No But Seriously, Has Anyone Ever Got Over The Raven Cycle?

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So I just went through your Soul Eater AU (*is totally not hyperventilating because crazy Iwaoi is life and black blood Kenma and Kuroo is a thing I need to breathe*) and I love the idea of a slowly going insane Oikawa and a helpless Iwaizumi (who doesn't know how to help or what's happening because Assikawa is being stupid and not telling him everything) who is very worried. What if, slowly, the insanity starts affecting him even when he's not a weapon, like it goes into his thoughts and (1/4)

starts tempting him, especially when he’s irritated or frustrated, and it eventually starts showing through with his actions and needs (because Oikawa’s masking game is strong but insanity is also strong too). 

And then one day Iwaizumi finally figures it out but Oikawa denies it and then he snaps because of course Iwa-chan is gonna push at him all worried like and he ends up hurting him a little bit (or a lot) and of course Oikawa is horrified with himself so he runs away and Iwa tries to stop him but he can’t. 

So Oikawa runs and since he’s horrified and distressed, his insanity spikes up again. Which leads to mayhem and maybe Oikawa gets manipulated just a little bit because he’s so bloodthirsty at that point. 

As for Ushiwaka, I like the idea of him being a witch and a previous “rival” (more Oikawa is insecure because he still can’t beat Ushiwaka one on one) who otherwise seemed boring and innocent only for him to turn around and betray them because Oikawa started getting suspicious and when he found out he hunted Ushiwaka with Iwaizumi just by themselves. 

And then Ushiwaka hurts Iwaizumi and rubs it in Oikawa’s face that he’s weaker as he is (kinda matching with ‘you should have come to shiratorizawa’ and replacing it with ‘you should have been more mad’ maybe?) And thus sets off Oikawa’s insanity. (As you can tell I have a problem with this and I’m in love with the idea of insanity lmao. Sorry for this ridiculous long thing, what even happened? *shot*) 

(aaaAAAAA I’M SUPER DUPER SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY I WANTED TO ANSWER THIS PROPERLY BECAUSE I’M SO??? Your ask made me so so excited dude I’m on fIRE dON’T BE SORRY FOR THIS MASTERPIECE LEMME GIVE YOU A HUG)

dUDE I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY DUDE THIS WHOLE ASK IS /GOLD/I’m gonna put this under a read more because I have so much to say

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☕️during the series I felt like Kevin didn’t have a person, who he was like priority to. Someone who he could talk to, lay in their arms, or just someone who wouldn’t let him alone during his panic attacks. Among the foxes, Andrew and Neil, Dan and Matt, Allison and Renee, Nicky and Erik, Aaron and Katelyn, he must have felt so alone:(

GOD I KNOW, RIGHT? My poor boy, he didn’t have the courage to tell Wymack he was his son, so he had to watch his dad treat him like any other student.

Neil is clearly every Fox’s favourite (save for Aaron’s), too, and Kevin was just treated like a burden all of the time.

Fuck, no, I’m fucking crying, again, my sweet angel, I love him so dearly.

this is the gay cat

if you reblog this you are either:

• gay

• love cats

• both

nobody will know which one

I’ve talked about muslim!renee before ? yes. I have. have more.

renee loves islam. she loves feeling close to Allah. He helped her get back up her feet and gave her something to fight for. a life. a future.

she’s a lesbian. a feminist. and a muslim. she’s all these things and more and she knows, she knows He listens and understands.

she’s not haram. she’s not haram. she’s not and never will be.

most of the money she makes with the foxes go to charity. she works hard and try, try to remain kind, no matter the hardships she has to go through. she’s not afraid. she has faith.

her hijab is colorful and moves in the wind and she laughs and laughs and laughs. she is happy. she is peaceful.

her ghosts are there and it’s hard, so hard but she became an expert at repelling them off. no more knives. no more dark.

there are days in which she makes salah five times a day and her smile is never as bright. sometimes she can only make dua. sometimes neither. sometimes, her past is too heavy on her frail shoulders and she can’t get up. it’s okay. her relationship with islam is her own. it’s all okay.

she gets comments in the street for everything she is. for allison’s hand in her own. for the color of her skin. for her devotion to a religion they’re not willing to understand and accept.

she doesn’t hear any of their hateful word

she holds on tight.

there’s the wind again and she smiles.

The Victor’s purge is absolutely something that just blows my mind.

The Capitol propaganda against Victors were so effective, even the very people fighting for their freedom turned on them.

During the events of TBOSAS, we learn that the first 10 winners of the Hunger Games received no compensation for their participation in the games. Why would they? They’re nobodies. Reminders of a war that had forced the people of the Capitol to turn on each other, forcing them into such desperate lengths that they had to resort to eating other people just to survive. They were not celebrated like the Victors we recognize in the 75th Hunger Games. They were not victors but survivors. In fact, we learn that not many people wanted to watch the Hunger Games in the beginning. It left a bitter taste in a person’s mouth to watch children fight to the death and have the event sensationalized, even if the child is considered the enemy.

And yet, with Victors being placed on a pedestal after the events of TBOSAS, we saw how quickly the Victors were woven into the Capitol’s society.

Upon winning, Victors were alienated in their own Districts. They were given beautiful mansions, fed three square meals a day, and their families wanted for nothing. They became mentors, becoming active participants in the very Games designed to kill members of their own Districts. Their participation may have been forced but when you smile and wave at cameras and show off your new found wealth, it’s hard to believe you didn’t want these things.

Victors are even further alienated outside of their own Districts with the Victor’s parade. A whole week of traveling through the 12 districts to show off your vitality and strength and your life, the very thing you took from the other tributes in order to survive. Victors did not need to drip themselves with jewels to offend the other Districts, their survival was insult enough. Never mind that you didn’t want to kill these kids. Never mind that you are a child yourself.

Every place you turn, you’re met with jealousy, derision and contempt. No longer the perfect quintessential victim but a killer of children who “benefitted” from the very system designed to oppress you. By winning the Hunger Games you are no longer District.

So you turn to the one place that showers you with any hint of adoration.

Ingratiating themselves into the Capitol’s society cemented their identity as Other. They may live in the Distrcts, may be forced to subject themselves in horrors that are far worse than any modicum of starvation they faced in the Districts, but they are no longer one of them.

And so the Rebels forget who exactly they’re fighting for, forgot who actually experienced the horror they could only dread.

Yes, they are fighting against their own oppression. Yes, they fight for their child’s right to live and never play in the Games. But they forget about the 59 other Victors who actually went through the horrors they’re fighting against. They forget about the biggest victims of the system they are fighting against.

Snow alienated Victors from the rest of the Districts so much that of the surviving 59 Victors before the events of Mockingjay, only 7 come out alive.

7 out of 59.

There’s not even enough of them to distribute one to every district.

The biggest victims of the Capitol’s oppression also became the biggest victims of the rebel’s war.

I want to put focus on how significant parents are in the Hunger Games franchise, most especially on the role a parent has in shaping their child’s psyche and I want to do this by using Katniss, Peeta and Snow as reference. 

In the books and the movies, parents are more or less background characters. We truly only see glimpses of them. Both of Peeta’s parents are alive yet we rarely see them featured prominently in the books/movies. Both of Snow’s parents are dead and we only get to hear of them in passing and while Mrs. Everdeen is alive, she’s often relegated to the background because of how dismissive Katniss is towards her mother. 

Yet these characters and the very essence of their beings are shaped by their parents. 

Beginning with Katniss, we saw how deeply her father’s death wounded her. He was their provider, the sole person responsible for bringing food onto their table. We know how deeply he was loved by his children and his wife and how beloved he was by the other citizens of 12 by Katniss’ stories. Mr. Everdeen was a well known figure in the Hobb and Katniss firmly believed that it was because of him that people took pity on her and allowed her to bargain with them. It was his death that served as a catalyst to Katniss’ journey to becoming a Victor. Without his death, without Katniss being forced to hunt to serve her family, she wouldn’t have made it out of the arena. To Katniss, her father was the hero deserving of being placed on a pedestal and it was his values and actions that she tried desperately to emulate to protect her family. 

On the other hand, Katniss scorned her mother. She hated Mrs. Everdeen’s inaction when she spiraled into a deep depression after her husband died. And though it wasn’t Mrs. Everdeen’s fault, I can’t blame Katniss for feeling this way about her mother. She and her sister were near the brink of death by starvation on the day she met Peeta. Even when Mr. Everdeen was alive, Katniss was partial to her father because he stoked the rebellion in Katniss’ heart while it was her mother who tried to stop it. Katniss perceived her mother’s depression as a weakness and even after she got better, Katniss was determined to keep her at arms length. The love she felt for her mother may have been unconditional but she constantly put her mother under the test. Waiting to see if she would disappoint her, fail her by abandoning her once again. And when Prim died and Mrs. Everdeen left for District 4, Katniss’s unconscious bias against her mother was once again reaffirmed. 

It’s why Katniss struggles to form a good bond with motherly characters like Effie but maintains relatively good relationships with fatherly figures like Haymitch and Cinna. Katniss openly admits that of the two people who guided them throughout the Hunger Games, it was Haymitch she was most alike. They grew up at the Seam, and shared similar features and she was adamant that should she have been forced into becoming a mentor like Haymitch was, she was looking at what her future would have looked like. Drunk and continuously intoxicated like Haymitch was. 

On the other hand, we have Peeta. 

Peeta was routinely abused by his mother. While we don’t know the full extent of what it was he had to endure, we know that it wasn’t a pleasant experience. Peeta’s mother took pride in the knowledge that District 12 would finally have another Victor, and she wasn’t referring to Peeta. We saw him take a beating to feed Katniss and whatever relationship Peeta had with his father was practically nonexistent. It was his mother that served to be the looming presence in his life the same way Katniss’ father haunted her. It’s why I believe Peeta got along so well with Effie and why Effie likely preferred Peeta over Katniss. Aside from the fact that Peeta was so much more civil to Effie than Katniss was to Effie, Peeta always deferred to Effie. He and Effie are similar in the same way Katniss and Haymitch are similar. 

Peeta was characterized to be of the merchant class, the “upper” class of District 12. As a given, Effie is from the Capitol, the upper crust of Panem. It was Effie who provided Katniss and Peeta with the script necessary to ensure their survival after the 74th Games and in return, Effie knew how effectively a person’s image and reputation could mean life and death in the arena and in this, Peeta is in agreement. While Katniss may have used a bow as a weapon, Peeta used his words. He always knew the right things to say and do to get people to side with him, so much so that he managed to convince the careers of the 74th Games, his biggest enemies in the arena, to ally with him. Had anyone else been in his situation, they would have been killed. Peeta craved Effie’s maternalism the same way Katniss craved Haymitch’s paternalism because these were the things they lacked growing up.

And then there’s Coriolanus, who lost both his parents and it is both of these parents who haunt him. His mother, described to be beautiful and kind, was represented by the powder compact he kept with him constantly. His father, harsh and cruel, represented by the handkerchief that Snow kept with him.

In TBOSAS, Snow has two mentors himself. 

Dean Highbottom and Dr. Gaul.

It’s not lost on me that in them, the characterization of the two are reversed from Snow’s parents. Highbottom, like Snow’s father is stern and harsh. He is Snow’s biggest critic and while I doubt Mr. Snow would go so far as to hate his own child, he would not have been kind to Coriolanus had he lived past the war. Yet Highbottom and Mr. Snow’s similarities end there. Because of Highbottom’s remorse and the kindness that he showed Lucy Gray after she won the Games, he takes after Snow’s mother in that regard. He is compassionate and filled with horror at the abomination he created.

On the other hand, Gaul treats Snow with a gentleness that Highbottom never had for him. Though Snow finds Gaul creepy, it is Gaul that takes him under his wing. It is Gaul who stitches up his wounds after he is attacked in the arena and retrieves Sejanus and Gaul who praises him for his ingenuity at suggesting the sponsoring system. Gaul genuinely likes Snow and begins grooming him to become her replacement in the event that she dies. But while Gaul may have been a woman with the capacity for gentleness, she is a terrible human being who threw children into the arena to fight for their survival. She is the same woman who hung a child for running away from the games and paraded the corpses of children on the streets of the Capitol. She is pure evil. She is exactly like Snow’s father. 

It isn’t loss on me that Snow, who has an abundance of maternal figures in his grandmother and Tigris, chooses to take after Gaul, who is externally like his mother but internally like his father, rather than Highbottom, who is the opposite. 

At every instance Snow had to do good, to choose to do the right thing and be like his mother, he intentionally continued to do the evil thing for the sake of his selfishness and be like his father. 

“You look just like your father, Coriolanus.” Were the words Tigris used to describe him at the end of the movie because that is precisely who he chose to become. 

And as Snow poisons Highbottom and becomes a gamemaker under Gaul’s tutelage, he kills whatever remnant of his mother he had left in him, fully embodying his cruel father’s ideals.

Any Kevin with aspergers head cannons????

Mr. Infodump.

You get him started on something he’s invested in, he can talk for hours.

Unfortunately, the majority of the Foxes just… do not give a shit.

So, he actually spends most of his Bee time just talking about his interests.

Bee let’s him talk about whatever he wants, it’s his hour.

Sometimes, he’ll rant about Neil or the other Foxes for the entire time, and ends up with a really dry throat afterwards.

He loves his alone time; watching Exy, listening to music, reading.

Sometimes goes mute due to anxiety, and the Foxes interpret it as him giving them the silent treatment…

Doesn’t like conflict, as a rule. He’ll have fights with Neil all the time, but only because Neil is so aggravating when he’s wrong. That’s also why he fought with Seth, a lot.

Other people are just… so stressful?? It’s easier to be alone.

He’d really like to actually be friends with people, though. He wishes Neil was more understanding of his point of view, instead of dismissing him as a coward.

He really wants to be friends with Dan, too, but he also kind of hates her for casting him out.

It’s complicated. He has very complicated emotions towards other people. Sometimes, he can’t tell if he’s being over dramatic or if someone else really is that bad.

He loves calling Thea or Jeremy, because they’re always willing to talk Exy.

He stims! He stims all the time. He loves to bounce his leg or click his fingers. When no one’s around, he shakes a hand or both up and down like a jazz hands motion.

He can’t bounce his leg in the Maserati because it shakes the whole car.

I like the idea of Neil being Autistic, because it’s actually really common for us to not get a long all the time, because your different needs and opinions clash. Trust me, both my brother and I have Asperger’s and we drive each other insane with it.

Reblog to save a Muslim

As you probably know, Punish A Muslim day is coming up on the third of April. Any Muslim who lives in England is in danger so please stay home. Don’t send your children to school. DON’T GO OUT on the 3rd of April. My non Muslim friends, please reblog this, one of your followers could benefit from it.