#rachel hawthorne

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March 2023 JOMPBPC: Day 4 Sill In School

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One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig 🍁🍒🖤

[mockingjaysnakes]

• at the lake and at the lake house. (book! the ballad of songbirds and snakes & mockingjay).

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[starrrbakerrr]

I’ve noticed that Tumblr is the only platform that widely acknowledges the fact that Katniss, Gale, and Haymitch were severely whitewashed in the films. On Twitter I’ve seen people get downright offended at the mention of Katniss being Indigenous, mixed, or simply non-white. I’ve seen people say that people with olive skin can be white and yes that’s true, but Jennifer Lawrence does not have olive skin which still makes her casting inaccurate.

I think this is because Twitter and TikTok focuses on videos, images, and short blurbs of writing - which caters to the movies. It’s the only visual representation of the books outside of fanart. Tumblr allows users to write long think pieces and the books are the primary reference instead of the movies. I’ve only seen the books mentioned outside of Tumblr when talking about Peeta’s characterization and missing lines in the movies. BookTok has also opened discussion of Katniss being non-white but otherwise non-white Katniss is generally not well received outside of Tumblr. Even fanart of Katniss with darker skin isn’t regularly distributed outside of Tumblr.

It’s disheartening but unsurprising. I mean, back when the first movie was released people were outraged that Rue was Black even though it was explicitly referenced multiple times. I just remember being in middle school and obsessed with the books and so excited when the movies were announced, and I was really disappointed with the casting of Katniss because I always imagined her as non-white like myself. Katniss is also supposed to be short and small in stature so that was difficult for me to grasp but I’m glad Jennifer didn’t pressure herself to lose weight for the role (she mentioned this in an interview). I think Jennifer and Woody did great in their roles, and Liam did good with what he was given, but I don’t see them as Katniss, Haymitch and Gale when reading the books or fanfiction. I remember Suzanne saying in an interview that the Katniss she imagines doesn’t exist, but Jennifer is close enough. I’m really curious to know how she imagines Katniss beyond the general descriptors of olive skin, dark hair, and grey eyes.

I’m also genuinely glad that Rachel Zegler is playing Lucy Gray Baird. She has tanner skin, which is great. However, the unfortunate reality is that she’s still “white enough” to be palatable to a white audience.

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I WOULD NOT ONLY LIKE TO THANK GOD BUT ALSO RACHEL GILLIG FOR THESE MASTERPIECES

[eburnsillustrations]

✨The Shepherd King Duology✨

I recently read One Dark Window and just knew I had to draw some of the characters. I always find it fun to put my character illustrations together like this 😊 Which is your favourite character?

[kimmy-writes]

Casually dropping by to announce to the whole world that I am hopelessly, hopelessly in love with Renelm Rowan.

If you haven’t read One Dark Window and its sequel, Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig (fucking masterpieces), then you must. I beg you. And I beg you to love Elm too—such a precious, precious, grumpy, abso-fucking-lutely whipped (and horny) prince i love him so much

[valewritessss]

Is it really a love triangle if one of them has a nickname?

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Elm thinking about Ione like:

[teashh]

Also another reason The Shephered King Duology was so good was because Rachel Gillig used "Show, don't Tell" so well. She showed emotions, experiences and events that shaped the characters and she told us the feelings. It was so easy to get immersed into the book.

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happy mother’s day to skye hawthorne <3

KIDDING I HATE HER 😛 HAPPY MOTHER’s DAY TO RACHEL PRICE AND ALL THE GOOD MOTHERS OF THE WORLD

[percyjacksonxrb]

Just finished The Shepherds King serie and I havent been pulled into a story like that for a while.

I’ve started reading again after a ‘break’ and it just felt flat? It was literally just reading a story but One Dark Window completely changed that.

Everything pulls you in, the world that may seem complex at first but is so written in a way that makes it so easy to understand, the pacing is fast enough that is isn’t boring but things are not developing to fast.

The characters are so beautifully written with multiple dimensions that you first think you know them but learn more about them that changes your perception of them without ‘destroying’ their character. Idk how to explain it they just feel like real people with real problems, insecurities and motivations.

Then the story, it really pulls you in and is beautifully connected. The story has multiple hidden, and not so hidden, meanings and carries a message.

The relationships are also really developed and not just between the main character and love interest but between all the characters. This can be relation between friends, siblings, parent-child, cousins. The romance is also well developed and not to fast and as a reader it is also understandable why the romance is developing. Also I don’t think it was instant attraction to each other between the romantic partners, yes they noticed the other was attractive but there was definitely something else that piqued their interests…..

Anyway I just have a lot of thoughts about this series and recommend it to all readers who want to experience and be pulled into a new, intriguing world.

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Inspired by the book of @rmgillig

[sarahnotjmaas]

Reading two twisted crowns and idk these two are just so much more interesting to me!!!

[elif-in-wonderland]

Happy new year to all of you!!!! As in new year, new me, I have new year, new book (The Reappearance of Rachel Price).

Wishing you all the best and may 2025 be as blessed as 2024 have been! ❤️❤️🙏🏻