#why would she sing it!!!

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[scholarofgolb]

im so in denial about claudia being dead in iwtv btw. also i'm not reading the books for awhile still so i refuse to glean anymore information from them.

[ministarfruit]

day 10: love is devotion ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[farshootergotme]

Robin (Dick Grayson) used to sing sometimes during patrol, always children's songs he would hear often when he was younger. This scares the shit out of criminals who think it's the ghost of a child haunting them, and Dick has no idea.

[tls12lessthan3]

thinking about orvs metatextual engagement with its genre and specifically how that interacts with its women again. kim dokja is a self insert for the reader - what he thinks is largely meant to represent what we think, especially in the beginning before sing shong really fleshes out his character. kim dokja sees the world through tropes, directly acknowledging the genre around him and the cliches we expect e.g. the overpowered mc, the scheming villain, the beautiful heroine.

but a major part of his arc is deconstructing this reductionist view of the world in a way that parallels the author's deconstruction of the genre, and that plays really well with the way orv writes women. yoo sangah is perhaps the best exanple - shes introduced as the heroine, a one-dimensional pretty girl who in any other novel would become kim dokja's love interest. but the authors allow her to be her own character, directly challenging the stereotype of the heroine and calling attention to the genre's typical lack of depth for such a character. i think this undercurrent plays in the background often but really comes to the forefront when yoo sangah reminds kim dokja of her putting pepper in their bosses' coffee, a memory kim dokja had supressed because it didn't fit with the pretty girl persona he made for her.

i interpret that moment as yoo sangah pushing her way out of the mold of heroine often found in these stories, demanding a depth be added to her character, asking kim dokja - and thus the reader - to see her in her entirety, to see the heroine archetype for what she could be. orv is at all times in conversation with its genre, and its simultaneous writing of female characters with agency and depth and acknowledgement of the tropes these women are expected to fulfill is undeniably a part of that. and its a part i enjoy. most of the time.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

"The Mechanisms were Jonathan Sims college band" and "Jon is the secret real past of Jonny D'ville" are both great takes but I present "Jon's descend into an unwilling antichirst figure is The Mecs new album and Jonny plays him in the songs because they just have very similar voices for some reason."

[sysig]

You're still standing off to the side. Somehow, center stage has shifted from under your feet without you realizing, and you're standing in the wings, performing to no one.

Starring Role (Patreon)

[mee1414]

The Well - The Crane Wives for wild life!shinyduo/gempearl,,,

"All the words I couldn't say to you / Fill up the spaces in my chest / Like spare coins, poised on the tip of my tongue / I make a wish and hold my breath"

"That old house / Those rotting memories / burned easier than i had thought"

Someone remind me to draw something for this later when i dont have school and 10 art gifts to make for chirstmas

[jayktoralldaylong]

"We finally got Jayvik, why aren't you happy?"

Cause Jayce's bisexuality is getting erased by the Jayvik fans. 😑 (I swear it was the exact same problem with Meljay, people insisting that Jayce is not gay. Now, they're doing it the other way around and pretending like he only tolerated her. Which is insane).

Like bisexual people are fictional characters and it is IMPOSSIBLE for people to love more than one person.

Even if you don't ship MelJayVik, saying that Jayce at no point loved Mel? That his feelings for her were not real??? Whaaaat?

Fought so hard just to win and lose at the same time. Cause yeah, people now agree that Jayce is in love with Viktor.......and now they're erasing Mel.

"Mel is an empath so she only reflects-"

Yeah, she's REFLECTING all the LOVE that Jayce feels for HER and PROVING that he feels it for Viktor TOO!! Mel is not a replacement Viktor, they look nothing like, they act nothing alike. 😭 They are two different and yet similar people and he loved them BOTH!

People really took "Mel is an empath" and ran with it right into the ditch.

[hana-bobo-finch]

your honor they make me ill. they make me insane your honor. your honor,

[bluespiritshonour]

Thinking about how popular Mai would've been if she were a boy. Like, can you imagine?people would've swooned over her like they swoon over, idk, Jet—it just occured to me that I like her because she's so unconventional for a female character.

Girls like Mai exist in real world—but women are rarely allowed to be complex and three dimensional and grey in fiction.

I would argue that Mai is a grey character; she did start out as Azula's lackey. And well, that's a fictional girl; I found her apathy stan-worthy.

I love that she constantly has a bitch face. She cracks dry/dark jokes. Wears black. Is mysterious and stoic. Does everything she can to disregard authority/even though she's not confrontational about it. (There's one difference. Bad boys are usually very confrontational).

All these characteristics exist in popular male characters. (Except for one thing that I've noticed: most of these “bad boy” characters are volatile and yet, are described as broody/stoic, like, dude. That ain't stoic, that's so emotional.)

So yeah. Coming back to Mai. Imagine if she were a boy.

A boy who's apathetic and has no passion for anything. A boy who's constantly bored/a thrill-seeker/has nothing he cares about. A boy who has a shutter for a face and rarely expresses himself, is amazing with knives and hand-to-hand combat and is gloomy.

There's nothing he cares about because caring gets people hurt and everyone wants something and is two-faced so it's safe to be a mask of indifference. Until—hold on—until he meets a passionate, hot-headed girl who's ✨ different ✨and if not anything, wears her heart on her sleeve/is an open book...

Yes, I'm talking about Zuko.

...and oh, oh, would you look at that? Now he has something to fight for!

I mean, for Mai, Zuko (after Ty Lee) is the only other person in front of whom she can be herself.

Reminds me of “he's only nice to her” trope. Sorry.

“You're so beautiful when you hate the world.”

“I don't hate you.”

Just imagine Mai as a boy. People would eat it up. They don't like her 'cause she's a girl.

[creationsekai]

i think an AU where Ena and Akito become a singing team is fucking funnty

[professorsta]

"Go make good" "Go do some good" its never Be Good, did you notice that? "Good" is only used in the context of "Do whatever you have to to please the Wizard." Its never been about actually Being Good. Every time Madame Morrible said good, it always had an ulterior motive. She wanted Elphaba to impress the Wizard, she wanted Glinda to get Elphaba for the Wizard. Good is something you do on behalf of the system (this case the Wizard of Oz). Good is acting how you should in society, behaving, and obeying the government. Its never about Being Good fundamentally.

Brings a whole new light to Glinda the Good. Is she really? Or is she good in the sense that shes the perfect symbol and distraction to help the Wizard succeed?

[ghostlypawn]

honestly think saying wicked is a ‘story about friendship’ does a disservice to the show when at its crux its a story about discrimination and corrupt governments

[pastafossa]

do you ever. think about. how matt would have been able to sense everyone getting turned into dust by thanos.

i can’t stop thinking abt it AND WHAT IF JANE—i can’t even finish that sentence okay bye

Oh do I ever. Because he'd hear it all: the first scream.

The next.

And then the next.

Growing and growing, until it seemed like the whole city, the city as a whole was crying out in terror, as if the bones of New York itself had each grown mouths, and with one gust of wind, the scent of an entire block, an entire neighborhood, miles and miles and millions and millions of bodies worth of terror filled his nose until he could barely smell his own fear, barely smell the sudden waft of dust as the small, fuzzy shape cowering beneath the bed whispers away.

He wouldn't know what it was at first, either. He'd hear the cars crashing for lack of drivers - strange, strange, where were the drivers? - and maybe a plane or two, massive ground-rumbling shrieks of twisting metal and flame as planes descending for landing or takeoff veered off course. He'd hear the dogs howling, the children wailing, the piercing alarms from the hospital blocks away as patients and doctors and nurses all fell away in the midst of injections and surgeries and CPR.

Worst of all: so many of those his sense passed across would just...

...vanish.

Where was his wife?

Fran next door was gone between one breath and the next, a half-full container of fish food falling to the floor.

Where is she?

He would stretch his senses farther. She'd gone out that day, helping to find people lost or trapped in rubble after the attack. That was what his wife did, what she always did, always sifting through the rubble afterwards, chasing the threads of bodies both living and dead. But she'd - she'd been coming home, so she'd be close, she should be coming home, she couldn't be far.

Later, he would seek penance for what he dared to pray.

Please.

The little boy walking his dog down the block went next, the whining terrier crouched uncertainly over a pile of dust suddenly smaller than he.

Not her.

The antique dealer across the street—

Please, anyone but her.

—the Johanas in your old building—

Not now. Not after we made it.

—and body after body, vanishing just as fast, faster even than his senses could race past, thousands, millions of gaping mouths shocked silent as they go to dust, and then...

"Matt?"

[unordinary-diary]

Remi and Swimming

Why can’t Remi swim?

That’s a genuine question. Why does Remi, at seventeen years old, not know how to swim?

After some quick research, I found that being unable to swim is actually way more common than I thought. Still, I want to speculate on Remi’s reason.

The Red Cross lists fear as the top reason people cited for not learning to swim. Other reasons I can think of for not learning to swim are: couldn’t afford lessons, didn’t live near a pool or body of water, disability, or simply never made time to learn.

However, in Remi’s case, I think it’s much more likely because of her ability than anything else.

It could be because her parents wanted to wait until she had better control of her ability before putting her in water with other kids. This of course, raises the question of why she didn’t learn before her ability developed. It could also be that someone in her family had an incident in the water, and the family was very cautious after that.

I personally like to believe that Rei had an ability-related incident when Remi was quite young, and her parents wanted to keep Rei out of the water until he could control his ability better. Because it would be mean to take Remi swimming and make Rei stay behind or on land, Remi’s lessons got put off indefinitely until they were forgotten about.

Of course, this scenario also means that Rei never finished learning to swim either.

I also like the idea that their mom was the one who had a swimming accident, and was somewhat traumatized by it and therefore extremely paranoid about putting her kids in the water. This explanation would also mean that Rei probably couldn’t swim.

I will now kindly place here for my own enjoyment, a reminder that Blyke was the one who taught Remi to swim and it was cute as fuck:

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