#something of our own

[districtunrest]

TRULY 😭

i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds

[districtunrest]

Haymitch: so you essentially shared the documents of my humiliation in 13 me: yes H: and people online are reading it and laughing at me me: no no we're laughing with you H: I wasn't laughing me: okay. no yeah I get that. right H: just so we're clear. me: if it helps, it was to better inform things that happen in the post-series story I have of you H: oh for fuck's - things get even worse? me: no! they get better! you're going to recover and find a fulfilling job and rejoin the community as it rebuilds and also fall in love H: how long does all that take? me: we're 27 chapters in right now. it's not done. it's like, oh, 2/3 done maybe? H: 27 chapters? 2/3 done?! me: yeah H: and it's a love story? me: yeah H: have I even gotten laid yet? me: no H: are you fucking kidding me me: it's a slow burn H: me: Johanna sent you condoms but it was to make fun of you H: me: and you got your estranged cousin to buy you a firetruck H: oh shit for real?

[mollywog]

Hazelle: i am not reckless and haymitch is not ready for a relationship and i will get over this

also Hazelle: if Alice took it upon herself to blast the bridge of Juno into his window for me as he's reaching deep sleep (6am), i wouldn't stop her

Imagine if she found out about those condoms from Johanna 👀

[dyke-ass-fujoshi]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[stemmmm]

more people gotta try this shit where bill has not improved and will not change but he's just chilling so its fine probably. its great

[thatwavephenomenon]

me: i sure hope the crows are not gonna be solely depicted in veilguard as a brave force who 'fight for all' when they are at their core a criminal organization who is known to buy children to indoctrinate them and turn them into assassins, by putting them in overcrowded warehouses and making them fight for scrapes in order not to starve, to later torture those who reach adulthood to finish their initiations and kill them anyways if they dare to try getting out

bioware: i cooka da pizza

[biscuityskies]

With the impending implementation of Project 2025, I suspect that AO3 will come under fire as well. And given that it’s a US based organisation, and the US has wedged itself somehow into every possible thing, I would also suspect that this will have global impacts. I cannot be certain of it - I’m certainly not an expert on political things and Trump remains, frankly, unpredictable - but I have personally found it’s more helpful to prepare beforehand than to scramble to keep myself afloat in the midst of a crisis. Knowing how important our favourite stories are to so many of us, here’s what I suggest:

Readers, I recommend you find your favourite stories again. Go all the way back in your bookmarks. Tell the authors you appreciate them, and you love their work. I think we could all use some nice words right now. If you want to keep the story, I recommend downloading it: here’s a guide on how to do so from the AO3 FAQ. I personally have wanted to take up bookbinding for a hot second; I might print off my favourite fics for myself and figure out how to bind them. The OTW also recommends downloading your favourites - see link below.

Authors, I recommend you keep your manuscripts. Download them onto an external flash drive and save them for a rainy day four or so years from now. Even the ones you don’t like are worth keeping - I guarantee you somebody else likes them even if you don’t. (I’m speaking to myself here, too.) Project 2025 has blatantly laid out a ban of pornography, and they will take that to mean whatever they want it to; I suggest you don’t even keep your fics on a Google drive if possible it’s definitely easier to keep them all online, trust me, I know, but so does the government. Corporations do not care about you: they will sell you out to whoever is willing to pay. Remember also to turn off AI scraping wherever possible, or better yet use sites that don’t engage in that behaviour.

For further reading from people more qualified than I, here’s the OTW’s statement on what their plans are so far.

I hope I’m wrong. I honestly would love nothing more. But more importantly, we will get through this. Humanity has told stories and put blorbos in situations for literal millennia. We’ll see the other side of this.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

None of our hands are clean

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[mollywog]

Katniss and Peeta learning to ride bikes.

Bonus: Haymitch doesn't know either but tries to help them.

Ahhhhh thank you for the ask @professionalfangrrl

(This is in reference to Forts and Dough People where I asked for inspiration for more Everlark reclaiming their youth!)

I’m so glad you suggested this because I am dying to share @districtunrest (marblesharp) story

Something of Our Own

I recommend the whole thing, but if you only have capacity for a chapter at the moment, the bicycle bit in Chapter 21 is darling!!

Excerpt:

"He's going to break his neck on that thing," Haymitch mutters under his breath.

"It came with a helmet," she [Hazelle] points out halfheartedly. She wouldn't let her kids on one herself, helmet or not. She'd sooner trust them on a mule, something that can stand and walk on its own legs and only needs directed where to go.

"I just know he's going to fall and not tell us," says Katniss, and Haymitch shakes his head in grim assent.

Haymitch’s “It came with a helmet” lives rent free in my brain.

[densewentz]

trying to enjoy Veilguard in the ever-incendiary Dragon Age fandom like

[welightthewaysource]

Alicent Hightower — 1.01 (2022) Aegon II Targaryen — 2.02 (2024)

[egophiliac]

What do you think of Rook's savanaclaw card? <333

I didn't get him (and I need to save my keys for Silver's birthday, sob) so I looked up his groovy, and I'm not over how incredibly dramatic and epic and cool it looks in direct contrast to the absolutely ridiculous context. just look at that dynamic action and his majestic sparkling tears and keep in mind that this is pretty much right after a bunch of characters have been dance battling for his soul.

and then even the actual moment of the groovy is just like

this is NOT a negative in the slightest, I love it all, this truly was an incredible update in so many ways

[frownyalfred]

seeing an orphaned fic that’s only 48 hours old like

[bowenoke]

if you like florence + the machine and also kristen applebees and figueroth faeth. may i offer you cassandra

[mollywog]

Me through the first half: This is the funniest fucking fic I’ve ever read!!

Then the second half: oh… oh no…

Omg guys - Please go read!!

Record Review

As the new doctor of District 12, Doctor Antony Olsen reviews the medical record of his new patient, Haymitch Abernathy. Or, Haymitch's time in seclusion in District 13, as told by the medical staff.

AO3 // FFN

(pictures from pinterest)

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Jason keeps accidentally drawing parallels between his running away to Ethiopia and getting killed.

He leaves a note saying he‘ll be back soon? Three terrified bats AND a supe crashing through the roof of a 7/11.

Casually mentioning he‘ll be going overseas to check up on a lead? Surprise! Nightwing‘s going the same way! What a coincidence!

Jason pushes someone off the roof? “Don’t worry Jaylad, I know it was an accident!!!!”

The next gig takes place at an abandoned warehouse? “Explosives whomst?? No, Jason, of course I didn’t scout the area beforehand. Don’t be absurd. Your bombs?? Oh, those were yours?”

Look, it’s not that Jason doesn’t appreciate a demonstration of how much they care. But he’s getting seriously fed up with the level of overprotectiveness everyone’s displaying.

Although, in retrospect, he could have handled this whole thing better than having an open spat with Bruce and then disappearing on them for two months straight. Oops.

(In his defense, Kori got them cards for a once-in-life-time-space-opera.)