#trees felling

[starlingzzz]

fast and furious finale perhaps?

[geopsych]

This Japanese cherry/sakura tree is actually finished blooming now but I took these pictures less than a week ago so I’m posting them anyway. It was so beautiful. You should at least get a few glimpses.

[veryluckyclovers]

[boneychop]

[firebird378]

Been giggling at the rp blogs all week so I made this in honor of the “friend of Dorothy” allegations

Rip William Wilson you would have loved Wicked 😔

[thealogie]

I don’t even think Sabrina’s album cover is a big deal at all literally it’s par for the course when it comes to commercial art but the number of people being like “omg can’t a girl just be fun and sexy actually YOU are the conservative one for viewing this image in a sociopolitical context” is making me just go oh so you guys are stupid stupid for real

[ninyard]

The foxes would do the craziestttt trauma dump candy salad tik tok

“My names Kevin and I brought sour worms?”

“Kev, you have to trauma dump. Say something traumatising.”

“Why?”

“Because it’s funny?”

“Trauma isn’t funny. I don’t understand why-“

Quick cut away from him to Matt who’s there like, “My names Matt and my dad was the first person to give me cocaine and I brought jolly ranchers!”

[sanjarka]

not to be a broken record but it's not quite fair to use the line but peeta wanted them so badly as proof that katniss was forced into having kids, or of her having them for all the wrong reasons. it exists within the context of not only the epilogue but an entire story before it. and i'm not here to convince you to like it. but to try seeing the point at least.

to expand on something i've spoken about before - in the epilogue their children are playing in a meadow from a song she sang to rue, a song that she now sings to her kids, in a meadow not unlike the one she dreams about after the beach kiss (as i drift off, i try to imagine that world, somewhere in the future, with no games, no capitol. a place like the meadow in the song i sang to rue as she died. where peeta's child could be safe)

so the tone in the epilogue can not be tragic and it is not regretful. it is hopeful.

the infamous line previously mentioned is not about katniss's lack of consent in being a mother but about the amount of trust she has in peeta as her life partner, as someone she loves. it's nothing but a connection to another line in the epilogue (where katniss is expressing her worry over teaching her kids about the games and her and peeta's role in them) → peeta says it will be okay. we have each other and the book. we can make them understand in a way that will make them braver.

it is about there not being another person who could've made this decision, this choice, safe (no one has held me like this in such a long time. since my father died and i stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe)

it's about how his his hope made her wish safe (isn't it the thing i'd dreaded most about the wedding, about the future - the loss of my children to the games? and it could be true now couldn't it? if i hadn't spent my life building up layers of defenses until i recoil at even suggestion of marriage or a family?)

it's about how only peeta can give her that (what i need is the dandelion in the spring. the bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. the promise the life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. that it can be good again. and only peeta can give me that)

the choice to be a parent is not easy and careless and it never will be. she's absolutely honest about being terrified of her kids learning about the games, of them being scared and forced to harden like her and peeta were. the pain of the past is not ignored, it is not glossed over, and the nightmares never go away. but there's something else in the epilogue too.

when i first felt her stirring inside of me, i was consumed with a terror that felt old as life itself. only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it. carrying him was a little easier, but not much.

how is this katniss being resentful and if she is why would she then have another kid? i've seen some people focus on the terror as it's this ugly thing proving her regret but is it not an entirely realistic feeling to have when carrying someone's life within you and understanding the neverending responsibility in keeping said life safe? there is such beauty in the phrase old as life itself. because it suggests the idea that this is something that isn't inherently tied to katniss's life, to her trauma and to her pain but to lifekind in general. and then the joy! how that terror is only settled when seeing your child eye to eye, seeing them breath and cry and live. it's such a gorgeous, intimate passage trying to let you in the love katniss has for her kids. it's not hiding away the sacrifice and the fear but it's also not hiding away how worth it it can be to make choices that scare you.

I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away. that's when i make a list of every act of goodness i've seen someone do. it's like a game. repetitive. even a little tedious after more than twenty years. but there are much worse games to play.

how is this supposed to be so much more bitter than sweet, how is this anything but a love letter to peeta, to her kids, to everything she gained after everything she lost. why would she be so afraid of losing it all if it doesn't matter and why would she make a choice to believe in the kindness of people if the life she has now is something she has no say in and something that at best she feels indifferent towards to?

and obviously you have a right to feel whatever it is that you feel. i hate even having to say this cause who am i to give you a right to feel any type of way. i'm not trying to push my feelings onto you and tell you that this story must work for you, that it must make you feel hopeful. that if you're not satisfied you just have to read it again. stories don't work that way.

but to imply that the intention of the story is for the reader to be left hopeless is wrong. and sure, maybe that intention doesn't seem that profound you, maybe it is not interesting and maybe you think is boring. and maybe you think that katniss and peeta wouldn't realistically have this life path, or have kids, and maybe you think the end is too predictable and too expected. and that's okay. whatever life you have lived is going to affect what stories you find deep and what stories you find shallow and so maybe, this is that story for you. the story that you don't get. the story that doesn't work for you. and that's okay too. but to be so convinced that its intention is to present katniss's life as something so very miserable that she didn't choose but just let happen around her is wrong.

[attaiii]

chuuya who has narcolepsy and has mostly figured out how to live with it, but still struggles. he has routines, backup plans, and enough stubbornness to push through most days—but the sudden sleep attacks, the cataplexy, the constant grogginess? that part never really stops being annoying. the brain fog is the worst; it makes him feel like a stranger in his own body, and it’s frustrating in a way that’s too close to how he feels after using corruption—tired, helpless, like something’s taken over his body and he has no say in it. dazai never treats it like a big deal, but if chuuya starts zoning out or if his knees buckle mid-laugh, dazai’s there. he’ll drag him over to a bench or toss his coat at him with a “don’t drool on it,” protect his head if he falls, stand watch when he collapses. he never makes a fuss, just hums to himself or scrolls through his phone nearby. and when chuuya wakes up, groggy and irritated and maybe a little embarrassed, dazai just shrugs and says, “you’re lucky i didn’t have a sharpie.”

[tapeworrmart]

Stranger

[rendside]

Could you draw Brightheart please?

[tearsandtheteeth]

[letoscrawls]

hello fellow Sol's fan can we see him in your style once maybe??? please??? 🥺

If you hate him you need to get yaypilled. you need to be teeheemaxing. you should be a smilecel

[poltergeist-coffee]

backgrounds are so hard TT

[hood-ex]

See? Exactly. Dick and Vic bring the vibe.

TNTT (Vol. 2) #32