#1 Made Me Think Of Coraline By @neil-gaiman And Some Stuff I Read A While Ago, So Idk If Neil Gaiman

#1 made me think of Coraline by @neil-gaiman and some stuff I read a while ago, so idk if Neil Gaiman said it, or an article, or a tumblr post, I just remember the concept that adults see a child in danger, but children see themselves fighting something evil and winning. And i think that's part of why THG is very entertaining to kids/teens/young adults, and then as one gets older, we start to see the horror of it.

And #3, peeta is absolutely epic, takes Haymitch's advice and RUNS with it.

So I read the hunger games as a teenager and don’t remember much, and I’m watching the movies for the first time. (In short spurts bc I don’t have time to sit down and watch a whole movie in one go)

First thoughts from the first 1/2 hr..

1. This is horrific. (The plot, the movie is well done). I remember as a teen I was like “this is a fun book! Danger, fighting the govt!” Now I’m watching it and I’m like this is extremely disturbing…. The reaping was so hard to watch. The way the town was just silent. How Effie was waiting for applause that never came. Because why would you applaud watching your children be murdered. But also no crying, no yelling (except from Katniss) because they are just so beaten down and used to this.

2. On a lighter note, I am LIVING for the 1920-1930 aesthetic. The poor coal mining town as a 1930s American shanty town, and then the Capitol in Art Deco. My little art and fashion nerd brain is so happy.

3. I don’t remember a whole lot about peeta besides that he and katniss end up together. But in the first 30 min I’ve seen that he is so smart. Immediately starts asking haymitch how to get sponsors. His response: get people to like you. So what does peeta do? Goes ti the window and starts waving at the crowd. At first I was feeling like katniss like “what are you doing? Pandering to the people who want you to die??” But then I realized, he’s following advice. Become a show- become entertainment and you might get a chance to win. And that’s what he does the whole story as I remember: admit he loves katniss. Say she’s pregnant. Make a sympathy story and make yourself indispensable.

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Au where morro isn’t a good guy and he’s not a bad guy, but rather a secret third thing: manager at a local supermarket.

Okay so hear me out. Some random villain or whoever does like Day of the Departed… 2!! And brings them all back like alive n shit Yknow the drill. Then morro wakes up, finds out he’s been resurrected to try to kill the ninja for like the third time in his existence, so he just. Fucks off. Right in the middle of the bad guy explaining his big bad plot to everyone. Just walks out of the building never to be seen again. The villains don’t do anything because who fucking cares. They’ve already got an army of disgruntled dead people so they just go to the next phase. Morro isn’t even going to warn the ninja or anything. The ninja don’t even know Morro is back. Morro does not care enough to tell them. This plot thread does not gain a resolution or acknowledgment until a season and a half later.

Cut to the next big baddie doing some shit, and the ninja need to go shopping to create the mystical maguffin item that will defeat them or whatever. So they’re shopping and they’re antsy and one of them gets snippy with a part time worker and all of a sudden. A fucking gust of wind so strong one of them almost falls over manifests. They looks to what caused it and there he is. Morro fucking Wu dressed in store uniform with the title of ‘Manager’ printed clearly on his badge.

And meanwhile all of the ninja are having their own separate meltdowns over this revelation that one of their greatest enemies is alive and in ninjago city, meanwhile Morro is just like “If you keep being rude to the staff I’ll have to ask you to leave.”

also on that note weird teenagers empassioned about niche interests are the backbone of this website. stop being mean to them

y'all are absolutely free to use tumblr however you please but I want redditors to know that they could, hypothetically, start a sideblog about a particular topic, add moderators to it, turn on submissions (and asks), make an "about" page laying out rules and such, and create a good tagging system. If you want it to be a bit more familiar.