"childlike Sense Of Wonder" This And That. Personally, I'm Cultivating My Elderly Sense Of Wonder. Hence

i'm not arguing over jegulus in 2025, if you say one mean thing about them i'm straight up killing you.

actually, i don't give a fuck if you don't like jegulus or if you literally hate it, please be my guest. it is just a fictional ship, of course everyone is welcome and has the right to express their opinions/emotions about it, like i already i said, it is just a fictional ship between two fictional characters. but you know what it is crazy? it never ends there, it's never enough to just say you hate jegulus (and their entire fanbase) no, people need to go further and make a mockery of jegulus shippers, ridicule their opinions and interests and appearance and literally harass them into quitting, they need to create thousand and millions group chats centered around stalking jegulus writers & artists so they always know what jegulus creators do and say and to send hate messages when they feel like it (yep, the hate messages are sent by very grown people) and they have their notifications on 'good jegulus creators' to use them as gotcha moment if they 'stumble' and ‘make a mistake'. you might say 'it is not that deep' and i'd agree with you, If i didn't know people who are literally afraid to talk about it publicly and who literally can't post freely what they want because they are afraid of harassment. is that literally such an insane thing to say that teenagers should not be harassed for their ‘bad' takes on fictional characters you don't like? is it really impossible to leave people alone and let them enjoy ships they want to enjoy? it is a fucking fandom, not a prison.

SGE (first three books) SPOILERS!

Okay so, I know that the film came out a couple of year ago and that the fandom is practically dead but. One thing that I still haven’t forgiven the film for is its treatment of Lady Lesso. I mean 1) the film had her act like a discount Evelyn Tristus, with her being so in love and obsessed with Rafael and all 2) the way she treats Sophie, I mean Lady Lesso sees Sophie like her child practically, she even tells her in TLEA that she saw her as much as her child as she did her own son!!! but in the movies it’s like, none of that is there, like Sophie is just another student that just happens to be a little bit better and 3) HER NAMEEEE! I mean, one of the things I loved the most about Lady Lesso is how we can see that she does’t trust people easily, especially with her name, and the scene where she’s on the verge of death and she tells Dovey and Sophie her name is one of the best of the whole series in my opinion and it just cancels it by having Rafael tell Sophie as it’s nothing important!

I fucking love that big feet bird that has a random word over it.

I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

Tedros (AWWP SPOILERS)

This blog is practically just becoming an sge blog so I might as well. I’m rereading the whole series and have gotten to AWWP right, and like. Tedros. My boy. He has gone through so so much (some of it was kinda his fault but I digress) and it just kinda feels like it was forgotten. I mean in the next book the only thing that is picked back up is his relationship with Sophie/Filip but like. My boy was tortured and starved for days before Sophie ever showed up. She literally had to physically stop Aric so that Tedros wouldn’t die. I just feel like his trauma from those days was completely erased and diminished to him and Sophie.

I got the purple!

have you guys done that “what kind of reader are you” quiz and if so what did you get

Okay but it’s fucking brilliant that one of the themes of the book was about the distortion of history.

Usually prequels are a dangerous thing to write because unless they’re planned out well in advance, they risk contradicting lore in the main series. Even still, we knew barely anything about Haymitch’s games. They were the perfect stomping ground for new information, with a rough series of events but without a close temporal connection to the main books.

But though she had this freedom and safety net, while she could have just written a story that aligned with what we knew, Collins leaned into the idea of contradicting past lore head on and made it the damn thesis of the book; that yeah, actually, it did play out entirely differently from how the characters saw it, and yes that contradicts what you were told, that’s the point.

We didn’t really know what happened in the 50th games until we read it from Haymitch’s perspective, because what little information we did have was spliced up and edited. The video evidence was processed through the Capital, and twisted to serve their purposes.

Tackling that idea of history being written by those in power with a notoriously inconsistent medium? Goddamn, writer that you are, Suzanne Collins.

regulus about james

in another universe you dont get angry when im sad and i dont get sad when you’re angry

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields