lumielikesbooks

[lumielikesbooks]

okay okay okay BUT okay follow up so

Katniss is a provider, yes? and it’s very hard for her to let down her guard and be provided for, but Peeta manages it, and is one of the few that can … as so in a real way, for the hunter, Peeta represents sustenance

and this gets me thinking … Peeta is an artist, and his first encounter with Katniss is seeing her as a source of beauty, of song, and subsequently, he paints her, both on canvas and as the canvas, and is not shy about telling her that her beauty is his weakness (this boy, I tell you) and so for Peeta, the artist, Katniss represents beauty

and (hear me out) isn’t that just a lovely reversal of “bread and circuses” (this sense of excess) to “sustenance and beauty?” (things we need to survive)

and I need to go stare pensively out a window about what all this means

oh… my god. OH MY GOD you are a genius. YES.

love as food but also love as art. and the way it slots perfectly because love for katniss IS food, her providing food — her confusion over her love for gale being centered around the fact that they both provide each other with FOOD. but then to our peeta reading, peeta IS food for katniss. he *is* bread, he *is* the dandelion, he *is* sustenance and nourishment and being provided FOR instead of being the one providing. peeta is food that doesn’t have to be hunted — he is soft baked bread and gathered greens and a helping hand that gives instead of taking. peeta = bread = panem.

and then there’s love as art. love as something that so many deem to be frivolous but in reality is what makes life worth living. love is a song sung by a five year old, love is the color of the sky that is the same bright orange as the flames of your lover’s dress. peeta paints katniss over and over, katniss IS art to peeta. she is beauty for no reason, not a decorated cake made to be sold but something that’s beautiful for the sake of beauty. katniss calls it his weakness, but peeta simply calls it having an eye for beauty. if peeta is the food provided for the hunter, katniss is the muse that inspires the artist. so katniss = art = circuses.

PANEM ET CIRCUSES. they complete one another, they’re two sides of the same coin, they’re the missing piece to the other’s puzzle.

but then… they’re also those same things themselves. peeta loves katniss as an artist because what is peeta also! peeta is a PERFORMER. peeta is “circuses” — “if it werent for the baby” “because she came here with me” but then katniss loves peeta as a HUNTER. and katniss is food herself, she is her own nourishment, her own kind of “panem,” right down to her name, “if you can find yourself you’ll never go hungry”

everything is love and everything is food and everything is art. it’s the dandelion: the beauty in the flower, the nourishment in the roots. oh god. it’s all coming together. please excuse me while i go scream into a pillow

#love as art #everything is art #the hunger games

[lumielikesbooks]

Grow your own food 🌱

#<3 #gardening #living is so dear

[lumielikesbooks]

on being alive.

@delepiphany on pinterest // lucy dacus, please stay // @arthoesunshine // @leaf.guy_ on tiktok // bo burnham, that funny feeling // @peepuddle

#on life #web weaving #living is so dear

[lumielikesbooks]

Every single percyannabeth interaction in the last olympian makes me go absolutely feral its always some combination of charged eye contact and swallowed down words and percy telling somebody not to touch her

#percabeth #pjo

[lumielikesbooks]

old sketch from january

#🥹🥹🥹 #the hunger games #everlark

[lumielikesbooks]

“Oh yeah, of course. That’s the whole point.”

David Leviathan on Suzanne Collins // Revenge of the Sith novelization // Taylor Swift, Hoax // Aeschylus, Orestes // Paramore, Last Hope // Aeschylus and Robert Icke, Orestia // @sw_holocron & Tony Gilroy, Twitter

#web weaving #on inevitability #the hunger games #taylor swift

[lumielikesbooks]

hot girl spring is out. mary lennox spring is in. get in loser we’re frolicking in the garden; we’re talking to birds; we’re getting lost in the heather; we’re wandering gothic manors in the dead of night and discovering secret cousins concealed in attic bedrooms, we’re jumping rope

#<3 #spring

[lumielikesbooks]

zutara academic rivals so real ✏️

#them <3 #zutara #peanuts #atla

[lumielikesbooks]

"You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me." I want this on my tombstone.

#taylor swift

[lumielikesbooks]

GIVE ME MORE OF THIS. JUST THEM BEING FRIENDS AND MAKING EACH OTHER LAUGH.

#my babies <3 #polin #bridgerton #bridgerton s3

[lumielikesbooks]

lol i hate today’s era of absolutely zero nuance takes. a friend didn’t behave exactly as you’d wanted them to? cut them off. a guy didn’t text you back instantly bc he has his own life? he’s just giving you breadcrumbs. doing something makes you uncomfortable? don’t do it anymore. someone isn’t instantly available for you? disinterest. just absolutist statements that often don’t apply to the multilayer situations of everyday life. like. stop. literally just stop it

#THIS #preach

[lumielikesbooks]

*sigh*

Oh, Pen. I hope you’re paying attention.

#insane about this #polin #bridgerton #bridgerton s3

[lumielikesbooks]

#songofthesummer

#i love u louie zong

[lumielikesbooks]

#i need 5 business days to process this #polin #bridgerton

[lumielikesbooks]

some of my zutara sketches from twitter!

#my roman empire #zutara #atla

[lumielikesbooks]

everything, everywhere, all at once

#i think about this everyday #zutara #atla

[lumielikesbooks]

closure.

#zutara #atla #the southern raiders ep you will always be famous #i LOVE this art sm #this is canon idc