she is salt to the sea

stop glamorizing “the Grind” and start glamorizing whatever this is

She was no victim of destiny. She was the last Speerly, commander of the Cike, and a shaman who called the gods to do her bidding. And she would call the gods to do such terrible things.

@dailyaoc​ event 02: high and historical fantasy  — The Poppy War  by R.F. Kuang

have i known you 20 seconds or 20 years? (x)

it’s their tenth anniversary y’all!

                                 My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.                                     If I am ever a queen, I’ll make them love me.

                      Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones (2011 – 2019)

About me. Some people think I’m the cutest one in my family. Those people being my grandma… who’s dead now. Never mind about my dead grandma. All I’m saying is that I like fries. I like dipping them in my milkshake. Is that weird? It’s actually really tasty. Would you like to try that with me sometime?

So the keyword on this ask for me is “realized.” I think Katniss was falling in love with Peeta during the first book, but I think the moment when she actually consciously realizes her feelings is the beach scene. That scene is a turning point in her behavior and actions. From then on out, she describes their relationship in such a way that she considers it mural. It goes from “I don’t know myself” to being jealous that others can easily recognize two other people in love, but would doubt her feelings for someone. Everything after the beach scene changes. I think she stuffs it down again after he’s taken, but even she’s aware of how she feels, as hinted in the line about how she didn’t dare let herself think about the beach kiss until she knew Peeta was back with her.

suzanne collins naming capitol citizens in her books

what she says: I’m fine

what she means: can we talk about the beach scene okay? not necessarily the kissing (though that’s great too and an essay for a different time) but the after of that whole moment? how Finnick clearly knows what’s up (from the way they’re wrapped around each other and their expressions . . . feel like we gloss over that a bit . . . how must they have been looking at each other?) and like a good (neighbor State Farm is there) friend he’s like “no it’s good I can watch alone” and how Peeta is like “I can keep watching, but you should sleep, Katniss sweetheart” and he leads!!! Katniss over to a place for her to sleep?? he doesn’t need to do that it’s what? a couple feet away?? it’s such a comfortable, understated gesture? and then! he puts the locket on her neck? (and I was like *screams*) and then, okay, he sets his hand over the place where their baby would be and I know it’s a signal that their timeout is over but??? the level of?? intimacy?? like can y’all picture that with me for a second?? can you picture it? because I am sure he’s imagining it, just for a second, if it really was his baby (her baby) (theirs) under his hand, in a beautiful, impossible pipe dream of a world where children have never even heard of the Games . . . but he can’t think like that so he tells her she’ll be a great mother (*sobs*), because that’s the hope he has for her now, even without him . . . and that little kiss *sighs* . . . and then Katniss?? like clearly it’s affecting her too! and the line “IF ONLY ONE of us can be a parent” NOT! “I never wanted to be a parent” but “if only one of us can” “if only one of us gets that chance . . . I want him to have it” like it’s a gift???? like??? they’re trying to give the gift of being a parent to each other???? and then despite the fact that Peeta means for her to think of the future she could have with Gale she goes and imagines a peaceful, happy world where Peeta and his children could be safe which 1. she’s so sacrificial like? his happiness would make her happy? 2. I’m not going to sit here and pretend that him calling attention to their fake baby didn’t stir some sort of longing inside her like? it obviously did and every time I read this scene I have to remind myself she’s not pregnant with his child and that’s not what she’s imagining (like the phrasing “Peeta’s child” always struck me as so specifically intimate; not “Peeta’s children” or “Peeta and his children” but “Peeta’s child” . . . just the one) 3. she already loves her impossible children so much (because she’s giving them up??) but ALSO 4. she gets her dream? she gets it! and the next morning she wakes up with a delicious feeling like? girl, that’s love you’re in love and I - I don’t know I have a lot to emotions *goes and listens to Ocean and cries*

meanwhile in the forge