Claudia, My Heart 💜

Bark BarK looks a little demonic but I think that tracks

"You have everything to lose and I have nothing; who do you think's going to make it out of this alive?"

Thank you! This is awesome!!!

SKINNED KNEES & OPEN PALMS

aftg · jerejean · 7.4k, t. high school au · multiple / outsider pov · ensemble cast · kevin just wants them to pass history · 3+1 things for @jamelslivres, as part of the @aftgexchange

“Hey, soldier,” Jeremy says, sliding into the space Andrew left. Jean looks at him, and swallows. “Soldier?” Jeremy smiles, small and bashful and with just a peek of teeth. Jean resists the urge to poke at his canines. “Y’know, wounded soldier, coming back from war,” he says, then bumps their shoulders together, gesturing down at his knee. “You hurt your knee, right?” “Does that make you the loyal wife awaiting his return from the war?” Allison asks archly, glancing over from Renee, Dan and Seth to look at Jeremy. Jean doesn’t think he can cope with an answer to that question, so he quickly says to Jeremy, “Sort of.”

Jean gets a mysterious injury, Jeremy is distracted, Katelyn is shipping, Allison is scheming, the lacrosse team has too many group chats, and Kevin just wants to study for their midterm.

or: three times someone waited for jerejean to make a move, and one time they finally did.

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Katniss and Haymitch are both pretty much solely motivated by community (protecting family, friends, people they deem vulnerable). The difference is in the ways that rebellion comes naturally to them.

Katniss’ rebellion are, for lack of a better word, “passive” acts of love. Building a burial for Rue, speaking to Rue’s and Thresh’s families, trying to save Peeta with the berries, etc.

Haymitch tends towards more “active” acts. Blowing up the water tank, driving the chariot to face off against Snow. While his rebellious acts diminished after the games, this pattern of “active/offensive” over “passive/defensive” becomes exacerbated when he shuts himself off from people.

Throughout the books, Katniss has to learn to be more “active/offensive” in becoming the mockingjay. Haymitch has to relearn the “passive/defensive” by opening himself up to Katniss and Peeta.

Despite their differences in how they naturally rebel, they are both so similar in that community and love are their motives. Katniss really is Haymitch but luckier. This book also proves how important luck is to a rebellion (even though we may not want it to be). In addition to luck, persistence is also necessary.

Armand apologist until I die

For @undermoonwalker-ish I feel like this one is kinda boring ):

4/6 @aftgexchange

aftg is the opposite of that one post that's like "love was there, it didn't change anything" because love was there and it changed everything. i will always appreciate nora for believing in her characters' right to find love and heal and get their second and third and fifth chance.

I had a big trauma happen a week ago and I’ve just read the first two chapters of The Sunshine Court. It’s so healing to read. Maybe it’s because I’m sure it’s going to get better for Jean, or that he has people caring for him and acknowledging his pain when he can’t. I’m in a lot of pain right now but I can’t find it in myself to express it, so I’m finding solace in his pain being expressed and dealt with in the narrative.

Elrond and Galadriel just enjoying some time together in the grass (:

My first gift to @undermoonwalker-ish for the AFTG Fall Exchange! A series of cards depicting the AFTG characters as heist genre archetypes.

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