+ Lenore Dove’s Geese Only Tolerating Haymitch For Food And Buttercup Only Tolerating Katniss For Food

Something that I think is important about Wyatt as a character is how he highlights the stupidity of the district system. I know that the human love of sorting ourselves into categories meant that every YA series for a while had a bunch of different groups with associated traits that tweens could take uquizzes about, but The Hunger Games isn't like Divergent or Harry Potter where young adults get grouped based on their personalities. Sure, the districts all have industries they're known for and the tributes are clearly shaped by wherever they grew up, but being born into District Four doesn't actually mean that you'll like fish. Wyatt is brilliant when it comes to numbers, but in District Twelve he can only channel that into gambling. Imagine if he'd been born into District Three with a father like Beetee, what he could have done with his mathematical talents. There's mention of it with Maysilee too, how she doesn't want to run the candy store but her options are that or the mines.

I guess what I'm saying is that the district system is great for keeping people oppressed because they see their fellows as "other," which is why it is a tool of fascism and not a practical way to run a society. It doesn't matter who is in what group, it matters that they internalize their group identity to the point that they ignore the similarities between them.

i love when you can tell that an author is including their all-consuming interests in their writing because there will be a paragraph about a random bacteria species and it’ll be completely accurate and irrelevant and i love it

fics where cass is older than a (slightly more chill) jason and he comes back after his identity as red hood is discovered and accepts his younger siblings. yeah that makes sense it’s bruce of course hes adopting some kids. but what do you mean hes now the third oldest instead of the second?

dick: so, youve met tim, duke, damian, steph… who else do i have to introduce you to…

jason: i sort of assumed that was all of them but okay

dick: oh! yes! cass!

dick leaves the room and returns with a girl around the same age as jason, but jason automatically assumes he’s older because he has enough older siblings (one, but dick is a lot sometimes)

dick: this is cassandra!

jason and cass sort of stare at each other, neither the first to speak up

dick: okay… well, hm, cassandra does ballet, she’s 21—

jason: what.

dick: ???

jason: she’s 21? im 20, that’s impossible

dick: did your brain come out scrambled from the pit? someone born before you is going to be older, jason

jason: no way. im the second oldest

cass: no, little brother

jason is completely shell-shocked and silent because second oldest is still in the group of “oldest” but third oldest? that’s middle child. in fact, of the legally adopted, jason is completely in the middle. he’s moved SO far down the hierarchy.

(cassandra continues calling him “little brother” only because it irks him so)

maybe not every spider-man is trans but at least like… 12% of them are

"undoing this character's death would take away his sacrifice and character arc" girl I don't give a shit. I'm bringing him back through the power of ao3 fix-it fics and there's nothing you can do to stop me x

I’m really normal about him already.

Hmm actually Lucy Gray is different from Haymitch and Katniss and Peeta because her tragedy is she caused the games to continue. If the games hadn't become entertaining, they wouldn't have continued and she made it entertaining because she was an entertainer - she saved herself but she doomed dozens more because she performed too well and it allowed the Capitol to make the games a performance in the later years. Haymitch's tragedy is that he couldn't end the games, Lucy Gray's is that she continued them.

spidery peter is my favorite thing and id like to mention that burrowing spiders will keep humming frogs as pets (its a mutualistic relationship) and i do in fact need a fic of peter not being able to go outside without adopting at least one frog

It's frustrating that you can come up with the plot of an entire fic in just a few seconds, but writing it all down can take anywhere from never to forever.

this template but with spider-man to cure my art block