#this book just came for me over and over

[myfairkatiecat]

I feel like Lucy Gray’s fashion sense had an influence on the Capitol. It’s mentioned in the book that she’s wearing makeup, which is notable to Coriolanus and he wonders where she got it from since it was barely becoming accessible again in the Capitol. In the movie one of his classmates mocks what she is wearing, asking if she thinks she’s a clown. It isn’t common to dress like her, but she owns her own style and the Capitol LOVES her. Coriolanus, as he tries to get sponsors for her, makes the case that since she is Covey perhaps she isn’t really district at all, in fact she’s really more Capitol than anything… and perhaps it rubbed off. Perhaps her sense of extra-ness, her fun makeup even at the reaping, her colorful dress at a dark occasion….perhaps that’s one part of her legacy that never truly goes away, even when the name of Lucy Gray Baird is erased from the memories of the people of Panem.

#I know it’s a stretch… #but it really stood out to me #like #someone saying ‘who does she think she is a clown’ in THE HUNGER GAMES? #out of the mouth of someone from the CAPITOL? #plus that line in the book about where her makeup came from #someone from the Capitol seriously surprised to see somebody in makeup #it’s possible they just continued to evolve as a culture #and they naturally assumed a more colorful and over-the-top style #but no I’m going to connect it to Lucy Gray bc I love her #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #tbosbas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #tbosas

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

#lotr #lord of the rings #lord of the rings movies #i started this post because ''may it be'' came up on my playlist but now i think i'm going to start my nth rewatch of the trilogy #there is a lot to discuss about it re: comparison to the books but it's like... #for all the changes they made - good and bad and neutral - everyone involved in making the films *loved* the source material #they all *wanted* to do justice to it and believed in it and it shows #i think of some posts i've seen about how frustrating this modern push towards tongue-in-cheek irony over sincerity #so afraid to be corny or cheesy that you have to tack a joke onto every real emotional moment #like no fuck that #give me sam hauling frodo onto his shoulders saying ''i can't carry it for you but i can carry you'' #give me aragorn gently kissing boromir's forehead as he dies #give me merry and pippin throwing themselves at the uruk hai to distract them from frodo #give me theoden's grand speeches and gandalf's pained expression when frodo says he'll carry the ring #tbh i think that sincerity is a large part of *why* it has such staying power even now #because it is a story you are meant to get deeply emotionally invested in and not hold yourself a little ironically apart from #it isn't meant to sell merch it's meant to bring you to middle-earth and capture your heart and make you believe that the war can be won #with love and loyalty and hope and fellowship and fidelity and integrity and just... just refusing to give in to despair #it is earnest. it is unafraid to be melodramatic or corny because it believes in the story it's telling. #and so it imprinted onto a whole generation growing up right at the cusp of a barrage of apocalypses #anyway. i have Feelings about these movies and their impact and how that mirrors and enhances the books' own impact

[bleaksqueak]

While i work I've been listening to an LP of the Telltale Walking Dead Games (the ones with clementine, I do not care about the others lmao). Ages ago when I played these I was well aware/amused that part of season 2 takes place in Parker's Crossroads/Parker's Run because I grew up right next to it and the detail stood out to me. But I never caught the line of "We'll head to parker's run. It's just up the road from here" until just right now. So I had a sort of "wait, where the fuck are they supposed to be right now?" (search)

ARE YOU SHITTING ME LMAO So by process of elimination, since it's the only city with anything even remotely resembling a large home supply store, that would mean they're in my literal hometown. My tiny hometown in the middle of nowhere that's never in anything that barely anyone knows of. How in the fuck lmao

#shut up pu #random stuff #I guess Howe's would be our Co-Op #I moved away forever ago but my brain often still returns to that tiny town. the biggest city in henderson county. lmaoo #Did they just randomly pick a place on the map for the location... parker's crossroads/run surprised me but it's at least more of a thing #i'm upset with myself for never picking up on that before #sorry telltale but we never had a comic book store you have to go all the way over to the next county for that #also your geography's wrong it's east tennessee that has mountains #west tennessee is all hills #i'm being nitpicky but it's out of amusement #of all the places to end up in a zamboni apocalypse #my poor girl clem lucky she made it out at all #lmao I strongly dislike this series all BUT these games with clementine #and I love her so much #goes to show what a good likable character can do #anyway I'm upset that you don't get to go raid the dairyqueen in season 2 #maybe this is an odd thing to post about but I literally come from a #“the nearest starbucks is 40 minutes away” level of tiny nowhere town #and playing this game when it first came out only to realize this detail about a decade later made me spit my drink out

[yazthebookish]

"Az carried Elain bridal style"

She was unresponsive in his arms.

#yaz reread thoughts #I recently reread acowar so #it's not like they just came back from a romantic rendezvous #a lot of the elr*el evidence is based on scenes that are open to interpretation or made out to be something more than it actually is #that's why I was never convinced on the concept of the ship #if it had the build up and chemistry that was so blatant for Nessian... it could've won me over #but fast forward to ACOSF? where they speak to each other only once in the entire book? nah #and from what I've noticed in SJM's books is she wouldn't introduce a new potential love interest for the male while he has a thing for FMC #unless they're not endgame

[gods-favorite-autistic]

People who are like “Omg gen z theatre kids only know *proceeds to list every single musical that came out after 1999*” are the most annoying assholes like hey maybe we just don’t like shit from the 1960’s or we have specific tastes have you ever considered that

#something can be said for people who are like annoyed with people who only know like Hamilton and heathers and ast like they know everything #but they’ll be like ‘gen z only knows Hadestown six bmc deh wicked in the heights heathers rtc-‘ #like just say you don’t like modern musicals and move on??? #they completely forget that like with different eras you’re gonna get different styles #like of course some people only like musicals from the past two decades that’s just their style #same with people who only like classics #people do this shit with everything like #you know what pop culture is right #could you imagine if we did this shit with like regular music #no shit saw someone say something ab people who only Hamilton and heathers and people were in the comments making whole ass lists and like #SOMEONE SAID LES MIS. THATS ISNT EVEN A POPULAR MODERN MUSICAL AT THIS POINT ITS JUST A CLASSIC #LIKE THAT MUSICAL CAME OUT IN 1980 AND THE BOOK IS LIKE OVER 100 #LIKE LES MIS CAME OUT DURING THE CIVIL WAR YOU CANT BE ALL HIGH AND MIGHTY AB IT NOT BEING SOPHISTICATED ENOUGH FOR YOU #sorry for ranting tiktok pissed me off #but didn’t we literally go through this on tumblr in the 2010’s? #I thought we all agreed that was horrible and to not do that again but like when has tiktok ever learned from tumblrs mistakes #madurday night live #musicals #musical theatre

[afterthedreamer]

to be loved

is to be changed

#the picture that made me fall in love with him #I saw him and knew I needed to adopt him #I contacted his foster parent immediately only to find out someone else had set up a meeting with him #but they bailed the day of so the foster parent told me they took him back to the shelter #and to go there if I wanted to see him #so I booked it to Charlotte and got there right as they closed #and as soon as they opened his kennel he jumped into my arms #I left that night with paper work filled out and brought him home the next day #I’m SOBBING I just love my little boy so much #we came into each others lives when we needed each other most it seems #and I can’t get over it #I just love my guy #my little wizard 🖤 #little baby man #Essek #if you read this novel in the tags I’m kissing your forehead

[illegiblehandwriting1]

frankly i think the best way to differentiate fanon sky and canon sky is to take a look at groose's redemption arc. both forgive him for the bullying but fanon sky says "he didn't mean it!" Canon sky says "i deserved it"

(for reference, canon sky is sky as shown in the game/inferred directly from sksw)

#chicken scratch #smoke & ashes #lu sky #linked universe #would like to say that this post came to me about a hypothetical ghirahim redemption arc #and the post very nearly works albeit at a more extreme level (because yknow. the Murders) #but the problem is that groose antagonized link specifically #but ghirahim didn't give a shit about link he was just fucking around the first time you meet him #he only plays with link because he's in the way of getting to zelda #so link doesn't matter to him he just wants to hurt zelda #and that's the difference. theres why a ghirahim redemption arc would never work #sky doesn't give a shit about himself his low self esteem takes care of that #but as soon as you go after his loved ones it is over #sky is such an emotional person #he loves quickly and it's so easy to weasel your way into his heart #and it takes a very special kind of antagonization *cough hylia cough* to make him hate you forever #UNLESS you come after his friends. shortcut to being in the bad books forever. #he will kill you for one (1) corn chip #his low self love plus his high emotions and love for his friends equals this disaster of a man #and is why canon sky would never say i deserve it about ghirahim #he fully believes ghirahim is an asshole (which is true) and NOTHING he does is deserved #in skys mind nothing ghirahim did to him matters #it's the fact he wants zelda that means all bets are off and ghirahim's fucked #it's not about sky it's always about his loved ones #but i have indeed read fanfic where fanon sky is like oh this is ghirahim he tried to kill me it's all good now #so yea fanon sky would still say he didn't mean it #ok but like twisted ghira redemption arc where he realizes demise isn't the allpowerful master he thought #this god was just beaten by a pissed off teenager yknow what a fucking joke #anyway #ghira ends up thinking a lot about it being like so demise wasn't the right guy to follow

[fictionadventurer]

After very little research into the other writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, my hypothesis about the Little House authorship question is that the writing is mostly Rose's, but the heart is Laura's.

In Laura's newspaper columns, the parts that sound most like Little House mostly come from the extracts she shares from Rose's letters (incidentally, it's kind of adorable how proud she is of Rose: "My daughter's in France!", "My daughter's in Albania!", etc.) The prose of Old Home Town, Rose's inspired-by-my-childhood-home novel, has some of the same concise descriptive prose that I've come to associate with the Little House style (I could hear passages in the voice of the Little House audiobook narrator).

Yet the Little House soul is all over Laura's columns. She's fascinated by the simple tasks of life, believes in home and family and hard work, believes in holding onto the goodness of childhood and looking forward with hope toward the future. There's an optimism, almost a romanticism, about life. The children's series that bears her name clearly comes from the same woman.

Rose, by contrast, is much more pessimistic. When writing about childhood, she's almost cynical about the life of a small town. She highlights the dark stories underlying the wholesome exterior, is extremely sensitive to the pitfalls of the social scene around her. Part of the difference is that Rose is writing for adults, but there does seem to be an essential difference in the personality behind the pen, despite the stylistic similarities to Little House.

(At the risk of pop psychoanalyzing people long dead, Rose seems much more neurotic and introverted and sensitive than her mother. In her writings and in the books about her childhood in Missouri, she comes across as child of a fairly comfortable modern life, with all the modern anxieties, in contrast to a woman who grew up starving on the prairie and knows that there are much worse things to endure than small-town gossip).

It's not much of a thesis, but I'm just fascinated by the fact that the Little House series can share so many stylistic similarities with Rose's writings, yet feel so much more like Laura.

#little house #laura ingalls wilder #rose wilder lane #i did not finish old home town because it came uncomfortably close to deal-breaking swearing and i don't feel like dealing with that #but the book was interesting in its way #rose clearly has an agenda about women's rights #but in focusing so heavily on social justice it loses a lot of heart #if the mother is supposed to be based in any way on laura she's a bit harsh as a mother #though more open-minded than her neighbors #(always standing up for the gossiped-about women) #rose's stand-in (i'm going to assume it's a stand-in because cranford has trained me to assume #(that any first-person narrator in a book based on the author's childhood hometown is a self-insert) #kind of disappears into the background #and it's very tempting to consider how the woman who made her living as a ghostwriter disappeared behind others' stories #(also this book unfortunately seems to confirm that almanzo was a mason) #(sorry mom) #(seeing the freemason symbol on pa's grave was my most terrifying moment as a catholic little house fan) #(i'm pretty sure my mom threw holy water on it) #(took me a few years to get over that) #(now i've just accepted that american history is full of freemasons) #(and as long as she's not spouting anti-catholic propaganda her books are fair game)

[havealastkiss]

whenever i tell my mom that they made fun of me at class for liking taylor or anything of the sorts she says "i kinda understand them because they see you as an obsessive fan and childish" ... excuse me?

the whole concept of "fangirls are obsessive, weird and annoying" comes, in my opinion, from a clear place of misogyny and i think that as of today a lot of people have finally realized it... is the same thing said about men who engage in fights and scream like animals when their favorite football/soccer team scores? no! for them that's "for the love of the game"

no one is childish for simply being excited about something they enjoy (and taylor has said this herself), everything that makes you happy is worth it and no one should make you feel bad about it. i like taylor's music and it brings me comfort, makes me feel seen or brings me up when i'm down (and i could keep going but that's not the point), that's why i get excited when she does ssomething or my friends bring her up in a conversation, that's literally all

#taylor swift #rant #i'm just tired of this sry #this is because today is world book day so my best friend and i gifted each other a book #and she bought me one about taylor's musical evolution through her eras so obviously i got super excited #i went running over to the girl who is coming to the concert with me to show her and then came back to hug my best friend #and everyone around (even the teacher who was opening the door) was looking at me weirdly or laughing jsakjsd like sorry for being happy ig #the teacher told my friend '...it's something related to taylor swift isn't it...? 😐' hell yeah it is. if you don't like it look away

[oflights]

i'm editing parts of star splitter that deal with narcissa and harry in the forest and taking the logic apart as per usual. like what was her plan if harry was like "idk" or "nope he's dead" ??? would she have followup questions? "did you kill him or did we?" was she ready to throw in with voldemort again if draco died in battle? why would she assume harry would know, too, like he didn't have better things to do than look after draco??

i guess the point was that it all would've been game over for narcissa anyway if draco was dead, that there would be no point in helping harry/the magical world against voldemort if she had no one to fight for. and it is silly to deconstruct moments like that with "well what if x had never happened, very convenient that plot points follow each other" asjlksdkjjsl

but i'm also dying imagining harry just like, lying lmao. "yeah he's fine" when he is not fine, he is having a very bad day indeed

#i'll always think the weakest part of DH (and there were a lot i really was over this series by the time it came out tbh) was the malfoy arc #like this was pre-fanfic for me i did not have the bias i do now lol i didn't really care about draco #but it was like she spent a whole book diminishing his importance and downplaying work she'd done in HBP only to pivot at the last minute #and pull out a lot of convenient storytelling #as usual it's not that deep just bad writing #hp meta #??? i'm just being a shitposting canon hater do not take me seriously

[it-begins-with-rain]

Halloween Recommendation: Stephen King's Rose Red

** This one can be tricky to find. It was originally released as a 3 night mini-series in 2002, but then re-released as a motion picture. Apparently Hulu has it?

In 1906, oil barron John Rimbauer built a veritable palace overlooking Seattle. It was his young bride, Ellen, who would give the house it's name: Rose Red.

First blood was drawn before the foundation was even laid. A foreman, murdered over a simple argument. Bizarre deaths and mysterious disappearances plagued Rose Red, swallowing up the Rimbauer family, their servants, friends, and anyone who dared enter.

Eventually, the grand estate fell into disrepair. Paranormal investigators descended upon the property, but none were ever able to solve the mystery, nor stop the deaths.

Now, more than 90 years after the first deaths at Rose Red, Steven Rimbauer, the last living descendant of John and Ellen Rimbauer, has been offered massive sums of money to sell Rose Red. It will be totally leveled, the land used for condos.

Before the house is destroyed, Steven agrees to let Dr. Joyce Reardon and a cobbled-together team of psychics, mediums, and other paranormal investigators do one final sweep of the house.

What evil lurks within Rose Red?

What horrors did John and Ellen Rimbauer summon in their palatial estate- or were they victims themselves?

Why does Rose Red kill the men, but swallow the souls of the women and force them to haunt it's halls?

How many of Dr. Joyce Reardon's team can escape with their lives?

*** Stephen King wrote the screenplay for this story, but there is no novel. Instead, as part of the publicity and hype leading up to the miniseries premiere, "The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer" was published, serving as a prequel. You can buy the novel on Kindle.

#tv recommendations #tv recommendation #movie recommendations #movie recommendation #rose red #stephen king #one of his least known that's been translated to screen i'd say #mainly because he wrote the screenplay but for whatever reason it was never released in book form #god this scared me as a kid- to the point where i was nervous just writing this thing #let alone finding the poster for this- there's a still of 2 of the ghosts that usually comes up and i was scared i'd see it #literally had to sleep with blankets over my head and spread eagle across any bed for like 10 years because of one scene in particular #i was terrified #still can't sleep with a closet door even the slightest bit open #my parents wanted to prevent me from watching more than the 2nd night #because as much as the 1st night scared me #the 2nd night was so much worse and where most of my fears came from #i should say at this point- i loved horror; i couldn't be scared; but this one wrecked me #anyways #i had to fight my parents to be allowed to see the final night because i needed to see how it ended to MAYBE be less scared #like if you see the evil die you're fine #but i was so scared i kept my eyes covered the whole time anyways and i have no idea what happened #nowadays it might not even be scary to adult-me but why take the RISK

[nyxofdemons]

four years for this show...

#IM SORRY. ITS JUST. IM SO. HHHHHRGN #its fine. its good. its entertaining to say the least #but from a writing perspective...... #im not an anti i am the worlds biggest helluva boss enjoyer the hellaverse is SO SPECIAL TO ME #but.. the more i see about hazbin s1...... #how in over four years was this what you came up with. how is the pacing this insane. how is this character treatment ok.... PLEASE #my sorta toxic trait is that as someone obsessed with media analysis; narrative devices; and story structure - #as well as just. someone who is an aspiring showrunner/creator working on my own huge projects - #is that every time i come across a movie or show that i think is done in a really lacking way. all i can think about is how i would #have done it instead #(this happens in a non-critical way too tbf if i really enjoy a book or game i'll be like they should let me make a based on film) #but hazbin. hazbin. all i have right now is 'i could fix her' in my head #I WOULD TREAT THESE CHARACTERS RIGHT I WOULD GIVE THEM THE NARRATIVE THEY DESERVE #there is. so much potential here. how is the execution so lacking #mine #good ideas!!!! good moments!!!!!!!! THE OVERALL CONSISTENT NARRATIVE IS NOT DOING SO HOT #as a side note though i really think this is why helluva is doing so much better in terms of pacing and writing. the structure of that show #is so much more accommodating to a long intricate story WHILE weaving in a billion different character stories #8 episodes for hazbin is insane season 1 needed twice as much #nyx crit tag

[ebbpettier]

i think part of my reasoning is that "does simon snow get his magic back" doesn't immediately register in my brain as "simon snow's power is restored to him and he can cast spells again like any other magician" in my brain, he still has magic. magic is everywhere. he just can't use magic on a personal level. and as a guy surrounded by videos without closed captions at work i jus

#del/lat #THIS IS JUST A SILLY THOUGHT SORRY FOR BOUNCING OFF YOUR POST MESSOFTHEJESS #I JUST THINK ABOUT IT A LOT #simon when he lost his magic reminds me a lot of me when i first started really feeling the CursesTM #i too completely fucking caved in on myself for a very long time and thought that my life was over #turns out the time will pass anyway #IT WAS SO FRUSTRATING TO READ BUT LIKE. only because i felt called out so hard. like having an infection excised #there are elements that will always suck (i have repeatedly been told i am Stupid as if that's something i can?? do anything about???) #(buddy if i can't understand you then i can't understand you. sorry let me just flip the lever and Regain Essential Brain Function) #it sucks! and it will keep sucking. such is the way of being able to have thoughts and feelings. #but like. the sun still came up. i'm still on the right side of the dirt. if god wants me dead hes gonna have to come down here himself #watch me delete this in an hour cause i'm shy about being vulnerable on the internet #these are really good useful books for me and i felt very seen

[catastrxblues]

read more than 50 pages while i was outside today!!!!!!! where’s my trophy

#OUTSIDE as in like…. public places such as class and train station and train and bus stop #who am i #no one ask but this blog is my diary so here it is #so in the morning i continued a few pages of crooked kingdom before class. but then my friends came and the teacher came so i stopped #and we literally didn’t study anything AT ALL today it was such a waste #so after a few hours of talking with my friends because as i said literally no classes i decided to read again #i was going to read ck but i felt like i would just going to go around the sentences and not understanding anything if i did #thank goodness i also brought another book circe by madeline miller so i started that #and it’s really great!!!! i started that book at 2 am days ago but haven’t continued it again. and because i didn’t really remember much #from that i decided to start over and it’s good!!!!! #tell me why sometimes general fiction books are easier for me to digest than ya/mg #i think maybe it’s because with ya/mg (esp fantasy) has such a fast and complicated plot to keep the readers entertained #and this book imm reading is just a retelling of greek myths but? #anyways yeah i’m kinda hooked #actually thinking of finally putting song of achilles in my tbr #reading tag #nadirants

[apollos-boyfriend]

thinking back on it i feel so bad for any of my middle school english teachers because i was 100% insufferable to have

#icarus speaks #i was SUCH an overachiever but only when it came to english #bc i Loved reading and writing #like. would get in trouble for reading in class levels of stuff #in 6th grade we had to read like. i think 100 pages? it wasn’t a lot #and log them + vocab words over winter break #i think. iirc. i read either 5k or 10k #and logged EVERY vocab word i found #then in seventh grade we had a month-long essay/research doc #where we had to pick a book. read it throughout the month. and then write about it #i finished the entire thing the Day after it was assigned #and THEN in 8th grade we had to write i think a minimum of 3k words #of a creative writing piece where you expanded upon an epilogue of the giver #i wrote. 10k words. #these r just my Biggest infringements but by god 😭 #very surprised none of my teachers snapped and just killed me #it would’ve been. extremely justified

[daincrediblegg]

oh yeah shoutout to one of the students in my class today who pointed out it was edgar allan poe's birthday which started an impromptu 52 man happy birthday chorus for him. legendary behavior.

#also yeah catch me also mentioning awkwardly the northwest passage bit when we were going over 19th century history for poe's cultural #context #I MEAN ARTHUR GORDON PYM DID HAVE CANNIBALISM IN IT AND THAT CAME OUT LIKE 7 YEARS BEFORE THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION LEFT #no way that wasn't an influence for dan simmons' the terror. no way in hell #it certainly is one of my influences for LADY terror so there u have it #also jesus my prof ordered like a set of books that collectively cost like 120 bucks like good god dude #alas I will purchase all of them as usual bc actually the one for pym that he ordered included a ton of critical essays that I want to look #at that my editions don't have AND #one of the books he ordered is one he recently published on illustrators for poe works that I've been meaning to pick up for a while now #so I'm glad I finally have that but jesus christ man #also I just looooooove how one of my professors for a different class absolutely NEVER orders books for the bookstore. like lmao guess I'll #die thanks.