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NOTHING MATTERS BUT THAT'S JUST FINE!!
In “news that isn’t really that big of a deal but I am excited about,” this multi-fandom-reblog-trash-can-nightmare of a blog has 600 followers! I don’t know who most of you are. maybe you’re p*rn bots?? But, behind every p*rn bot is a human who programmed said bot, so…hallo!
To celebrate this relatively silly milestone I want to take fic writing prompts.
NOW. If you know me, you know I should not be trusted to do these in a timely manner.
And if you don’t know me…don’t listen to those idiots! I am VERY trustworthy (@cubbiegirl laughs maniacally).
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? LIKE. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?
Okay. Hostile much? It’s quite simple.
1. Pick a ship or show you want me to write (shows/ships/characters I think I can write are below - something you don’t see? send me an ask! maybe I can do it?)
Veronica Mars (Logan x Veronica, Wallace friendship or romance, Mac being the best)
Once Upon a Time (Emma x Killian, Ruby being the best)
New Girl (Nick x Jess, Winston being the best)
Gossip Girl (Dan x Blair)
Single Parents (Will x Angie)
Superstore (Jonah x Amy)
The Good Place (I am an Eleanor x Chidi fan, but suggest anything!)
The Hunger Games (NEVER DONE IT BUT KATNISS X PEETA WHY NOT?!)
Ever After (I have about 76 ideas for Henry x Danielle modern AUs)
2. Pick a prompt from this list or this list (I LOVE FAKE DATING AND MEET UGLIES) or this random list I created. Or! Pick a prompt from your own brain.
3. Send me an ask with your show/pairing/character and a prompt.
AND THEN WHAT??!!
And then you, my poor friends and fools, have to wait for me to get my ish together and write them. I don’t expect to get too many, so hopefully I can churn through them all in the month of May!
(If I dip below 600 followers which is likely given my erratic posting schedule and present hyperfixation on Superstore, I promise to still accept prompts.)
(also, tagging @lavellenchanted because I know she has one of these pairings blacklisted and I want her to see the post. HI, SARAH!)
Ship dynamic: She's everything, and he's just Ken/Worships the ground she walks on gotta be one of my favorites honestly
You know what we should normalize in YA fiction?
Love triangles that ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING TO THE STORY.
Like, the hunger games gets ragged on a lot for its unnecessary love triangle, but the boys represent katniss choosing a life of war and anger or a life of peace and hope. Gale=war, Peeta=peace. The boys are their own characters, and the love triangle does get annoying at times, but it still adds to the themes of the trilogy.
I found my Keeper of the Lost Cities books, which is what got me thinking about this in the first place, and wouldn’t it have been cool if shannon messenger went that route with fitz and keefe? Like, Fitz represents Sophie’s old life, the pressures other people put on her (and that she puts on herself), etc., with Keefe representing a new life for her and freedom to discover who she is outside of being a prodigy/moonlark, etc. I just wasn’t getting that vibe reading the books. (And I’m a big supporter of forgetting that Dex ever had a crush on Sophie. Platonic Sodex for life).
Also, Sodex is a stupid ship name, I’m sorry.
Idk I usually put down a book as soon as it shows signs of love triangles, so I don’t know many others, but yeah. Screw meaningless love triangles that only exist to add “tension” to a story that can’t stand on its own, thank you. :)
I’m so sorry, Katniss
She pulls him even tighter into her chest, she can feel the hard planes of his back spasming and shaking along with the rest of his body. Quick and shallow breaths slip through gritted teeth and between them, drawn out incantations of her name. All she can do is offer a tight, reassuring hug from behind, holding on for dear life, and comforting words in small whispers until his episode is over.
The death grip on the back of the chair loosens as he comes back to reality, swapping shallow breaths with deep sobs that wrack his body from the centre of his chest. A sigh of relief escapes her as she recognises the tell tale signs of him returning. He slumps over and falls to the floor as his leg gives into the post-episode shakes; bringing her with him. They hit the floor with a thump, and she moves out from underneath him and shuffles as close to him as she dares. He moves his hands to his scarlet face as tears stream down staining his shirt but she grabs them before they can get there. Holding them, she brings them down to her waist and wraps hers around his shoulders. Pulling him close. The closeness lets her hear a muttered apology coming from him, but they both know there is nothing to be sorry for. She is the first to speak since the incident happened, quiet enough as to not shock him anymore than he already was.
"It's okay. It's okay. It's not real. It's. Not. Real. I'm not a mutt, you're not a mutt. You are Peeta Mellark. You are 22 years old. We're here, at home, in District 12. You survived two games and a rebellion. And you are surviving now.”
By the time she has finished, his sobs have been reduced to a few stray tears that slowly make their way down his face. He takes a deep but shaky breath out as the adrenaline slowly leaves his body. A look of shame crosses his face.
“I'm so sorry. I honestly thought I was getting better. It's been months since my last episode and something little must have just thrown me off I guess.”
She shakes her head; smiling slightly.
“It's okay, I promise you. You were doing so much better but this isn't the end. You're not starting right from the beginning, just, taking a step back. Healing isn't linear, we both know that, I still have my bad days and you have your episodes but we have to keep moving forward. If we don't then we will be back at the beginning and He wins. We both can’t let that happen. We've been through too much to let that happen”
He looks defeated, his usual half-smile after her semi-threatening pep talks isn't present.
“I’m so… drained. What are we even fighting for anymore, Katniss? I try to remember sometimes. That old conviction I had. I was so sure I’d never lose it.”
“Hard not to once you’ve fought the same battle as long as we have.”
She leans forward, touching their foreheads together.
“But we have to keep pushing. You once told me that you didn't want them to change you, giving in is letting that happen. You won't ever lose that hope, it's always there. You're my dandelion, my hope. If you lose that we both fall apart. And I can't let that happen. The battle to get here was long and hard and will keep on going until we win and we will win.”
His expression doesn't change; not believing in what she’s saying
“I'm not the same teenage boy who said these words to you that night though Katniss. I have changed from the games, from Snow. I'm not the same boy whose name was called at that reaping 6 years ago. I'm not the same boy who spent nights with you on the train or whose heart stopped trying to protect you in the arena. They have changed me.”
Her mouth tilts downward starting to form into her ever present scowl.
“Maybe your not the love struck boy who spoke to me for the first time on a train to our deaths or kept me up straight, night after night, on the victory tour but you are the boy who risked his life to save me in the sewers of the Capitol and stopped me from taking my life after I killed Coin. I'm not the same girl who volunteered for her sister or held onto you for dear life while I was paralysed from torturous jabberjays. Neither of us are exactly the same as we were all those years ago. But everyday since then, you have shown me how some things inside you are so intrinsically you. Your optimism, love, kindness, charisma and hope are all you and can never be changed.”
He finally smiles, and a sense of hope runs through him. Not this hope she says is always within him, but from her. A hope so intimate and specific he can only attribute it to her and how she always manages to bring it to him in his darkest hours.
“I’m so… drained. What are we even fighting for anymore, [X]? I try to remember sometimes. That old conviction I had. I was so sure I’d never lose it.”
“Hard not to once you’ve fought the same battle as long as we have.”
I need a Peeta Mellark in my life 🥲
Katniss: I don't understand why anyone likes me.
Peeta, pulling out a 10 page list: Well, first of all-
I agree with Katniss. I don’t know why people like me
Katniss: I don't understand why anyone likes me.
Peeta, pulling out a 10 page list: Well, first of all-
KATNISS EVERDEEN AS A VAMPIRE WITH A TRACKING GIFT
- See, Katniss, the way the whole friend thing works is you have to tell each other the deep stuff. - The deep stuff? - Yeah. - Uh oh. Like what? - Like, uh...
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE 2013 | dir. Francis Lawrence
This. The irony of the movies and the marketing doing exactly what she told us.
suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomena of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008
Is it canon or reasonable to think Gale was glad Peeta got captured? So that he'd be out of the way?
I know we know gale was angry when he saw Kat and Pete together, but did he dehumanize peeta enough to be grateful for his capture?
Gale worrying about Finnick and Katniss liking eachother- meanwhile the two of them have people on stand by to sedate them and are just aggressively knotting their shared therapy rope while they talk about Peeta and Annie in between naps
"Look up at the sky, look at all those colors" lies, Peeta. Bull. That was the boringest sunrise. It's all gray. The woman was dying and you lied??
Like I'm joking but like. It's CGI. They could do better than that.
Watching HG Catching Fire: maybe it's just me, but it feels so rushed and forced.
And why is the convo between Peeta, Katniss, and Haymitch (after the victory stop in district 11) so so rushed? Like there is so much content in the book, and if I hadn't read it I would have no idea what was going on.
Am I maybe watching an edited version of the movie or smth?? It doesn't mention the food deliveries??
Not Gale sitting by her side, watching her sleep I hate that and that dreadful nickname
Watching HG Catching Fire: maybe it's just me, but it feels so rushed and forced.
And why is the convo between Peeta, Katniss, and Haymitch (after the victory stop in district 11) so so rushed? Like there is so much content in the book, and if I hadn't read it I would have no idea what was going on.
Watching THG: The Mockingjay pt. 1
Finnick breaks my heart.
Why are the buildings in D12 still smoldering?? It was bombed when Kat ended the games, and then she's asleep for days and has time to get more or less settled at D13, enough that they know they have to cart her back to bed most nights, so why is the district still smoldering??
If someone could remind me what the deal is with the white roses, that'd be great. I know they're Snow's signature, but the powdery stuff??
I don't think prim realizes this, but if you can't sleep that does not mean you want your little sister to sleep in your bed. Also I'm not a fan of her Aged By The War Wisdom TM.
I also hate the nickname Little Duck.
It's fascinating to see the capitol's side as they plan to bomb the injured. The fact that they would sink so low as to kill the dying. Like, that's not gonna win the war, it just makes a statement.
Gale comes into her room saying he's got good news, and you know Kat is hoping for Peeta to come back, but Gale's like We can go hunting now 👍👍
Gale makin moves is so icky. Make him stop. Not him being lowkey manipulative with his "I knew you'd do that, cause I'm in pain. But don't worry it'll pass." Shut up
Love Peeta
Aww Finnick
How is Kat's hair so clean??
Why is her hair always in her mouth?
Maybe this is just my memory, but in the books, finnick's propo is for information purposes, in the movies its to jam signals and break Annie, Johanna, and Peeta out.
The way Coin manipulates everything in her speech.
If I were watching as the movies came out, I would freak out at the end.
!!!!
the fact that Peeta couldn’t work up the gumption to talk to Katniss for YEARS but as soon is he’s presented an opportunity he immediately starts laying the moves on her in unrelentingly charismatic fashion is insane
The Everlark quote that is eating holes in my brain at the moment is:
"I have the pearl, though, secured in a parachute with the spile and the medicine at my waist. I hope it makes it back to District 12. Surely my mother and Prim will know to return it to Peeta before they bury my body."
Just. Gosh. All the things the pearl represents and how immediately it became her most treasured possession because Peeta gave it to her. But also. The fondness. The anguish. The way she plans for Peeta to have a piece of her to keep forever. The dramatic scene she pictures of her family (ft Peeta) grieving at her funeral. The statement that "SURELY" her mother and sister will understand the weight, the SIGNIFICANCE of the pearl and simultaneously acknowledge the depth of Peeta's loss in the midst of their own. The fact that she expects her mother and her sister to NOT ONLY accept that she chose to die so Peeta could live BUT ALSO TO CARE FOR HIM AFTER HER DEATH. Ugh it's so much all at once and I am in agony
her face is the movie is just like........golden.
I want to screenshot it, print it out and shove it in people's faces when they annoy me.
"Everyone's reactions were soooo funny, especially Katniss" lol i especially loved it at the beginning when Peeta goes to unzip Johanna's dress, her expression towards him is like "you did not just unzipped this bitch's dress. You did not just do that. You are gonna sleep on the couch tonight."
GAHSSVJSBSSB BOY WAS GOING STRAIGHT IN THE DOG HOUSE FOR THAT ONE💀
She didn’t even try to hide it, it was a full on “what the actual fuck are you doing?!” moment and Haymitch was just enjoying the show
Me to Everlark, HP marauder era relationships, Six of crows, Shadow and Bone, Percy Jackson
