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A Library of Turquoise and Sunshine
Bank of Sapphire Cold?
Shocking revelations
Hunger Games Covey OC: Waterlily Walnut Clade
Name Song: The Water Lily by Ralph Stanley
Color: Walnut Brown
Covey Relation: Cousin to Billy Taupe Clade and Clerk Carmine Clade
Musical Role: Instrumentalist (dulcimer)
Aro-ace, cis woman. Survivor of the Covey massacre.
Physical description: Slightly taller than average (5’ 7”), warm brown skin, hooked nose, dark brown eyes and wavy black hair. Long curved scar on the left side of her face.
(Art made by me in Procreate)
SOTR spoilers
As a Hayffie shipper (Lenore Dove rocks I just still love hayffie) I love the fact that SOTR has established that Effie is like six years older than Haymitch. Because I’ve always imagined in my head that after the rebellion the two of them get married and have babies (I know it’s not canon let me dream) and now I know that the children conversation would go something like this:
Effie: Haymitch, dear, I’ve been wondering…how would you feel about having children?
Haymitch: *bewildered* Effie you’re forty-eight.
And then Effie gets super offended at Haymitch’s implication that she’s too old to have kids, while Haymitch just gets increasingly confused because the absolute oldest woman to have kids in Twelve was forty-five when she gave birth, and he always just assumed that after that point it was impossible for a woman to get pregnant. Anyway, they still have kids with the help of fertility treatments and live happily ever after the end.
How I picture Lenore Dove
5 of my SOTR hcs:
1. Lenore Dove is taller than Haymitch. Like, significantly taller. Real Amazon vibes coming from her. She has to bend down slightly to kiss Haymitch, who has to stand on his tiptoes.
2. Haymitch may not be much of a singer, but if he’d ever tried he would make a really good banjo or guitar player, or an above average pianist.
3. Burdock never hated Haymitch, he just realized that there wasn’t anything he could do to help him. Still, he kept an eye on Haymitch from afar until the day he died.
4. Prim was reaped entirely by chance, but Haymitch will never believe that. He will always believe that Snow rigged it to hurt him. Same with Burdock’s mine accident.
5. Maysilee is a femme lesbian and had the most massive crush on Asterid.
One thing no one ever talks about in fandom is the pain of finding out one of your favorite ao3 authors is a total jerk. Writing a fic inspired by theirs while linking and giving credit, only for them to leave a comment insulting you and calling you weird for making a fic of their fic. Using the names they gave to unnamed canon characters (a common practice called fandom name sharing) and linking and giving credit, only for them to leave a comment calling you a plagiarist for stealing the names and threatening to send their fans after you. Finding out they have a history of doing stuff like this, and finding it practically impossible to separate your enjoyment of their work from your incredibly negative experiences with the author. Trying your best to avoid their fics as a result even though they wrote at least half of the fics of your favorite ship. True pain. Never meet your heroes kids.
Haymitch
Finnick
Johanna
Effie (movie version only)
Katniss
Peeta (if we’re only talking the books)
intrigued. what are everyone’s top five thg characters.
Hey i’m a fashion design student so i have tons and tons of pdfs and docs with basic sewing techniques, pattern how-tos, and resources for fabric and trims. I’ve compiled it all into a shareable folder for anyone who wants to look into sewing and making their own clothing. I’ll be adding to this folder whenever i come across new resources
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16uhmMb8kE4P_vOSycr6XSa9zpmDijZSd?usp=sharing
happy Thursday the 20th
Yumiella when interacting with her classmates
Tbh Rozenmarie should be like an adopted found family little sister to Elise rather than a romance option. It would make more sense and be way healthier imo. Lebkuchen is the canon love interest in my mind.
*Spoilers for Infinity Nikki*
Infinity Nikki is like:
Chapter 1: Find the meanie selling knockoff wish bottles!
Chapter 7: KILL THE FALSE GOD
If you are a British/UK citizen, there is currently a petition running (with only 125 signatures) that ends in June 2025. The petition calls for the government to make it so that you do not need a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to change your gender.
If you are a British/UK citizen, and would like to sign:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159
If you're not a British/ UK citizen it'd be much appreciated if you could share this post !! :)
The Polk County Sheriff's Office deliberately misled people into believing that Briana Boston had been released without charges. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.
Mika and the witches mountain fanart!
Fuckin hate TUA season 4. They Game of Thrones’d it. I demand fanfic rewrites. And wtf was that Five/Lila nonsense
TFW you post a silly little fanart and get flooded with hate comments about how much your art sucks lol🤦🏽♀️
If you could change one minor (MINOR) thing about Dungeon Meshi, what would it be?
Personally I would make Laios’s succubus look like Kabru instead of Marcille.
The real issue behind laios and shuro's relationship is that laios can't handle some one without a backbone.
Take chilchuck for example. Chilchuck has some very serious work place boundaries: Don't intervene with his work, don't talk about his family while on the job, don't treat him like a child, etc.. All of these are perfectly fine boundaries to have but they're boundaries everyone breaks. Marcile pry's into his family life, Senshi gets in the way of his work, Izutsumi basically sleeps on top of him.
Laios is the only one that respects that Chilchuck is just doing his job and he wants to do it a specific way; when laios does something stupid or ignorant chilchuck yells at him for doing so. Laios doesn't misunderstand what Chilchuck's saying because he's being clear and up front with his issues.
But shuro doesn't do that because he has no backbone, he's a coward. He's not even able to correct laios when he gets his name wrong.
He does nothing to stop the growing misunderstanding between the two that he could easily fix if he gained some courage. We only see him tell laios his problems when he at his worst, starving with barely any sleep. He's only brave when he's exhausted. And by then it's already too late. Laios yells at shuro not for not understanding him, but for not telling him the misunderstanding sooner. Because he would have fixed it, he would happily respect shuro's boundaries but he doesn't even know them. And they're more important matters now, he has to save his sister.
On why Chilchuck sticks with the party (Dungeon meshi spoilers)
So I think most people believe that Chilchuck sticks with Laios’s party after Falin gets eaten for his canonical stated reason - that he got paid up front, and needs to see things through as a result. But personally I don’t really believe that. After all, the party is now entering the dungeon on a completely different mission (to save Falin) with half their original numbers. Wouldn’t it be reasonable, even expected, to consider this a separate mission and demand separate payment as a result? I think it would be. So then why would Chilchuck, an experienced professional, go on this new, extremely dangerous mission without payment? For friendship, maybe, but I personally am of the opinion that at the beginning of the series, Chilchuck sees the others more as coworkers than friends, though this changes by the end of the series. So then, why would he go?
To answer that, we need to look at the position of half-foots in the world of dungeon meshi. Specifically, how half foots are the most disadvantaged of the human races. (Orcs and kobolds are more disadvantaged, but they’re demihumans and as a result are either ostracized or subjugated, which is a whole different issue that we’re not talking about right now). Half foots are physically the smallest and weakest race, with the shortest lifespan and second lowest mana capacity. Their only advantage is their superior senses, which while handy aren’t exactly the best for fighting against oppression. Additionally, many people see half foots as lesser, as we can gather from Chilchucks succubus bait story and other tidbits. And of those who don’t view half foots as lesser beings, many see them as being essentially children due to their appearance.
While this may not be the best comparison, I can imagine based on this that being an extremely skilled and experienced half foot would be a bit like being a black female doctor in the 1950s who graduated top of her class from Harvard Medical School. Despite your competency, you are constantly being discriminated against for something you can’t control. Top practices aren’t willing to ‘take a chance’ on you, and the only people willing to give you a shot are underperforming institutions desperate for a leg up and willing to try anything. Also, no one is willing to pay you what you’re worth and no one takes you seriously, at all. Plus, pick locking is probably one of the few industries where half foots are at least slightly respected due to their skill, meaning half foot pick locks are probably a dime a dozen, hence the need for a union. Meaning Chilchuck has to compete with tons of others in a highly competitive field for measly wages on top of everything else.
So I think this is why Chilchuck sticks with Laios. Because in the Touden party, he’s basically found a unicorn. He’s found an extremely competent, effective party, with a leader who is both willing to pay him what he’s worth and also sees him for the adult he is, as seen in the shapeshifter episode where Laios’s Chilchuck was only distinguished from the original by slightly different clothing. Granted, Chilchuck definitely sees Laios as a weirdo, as shown by his shapeshifter Laios, but he’s a weirdo that treats Chilchuck as an equal. Going back to the black doctor in the fifties comparison, it’s a bit like finding a job where you’re treated as an equal, but your boss talks obsessively about spiders and is constantly bringing chocolate covered spiders into the office to snack on. Weird, for sure, but definitely preferable to the alternative.
So in the end, I think that’s why Chilchuck really sticks with the party. Because he knows that realistically, this is the best job he’s gonna get, and it’s best he at least try to hold onto it. And also, possibly, because he feels a little bit of fondness towards the weirdo tallman who decided to give him a fair shake for once. But, that’s just my opinion. What do you all think?
I’m the author of one of the fics in this rec list! Guess which one. (Spoilers: it’s the Percy Jackson one)
All the fics I’ve read and really enjoyed in the past week-ish. Reminder: This list features any and all ratings and themes. Please look at tags and warnings on ao3 before reading.
BNHA
something else to pretend by beeclaws
Bakugou apologies. Somehow, this makes things worse.
Retrograde by redrobin1989
Retrograde /ˈretrəˌɡrād/ adjective: directed or moving backwards noun: a degenerate person. verb: go back in position or time.
Seasoned pro heroes Midoriya Izuku and Bakugou Katsuki are mentally transported back to their younger bodies due to a quirk. All they have to do is wait for the quirk to wear off for everything to return to normal. But sometimes the journey is worse than the destination.
DC
dick move by konan_konan
Part 1 of batfam twitter shenanigans
dim trake ☑ @timdrakeceo・52min guys what if dick grayson IS batman. that’s why he thought he was getting cancelled. it all makes sense. 784K Views | 142 Retweets | 52 Quote Tweets | 63.9K Likes
tason jodd ☑ @jsntdd・49min ↳ replying to @timdrakeceo asshole last week you said i was batman 461K Views | 88 Retweets | 16 Quote Tweets | 18.3K Likes
or: a civilian overhears a conversation between batman and nightwing. twitter does what it always does: makes things worse
the rules of playing make believe by hoebiwan
“We can’t squat in some dead guy’s mansion, Damian,” Tim says. Damian, in the midst of packing all their meager belongings into grocery sacks, ignores him.
“Why not?” Jason demands. “It’s not like he’s using it. Finders keepers, losers weepers.”
Or: Homeless!Reverse Robins squat in Wayne Manor.
Nine Worlds
with a winged heart by celebros
"Cliopher. Cliopher. Cliopher." I blink. It's Conju, standing with his hands on my shoulders, and I go to answer him and realize that I am already speaking, babbling, and Franzel is behind him, wringing his hands and looking near tears. I try to focus on what I'm saying, but it's like a stream, light and splashing past me, too quick to hold, not enough to catch, somehow, somehow – A few weeks before the start of the viceroyship ceremonies, Kip finds himself the unwitting recipient of a truth serum.
Original Work
That Frightful Nest Inside the Throat by whereveryouroam
Part 1 of That Dreadful Clockwork Beats Below
Living horses were in vogue among the high and mighty of the great families, but Peter’s new owners had sent proud motorhorses, clicking over in a blur of cogs and wheels, to draw the carriage. It was a very nice carriage - plush and cushioned. He couldn’t help but think this was sinister. Masters didn’t transport slaves in finery. At least, not slaves like him.
Peter’s spent years under the cruelty of masters who want the Monster inside him to become their weapon. He is quite sure that Lord and Lady Arken will be no different.
Percy Jackson
Through rose-colored glasses (the past is perfect) by Mo13
Part 1 of Rose-colored glasses verse
Luke/Percy were in a non-consensual 'relationship' when Percy was twelve. Percy deals with the aftermath, while constantly convincing himself that his relationship with Luke was fine (IT WAS NOT). Mostly cooperates with canon up to the end of Heroes of Olympus.
The Goblin Emperor
A Complete Education by bomberqueen17
Preparing for the Emperor's wedding, everyone has some things they need to learn about.
Emperor's Best Friend by imaginary_golux
Ino and Mireän decide their cousin Maia needs a special present for his twentieth birthday.
a burning coal of kindness by egelantier for Morgan (duckwhatduck)
When Maia is kidnapped by a faction hoping to halt the construction of Wisdom Bridge, Beshelar, gravely injured, is by his side. It might just be their undoing.
The Stairs Beneath the Heart by hermitknut
Part 1 of Keystone
The reign of Varenechibal IV is over; the reign of Edrehasivar VII has begun. The transition, however, is anything but smooth, as the Alcethmeret household navigates grief and worry as well as adapting to the new emperor.
A series of missing scenes and unseen moments centering around the Alcethmeret household over the course of the first few months of Maia's reign.
reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something
Tw: self immolation (the now iconic image of Aaron Bushnell on fire)
Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians and should be held accountable for war crimes – and genocide, according to the UN’s leading expert on the right to food. Hunger and severe malnutrition are widespread in the Gaza Strip, where about 2.2 million Palestinians are facing severe shortages resulting from Israel destroying food supplies and severely restricting the flow of food, medicines and other humanitarian supplies. Aid trucks and Palestinians waiting for humanitarian relief have come under Israeli fire.