Hi all!
I'm currently working on something for my AU with the D3 victors, and a part of this involves assigning each of them an animal
So, of course I have a canary for Wiress, and a mouse/rat for my OC Techne, but I'm genuinely struggling with Beetee!
Any ideas are greatly appreciated!!
We went on a little hike! My family abandoned me to go to the full route, which I'm unable to do, so I spent some time getting sweet pictures of Sparrow in the sun! This one is my favourite!
Currently on a mission to masterset a few of the "pokèdogs" as a bit of a passion project, after I rediscovered my love for them while rewatching the anime on a whim! This is probably the biggest step I've made in that yet!
I've only been collecting for about 5 months + am working on a small budget as I'm a student, and the Boltund trainer gallery will be the most expensive card I've bought yet! I'm truly over the moon with them!
Me and Wiress have been hanging out in my garden the last few days, enjoying the sun! She looked super pretty in the sun, so I did a little mini photoshoot with her!
I genuinely can't believe I have my first retired plush, and in such good condition too!
I'm truly in love with this sweetheart, she's absolutely my priced possession!
So, I'm currently working on a big ol' complete victor list for my AU, and I've hit a stop with District 11 because I can't seem to find a surname that I feel fits for Chaff at all.
So, does anyone have a headcanon for his surname? I'd love some inspiration lol
So, I've identified as a therian for a good 5 years now, but have only been identifying as a psychological + emotional therian for year or so.
I had originally identifying as a psychological genutherian with the genus canis, but after doing some more research I'm wondering if there's a term for someone who identifies as a subfamily too? I feel that would fit me better, identifying with the entire caninae subfamily
So, I'm active within the ESSA community on here, tiktok and insta, and between the three places I've seen so much judgement going around lately. It's really making me question whether or not I want to continue interacting with the community.
It's constantly "People should only have ESSAs for this one specific reason", or "ESSAs with gear as just destroying plushies", or "customised ESSAs are disgusting", etc etc. Most of it comes from older teens or young adults, too.
I'm genuinely so tired of it, and in a community that has a large following of children and disabled folk I genuinely expect better from the older members of the community than being judgemental about every little thing.
Sweet girl Feather has been a massive help for me recently while I go through a rough patch, forever greatful for her
Finally decided to post something of my Wiress fic I'd only ever shared with my grandmother before, so currently having fun with younger, slightly less traumatised versions of my beloved District Three victors (+ family)
I started writing this about 6 months ago and have put a few parts up on Wattpad (though it's not the best written fic ever), but mainly just work on it for myself now
This is generally just a pasion project for me, I love my little OC very dearly and wanted to bring him to life outside of short quotes and silly tiktok edits 🤷
It's set in the early Games after tbosas, so it's low on Careers (and even those labels as such weren't actually trained, the D2 boy volunteered, the D2 girl didn't) despite still having a "best fed districts" pack!
So I came up with this with help from my friend who is arguably more knowledgeable on the series than I am, for the start of a District 3 victors fanfic I'm currently writing and I figure why not share it for funsies 🤷
Someone pointed out to me recently that Wiress is only at most 7 years older than Ampert, and that definitely had a bit of a kick to it.
Wiress is no older than 19 in STOR, and I'm genuinely still not over how heartbreaking that is. She's been one of my favourites since 10 y/o me saw the Catching Fire movie for the first time, and I swear she doesn't get a moment of peace in this damn series. Thank goodness she at least had such a good friend in Beetee or I'd probably be less okay in all of this-
This girl is already at a point where she shuts down enough for it to be something Haymitch points out when he sees her and Mags for the last time before entering the arena, but of course that's not enough. We know how the effects of her torture stay with her until her last moments, and honestly knowing now that this wasn't a result of her Games themselves and instead her (very small, by the way) part in trying to do good by the rebels is even more heartbreaking.
She would never get an adulthood in which she's "there" enough to experience even a fraction of something resembling normalcy like what the other victors are able to create for themselves, even if for some it took until after the second rebellion, and honestly I don't think I'm ever going to be okay with that.
TL.DR - Wiress is an incredibly devastating character when you look even slightly deeper and I'm not over it in the slightest
So I was watching through a SOTR analysis when I had a thought - what exactly are the mentors seeing while all of this happens? If there's a canon answer to this, please let me know! Or if there isn't and you have your own thoughts, I greatly enjoy everyone's perspectives on things like this.
It seems obvious the public live feed of the Games is made up of switching camera perspectives to "follow the action", keep the narrative as the gamemakers want, and keep any rebellion from being made public by the time of the 50th, likely staring much earlier - but the cameras would still have to be running constantly so the gamemakers and Snow can watch everything.
That begs the question, would they show the mentors the full feed? I feel like it could definitely be a way to keep them in line, force them to see the full picture, make sure they're blatantly aware of the fact nothing goes unnoticed.
At one point I did half jokingly theories that the mentors could have the option of being out charming sponsors or being in a more private mentors/victors only space with "all they could need" (ahem, a bar) while essentially being retraumatised
But idk, I haven't put much thought into it before, and honestly I would love to get a canon mentors perspective one day, but I also love any and all theories on our beloved victors, so yk!
She's honestly the best help for busy places, very huggable
She's honestly the best help for busy places, very huggable
Firstly I'd like to preface by saying I'm a teenager who has very little control over the food brought into our household. My mother is (as I've recently discovered) a low effort pescetarian (she really doesn't care past actual meat), I've been vegetarian since I was about 7, my younger brother eats meat.
I'm autistic with a limited diet as it is, and recent anxieties around whether or not foods are *actually* vegetarian has me not wanting to touch some of the foods I usually eat and not wanting to try anything new at all. I guess I'm just looking for advice on how the labeling system works, and what to look out for when there isn't a label?
I guess my main concerns are cheese, how to tell, what to look out for (in the UK). Plus, are cheese dishes (for example a macaroni cheese ready meal, mozzarella sticks, etc) that claim to be vegetarian friendly actually using vegetarian cheese?
Any knowledge appreciated!