Thanks For The Tag @hope-di-angelo

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Yall what’s the plant in tcp that Jude uses to travel from elf game to the mortal world????

Wow i feel like ive been following you for months?? You’re amazing! I’m not really a poster but got to give love and flowers

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I finished the timeline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

… mostly

I have all the books, all the webisodes, all the specials and all the diaries. And now I’m just adding boxes and social media posts

If you want to see the timeline (it’s a bit messy at the bottom don’t mind)

Google Docs

EAH timeline

Ever After High complete timeline Book Special Webisode Doll Diary Doll extra Other media Once Upon a Time by Shannon Hale (full book) T

This is my “primary” blog, idk how to change that. I actually post on @tttfota and @ttshapeshifter

Hi fellow fans

I try but i cant change my dp or header and wonder if i seem too much like an npc on tumblr

I unironically love the character names in the Hunger Games series.

Haymitch, Peeta, Hazelle, Leevy, Maysilee, Finnick and Greasy Sae look bizarre when you first see them written down, but then if you think about how they look and/or sound it's pretty clear that they're meant to be modern names, only modern names that have changed spelling and pronounciation over time— as you would have expected them to have done so over how ever many hundreds of years it's been since our modern day.

(Remember, though The Hunger Games themselves have only been going on for 75 years, the universe they're in is canonically post-apocalyptic— the reason nobody ever mentions what's happening in the rest of the world is that everywhere except America was destroyed in a nuclear war. We're not given much of an indication how long it's been since then.)

Peeta is Peter, Haymitch is Hamish, and Hazelle is Hazel, Maysilee is Maisie— the changes in pronunciation are slight (Peeta and Peter are already virtually identical in my accent), and the spelling has changed to match.

Leevy is either a corruption of Lily, or more likely I suspect 'Livvy', a common nickname for Olivia; Finnick is probably from Finnegan (shorten in to 'Finneg' and then say it over and over very fast); Sae could be short for Sarah, or Sally or even Susan— it's not uncommon for nicknames to become real names in their own right (look at Harry or Molly as examples).

I also love the trend of having District 1 parents give their kids names relating to the luxury items their district produces— Glimmer, Marvel, Gloss, Cashmere, Velvereen (presumably a corruption of 'velveteen'), Facet— because those things are all a) objectively pretty/nice (like naming a kid 'Diamond' or 'Star' today) and presumably status symbols in their district.

Meanwhile District 3 does the same thing, but all the pronunciations are corrupted. You've got technical names to do with the manufacture of electronics— Wiress (wireless), Circ (circuit)— but you've also got what I'm pretty sure are meant to be corruptions of modern brand names— Beetee (BT), Teslee (Tesla).

To me this kind of suggests that District 3 is less conscious of this influence than District 1. Like, parents in 1 are more likely to deliberately think "I'll name my kid Glimmer, because things that glimmer are pretty" whereas 3 as a culture might have genuinely forgotten that those names used to mean something, in the same way that most of us don't think much about how the name 'Arthur' comes from the old word for 'Bear'.

And of course, then you've got the Capitol leaning hard into those ancient Roman vibes with names like Fulvia, Plutarch, Seneca, Tigris… but still using the European/American personal name+family name format, which the Romans didn't really do. Like it's very clear that this is a future society fetishising the classical era, rather than an actual resurgence of Roman culture.

It's just such a cool world-building detail. So many dystopian novels just go for modern names (and there's nothing wrong with that, especially if you're only looking a couple of hundred years into the future) but thinking about how names might have evolved over the centuries and the different naming traditions that might have developed in different areas really adds a whole new dimension to the culture of Panem.

Gotta start them young

I do love that as a fandom we're like "pre-locked tomb reading list: the iliad the bible shakespeare's entire works lolita edgar allen poe's poems the oral history of aotearoa the epic of gilgamesh and the oxford dictionary." And then you read it and half the prose is:

Disney’s Shake it up, S3:E4 - Lock it Up

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

the year is 2025

scientists are still scrambling to figure out what “zigazig ahh” is so that they can give the spice girls what they really really want

the spice girls are getting impatient

war is upon us

I came searching for other people’s opinions on thiss after reading this in The Brother’s Hawthorne:

Avery calls him restless on the next page. “You have been for months.”

Hot(?) take:

Xander and Jameson Hawthorne have adhd