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everlarkficexchange · 4 years

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Everlark Fic Exchange: Masterlist

Springtime Edition (2020).

The King's Mistress by @eiramrelyat

Prompt 9: Katniss is a commoner and peeta is a cruel king. He wants katniss to be his mistress. How will they fall in love is up to you. [submitted by anonymous]

Stay with Me Just for Now by @booksrockmyface

Prompt 10: katniss and peeta are best friends who were in a friends w benefits arrangement in the past. now the hunger for each other is coming back. [submitted by anonymous]

A Quiet Announcement by @albinokittens300

Prompt 11: in panem au where everlark isn’t reaped and peeta knocks up katniss. [submitted by @sunflowerslyf]

Prompt #12: by @endlessnightlock

Prompt 12: katniss walks out of the fitting room wearing only a bikini to ask her friend if it suits her but it isnt her friend at the other side of the door but peeta. [submitted by anonymous]

When You Were Mine by @pitualba2015

Prompt 20: Peeta is the CEO and katniss is his secretary. They have an affair and katniss gets pregnant but when she tells peeta he doesn’t believe her and accuse her of trying to trap him. What will he do when he realize his mistake and how will he win katniss back. [submitted by anonymous]

Two Households by @everlarkandhistory

Prompt 22: Set in early 20th century. Katniss and Peeta are from two rival families who have been enemies since forever. They have a chance meeting which led to them falling in love. They are completely unaware of their identity. Will their love survive or will their relationship crumble. [submitted by @mysteriouslycraftyreview]

Operation: BREAD (Bring Revenge on Everdeen to Avenge Dad) by @alliswell21

Prompt 23: Rumor: MrEverdeen crossed fence dividing Town and Seam, kidnapped Mrs Everdeen making her his commonlaw wife. Years later, Mellark sons plan to avenge their father by raiding Seam and kidnapping one of Everdeens daughters for one of them to take as a wife! Does Katniss “volunteer,” does she escape, how do the 3 brothers decide what to do with her since they didn’t plan it all out well? [submitted by @567inpanem]

lying in the bed we made (if it wasn't us) by @archersandsunsets

Prompt 26: the night before the Quarter Quell, in the sleepless dark, Katniss and Peeta allow themselves to indulge in the bittersweet dream of a future they’ll never have together (“if it wasn’t us, what would you do?” “I’d want to marry you” “tell me”) [submitted by @rosegardeninwinter]

The Proper Response by @madetofly

Prompt 29: Post-MJ, Growing Together. Peeta is finally showing his affection and love for Katniss as they heal and reconnect. Katniss, being Katniss, seems to act like she doesn’t appreciate this, and is less than enthused. Peeta, taking this like an adult, stops showing her with the affection and tries to show her his love in other ways. Katniss, however, does not appreciate him stopping those things and set out to try and get him to continue it again because she misses it. [submitted by @albinokittens300]

All the World's a Stage by @katnissdoesnotfollowback

Prompt 31: “We never see you two so much as kiss in public but last night we all heard you having sex.” Submitted by Buttercupbadass

Misconceptions by @awkwardeverlark

Prompt 35: No reaping AU. At 19, Katniss considers marrying Gale for practical reasons; the fact she just heard the baker’s son toasted and was assigned a house at the edge of town has nothing to do with it... maybe. What happens next? (was Peeta really married or was it his brother? Does she marry Gale? Does Everlark ever talk? Will Peeta cheat if he’s actually married? Can Katniss admit she loves the Boy with the Bread? Is this forbidden love?) is up to you. [submitted by anonymous]

No One's Gonna Need You More by @ambpersand

Prompt 36: Frustrated and stressed out Single dad!Peeta needs a fuck desperately. His best friend, Katniss, unwittingly offers to help him out. Things get murky with repressed feelings, but one thing’s certain, Peeta can’t keep his hands to himself anymore and Katniss is all too willing to oblige at the drop of a hat, regardless of place, time and her own emotions, as long as he keeps whispering all his sexy, filthy thoughts into her ear. [submitted by anonymous]

Vidua by @darkhorse-javert

Prompt 44: Believing that taking a new young bride every 5 years will keep him youthful, Snow arranges to marry wife #12 from D12. In the hours between the ceremony and the wedding night, he drops dead. 16-yr-old Katniss returns to 12 but now she’s “Widow Snow.” Can she ever be Katniss, district huntress again? With all that $, wedding gifts, etc that were sent on the train with her? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Fortune Favors the Brave by @ambpersand

Prompt 46: Pacific Rim inspired AU with drift compatible Everlark (or not if you’re inspired by angst). I really just want to see more of that aspect of Pacific Rim explored than what they did in the movie and what better way to do it than with Everlark! [submitted by @katnissdoesnotfollowback]

Fate Takes a Break by @ally147writes

Prompt 50: everlark discovering on their date that they've missed each other their whole lives (living in the same city, went to the same high school, going to the same halloween and nye parties, were set up before by different friends but stood each other up, shopping at the same store, etc.) [submitted by @sunflowerslyf]

I Choose You by @wendywobbles

Prompt 51: Katniss E, the Valedictorian of Panem High school, is perfect in all fields of life. And that is the crush of awkward, average in studies, not so popular, never had a girlfriend, often bullied Peeta M. Not only does she have a very popular friend circle but also a handsome, popular boyfriend Gale H. Will she even want to be his friend? Is his crush doomed to fail? Eventual Everlark. [submitted by @white-dandelion-seeds]

The Change by @alliswell21

Prompt 59: Growing up Peeta started loving her. It was a gradual thing that happened throughout his childhood and into his teens. But something changes when he hits puberty. Her scent has heightened, he can spot her from miles away. He gets a bit possessive. But the biggest thing is when his body starts to heat up and even just the thought of you gets him hard for days. He finds out the family secret of his werewolf genes, something his parents thought passed him. How can he go by with his day and be with her without scaring her away by humping her because of his heat. [submitted by @animekpopxx]

By The Moonlight Side by @endlessnightlock

Chapter 2

Prompt 61: Peeta knew better, but he did stupid things when he got drunk. Now he’s caged at the animal shelter in his wolf form. And, omg, Katniss Everdeen let her little sister drag her in to see the dogs?! He knows he shouldn’t, but teen hormones. He just wants to lick her hand. Get a tummy rub. Hump her leg. Sleep on her bed. Omg, they take him home!!!! He needs to let his dad know where he is. Omg. He needs to figure out his bakery shift. “God, don’t let Katniss catch me licking my balls.” [submitted by @567inpanem]

Maybe Tomorrow by @katnissdoesnotfollowback

Prompt 62: one night stand!everlark sleeping together the same night a terrible snowstorm hits the city and everything gets shut down with no way to get home. perhaps a two night stand? [submitted by anonymous]

Genesis by @rosegardeninwinter

Prompt 66: Everlark post apocalypse, katniss and peeta are neighbors and the only two that make it to katniss's father's bunker in time. Over the course of several years the two have grown quite close having no one else, but now provisions are running low. Do they face the unknown outside or stay put, knowing they only have food to last another week? [sent by anonymous]

Sunset on Grass by @alliswell21

Prompt 67: Her parents said that it was just a childhood crush and that she will outgrow it. But why does her heart flutters. When she’s finally old enough to get a job, she immediately gets a part time job to be close to him. Will is pursue her love against people’s negative views because he’s so much older than her. Or go for it and make him fall in love with her. Age Gap Older!Peeta. [submitted by @animekpopxx]

A Taste of Rebellion by @acpoe82

Prompt 68: Dark Coffee Shop AU - Capitol Peeta runs a Coffee/Pastry shop in the poshest part of the Capitol. Near by President Snow’s Mansion. Capitol!Katniss is a frequent customer. Things in the Capitol begin to deteriorate as the rebellion drags on. Are they sympathetic to the rebel cause? [submitted by @oakfarmer12]

You're Not Alone by @sunsetsrmydreams

Prompt 70: Peeta picks up a hitchhiker in the mountains one night, only to find it's his childhood best friend and now escaped convict Katniss Everdeen. In a panic he calls police but after hearing her side of the story comes to believe she didn't actually murder anyone. Everlark on the run. [submitted by anonymous]

Forever and a day... by @thegirlfromoverthepond

Prompt 73: I am a simple woman: I just want Katniss Everdeen content and loved and washed in moonlight I don’t care how you do it. [submitted by @rosegardeninwinter]

The Most Unlikely Serendipity by @albinokittens300

PART 2, PART 3, PART 4

Prompt 75: An in-Panem arranged marriage a/u where Katniss is slightly older than Peeta. [submitted by @endlessnightlock]

Shots Make Me Sing by @sunsetsrmydreams

Prompt 81: Katniss finds her soulmate at her bachelorette party (aka Peeta)(Happy ending please) [submitted by anonymous]

when we’re underneath the lights my heart’s no longer broken by @omercilessmoon

Prompt 92: High school musical au: katniss and peeta as troy and Gabriella. [submitted by anonymous]

December nights in June by @viloula

Prompt 110: AU. Everlark live across from each other in fancy New York (or the like) penthouses. With all those large windows, they see each other daily and know the other's routine and all he/she does, but they've never met. A chance meeting occurs. What will happen? The circumstances of their living arrangements/any backstory and what happens between them is up to you. [submitted by @acpoe82]

High Heels at Midnight by @hutchhitched

Prompt 134: Visual Prompt. To see it go HERE [submitted by @javistg]

must work hard, tolerate cats by @mendontprotectyou

Prompt 140: In Panem AU where Peeta is a Mail Order Husband. As the youngest son of a merchant class Capitol family, he has accepted he will never inherit the family bakery. But when his family contract him to an arranged marriage to further the business he will never own, he escapes by signing up to a programme to relocate and marry a district woman. Why Katniss needs a husband, is up to the author. Everlark endgame :) [submitted by @louezem]

Notes:

Fics organized by prompt number.

Masterlist compiled on May 11, 2020. Subject to change. New works will be added as they’re posted to the @everlarkficexchange.

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theastrophilearchitect · 3 years

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March TBR/W.

Every book, audiobook, tv show and movie I want to consume in March 2021.

-Hence ‘TBR/W’ - to-be-read/watched.

I’m not usually a fan of pre-planning my media for the month - I plan out all my media obsessively, but doing it by month seems a little too much like setting deadlines for my taste, and I’m sure I’ll somehow manage to turn watching tv into a chore. Regardless, it’s worth a shot, so this is going to be a rough guide - I’m going to pick four of each category, one per week, because I’d rather underestimate and surpass than overestimate and have to defer things to the next month. So let’s go.

Books

1. Skyward and 2. Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

Skyward is set in a future where the human race is on the verge of extinction, trapped on a planet constantly attacked by alien warriors. Spensa, a teenage girl stuck on the planet, wants to be a pilot, but it seems far-off. Then, she finds the wreckage of a ship that appears to have a soul, and she must figure out how to repair it, and persuade it to help her navigate flight school.

In truth, I mainly want to read this because of how highly it’s been praised by Hailey in Bookland on YouTube. I actually tried reading Sanderson’s Mistborn series a couple years ago, and just didn’t click with it. I love fantasy, but I can pretty confidently say epic fantasy just isn’t for me. However, Sanderson’s work is adored by many, and Skyward and its sequel Starsight appeal so much more to me, and I can’t wait to get to them.

3. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas

This is Maas’s first technically-adult book; Throne of Glass is young adult, ACOTAR being classed either as young or new adult. I’ve been a fan of Maas for a long time, and, though I enjoy her books less now than I have in the past due to how seriously they tend to take themselves, I’d still love to read this one. Where her previous series were both fantasies, this sits somewhere between that and a sci-fi, but I can’t say as-of-yet what I think, because I haven’t read it yet.

Bryce Quinlan finds herself investigating her friends’ deaths in an attempt to avenge them after they were taken from her by a demon. Hunt Athalar is a Fallen angel, enslaved by Archangels, forced to assassinate their enemies, when he’s offered a deal to assist Bryce in exchange for his freedom.

4. Scythe by Neal Shusterman

I listened to this as an audiobook in 2019 as part of BookTuber Book Roast’s Magical Readathon, and didn’t hugely get along with it in truth. The audiobook was excellent as an audiobook, but the story Ian’s I just didn’t really vibe. I think I just want to like this book, so I think it’s worth a reread to see if my opinion changes.

This follows Citra and Rowan, a reluctant pair of apprentice Scythes - in a utopian future where humanity has the means to live forever, it is the job of the Scythes to control the population by essentially reaping the souls of those they choose to die. Neither Citra or Rowan want it, but I don’t remember enough about this book to say any more.

Audiobooks

1. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

This is the last book in the Hunger Games trilogy, and you either already know what this series is about, or you’ve been living under a rock for the last thirteen years. I read this book for the first time nearly seven years ago, and it’s stuck with me. It sent me into a phase of only reading dystopian books (The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken was part of this, and was the series that really got me into reading), but this was the main one that stuck with me.

It contains a powerful message about capitalism and discrimination, and this is the second time I’ve listened to the audiobooks, though the god-only-knows-what time I’ve read the series. I listened to The Hunger Games and Catching Fire in February, which automatically puts this on my to-listen for March.

2. Ghosts of the Shadow Market by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link and Robin Wasserman

This is a novella bind-up set in the Shadowhunters world, that I would imagine has quite a bit to do with the Shadow Market, an aspect of the Downworld introduced in The Dark Artifices, which I finished in January.

In truth, I’m mainly planning to listen to this audiobook because it’s the only Shadowhunters novella bind-up with an audiobook, and I’d just rather read additions to the main Shadowhunters series in this format rather than physically.

3. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

This is a Hunger Games prequel that was released early last year, and I just wasn’t going to read it. I heard several reviews, the general consensus of which was basically that it’s not as good as the trilogy and is somewhat unnecessary, but, in truth, my curiosity’s got the better of me, especially since I started listening to the trilogy’s audiobooks again.

This prequel follows Coriolanus Snow as a mentor in the Games before he became President of Panem and the wonderful villain of the original trilogy.

4. Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

I mentioned this in my physical TBR post a couple weeks ago, but have decided to listen to the audiobook instead. A few weeks ago, I’d started to run out of audiobooks I wanted to listen to, and didn’t want to read anything on my regular TBR in this format, including this book. But, I went through a load of audiobook recommendations, and this was one of them, so it joined my to-listen.

I’m not hugely into contemporary books, but I’ve wanted to get more into the genre for a while, and this was the first one to join my TBR.

This novel follows Eliza Mirk, your typical high school outcast, who publishes a hugely popular web comic under the pseudonym LadyConstellation. Then Wallace Warland, the biggest fanfic writer of her comic transfers to her school and begins to draw her out of her shell.

TV Shows

Before I go into my list, I’d like to mention that I am currently watching WandaVision and am definitely planning to watch Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney+, but both come out on a weekly basis, so aren’t being included on this list. Also, I’ve been watching way too much YouTube recently, so I’m not sure I’ll get through all of these this month, especially since I’m watching the Arrowverse shows, which have such long seasons.

1. Love, Victor Season 1

This Love, Simon spin-off follows a character named Victor at Creekwood (I think that’s the name?) High School. I saw Love, Simon twice in cinemas when it was released, and, miraculously, it made me cry. I love that movie.

This series was released last year on Hulu, which is only available in the US, but as of February 23rd, it’s one of the shows that came to Disney+ as part of Star.

2. The Flash Season 1

As mentioned, I’ve started watching the DC Arrowverse shows. I watch tv shows through alternating seasons - as in, I watch season 1 of show A, then season 1 of show B, then 2 of A, etc., then when I finish one, I start watching show C - but I’m treating the Arrowverse as one show (even though it isn’t) so it’s not the only thing I’m watching. So this is technically Arrowverse S3, preceded by Arrow S1+2 (though I haven’t actually started S2 as of writing this because of how much YouTube I’ve been watching, so I’ll be finishing that first).

I genuinely don’t know that much about most DC superheroes, Flash included, but I’m going into this having been assured it takes itself less goddamn seriously than Arrow. It’s my sister’s favourite Arrowverse show, and I can’t wait.

3. Dare Me Season 1

I added this Netflix show to my watchlist when it came out, and my basic understanding is that it focuses on the cheerleaders at a high school, and begins when a new coach arrives. It focuses on the psychological damage behind competitive cheerleading, and I’m not convinced I’m going to love it, but I think it’s worth a shot.

4. Arrow Season 3

I’m so confused by this poster. This is specifically the season 3 poster, and I’m so confused, but I’m sure it’ll make more sense when I watch the season.

I explained the weird way I’m watching Arrowverse (named as such because Arrow was the first show in it) already, but Arrow follows Oliver Queen, the son of one of the billionaires of Starling City upon his return after being stuck for five years on an island when a cruise ship carrying him and his father sunk. His father left him with a list of names of the people ‘corrupting’ the city, and Oliver takes it upon himself to assume a vigilante identity and take them down.

Movies

I’m not a huge movie-watcher, but I end up compiling so many to watch that, to ensure I get round to them, I watch a movie every time I finish a tv show season. I’m also currently re-watching the MCU movies in chronological order.

1. Instant Family

This is just something that came onto Netflix recently and I thought might be entertaining, and so it joined my list.

This follows a couple who decide to adopt a teenager, only to find out she has two more siblings.

2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

This is just a continuation of my MCU re-watch - I love this movie. I love Guardians of the Galaxy, full stop (on another note, I just generally don’t understand why British people call it a full stop and Americans call it a period. Neither name makes particular sense).

3. Avengers: Age of Ultron

And here we have another continuation of my MCU rewatch. I honestly think this is my favourite Avengers movie, because the whole teams actually together, and Wanda, Scarlet Witch, is introduced - I love her. I really didn’t like Vision until WandaVision came out, though.

4. Behind The Try: A Try Guys Documentary

Not technically a movie, but still. (Are documentaries movies? I tend to think of them as separate categories, but I guess they’re both movies. Hm.) I’ve been watching the Try Guys for years, which means I need to convince my sister to give me her Google password so I don’t have to pay for this.

I’m probably not going to stick to this list, and even if I do, I’m either going to also consume things not on it, or just not finish it. But, you’ll have to wait for my March wrap-up to find out.

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greetingfromthedead · 5 years

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AU Bucky Barnes aka The Winter Soldier - A Kiss of Life

MASSIVE ENDGAME SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Reader gender: neutral

Summary: A special person with special purpose whose only family are the heroes and who’s in love with Bucky gets stuck in the middle of the events of Infinity War and Endgame.

Author’s note: So I think we can all agree that Endgame isn’t cannon and I can do whatever I want because this is my very own pocket dimension.

With just a flick of his arm, Thanos flings you into a tree nearly knocking you out. Vines tie you up as you walk the line of consciousness and darkness. Your ears are ringing as you look at the very last stand the Avengers can make. You see Steve standing his ground, holding back the titan, as you turn your head you see Bucky’s motionless body on the ground. You want to run to him, but you can’t move. From the corner of your eye you see Wanda, trying to destroy the last of the Stones. As Cap falls, she is the only hope, the last thing standing between Thanos and his goal. A shock wave knocks you again against the tree as the Infinity Stone is shattered. This time the darkness takes you.

You can’t tell how long it has been as you open your eyes again, but the vines around you loosen and fall off. As you look around you see the Avengers gather up again. Their faces reflect only horror and shock.

“Where did he go? Thor?” you hear Cap as you stand up.

You see Bucky walk towards you and feel relief to see that he’s still alive. You stumble forward to take his outstretched hand.

“Darling,” the man says to you, but you hear a hint of something in his voice not understanding what it is.

“Where did he go?” you hear Steve ask again.

“Steve?” Bucky asks and you see his arm turn to dust just a moment before he falls to the ground and his whole body disappears.

You gasp in shock and horror. You too fall to the ground right next to the ashes. As your hands touch the ground the dust clings to your bloodied skin. And you look up. First your eyes meet Steve’s who has knelt down next to you, but then you look around. In the distance you see airships crash, you hear some shouts coming from the battle field. You see T’Challa helping up Okoye. They became your family when you spent your time here in Wakanda while Bucky was recovering. Okoye’s face reflects yours as the man disintegrates in front of her.

You hear more voices, the talking raccoon’s, the tree’s, Rhodey’s... You are paralysed as Steve offers you his hand to help you up. You look at the dust and blood on your hands.

“Bucky...” you whisper, tears in your eyes.

Steve realises that you don’t even notice him so he stumbles forward, towards Vision’s body. Everyone gathers around him and the realisation comes as a tidal wave - you had lost.

You sit on one of the fold up chairs on the balcony of the vacant home. Is it yours or does it still belong to the family who had lived here before? It doesn’t really matter at this point. It hadn’t mattered for a while because all hope of a home, of a family had turned to dust five years ago.

You hear a creak coming from inside the house, but you don’t bother to look who it is, you already know there is just one person who could find you.

“Hello, Steve,” you greet him as he sits down next to you.

“You weren’t easy to track down,” he says quietly as to not disturb the silence of the evening.

“Well I tried my best. Figured it would be easiest to just disappear like everyone else or maybe not quite like everyone else,” you say and tighten the blanket around you. “Why did you come here?”

“I came to tell you that there might be hope. Hope of bringing them all back and we could use all the help we can get.”

“Hope? It’s been five years,” you turn to look at him teary eyed, “Five years... but every day feels like a lifetime, even so, every time I close my eyes, I see them. It haunts my dreams, but I know I don’t have to tell you that. I would have given my life for his, but there was nothing left of him. I lost half of my family to a snap of the fingers. Bucky, Sam, Wanda, T’Challa, Shuri, Peter... And I just... I couldn’t bare the idea of losing any more of it so I left. I tried to find purpose, every day I tried, but I just couldn't see the light anymore. I live on borrowed time and I know it’s not mine to waste, but I can’t find a path. I already died once before, but They brought me back for a reason. I was just a kid when he gave his life for mine.”

“Who?” Steve wonders as he has never heard that story.

“I never did find out, but I remember seeing him in the Beyond just before his soul was reaped,” you look at your hands, “So tell me, what is this hope.”

You listen to him as he explains the plan. All this sounds insane to you, but at this point you’ve already had a giant purple man turn your happiness to ashes with a snap of his fingers so who is to say that time travel is the craziest plan out there.

“So then what? You get all the Stones, you build a new Gauntlet and then bring us all back to 2018?” you ask.

“No, we’ll bring everyone who was dusted back to today,” Steve clarifies.

“What about those who lost everything? What about those who took their lives, those who fell into depression and addiction? What about the five years you’ll take from those who will have to come back to this messed up world?”

“We can’t save everybody, we never could. There are many people who have found a new life in this crazy world, who have moved on, who have families now, we would be taking that away from them.”

You nod silently, this is an impossible choice, one you don’t want to make so you just fall silent. Could this be your purpose? Or is this just empty promises? What could you possibly do to make a difference?

“Will you come with me? We could bring him back, we could bring everyone back,” Steve says insistently as he leans forward to look at you.

“I want them back. Whatever it takes,” you meet his gaze.

You are back at the compound. You are greeted by familiar faces, knowing nods. Everyone is focused and ready for what’s to come. This is it. The all or nothing time heist. You agreed to be left behind to watch over the machinery, to make sure everyone gets back. You watch out the massive window, or rather the glass wall. You overlook the grounds and see Tony. A little girl sprints into his arms and he picks her up. Pepper walks closer and Tony gives his girls a big long hug. At that moment you realise what’s at stake.

You had hoped to get your happiness back, to give others their happiness back, but now you see that some people truly did find their happiness in the darkness. If the mission failed, if something went wrong, all the rest of joy would die with it.

“Are you ready?” Steve asks and you turn around to give him a nod.

“This has to work.”

“It will.” he says with determination.

Everything that follows seems almost a blur. The last preparations before they go to retrieve the Stones, for you their mission only takes a couple seconds, but when they return, Natasha has been lost, she had sacrificed herself for the grater good. That gives you a new blow, but you do have all of the Infinity Stones. Without a body to mourn the rest of the Avengers seem lost and so do you. With a heavy heart you sit by the little dock, commemorating what she gave up, but no funeral, not now, not like this. You glide along, mourning for the friend you lost, but hopeful as you are so close of possibly getting everyone else back.

You watch the others work as they build the new gauntlet. They had brought the old and charred one with them, they studied it and also Thor’s weapons to be able to recreate the glove, but now it is ready. It feels like the world has gone silent. You see the others talking, but you know not of what, you only stare at the glove until Banner buts it on and snaps his fingers again. You just stand there, not being able to comprehend what is happening, not being sure what to expect, but all things considered, you did not guess that the building would collapse in on itself and bury you and the rest of the Avengers with it.

You fight for your life in the rubble, your communication device lost, all alone you call out for help, but know that you can’t be heard over the sounds of explosions coming from somewhere outside. You push aside the rubble, still coughing and choking. It takes you a long time to make your way forward, but eventually you find yourself face to face with a big concrete slab that you are not able to move. You look for another way out with no success, but then the rubble shifts and you are lucky enough to not get crushed by it, but instead you see light and you climb out to overlook the huge battlefield. You see golden sparkling portals all around you with soldiers and heroes walking out of them, you realise those are the people who were dusted and now they’ve returned. You see Thanos’ forces and are filled with new hope as the odds seem to be on your side. You look around hoping to see the one face you’ve missed the most, but it is impossible in this massive crowd.

You fight with all you have cutting trough the brutal creatures the titan sent your way. You get deeper and deeper into the battle field being surrounded by both enemies and friends. As is starts to rain down fire you find yourself under a golden shield. You keep fighting until you find your Bucky. You lock eyes and he smiles. Back to back you fight off the outriders. Everything will be alright now, you can feel it in your bones even though it gets harder and harder by the second. The dead creatures start to pile up and the savages leap towards you in greater and greater numbers. As it feels like you’re being overrun by the creatures they suddenly turn to ashes all around you. The fighting is over.

You turn to face Bucky and jump up to hug him he lets his gun fall to the ground as he wraps his arms around you tight. You can feel his relief and you almost start to cry. You have him back. Your happiness. You pull away and he gives you a heated kiss on the lips.

“We won,” you whisper and look around you. Then you notice the people standing together, heads lowered. You see Steve’s face, you see only one half of it, but it is enough to realise he’s crying. You take Bucky’s hand and hurry towards them. He follows you until you stop right next to Rhodey. You see Pepper crying over Tony’s dead body and your insides knot up. You remember so vividly him picking up his little girl, the love he had for them, for the world. “Earth’s best defender” Steve had called him. You see your purpose now, it never was about your happiness, it’s about the greater good, Tony knew it.

You turn to face Bucky again. This isn’t fair. You look at him, you imagine the life you always dreamed of, with him. A home, a family of your own, something Tony already had, something he gave up for everyone else. The true ultimate sacrifice.

“I love you,” you give the man a deep kiss, “I’ll always love you, remember that. And please forgive me.”

Bucky looks confused and concerned as you let go of his hand and step away. You kneel next to the dead hero and take his hand.

“You deserve to live, the world needs you,” you squeeze his fingers and place a light kiss on his forehead.

You feel the strength go out of your body and everything fades to black. From the darkness stars emerge, you recognise this place - the Beyond. All around you is the vast emptiness of space and millions upon millions of stars.

“Why did you do that?” you hear an almost accusing voice.

“I had to. You need to go back to your girls,” you smile a sad smile at Tony.

“What about Barnes?”

“I hope he’ll be alright, I hope he can forgive me,” you feel like you would cry, but not here, not with these being your last conscious moments.

“The universe will be a darker place without you,” he says right as your soul is reaped and carried off into a new life.

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I. Liz has narcissistic traits. Red is a natural born charmer.

Liz has a narcissistic streak and a tendency to delude herself as a messed-up coping mechanism, all of which she voices right off the bat in the pilot episode when Cooper asks her to profile herself (and to give us a brief intro to the character). These manifest chiefly as

(1) angry, aggressive outbursts (2) a sense of entitlement/egocentrism (3) blame-shifting

and she displays these traits to varying degrees throughout the show.

Now add to these the standard “Reddington Effect” that gets pointed out by other characters, articulating what Liz has been feeling since day one:

“There's no one on earth who can make a woman feel like the center of his universe more than Raymond Reddington.” (204)

“I was star-struck. It was exciting and captivating and... it consumed me. My work, my marriage.” (411)

We can also witness this "soft power” in action when Red approaches Zoe, Berlin’s daughter, to use her against her father. We can see how easily he can charm and pull people in to get what he wants. Sometimes it hilariously backfires - as it should - but that’s beside the point rn. The point is, Liz seems to receive this standard treatment, too, and she’s immediately, intensely receptive to it.

We can see both the positive (fascination-attraction) and the negative (rejection-aggression) side of this chemistry early on. She gets exposed to Red’s regular charm routine but it’s ultimately a v different experience because what those women quoted above don’t know (and what Liz still doubts) is that with her, his feelings run very, very deep. She is both the means and the end, the journey and the destination. Neither can walk this road without the other but walk it they must.

II. Liz’s traits are amplified by Red’s behavior and Red’s behavior is warped by Tom’s presence.

Thank God I have Tom, because with you, I never know what to believe. I have never lied to you. How the hell would I know?

Red’s secretive, seductive, guilt-ridden behavior feeds Liz’s narcissistic impulses.

(1) His ingrained "I will never tell you everything” ground rule regularly forms a volatile mix with her proneness to irritability and anger. There are countless examples of this (often understandable) reaction with a wide range that goes from a raised voice to actual physical aggression.

(2) It also clashes with her belief that she's automatically entitled to be told everything, regardless of the possibility that knowing might not make much difference to her but could get others killed, or the fact that she’s often careless w/ sensitive info and sometimes straight-up ignores the answer anyway.

This is an irresponsible and wasteful way of going about getting answers. Wanting to know doesn't entitle anyone to know. It's not at all surprising that Red - whose very life depends on carefully calculated discretion - is rarely fully forthcoming. Still, this is a major source of friction, esp as it seems to run counter to him telling her how special she is and treating her as such with a consistency that most well-adjusted people would fall for. A narcissistic personality like hers stands even less chance. This triggers jealousy and possessiveness very early on, and later engenders a full-blown expectation that when push comes to shove, he would always put her needs above anybody else’s, including his own. This (partially conditioned) expectation is in play e.g. when Tom re-enters her life and also when he violently leaves it again.

(3) Red is also burdened with a lot of chronic guilt which makes him an easy target for blame-shifting by those select few he loves. He often allows Liz to push blame on him for things he is not responsible for and he suffers in silence because “in his heart, he knows he must pay”. This also enables her to delude herself into thinking that he's indeed the unified source of all her problems, which makes her receptive to Mr. Kaplan’s terrible Solution to Nothing that targets him as such. Red has branded himself a “sin eater” and this gets taken full advantage of in a way that veers into emotional abuse. It paves the way for Operation Possum and its fallout that ripples across the next two seasons.

These 3 major negative “lock and key” interactions combine and reach a very unhealthy peak in S3/B. Liz’s thoughtless, pointless fake death stunt pushes Red to an edge he barely manages to pull himself back from, and it throws a wrench in the delicate cogwheels of their relationship where the degree of functionality and “healthiness” has always hinged on proportionate reciprocity (of good and bad alike). The faked death plan is - among other things - so disproportionately cruel and so exceptionally dumb and pointless, it unhinges this interplay.

It shakes Red from his grief- and guilt-induced stupor and cracks his habit of putting Liz on a pedestal. In S4 it is now Dembe who gets to be referred to as the "light in the darkness", which, given the changed circumstances, is a much better arrangement for both Liz and Red. Red would never ask anyone to carry this burden but the truth is, he needs someone like that by his side to keep him from falling to pieces. Dembe is a centered, reliable, well-adjusted person who can carry this heavy weight. Liz can't and she shouldn't, either. Now Dembe needs to be the lighthouse keeper as they navigate their stormy relationship.

On top of pulling Liz from the pedestal, Red also begins to scale back his willingness to play buffer and absorb blame. He pushes back against the kind of behavior he partially conditioned and enabled. He refuses to give in to Mr. Kaplan’s absurd and reckless vendetta that still targets him as the “root of all evil” in Liz’s life. He refuses to keep serving as a scapegoat for Tom’s failings and Liz’s self-imposed blindness, but the most significant “slight” contributing to the big fracture in his relationship with her is his refusal to share the secret of the bag.

“That’s why you’re here. That’s… Not to help me, not to avenge Tom’s death, but to help yourself and get your precious secret back.”

It is less about the secret itself and more about Red prioritizing it above her. She is jealous again but this time it is not directed at a person but at his “precious secret” that ultimately separates him from her, and once again it masquerades as projected and misplaced anger stemming from her deeper desire for their relationship to be close and genuine.

We have been here before when the Fulcrum surfaced:

"That's why you came into my life then. And that's why you're here now. Not because of me or who I am to you, whatever connection we might have, but because of some... object. Some thing."

and after her name gets cleared in S3/B:

I thought maybe after all we've been through the past three months that you might want to take a break. It's a mythic battle, and it's not anywhere close to being over. It's your battle, not mine.

and then again with the bag of bones. “Not me but” is the underlying issue that gets to her in each of these instances and it always manifests as anger.

From her warped perspective (warped by pain, confusion, and narcissism) he is deeply hurting her and taking everything from her to keep himself safe and cozy. It is the complete betrayal of her (partially conditioned but still unreasonable) expectation that he’d always put her and her needs first. In her eyes, this is again proof that their relationship, just like the one with Tom, has been a mere tool, a manufactured illusion, which - coupled with the impostor reveal - must truly mean Red never really cared for her at all.

But her assessment is once again dead wrong because she refuses to take a careful look at all the available information in proper context - a broader context where her personal issues are not the only ones of importance and where Red not bending to her every wish, esp those that make him deeply miserable or an instant murder victim, is not a sign of lack of genuine feelings but of a healthier attitude. She is also projecting anger at her own dishonesty with herself on him, and while it worked back when Red was receptive to it bc it was conducive to his self-flagellation, this messed up coping mechanism is finally breaking down, too, due to his increasing resistance and the multiplying events that signal he was never that alleged single source of evil.

"We want the same thing."

Indeed. It's the need underpinning Liz's anger, the same one Red has already articulated, albeit indirectly: "an inextricable intimacy and a commitment." Liz uses anger to express this, Red uses fish stories and Tom.

We were both half right. Together, we were right.

Liz sees Red's commitment forever lying elsewhere: with his precious secrets. Red sees Liz's commitment tied up in her relationship with Tom even after his betrayal, even after his literal death. They’ve been longing for the other to break away and commit, but this longing still manifests indirectly and out of sync: she pulls Tom between them like a guardrail (and DG, too), so Red flees into his “work” as a defensive response, which she interprets as lack of genuine interest and withdraws further into safe denial, and we have a vicious cycle on our hands. Despite all that, she still wants him to give up his secrets and he still wants her to give up her fixation on Tom. It’s no accident Red is so captivated by her when she describes her fantasy to him. It’s v much his, too.

But they both feel betrayed right now and both cling to their respective security blankets: Red to his secrets, Liz to her anger.

III. The current name of the game for Liz is repression and denial, for Red, it’s obsession and rumination.

Liz's remark about Red during her therapy session is telling and relevant here:

"Some of what he's done is unimaginably bad. But some of what he's done for me is unimaginably good."

She has been privy to many good things Red has done for others (hell, an entire county once) but those are not factored in when she evaluates his "goodness". No, this is about her and again, it produces only a partial image. It is a good start to say to an outsider that they don’t have the full picture of who he is (or can be) and therefore their understanding is skewed. However, the same goes for Liz and she refuses to accept that her POV is limited, too, and that she is complicit in it being so. DG is a prime example: she is handed a DNA test and everything that contradicts the result is pushed aside at once. The same happened when Tom told her he was a changed man: she ignored the contradictions, so she could have the illusion of stability. Red withholds information but it’s Liz who blatantly lies to herself about many things.

But back to the quote above: so only what Red does for her is weighed on the scale of goodness. Only that defines his moral character. It is decidedly untrue but again it's a manifestation of possessiveness and something Red partially conditioned in her in moments where e.g. he says saving her helps him live w/ himself (104) or where he implies that being with her allows him to become less of a monster (209). As a result, he is reduced to something less but something confined to her, something conveniently simplified that - depending on her need - is easier to either embrace or scapegoat. When he goes along with what she wants (whether it is actually good or not), he is a welcome, positive presence. When he refuses her (no matter how justified or necessary it is), he is deemed toxic and gets rejected. But after Tom inserts himself back into their lives and after the fake death betrayal, Red seems to have less and less willingness to silently confine himself to her whims and wishes, and they finally reach a breaking point in S5.

Fans on both sides of the "why does Red care so much about Liz" fence focus heavily on love as his primary drive, and label the nature of the R/L relationship accordingly: parental and romantic respectively. What else could explain such grandiose display of unconditional love other than being related or being in love? To quote Red, "perhaps there's a third option." There is and despite it being on full display (or maybe because of it since the show has conditioned us to assume a convoluted mystery everywhere) we often overlook its importance:

With Red, guilt is the operative word. This is the governing emotion right next to love (a more recent development) to which many of his grand gestures are anchored. The pervasiveness of guilt in Red's life is pointed out several times in the show, most notably in episodes 104, 216, and 319:

“The farmer, who is no longer a farmer sees the wreckage he's left in his wake. It is now he who burns. It is he who slaughters. And he knows, in his heart he must pay.”

“The truth of it is, once you start down this road there's no logical place to stop. For the first few years, it may work. You'll draw some measure of virtue from being her invisible benefactor. But that won't last. It's all a fraud. That it's really not about her at all. That it's all about you. And you're just going through the motions to salve your own guilt. All the money, all the time and effort, all the favors in the world cannot possibly equal what you took away from her. Everything else is just a nice gesture.”

“It was a Hobson's choice. There was a woman and her child. Both were doomed. Both would die. I could either save one or lose both. I chose the child. It was the worst thing I've ever had to do in my life. Worst thing by far. I was arrogant. I presumed that there was an order to things, that there was... that if I nourished and protected and taught the child, she would be safe and happy. And she was neither. No matter what I tried to do, all I brought her was misery and violence.”

In each, the debilitating nature of guilt is given emphasis, the symptoms of which are exhibited by Red throughout the show. Chronic guilt can be an extremely powerful drive. As Red notes, "once you start down this road there's no logical place to stop". He genuinely believes he owes Liz an immeasurable debt and that nothing, not even wrecking or even giving his own life for her, could make up for it. If we look at his behavior from this perspective, the primary answer to why he is willing to go to such great lengths for her becomes obvious. He loves her, too, of course, but love is - as noted above - is a more recent, healthy development, and it still has to co-exist with deep-seated guilt that keeps it in a toxic choke hold. This combination is the main reason why he cannot deny Liz anything (see: Tom) and why he's so vulnerable to blame shifting. When someone believes they deserve to be used and punished by the one they also come to love more than anything, the danger of abuse skyrockets, too.

Guilt-driven gestures, no matter how grandiose, are ultimately selfish and fake, as Red observes. But after he finally meets her, love starts creeping into the picture, shifting their dynamic and imbuing it with something real and selfless. And Red starts pushing back a little now where Tom is concerned. This sprouting, deepening love, however, gets badly trampled on when the guilt-trips and betrayals come. Red endures them because guilt says "you deserve it", but it no longer has quite the same hold as it once did. Heartbreak is a somewhat sobering experience but until the still unknown source of his guilt is uncovered and addressed, his relationship with Liz, his love for her, cannot reach genuine fulfillment.

IV. Sprinters are bad at running marathons.

Red and Liz want the same thing (as we have established above) but she is impulsive and wants it now whereas he is wary and plans long-term.

“I can’t tell you what I’m gonna want 10 years from now. Even a year from now. I just know what I want right now.”

Liz is no fan of delayed gratification. She has wants and she wants those satisfied "right now" even if it means she has to trade a more secure, more enduring yet still unavailable future (Red) for a readily available present of poorer quality (Tom). The former requires hard work (of the sweat, blood, and tears kind), honest self-evaluation, careful planning, and lots of patience. The latter is just easy and right there, so she cuts straight to the finish line, then it all promptly comes crashing down on her.

This is what happens after her exoneration in S3B. She goes to Red but instead of some quality personal time, he acts prickly and distant, then whips out a giant map to show her how just much hard work still needs to be done before Odysseus can even consider returning home. Her response? She rejects it (and him with it) and goes straight back to Tom. He promises to give her everything she wants right there and then at a discount. She only has to bury her head in the sand regarding a couple of things and since Liz is prone to self-delusion and denial by default, she jumps at the opportunity. This is where her relationship with Red begins to go off the rails.

“Circumstances are far more complex than we ever imagined. I’m betting on the long play. The future.”

Red plays the long game when it comes to the most important things in his life, and he doesn’t shy away from torturous self-examination and self-denial to secure enduring results and a better future for those he loves. Liz’s relationship with Tom was a sprint with many corner-cutting and the inevitable letdown. They had a short present, but no future. With Red, there is a future still but Liz has to run a marathon to reach it and being a sprinter, she struggles a lot.

But she is not the only one struggling. Red is still traumatized by the loss of his family, which makes him instinctively reluctant to try to settle down again. Those who inflicted that debilitating loss still represent an active force in the world (see: the map). The longing to settle down is certainly there. It’s a dream he shares with Liz. They practically wish upon it under the stars while “Our House” is playing, but on top of his guilt and grief, the circumstances seem to be forever against him, so he doesn’t dare actively push for it like she does (he even rejects Agnes at first). He redirects his focus to the “job” to try and create a safer environment and maybe a future opportunity. This folds back to the marathon approach that Liz rejects at first but now, after Tom's demise, she must face. She vows to destroy Red but I don't think it will be a literal destruction. Deep down they still want the same thing and even though they have yet to admit it openly, they want it with each other.

Their time spent on the run in S3/A is immersed in the theme of a shared home. Liz and Red seek refuge in a theater where the stage is set as a home. This is where Liz tells Red about her fantasy and this is where Red immediately retreats behind a wall when he realizes that Liz will be pulled back into Tom's orbit.

“I’m not interested in what you want. I’m interested in what you deeply desire. I can sense that death and vengeance aren’t what drive you, Elizabeth. Or feed your soul. [What does?] A lost world, I suspect. Another life. If you can’t face your truths, I can’t be of service.”

The Djinn makes a clear distinction between “what you want” and “what you deeply desire”. It is echoed in the tension-filled dream Liz has where Red removes Tom from the picture just when he is about to spill a secret (nice piece of foreshadowing btw), then stalks up to her bed and asks her the same thing - not just what she wants but what she really wants. This image of Red stepping up as a sexual-romantic partner after her husband’s demise is shoved deep down in her subconscious. It is one she is not yet ready to face, but it is there - the option of making a home with him, an option he, too, keeps at arm’s length due to past trauma and present circumstances, and it adds even more tension to their interplay.

This exact type of unresolved tension has already popped up on this show when Madeline Pratt re-entered Red's life w/ some grievances.

"Florence was everything, our way out, a fresh start. But to you, it’s all just a job."

She feels betrayed and played for a fool because Red chose to continue living his danger-magnet criminal life, prioritizing it over her and their intended home.

"They used Pratt as bait, faked the kidnapping in order to bring Red into the Kings’ custody."

Later on, counting on his savior complex, she lands him in hot water to get even. She stages her own kidnapping and lures Red into a trap set by an enemy with a score to settle. If it sounds familiar, that’s because we see something similar play out between Liz and Red. It’s low-key in the background during S3-4 (w/ the whole home theme) and gets kicked into high-gear in the S5 finale (when Liz thinks he played her for a fool so he can continue living his criminal life):

We were out. You said the ship we were on was headed to Spain. Change of plans. Because? Because after far too much time playing defense, today’s the day we switch to offense.

They could get away and start a new life but Red refuses to quit his "mission". As mentioned above, he tells Liz they still have a lot to do and her reaction is disappointment, and when Tom offers her everything Red is not yet able (to go away and start fresh), she accepts. And this is when their downward spiral begins in earnest and all the accumulated hurt peaks in S5, in Liz's very Madeline-esque plan to fake a kidnapping and lure Red to one of his enemies for some answers and score-settling (the same business the Kings were into w/ their illicit auctions):

If you’re gonna tell him you hurt me, he’s got to believe you. You knew Reddington would come for you. He got to do what he always does: try and save me.

Indeed. And he is about to confess his greatest secret to save her life when they get interrupted and an alternate solution presents itself. He kills Sutton, takes the bag and leaves. Liz vows to destroy him after this and I think she is right. Raymond Reddington needs to die for good this time. He needs to die so the man behind that mask can finally emerge. He needs to die so Liz can finally face and understand the full picture.

Red’s guilt feeds on the secrets he keeps and Liz continues to cling to her anger because these secrets are a wedge between them. The murky past and their distorted perception of it (Red's warped by guilt, Liz's scrambled by memory manipulation) hold them and their relationship hostage, so it must be disclosed and sorted for both their sakes. The second chance will not come until this happens. When it does, I think it will be the most cathartic moment in the history of this show.

This collision course is their way back home.

#long post #the blacklist #lizzington #(not too much i was trying really hard to keep this from turning into a shipper fantasy blueprint)#(emphasis on trying)#speculation #musings #q

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The Trump/Twitter Hypocrisy. When Will It End?

Last week, the nice folks at Twitter permanently suspended my account - again. For the fourth time. The previous three times I was kicked off the site were for trolling upstanding patriots like Matt Gaetz, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham, respectively.

The interesting thing re: this latest suspension, was not that I was kicked off again. By now, I’m used to seeing my account suspended on what seems like a monthly basis - as well as having to rebuild my followers from scratch. Whatever. However, the apparent reason for this latest suspension was for posting a satirical clip a few of us Resisters made of president pie hole opening fire on a group of holiday shoppers -- an obvious nod to his own statement of being able to get away with “shooting people on Fifth Ave.” The caption read "Raise your hand if you think this will be the scene the day after he’s acquitted by the Senate."

Interestingly enough, no sooner am I banished to the Phantom Zone, forever, the Trump campaign releases a video depicting the president as the mass-murdering 'Thanos' from the Avengers, showing the president waving his hand and eviscerating the entire Congressional Impeachment delegation.

Did the folks at Twitter suspend his deplorable offspring for retweeting such blatant hate speech and for all-but-calling for the deaths of these elected officials? Did they at least suspend the accounts of those running Trump’s campaign who created the ad and who thought it was a good idea to publicly advocate for the annihilation of his rivals? Did they do this because, as our Commander-in-Chief, he -as well as the people around him - should be held to higher standards than your average Twitter user? Did they do anything at all? How about the last video, in which the president’s featured as “The Kingsman”, assassinating church goers, including entire news organizations, as well as shooting president Obama in the face? Did they do anything then? #Crickets

Why not, you ask? Ah, that's the big head scratcher, kids. Maybe it’s because there’s a shitload of GOP/Trump-sympathizing interns working the servers who make it their mission to tilt the scales every chance they get? (That would explain our on-again-off-again relationship). Maybe it’s because the geeks at Headquarters were playing Xbox when the spot was posted and not paying attention? Or, perhaps it’s because CEO Jack Dorsey found himself puckering up and kissing some bloated, orange ass in exchange for a few undisclosed favors in one of the happy couple’s recent White House meetings? Maybe good ole Jack’s so guilt-ridden, he decided to relocate to Africa to avoid the media? Who knows? The only thing certain is there is an unequivocal double-standard when it comes to how Twitter polices Trump vs. the rest of us, i.e. it’s non-existent.

Why, since this incredibly unqualified lunatic took office, has Twitter not done a thing to try and curb his attacks on private citizens?

Why haven’t they taken any action when the president of the Unites States uses members of Congress, the FBI (poor Lisa Page), career ambassadors, even dead Congressmen and Senators, as target practice?

Why have they stood by and done nothing as the orange idiot calls for the “outing” of whistleblowers? Why are they doing nothing now that he’s apparently followed through and leaked the Ukraine whistleblower’s name? Aside from being a crime, this makes Twitter accomplices in allowing this brave individual’s life, and possibly the lives of his/her family to be put in danger.

If all this is not enough, does it get any more pathetic than the president of the United States using his favorite app to publicly shame a sixteen year-old girl because he’s jealous he didn’t win “Person of the Year”? Or because he was virtually ignored at Davos in favor of this brilliant and brave teenager?

However, the Orange Emperor’s favorite Twitter past time seems to be publicly shaming/attacking Congressman Adam Schiff - be it using his bully pulpit to criticize his physical appearance in front of an arena full of hungry zombies, or going so far as calling for his head on a spike.

There are so many things wrong with this mind-boggling ambivalence on the part of the world’s most popular communication tool, it’s beyond words. Forget the fact that the president violates one of Twitter’s “Main Commandments” on an hourly basis. That being:

“You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so.”

Seriously, Twitter? You’re joking, right? Take away every single tweet in which @RealdonaldTrump has either directly harassed, or called for the harassment/public shaming of one of his critics and/or opponents, and you’re left with about six on the economy. Out of about twenty-five thousand. If that’s not bias, I don’t know what is.

Why hasn’t there been a single article or opinion piece in the last three awful years by an executive at Twitter Central who’s watched their application be used for the primary purpose of sowing chaos and discord amongst his/her fellow Americans and who had the balls to try and put a stop to it? Where is the Twitter whistleblower? Something is definitely rotten in Denmark.

Legally speaking, at the moment, there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do. I’ve had scores of friends who’ve had to deal with the two-faced, spineless, hypocritical policies of an entity that thrives on playing judge, jury and executioner towards its users for the most minor of infractions, who, like me, want to sue, and who are then told by an attorney that, because Twitter is not a state or federal agency, they are not bound by first amendment law.

This is a problem that needs fixing, asap. After all, we, the users are the reason - the ONLY reason - Twitter is a multi-billion dollar company. It would seem being allowed to operate, virtually unregulated (you listening Congress?), you’d think the Powers That Be would be forced to afford its users some sort of protection under the Constitution. Especially if they define their main purpose as that of a tool for “Public Conversation.”

Should the biggest entity for conversation/communication/breaking news the world has ever seen be allowed to operate free of oversight? To reap the financial/social rewards it gets by providing such a platform and, in turn, not be subjected to any rules, outside of the ones it provides for itself? Seems a tad one-sided. Especially since they’re now a publicly traded company.

Additionally, Twitter’s entire “Appeal Process” is an absolute joke. A pathetic sham that mocks the user in its apathetic taunt to offer a chance at redemption. Be interesting to know how many users whose accounts have been suspended were reinstated on appeal. I’d venture to say the number is zero to none, as you aren’t ever given the opportunity to communicate w/ a live human being, or to fully explain your situation/defense.

Similar to Facebook’s M.O. of treating its users like batteries in The Matrix, sucking every bit of life they can get before flushing us into the void, Twitter provides one of the most pathetically inadequate support departments in the history of support departments. They make the cable companies look like Trader Joe’s. I’ve had my account suspended for stupid things like ‘wishing’ for Mitch McConnell’s untimely passing (please God, hurry). However, there’s a big difference between wanting/wishing for something and threatening to do it, yourself. With each one-sided suspension, Twitter is telling us they are the Thought Police.

The real dangerous part about what’s happening is, once again, we have technology far eclipsing the pace of regulatory practices/congressional oversight. As we speak, there’s absolutely nothing stopping the most powerful man on earth from using the power of his office, and the technology at his fingertips, to threaten, intimidate, harass, bully, and lie, round-the-clock, 24/7. Not Congress, not The People, and, Lord knows, not Twitter, itself. It may take generations to recover from such a traumatic, incessant, daily assault on our senses, on the Truth, and our world as a whole. And, for providing our unhinged POTUS a soapbox free of consequences, Twitter’s role cannot be understated.

Imagine, for a minute, how much better things would be if they actually held the president to the same standards as the rest of us? Imagine if Trump’s Twitter account had been suspended for violating their terms early on? Even for a week. Not only would it have made him think twice before he attacks another private citizen/company, or out a whistleblower, imagine what an amazing week that would’ve been? Free of hate, free of malice and misleading proclamations and declarations being spewed out and blasted at us from the most powerful man on earth, every five minutes, like the spigot of a piping hot sprinkler of hate on a sweltering summer’s day? One can dream.

Til then, perhaps a massive class action suit against Twitter by thousands of users who were suspended/kicked off/banned for the same things the president does on a daily basis would wake them and/or Congress up? Even if it’s not winnable, watching their stock drop a dozen points due to such an egregious pr gaff would make any company rethink its relationship with its users, and the public. Feel free to email me - [email protected] if you’re interested in joining the suit. When combined, we ‘snowflakes’ form an avalanche.

Social media has become the primary way of communication for 99% of modern society - not to mention a trillion dollar behemoth that’s virtually unregulated. It’s about time these Titans of Text were held accountable to their users, from whom, they generate one hundred percent of their value. Til then, keep a look out for my fifth Twitter profile. #RESIST

(UPDATE: 5/26/20 After nearly four years and twenty-thousand lies, it's good to see Twitter finally decided, to put a 'disclaimer' on ONE of orange idiot's ridiculous tweets and hold him to the same standards as the rest of us. (wink). #Babysteps

Twitter also suspended my account, yet again, this past weekend for comparing White House press sec and houseplant, Kayleigh McEnany to the cliche bimbo at the opening of a slasher movie. The Thought Police claim, by saying an empty-headed bimbo who walks right into a machete has more credibility than McEnany, I’m “promoting violence.” Also, trying to fill out the “Appeal Box”- which, as stated above, as all but useless, would be a bit more fair if you were given more than a twenty character limit to state your case.

But my main point above, re: in lieu of a class action, public pressure can force Twitter and/or Congress to do the right thing and apply their policies equally, no matter the individual’s status, was just proven to work. In fact, IMO the leader of the free world should be held to a higher standards than the rest of us. Nonetheless, Twitter finally bowed to pressure due to all of us screaming bloody murder. Keep it up, folks.

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marlaluster · 5 years

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Emptying the cliptray on the new phone. ....

1. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqMZHkn4IF/?hl=en 2. 1,402,915 likes chrishemsworth Not a bad day in the office, getting out of the city finding some surf right near NY. #BOSSBottled yjung2_ 😍😍😍😍😍 samanthatiscareno 🥴🤩😍 marlaluster I love Chris Hemworth. #ilovechrishemsworth #mysoulmate marlaluster 😘😍😚😙😗😍 2 HOURS AGO 3. https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/tempe-starbucks-police-customer-complaint-encouraged 4. He added, “We hope that out of this unfortunate incident there comes a welcome dialogue, one that more closely unites the men and women on the frontlines of police work with the communities we serve and protect.” Starbucks apologized to Tempe police on Saturday after some of its officers were asked to leave one of its shops on the Fourth of July, following complaints from a customer who reportedly didn't feel safe with cops present. 5. Tempe Officers Association 'encouraged' by Starbucks apology after cops asked to leave Talia Kaplan By Talia Kaplan | Fox News 6. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqfCRSgm3n/?hl=en 7. Cool picture tom brady. You should get an interview by that character on Chris Hemworth's page maybe. 8. Cool picture @tombrady. You should get an interview by that character on @chrishemworth's IG page maybe. 9. 445,334 likes tombrady Think I’m gonna try a glove on my throwing hand this year 🤔 doz52 FUUCCKKKK abrahamlopez_ Yo Tom hp us get Endgame to beat Avatar at the box office!! marlaluster Cool picture @tombrady. You should get an interview by that character on @chrishemworth's IG page maybe. 4 HOURS AGO 10. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqfCRSgm3n/?hl=en 11. I wish to co-create my reality. I wish to be w others and be a part of something shared w others. Thanks for your words of inspiration @gisele. 12. tombrady's profile picture Liked by tombrady and 196,448 others gisele Pare um pouco, silencie sua mente e escute seu coração. Permita-se esse tempo de conexão, ele é essencial. Embora não possamos mudar o que já passou, podemos sempre aprender e transformar todas experiências em lições para o nosso crescimento. Reflita sobre onde você tem focado sua energia, seus objetivos. O que você quer criar? Que experiências quer viver? Lembre-se, onde você focar sua energia é onde irá colher resultados. Escolha pessoas, lugares e livros que lhe inspirem, que lhe façam bem. Acredite em você e no seu poder de cocriar sua realidade! #eclipsesolar #luanova ✨🌘💫 Stop for a moment, silence your mind and listen to your heart. Allow yourself this time of connection, it is essential. While we cannot change what has already happened, we can always learn and transform all experiences into lessons for our growth. Reflect on where you have been focusing your energy, what are your goals. What do you want to create? What experiences do you want to live? Remember, where you focus your energy is where you will reap results. Choose people, places and books that inspire you, that do you good. Believe in yourself and in your power to co-create your reality! #solareclipse #newmoon theo_dvalishvili 😍😍😍😍 ashdonnab Mother Nature herself 🙌🙌 marlaluster I wish to co-create my reality. I wish to be w others and be a part of something shared w others. Thanks for your words of inspiration @gisele. And hello, Gisele. 6 DAYS AGO 13. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bza2weYAdmm/?hl=en 14. https://www.instagram.com/p/g7AUhfACJm/?hl=en 15. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzY92vChInq/ 16. https://www.instagram.com/p/BzbKasNhNux/ 17. https://us.hola.com/celebrities/2019053024249/chris-hemsworth-elsa-pataky-relationship-pet-peeves/?viewas=amp 18. The Avengers: Endgame actor was then asked if his wife does anything that annoys him. As any good husband would do, he couldn't say one thing about her that annoys him. "Well, if she's reading this, 'nothing annoys me about her! I gotta make sure there is a place for me in the bed when I get back home," he laughed. 19. All things aside, this celebrity couple, who have three chidlren together, are as strong as ever. "I can be pretty damn stubborn, so can she, which is probably where we tend to butt heads occasionally," he shared about their life together. "But we've done pretty well to still be trucking along quite nicely, all things considered. We both have strong opinions and also both have a great amount of enthusiasm for what we believe in." 20. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gossipcop.com/chris-hemsworth-elsa-pataky-tessa-thompson/amp/

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wisdomfish · 7 years

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Many talk about ‘love’. If they only knew that love is a person; and WHOM this person is that love speaks of...

This is evidently not love for neighbor that offers itself hoping for a return (selfish). It is not self-interest love, offered out of a desire for release from the wheel of suffering (eastern religion) or for “heaven” or some such ulterior thing (works righteousness). It is not the kind of love that the ancient Roman poet Horace commends when he advises,“‘Tis your own safety that’s at stake, when your neighbor’s wall is in flames, and fires neglected are wont to gather strength.” {And it definitely is not the selfish ‘erotic’ desires and practices of a fallen humanity.}

What we see commended in the New Testament Gospels is, rather, self-giving, other focused love, which loves just because love is good. What is commended is love that knows that it is right to care about your neighbor’s house regardless of whether your own safety is at stake, and even if it is positively dangerous to help him.

“‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” - Matthew 5

However, Jesus did not just teach that people should love their fellow human beings in this openhearted and nonpartisan manner... He treated everyone he met as an image bearer of God.

Women were his neighbors, for example, even though one ancient Jewish text says, “He that talks much with women brings evil upon himself and neglects the study of the Law and at last will inherit Gehenna [hell].”

“Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, ‘Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John’— although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized— he left Judea and started back to Galilee. But he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink’. (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?’ (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink”, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?’ Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.’

Jesus said to her, ‘Go, call your husband, and come back.’ The woman answered him, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You are right in saying, “I have no husband”; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!’ The woman said to him, ‘Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.’ The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming’ (who is called Christ). ‘When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am he, the one who is speaking to you.’

Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, ‘What do you want?’ or, ‘Why are you speaking with her?’ Then the woman left her water-jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, ‘Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?’ They left the city and were on their way to him.

Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’ But he said to them, ‘I have food to eat that you do not know about.’ So the disciples said to one another, ‘Surely no one has brought him something to eat?’ Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. Do you not say, “Four months more, then comes the harvest”? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, “One sows and another reaps.” I sent you to reap that for which you did not labour. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour.’

Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, ‘He told me everything I have ever done.’ So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there for two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, ‘It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.” - John 4

So were tax collectors, even though to stay in such a person’s home was essentially to share in his sin.

“He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycomore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, ‘Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house today.’ So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. All who saw it began to grumble and said, ‘He has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner.’ Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, ‘Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.’” - Luke 19

The ritually unclean lepers and the social outcasts in general, often described in Bible translations as “sinners,” were also his neighbors.

“Once, when he was in one of the cities, there was a man covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed with his face to the ground and begged him, ‘Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.’ Then Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, ‘I do choose. Be made clean.’ Immediately the leprosy left him. And he ordered him to tell no one. ‘Go’, he said, ‘and show yourself to the priest, and, as Moses commanded, make an offering for your cleansing, for a testimony to them.’ But now more than ever the word about Jesus spread abroad; many crowds would gather to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. But he would withdraw to deserted places and pray.“ - Luke 5

The entire life of Jesus Christ is remembered in the Gospels as a period of “gracious activity, directed especially to the sinful and despised people in Israel and even to gentiles,” which “aroused suspicion and downright opposition from the Pharisees and their scribes.”

Jesus is also remembered as loving these and other enemies and eventually as laying down his life for them.

“One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, ‘Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!’ But the other rebuked him, saying, ‘Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.’ Then he said, ‘Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ He replied, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.’” - Luke 23

God , who promises in Genesis 4 to be his enemy Cain’s avenger of blood and puts a mark on him so that no one will kill him , becomes in the New Testament the God who himself lays down his life for his enemy out of love for him.

“This is My commandment, that you love one another as I loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends... - John 15

Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters by Iain W. Provan

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The Journal of Dr. Kiyo Alvara: Entry 1

Good evening, Journal.

My apologies for neglecting to write recently, there’s been little of note these past weeks. However I’ve had a very eventful couple of days. To get straight to the point, Gaedren Lamm is finally dead, and I’ve met an intriguing group of adventurers who helped make such a feat possible. It would seem that, willing or no, my fate has become intertwined with theirs.

Now, I will start from the beginning. When I woke the other day, I found a note placed on my bedside table. Nothing in my home or workplace had been moved or removed, so the culprit wasn’t a mere thief. The contents of the note informed me that if I wanted to track down Gaedren and avenge Kyth then the writer of the note, one Zellara Esmeralda, wished to help. The note gave me an address and specified that I should go to the location that night to meet with her and a group of adventurers who would be vital to stopping Gaedren from ruining more lives.

I took precautionary measures, of course. I brought along many of my best healing potions, as well as some formulaes, acid vials, and explosives. If things went south and this was some convoluted trap, I was well prepared to fight or flee.

When the sun was dipping down in the horizon, I took my leave and made for the address indicated. I found the door already open, and lights on within. I peeked my head inside, and heard voices down the hallway. Cautiously, I made my way inside.

I found the aforementioned group of adventurers, seated around a table. They asked me if I was the one who summoned them, which I denied. I showed them the letter which I received. One of their group showed me that she received a similar letter, signed with the same name.

Introductions were made. The first to offer his name was Garran, a tiefling and the son of Unae and Elkin Thandas. He’s quite the wide-eyed one, contrary to his appearance. He seems quite friendly, but I fear that the kind of optimism he carries rarely survives contact with the outside world, much as it pains me.

Next was Orda, a large half-orc with an impressive tower shield. He seems a friendly sort, and I shall likely enjoy his company going forward. I’ve made an offer of celebratory drinks later and look forward to getting to know him better.

After Orda was a young woman with dark eyes and a mousy look about her, who introduced herself as Sai Gwenn. The poor dear seems nice, but scared of her own shadow and the coat she wears is in absolute tatters. I have made offer to take her shopping for something more presentable, but she turned me down, claiming she liked the clothes she has.

The final member was a man named Hayden, a student of the sciences himself. He’s an interesting one, I can’t quite put my finger on him. He seems to guard his emotions well, I can’t get a good read on him. He’s clearly well learned and I respect that he’s chosen the same profession as I, albeit he has a focus on surgeries. However his proficiency with knives in a fight is more than I’d expect of someone only trained in surgery, and there’s a guardedness about him that makes me feel there’s more under the surface than I’ve seen. Still, the rest of the group are people with good hearts, so I am certain Hayden is no different. Sai especially seems connected to him at the hip, looking to him for guidance and following him like a lost pup.

When introductions were complete, our hostess made her appearance. She apologized for keeping us waiting, then explained why she brought us together. This group of adventurers had come to Korvosa in search of a woman named Rubella, a shiver dealer who had committed multiple murders and pinned them on a local carnival in the last town their group passed through. She was guilty of having made a powerful form of shiver, so potent that it caused multiple deaths before she was forced to flee Korvosa. What a waste of talent, this sickening misuse of alchemy.

Rubella, as it turned out, had returned to Korvosa after her murderous scheme had been uncovered. She fled to Gaedren with the promise that she would make a stronger variant of shiver to spread in the streets of Korvosa, making the drug lord that much more money.

Zellara informed us that Gaedren had stolen her harrow deck, which was a family heirloom, and in an attempt to get it back her son was murdered by him. One of many lives cut tragically short by his actions. I, for one, was more than happy to assist Zellara in reaping vengeance and bringing Gaedren to justice. Most of the adventuring group seemed to be in agreement on this, since they’d come to town seeking Rubella regardless.

Orda seemed to have his suspicions, however. Apparently in the last place they had been, someone had told a lie and kept a secret that caused more people to be killed, and he didn’t want a repeat of that. He told her he would be glad to help, but he wanted to know anything she might be hiding, anything that might come up later that we should know now.

In the interest of honesty and keeping Orda’s trust, Zellara did tell us one other thing. She was already dead, killed by Gaedren when she tried to avenge her son. She was now trapped, her spirit connected to her stolen harrow deck and her body’s remains, which Gaedren had kept out of some sick fascination. The room which we’d been standing in was not that lavish well lit home we’d believed, with a snap of her fingers she revealed the truth: we were in a place that had long been abandoned and forgotten with the death of its owners.

Orda seemed satisfied with the answer, if perhaps a bit shaken by her surprisingly straightforward admission to being a ghost. I admit to being caught off guard myself. It’s not every day you meet a friendly haunt, after all. Most are quite a bit more sinister.

Zellara informed us that we should prepare and seek out Gaedren’s hideout the next night, as he wouldn’t be there at the moment. Sai and Hayden decided that they would take the extra time to scout the old fishery Gaedren was based out of, while I’d decided to prepare more potions. I told the group of adventurers my idea: I would use a disguise potion and a vocal alteration potion to make myself appear as one of Gaedrens customers, someone drug addled and homeless. I would go inside and scout it out, see if I could locate the children he held hostage, and any other potential dangers. Then I would give them a signal to attack.

The plan was flawed, Hayden pointed out, as we didn’t know the interior to know how to best set off a signal, and we didn’t know just what Gaedren might do to his ‘customers’. Hayden suggested a counter idea, that he would disguise himself as Rubella’s deceased husband, using my disguise potions and a ring they had gotten off the man’s body. He would then take Sai as a ‘hostage’ to offer to Gaedren and Rubella, get close enough to them, and put a knife in their ribs. I was concerned about how realistically Hayden could pretend to be this dangerous woman’s husband as opposed to someone they’re less familiar with, like an addicted customer, but the rest of the group seemed fairly convinced it was a good plan, so I conceded the point.

We each went our separate ways, I spent the night making the potions Hayden would require for his plan, then I retired to bed for the night. I had a restful sleep. I feel as though I had a pleasant dream, although I don’t really remember it well now. I must have brewed my polypurpose panacea incorrectly, as I didn’t have the promised lucid dreams they give me.

Regardless, the next morning I met with the adventuring group in a local tavern called the Red Dragon Inn. We discussed our plans for the evening. Hayden and Sai would enter through the dockside entrance, while the rest of us would circle around back. If we heard any commotion, we were to burst in uninvited and help Hayden and Sai to dispatch any unsavory folks who might have set upon them. The plan concerned me for many reasons, but it was the best plan we had. I handed off the potions I’d brewed to Hayden and informed him of the time limit on each, telling him to be absolutely sure to drink the vocal alteration potion last, so that he wouldn’t waste any time with it on.

Afterwards, I returned home to open my office. Hayden came along, interested in what he might be able to learn from my medical practice. I will be happy to share my knowledge with him, and he agreed to share his notes as well, although he was very specific in telling me that his knowledge was purely surgical and not medical. That was fine, I’m practiced in surgery and while it’s not my forte there’s nothing to lose from reading what knowledge a college has to share. I get to meet with others in the field so rarely, I’m eager to pick Hayden’s brains. He’s only a student at the moment, but the very fact he’s in a medical college rather than apprenticing means that he’ll have experiences in the field that I do not.

Though he said a few things I found a tad off putting, if I am to be honest. For one, I heard him mention “The Lady of Graves” when he spoke to Zellara. I would like to find out what a pragmatic and intelligent man in the medical field could gain from worshipping the goddess of death. Yes, I am aware it’s a common line of worship, especially amongst those who must see death so often. Yes I am also aware that she also presides over childbirth. I still do not see the logic behind someone sworn to help heal others and prevent death in following the doctrine of a goddess who celebrates the nature of death. I can see how it’s a good coping mechanism, I suppose, but I would feel like a failure as a doctor if I needed to take comfort in the idea that my patients dying was simply fate or it’s their time or what-have-you.

I apologize. I got a little heated there. It’s a subject that utterly confounds me, and I cannot believe that an otherwise intelligent seeming man like Hayden would have to take comfort in the shallow platitudes offered by such a faith.

We also got into a conversation about the state of Korvosa after I went about setting a child’s broken leg. Her mother had no money to pay with, and the poor girl was asking if she would be able to walk again soon so that she could keep working so her family could eat. I wish I could say it’s the first time I’d heard this same heartbreaking tale, but this is all too common nowadays. I helped the child and gave them instructions on what they could do to help it heal faster and properly. Afterwards, I told Hayden what I just wrote: that this is all too common, and that there is a huge discrepancy between the rich and poor in this city. Hayden showed distain for how the city was being run, but not for quite the same reasons as I did. He said that this was no way to run a business, and that the short term gains wouldn’t outweigh the long-term consequences. Certainly, he’s not wrong. But it’s such a cold and pragmatic way of putting it when peoples’ lives and livelihoods are at state. Comparing Korvosa to a failing business doesn’t do justice to the cruelty the common folks in the city endure.

I don’t know if Hayden sensed that what he said bothered me, or he simply felt it was time to get ready for our plans. Either way, he excused himself to walk the streets and make sure he didn’t hear any whispers that might clue Gaedren in on our plans.

I closed up shop and made my way to meet the others at the inn, then we made our way to the docks. As we grew close to the abandoned fishery, the putrid smell of stale ocean water and rotting fish filled the air. Orda, Garran, and I slipped around to the back after Hayden drank down the disguise potion and readied the vocal altercation potion.

I didn’t see what happened next, but pieced it together from Sai and Hayden’s accounts later. Hayden and Sai played their parts excellently. Hayden dragged Sai inside and talked down to a violent little gnome who worked for Gaedren. When Rubella entered the picture, Hayden played his part to a tee, and had the shiver maker virtually wrapped around his finger with his quick thinking and perfectly timed use of the wedding ring.

There was one particularly dangerous part, in which I am relieved I didn’t go in by myself as I initially planned. Rubella accepted Hayden’s lie that he’d captured Sai and was using her as a hostage to keep the rest of the adventuring group at bay, and agreed to a plan to make her their drug addled servant much as they’d apparently once done to a group of skulks. However, Rubella pulled out a vial of shiver, and told Hayden they should get started.

With a level or finesse I wish I’d been there to see myself, Hayden managed to make it look like he’d forced the drug down her throat while really switching it out. If he can do that with someone scrutinizing him so closely, I bet he could give magicians and illusionists a run of their money.

Rubella and one of Gaedren’s lackeys took Hayden and Sai deeper into the fishery to work out a business proposition. It’s here that Hayden make a misstep. He tried to rush into the final part of the plan, and in an attempt to get Rubella close to him, he said that on dying he wished he would have been close to her, and that all he wanted now was a kiss. This was apparently too out of character for her husband, even if he’d died and been resurrected. Rubella called his bluff. She and Hayden ended up having a scuffle, and in the process Sai undid the knot Hayden had tied and screamed an ear shattering shriek.

Garran, Orda, and I heard the scream from outside the door, which happened to lead right into the room that the others were fighting in. Orda broke open the locked door, only to find a table in his way, which he also removed from the equation. Garran entered the room and I followed suit.

Hayden had his knives out and was facing Rubella and her alchemical bombs. Sai was…it’s difficult to describe. Her face was inhuman, she looked a bit like a monstrous humanoid bat. I’ve yet to ask her just what the cause of this form was, but she seemed fairly adept at it seeing as she took a good chunk off Rubella’s arm with a vicious bite.

I drew my bow as I entered the room and trained it on the other alchemist. I asked Rubella if she was the one who’d made and was planning to distribute a powerful new form of shiver, to which she agreed. I loosed an arrow into her, and told her that this was a waste of her alchemical talents, ruining others’ lives with her creations rather than helping others. She laughed at me, called me naïve for looking down on her choices. I argued that there are other ways to make money with alchemy, ways that help others and nurture them rather than harming and corrupting everything they touch.

Rather than reply to me, Rubella downed an invisibility potion. There was an open trapdoor nearby, which one of Gaedren’s other minions had escaped through before I’d entered the room. It was certain she’d made her escape through there, and Orda ran to follow after her. I would have gladly joined him, but the vicious little gnome had appeared behind Hayden and he looked like he needed some help. As I stepped into the room and got the gnome’s attention, there was a shout from the room I’d just left and manic laughing. Garran had been attacked by a crazed half-orc who called himself “Giggles”.

I told Hayden to try to back out of the room to give me room to use an explosive without catching him in it. The gnome didn’t take kindly to this and took a swipe at me. I’m quick on my feet when necessary, however, and I managed to avoid his attack. Then I followed up with my own attack. Not with a blade but with a bomb. The gnome knew he was outclassed, and expressed that the money just wasn’t worth it. I told him to run, then, because the only blood I was looking to spill was his boss’. I doubt the vicious little gnome learned his lesson, but perhaps he at least learned enough to find a low profile job that won’t end with adventurers out for his head.

I then went to help the others take care of “Giggles”. It was close quarters, forcing me to forego any explosives at first. However as the half-orc kept getting in swipes at Hayden and Garran, Hayden forcefully told me to hurry up and use a bomb, and not to worry about him. Garran assured me that tieflings are resistant to flames and that he’d be alright, too. Despite my misgivings, I did as Hayden demanded and loosed a bomb at the gleefully murderous half-orc. The others finished the job, and I made a beeline to the trapdoor to catch up with Orda and Sai.

Just in time, it would seem. Orda was trying to save a child who was hanging above a pit with a large alligator inside, and Sai had been deafened by a thunderstone and was being ganged up on by Gaedren and his minion who’d fled earlier.

In that moment, all other thoughts were lost to my rage. Finally, Gaedren was right in front of me. My brother’s murderer was right there. I forgot about everything else that was happening around me as I approached the scumbag. He mocked me, saying that he remembered my brother. He said I had the same weakness behind my eyes as my brother did. He laughed. That disgusting piece of trash laughed at the memory of my brother falling to weakness and dying of his drug.

I barely remember throwing the bomb. I know I said something to the man as I did, but it was all a blur. The next thing I knew, his charred body was on the floor at my feet. It was so easy. It was so, so easy to snuff out his life. I felt a knot of disgust and anger inside which hasn’t completely gone away even as I write this. There was no remorse in that piece of trash human. He didn’t beg for mercy or forgiveness. He laughed at what he did. He deserved what he got. He deserved what he got, he ruined so many lives, wasted so many peoples’ potential, just to make money off their suffering. He deserved to die… and killing him did absolutely nothing. My brother is still dead. His other victims are still dead. I’m still alone. All I accomplished was dirtying my hands. I’m a doctor, a healer. I’ve never killed someone in my life before now.

I feel sick, but this is not a disease I can cure myself of with any medicine.

The rest of the night was a blur. Someone set the building on fire. Sai fed Gaedren’s body to the alligator and freed it from its captivity, for better or for worse. Apparently she can speak to animals and convinced the predator that we were its allies. An extension of that bat-like form I saw before I’m certain. Zellara took in the orphaned children who Gaedren had been using as pickpockets, and we buried her head, which Gaedren had kept in a box as some twisted trophy.

We gathered at the inn where the others had been staying and looked through all the items we’d collected from Gaedren’s hideout before it burned to the ground. Of interest was a key shaped dagger which Hayden was convinced was cursed or haunted, and which bore a disturbing resemblance to the weapon used by the key-lock killer. I do hope it isn’t cursed, the last thing we need to be carrying around is an evil dagger. We also found a broach which bore the royal family’s insignia on it, and which we deduced had probably been stolen from the queen herself. We decided it would be prudent to return it.

I then returned home and collapsed for the night. I don’t think I’ve ever been so exhausted in my life. I do not envy the life of adventurers, if this is how it always is.

Unfortunately, it seems I am not destined to walk away from this group. In the night, I had a strange dream, which the others later told me they each had as well. An unrecognizable voice was speaking in my mind. They told me that we were going to become great heroes, protectors of the weak and innocent. I saw each member of our group in a battle against a large beast. Each member fought with the skill and power I’d only heard about in stories. Even I was there, using powerful formulae I could only dream of with my current skills. Some of the feats, frankly, looked impossible. Like something the Heroes of Sandpoint would do, not like something a ragtag group in Korvosa could ever pull off. Yet the voice promised we would get there someday.

I…have feelings about that. Not all of them positive. I don’t like that idea that I’m being tugged around by some invisible fate. I don’t like the idea that I’ll have to fight and kill again. I’m just a doctor. I’m the simple kind of hero, the kind who heals the sick and looks for ways to make the common person’s life better. I don’t need the flashy titles, the power, the danger of adventuring. I’d rather leave that to someone strong and capable like Orda, or someone like Garran, who is looking for that kind of adventure.

I feel as though I don’t have much choice, however. I am out of time to continue writing for now, it is late and I have things to do tomorrow. But I will say this: Korvosa is changing, not for the better. This city, my home, is in chaos.

#pathfinder #curse of the crimson throne #journal entry

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Week 1 Postgame Analysis & Owner Interviews

The Fighting Maria Chanders v. Father of Dragons:

I'm sure at some point Stephanie Haltiwanger has been on the receiving end of

Maria's belt, but this week it was Russell who tasted her leather as he laid

across MC's knee. After only one week, the "Father of Dragons" might consider

changing his name to "Christian Grey" because it's as if he was BEGGING to

feel the sting of punishment just one more time.

Make no mistake, this game started on shaky ground for the MC's after their

#1 and #2 picks (Mike Evans & Jay Ajayi) were sidelined by hurricane Irma.

But their shoes were easily filled by Ty Montgomery (GB, 18 pts) and DeAndre

Hopkins (Hou, 18 pts). Capped-off with surprising production from a 7th-round

replacement WR, Stefon Diggs (Min, 28 pts), and a HUGE game by The Jaguar

Defense (29 pts).

Father of Dragons simply failed to reap the reward of the owner's risky

line-up. For instance, it was a bold move to start Odell Beckham Jr.(0 pts)

when he was reportedly out for week one's match-up against Dallas. Also,

starting rookie Joe Mixon (4 pts) at the RB2 position when he is listed as

the #3 RB in Cinci below Jeremy Hill and Giovani Bernard.

After the game, The Fighting Maria Chandler's owner Beau Bailey was asked

about his teams performance without his first or second round draft picks.

Bailey commented, "Yeah, I'm really proud of this team. It shows their

'next-man-up' mentality going into this season, and now we'll start preparing

for the Whitley's."

Final Score The Fighting Maria Chandlers-126, Father of Dragons-78

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Jack in the Cox v. Little Red Fournette:

In Game #2, experts are saying that Little Red Fournette didn't have the

horse-power to catch up to the lead Jack in the Cox established in the very

first game of the NFL Season, and simply ran out of gas after Sunday's early

games.

Jack in the Cox jumped out to a HUGE lead when rookie RB and 4th-round draft

pick Kareem Hunt (KC) exposed the Patriot defense scoring 46 points. Turns

out, JC's owners literally slept on this sleeper telling our insiders they

didn't even find out about his performance until the next morning. Well sleep

no more on Kareem Hunt, this rookie from the University of Toledo has

officially rocketed up the ranks of RBs in the NFL.

But Hunt wasn't the only rookie RB to go off in week one of this match-up.

The namesake of Little Red Fournette, Leonard Fournette (Jax), pounced on the

board scoring 21 points against a very stout Houston defense. But the

rookie's first career TD was the only one scored by LRF's position players.

Our reporters spoke to the owners after the game. When asked about his team's

week 1, one of JC's owners tempered their expectations moving forward saying,

"It's only week one, but it's a good start." It seems as if they feel like

they have more to prove this year, and it's going to take more than one good

week to achieve their goals.

We asked one of the LRF's owners what they thought about the week and their

team going into week 2?

She simply responded, "Crapola."

Final Score: Jack in the Cox-131, Little Red Fournette-93 ===================

Team Swinderman v. Team Nichols

In the battle of First Overall Draft Pick vs. Second Overall Autodraft Pick,

the owner of Team Swinderman's frustrations have nearly reached a feverpitch.

The first pick in a draft is very valuable. A few years ago, then

commissioner Caroline Glazebrook parlayed that pick into a championship. So

to see Le'Veon Bell (Pit, RB), who has more apostrophes in his first name

than TDs this season, only score 7 points left at least one of the owners

from Team Swinderman rather frustrated. Add that to their second and third

round picks (Lamar Miller, RB, Hou & Tom Brady, QB, NE) and the top three

picks of this promising team only scored a combined 30 points.

We asked one of the owners if she had anything to say about her team's week 1

showing. She did. She said, "Yeah, they sucked. I want to redraft. This is

bulls__."

We overheard her later as she took a go the Marital Blitz commissioner

saying, "I've never had a team score that low. Even my bench sucks. This is

your fault!"

Our league insiders tell us they don't think any fines will be handed down

following the confrontation. As a matter of fact, they said the commish

simply smiled, winked at her, then slowly reeled up his middle finger as if

it were a Sunday morning fishing trip. Then coyly mouthed, "O-S-U blows" as

the crazed owner was carried away crying, "I play to win!"

If there is any silver-lining to Team Swinderman's year it comes at a cost to

Team Nichols: at least Team Swinderman's first round pick will survive to

play another week.

While this game is a big win for Team Nichols to start the season, it comes

at the cost of the second overall draft pick, David Johnson (RB, Ari).

Johnson was drafted with extremely high expectations of productivity, but

after suffering a wrist injury in the third quarter, he did not return. Team

Nichols was later informed Johnson dislocated his left wrist which will

require surgery and will be forced to miss the next 8-12 weeks of action.

After the game, the ownership of Team Nichols had an optimistic perspective

of their team simply saying, "Auto-draft. 1st round pick gets hurt. Still

drops 100."

Final Score: Team Swinderman-70, Team Nichols-100 ===================

Team Whitley v. Game of Jones

In the closest match-up of the week, Game of Jones was able to fend off a

late surge from Team Whitley in Monday Night's late game to secure a victory

in a very well fought match.

Our insiders reported one of the owners of Team Whitley was looking to make

some roster moves in the coming weeks after witnessing the poor performance

in their early games, specifically when asked if they were going to carry

three QBs into week 1, saying, "As of now...[the] struggle is real this

week."

But Team Whitley's optimism was palpable heading into the last game of the

week. Their ownership sent out a press release saying, "We like to start at

rock bottom Week 1, but we're still waiting on a Melvin Gordon Miracle

tonight."

It is that type of confidence in their players that led first round draft

pick, Melvin Gorden (RB, LAC), to such a strong week scoring 18 points.

Unfortunately, Demaryius Thomas (WR, Den) wasn't able to keep up his side of

the offense only scoring 11 points.

It was obvious that Game of Jones had a better line-up than Team Whitley, but

moving forward, depth could haunt the two owners of Game of Jones.

Looking to get DeVante Parker (WR, Mia) back from a hurricane-induced bye-

week, and waiting on Doug Martin (RB, TB) to fulfill his three-game

suspension, Game of Jones will be looking to bolster their bench with some

roster moves over the next few weeks.

For example, they had three players (McFadden, Dal RB, Rawls, Sea RB, and

Henry, Lac TE) on their bench who combined scored less points than their

kicker, Adam Vinatieri (2 pts).

As the week of games came to a close, our beat-writer in the field got a

chance to speak with Alicia Walters, one of the owners of Game of Jones,

about their week against Team Whitley and moving forward. She said, "We are

pleased with our Week 1 performance. We dropped a few balls that we wish

we could get back, but it was like we were playing the Jets this weekend, so

we didn't have to be our best. We need to continue to get better and trust the

process."

Final Score: Team Whitley-77, Game of Jones-101 ===================

***WEEK ONE GAME OF THE WEEK*** Sleeping w/the Commissioner v. That's What She Said aka "The Battle of the Bedroom"

By far the most intriguing match-up of Week 1 was a subway series between

two owners who are married to one another. The past three seasons we have

had to wait until Week 2 to get this game, but this year our appetites were

spared and these two went head-2-head to kick off the 2017 season.

TWSS won their first ever meeting back in 2014 by the score of 106-94, but

was blown away in 2015 when SwtC avenged their embarassment 92-58. In

2016, SwtC retained the title Bedroom Belt in a bloody shootout 142-127.

We have become so accustomed to this great rivalry game, but this year,

That's What She Said had too many weapons for Sleeping w/the

Commissioner to ward off.

After witnessing the superiority of TWSS's first round draft pick, Antonio

Brown (WR, Pit)(29 pts), and QB Matt Ryan (Atl)(23 pts), and SwtC's inability

to respond, there wasn't much left ponder "what ifs..."

SwtC's TE, Jimmy Graham (Sea), opened the season looking to regain his

production since leaving New Orleans, but failed only scoring 3 points.

Marshawn Lynch was believed to be healthy and able to rebrand himself as the

premiere RB in Oakland, but failed only scoring 9 points. Even his own

favorite team's defense (Atl) could not help their owner overcome a loss only

scoring 5 points against a very poor Chicago team. Which left SwtC's Stephan

Glazebrook handing over the Battle of the Bedroom Belt late Monday night.

After the game, our reporters were in the press conference and got to hear

from the owner of SwtCs, Stephan Glazebrook. Disappointment surrounded the

young executive as he took responsibility for his teams lack of production.

However, he promised change was-a-comin', saying, "I would say that, as their

coach, I've failed. However, if they don't perform better this week, I'll be

handing out pink slips to their sorry asses."

As one defeated Glazebrook left the press room and one elated Glazebrook

entered, they exchanged fist bumps and the owner of TWSS patted S

Glazebrook on the butt and told him to keep his head up.

Once TWSS owner Caroline Glazebrook took to the podium, her assistants told

the press she would only be taking one question so she could return to

celebrate with her team. A Fox Sports One reporter asked what she thought of

her team's victory.

She spoke confidently, "No surprise here." And she dropped the mic and

kicked through the doors to a raucous locker room celebration.

Final Score Sleeping w/the Commissioner-105, That's What She Said-135

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Everlark Fic Exchange. PROMPTS

Springtime Edition 2020.

These are the prompts we’ve received so far.

Crossed out prompts have already been selected and are being turned into fics!

A huge ‘Thank you’ to everyone who’s taken the time to come up with an idea and send it our way. Your prompts are the heart of the Exchange. Without them, our authors wouldn’t get to write all those beautiful fics. So, please, keep them coming!

You haven’t sent anything yet? Don’t worry, there’s still time. We’ll be receiving prompts until March 8. Don’t be afraid to inspire us!

Prompts:

Prompt 1: Middle Mellark brother never wanted a baby bro. Spends half his life defending or admiring or manipulating Peeta, but the other half hating him for being so perfect (the favorite sweet talker and best baker wrestler). Whether to help or torment him, Rye asks reserved Katniss on a date to get a reaction. Maybe told as a wedding toast? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 2: Katniss is a high end house painter who works with expensive decorators, hired to paint an up and coming artists home. Turns out it’s Peeta, the boy her mother saved from an abusive home, who then disappeared. [submitted by @niceworksherlock]

Prompt 3: Imaginative only child Prim loves acting out all sorts of adventures with her favorite action figures Katniss and Peeta. (Toy Story-ish talking toys?) [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 4: Gale attempts to shoot Peeta during a hijacking episode on the Star Squad. Leaving Peeta wounded but not fatally. Katniss thinks Gale killed him. [submitted by Anonymous]

Prompt 5: Prompt has been removed.

Prompt 6: Medieval Au: Queen Katniss is in love. Too bad the person, Peeta is a renounced rebellion leader now turned into the personal sexslave of King Cato Snow, the son of Coriolanus Snow. With each passing day its becoming more and more dangerous for this star-crossed lovers to survive. Will she risk her family (sister Prim and mom) for love or will she be able to utilise the secrets of the castle Capitol in her favour to usurp the evil King and his father? [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 7: Katniss Everdeen the daughter of a billionaire tries to antagonise her father. So she decides to date poor, uneducated simple boy Peeta. Her whole family (even Prim) hates him. Too bad his father has already arranged her marriage with his business partner's son Gale, a smart, handsome and successful man. Will she really fall for Peeta or will she bow to her father's will? Does Peeta feel himself worthy of Katniss? [submitted by @white-dandelion-seeds]

Prompt 8: Peeta is a rich ceo and in love with another who disappeared before their marriage. So he withdraw within himself. But then he meets katniss( her background is up to you ) and falls in love for the second time. [submitted by @mysteriouslycraftyreview]

Prompt 9: Katniss is a commoner and peeta is a cruel king. He wants katniss to be his mistress. How will they fall in love is up to you. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 10: katniss and peeta are best friends who were in a friends w benefits arrangement in the past. now the hunger for each other is coming back. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 11: in panem au where everlark isn't reaped and peeta knocks up katniss. [submitted by @sunflowerslyf]

Prompt 12: katniss walks out of the fitting room wearing only a bikini to ask her friend if it suits her but it isnt her friend at the other side of the door but peeta. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 13: Katniss and Peeta work things out after the first Games and become closer and closer, and their love grows deeper. One day though, they are caught by Mrs. Everdeen and a fight ensues...(outcome is up to you, as long as it is Everlark!) [submitted by @albinokittens300]

Prompt 14: THG The Witcher AU with Katniss = Geralt, Peeta = Yenn, Prim = Ciri [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 15: A Below Deck inspired Everlark. Bonus points for including Odesta. [submitted by @historywriter2007]

Prompt 16: Hades!Katniss/Persephone!Peeta Katniss has stolen herself a husband. As Peeta becomes acclimated to being co ruler of the underworld Katniss finds herself bewitched by him beyond any measure she believed possible. But someone is not too happy with Katniss and has vowed vengeance. Vengeance in the form of the husband Katniss has come to revere. [submitted by @lovely-tothe-bone]

Prompt 17: Everlark enemies to lovers, a long standing grudge (could be anything, even simple) but somehow it is discovered that Katniss is a bone marrow match for Peeta. If she doesn't donate he will die. [submitted by @lovely-tothe-bone]

Prompt 18: A Wrinkle in Time AU - Meg!Katniss, Charles Wallace!Prim, Calvin!Peeta. [submitted by @lovely-tothe-bone]

Prompt 19: Everlark inspired by Netflix show Love is blind. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 20: Peeta is the CEO and katniss is his secretary. They have an affair and katniss gets pregnant but when she tells peeta he doesn't believe her and accuse her of trying to trap him. What will he do when he realize his mistake and how will he win katniss back. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 21: High school romance based on the movie Wild Child. [submitted by @mysteriouslycraftyreview]

Prompt 24: After Prim survives her first reaping, Katniss realizes she must have better plan for Prim’s future; fights to reclaim rights to the apothecary; wins it back after drawn out legal battle; installs her mom and Prim as owners. But Katniss not welcome in town for her Seam looks and distasteful takeover of a town business, and she’s not welcome in Seam as she refuses to marry Gale. So now 18 and past reaping, what will she do, where will she go, does anyone need her, can she let herself need anyone? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 25: Panem’s Mellark bakers are practically royalty, but with power comes responsibility. Peeta struck deal long ago to someday take reigns of Corp and settle down once dad retires if he can sow wild oats until then fucking everything that moves. Time’s up! Must propose! Publicity stunt for Mardi Gras - will bake engagement ring into cupcakes, makes sure his choice of wife will get that one, but mixup! Some girl in D12 gets it by mistake! Can’t admit his error! Katniss feels miracle, $ woes over! [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 27: Pick a “what if” - what if Katniss was at Peeta’s bedside when he woke after losing his leg? - what if Katniss hadn’t been locked inside her room after wandering at night when she decides to seek out Peeta? - what if Haymitch hadn’t left the train when it stopped and upset Peeta with his comment? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 28: The truth finally comes out years later: Lily broke off the engagement only after the baker had knocked up her best friend, and for the baby’s sake she had left to run a free clinic in the seam where she does find true love. Her family invites her back to the apothecary now that they know and they forgive her for marrying a mine worker now that he’s deceased anyway. How does young Katniss adjust to life in town; Peeta, Delly, Madge as neighbors; not needing to go over the fence but wanting to? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 29: Post-MJ, Growing Together. Peeta is finally showing his affection and love for Katniss as they heal and reconnect. Katniss, being Katniss, seems to act like she doesn't appreciate this, and is less than enthused. Peeta, taking this like an adult, stops showing her with the affection and tries to show her his love in other ways. Katniss, however, does not appreciate him stopping those things and set out to try and get him to continue it again because she misses it. [submitted by @albinokittens300]

Prompt 30: When Prim needs a bone marrow reconstitution that can only be accomplished via genetic matched umbilical stem cell transplantation, Mrs E confesses that the baker is Prim’s father. Prim’s best chance of survival depends on Katniss having a Mellark’s child for the donor cells. How does she get one of the Mellarks to agree? And what are negotiations like regarding conception and what to do with the baby once it’s born? What if it’s more than one baby because of the medication Katniss is given? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 31: “We never see you two so much as kiss in public but last night we all heard you have sex.” Who says it (Johanna, Haymitch, Finnick or ?) and under what circumstances (vacation rental, baby monitor mishap or ?) is up to you. From BBA [submitted by Buttercupbadass]

Prompt 32: Pre-books fic about a young Peeta crushing on Katniss. His friends tease him about his crush constantly, and it irritates him because everyone seems to know except Katniss herself. But he just rolls his eyes good-naturedly whenever his friends say something about it. [submitted by @madetofly]

Prompt 33: Roommates+Friends-with-Benefits: It’s finally March and Katniss is hankering for a Shamrock Shake because “Damned it, Peeta! I can taste the mint!” So he drives her to every McDonald's in a 40 mile radius without luck. She cries, surprising both of them ‘cause she never cries… Peeta takes matters into his hands, buys ingredients for a homemade 🍀 shake plus a pregnancy test just in case. You decide what’s the result and what Everlark does with the knowledge/scare. Extra points for humor. [submitted by @alliswell21]

Prompt 34: Peeta Mellark is the owner of a popular bakery chain and has no time for romance. Katniss Everdeen is struggling, about to be evicted, in deep debt and desperate, she jokingly tells her friend Madge over a cheese bun, she needs a Sugar Daddy to put her trough college and Peeta happens to overhear it. She’s a regular at his main shop, and is cute if a few years his junior. He offers her a deal she can’t refuse. Age gap. Extra cookies for accidental toastbaby and falling in love. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 37: Not-Reaped, In-Panem AU where Peeta and Katniss have begun quietly seeing one another. It is very early on and they are really only just getting a bearing on how deep their feelings are when one day Katniss sees Peeta beat by his mother and no amount of will power will stop her from going and confronting the witch. She goes in there on a war path but stops when she sees just how hurt Peeta is this time, with open gash on his leg from when he had fallen to the ground... [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 38: Everlark inspired by Netflix's Spinning Out (But honestly I believe it was the other way around!) [submitted by @justhereforthefanfiction]

Prompt 39: Taylor Swift - Mary’s Song (aka childhood best friends to lovers to husband and wife) [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 40: No choice - friends Katniss and Gale must wed to become legal guardians of siblings. Still not enough to avoid financial ruin. Convinced only way to get desperately needed fast cash is for Katniss to first offer virginity to highest bidder. But how to find him or her, how to negotiate terms, does she confide in anyone, how should she prepare, will it all be quick and forgotten as she hopes, what could go wrong, can she keep this secret, can she use a fake name, can she hire a service? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 41: Inspired by the dancing kid meme. A video clip of either Katniss/Peeta as a child becomes a huge meme. How do they handle it? Maybe it gets them together? Maybe it’s creation tears them apart? [submitted by Buttercupbadass]

Prompt 42: Every time there’s a really bad storm, a bolt of lightning precedes Katniss getting transported to another life. She’s always Katniss with all her memories, but everything around her is different. Peeta is always there, she just needs to figure out if he’s friend, foe, stranger. And, damn it, the storms this spring with global warming sometimes has her in and out of situations before she can figure anything out. Gale complicate things further. It’s enough to drive her crazy... [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 43: Katniss post-war becomes crazy cat lady, dedicates herself to caring for every stray, calls them all Buttercup, don’t get along with Haymitch’s geese. Now does Dr Aurelius make a house call? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 45: Prompt has been removed.

Prompt 47: katniss and peeta have a one night stand after meeting at a bar. when katniss visits her gyno turns out peeta is her new doctor. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 48: best friends!everlark who take each other's virginity. [submitted by @sunflowerslyf]

Prompt 49: "I'm your boss, give me your pants. Now." [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 52: “The Tao of Peeta” - maybe setting is as (small, remote, surrounded by wild creatures) D12 is being used as a penal colony for dangerous (political?) prisoners? Bring in other victors? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 53: Katniss’s parents finally convinces her to attend the military ball because they are honoring her dad after some time of trying to distance herself from the military world. At the ball, she meets a handsome, charming man that might bring her back into the world she was trying to leave. [submitted by @animekpopxx]

Prompt 54: Heart wrenching angst Everlark based on the song “Me Dedique A Perderte” by Alejandro Fernandez. [submitted by @animekpopxx]

Prompt 55: The Prophecy states: “A powerful witch that’s born from the two worlds,will reunite them and will bring peace. “ Everyone thought that the prophecy was talking about her. And she did bring change and hope to everyone but who ultimately brought the peace was her unborn child. [submitted by @animekpopxx]

Prompt 56: Who dun it? Shortly after Katniss goes to one of those paint and kiln your own porcelain places, (owner artist Peeta), people start disappearing. The only connection seems to be that they were people she bitched about while sipping too much wine and painting her piece. She becomes prime suspect. No bodies can be found, how are they vanishing? Can she offer an alibi for each disappearance? That guy Peeta keeps popping up, is he following her? She’s sure she caught him looking at her... [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 57: In a place where the world prospers with a female dominated world, Coriolanus Snow successfully does a coup over the reigning Everdeen family with ruthless bunches of man to create a world where men dominate.But the people’s hope is in the form of a Katniss Everdeen and Snow did not know that she was right under his nose the whole time before it was too late. [submitted by @animekpopxx]

Prompt 58: Historical au where princess katniss and duke peeta are secretly sleeping together, are caught, and now have to marry each other. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 60: After severe flooding(?) community urged to open homes to disaster victims. Mrs. E offers to take in children only. Peeta and bro assigned there temporarily. Peeta quiet, polite? Bro constant source of embarrassment? Prim doesn’t want them to ever leave? Does Gale have anything to say about this? How does Katniss deal with it? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 63: katniss and peeta who are exes wake up together naked, hungover, and married. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 64: She’s a good girl, goes to confession weekly. He’s a bad boy, on the run, slips into the confessional booth just in time. Now he’s stuck hiding in here for a bit hearing the some dull some crazy confessions of the elderly - and of one young girl with the sexiest voice. May go to hell for this, but he’s a guy and can’t help himself with what he says/does next. One of them ends up saying, “Oh, God! Yes!” [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 65: Everlark fluff based on the song Sugar by Maren Morris. [submitted by @lovely-tothe-bone]

Prompt 69: College boy Peeta helps incoming students move into the dorms. Katniss is his next assignment. Age Gap? Maybe Katniss is an older student going to college later? Grad student? Maybe Peeta is a senior, Katniss a Freshman? The possibilities are endless! [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 71: King Snow forces the daughter of dead rebel leader Katniss to marry is adpoted son Peeta M and kills her father. P coming to know the truth on their wedding night vows to avenge Mr E's death. K hates him and carries on her own rebellion supplying her next clan leader Gale information from the Castle. When Snow is killed and rebels overtake Capitol chaos ensures. Ally of rebel, a neighbouring kingdom's queen Coin tries to use the situation in her favour. Whose side will K take? Eventual Everlark. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 72: Peeta is off a very abusive, poor home. His school friend Katniss has the exact opposite home: well loved and well off family. What happens when opposite worlds clash? [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 73: I am a simple woman: I just want Katniss Everdeen content and loved and washed in moonlight I don’t care how you do it. [submitted by @rosegardeninwinter]

Prompt 74: Katniss Everdeen is horny. It has been three months since she left asshole Gale to enjoy her life. She just needs a good fuck. She goes man-hunting to a local bar with Jo. The even ends up with her being naked on her bed, with the head of a very handsome blonde, stocky stranger between her thighs. But after her first orgasm of the night when he says: I’ve never done this before, will it be the last? [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 75: An in-Panem arranged marriage a/u where Katniss is slightly older than Peeta. [submitted by @endlessnightlock]

Prompt 76: Modern a/u Katniss is getting over the loss of her sister (you decide how) when she meets Peeta. She’s closed off but he finds a way in. Maybe she works for him? Him for her? Maybe she cries herself to sleep on his bread scented shoulder? (Please yes I need that) [submitted by @endlessnightlock]

Prompt 77: Katniss Everdeen has a handsome neighbour. It dosen't help that she just came out of a shitty relationship with her ex Gale Hawthorne. Too bad he is a 19 years old virgin boy and she is a woman of the world at 31. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 78: Post MJ, the new government of Panem has finally decided to lift the exile to Twelve order off of Katniss. Where are Katniss and Peeta in their lives? What is the first thing they do? Do they just have a quiet celebration or do they go somewhere? [submitted by @katnissdoesnotfollowback]

Prompt 79: Peeta has been planning this marriage proposal for months. It goes horribly wrong. Tell me all about it and what happens next?[submitted by @katnissdoesnotfollowback]

Prompt 80: Katniss helps undo the lies Peeta’s mother (and the Capitol) told him about himself (namely that awful “stupid creature” comment) and reminds him that he is worthy and precious to her and really, that’s all that matters [submitted by @rosegardeninwinter]

Prompt 81: Katniss finds her soulmate at her bachelorette party (aka Peeta)(Happy ending please) [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 82: Post MJ, when Peeta touches Katniss’ neck wrong, she has a flashback of him almost strangling her and has to be heavily consoled. This leads to a conversation about his attacking her when he came back from the capitol. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 83: Katniss is whipped instead of Gale in Catching Fire, Peeta’s the one who’s there to take care of her after. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 84: [Historical AU: 1930s Hollywood] Silver screen star Peeta Mellark has captured millions of hearts, and housekeeper Katniss isn't immune. She's stunned when Peeta comes to court her eccentric heiress employer, Madge. Katniss' shock only grows when Peeta offers to pay for her help in winning him Madge's hand in marriage - and access to her fortune, with which he intends to fund his directorial debut. [submitted by @gamesmakers]

Prompt 85: During an episode of Peetas, he locks Katniss outside in the snow for an entire night. Haymitch is passed out drunk and doesn’t let her in, she can’t find anywhere else to go all night so she ends up catching a really bad cold. When Peeta comes to his senses he feels horrible and nurses her back to health. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 86: After MJ Peeta has a hijack relapse for a few minutes where he insults Katniss’ appearance and body (more extreme version of when he said she wasn’t very pretty in Mockingjay) which hits a nerve, especially since her body was damaged in the explosion that killed Prim. After he’s back to himself, he feels terrible, but Katniss brushes it off. It’s only when she refuses to have sex with him now that he realizes how insecure she might be. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 87: On the train a few days before the Quarter Quell, in another effort to break her before the second games, Snow orders Katniss to have sex with someone in the capitol who paid for her company. When she tries to refuse, Snow threatens her family. She agrees but partway through panics and tries to stop it, only to have the buyer turn on her and get physically violent. She comes to Peeta afterwards and he comforts her, holds her, takes care of her and promises he’ll never let someone hurt her again. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 88: Not reaped. Peeta and Katniss fake date. [submitted by @anxiouslyintroverted]

Prompt 89: Amish!world. Katniss and Peeta are courting each other and are just waiting for Katniss to be of age to get married cause Peeta’s 2 years older. But things gets tough when a Snow comes to their county and spots Katniss. He ask her father if she can be his wife. [submitted by @animekpopxx]

Prompt 90: anyone for an Everlark Alcott or Austen-esque period drama? because I sure am so just gonna speak that into existence. [submitted by @rosegardeninwinter]

Prompt 91: High school. Peeta is the perfect golden boy. Katniss is a rebellious, infamous girl who always skips class and who everyone fears. She is every boys wet dream and every girls nightmare. How will they both fall in love? [submitted by @mysteriouslycraftyreview]

Prompt 92: High school musical au: katniss and peeta as troy and Gabriella. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 93: Katniss is preparing for first Toastbaby and going through some hardcore nesting urges. Peeta, of course, thinks this is perfect and willing to help her anyway he can even if that means repainting the nursery for a third time. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 94: Toastbaby gets into a bit of a scrape, nothing too serious, and Everlark struggles with finding the balance between being there for toastbaby but not being too overly protective. [submitted by @katnissdoesnotfollowback]

Prompt 95: Everlark meet cute, “Oh wait... you’re NOT my blind date?” We’re they set up with each other or with someone else? How do they figure out the mix up? What happens after? Disgustingly fluffy welcome. [submitted by @katnissdoesnotfollowback]

Prompt 96: Everlark in the verge of breaking up. Why? Are they married or dating? Do they fix it or go their separate ways? [submitted by @katnissdoesnotfollowback]

Prompt 97: Katniss makes three game changing shots, one in each of the books. What if... she missed? Pick one for her to miss and how does it change the story? Cato’s hand in THG, the forcefield in CF, or Coin in MJ. [submitted by @katnissdoesnotfollowback]

Prompt 98: I would love some good rated E Everlark smut. Post mockingjay, Everlark growing back together and when I say smut I don't mean porn. I mean they need each other. Can't live without each other. Pour their hearts out and heal each other with their love from all the trauma they went through and make up time that they wasted holding their feelings back and pining after each other. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 99: Peeta has been spending too much time around his brothers (lol), Katniss makes a remark about wanting a snack, he replys “I have something you can snack on” Peeta is instantly mortified by his stupid comment because he is a gentleman. What happens next? It’s up to you. Could be sexy, could be a different kind of tongue lashing? [submitted by @endlessnightlock]

Prompt 100: Peeta's thoughts/what really happened to him at the end of the war and his thoughts regarding Prim's death. [submitted by @acpoe82]

Prompt 101: The night of the interviews in Catching Fire, Snow delays the games by a few days after Peetas announcement that Katniss is pregnant and demands Katniss gets a forced abortion in the capitol. Peeta and Katniss try to tell the truth, that she’s not pregnant but Snow isn’t listening and she’s forced into the procedure. Peeta is allowed to stay with her during and after, lots of hurt/comfort, etc. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 102: Katniss is uncomfortable with relying on Peeta even post MJ(pre epilogue). She only accepts his affection after nightmares, she doesn’t think she deserves it otherwise. She feels like he’s still too good for her & that she’ll never deserve him, on top of how she lacks trust in anyone bc of her childhood & having to be strong for Prim and her mom. One night after a severely bad nightmare she blacks out and come to, to Peeta bathing her in the tub, being gentle & loving & affectionate & soothing. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 103: best friends!everlark where katniss sets peeta up on a date with her friend, when peeta and date hit it off she realizes that she's actually in love with him but does nothing about it, few years later, peeta and girl are engaged and after a night of drinking, peeta and katniss accidentally hook up. how they get together is up to you (hea pls) [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 104: Katniss is captured instead of Peeta but instead of being injected with tracker jacker serum she’s beaten, starved, lashed and throttled. When her spirit is weak enough the capitol returns her to D13 where Peeta (and Haymitch/Effie) help her recover. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 105: what if one of them was a librarian and the other a (struggling? or drawing away patrons and stealing employees) bookstore owner (maybe who was more interested in things other than books) - Enemies to lovers? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 106: Everlark based on the movie Groundhog Day, where one (or both?) relive the same day over and over until they get it right. [submitted by @xerxia31]

Prompt 107: Katniss gets jealous of Peeta paying attention to other girls during their “growing back together” period. Super jealous. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 108: A story based on the lyrics to Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" [submitted by @xerxia31]

Prompt 109: Dialogue prompt: "I deserve better than this!" [submitted by @xerxia31]

Prompt 111: Hand Porn - looking, breathlessly touching, reading the story told by the calluses, the scars, the strength, while admiring all they’ve done, appreciating all they do, anticipating everything they will do for love - sensitive, expressive, powerful, creative, protective, sensuous hand porn. [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 112: 40-year-old virgin Peeta. Based as loosely as you want on the movie. Everlark, of course. [submitted by @acpoe82]

Prompt 113: Katniss saw Peeta naked in the arena after he got hurt but he hadn’t seen her. During CF while Peeta is training Katniss and Haymitch hard, Katniss falls out of exhaustion and being overworked and hurts her back slightly. Feeling guilty, Peeta gives strips her naked, gives her a bath and rubs healing lotions from her mom all over her. How does he react to the first time seeing her naked?[submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 114: Katniss trips and falls in the quarter quell and breaks her ankle, resulting in Peeta carrying her everywhere. She doesn’t like looking weak in front of the other victors but since she doesn’t plan on living through the games this time it’s good to be taken care of one last time. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 115: During the victory tour, for whatever reason, author can decide, Peeta has to help Katniss undress at the end of the day, only to discover/for her to remember too late, that she didn’t put any underwear on underneath her clothes. His shock/her humiliation ensues. (But he tries to make her feel better ofc) [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 116: Peeta braids Katniss’ hair to soothe her. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 117: AU where Peeta wasn’t hijacked when he returned from the capitol, just shaken up, during Star Squad, Katniss has a bad flashback and Gale witnesses Peeta be the only person who could comfort her. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 118: the nutcracker au! katniss as clara and peeta as the nutcracker. and if there could be a scene with snow, that would be really nice! [submitted by @omercilessmoon]

Prompt 119: “If you were taken by the capitol and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this how he would be treating you” a fic where it’s Katniss the capitol hijacked and the second part of mockingjay from their reunion on is reversed. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 120: “I know that everyone on the planet is born with heterochromia, but I’m blind, so literally anyone could lie to me and say that they’re my soulmate. Why should I believe you?” Blind!peeta soulmate AU. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 121: Peeta has returned to D13 along with Katniss. But she is being forced to be the Mockingjay and portray a new angle, that Gale is her actual lover, Peeta was being forced on her by Capitol and Snow. How does Katniss manage the peer pressure? [submitted by @white-dandelion-seeds]

Prompt 122: The soldiers bring back to district 13 Peeta but he is not hijacked. He has been beaten badly, starved and sexually abused. All this led him to become an emotional avox. Will Katniss be able to help him recover from the trauma? [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 123: Katniss never volunteers instead she is picked. While peeta volunteers for his brother(what’s wrong with his brother is up to you) and promises him that he will try to win. Peeta turns into the mockingjay ( or whatever variation he will have). [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 124: In MJ I noticed Peeta became more of himself when Katniss was affectionate to him and it helped him fight the venom. So my prompt is when Peeta comes back from being hijacked Katniss realizes this sooner and it starts off slow at first but then they get to the point of having sex and it pretty much heals him completely. HEA for Everlark please. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 125: EFE Prompt: Everlark + Faith. Be it in people, spiritual, or otherwise. Explore the loss of it, regaining of it, or finding it for the first time. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 126: Anything AU based on the song “Talk” by Hozier. Simple enough I think. [submitted by @theliferuiner]

Prompt 127: The earth is in perilous danger from a great evil and only Katniss can stop it. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 128: Peeta saves Katniss from being raped by someone in the capitol. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 129: Katniss & Peeta had a baby. But then miscommunication caused them to split. Peeta is still heavily involved in his baby's life. Katniss is seeing someone else & quickly rising in socioeconomic status with her talent as singer. Peeta on the other hand is facing more & more troubles with his family life. He isn’t being able to spare time their child. Its also becoming difficult for him to keep up with Katniss. Will their rift grow? Or will Katniss finally acknowledge her true feelings for him? [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 130: What if Haymitch hadn’t said thise words to Katniss when Peeta joined Star-squad in Mockingjay? Would Katniss have come to her senses or would she be still angry at Peeta. A Mockingjay AU. [submitted by @white-dandelion-seeds]

Prompt 131: “Do you love me? Do you really? Because I go through every day of my life, thinking that nobody loves me.” [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 132: Both Mellark brothers, eldest and youngest love Katniss Everdeen. She is engaged to the eldest but her heart belongs to the youngest. Jealous!Peeta. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 133: Birth of their first child. Peeta helping and supporting Katniss. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 134: Visual Prompt. To see it go HERE [submitted by @javistg]

Prompt 135: Non specific prompt. Peeta called Katniss baby as a pet name. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 136: Katniss gets stung pretty bad by tracker jackers post mockingjay. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 137: Friends to lovers road trip au! Katniss wants to take a summer off to explore the country, Peeta volunteers to go with her. Bonus points if one of them is an absolutely oblivious idiot. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 138: Everlark loosely based off 90 day fiance. Could be AgeGap, one could have ulterior motives(until they end up catching real feelings), or it's a genuine connection. Author decides. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 139: There are fics where Peeta's mom tries to set him up with town girls. What if Peeta's mom tries to set him up with Katniss for once. Maybe both moms team up together? [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 141: Katniss is the lone victor of 74th Annual Hunger Games. Peeta is a Capitaloit. Snow forces Katniss to be like other victor. How will they meet? How will they fall in love? What will happen when the revolution starts? [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 142: Gale comes to district 12 again years after mockingjay and runs into a little girl shooting an arrow, only to find out it’s Katniss and Peetas daughter. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 143: The girl of my dreams asked me if I needed a ride home from campus so I obviously let her drive me home then walked back to campus a couple of hours later to get my car. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 144: Peeta's perspective. A more in-depth look at how he joined and tricked the Careers and led them away from Katniss in the Hunger Games. [submitted by @acpoe82]

Prompt 145: Not reaped; Snow overthrown; D12 unscathed; miners unionize; postwar prosperity; Seam transformation; Hob center of commerce. Teens Katniss and Peeta have new options and new pressures. How do they navigate this new reality? How do they handle graduating? How do they find their way to each other without reaping and with seam now middle class and restrictions lifted? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 146: Powerful Matchmaker arranges marriage between Everdeen girl (to whom she owes a big favor) and the young cinnamon scented baker boy the girl has loved ever since he first slipped her a sugar cookie with her namesake flower beautifully decorated in frosting, the yellow primrose. What will Katniss do when she only learns of it in church as the first of the 3 Sunday banns are read? Has she ever spoken to Peeta? Will she search her feelings for him? Will he object to the match? Does he have any say? [submitted by @567inpanem]

Prompt 147: The movie "Me Before You" Everlark style. [submitted by @acpoe82]

Prompt 148: Gale dosen't design the bomb but someone else does. Prim lives, but Katniss still kills snow. Gale cones back to district 12 along with Katniss. But problems arise when Peeta cones back too. Eventual Everlark. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 149: Peeta is whipped in catching fire instead of gale. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 150: Everlark based on the movie Blast from the Past starring Brendan Frasier and Alicia Silverstone. Peeta’s family lives in a bomb shelter for an extended period of time and he has to leave and venture out by himself with no knowledge of the current world. He hires Katniss to help him out and they fall in love. (Rough summary!) Rated M/E would be spectacular! [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 151: Everlark based on the song ocean avenue. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 152: King Peeta Mellark of Panem is looking for a wife, and he isn't getting any younger. None of the potential suitors does it for him - until he runs across local dragon slayer Katniss Everdeen after his kingdom comes under attack. She's exactly what he wants. The only problem? She absolutely hates him and it's up to him to convince her to marry him. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 153: Katniss opens up to Peeta about her insecurities about herself and about how he’s too good for her. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 154: One where Katniss is humiliated and Peeta makes her feel better. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 155: Post Mockingjay but before epilogue, Katniss has a good dream about her dad still being alive and how much he’d like Peeta and how wonderful everything would be. When she wakes up at first she doesn’t realize it was a dream, but when she does she’s absolutely inconsolable. Peeta comforts her the best he can. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 156: Just any or maybe multiple times Katniss got her period around Peeta. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 157: Unfocused while hunting from a nightmare the night before an animal sneaks up on Katniss and injured her, not deathly but enough that she can’t make it home on her own. Peeta gets worried when she’s not back after dark and goes after to find her freezing cold and bleeding and shivering. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 158: Toastbabies make breakfast in bed for their parents anniversary, only to walk in on them doing the do. [submitted by anonymous]

Prompt 159: Katniss tries to make herself up to look pretty for Peeta but doesn’t know how to do it well and it’s a disaster but he thought she was beautiful just as she was. [submitted by anonymous]

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