Siriusly Marauders

Every time I reread the Hunger Games trilogy I become more furious about the movie representation.

These books were about an indigenous woman (with a brain injury in book 3) living in poverty overthrowing a corrupt white government.

She was demisexual, had stomach hair, was not even remotely romantically driven (and canonically didn’t even find romance until after she had finished a revolution.)

And Peeta was disabled and physically abused as a child and they both suffered from mental health problems and the parallel between the Capitol and the ruling rich was so very transparent.

And I’m seeing fun coloured makeup in stores labeled “Capitol colours from the Hunger Games”!

These books were about the revolution of the most oppressed taking over the extravagance and elitism and decadence of the ruling class while citizens starved.

These books were a parallel to our current social dynamics, they were a call to arms. They were a battle cry for the impeding ruin of the rich white ruling class.

And the movies portrayed them as a fantasy, a romance story, a cute little tale. When the real story in the books was one of strength and upheaval and shifting paradigms and revolutions.

And like…… the death of a young Black child sparked the rebellion.

When Katniss thinks about running away in the second book it is the memory of Rue that makes her decide to stay and “cause all kinds of trouble.”

That is an indigenous woman deciding that the death of a Black child is so horrific and unacceptable that she needs to start an entire uprising about it. That is WOC solidarity.

Then again, when Katniss is talking with Peeta about not leaving he literally, canonically and verbally SAYS it’s because of Rue.

The movies did not lend enough weight to the injustice and violence that Black women face; they didn’t waste any time in deciding the rebellion came from their White Katniss’s determination to overthrow the Capitol.

The movies purposely and aggressively erased all of the racial oppression and power and dynamics that were so apparent in the books.

They made Katniss white, they made Gale white, they erased Peeta’s amputation, they seriously diminished the PTSD both of them faced (which was actually one of the more accuract accounts of PTSD I had ever read in the books), they drastically lessened the weight and importance of Rue’s death.

Anyway, fuck the movies. The books are miraculous. Right down to the respect of survival sex workers. Right down to the power imbalances of society being set in the hands of a violent old white man who has surgery to appear younger.

The author said these books was based on her interpretation of kids’ experiences in war torn Vietnam and Iraq. None of these kids were supposed to be white.

What I find endlessly ironic about the Hunger Games movies and the promotions around them was that Suzanne Collins predicted everything, laid it out in detail (Interviews with Caesar Flickerman, anyone? Literally any celebrity appearance on any late night show), and the movies fulfilled every single item she highlighted. Hollywood made it into their typical thoughtless action movie, removing all the agency of WOC and the systemic oppression they face which the OP and other previous posters highlight because to do so would be to acknowledge the power they themselves wield and to visual a legitimate challenge to such unjust authority in one of the most public ways possible. They hold power, and they want us to forget they do.

I’m in love with the great British bake off

This is my personal favorite(so far)

I must start watching this.

Natalie Portman did THAT at the 2018 Golden Globes

i know no one has to like female celebrities and no one should be forced to but i can’t help but notice how aggressively people on this site hate on women they don’t like compared to men they don’t like

Honestly, If I wanna fucking hate on Taylor’s mediocre, manipulative ass then I’m gonna. Fuck people who profit off playing the victim and fuck people who make people feel bad for venting over legit frustrations.

Honestly, what drugs are you on? Profiting off playing the victim? Taylor Swift was a victim. 19-year-old Taylor Swift was a victim when a 32-year-old Kanye West stole the mic from her to tell the world that she didn’t deserve the award she was receiving. 20-year-old Taylor Swift was a victim when a 32-year-old John Mayer emotionally manipulated and abused her, and then when Katy Perry proceeded to be an apologist for Taylor’s abuser and make the world believe he was just a poor, misunderstood man. 23-year-old Taylor Swift was a victim when a grown man groped her butt without her consent. 26-year-old Taylor Swift was a victim when Kanye West said she owed him sex in a song (regardless of whether it was consented to or not) and then proceeded to use a naked wax figure of her placed next to abusers and rapists in the name of “art.”  Taylor Swift has been the victim of slut-shaming and blatant misogyny for years.

As for her profiting off it? She writes songs about her life, as most artists do. So, she writes about what happens to her. That’s not a crime. If she was profiting off playing the victim, she would have been going around complaining about these things happening in interviews and talking about them more and continuously bringing them up. But, newsflash, that’s not what she did. Instead, questions about these topics were banned and she wanted to move on. It’s people like you and the media who have continued to paint her as a victim. 

As for you personally having “legit frustrations” over this topic… that’s ridiculous. Maybe instead of having weakly justified frustrations with Taylor Swift and what you think she does or doesn’t do, you should have actual frustrations with your idolised Yeezy, who has profited throughout his entire career off calling women bitches and hoes, and diminishing them to nothing more than a sex object.

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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry + 7 years of lessons ⚡

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

I needed this

Happy 28th Birthday Taylor Swift!

dumbledore for rio 2016

i’m sorry i’m reblogging again, but like where did dumbledore learn to swim like that? are we to assume that dumbledore lowkey swims in the lake at Hogwarts and outswims the Giant Squid or something? is that why he’s on speaking terms with the merpeople living in the lake? so they can let him practice his Michael Phelps-like perfect breaststroke? if so, there must be groups of students that secretly watch him, bc teens are weird. these are questions that will keep me up tonight, kayla.

are we to assume that dumbledore has a ripped swimmer’s bod under that fab clothing? dumbledore disguised as a hogwarts student: i heard that dumbledore has an 8 pack. that dumbledore was shredded.

Taylor Swift goes incognito

Hogwarts Uniforms - House Slytherin

1910-1960

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Hogwarts Uniforms - House Hufflepuff

1910-1950

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