Anna Raise by Gabriele Rescaldani

Indiana A

Anna Quindlen

Franz Kafka

Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember

Anna de Noailles, tr. By Norman R. Sharpiro, from “Your Hidden Fleshly Grace"

Shirley Jackson, “Raising Demons"

Katherine Paterson

I love that in the Podcast they specifically said they wanted to frame the hospital fight not as this action packed scene, but as sad. Because Joel has completely disassociated. He’s checked out because trauma can do that to a person, let’s you separate what’s happening. They said this is him burning his soul for this one girl. He’s doing what needs to be done in the same way Marlene did but while her focus was humanity, his focus is just Ellie. It’s tunnel vision. He kills anyone who is a threat and even if they drop their weapon, they could change their mind and still shoot him and then Ellie dies. He doesn’t kill the doctor until he becomes a threat by wielding the scalpel.  And them saying Marlene actually signed her death warrant the moment she said “let me go” because it meant she planned to try and survive her wound. There would be a tomorrow and in that tomorrow, she would try and come after them. So of course she had to die because her living meant Ellie wouldn’t be safe. 

Im not meant to be doing homework I should be thinking about characters and putting them in situations or perhaps looking out a rainsoaked window and warping song lyrics to fit into their mouths

Siegfried x Audrey feat. "Take Me to Church" by Azra.T @ 5000letters

Modern poetry often doesn’t seem like poetry to me. If you take away the structure and write it down into a normal one-paragraph text, it takes nothing away from the poem. The author could have said it in prose better than in poetry, even. And I know that poetry is a very subjective art, with its edges blurred, with many styles and ways to express oneself. You have haikus and different kinds of rhyming poetry and blank verse. But I’ve seen many poems, and blank verse isn’t the same as putting prose in poetry format.

To me, poetry is allegory. Poetry is symbolism. Poetry is metaphor. Poetry is the ‘wine-dark sea’. You read Whitman or Margaret Atwood or Richard Siken or Mary Oliver or Anna Akhmatova, and you know that if the structure is taken away, you are left with something nearly nonsensical. You think that you’re reading, when in reality you’re looking at a painting and listening to a symphony and watching geese fly to the south.

You read Nikita Gill and think ‘yes, I agree. I agree but I don’t feel anything. You could’ve written for journals, and your talent wouldn’t have gone to waste’.

Not to upset any Nikita Gill fans but i am tired of calling something that only looks like poetry to me poetry.

her wiki page verbatim calls her a weeaboo so i had to draw her

"Therese and Isabel," (1968) starring Essy Persson and Anna Gaël.

Ann Glazyrina (Анна Глазырина , Anna Raise , Indiana A)

Anna Raise

suzanne collins's inclusion of the career tributes was actually a genius move thematically. because yeah, of course logically katniss is going to be repulsed by their actions (while i am a heavy career tribute defender i can admit that in katniss's place if i watched a bunch of rowdy obnoxious children kill people and laugh about it, i'd be a little angry about at them too) but she eventually recognizes something that's really important to the message of the books. while the careers receive the benefit of the capitol's favor and therefore don't experience the extreme poverty and starvation that katniss and her allies do, they in some ways have it worse because they genuinely believe that the capitol cares for them and that they benefit from the authoritarian regime, only to be exploited by it themselves.

and most of the thg audience/readers see these minor characters that katniss knows little about and gives very little attention to as these gleefully bloodthirsty violent people and therefore their deaths seem justified. but can you imagine being in their place?

the career kids are at a severe disadvantage because of the extensive indoctrination that the capitol subjects them to. teens in the real world, despite the fact that a lot of them are actually generally unappreciative of and ignorant about current events (this is based on my personal experiences with kids my age but is probably just a generalized assumption), have access to advanced technology and a world of information at their fingertips. they can easily access information about what happens in impoverished areas and educate themselves if they wanted to. in a system like panem, obviously this would never be allowed, and snow/the capitol keep the districts as disconnected from each other and from what's going on as possible.

that means that the career tributes, like the outer district kids, literally are cut off from the world. they don't know the terrible working/poverty conditions of the outer districts, they have no way of knowing anything other than the pro-capitol ideology they were raised with. the entire reason the capitol stayed in power for so long was because the districts didn't get information about one another, which is why the career children literally have no context of any situation in any other district and only know what they experience. so of course they see the capitol as this generous and honorable and just government, because what do they have that will say otherwise? what other sources of information can they turn to?

not only that, they are raised from childbirth on the belief that the capitol is a benevolent, supreme authority, and that murdering other children is an incredible act of honor and power. the way people are raised impacts them profoundly for the rest of their life and well into adulthood, and that is especially clear from brutus and enobaria's personalities (or at least, in katniss's extremely biased interpretations of them) because they followed the Career Tribute Creed long after they aged out of the games. however the educational system in d2 works, it's clear that they experience extreme brainwashing. the careers are an important example of how authoritarian governments can easily corrupt the education system and use it to manipulate young, impressionable, inexperienced children, molding new generations to support their fascist regimes.

Nothing nothing just thinking about how Anna, a new mother about to die, asked Marlene, her best friend since childhood, to find someone to bring Ellie up and Marlene never actually actively looked for anyone to bring her up. Bare minimum in the game Marlene at least checks up on Ellie with Ellie knowing her. In the show Ellie doesn't know Marlene at all. And Marlene was willing to let her best friend's child die? Seems wack to me.

“There is absolutely no way anyone wearing a barrister’s wig can look anything other than ridicul–”

*spontaneously combusts*

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Well, well. We need more fic writers for these two!! Please!!! I need all the in between moments. Where are you??!! Do you need Starbucks? Gas money? Just tell me what you need to write more, please!!!

Okay just saw your reblog of the rings and I must ask-

What do Mickey and Ian take their rings off for?

ANNA!! hello!! i love you!!

the rings don't come off often, but here are some instances in which they do:

ian always removes his ring before tending to his plants. you can't be elbow-deep in potting soil and expect that fucker to stay securely on your finger!

showering, bathing, washing dishes, etc. are obvious times to take those suckers off, but mickey insists that the rings ONLY go in the special little jewelry dishes he bought for the bathroom and kitchen (after he was reminded of the 10x11 debacle by sandy during one of their family dinners). like fuck he's gonna watch THE symbol of love & commitment spiral down the drain. bad omen alert!!

they rarely come off during sex (there's a strange sort of pride in seeing & feeling them whilst fucking) but sometimes circumstance calls for it. i'm thinking oiled-up massages, times when they use extra lube, or even wax play. anything that could smudge up that shine!

once or twice, the boys decide to rent a hotel room downtown and do that whole pretend-to-be-strangers thing. and since they're known to Commit to the Bit, they leave the rings at home. but after the flirt-and-fuck is over, they both complain about their fingers feeling naked (which they're so valid for)

when tami and lip get engaged, she and mickey have a very intense discussion about the merits of taking your ring to the jewelry store for a semi-annual cleaning. from that point on, every six months, they take their rings to get cleaned and have to suffer through three whole days of Naked Fingers

other than that, i don't imagine they come off very often! they're a symbol of their love, of how far they've come, of their commitment to one another! a way to show that world that hey, this is my person who i love and cherish til death do us part!! and i love that for them 💍