#tbh it kinda makes me sad

[16th-of-a-twigg]

wip wednesday !

pls share your last sentence or if you don't have one, share a plot bunny or idea! (or sketch for your artwork!)

Thank you for the tag @liberalk1tsch 💜🌼These sort of things make me feel a lil more confident on sharing pieces of my writing (which i've kept to myself for SO many years) I have several WIP's on the go but lately I've been picking at my Hunger Games post Mockingjay fic called "Strike a Match" : ________

Katniss had heard people talk about stealing kisses - stealing implied that they never intended to return them. Peeta was so… Peeta that she never could have imagined to put that descriptor to him… but in this instant she did. And to be honest, she didn't care. He could take and take as much as he wanted and never return anything. But all too soon he stopped with a breathless huff and a look in those blue eyes of his that she could not understand. That hunger had taken root in her and she knew that her own eyes reflected it. A match had been lit between them once more, the warmth and tension so thick… so why could she not read what was on his mind?

“I need a moment” he said stiffly. 

“A - what?” She watched perplexed as he removed himself from the room and she felt all the oxygen go with him. The fire was out and had left her fingers scorched. __________ No pressure! I'm tagging: @imm0rtal-idi0t @reineyday 💜 😘

[outfoxt]

you know. I think it's going to be worse this year because the first night chanukkah is on christmas day. but I'll say it until I physically cannot speak anymore that chanukkah is not jewish christmas and if you so much as insinuate it is (while knowing better) I'll incinerate your face.

[yveni]

when I feel bad about being 22 and not having a big girl job I remember that at 22, Quill Kipps left his big girl job to then go work for a chaotic teenager and I feel a lotta bit better

[napping-sapphic]

i’m so tired….i want someone to lay next to me so i can cling onto them like a koala

[captainsavre]

My FSH is high, which means that I can't... Maya and Carina || Station 19 - 7.05 ‘My Way’

[fumifooms]

My world shattering when I realize that Chilchuck is underweight

Post-canon Chilchuck stops dieting and gains weight real

Edit: I am going to SCREAM

[yipfrey]

thinking about ghost hunter shen yuan (as always playing a sceptic but actually a true ghost believer. probably popular online for his sarcastic but funny commentary) and demon binghe who haunts every ghost location that shen yuan visits

[unordinary-diary]

Seraphina and Arlo: The Brainwashing of High Tiers

Exposition:

— Remi, Episode 50.

There is a heavy implication that Seraphina and Arlo were raised in much the same way. The pressure on Seraphina comes from her parents, so I’ll extrapolate that the same goes for Arlo. This raises the question: how do the authorities create such a strong societal pressure on such a small percentage of the population? Most high tiers will probably not know any other high tiers besides their parents. Take Wellston Private High School for example: it’s the most prestigious private school around, and canonically has the “highest concentration of high tiers in the region”. There are six high tiers in Wellston. Apply this to god tiers specifically, and there are only three. Not to mention that this current group of students is uniquely strong, even for Wellston. In Rei’s senior year, he was the strongest at 5.8 max.

So much of this brainwashing relies on the parents to do all of the work, and it only takes one or two people to break the cycle. So how are the authorities creating this immense pressure? One tactic could be by isolating high tiers. There is a very widespread concept that one shouldn’t associate with those outside their level range. A caste system like this that affects everyone is much easier to create and maintain than an expectation for a small group, and it also means that high tiers are only being influenced by those who are also high level. This creates an echo chamber. I’ve researched cults and how they brainwash victims, and the first step in the process is isolating them in exactly this way.

But, if there are so few high tiers, how the hell are they supposed be isolated from other groups? The answer is that high tiers are just isolated in general. Take a look at Arlo: his only friend is Remi, and even her, he keeps at an arm’s length. Arlo is only close with Remi in the first place because he was close with Rei, who, at the time of meeting Arlo, was presumably close in level with him. [EDIT: I forgot about Holden, which I think says a lot about his relevance. He is kept at more than an arm’s length and doesn’t seem to have any actual influence on Arlo, let alone a deep relationship. He is also not presented as an equal.] Take a look at Seraphina: before meeting John, she didn’t seem to have any friends other than possibly Arlo. Seraphina and Arlo pre-John seemed to have had more of a professional relationship, and while they were not close in level, Arlo did fit the bill of being a fellow god tier, and strong enough to also be brainwashed.

Now let’s look at Remi. In episode 60, Cecile says to Remi: “And yet here you are... Always hanging around those two monkeys, Blyke and Isen. Letting them treat you as an equal even though you’re in a completely different league.” This struck me as odd because, aside from Cecile herself, the Wellston students closest in level to Remi were Arlo, Blyke, and Isen. And who is she friends with? She actually was doing a pretty good job at following that social convention, unless Cecile wanted to be friends with Remi, which she clearly didn’t. But... her friends were still not close enough to her level. Was she supposed to just not have friends at all? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Can you think of any genuine friends that Cecile has either?

Friendship simply isn’t considered a necessity for high tiers.

But... why is it that Arlo and Seraphina were brainwashed differently? Creating a societal norm for an isolated group of people is one thing, because those people’s mindsets feed into each other. Putting pressure on individual families to keep them in line, but doing it all in different ways? That would be near impossible. My theory is that Seraphina recieved the typical high tier brainwashing, and that Arlo was raised differently because he was being groomed to work for the authorities. Seraphina didn’t have a set career path planned out for her, but if she’s trying to be “perfect” by the standards of those controlling her, she’s bound to end up going in a direction that pleases them. Arlo on the other hand was specifically planned to become an authority figure. That’s why his brainwashing is so centered on leadership. Also, growing up with direct contact to the authorities makes it more possible for them to customize his brainwashing in this way.

But does all of this apply to high tiers in general, or is it specific to god tiers? Let’s take a look at the high tiers in Wellston. We have Seraphina, John, Arlo, Terrence, Remi, Cecile, and Blyke. John is a unique circumstance because he wasn’t raised by high tiers, so we’ll cross him off the list. Terrence was also unique, so we can cross him off as well. Remi was different from the norm as well. Why is that? Well, Remi actually wasn’t raised by high tiers either. Rei said on screen that both of his parents were elites. We can cross Remi off. Blyke doesn’t fit the bill either, but that’s easy to explain. He was an elite for a large part of the story, and he shot up rather quickly. We don’t know much of his family, but he probably wasn’t expected to be a high tier at all, and was raised as an elite. (All of this also serves to emphasize how much of this brainwashing comes from a person’s parents.) That leaves only Seraphina, Arlo, and Cecile to look at.

Cecile does seem to have high tier brainwashing, but it’s not nearly as intense as with Seraphina and Arlo. She doesn’t seem “obsessive”, and she wasn’t one of the examples Remi mentioned in chapter 50. It’s clear that high tiers are brainwashed in general, but god tiers are kept on a much shorter leash. This makes sense, obviously, because keeping a population in control like that is less necessary the lower the level. However, it’s also a chicken an egg situation: god tiers are both more important to keep in control, and also easier to keep in control. It’s important to note just how many exceptions we had to cross off. People like Remi and Blyke aren’t actually that unusual— a lower leveled high tier is much more likely to have non-high tier parents, or to have not always been a high tier themselves, or just in general, to have way more day-to-day interaction with non-high tiers. The brainwashing gets more and more diffused the lower down the ladder you go.

[minidoons]

LSTWT now deleting stuff about Swagdoons and moving over to shipping Ashzam.. Weak links

[adriansblinkiehordingadventure]

SBEmail blinkie set!

sorry to the 3 compé fans out there for not including it lol

[bugisbonkerz]

OH MY GOODNESS!!! not little pauline the post box! :(

[greyedian]

MAN I'm seriously so sad about season 2. Bc I wish act 2 had the same emotional impact on me as it appears to have on so many others. But rn I'm just somewhere between unable to care and actively annoyed by some of those writing decisions. Seriously the more I think about it the less I like it.

[tragicotps]

"Now that world, and every other universe, came about as a result of possibility. Take the example of tossing a coin: it can come down heads or tails, and we don't know before it lands which way it's going to fall. If it comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. "But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart. I'm using the example of tossing a coin to make it clearer. In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which they did happen. - Northern lights - P. Pullman

[cowchickenbeefpork]

tbh I think the reason I don’t care about iwtv the show being inaccurate is because I’ve been in fandom since at least age nine. Like I don’t care about accuracy, I want to see what you bring new to the table when it comes to this piece of art. And show iwtv gave me a lot, making both it and the book be refreshing in their own ways, having two different ways to tell a story about grief.

like I just view iwtv the show and iwtv the book like I view Greek mythology adaptations. Do you shame kaos for not being like hadestown and shame hadestown for not being like the original truly faithfully retold tales? It’s silly to me

[travellingtribble]

so the plot holes... were just plot holes? the unexplained things were just... unexplained things?

[coopzine]

I've been going though our submissions today and there's some real good stuff in there :D but also there's only like 3 art submissions (compared to like 25 writing submissions).

Historically, most of our art submissions have come from tumblr users, so I'm calling on y'all: please submit your chicken art! We all love to look at cute doodles, pretty paintings, and other wonderful art alongside the excellent pieces of writing! Come enshrine your art in the hallowed halls of COOP! You can (and should) still submit if you've already posted your art on social media (BAWKtober participants I am looking at you!)

If you don't feel like you're very good at art, please know that some of my favorite pieces of art we've accepted are little doodles :)