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Obligatory Hyperfixation List
Most of these are in a rotation. I may not talk about one for years and suddenly there's a spiral in my blog. You have been warned :)
The most recent or recurrent (which are more likely to show up) are:
🚬 peaky blinders🚬 | 🔮 arcane 🔮 | 🐢 rottmnt 🐢 | 🌙 moon knight 🌙 | 🎬 sfam 🎬 | 🦇 batman 🦇 | 🛸 rick and morty 🛸 | 🕯 encanto 🕯 | 🎵 kpop 🎵 | ♦️ scarletvision ♦️ | 💎 sonic the hedgehog 💎 | 👾 markiplier 👾 | 🥀 hadestown 🥀
hello sailor
broke: the Pharisees were so EVIL, that's why Jesus TOTALLY OWNED them lolzzzz
woke: The Pharisees believed that the Messiah wouldn't come back until people's hearts were holy, so they were trying to save the Jewish people by imposing rules that they thought would lead to their deliverance
BESPOKE: The Pharisees were trying to hold onto the culture and religious identity that had held the Jewish people together for centuries, just as modern Christians can be so attached to tradition and political identities that they overlook radical love and change. Without tradition and rules, there is no order, no unity, no culture, and no sense of purpose. Yet, with too much legalism, we ignore the reason God gave us rules and customs and become thoughtless robots instead of life-long explorers of the Divine. The only way to balance these opposing ideas is through finding identity through life-changing encounters with Jesus, just like Paul, who was both a Pharisee and one of the most radical advocates for grace, mercy, and salvation through faith.
the beloved | the betrayer
I didn't realize how harsh I thought the voice of God was until I heard how different it sounded when Jesus spoke to Simon Peter in The Chosen during the walking on water scene. I'd always imagined a sort of annoyed, angry God saying those words but the way Jesus spoke with such compassion and love startled me. Of *course* that's how Jesus would have spoken. Of *course* He still loves us when we lack faith. I've been reading His voice as so harsh because of who *I* am, not because of who *He* is. I'm going to read so much of scripture so differently now.
I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little.
But I was little too.
— Franz Kafka, from letters to his father
A little slideshow comic I based off of one of my old scrapped comics! (First post here lol)
This was a Sonic Character challenge I made for myself. I was able to complete the main four!
NOTHING will prepare u for how tiny this guy is
Me watching the prep: That’s gonna be WAY too small for him to live in!
Me seeing the amphibian: Objection withdrawn.
What I think is kind of interesting is that if Dean Casca Highbottom, seeing exactly how good of a student Young Coriolanus Snow was, had taken the boy under his wing instead of despising him and trying to get revenge on a boy that never knew his father (and who only had of his father the words of others about the great man that he was), he might have had a good helping hand in stopping the games he so deeply despised.
It would have been, at the same time, quite a revenge on Crassus Snow to use his son to dismantle the Games the man helped implement. Not only that, but it would have offered young Coryo a person to depend on during his most formative years where he had to grow up under the immense pressure of keeping up appearances, taking care of an ailing grandmother and fighting everyday to keep himself and his family fed.
What Casca failed to realise during the 10th Games was that there weren't 24 tributes, but 25. Snow was fighting for survival just as much as the rest; of course, with the caveat that Snow was never in danger of losing his life. But, for a boy who had for all his life to survive instead of to live, those two might have been the same thing. In saving himself, Coryo would also save Tigris and his grandmother, while all the other tributes were saving mosty themselves since they would be going home with nothing to show for winning the games other than their lives and some (crippling in some cases) trauma.
Maybe things would have played out differently, maybe not, but we have seen time and time again through all four of the Hunger Games books, the power of a kind gesture: Peeta with the bread, Rue healing Katniss, Katniss singing to Rue, Mags sacrificing herself, Boggs treating Katniss like a young traumatised girl when no one else did. Who knows if Snow (and, in turn, the rest of Panem) wouldn't have benefited from it?
This is such a good take! Casca is repulsed by the Games, but ultimately does nothing to stop them or speak out against them. In his own way he is acting out that which he despises most, as the games represent eternal punishment on innocent children for the actions of those who came before them. Out of retribution but also out of fear for who they could become if given the chance. Casca is punishing Coriolanus for his father’s behaviour, much like the capital is punishing the districts for the rebellion. It is ultimately this that pushes Coriolanus further into the role of his father and on a larger scale, what pushes the districts to rebel again.
If Casca had reached out to feed and house the Snow’s at their time of need Coriolanus’ story would be different. If the Capital had won the war and then sought to build a government that represented and supported all of its citizens, Panem would be different.
It’s ironic that he doesn’t realize that he’s playing out his own creation on a small scale. He chose, much like the rest of the Capital citizens of his time and the future, to ignore the messy and the uncomfortable, chalking it up to a system he has no power over. But instead, as is so often revolutionary in the books, he could have chosen to be kind. He could have chosen to see the opportunity to repair and grow from what hurt him in the past. He could have chosen to set aside his anger and pain and reached out a hand to a starving child. And that kindness would have made all the difference!
Much like Coriolanus had every opportunity to choose to be different, I think it was an amazing decision of Suzanne to show that retribution and superiority and judgment and preconceptions are corrupting, individually and as a society, even in someone who thinks they are good.
You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loved you.
Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes find that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.
Think about it: they both grew up poor and deeply vulnerable, losing parents at a very young age, with a matriarchal adult (Katniss' mother and Coriolanus' Grandma'am) who fails to provide for them emotionally and physically. They intimately understand the threat of starvation, even developing with stunted growth because of it, and their narrations in the books share a fixation on food. Throughout their childhoods, both experienced constant fear and suffered a fundamental lack of control over their circumstances. Because of this, they're inherently suspicious of the people around them. They resent feeling indebted to others, especially those who have saved their lives. They're motivated almost entirely by family and deeply connected to their communities. Both are used and manipulated by the Capitol, both are forced to perform to survive and despise every inch of it, both are thrown into the Arena and made to kill. Both have a self-sacrificial, genuinely sweet sister figure acting as their conscience. Peeta and Lucy Gray - performers and love interests with a fundamental kindness and sense of hope about them - fulfill markedly similar roles in their narrative. Both contribute to the development of the future Hunger Games, Snow throughout tbosas and Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.
It's easy to ignore these similarities because, as mirrors of each other, they are exact opposites. Katniss is from District 12, viewed and treated as less than human; Snow is the cream of the Capitol crop, given the privilege of a name with social weight, an ancestral home, and the opportunity of the Academy despite having no more money than a miner from 12. Katniss has no agency over her life, and responds by being kind whenever she's able, while Snow justifies horrendous evils in order to continue his quest for complete control. Katniss does everything she can to protect her family; Snow does everything he can to protect his family's image as an extension of his own ego. Katniss loves her District and connects with its inhabitants on a meaningful level, but Snow is indifferent at best to his peers - the apparent "superior people" - and only engages with his community for personal gain. Katniss emerges from the Arena horrified at herself and the system, but Snow takes his trauma and turns it into an excuse to perpetuate the violence with himself at the top. Katniss cares for Prim until her death and then snaps at the loss of her little sister, while Snow survives on Tigris' blood, sweat, and tears and then torments and abandons her, presumably because she calls him out on his insanity. Snow actively adds to and popularizes the Hunger Games because of his vendetta against the Districts following his childhood wartime trauma - Katniss briefly agrees to a new Hunger Games in the pursuit of vengeance, but later stops them from happening by killing Coin and choosing a life of peace and privacy. Snow is obsessed with revenge, but Katniss empathizes with the Capitolites and does what she can to keep them from suffering. He exists in a cruel system and selfishly upholds it; she exists in a cruel system and works to dismantle it for the good of her family and community, at great personal cost. And Peeta and Lucy Gray are incredibly similar, but Katniss and Peeta forge a relationship of genuine love and understanding that shines in comparison to Coriolanus' obsessive projection onto Lucy Gray.
So, yeah, Katniss is Lucy Gray haunting Coriolanus. But I bet you anything that eighty-something year old President Snow looks at her, the girl on fire, bright and young and brilliant, emerging from a childhood of starvation with a relentless hunger for success, a talented and charming performer helping her win the Games, and he sees the ghost of his own past. And that's why he's so afraid of her! Because if he sees himself in her, then he's up against his own cunning, his own talent for manipulation, his own charisma, his own genius. He's up against the version of himself that he once wished to be, with the nightmare army of his childhood at her back and her star-crossed lover at her side, spewing Sejanus' truths in his own voice. This isn't to say that Katniss ever achieved the level of power and agency that Coriolanus did during her time with the rebellion, but it is to say that Snow was taken down by what truly terrified him - his own morality, come to finish the job.
Acrylic paintings of Ted Lasso.
