Obsessive reader who writes random words

The problem with generative AI -in addition to the horrible environmental effects and plagiarism- is that it trivializes creativity. "Just enter a prompt and get the job done!" neglects the fact that people have to spend ages perfecting their art. We put thought and skills and TIME into mastering something. You can't get the same result with your simple prompt. Creativity demands skill and gen AI diminishes the value of effort that actual artists put in their art. At the heart of all creativity is emotion. I saw someone on insta make tiny flowers with some wire and nail polish, someone mixed cornflour slurry to acrylic paint to give their art a 3-d look, writers spend hours, sometimes days, in their head trying to pin down the exact word for what they're feeling.

“But everything new is so scary”

Don't pluck the petals of your flowers

Thinking about that one post that says Snow and Gaul tried to prove the true nature of human beings is exposed in the hunger games because it puts children in horrible conditions and so they end up turning evil but most of district kids didn't turn evil. It was only them- the people in Capitol or "capitolists"- who turned evil. That particular brand of capitolists are just scared people making everybody miserable because that's the only way they know to survive. Because once you've known privilege, you don't recognise kindness. The lust for power is what strips you of humanity, not desperation. Because in the poorest district a boy with blonde hair burnt the bread just enough to smuggle it to the girl who sings but in the downfall of Capitol, Snow straight up saw someone cannibalizing. Because kindness is born in adversity when you have the heart for it. Because human nature isn't inherently evil - that's just the lie the evil tell themselves to sleep better at night.

Do you think katniss instinctively trusted Haymitch despite his bad behaviour because somewhere in her subconscious is a memory of being held by her father as he introduces her to a very grumpy Haymitch? She remembers that particular stench of alcohol mixed with the fragrance of the meadow. The same meadow where she's had some of the best times of her life with her dad and this disheveled person reminds her of those memories somehow. The man is weird, her tenacious little brain registers, but she glimpses the tiniest smile on the edge of his lips and smiles back. That's when Burdock sees what Katniss can't - the pain in Haymitch's eyes as she reminds him of another little girl who trotted about him. He eventually gives up on trying to get Haymitch back but what he doesn't really know is that he already did succeed. Haymitch had lost all hope and all reasons to survive but this mini incarnation of his sweetheart with eyes that hold the same joy as his best friend is the reason he gets involved with the resistance again. Even the mumbled songs of this tiny human remind him of Lenore, shake him to the core, so he remembers that he has a promise to keep. Finds a way to keep it.

Honestly, I'm kinda glad they think the hunger games is teenagery and simply about a "love triangle"

I understand the craze behind Quake-rider and I have nothing against Robbie... It's just my Daisy deserves someone who isn't perpetually bonded with a fire headed demon.