Being Friends With Fellow Writers Is Desperately Trying To Pawn Off Aus On Each Other Like A Tennis Match

being friends with fellow writers is desperately trying to pawn off au’s on each other like a tennis match

i raise you: double down and get us to 420

pack it up boys our work here is done

et tu brutus?

lol i appreciate you not wanting to insult my intelligence!

i disagree with the statement that the writers only deducted things from lamina’s character and didn’t add anything. i think the entire addition of treech and lamina’s relationship (because i feel as though we can all agree there had to have been *something* there?) adds to her character. i believe i’ve mentioned this before in some post or another but something i think the movie does really well is breathe life into the tributes. they give glimpses of who they are and who they might have been or might have loved before being ripped from their homes. it shows the kids as people in a way snow’s limited perspective in the books can’t. of course, they don’t do that with every tribute, and instead end up sacrificing certain plot lines to beef up others which is sad, and disappointing, and the nature of hollywood.

i do agree they took certain aspects of her character away! fr losing the tiny alliance reaper and lamina had was sad and she isn’t the visibly poor, scrawny, girl the books portray her as. i think just where the disagreement comes is the deduction of traits vs the deduction and addition of traits and that’s just a matter of perspective!

the point brought up about how certain more ruthless traits of female characters being diminished in the movies is a really good one!! i can’t necessarily say that i see it as being intentional considering tons of other characters were offed in the bloodbath for means of moving the story along, but that makes it no lesser of a valid critique.

i particularly enjoy the sensitivity of movie!lamina, so i have never really been disheartened over the removal of book!lamina’s character traits of being more calculated.

i do agree she’s more strategical in the books. however, i don’t see that as necessarily cutthroat as it seems you see her and instead see that as simply her being intelligent and knowing her strengths and weaknesses, which is again just a difference of opinions!

for the slippery slope thing, i used it as a term of speech and was not using it to say you were committing a logical fallacy, but i appreciate the kindness and consideration with which you expressed your concern :)

sometimes i see someone complain about something in the fandom and just sit there confused, because i must admit, that has never happened in the history of forever

like the original angst of their relationship was just??? so good??? because we didn’t have anything else ALL we had was the life-threatening edits to chemtrails over the country club and two birds not these cheesy happy ending au’s 🙄

in a constant state of nostalgia for december 2023 at the peak of the tbosas fandom when i was desperate for content and kept the lamina tab on ao3 open on my phone, checking it maybe 13 times a day, and the scene of treech pulling lamina away from the bullets was my lifeline, when they were little people on my screen who i didn’t really have personalities for but was obsessed with anyway