People need to get used to the idea of getting older and even romanticize it there’s so much you gain by aging and learning every day there’s beauty in someone whose years show on their face. I’m sick and tired of people turning 25 and being like omg I’m so old I’m having an identity crisis. get a grip. Bitch.
Also stop attaching morality to aging “this is how non problematic people age” no babes that celebrity is an example of how millionaires who have great plastic surgeons and infinite access to any kind of fitness and diet age. Working class people with health issues and mental health issues and addictions and eating disorders don’t look like Anne Hathaway no matter how kind hearted they are lol
Suzanne collins is a certified GENIUS because by making most of the book about the PUBLICITY of the rebellion and not the fight itself, she was telling us that wars are won by who persuades more- who controls the narrative .
my grandma's response (she was 71 at the time)
Edit: i didn't expect this to get so many notes so I feel the need to mention that my grandma's a lesbian lol
Please enjoy this updated meme:
a modest proposal
penis-peeper
I promise the mentally ill disabled drug addict screaming at nothing is having a worse day than you are. You are not a victim for simply witnessing them. Be kind
penis-peeper
“but they’re scary”
you know what’s scary? being mentally ill and homeless
keep walking and leave them alone
Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.
Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.
There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.
The spam comments have evolved.
They are now also linking to a site they claim is able to scan works and tell you whether they were AI written or not, and that you should do that before reading a fic.
It should go without saying that you should not, under no circumstances, visit a site advertised in a spam comment.
In this case, I'd say there's even a chance that the "scanning" site is actually used to scrape fics and use them for future AI writing. What it definitely doesn't do is tell you whether something was AI written or not. That's a bullshit claim.
Don't use that site. Don't believe these spam comments, whether you get them on your own works or see them on someone else's.
It's all bullshit.
happy april foold everyone did you know about………………… bofa
haha… bofa them
i really do love how “enjoyer” has entered the lexicon. its very broad and inclusive. anyone can be an enjoyer of something, from a casual participant to a die-hard fan, as long as they experience. enjoyment :^)
i love people's willingness to get hype over dumb shit.
I was driving home today and pull up to a light. As i'm slowing down i 👁️👁️ lock 👁️👁️ eyes with the dude in the car next to me. I spring into action, this is the moment I've been waiting for.
Now, something you must know about me is I drive around with several small plastic 🦀crabs 🦀 on my dashboard, One: for the whimsy of it all and two: on the off chance i encounter another driver who i think could benefit from witnessing them.
This young gentleman was one such someone.
As i pull up, as previously stated, our eyes lock and I hold up one☝️ finger☝️
Perplexed by my unprompted gesticulation, the young man rolls down his window, "what the devil could this perfect stranger be about to tell me?" he might have been thinking.
I present a singular dashboard crab, green and brown, homely but not without its charm.
I study his reaction, grinning encouragingly. He's nodding, obviously intrigued by my plasticine crustacean.
I wag my finger and shake my head, removing the crab from view. Confusion again, but he leans forward, invested. I have him now.
I grab my second dashboard crab, a rotund white and brown crab, easily the most beautiful of my crabs as it sports large discernible claws of an attractive size and silhouette.
✌️ TWO ✌️ i tell him.
He's cheering now, and rightly so, as these are delightful little beasts that anyone would be happy to encounter. But now comes the clincher, time to seal the deal.
My finger wags once more. He's awestruck, I have him completely enraptured. If a car had come and smeared us both into the pavement we would not have noticed, so wrapped up in my display were we.
I bring out my showstopper: a bright pink spider crab with delicately long legs the likes of which had never before nor since been seen in mid afternoon traffic.
As emphatically as i can express, I display all three of my dashboard crabs to this man, three fingers pressed triumphantly to the glass.
the guy is losing it in his car, mouth wide in what i assume to be a primal shout of crab derived excitement. His arms are pumping so vigorously its shaking his stationary vehicle.
We sit there, sharing in a moment of mutual jubilation, and then the light changes, and we move forward in line. He drives off, honking his horn in rapturous exultation,
and we part ways, exactly the same perhaps but changed nonetheless.
🦀
I love folklore so much because depending on the location and era it comes from it's either the most terrifying concept or the dumbest thing you've ever heard
hate when folk call the Sun “our nearest star” no you dweebs that’s OUR STAR! After everything she's done for you and you want to compare her to some lightyears away ass nobody called some shit like Guncho 785B? We're not spinning eternally around any old ball, we’re three deep in the window on board the Sol Train and she did NOT provide the catering, the itinerary and all the fuel to share credit with some two-bit Proxima Centauri hack. point to these nuts in a constellation while you're at it. i love the sun
The best thing the movies did as an adaptation was expanding Effie’s role, making her more obviously sympathetic to Katniss and Peeta, and not letting an incredible performance by Elizabeth Banks go to waste.
What I always thought was interesting about the hunger games movies is that we get to see bits of how the Capitol works and moves. The books are all first person pov so all we know in the books we get from gossip and the snippets of what Katniss sees, but the movies let us into Snow’s office and Seneca’s game rooms to actually get to see the way the Capitol works and how it’s manipulated.
I always think an adaptation should definitely stick as close to source material as possible, but the new medium gives opportunities to expand that source material in ways that enhances the experience and I think even the five minutes of screen time we got in the first and second movie about how they work fleshed out our villains not only in Snow but in the government machine itself
i know the fanon is that annie wasn’t a career and just didn’t have anyone to volunteer for her but i actually think she’s more interesting as a career tbh. she trained her whole life, she volunteered, she saw her tribute partner get beheaded and the trauma was so strong it changed her forever. that’s it, that’s the post.
don’t you dare hide this incredible analysis in the tags i hadn’t thought of any of this
My favorite thing about hijacked!Peeta is, aside from his occasional homicidal rage, he’s only mildly a dick. Like Johanna and Haymitch on a good day, are more rude than hijacked!Peeta, yet everyone is all aghast by the audacity!
And he’s only like that to Katniss 😂. He was still kind of Annie and at the very least cordial to Johanna.