Sometimes U Just Gotta Clean Your Room And Apply An Elaborate Skincare Routine And Pretend That’s Equivalent

idk who needs to hear this but get your ass up and start living the life you kept saying you wanted. chase the dreams you kept on dreaming about. don’t just write it down, go execute it.

@pscentral event 18: adaptations

SAM CLAFLIN PAGE TO SCREEN ADAPTATIONS

Daisy Jones and the Six (2023) dir. James Ponsoldt, Nzingha Stewart, Will Graham Journey's End (2017) dir. Saul Dibb The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence Love, Rosie (2014) dir. Christian Ditter The Riot Club (2014) dir. Lone Scherfig Me Before You (2016) dir. Thea Sharrock Enola Holmes (2020) dir. Harry Bradbeer Adrift (2018) dir. Baltasar Kormákur My Cousin Rachel (2017) dir. Roger Michell Their Finest (2016) dir. Lone Scherfig

A Writer's Guide to Character Development

I don’t know about you guys, but I can only answer “what’s your character’s favorite flavor of ice cream” so many times before I realize those lists are not going to help me actually write the character.

So, instead, I like to drabble practice. Answer these ten key questions about your character (answer in character). Then, after you know them a little better, write ten scenes (NOT part of your planned story) with the ten prompts below. Set it in your world, but it can be whenever you want—pre-story, or post-story, or mid-story. You could even write two scenes for one prompt, contrasting where your character starts the story and where they end up, or write one in first person and then write it again in third.

Just has to cover events that are NOT plot points. The point of the exercise is to come up with scenes you can toss out as soon as you finish them. You might end up using some of the lines or scenes you come up with, but for now you’re just playing around. 

QUESTIONS

What does your character tell everyone is their greatest fear? What is it actually? Is it the same? Why or why not?

What is their greatest strength and greatest weakness? 

Name the most important people to this character. All of them. Family and close friends and lovers.

Does your character have enemies? Who and why?

What is your character’s favorite holiday and why? 

How does your character like to present himself/herself? How do they dress? How do they act? Are they friendly or standoffish? Do they like to make a scene, or are they a wallflower?

What is their love language? How do they express it, and how do they best receive it?

What is their highest virtue? What is something that peers would praise about your character? What do they value most in other people?

Are they messy or neat? Why or why not?

If your character could change one thing about their life, what would it be and why? And, conversely, if they could only save one thing from their life, what would it be?

PROMPTS

Your character has had a bad day. What happened?

Your character’s loved one is sick. What do they do?

It’s your character’s birthday.

Someone is hiding something from your character. How do they uncover what it is?

Your character has just heard the news. A character they loved is dead. Describe the rest of their day.

Your character is on their own for dinner.

Your character has the day to himself/herself. No responsibilities, nothing. What do they do?

In the middle of the night, your character hears a noise in the house.

Your character knows they will die at midnight. What is their last day like?

Your character suddenly develops amnesia. Their loved ones try to jog your character’s memories by taking them to familiar locations and reminiscing. 

people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets

Easter Eggs in Music Videos (obviously not nearly close to all of them, but you get the point)

ME! Music video

-Snake turned into butterflies: corresponds to the YNTCD back tattoo

-Snake slithering on the Stones: corresponds to the lyric “snakes and stones never broke my bones”

-Christmas Tree: “we can leave the Christmas lights up til January”

-In the dialogue Taylor says “I cant talk to you when you’re like this”: lyric in false god

-“You need to calm down”: Song title

-Dixie Chicks in ME! = collab

-Taylor walks through clouds, referring to the lyrics “clearing the air, i breathed in the smoke”

-13 clouds

-Cloud resembled a snake chasing after her

-Taylor in the yellow suit = “The man” tease

-7 briefcases

-The scene with everyone in pantsuits is taking place on a street that looks/resembles Cornelia street

- Brendon looks out of the window alluding to the lyrics “staring out the window like I’m not you’re favorite town”

-London sky view/Big Ben: references to London in Lover

-Lover sign: Album name and song title

-Benji: reference to her new cat

-Cupid scene, an angel rolls her eyes = cruel summer lyric

-Cupid scene alluded to “The Archer”

-Cornelia Roses

YNTCD video references

-Dice cameo: “Devils roll the dice” & “The whole school is rolling fake dice”

-“Mom, I’m a rich man” quote alluding to The man

-Benji watch has 13 on it/became new merch!

-Back tattoo takes us back to the ME! Video where the snake turned into a butterfly

-Lover phone case: new merch

-13 gems on her sunglasses

-Cornelia roses alongside the pool

-16th Ave corresponding with “skipping down 16th Avenue”

-“Love letters only” mailbox: unveiled how she’d be releasing new lover days before release

-Hayley using the bow and arrow to hit the 5 target = “The Archer” being track 5

-13 necklace on

-Cruel summer tattoo on Ellen: song title

-7 people laying down in lawn chairs

-Katy + Taylor symbolic reference to their friendship, also possible reference to “its nice to have a friend” as the song title

-Ryan Reynolds is painting the stonewall inn

Lover music video

-Snow globe: “you two are dancing in a snow globe round and round”

-Lyric video in the attic

-Each room represents old era/past album

-Taylor is wearing Stella x Taylor collab in beginning

-Christian hangs up a photo on Benji

-Yellow room is upside down bc fearless completely flipped her life upside down

-Fishbowl references her life in the spotlight

-“Devils roll the dice, Angels roll their eyes” board game = cruel summer

-Scrabble pieces spell out Afterglow

-“Breakable heaven” board game = cruel summer

-New year’s day party = “there’s glitter on the floor after the party”

-13 candles on the cake

Ppl rlly be complaining about the decision to cast Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow, saying that he's "too hot" to dislike him when that's exactly the whole point of the saga — to make you forget about the cruelty of everything and focus only on the "pretty side". And that's literally panem et circenses.

Agh I'm so mad💀

New Year's Day is my comfort song the moment I find the live audio I am listening to it nonstop and crying I swear

katniss usually reserves the term beautiful for things of the capitol (or the capitol-esque districts). whether that be cinna's beautiful costumes (thg, 139; cf, 20) or the district one tributes (thg, 69, 192; cf, 54). the role of katniss's prep team is to make her beautiful (mj, 54). 

and because of this association with the capitol, katniss prides herself on not taking pleasure in it. she is eager to "scrub the scent of beauty from her body" when she is in the capitol (thg, 139). and she jokingly teases peeta for being susceptible to the capitol's beauty unlike her (cf, 60). even as prim compliments her on her beauty before the first reaping, katniss is quick to counter that she is nothing like herself (thg, 15).

because while she might describe her woods and the nature around her as beautiful, katniss does not directly call anyone in her close circle beautiful. she will imply that prim is beautiful like how her mother once was (thg, 3). or point out gale's beautiful hands as they assemble the snares (cf, 28). she will allude to the beauty of these people. but never directly coin them as beautiful. except for one person.

because in her overwhelming relief, the peeta that she eagerly rushes to embrace for the first time after the games is clean and healthy and beautiful (thg, 360). it is almost like her mind lets it slip in at the last second. that he is beautiful. and afterward, all of the items that peeta produces are labeled beautiful. his cakes (thg, 95), his cookies (cf, 8), and his pearl (107). it seems like everything that his hands touch become beautiful from association.

and for all of the talk katniss gives about not having an eye for beauty, she relies on it in what she thinks are her final moments. after katniss gives peeta the life-saving medicine and collapses in front of him, her eyes fall on a beautiful green-and-silver moth (thg, 189). and she eagerly searches for a final piece of beauty before the quell arena explodes. but she can't find peeta (cf, 108). she can't find his pearl (cf, 108). so, her eyes eventually settle on a star to give her comfort (cf, 108).

and so it is even more tragic that the one person she allowed herself to deem beautiful was morphed into something else. just like in haymitch's games, where all of the beauty of the eden-esque arena turned into a deadly facade (cf, 56). only now snow has turned katniss's beautiful boy with the bread into a personal weapon against her. and it is so demoralizing to katniss that she vows vengeance and then hopes for a quick death in the process.

but then that makes it even sweeter that peeta is the only person that truly comes back for katniss in the end. because the war was almost successful in taking away everything beautiful from katniss. gale's beautiful snare-constructing hands became the means of senseless violence. prim's face was no longer there to be reminiscent of katniss's mother's beauty.

but there he was. and although burns licked his forehead and scars were scattered throughout his body, no amount of fire could ever burn away the beautiful blue of his eyes. slowly, her beautiful boy came back to her. a long glance across the breakfast table. an awful joke directed towards him that was quickly rewarded with a smile that not even the games could take away (thg, 360). his embrace that hints of cinnamon and dill still there after all this time. because while the war may have convinced katniss that she was unworthy of beautiful things, her dandelion in the spring reminded her that she always was.