Justheretochillposts - My Most Random Thoughts

my ducks are not in a row but they are all wandering in vaguely the same direction

Totally agree. Not to mention the fact that Katniss wasn't trying to be the face of a rebellion, it just kind of happened to her. The biggest difference I noticed between THG and SOTR is that Haymitch was trying to end the games and actively rebel while Katniss would love that to happen but is primarily focused on the survival of herself and her family.

Katniss accidentally became the face of a revolution through a mixture of her natural reactions to her situation being publicized and the orchestration of those that have been behind the rebellion for decades.

It is not a teenage girl saves the world story it is a teenage girl becomes propaganda story.

Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

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Sanfrancisco

The Bay Bridge and Big dreams 

She first glimpsed all those years ago

The dreams she’d have years from then

It’d be impossible to know

The way the water shimmered from all the brilliant light

Her heart fluttered like it would years from then

With her restlessness and will to fight

The cool breeze, the midnight air, the miraculous breathless delight

All the things she feels, and forgets are from that night

That night in San Francisco where all dreams could come true

After all she was very young and therefore hardly knew

She hardly knew of the world, of her own desire to explore

Her ambitions still a mystery, her heart not strong enough to roar 

She keeps on going day to day

To achieve her dreams, come what may

The dreams she felt but could not see all those years ago

Her big dreams from the Bay Bridge that night in San Francisco

Some people watching WandaVision: That’s so fucked up, why would Wanda do that? Wanda needs to work through her issues in healthier ways

Me watching WandaVision: Altering reality- what a sick coping mechanism! shame it turned out to be unethical because that’s a perfectly valid response

Growing up seems like it sucks. Ya know? I'm good with 16. 17 is as close to adulthood as I'm willing to get. Independent but not like responsible for anything

On the Benefits and Pitfalls of Living Through Fantasy

For me, life is like a movie. I can always see its narrative arc. I can always see my character archetype. Narrative arcs tend to have limited options, so you try to spot the ending. You try to find who the other main characters are and guess where your story will take you. You try to spot the heroes, villains, love interests and comic relief of your life. You try to spot where you play these roles for others.

In short, you live in a world of fantasy. This can be both the best and worst thing for your life.

On one hand you can live life with the reassurance that the story will finish. You can see how the trials you face can motivate your character arc and enhance your story. However, once you feel you've completed an arc, you feel a bit empty. Life works in installments of plot for you (series, novels, episodes, etc). When you complete an arc you get into a rut and you have no reassurance it's going anywhere until a new plot unfolds. You get scared you could be stuck like this forever.

When you live in a world of fantasy there is always somewhere to escape to. Always your vision of how it could go differently, a fantastical plot of another universe, a made-up romance, or a wild adventure. But you know this isn't real. The discrepancy between fantasy and reality can often be confusing, jarring, and misleading.

Of course sometimes it helps to go through life as if the fantasy is the reality. To go through life thinking you deserve all the good things, that you are learning through your own adventure. It's a great way to think about yourself. It's how you think about others that becomes the problem.

Who did you unfairly cast as a villain? What when the happily ever after you expected doesn't come? How about when you lose someone you were hoping would be a main character?

I am constantly tortured and comforted by the fantasy I surround myself with. Of course I could say the same about my reality.

Hear me out. a political show like House of Cards but instead of it being about a cunning politician manipulating the system for power it's about a confused politician who accidentally gets involved in politics, isn't super passionate, doesn't know what's happening, but somehow stumbles their way to the presidency. All the other politicians and this character are absolutely fucking baffled.

why isn't it socially acceptable to hit on people in a university library? Was it? Is it? Like I know we're all here to do work or whatever but like what a meet cute. And you find someone that cares enough about school/career to be there in the first place but is relaxed enough to take a break and ask you out? Yes please!

Ben Barnes is the off brand British version of Sebastian Stan.