#the implications of it all

[northernsunsets]

AU where Shen Yuan transmigrates into an OC and meets Ning Yingying who adopts him as her older brother. Shen Qingqiu takes them both and keeps acting like he doesn't like Shen Yuan but it's easy to see through.

[lafdbitch]

ok but we need to talk about how the vibes before the tommy buck kiss were SOOO giving the buddie kitchen scene like the wanna go for the title scene i was getting flashbacks fr

[reading-writing-dying]

Been thinking a lot about world hopper Geminitay and how she acts in the life series and i wish i was smarter and coukd write a better analysis and such but just

The way she plays, coming in and knowing its all a game but still not playing to win necessarily but to tell a good narrative through the game (and how that could play into Watcher meta putting the players through for their entertainment or w/e) (watchers' god's favorite princess)

Also Gem nentioning on stream the other day how ahed like to team up with BigB (really she'd like to be alone but knows that is unlikely) and playing a social game and then playing in the what if space, say BigB wins as Gem's teammate and whqt that could potentially do to the shinyduo dynamic

Pearl, since her own double life win, has been trying to get her teammates a win, starting with BigB in Limited Life and then Joel was one she was hoping to win in Secret Life but Joel didn't win until teaming up with Gem in Wild Life, if Gen got BigB a win that could be twice that Gem was able to do what Pearl could not and the resentment that could bring? Or just tension between them in general??

I want a Shiny Duo team up as much as anyone else BUT i think its infinetly more interesting the longer they go without it.

Ideally id love to see constand top placements from Gem but never a win, all the while Pearl keeps failing to get her teammate a win, untik Gem and Pearl finally team up

[freaksnhotties]

samuel = dolores

sam = lo

sammy = lolita

exactlyyyy. and the siren episode literally shows that dean’s obsession with the perfect submissive version of sam is pretty much the same as humbert’s obsession with lolita! it’s so horrifying and deliciously fucked up, i love canon and how twisted and cruel dean’s love is ♡

we need more web weave with lolita!sam me thinks

YASSS

It surprises me that people don't talk enough about the whole lot of implications about the siren episode. Dean is fucking mad about his little brother being and remaining like that, his little brother . One of Dean's biggest "mistakes" is how much he loves his brother, his obsession and (co)dependency is what has doomed him more than once, just like Humbert Humbert.

They are both manipulative and violent patriarchs (Humbert being Lo's stepdad and Dean Sam's brother) who are convinced that everything that they do is justified by their love for their nymphets. But the thing is that these nymphets only exist in their minds, and they cannot and will not accept it.

And yes Lolita!sam needs to be more spoken and written about. I'm thinking about doing it myself at this point.

[deadandphilgames]

Dan on the phondage bar response very deliberately saying "I bought" and "MY pillow" but then ending the rant with "THE bed"

its a shared bed but its dan bar <3

[joker-daughter]

me hearing Fisk describe the Punisher, Spider-Man and Daredevil in the same breath

[auraismoonstone]

still get chills every time i think about “it was the end of an era”

[medusa1597]

#btw i have a coworker whose CATHOLIC mother thinks she died in a concentration in a past life so she gave all of her kids "jewish" names

[noxeia]

i just rode around the island, music off for like two hours...

[asimplestrawberry]

i’m going insane wdym kameron had her baby in bucks apartment and he called 911 instead of connor and then natalia showed up what the actual fuck and buck helps deliver it and when it comes out he says “it’s perfect… and he’s all yours” with tears in his eyes this is so insane

[kneelbeforeclefairy]

What I think is most different and most striking about Sunrise on the Reaping is how CYNICAL it is. To some extent we knew it was going to be. This is a midquel. That the reapings go on and the Hunger Games only ends 25 years later is a forgeon conclusion. We know nothing that happens here is going to work.

The book is about implicit submission, and why, with numbers on their side, the many submit to the few, even when the few are unjust. And it's because, the book seems to say, numbers aren't ENOUGH. the Newcomers alliance is much bigger than the Careers. They should be able to team up and defeat them easily. But they don't. Eighteen of them are killed outright, because the Careers have the strength, the skill and the training. And that's just that.

Plutarch asks why the tributes don't overwhelm the Peacekeepers during training, and Haymitch is rightfully outraged at the privilege of this question. Why don't they? Because they probably couldn't kill them all, and even if they could, what good would it do? It wouldn't stop the Hunger Games. It wouldn't change a thing. No one would even know about it outside that room, because the Capitol would change the narrative. Just like Katniss and the Star Squad can't REALLY take on the Capitol single handed and assassinate the president, the scrappy alliance of kids can't really do any real damage to the system the Capitol has in place. All they can do is choose if they want to die now or later. So why don't they, if there's no difference to them, as Plutarch asks. Because, as Snow puts it. Hope. The slight chance that one of them will come out of it. And, more cynically, the hope that if they are good tributes and obey, their families will be left alone. If they choose to rebel and choose to die now they guarantee retaliation against their families and perhaps their entire district. We see that even in the tributes that attack the Gamemakers in the arena. They rise up, they break that bond of implicit submission--and they die bloody for it.

Why don't they rebel? Because they don't have the privilege to lose.

Even Lenore Dove, the Joan of Arc of Twelve, fails to do any real damage or have any real effect. All she does is get herself a reputation for being a trouble maker, and eventually get herself killed. Was she killed as part of the retaliation against Haymitch, or was her punishment because she's a rebel, and that's what happens to rebels? (and Snow hates covey girls.) but she fails because she IS alone. She focuses on small, symbolic acts that do nothing, but that she hopes will rally the people to action.Unfortunately, the people of Twelve don't want their lives to get any worse, and they don't have the privilege of spending time and energy on revolution the way a teenager girl whose family doesn't need her income to survive does--sadly, Twelve will remain this way, in an uncanny valley where they're beaten down enough to need change, but not enough to have NOTHING to lose. They are not one of the districts that rise up. So acting alone does nothing, teaming up does nothing. How does one fight an enemy with better technology, better weapons, and better organization? Beetee's plan doesn't work out. Of course it doesn't. Could it ever? Was it just borne out of grief for his son? And even if it had, then what? What was the plan? Haymitch's poster gets edited away. The Newcomers fail. Lenore Dove dies. The most you can say is Haymitch himself becomes too important to kill, like Beetee, and Snow let him live to fight another day, but so destroyed that he no longer WANTS to.

So, then, what WORKS?

The answer is, quite cynically, Plutarch's version of the world. Numbers mean something, there are more of US than there are of THEM , but that isn't enough. You need weapons, you can't bring a knife to a gun fight, you need EVERYONE on your side. You need organization, not just a series of disconnected rebellions, and you need an Army, provided by Thirteen, as problematic as they are. The timing just needs to be right. And most crucially, what I think Plutarch and everyone involved here learned is that victory belongs to those who control the narrative. Those who control the flow of information and tell their story. And it's not Plutarch, for all his cameras and his propos and his idea behind The Mockingjay, who eventually does that well.

It's Haymitch.

Who learned to tell a story and sell a narrative with himself and the Newcomers. Who tried to paint his poster in the arena only to see it rewritten in front of him. Who won't make that mistake again. When it's time for the deciding factor in the revolution, it's Haymitch who creates the Mockingjay-- and is he also using Katniss and her image? Yes. but he at least sees Katniss and the human she is inside it, unlike Plutarch who hasn't changed much from the man who makes a grieving family do reshoots over and over so he can get his footage, while congratulating himself for letting Haymitch have his goodbye.

When Katniss sets off the spark twenty five years later, the world is ready. The work is in place. Plutarch, Haymitch, Beetee, everyone can say GO , and this time it'll work. So buckle in, and wait for the Long Game, even though only Plutarch really has the privilege to wait, the rest of them don't have a choice. It's cynical. It's awful. People die. The lone rebels and the plucky girls and the alliance depending on its numbers all fail. Plutarch motherfucking Heavensbee, the richest of the rich the privilegedest of the privileged, pulls off the revolution, takes the credit, and lives to see the end of it, without ever once examining his own privilege, and unpacking the fact that despite his head being on the right side of history, he's never managed to see the Districts as PEOPLE . (and you could argue, ANYONE as people. ) But it's just the only way.

But this book isn't the middle of the series. It's the end. How awful would it be to read if we didn't know that Katniss and the Mockingjay rebellion would eventually succeed. We know that despite the cynism of a failed revolution and all its players, that one day it WILL work out. This book is called sunrise on the Reaping....the sun rises on a world where this is inevitable. But one day it won't be.

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[yrsonpurpose]

so did somerset actually love George or was he lying in that scene?

historically no he didn't, that was all completely made up for the show. BUT i also think he was lying in that scene to get the pardon.... however, i'm messy and was fed good so i'll just imagine it was real 😵‍💫

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[stealingpotatoes]

Is it possible to ask for another kanan and cal doodle? obsessed with how u draw their dynamic in the fix it au. crying over both of them having a friend who Gets it

it so is bc i will take ANY chance to draw these two

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[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Does anyone remember that ONE Captain Underpants book where George and Harold messed with fucking time travel and met their future selves who were married with kids and had successful careers as comic book creators or was that a fever dream?

I like to imagine that in the canon universe the new Dog Man movie was initially drafted and submitted by George and Harold as a concept, thinking it wouldn’t be accepted but wanting to give it a shot anyways.

⬇️ This was the wildest thing ever to my 11 year old brain btw. So wild that I didn’t even register that Harold is canonically gay.