIOR, SUPERIOR, and MUNDANE. Different stats help with different Moves/rolls, so for example a high DANGER stat helps you Directly Engage a Threat, while a low MUNDANE stat makes it harder for you to Comfort or Support Someone. Your Labels are constantly being shifted around throughout the game as your character's self-image changes (and that self-image changes a lot, basically the NPCs are just label shifting machines).
The mechanics are fun! Instead of traditional damage, the PCs have Conditions that they take on, and what conditions a character has affects their rolls. The Conditions are Afraid, Angry, Guilty, Hopeless, and Insecure. So if you're Angry you take -2 on your roll to do the move Comfort or Support Someone, if you're Afraid, it's -2 on Directly Engage a Threat, etc. There are multiple ways to clear your conditions but the most straightforward way is to take a particular action, so if you're Angry you have to hurt someone or break something important, and if you're Afraid you have to run from something difficult. These actions lead to some awesome and surprising story beats!
There's some other stuff as well, but that's the gist!
Coming from DND, it took me some time to adjust to something so wildly different in terms of the system, but I've been enjoying it! I haven't gotten to play it as a PC, but running it has been an interesting challenge. I think it's a pretty simple system to work with, and I at least hear it's low-prep (again not for me tho lol). It's mechanically looser than the only other ttrpg I've played (dnd) and requires a lot more decision making from the whole table, so I think in a way it asks more of its players in that way. And the GM role is constantly on in a specific way, because it's up to the GM to listen and call out when a Move is being triggered and a roll should be made based on what the characters are doing in any particular scene.
anyway I can always have more to say but MASKS has been fun. I recommend giving it a shot! And then you should tell me what you thought about it!!
#ask biji#masks a new generation#text post#pbta#masks ttrpg#it's a great system for a oneshot or a quick game#however the game i have been running is not that lol but i like a longer narrative#look i was not even into superheroes#but i wanted to try this game because i thought the mechanics sounded fun and interesting#and i've been enjoying it!#try it out!#tbh i'd love to play it as a PC one day... i'm all about those narrative arcs baby#actually this is a great time to try it out because magpie games is having a sale and all the MASKS books are 50 percent off#and yes i hear it is low prep#just nothing is low prep for me...#i've been GMing MASKS pretty nonstop for a couple months now as we're on a dnd break so i've been extremely MASKS brained as of late#it's also my first GMed long campaign#which might be why i find it a little extra challenging#but still it is pretty well known as simple and low prep so#TRY IT!!!#extra tags as i thought more about it:#okay maybe it is low prep at least compared to dnd#but i think it requires more brain power while actually playing because the mechanics make it more unpredictable than dnd#which is great for storytelling purposes!#again i've only experienced MASKS as a GM so my perspective is gonna be different than a player's#and every GM is different#but for me? i think it asks a lot of its players and a LOT of its GM#however it is for the benefit of the story#oh right and because it's so emotional playing with a table you feel comfortable with is gonna be important#this all may sound critical of masks but let me assure you i like it so much that i crave its mechanics in more games
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Can't stop returning to Katniss thinking "All I was trying to do was keep myself and Peeta alive. Any act of rebellion was purely incidental."
Because incidental actions are a large part of what rebellions are made of; often people don't mean for their actions to directly challenge authority, it's just that said authority is incompatible with life. Humans were not meant to be controlled. We are free-willed creatures, just like other animals. But authority seeks to control. It objectifies. What better example of this than the Hunger Games? The Capitol kills 23 children each year to flaunt their control. The Games are treated like prime time TV, and the tributes' humanity is stripped from them in order to become objects of entertainment among the highest echelons of society.
Consequently, to act in the interest of keeping yourself and others alive is to act in opposition to authority, no matter how innocent your intentions. And it's very easy for people to challenge authority simply by trying to live their lives; it's only natural for them to try and keep themselves and their loved ones alive. To quote Nemik's manifesto from the show Andor:
"Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward."
There are so many of these small acts of insurrection just in the first book. Peeta giving Katniss that bread, despite getting a beating for burning it. Katniss and Gale hunting to keep their families alive and bartering with the other people in District 12. Arguably, Katniss volunteering in place of Prim. Katniss and Peeta appearing as one unit during even the first ceremony, where they hold hands on the chariot. Cinna's designs for her outfits, especially the "girlish" dress he puts her in after the games. Katniss allying with Rue, and the flower crown that she gives her after death.
These seemingly small acts build solidarity with others. This is shown in several reciprocal, more innocuous (yet still rebellious) acts. Madge gives Katniss the Mockingjay pin. District 12 gives that three-finger sign of respect to Katniss instead of applauding like they are told. Peeta's father and Gale promise to make sure that Prim doesn't go hungry. District 11 sends Katniss bread and Thresh spares her once, because they want to honor how she treated Rue.
In a world that attempts to dehumanize and objectify you, it is rebellious to recognize the humanity in yourself and others. It is rebellious to help others, to make their lives easier, to hope, to care.
#just a side of hopium with the analysis today#combining my two interests rn and tbh they are surprisingly compatible#also#not the first to say this. bc bell hooks (i think?) was the one to say real self care is a form of protest#also also. there is something to be said about how the entire mood of the series seems to change at the end of book one#bc they were really just trying to stay alive but now theyre in danger again#it really sets the stage for a broader discussion on power and authority#and takes some of the focus off of the romance (even tho the romance is how they stay in Panem's good graces)#like. yeah you lived but you lived by finding a loophole and that cant be allowed#and theres another quote from nemiks manifesto about how#authority is brittle and it leaks and oppression is the mask of fear#but maybe ill connect those dots later#thg#the hunger games#thg analysis#andor#karis nemik#nemik's manifesto#lex's thg liveblog
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