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one day I'm gonna tell you guys about the cato wins 72nd au and accidentally stray cat bonds with katniss because they're down bad horrendous over their district partners (clove is unforch dead and haunting the narrative)

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3. Obscure headcanon

another obscure one…I think Annie has. is it a relationship? a type of relationship. with her nails. she bites her nails when she’s stressed but she hates having short nails, so it’s this constant vicious cycle of her trying not to bite her nails which stresses her out more, then caving and doing it and being unhappy with how they look until they grow back. but she’s a little obsessive about them, she doesn’t have the energy to care about her appearance a lot of the time but she does care about her nails, to the point where I’ve written a loadbearing nail filing scene SKCJFJFJFJ

13. Dumbest thing they’ve ever done

fun fact! I’ve written a fic about this. when Annie was sixteen, she went with two of her friends out to an island and then lost the skiff key, so she hotwired the boat so they could get back. the part that makes it the dumbest thing she’s ever done is they didn’t actually check the blanket they were sitting on for the key until after she’d already hotwired it. you can read the fic here

20. Scars

depends on when we’re talking…I hc that she got all her scars erased post Games, then she ends up getting new ones over time and in the Capitol. but she tends to get scars on her hands because she does a lot with them and likes knives, and while she’s careful and good with them there’s always still the possibility for nicks that turn into scars.

6. Worst personality trait

I mean I think Finnick’s worst personality trait (and in no small part it’s because we share this and it’s absolutely one of my worst traits, I know how destructive it is) is that he doesn’t trust anyone to do something for him. he cannot delegate. he has to be the one who does things if he wants them done right, and how that manifests is since he’s interpreting that as he needs to do things alone, he makes decisions for other people and keeps things back that he shouldn’t because he doesn’t trust them to support him with whatever he’s doing. it translates very easily into overprotectiveness and condescension as well.

16. Deepest darkest secret they won’t even admit to themselves

I think Finnick has to contend with a lot of shame in his life in general, not just because of the trafficking but because of how he’s most likely perceived in Four, and as a result there’s a lot of things he doesn’t admit to himself and tries to shove down. a lot of his secrets are incredibly ugly and things I will not post in a public forum because this website is allergic to nuance and also understanding the complexities of prolongued sexual abuse.

so one that is a little less likely to get me harassed but no less deep and dark is that he has, exactly once and only once, sedated Annie when she didn’t technically need it and could’ve calmed herself down. but he couldn’t handle her in that minute and just wanted her to stop, so he sedated her instead. she has no idea and he doesn’t sleep because of this for weeks

41. If they could have lunch with anyone in the world (living or dead, from any fictional universe or the real world), who would it be?

ongreenergrasses headcanon time…I hc that he has three older sisters and one younger sister, and that his oldest sister went through Career training but wasn’t the volunteer. I also hc that she ended up going back to fishing and ended up getting lost at sea with the entire crew of the boat she was working on. whether it was a legitimate accident or not, Finnick thinks it’s because of something he did and blames himself for it. he was also the closest to her out of any of his sisters and losing her really ruptured basically the last close connection he had with his immediate family.

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something you see in fics a lot and love

A good mix of silly and serious, I suppose!

a ship that isn't your OTP but that you enjoy

I'm going to be real. I don't think that I have an OTP, but for argument's sake, I'll pretend Festixia, Felix/Festus, Festus/Persephone, and whatever is going on in the Panem geriatric ward are my OTPs. So here are a list of ships that haven't come up that often on my blog that I enjoy:

Clemensia/Lysistrata (but make it a little toxic)

Livia/Persephone (I think they should grow old together... and kill)

Snowbaird/Snowjanus (but I just kind of like what canon gives us in terms of dynamics... aka tragic, unhappy bf (tries) to kill you and metaphorical cannibalism :) )

(Ithaca) Kay/ Volumnia Gaul (Dr. Kay potential one-sided crush?)

Androcles/Gaius (not a committed relationship)

Arachne/Juno (made this up once? idk, I think they could be cringefail haters together)

Honorable Mention: Hilarius-Vipsania (my aroace Vips in an open marriage of convenience with Hils. She runs all his shit for him. He's chilling. This suits them both great!)

Honestly, I like just about any weird little ship but these are ones that I came up with in the back of my mind that I never talk about... because I'm bad at shipping

if you're a writer or artist, what fic or piece of art are you proud of making?

shuffle your favorite playlist and create a poll from the first five songs:

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2. a headcanon you weren't sure about at first but have come to like!

…I can’t think of anything. embarrassing ik. maybe hayzelle as a pairing? I’m just so set in my ways, either I never come around to it or someone drops some incredible insight that completely shatters my worldview and I adopt it immediately

5. something you see in fics a lot and love

I don’t read a lot of fic but there is this tendency in thg fics for people to write very intense worldbuilding passion projects that center around OCs or very minor characters or neglected districts and I absolutely love that. I think it’s so cool that people feel the space and the freedom and the creativity to do that and tbh I think it’s making us all better writers

17. the thing in canon that everyone loves and that you also love

tagged by @the-sun-and-the-sea and @thefloatingwriter thank you! taking a break from work, visa, and unpacking so this was very needed and welcome 💜

How many letters of the alphabet have you used for a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score of 26 at the end along with your total fic count

A: Acropolis

B: before he cheats

C: Coriander

D: Dutch Harbor

E: epilogue

F: Flood

G: grab my attention by the throat

H: Hestehov

I: Iguaçu

J: juntos

K:

L: lotus

M: Marjoram

N: nostalgia (red clay halo)

O: Op. 33, TH 7

P: Pateticheskaya

Q:

R: Rachma

S: Sugar

T: Tabula Rasa

U:

V: vivre

W: would that i were dust

X:

Y:

Z: zombie movies

total is 21/26, with a fic count of 118!

rent lowering gunshots about to go off…

you can headcanon whatever you want, I can’t stop you and I will always support people in doing their thing, but I think that the headcanon that Finnick’s Annie’s mentor has done actual damage to the perception of the pairing. and I think this because when I have spoken to people about odesta (sometimes it bubbles out of me and I can’t control it) more than one person has been squicked out because they think that Finnick is her mentor canonically, and it turns them off the pairing. the headcanon is so prolific that some casual fans actually think it’s canon, and they are (rightfully imo) freaked out by the implications of it.

and yes I am taking this Far too seriously, in my defense a) I’m stoned and b) I’m weird, but at the same time it is kind of sad, because to me odesta has always been a very meaningful pairing because of the message it sends and the representation it provides. and as a mentally ill person, I understand why someone like me would be made uncomfortable by the idea of her caretaker also having been her mentor and responsible for her life, and then see that as sapping the romance out of it, and it just. to me it is a shame, because as a kid I latched onto their story due to the representation there, and I’m like man. what if there’s people who are missing out on feeling seen simply because of a headcanon that took off. that would be so sad

but again. do what you will. I cannot stop you. I will continue to indulge in my haterisms in my corner and write what I wish to see in the world