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lorata · 20 hours
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from How to Love in Sanskrit
God has a rather mean streak don't you think?
Look how he counts our days.
Even those days when I've not snuggled against her at all (even for a moment) he ticks off as a day.
Could he not write it off?
Arrangement of Verses (Padyaracanā, पद्यरचना), 1600 CE, Maharashtra, translated by Anusha Rao & Suhas Mahesh
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lorata · 4 days
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FYI paramount just released a commercial featuring creed
(the band not your character)
sincerely, a very anon anon
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lorata · 7 days
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ALWAYS SEND FUN THINGS even if i don't know a fandom or a trope or whatever other people usually have ideas and it makes a fun discussion!!
(also it's funny bc i don't know these characters but this framework helps me understand them XD)
I'm not sure if you know Doctor Who but I'm thinking about companions and whether they would be in the program (or not).
One who I definitely think would be, she's textbook program material, they would look at her and want to shape her, is Ace. She's got authority issues, but I think if she was in the program from a young age it would be twisted in a certain way, I feel that's something they would do. She's got a lot of fire and anger and violence, and home issues too. At 13 she burnt down an abandoned house and definitely was charged - she had a probation officer. Feel like that could be twisted instead, or it's a "yeah you get two choices, pass your centre residential exams, or juvi," since Panem has a much stricter and severe police and laws and punishments and stuff. If she did become a Victor I feel like she'd be amenable to Lyme's politics and definitely no treason going on here guys.
Someone who I think would enjoy the early years stuff but definitely not go into residential is Donna. She definitely seems someone who would enjoy all the running and games and stuff like that as a kid, but she wouldn't stay long. Her Grandad, Wilf, would Definitely be against it. He's very anti war and pacifist, he would hate that stuff.
Someone else who I think could go all the way is Amy. I feel like it would work, you've got a seven year old kid, lonely and displaced after moving a long way (would have to be within the district for this au obvs), with if you take it to be the young Amy from the pre-pandorica and reset timeline, no parents and a possibly neglected aunt, firey, dubbed the weird kid and she's very prepared to bite multiple psychiatrists for telling her that her "imaginary friend" isn't real. As she gets older she very much is aware of her appearance and how to use it to get what she wants, in a way that I think in this au the program would definitely have cultivated, she's gonna have good scores in acting.
I've watched Nine, Ten, one season of Eleven, and no Classic Who, so I will take your word for this or if anyone else has anything to add
from what I've heard about Ace that makes total sense though!
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lorata · 7 days
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I know you’ve touched on body mods in D2 a bit before, but I was wondering if you’re victors were to get tattoos (besides the wrist one they all have) what some would be?
I ask because I just saw someone with negative space tattoos in a classic “adult abstract colouring book” style. They then explained that they got them so their family and friends could colour them in with markers while hanging out and that is ABSOLUTELY a Devon thing to do.
i am the worst person to ask about this bc i dithered on tattoos for my entire life and then BOOM BOOM BOOM got 4 in the space of 6 months so the thought of tattoos for other people is too much lol
honestly though other than devon's dead kid tattoos i don't know that they have any, at least not in canon. bodies are tools, you know?
in a modern AU though i LOVE that adult colouring book one for devon, and misha probably would have several spontaneous ones that she refuses to be embarrassed about. claudius most likely something with music? lyme is wayyy too disconnected from her body to want one. callista, obviously, a cat, maybe her first octavius? emory would have to be convinced it's not silly but if she did she'd get something botanical, i'm just not sure what
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lorata · 7 days
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STOP THE PRESSES i just realized why i could never find images for emory that matched the vibe i wanted and it's bc i was looking in entirely the wrong place. LIKE A FOOL
if you want the vibe for emory look at heath ledger in a knight's tale
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lorata · 7 days
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#yaz just wants to help people! but honestly she might well as a two kid #feel like the best way to help people was to be a Volunteer #(also she’s heavily suicidally depressed for a lot of her teen years and I can also see her feeling like the Centre saved her) #(gave her a purpose) (from @mihrsuri)
I'm not sure if you know Doctor Who but I'm thinking about companions and whether they would be in the program (or not).
One who I definitely think would be, she's textbook program material, they would look at her and want to shape her, is Ace. She's got authority issues, but I think if she was in the program from a young age it would be twisted in a certain way, I feel that's something they would do. She's got a lot of fire and anger and violence, and home issues too. At 13 she burnt down an abandoned house and definitely was charged - she had a probation officer. Feel like that could be twisted instead, or it's a "yeah you get two choices, pass your centre residential exams, or juvi," since Panem has a much stricter and severe police and laws and punishments and stuff. If she did become a Victor I feel like she'd be amenable to Lyme's politics and definitely no treason going on here guys.
Someone who I think would enjoy the early years stuff but definitely not go into residential is Donna. She definitely seems someone who would enjoy all the running and games and stuff like that as a kid, but she wouldn't stay long. Her Grandad, Wilf, would Definitely be against it. He's very anti war and pacifist, he would hate that stuff.
Someone else who I think could go all the way is Amy. I feel like it would work, you've got a seven year old kid, lonely and displaced after moving a long way (would have to be within the district for this au obvs), with if you take it to be the young Amy from the pre-pandorica and reset timeline, no parents and a possibly neglected aunt, firey, dubbed the weird kid and she's very prepared to bite multiple psychiatrists for telling her that her "imaginary friend" isn't real. As she gets older she very much is aware of her appearance and how to use it to get what she wants, in a way that I think in this au the program would definitely have cultivated, she's gonna have good scores in acting.
I've watched Nine, Ten, one season of Eleven, and no Classic Who, so I will take your word for this or if anyone else has anything to add
from what I've heard about Ace that makes total sense though!
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lorata · 7 days
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I'm not sure if you know Doctor Who but I'm thinking about companions and whether they would be in the program (or not).
One who I definitely think would be, she's textbook program material, they would look at her and want to shape her, is Ace. She's got authority issues, but I think if she was in the program from a young age it would be twisted in a certain way, I feel that's something they would do. She's got a lot of fire and anger and violence, and home issues too. At 13 she burnt down an abandoned house and definitely was charged - she had a probation officer. Feel like that could be twisted instead, or it's a "yeah you get two choices, pass your centre residential exams, or juvi," since Panem has a much stricter and severe police and laws and punishments and stuff. If she did become a Victor I feel like she'd be amenable to Lyme's politics and definitely no treason going on here guys.
Someone who I think would enjoy the early years stuff but definitely not go into residential is Donna. She definitely seems someone who would enjoy all the running and games and stuff like that as a kid, but she wouldn't stay long. Her Grandad, Wilf, would Definitely be against it. He's very anti war and pacifist, he would hate that stuff.
Someone else who I think could go all the way is Amy. I feel like it would work, you've got a seven year old kid, lonely and displaced after moving a long way (would have to be within the district for this au obvs), with if you take it to be the young Amy from the pre-pandorica and reset timeline, no parents and a possibly neglected aunt, firey, dubbed the weird kid and she's very prepared to bite multiple psychiatrists for telling her that her "imaginary friend" isn't real. As she gets older she very much is aware of her appearance and how to use it to get what she wants, in a way that I think in this au the program would definitely have cultivated, she's gonna have good scores in acting.
I've watched Nine, Ten, one season of Eleven, and no Classic Who, so I will take your word for this or if anyone else has anything to add
from what I've heard about Ace that makes total sense though!
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lorata · 7 days
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I loved your Dexter/Callista minifc that you just did (also happy birthday to your friend!), but it made me have two awful thoughts that just slammed into my brain. I wouldn't hold onto these ideas as absolutes, they're just considerations, but I had to share (sorry!).
District One must pray for ugly kids. I know how terrible that sounds, but if you're ugly in One, they won't take them. Even if they're just plain-not ugly, not beautiful, just....normal-their chances go down, that the Academy will look at them and go "not pretty enough." How horrifying must *that* be, for a parent to look at their child and wish that.
The Victors might not be allowed to age. They would always have to look 18 17 16, the age when they won, they always have to look similar to that. No gray hairs, no wrinkles, no growing a gut or even a beard maybe. I don't know if this would hold up, because people do develop and change, and if this was a thing, I can imagine that it would be more amongst the One/Two/Four Career crowd (thinking of Cashmere/Gloss and Finnick especially), but imagine not even having that level of control, over your own body. What a way to remind you that the Capitol owns you. And sure, eventually it would get to a point where you'd have to look your own age, but how long would that be?
Yeah I'm sure that pretty kids are a curse in D1. I'm also sure that starting around the 1QQ there was a rash of childhood "accidents" that caused facial disfigurements to keep the kids safe, so then they had to make the punishment for that worse than the risk.
I absolutely think that the popular victors aren't allowed to age until the Capitol gets bored of them. Canon suggests enough about forced body modifications (everything from Katniss' attempted breast augmentation to her annoyance at the complete hair removal and relief at having leg hair again once she's back home awhile) and obsession with specific victors that I think it's entirely plausible.
which -- yeah. the loss of autonomy is a huge theme in the books and it's awful at various levels, all the way from Cashmere/Gloss/Finnick, to even like ... i have my Twos always need to go back to "reset" whenever they go to the Capitol (no body hair, weight cuts & dehydration bouts so their abs are prominent, full body polish / no wrinkles / etc etc) which is minor on the grand scheme of things but still a reminder that they belong to the Capitol
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lorata · 7 days
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I loved your Callista & Alec fic! Probably the best reaction is deeply ace Claudius and straight-laced Petra both being weirded out in different ways.
Also, from a few of the other Victor!Alec pieces that you've written and this line in particular-"He gives her a Selene smile, sharp with challenge."-makes me think that Victor!Alec doesn't....have a very strong sense of self? He seems to be borrowing a lot of his persona/actions from other people-Creed and Selene, his Aunt Julia, maybe even his own father (though I don't remember any specific lines referencing that)-while not having a clear idea of who *he* is.
You are absolutely right!
Alec has always had a problem with diminished sense of self/interiority, always looking to other people to figure out the best way to present himself because he's weak, he doesn't know what he wants and when he does he wants the wrong things, etc
(he borrows from his mother, though, not his father. Joseph is a voice in his head berating him to do better that Alec uses to force himself to do things he's afraid of. Adora is the one he uses for his persona)
in canon Alec eventually works it out postwar; as a Victor it will likewise take some work! figuring out who he is on his own is a therapy / recovery goal. but when he shows up at the party and specifically at the end there where he grins at Misha he's in Victor Mode (there is NO way that Normal Boy Alec could have pulled off that outfit) so he gets to be little a Selene, as a treat
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lorata · 7 days
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I'm not sure if you know Doctor Who but I'm thinking about companions and whether they would be in the program (or not).
One who I definitely think would be, she's textbook program material, they would look at her and want to shape her, is Ace. She's got authority issues, but I think if she was in the program from a young age it would be twisted in a certain way, I feel that's something they would do. She's got a lot of fire and anger and violence, and home issues too. At 13 she burnt down an abandoned house and definitely was charged - she had a probation officer. Feel like that could be twisted instead, or it's a "yeah you get two choices, pass your centre residential exams, or juvi," since Panem has a much stricter and severe police and laws and punishments and stuff. If she did become a Victor I feel like she'd be amenable to Lyme's politics and definitely no treason going on here guys.
Someone who I think would enjoy the early years stuff but definitely not go into residential is Donna. She definitely seems someone who would enjoy all the running and games and stuff like that as a kid, but she wouldn't stay long. Her Grandad, Wilf, would Definitely be against it. He's very anti war and pacifist, he would hate that stuff.
Someone else who I think could go all the way is Amy. I feel like it would work, you've got a seven year old kid, lonely and displaced after moving a long way (would have to be within the district for this au obvs), with if you take it to be the young Amy from the pre-pandorica and reset timeline, no parents and a possibly neglected aunt, firey, dubbed the weird kid and she's very prepared to bite multiple psychiatrists for telling her that her "imaginary friend" isn't real. As she gets older she very much is aware of her appearance and how to use it to get what she wants, in a way that I think in this au the program would definitely have cultivated, she's gonna have good scores in acting.
I've watched Nine, Ten, one season of Eleven, and no Classic Who, so I will take your word for this or if anyone else has anything to add
from what I've heard about Ace that makes total sense though!
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lorata · 9 days
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What did Misha and Devon want him to do?
mostly they wanted him to be embarrassed! that's the fun part!
the scenario they envisioned would be for him to wear something and then others would laugh and someone tell him that it's not REALLY a tradition and the other two were teasing him, but it's OK because they only hassle you if they like you, etc etc etc.
but whether he chickened out or really did sneak one of her outfits and wore it they didn't expect him to own it, and definitely didn't think he would tell Callista and have her be in on it. misha is reevaluating him now, lol
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lorata · 9 days
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Never thought I could love anything more than Emory and Alec but I can’t get over how perfect Callista and Alec are. Is it bad they’re my top two mentor/Victor pairings. I just love that Alec is loved and protected and might even be happy
I ALSO LOVE THEM A LOT
alec and emory are ridiculously cute and wholesome but i love the alec & callista dynamic! alec deserves to be a little bit of a bastard!
and yeah in both he's protected and loved and while being a victor is uhhhhh not fun or easy and he never asked to be there, he's OK. and in the Callista AU he even has Creed so it's really best of the worlds
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lorata · 9 days
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This interaction is everything 🥺🥺🥺
“My clothing does not promise comfort, it promises impact,” Callista says, beatific. “Although it should never hurt, darling, let me know right away if it pinches”
the duality of callista in a single paragraph :)
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lorata · 9 days
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I've been going through your tumblr, and Lyme says at one point the needs Brutus so come home because he's the only person capable of getting her not to rebel. Is Ronan aware enough to notice that? Does *Nero* notice?
yeah it's kind of a village meme but they don't think she'd actually do it. they all know that lyme and claudius are dabbling in treason but they know lyme's smart (or at least practical). like, she is going down the traitor road mentally but at the same time -- where's she gonna go? what's she gonna do? as far as they know there's literally nothing she can do about it, so she can be mad all she wants, end of the day there are no other options and she knows it
except, of course, that brutus dies and she gets a call from someone in the rebellion to evac with the other mentors and suddenly there's an option she never had before
what she would've done without that ....... well idk. the rebellion version of walking into traffic, probably, consequences be damned
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lorata · 9 days
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10 First Lines
Tagged by @moondal514
Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there’s a pattern.
Creed was born for this. (i'm not a hero, just a boy)
The warning bells start ringing when Selene shows up at his house armed with cookies. (Friends Like These)
It’s not that Alec refuses to talk on purpose. (The Road to Okay)
The card arrives in Joseph’s mailbox two days before the Reaping. (Be Still, Be Still)
Everything goes to hell when Claudius turns around in the parking lot and Selene and Misha aren’t there. (Tribute Fantastic)
The first day Alec didn’t bother to get up for breakfast, he figured it was an exception on compassionate grounds. (Fleeing Shadows)
Dexter’s console flickered in warning before the earthquake struck; the handful of others who warranted advanced notice also glanced down, while others dozed in their chairs or argued with sponsors over their headsets. (Thanks for Playing!)
Nero at seven years old is the biggest boy in his grade, though nobody notices. (Duty Before Life)
Claudius’ body lies heavy across her lap. (Memories of Dying Days)
“Which one do you want to be?” (Apastron)
NOTES:
I almost never start with dialogue, lol
I do a lot of in medias res / action starts & catch the reader up in the next paragraph
I tend toward short & punchy, apparently
anyone who wants to play is welcome to play! :)
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lorata · 11 days
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I reread your fic where Misha and Devon mess with Claudius with the whole respect your victor sibling thing, and I ended up on a runaway thought train over what jokes they'd play on Other victors. Somehow this led to the idea of them having Alec on about it being a village thing that you wear your mentor's clothes as a sign of respect! It's a tradition! They take time to point out that Devon Is wearing Brutus' sweater at the time.
Of course, this is in the injured Creed au and Callista's outfits are. Those.
oh don't worry i had an INSTANT response to this
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“Bonding,” Alec says, instead of the word that immediately comes to mind, which is: Bullshit.
Artemisia and Devon aren’t bad liars, is the thing. Both of them won their Games through manipulation as much as martial prowess, and they’ve turned their skills up to full power for this little prank. They’re holding back the glee, they’re not overselling or going overboard with the sincerity, the delivery really is impeccable.
And, of course, as any trainer would tell you, all good lies contain a hint of truth. Alec has seen half the Village traipsing around in shirts too large for them. Most likely Victors do borrow their mentors’ clothing all the time as unconscious comfort objects, creating the kind of bonding element that the two in front of him are attempting to convince him is part of a formalized ritual.
It’s not their fault Alec was essentially raised in a nonstop bullshit-detection bootcamp since the day Selene learned to speak in sentences.
He could tell them, of course, say Ha ha, nice try and send them off, but then again … what’s the fun in that? They did go to all this trouble. “So what’s the best way to show respect?” Alec says.
“You have to steal it,” Devon says. “That’s part of the ritual. Then when they see you in it they know you went to the trouble to get it.”
That’s probably not the lie, Alec decides once they’re gone. Brutus grouses about Devon nicking his sweaters all the time in a way that’s clearly performative, if he hasn’t asked him to knock it off after over a decade he can’t actually hate it. Village rituals are complex and arcane, and the newbies have to be initiated somehow but they’re definitely hazing him, so the trick is figuring out what part of this is real and what’s meant to be the joke.
Years of dealing with Selene have made Alec eminently practical. He could spend hours trying to puzzle it out, or —
He lets himself into Callista’s and sits on the rug, cross-legged so that the cats can pool into his lap. “Why are Artemisia and Devon trying to trick me into stealing your clothes?”
Callista’s sharp bark of laughter startles Bartleby, who leaps off her shoulders with a disgruntled backwards glance.
“Ohhh,” Alec says, staring at the mind-searing array of outfits in Callista’s walk-in. The organizational arrangement defies description but appears to fall along a vague theme continuum of ‘dancing animals’ to ‘hardcore BDSM’. “I get it now.”
“You cannot convince me these are comfortable,” Alec grumbles as Callista adjusts the last buckle.
“My clothing does not promise comfort, it promises impact,” Callista says, beatific. “Although it should never hurt, darling, let me know right away if anything pinches.”
Alec will cherish several moments in his life — Aunt Julia’s hands patching up his wounds, that night on the roof before Creed entered Residential, seeing his name on the Volunteer list, the clear ring of the victory trumpets — but the absolute dead hush of conversation like an entire plate of cutlery falling to the floor at his entrance to the monthly signing party might top the list, at least right now.
“Hello,” he calls out cheerfully. He saunters over and drops next to Devon and Artemisia, Claudius scrambling away from him as though he’s on fire. “Did I miss anything?”
Petra has a face like she swallowed something sour, her eyes darting back and away from him like she can’t stop staring even though she’d really rather not. “What the fuck are you wearing. Did you lose a bet?”
Alec only smiles wider. “A bet? No. I’m bonding with my mentor just like everyone else. A normal part of Village life. Isn’t that right, mentor?”
Callista, settling down like a gentle cloud next to a delicately and professionally aggrieved Adessa, says, “But of course. I, for one, have never felt closer.”
“You knew,” Artemisia manages finally, accusing.
“Did I?” Alec reaches out and snags a chocolate from the box in front of her. “Did you want me to do something else?”
(Claudius, in a frantic whisper: “What the fuck is happening?”
Brutus: “Don’t encourage them.”)
Artemisia narrows her eyes, but finally points a finger at his face. “You know what? Well played, rookie. But I’ll get you.”
He gives her a Selene smile, sharp with challenge. “Go ahead and try.”
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lorata · 11 days
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Hey I was just on Mad At You Island and uhhhh no one was there but there was this disembodied voice that reeeeeaally hates you.
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