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@magalimoons / magalimoons.tumblr.com

MOSTLY ON HIATUS. things i care about, in no particular order: prose, politics, poetry, sci-fi, fantasy, space, long distance train travel and peanut butter.
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torturedpoetemotions

The thing is, until you get past the mindset of "justice=punishment" you will never be able to create lasting change. We have actual proof that punitive justice creates more crime and makes criminals more violent. We have actual proof that rehabilitation reduces crime and recidivism. But some of y'all are so stuck on this idea that the wrongdoer must be punished for justice to be done that you will choose sating your need for revenge over actually moving toward a better world every time. And that's sad!

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torturedpoetemotions

Everyone in the notes saying punishment doesn't undo the bad thing: exactly! Punishment does not create or preserve healing, prevention, protection, fairness, or goodness. The only thing punishment does is satisfy a sadistic public desire for revenge and give us the illusion of control.

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ceremonial

“Is it because you do not believe that I could love you? I do. I love you, George. I love you so much that I will do as you wish. If you do not love me, say you do not love me, and I will go. I will go back to Buckingham House. And we can live our separate lives, and I will have this baby alone, and I will make do and fill my days and survive. All on my own. I will do that. But first, you have to say that you do not love me. You have to tell me that I am utterly alone in this world.” Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023)

#they were perfect#queen charlotte#charlotte x george
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lehdenlaulu

Okay, but...

  • Tolya repeatedly putting himself in harm's way to protect Inej. Not to show off or because he thinks she can't handle herself, but because life debt is Serious Business. And Inej, flustered and exasperated (and terrified, too, because she's not about to lose this person now that she has him in her life) just as repeatedly insisting that it was Wylan and he owes her nothing.
  • Tolya watching over Inej as she sleeps/naps – especially at first because stuck on a ship with virtual strangers is not the easiest thing for her to adapt to – just staying near and humming calming tunes or softly reciting choice stanzas etc. until one day before long she's basically using him as a pillow.
  • Tolya picking up on her impending panic attacks and desire to disappear before even she does and soothing her – with her permission, though for some realistic drama, I can see how he would especially initially instinctively try to calm her and her lashing out because he did it without her consent.
  • Tolya always being able to find her on the ship but knowing when to give her space and let her come to him.
  • Tolya letting Inej handle the worst of the slaver scum and afterwards talking it through with her, or just praying with her or sitting quietly with her or holding her.
  • Inej and Tolya talking about their faith, similarities and differences and what it means to them.
  • Tolya teaching Inej to meditate.
  • Tolya gifting Inej with little trinkets and trophies and braiding them into her hair for her. And one day, she'll perhaps even accept something from his own hair. Not as some kind of mark of ownership – not with Tolya, never with Tolya – but as a little piece of him to carry with her always.
  • Tolya and Inej sparring until they flow together like wind and water, almost as in sync as the twins.
  • Tolya carrying Inej on piggyback. As, you know, light cardio. And just because.
  • Hugs. Lots of hugs. Twin hugs! My sister is your sister too, now.
  • Tamar (and Nadia) teasing Tolya about Inej and him taking it in good-natured stride while Inej blushes somewhere within earshot.
  • Because it's not like that. Is it? Maybe it is like that. Inej Ghafa no longer has any patience for not knowing where she stands with a man. So she asks.
  • It is whatever you want it to be, Tolya says, for however long you want it – but as long as they both live, she'll always have his sword.
#y'all speaking my language now#tolya yul bataar#inej ghafa#tolnej#sorry I adore them idc idc#need a ship tag#prayers and poetry#shadow and bone#six of crows
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cheeseanonioncrisps

I unironically love the character names in the Hunger Games series.

Haymitch, Peeta, Hazelle, Leevy, Maysilee, Finnick and Greasy Sae look bizarre when you first see them written down, but then if you think about how they look and/or sound it's pretty clear that they're meant to be modern names, only modern names that have changed spelling and pronounciation over time— as you would have expected them to have done so over how ever many hundreds of years it's been since our modern day.

(Remember, though The Hunger Games themselves have only been going on for 75 years, the universe they're in is canonically post-apocalyptic— the reason nobody ever mentions what's happening in the rest of the world is that everywhere except America was destroyed in a nuclear war. We're not given much of an indication how long it's been since then.)

Peeta is Peter, Haymitch is Hamish, and Hazelle is Hazel, Maysilee is Maisie— the changes in pronunciation are slight (Peeta and Peter are already virtually identical in my accent), and the spelling has changed to match.

Leevy is either a corruption of Lily, or more likely I suspect 'Livvy', a common nickname for Olivia; Finnick is probably from Finnegan (shorten in to 'Finneg' and then say it over and over very fast); Sae could be short for Sarah, or Sally or even Susan— it's not uncommon for nicknames to become real names in their own right (look at Harry or Molly as examples).

I also love the trend of having District 1 parents give their kids names relating to the luxury items their district produces— Glimmer, Marvel, Gloss, Cashmere, Velvereen (presumably a corruption of 'velveteen'), Facet— because those things are all a) objectively pretty/nice (like naming a kid 'Diamond' or 'Star' today) and presumably status symbols in their district.

Meanwhile District 3 does the same thing, but all the pronunciations are corrupted. You've got technical names to do with the manufacture of electronics— Wiress (wireless), Circ (circuit)— but you've also got what I'm pretty sure are meant to be corruptions of modern brand names— Beetee (BT), Teslee (Tesla).

To me this kind of suggests that District 3 is less conscious of this influence than District 1. Like, parents in 1 are more likely to deliberately think "I'll name my kid Glimmer, because things that glimmer are pretty" whereas 3 as a culture might have genuinely forgotten that those names used to mean something, in the same way that most of us don't think much about how the name 'Arthur' comes from the old word for 'Bear'.

And of course, then you've got the Capitol leaning hard into those ancient Roman vibes with names like Fulvia, Plutarch, Seneca, Tigris… but still using the European/American personal name+family name format, which the Romans didn't really do. Like it's very clear that this is a future society fetishising the classical era, rather than an actual resurgence of Roman culture.

It's just such a cool world-building detail. So many dystopian novels just go for modern names (and there's nothing wrong with that, especially if you're only looking a couple of hundred years into the future) but thinking about how names might have evolved over the centuries and the different naming traditions that might have developed in different areas really adds a whole new dimension to the culture of Panem.

#thg
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every time yeonjin and doyoung have a conversation it’s like watching a normal type pokemon battle a ghost type – both sides are firing, nothing is hitting. they’re operating on completely different wavelengths. doyoung drops a deadpan/condescending one-liner that subtly implies yeonjin is a shallow person. 0 damage. yeonjin fake-giggles, turns his comment into a flirtatious joke, and then uses sex as a distraction from her nefarious behavior. 0 damage. doyoung is playing go in his head the entire time because he’s a holier-than-thou goromantic sapiosexual. and this went on for 10+ YEARS

#the glory
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