Dance, Carmen!

Commissioned @fran-aka-mak-comms for @shuannweek day 1: Sunset.

Ren and Ann having a lovely time taking a walk on the beach during the sunset! Thank you again Mak! It’s very beautiful!

‘You should only send hearts to ppl you’re romantically involved with’

WRONG! BOUNDLESS PLATONIC LOVE, WARMTH, AND ENTHUSIASM BE UPON YE!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Shuyuka Week 2024

you ever listen to a song 47 times in a row and every time you’re like wow what a good song. I’m gonna play it again.

@coolman229 and I react to the latest Nintendo Direct.

hand made glass flowers by 一世琉璃手工坊

I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day

I take it all back everyone on this site is toxic

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

Come for the woman in the cocktail dress, stay for the looney toons ass production

lot of people are going to be sent careening three posts down their dash and crashing into a brick wall because of this post

People are complaining about Effie being older than Haymitch but I really could not care less about it. She's older than him and she's Capitol so she probably looks younger due to having a bunch of fancy Capitol beauty regimes. Haymitch is younger than her but he's had a rough life and doesn't look after himself so he looks older than he is. And they've known each other for 25 years and spent every one of those years sending one boy and one girl off to die. And they have depressed middle-aged hookups about it.

It’s not like either of them are ancient in THG series. What, he is 40? She’s what, 44?

Here is Elizabeth banks at 44

Absolutely stunning.

Alan Alda at 40 (sorry Alan!) but he was the first Haymitch-ish person I could think of. Smoker, and in the 70s people didn’t care about the sun, so voila:

If your nose is currently unblocked and not runny, take a moment to appreciate it. Wow look at you breathing in with both nostrils and not having to blow your nose every two minutes! You must be so proud of yourself! I’m proud of you too bud, have fun with your clear nose, you deserve it.

Yeah men being down bad is great and all, but I want to see a woman whose down bad. And I want her to know it. I want her to be an awkward mess around him, even though she's not one to get awkward.

Voice falters when he enters the room she's in, nervous when he tries to talk to her as she tries to sound casual, the moment he leaves she buries her head in her hands and groans. Maybe even asks Cupid what kind of godforsaken arrow he shot her with. I want her to be very confused, not about why she's fallen in love with him, but about how badly she's fallen for him.

It feels like people have forgotten ships don't have to be canon. Isn't the whole point of fandom to explore what could happen to characters in different scenarios

YESS OMG YES FANFICTION IS THE GREATEST THING SICE SLICED BREAD, BETTER EVEN, YOUR OTP CAN SLICE THEIR OWN BREAD IN A LOVLEY CANON DIVERGENCE ONESHOT!!!!!!!!!

it lowkey pisses me off when people say Snow hates Katniss just because she reminds him of Lucy Gray

cause like.. no. he hates her because everything she does is a painful reminder that he had a choice.

whilst he was prepared to kill Lucy Gray for the same result.

because he’d never do the same for Tigris, even though he arguably “owed” Tigris more than Katniss did Primrose.

because he had every opportunity to, but he would never do the same for Sejanus. instead he sent him to his grave.

throughout the entire book Snow keeps choosing money and power over love, and throughout the entire book he tries to gaslight himself into thinking he didn’t have a choice.

Katniss’s actions to some extent forced him to confront his own choices. they forced him to realise that if he hadn’t acted the way he did, he could’ve still had the people he loved by his side.

then there’s the obvious thing with her you know, making the gamemakers and the regime look stupid and well, becoming the unwilling symbol of a rebellion but shh

thank you for coming to my TED talk pookies

every time.