Lottienat Getting Cancelled For Being “aesthetic” And Taivan For Being “too Healthy”… And These

What a year this week has been.

“judas, must you betray me…with a kiss?”

Idgaf if you don't want to write essays for school. I don't care if you don't want to write corporate emails yourself. I don't care if you can't draw well, I don't care if you can't write well, I don't care if you just really really want to talk to your favorite fictional character but don't want to RP with a real person because you have social anxiety or whatever

If you're still regularly using generative ai, chatgpt or midjourney or character.ai or literally whatever the fuck, im personally blaming you when my utility prices start going up.

Natalie Scatorccio Somehow Managing to Serve Face in the Worst of Circumstances: A Collection

(while being interrogated and exposed as a liar in a trial ran by teenagers to decide whether her only father figure lives or dies)

(trying to force her suicidal father figure to eat while holding him captive)

(deciding to kill her only father figure)

(facing down a tyrannical dictator who is sabotaging her only chance at getting rescued)

(plotting against that tyrannical dictator)

(losing the last scrap of hope she has left and coming to terms with having to continue to live in a hellscape where she will inevitably lose herself completely)

(serving boyfriend while yelling at her girlfriend, whom she just discovered broke the flight transmitter and is therefore partially responsible for every terrible thing that has happened out there)

(being humiliated by bisexual stalin in front of a crowd and forced to participate in another card draw)

SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations x

South of Midnight (2025) dev. Compulsion Games All of Hazel's Looks

it’s so interesting to watch harry potter fans continue to try and distance the series/characters from the creator when jkr said this in 2023:

i get it, harry potter was important to me too. i played hogwarts with my friends, i started a harry potter club, i had a wand and robes. i almost took “religion and harry potter” as a freshman in college!! but when i found out that jkr was a transphobic nazi sympathizer? i dropped that shit so fast. it was kind of sad but mostly i was just angry at jkr. and i understood that the characters were fake while transgender people are real. you have to realize that transgender people are more important, right? and nonbinary people like myself because i’m pretty sure she hates me too but it’s mostly trans folks

and yeah you can interpret the characters however you want! you can make them black, queer, trans, whatever you want! you’re still using her characters, her series. her bigotry is inherent in her creations. you can’t separate it and the fuck would you want even the smallest part in it?? just let it fucking die, already, please. or if you can’t give up a mediocre fantasy series, you could at least admit that you’re not the best ally, huh?

haymitch carrying lou lou and hiding under a group of willow trees so the capitol can’t take her body right away, to years later, katniss singing the meadow song to a dying rue which starts with the line, “deep in the meadow, under the willow”

Nat's relationship with the Wilderness is so fascinating to me. She is clearly playing the role of the group's skeptic—she resists the rituals, challenges Lottie’s authority, and often positions herself as the rational voice amid rising hysteria. But underneath it all, she does believe in the Wilderness, perhaps even more deeply and purely than many of the others.

Nat's defiance and skepticism is a defense mechanism. No matter how much she denies it, even to herself, there is some part of Nat that knows the Wilderness is real. But unlike those who romanticize the idea of the Wilderness as a source of self-preservation, salvation, or hope, Natalie sees it for what it truly is: something wild, hungry, dangerous, and intimately tied to their worst impulses. Nat and Lottie possess a unique understanding of the Wilderness as something that lives inside of them all, rather than an external force. I think it's very possible Nat has felt it from the beginning, some darkness within all of them, and it terrifies her. Her resistance is a form of self-protection, a way to maintain some sense of autonomy in the face of something she instinctively knows could consume her. Rather than give herself over to it like the others, she fights it tooth and nail, perhaps knowing better than anyone what it is capable of.