#hazel speaking

[hazeldragonblossoms]

aita for trying to summon a god to resurrect my wife?

i (142m) recently lost my wife (139f) to terminal illness. we were married for nearly 127 years, and were survivors of a disaster that destroyed our home city and killed nearly everyone in it. she was my best friend, the love of my life, and the light of my world. i’ve spent months trying to move on, but the pain of losing her has only grown stronger since her death, with my grief eventually leading me to quit my job and travel in the hopes of finding something else to live for. i will be upfront in admitting that, in the process of quitting, i blew up the school i worked at (no one was hurt), almost killed my assistant (he’s fine), and released a bunch of monsters from the abandoned gated community i had contained them in a few decades prior (long story).

anyway, during my travels i came across a relic that contained immense necromantic power, but i quickly realized that i would be unable to utilize it for my purposes on my own, as my wife had been dead for several months by that time and was well past the point of resurrection by conventional means. long story short, i decided to harness the power of the same god that caused the disaster that destroyed my and my wife’s former home.

as it turns out, my former boss (????m) picked up a kid (13x) off the street around the same time this was happening, and tasked my brother (also 142m, we’re twins) with teaching them magic. i won’t bore you with the details, but this thirteen year old now keeps following me around and fucking up my plans to reunite with my true love, which i’m frankly tired of.

(side note: this kid also won a fighting competition that hasn’t been won by someone from our school since i attended. i need to remind you, they are thirteen. i’m not certain they’d ever used magic before my boss picked them up, so i have no idea how this possibly could have happened, or when they had the time to even attend the fights since they’ve seemingly dedicated the majority of their time to fucking me over for no good reason.)

my ex-boss seems to think that summoning this being is a “bad idea” and could “destroy the world,” but 1. i’m doing it in my already ruined hometown and 2. i think that the world is a small price to pay to have my wife back. it’s not like it’s worth much without her in it, anyway.

edit: shut up about the fucking giant tree it’s an unrelated current event. you can’t prove that i actually did anything to him, and it’s rude to accuse people baselessly

[qrwinn]

a friendly reminder: buck is bi because he's attracted to both men and women and NOT because he has underlying feelings for eddie! hope that helps <3

[literallyjusttoa]

I am a “Meg and Apollo’s master/servant bond evolved into something a lot like an empathy link post their dip into Chaos in TDP” truther and I will be till the day I die.

[haitani-trash]

it’s actually really fucking sad that annabeth (and other demigods) are just stuck living at camp full time. like yeah, camp looks great and fun in the summer but it’s also not that big considering the fact it’s their entire world, and it seems really fucking lonely actually. everything they know is within that boundary, everyone they know comes and goes with few exceptions, and there’s no real adults or guidance for the mortal aspects of life. and they’re just stuck there because they feel like they have nowhere they belong in the real world or they’re just not physically safe out there and that’s really fucking sad

[orchidbreezefc]

i wanna talk about haymitch abernathy.

well, first i wanna talk about the treatment of chemical addiction in the hunger games trilogy. because it's good. a lot of characters, including katniss, struggle with it. it gets explored in considerable depth, and not once is any character looked down on for it (well, aside from some eye-rolling with haymitch and perhaps pity for the 'morphlings' in book 2).

no one is infantilized, dehumanized, or considered weak for their dependency, even when they're incoherent from inebriation or withrawal. addicts are treated with dignity,  and there is only ever respect, understanding, and sympathy for their struggle and for the trauma that led them to this position. the story has no interest in scrutinizing how they got there or whether their behavior is sufficiently justified, only in meeting them where they are.

everyone has suffered at the hands of the capitol, and some people have resorted to substances to cope--even and especially smart, competent people. it's unfortunate and painful for them (and the focus is always on the addict's suffering, not anyone else's) but it's always understood as doing what they had to do. survival is a crucial theme in these books, and this is just another form of it.

this understanding extends to the point that katniss and peeta independently hoard liquor in case haymitch runs out. he's fucking annoying and rude and at that point they have no reason to believe they stand to gain anything from helping him, but they do it anyway because abandoning him would be cruel. it's not ever a question of enabling an alcoholic, it's a question of not letting a man fucking die of withdrawal.

see, rough around the edges is an insufficient description for haymitch; he's rough all the way to the middle. he is a messy, sloppy drunk. he is rude, obnoxious, and venomously cynical. he is also the smartest character in a series full of extremely smart characters.

in the first book all that is said about haymitch's victory is speculation from katniss and peeta. they note that he isnt a standout physical talent and doesnt have any specialized abilities, and deduce that he must have won by outsmarting the others. this is innocuous enough and supported by the shrewdness of haymitch's sponsor gifts and his coaching outside the games.

the recontextualization comes in book 2 when we learn haymitch was the victor of the 50th hunger games, the last quarter quell--which had twice as many tributes as usual. haymitch didn't outsmart 23 other people, up to a third of them having trained for this exact purpose until age 17. haymitch outsmarted 47.

haymitch abernathy? is a big fucking deal. that man waltzed in from The underdog district, unmentored and presumably earning approximately zero sponsor gifts with his winning personality, and won the hardest hunger games there has ever been. haymitch is the most impressive bitch in panem. between this and our increasing insight into how the victors are treated, the alcoholism gets recontextualized too.

imagine how frothingly fucking pissed the capitol is that haymitch is impossible to leverage for any PR purpose whatsoever. like, this is The victor, but what are they gonna do? show off the victor of the hardest hunger games of all time and he's fucking haymitch?

he shows up to every public appearance fall-down drunk and pukes on someone's shoes. every time he's on screen he embarrasses everyone. he makes the hunger games look like a joke and undermines the whole premise. he's supposed to be the capitol's biggest asset and he's pissed all over it. he's useless to them. the best thing they can do is leave him alone.

that's when you think, wait. that's kind of a rebellion in itself, huh? he defies the capitol's efforts to use him as 'a piece in their game' better than anyone else outside district 13, maybe them too, when he should be their favored pawn. he's about as free of their influence as anyone can be. that seems... smart. haymitch-typical smart.

haymitch's alcoholism is real and no doubt a legitimate result of his trauma, but it's also a weapon. he probably plays it up. gets extra trashed for every public appearance, the earlier in the day the better. asks himself what he could do that would horrify effie trinket the most and then does that.

at the same time, haymitch seems to get it together more as the series goes on. from the sound of it he was content to drink himself to death and blow off every tribute in his district before katniss and peeta came along and he recognized in them the potential for revolutionaries and, more importantly, the potential for victors. for the first time he had a real chance to achieve a goal, and the real necessity to be sharp for it.

my guess is that haymitch started making actual efforts to manage his alcoholism from then on. getting sober is pretty much impossible to do on your own, and indeed he has a relapse for every time he improves. but haymitch would have known he'd need any scrap of competence he could snatch. and i think, away from our heroine's perspective, he did. you can play drunk for a camera; you can't play sober for a planning session.

the one thing that really helps with addiction is a support network, and that's the one thing haymitch can never have. it is made blisteringly clear that your loved ones are so much ammunition for the capitol to use against you, and they desperately need some for haymitch. he says his loved ones are all dead, but one wonders if there were more that he made damn sure were no longer loved ones before that happened. maybe haymitch saved some lives by driving people as far away as he could, and doomed himself to succumb to the alcoholism in the process.

on a sillier note, i imagine during katniss and peeta's games haymitch would have needed someone to manage his intake and keep him sober enough to strategize the sponsorships without sending him into withdrawal. and i like to think it was effie trinket.

she'd disapprove at first but dosages and scheduling would be her JAM. plus haymitch would always cave in to her sanctimonious lectures before she caved in to his demands for more. it would be really motivating, actually--"i can endure this. anything's better than hearing one more fucking word from effie goddamn trinket about my health." truly the dream team.

tl;dr i fucking love haymitch abernathy. he's one of the characters of all time. thank you, suzanne collins, for this smart, competent, callous, mean, complex alcoholic who is vital to the revolution. thank you for writing addicts and addiction with the depth, seriousness, complexity, and respect they deserve as human beings.

[artkadukan]

ok but like indian!percy would be so cool like-

sally would masage his head with coconut oil when he was younger and he absolutely loved it! So he taught himself how to apply it on his own and wears coconut oil twice a week!!!!! [his hair smells like heaven because of this]

Since I anyway headcanon him to be a jewellery person, he would wear a good amount of gold jewellery and would traditionally have an ear piercing [maybe even multiple-] also he would totally have a gold nose piercing like cmon guys-

he absolutely LOVES eating luchi and mangsho. Like my guy can eat 10 - 12 luchis at a time im telling you

Whenever he'd get angry he would just start cussing everyone out in hindi

He would also like old bollywood movies, and he would definitely watch crappy hindi/bengali serials just to make fun of how trashy and dramatic they are

part 2 <3

[hearts4juzi]

what if alec and hazel got a happy ending because they made me sad

[wolfpawzjakey]

I think everyone has an animal that people could relate them to, even a few types of animals. It’s just natural for people to see certain behaviors and be like, “ahah ur like that”. But what about PJO.

Jason Grace always being identified with being wolf like in nature because of obvious reasons of course. Like, duh for real.

But what about Percy? I’ve been thinking recently that ofc, someone would equate him to something in the ocean related maybe but like “big” cat Percy? Him being a Fishing Cat if you wanted to get aquatic with it. Or a bird of prey, instinctual and imposing like an Osprey. Or I can just be delusional and make him a Jaguarundi cause they’re my faves.

Idk, I’ve been thinking about it a lot for who knows why. Does anyone relate Percy to a specific animal at all? Any of the other characters from the books even the less talked about ones. I WANNA HEAR FROM YOU!!!

[hirunoka]

One of my friends has said that he hated Bottoms and said "don't watch it, it's so terrible," and I'm so glad that I didn't care and watched the movie despite his criticism about it because are you kidding me??!

I liked it and I especially loooove Hazel.

LOOK AT HER. She is so precious ❤

[elliesbelle]

i want her so bad

[hazeldragonblossoms]

thinking abt this Always. btw.

[qrwinn]

respectfully, why tf do y'all care if people "jump ship"? is your life really this sad that you can't stand the thought of other people not rooting as much for buddie anymore? like what is your business here exactly?

[haitani-trash]

I wonder if demigods who are medicated for adhd fly under the radar for longer or if they just like… die sooner because their brains have a consistent level of dopamine

[iiheartsai]

why is no one writing for hazel or kit it’s making me extremely upset

[muppet-on-a-spit]

"so hazel is a clone of your dead boyfriend?" "no, not a clone. something else, I don't know." SHE'S YOU!!!! SHE'S YOU, AMELIA, SHE'S THE EMBODIMENT OF YOUR GRIEF, OF THE GRIEF YOU WEREN'T WORKING THROUGH BECAUSE YOU CREATED HER INSTEAD. HAZEL HOLDS THE ANSWER TO HOW YOU CAN ESCAPE THIS PLACE AND CONFRONT YOUR PAST BECAUSE BY CONTENDING WITH HAZEL, YOU WILL FINALLY FACE YOUR OWN PAIN

[mike-wachowski]

hesitant to start writing any bottoms fic until i can get back in the theater and see the movie again (and take notes on everyone's personalities) so until then i will just watch every clip MGM has released on youtube i guess