Damm Todays TOH Episode Was Crazy Right…

My fic, I Awaken With Your Name is now complete on AO3! (Content warnings in chapter notes)

It’s a 190K slow burn Andromeda/Ted fic, with long build-up of friendship and a gradual slide into sex & romance

It centres a morally ambiguous heroine who is absolutely determined to get what she wants while also being hurt and fragile and hoping not to be destroyed by the world

It deals with Andromeda’s previous moral culpability as an accessory to Bellatrix’s cruelty and Lucius’ bigotry, and the necessity of a political consciousness

(What matters most: intentions, actions, or consequences?)

Everyone has trauma; Ted brings his own emotional baggage to the table

Explores Andromeda’s co-dependent and eventually toxic friendship/courtship with Lucius, her childhood friend

the question is, who will escape familial cycles of abuse and power, and who won’t

Ted tries not to let pureblood supremacy wear him down but the going gets tough

Andromeda finds friends not just love

There’s cute Andromeda and Sirius shenanigans

and less cute shenanigans between Bellatrix and Andromeda – it’s hard being Bella’s favourite sister

(Narcissa is perceptive, perhaps too perceptive)

Also wartime intrigue involving Moody, Dumbledore & Slughorn

How do Andromeda and Ted find each other and find hope during times of darkness?

i think that’s about it. (the fic took me 10 months to write, fml.) still having Andromeda/Ted feelings in the year 2022 ♥️

decemberista @ ao3

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Sometimes I just can’t stop myself. So here’s a very rough comic in addition to my recent INSTAPANEM post ;)

I feel like I’m some Mellark family ambassador 😅 but again I just can’t stop drawing them.

i miss my husband come back the kids miss you

s1 jancy is so special to me :( they’re just babies going through so much together ugh my heart breaks for them

Prompt 3– favorite ship? Oh. Um…

yasammy!!

on my last Yazzy post someone said she ‘looked tired’ and ‘needed help’ and some else was like ‘she needs a nap with her gal pal’ or something So here you go I guess 🙄 @campbenji

No room in my sketchbook? Well, I MADE room.

Hey, Jinx! Hope you’re doing ok! You’re a really cool person, and I’ve loved getting to talk to you recently! May this day and week be fantastic to you!

Also, if you’re up for a request… Sashannarcy cuddling on a couch? Something cute like that? Up to you, of course, feel free to ignore! <3

bruh you're too sweet, and ditto!!

gay people being gay!!

"The truth is, Sammy, I've fallen for you, like, hard...real hard"

"I know, I heard you earlier, I just wanted to hear you say it again because I've been waiting to hear you say that since I don't even know when!"

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"Do you know why we all look to you? Because your light burns bright, Darius Bowman. No amount of terrible choices can put it out. And I'll follow you anywhere"

"You sure about that?"

"Yup!"

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"Stop! What are you doing, you're gonna hurt him!"

"It doesn't matter to the boss, so it doesn't matter to me"

"Well, it matters to me!"

I don’t know why but seeing Dos Oruguitas at the Oscar’s really made me smile. It was so sweet.

I don’t know why but I really love that song✨

SotR is a realisation. A realisation that the rebellion didn’t start with Katniss. That all the people we see supporting her or helping her have all been wanting to fight but they’ve been failing. That there weren’t merely “rumours” of a revolution but there were many active plans playing out and failing.

It’s a reminder that the perfect Hunger Games we saw in the first hg book was an illusion because we had Katniss as our narrator. We didn’t have Haymitch, hell, we didn’t even have someone like Peeta because these people played the games. Katniss didn’t.

Katniss was introduced to us as a mad, simple, naive girl who literally only survived because of others. She didn’t know how much her taking Prim’s place mattered because she didn’t realise what it meant to everyone who came before her. To everyone who had heard rumours of how the last District 12 victor actually fought his games. No, Katniss had just kept her head down, hunting and providing for her family.

See, she grew up way before the Games got to her. She’d already lived through her dad’s death and watched it destroy her once lively mom. Haymitch didn’t have to go through that. Lucy Gray didn’t have to go through that. They were both angry, yes, but at the Capitol. Katniss? She was first and foremost angry at her mom. At her dad. She knew who was to blame but she had too much to do and deal with to think about that. She was already jaded in a way that the Games couldn’t touch.

Peeta? He was Haymitch. He knew what he was getting into and realised he was just on a chess board with no control. So, he adapted. He played the knight, the rook, the king, the pawn. Katniss? She just… did. Changing directions, not playing the piece she was assigned because she didn’t realise that’s what was going on. Remember her surprise at the crown twisting into two after the Games?? She was so oblivious. Until Catching Fire where everything caught up to her. Where everything so many other people had been waiting and working for caught up to her.

SotR is a history book. Rewritten and edited and published as a piece of fact. SotR is a mirror and it’s a reflection of what actually happens vs what ends up being shown. SotR is the playbook of those in control of any and every kind of media that we come in touch with. SotR is a wake up call and I truly don’t know how many will see it as such.