Clerk Carmine Brought Lucy Gray A Plant He'd Uprooted From The Lake, With Pointy Leaves And Small White

let’s try the tumblr thing

#literature is a conversation and a connection to our world and it's such a pleasure to be able to dip your toes into it

i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

Moon with clouds is always a favorite of mine ☁️🌕

Thursday May 8th 2025 7:38 to 7:40 p.m.

Create a fantasy language, they said. It'll be fun, they said

"Something's Wrong" is a banger song. Am I going to try and make a silly music video? Yes. Will it actually get done? No idea, but the idea has been in my head for weeks now.

The only problem with watching good media is realizing that your story now has to make as much sense as it does—

Aka I’m plotting books rn and it’s hard

they're so pretty

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

I watch where the moon soars across the sky and kiss the trails it leaves behind.

thoughts on watching

Let’s talk about Katniss’s mother, shall we?

She’s grown up living in fear of being reaped for so long, gets married, has kids, then loses the one thing that brought her joy: her husband. How long had she gone without losing anyone to the Games? But it doesn’t matter, because life is cruel and her loved one was still taken from her.

Katniss is so much like her father that even looking at her brings Katniss’s mother to a different time, a different place. Prim is so much like herself—it’s easier to be with her—but Katniss? She sings and works just like her late husband and Katniss’s mother can’t stand that. She can’t stand the songs, she can’t stand the reality of her world. So she dissociates.

She doesn’t try to repair their bond, doesn’t try to reach out. She barely asks where Katniss goes in Mockingjay and she only does that because it reminds her of her husband—leaving and then never coming back. 12 took so much from her, and she can’t go back.

Then Prim dies and the last of Katniss’s mother does too.

Prim is her hope, her new life. If Prim can keep going, then so can she. But with Prim gone, she has nothing but the constant reminder of her husband, Katniss. And she can’t stand to look at her anymore.

She can’t go back to 12. She can’t look at Katniss. So she doesn’t. She gives into the monotony of life and fades from the story.

This is why Haymitch is so important to Katniss and her story. If Katniss is her dad, then she needed someone like him to come alongside her and show her things. He has the same mindset as her father: be present and aware of what reality is. Katniss’s mother couldn’t do that.

And yet, Katniss is her mother. She dissociates just the same, but she had one difference—she had Peeta.

Derivakat's music has only gone up in quality since the dsmp days and I wish people recognized her more than just "white streak in my hair now" (as fantastic as that song is). Here are some of my favorite tracks rn:

Castaway - space vibes, introspective but intense, perfect for a main character

Yru - intense orchestral, beautiful lyrics, reaching for something more, longing for someone, crank-it and scream-it music

Fall - doomed lovers, that intense longing, like a clock as fate ticks down

Boom - giving Jinx (Arcane), great for fast-paced scenes, definitely would make a sick fight scene, back beat slaps

Reign - villain arc, gaslight gatekeep girlboss time

Her recent stuff has screamed ꜱᴘᴀᴄᴇ and I will get people to see it.