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randomcartoonbro · 13 minutes

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Tbh, Hunger Games is more of a horror movie than I remember. This shit gets graphic and disturbing with how creative they had to get to avoid too much blood for the rating plus just the overall theme of "these are children fighting to the death just because of a lost civil war they weren't even born yet when it happened"

The protest scene is very visceral too, now that I know how police handle that sort of thing IRL too. It was depressingly realistic based on videos I've seen. Even the most peaceful of protests end with at least one person injured if not dead because police never know when to stop

#pretty sure this movie and similar media are what made me punk growing up tbh. didn't know what that was at the time but mymorals definitely #hunger games

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randomcartoonbro · 2 hours

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To put an asterisk: obviously money on some level matters because of the society we're trapped in. Yeah, you can't help others very easily if you yourself are drowning, but don't build a yacht when you're on shore. You know what I'm saying?

And a tangentially related thought: being older doesn't automatically make you wiser or smarter, but it can so easily make you complacent. Especially if you're in a relatively comfortable position of being able to afford housing and food. The mindset eventually sets in of "well, I'm getting by just fine. Why should I fight for better?". I've watched it happen to my parents as we've slowly become better off because of my dad's job. Both of my parents have gotten worse politically the older they've gotten and more comfortable they've become with their situation and place in society. Once that money stabilizes enough, what else matters, right? As long as YOU are comfortable, why should you care about the pain of others? Such a disturbing mindset that we just accept as normal for some reason. I guess because it's easier

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randomcartoonbro · 2 hours

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If you ever feel like your fanon/au versions of characters are too cringe or ooc just remember that Canon DC Universe did THIS to Dick Greyson

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randomcartoonbro · 2 hours

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You know what people don’t talk about often enough? Playing catch up in life after spending your teens or early 20s suicidally depressed. There’s so many more layers than just being able to say “I don’t want to die anymore.”

The difficulty in academia or a career after spending years thinking you wouldn’t be alive long enough for any of it to matter.

The exhaustion that comes from self awareness and self soothing, with the constant voice in your head saying “don’t go backwards.”

How lonely it is to watch the people your age starting families when you’re just barely learning what stable relationships are, and the sudden societal pressure of being “up against a clock” for these kinds of things.

The judgement from others if you change your image or interests this late in the game just because you finally figured out who you really are under the demons.

Be kind to those who are developing and blooming after years of not planning on being here long. We are living a life we absolutely didn’t think we’d have, and it’s hard enough without society reminding us there’s expectations of our age.

We didn’t get to be young; we were too busy fighting battles few know.

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randomcartoonbro · 2 hours

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And a tangentially related thought: being older doesn't automatically make you wiser or smarter, but it can so easily make you complacent. Especially if you're in a relatively comfortable position of being able to afford housing and food. The mindset eventually sets in of "well, I'm getting by just fine. Why should I fight for better?". I've watched it happen to my parents as we've slowly become better off because of my dad's job. Both of my parents have gotten worse politically the older they've gotten and more comfortable they've become with their situation and place in society. Once that money stabilizes enough, what else matters, right? As long as YOU are comfortable, why should you care about the pain of others? Such a disturbing mindset that we just accept as normal for some reason. I guess because it's easier

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randomcartoonbro · 3 hours

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I decided to start rewatching Hunger Games after this and, damn, as an adult does it piss me off even just 15 minutes in. Not because the movies are bad. Far from that. They're amazing. Flawed, but amazing. What pisses me off is how little people heeded the warnings in these movies. Suzanne Collins wrote these books because of the injustices she was seeing in the world and how cruel those on top were and currently are to those on our level and how far that has the potential to go. This series is a worst case scenario for our society that's exaggerated, but disturbingly not unrealistic. How numb we're all becoming to violence, how the news anchors and article writers speak, how out of touch the government and rich are, how much we shrug off the war and pain that is slowly swallowing the world. But I'm also so glad these movies and similar pieces of media that my generation was exposed to exist. It's definitely to thank for how strong willed we are and how much we don't take unfairness, but it still feels like so many missed the point. So many fell for the tone deaf advertising of it just being a tragic love triangle story and covered their ears to all the lessons beyond that surface level distraction. The way it was advertised pisses me off so much in retrospect and just shows just how much those in charge of media are like the Capital. They don't want those themes on full display. They rely on us being too stupid to understand. This rant is just scratching the surface, but I'm done for now. Just. Damn. It hits different with an adult brain

You know. For two generations who grew up watching/reading Hunger Games, there sure is a lot of in-fighting. A lot of classism and us vs. them towards your equals. I guess y'all missed the point. I see now why Suzanne Collins released new content. Y'all need a refresher in that lesson and what she was trying to say with her story this whole time

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randomcartoonbro · 4 hours

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I got bored and remembered I can make cc so uh

There it is, I guess. The soup in all its glory.

I will say, though, I think it looks a lot better when I draw it. And I think I know why.

I'm sure a lot of it is just me being shitty at making cc (this is like the second thing I've successfully made) but I think the biggest factor is that there's no real environmental storytelling behind it.

I mean, look at Ripp. That isn't the face of someone who's going crazy and being taken over by forces he can't begin to comprehend. That's a silly little guy! A jovial young fellow who looks like he lost a fight with a bucket of paint. The fact that it completely eats his eyelashes is kinda freaky but there's nothing really... happening to him, I guess? It just looks like you could scrub it off in the shower and he'd be fine.

When I draw him getting pink souped, though, it's rough. He looks genuinely unwell. As it turns out, the creepiest part of pink soup isn't the pink itself (though it is a bit weird to see something so unnatural take over someone's body), it's everything outside of it.

His skin is pale, he looks dazed and scared and sick and, above all else, exhausted. This doesn't look like a shitty face paint job, it looks like something that's slowly killing him. The pink soup on its own isn't that hard to look at, but seeing him with dark, unfocused eyes and messy hair and distress visible on his face is fucked up. You can tell that something is draining him, something that doesn't seem easy to fight off, something that only seems to be getting worse. He's scared. His friends are scared. Nobody knows what's going on, and nobody knows how to fix it.

And the fact that he looks so sick almost makes the pink soup scarier on its own. There's this giant, inorganic thing completely taking over a good chunk of this kid's body, and he looks like he's about to collapse from it. If he was still happy and vibrant under all of that, it wouldn't be so bad, but... fuck, what is that stuff? What is it going to do to him?

That's what I have to keep in mind. The concept of pink soup being some kind of weird rash thing is kinda spooky in a fear-of-the-unknown Lovecraftian bullshit sense, but the scariest part of it isn't how it looks. It's what it's doing to the people underneath it.

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randomcartoonbro · 4 hours

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You know. For two generations who grew up watching/reading Hunger Games, there sure is a lot of in-fighting. A lot of classism and us vs. them towards your equals. I guess y'all missed the point. I see now why Suzanne Collins released new content. Y'all need a refresher in that lesson and what she was trying to say with her story this whole time

#watching five by five takes' vid on the cruelty of the games and being hit by how much certain aspects really apply to today's society #the dehumanization and desensitization behaviors rampant in millennials and gen zs is depressing to watch #yes obviously gen z is doing better than previous generations but it still feels like there's a lot of these problems. at least where i live #don't even get me started on how nonchalant and blase my parents' generation is about everything #we really are hurdling towards shit like Hunger Games being reality #lets just hope it doesn't go the way of Unwind #though with convents and electroshock therapies we're disturbingly close...#the Giver is also eerily getting closer to reality #hunger games

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randomcartoonbro · 11 hours

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