#but i was thinking about this

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IT ALMOST HAPPENED . NEVER FORGET

[the-sun-and-the-sea]

Just thinking about how weird it must have been for Finnick to win at 14 and how not only did he go through the arena but he also became a celebrity.

Most victors win a little older so the Capitol probably wasn’t used to having to wait for their victors to grow up. That must have felt really disorienting for like 18-20 year old Finnick because they wanted him to get older but they also didn’t want him to get old.

I have a headcanon that the victors sort of become their Games in the eyes of the Capitol, so even as they age they represent the kid who survived that arena. So for Finnick, he would’ve had to be the fourteen year old victor while also being old enough that the Capitol doesn’t feel bad about objectifying him, all while trying to protect his people at home.

The celebrity culture in Panem sounds really demanding, especially for the victors who are seen more as commodities. We don’t get as much insight into this in canon because Katniss isn’t a part of Capitol society for very long, but it’s a topic that I find really interesting.

(Also after the war Finnick embraces things like gray hair and other signs of aging because he’s finally allowed to age naturally and not exist for the pleasure of others)

[tamsiblings]

something i was thinking about the other day was that, when trying to find new buyers for the goods in the pilot, mal insists doing so in boros isn’t an option because there’s too much alliance presence there, even though that’s apparently where they were supposed to drop the passengers. which seems to imply that either simon specifically looked for a ship headed to boros or saw that serenity was headed there and decided that was fine. the latter seems much more likely to me, as what he says in one of the deleted scenes when book asked why he chose serenity - “it looked disreputable” - suggests he, like book, cared more about the ship than the destination, albeit for much different reasons. but this does also mean simon (as he often is in the show, but particularly in the pilot and very early eps) is kind of in over his head. he has no foresight/knowledge/situational awareness that boros is probably not the place that wanted, seemingly high profile, actively-being-hunted fugitives should go.

so you do kinda have to think that mal, along with the other reasons he offers the tams sanctuary, is probably also going “oh fuck this kid i wanted to hate has sympathetic motivations and also CLEARLY has no idea what he’s doing, okay.” lmao!

which does lead into another interesting aspect of the mal & simon dynamic i’m so endlessly fascinated by… like.

two things are true at once, right? i think mal (by the end of the pilot, and certainly as the show progresses) has a genuine respect for both simon’s skill and ability to work calmly under high-stakes pressures as a doctor, and his integrity and courage (and his ability to hold his ground. he does note “i’m not too worried about you” in reference to a potential conflict between jayne and simon in the train job, not because simon can match jayne’s physical strength but because he’s one of (maybe THE person on the ship, tbh, even though others like him more) the few that recognize that simon is not… really actually that much of a pushover, which is something i think gets taken for granted even in fandom at times. the shooting script for the train job, for instance, has the note in the stage directions that rather than being cowed by jayne in the scene where jayne insists he’s not part of the crew, simon is merely weighing the advantages and disadvantages of arguing and decides against it. simon is ((generally)) reserved, polite, and not outright combative when he’s not being provoked, but when people are rude and sarcastic to him, he tends to be rude and sarcastic right back. and in the train job, what mal is commenting on is the fact that simon is the person who took the initiative to neutralize jayne with the resources he had. to me, simon is not so much a pushover but a person who is always distinctly aware of what advantages he does and does not have in any given situation and wields them at very specific times with specific intentions because of that.)

okay i got off topic. the point is: mal respects him on those levels, but i do think he also views simon as a bit, naive maybe? and that’s definitely not something he respects in the pilot, and is directly related to that whole boros thing, even though i think it ultimately contributes to his sympathy for the tams. (mal’s a bleeding heart whether he likes ot or not!) like, his view of simon once he knows he’s not the mole is basically “sheltered spoiled rich kid who’s never had to figure out how to survive life on the rim and therefore is naive about it.” that is, broadly, true, though ungenerous in its framing, as i think mal initially thinks that’s all there is to simon, when that’s clearly not the case. (i also think how ‘naive’ simon actually is depends a lot on what about and the context we are putting him in.)

but something a little interesting goes on as the show goes on which is that mal DOES get to know simon past his initial impressions and i can think of at least two instances in which mal, rather than being resentful of that relative naivety or inexperience or what have you, as he seemed to in the pilot, actually seems pretty concerned and protective on simon’s behalf because of it. mal is protective of all his crew, but it manifests differently at times, and he clearly sees it as one simon’s vulnerabilities he has to check in on. in war stories, though the scene is hilarious, mal checking in on how simon is faring after taking up arms at niska’s is genuinely heartwarming, and in direct relationship to not only simon’s status as a healer, but his relative inexperience with guns, violence, and killing. and i always read surprise in mal’s expression when he turns to listen to simon praising jayne at the end of ariel. he would’ve done the airlock thing regardless, but that was salt in the wound.

anyways, as ever, i wish we had gotten more of the show, because i think seeing their dynamic further developed would have been sooo interesting.

[ayoungeststark]

I think I'm going to start doing the same thing here that I'm doing on my other blog, and start focusing more on being more comic book-inclined or at least a lot more mixed rather than focusing on the mcu.

It's not that I like the mcu, but I feel like it limits me and Logan a lot, and forces me to be stuck with some stuff that I don't really like. There are a lot more things to explore using the comic book world, a lot more characters to use and things like that so… yeah. It’s a change I’d like to make. Some differences I’d be implementing in my replies/threads right away would be:

Tony's alive.

The avengers are still a thing ( it could be the mcu team with the original six and some others or the current one from the comics that i really like )

The x-men/fantastic four/all the other heroes exist, and Logan knows ( at least by reputation ) all of them.

Logan grew up alongside the Avengers and is friends with other young heroes/other children of the Avengers ( say Frank & Valeria Richards, Katie Barton, Gerry Drew, Mayday Parker & some ocs too bc why not. Also Riri, Harley, Kate, Cassie, Billy & Tommy & more ! )

SHIELD still exists too

And some other things that i’ll be implementing with time ( bc I can't remember everything right now ).

I’ll still be exploring the mcu timeline and some points that i find interesting too but it’s just not gonna be set in stone you know ? If we write together and you prefer to strictly follow the mcu timeline that's okay, you can let me know and we're doing this. But if not, you'll notice that i'll leave things a bit more open to new possibilities

[visenyaism]

i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.

[ryderdire]

Really interesting thing I glimpsed on rednote today

I think We- we’re developing international class consciousness 

[demadogs]

this happened months ago. i cannot keep it in any longer. a while ago i went on a porn site ive never been to and it asked if i was over 18 and i misclicked and said no and it automatically sent me to google images of puppies and kittens. i still cannot get over how funny this is.

[robyn-i-guess]

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[mangosteen]

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[charlesoberonn]

It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real

There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations

Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that

The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.

There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)

The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.

Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.

Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.

[anxeious]

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think