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triassictriserratops · 14 days

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Would you be able to elaborate on your statement about the pseudo sexual imagery of the Everlark pearl? I hadn’t really considered the pearl from that angle before and would love to hear your thoughts on it.

In response to this post So firstly, this in NO WAY takes away from the other symbolism present in the pearl. This is in ADDITION to, NOT instead of. In fact, lemme go into it all from my perspective, although I know MANY creators have expressed a lot of this much more eloquently than I will! PEARLS AS THEY RELATE TO THE CAPITOL

i always viewed the presence of the pearls on Katniss' capitol wedding dress as twofold. Firstly, it speaks of the opulence and extreme perceived wealth of the Capitol. To have a dress adorned with chains of pearls - what a symbol of luxury! I also viewed them as binding/chains. A representation of the "freedom" of the victors. The trappings of their wealth while living under the thumb of the Capitol. Their chains aren't metal, they're beautiful and delicate but still present and just as deadly. Like a gentle hand on their throats.

PEARLS AS THEY RELATE TO PEETA In direct contrast to the Capitol pearls, the pearl Peeta gives Katniss is singular. It isn't purchased, it is found. It is found in a space where Peeta has nothing else to give to Katniss, other than his life. Instead of a chain or a burden it is meant as his symbol of freedom to her, in conjunction with the locket - "I give you fully back to your family. To the people who love and need you. I let you go, but this, here is something to remember me by." (And I also love how it's representative of Peeta's ability to find pieces of beauty in the most horrific of circumstances.) KATNISS' MENTAL CONNECTION OF PEETA AND THE PEARL We also know that, during Peeta's capture, Katniss connects this pearl heavily with Peeta's life and her need to protect it. "Tomorrow morning, I'm going to agree to be the Mockingjay." I tell her. "Because you want to or because you feel forced into it?" she asks. I laugh a little. "Both, I guess. No. I want to. I have to, if it will help the rebels defeat Snow." I squeeze the pearl more tightly in my fist. "It's just...Peeta. I'm afraid if we do win, the rebels will execute him as a traitor." I slip the pearl from the drawer and spend a second sleepless night clutching it in my hand, replaying Peeta's words in my head. "Ask yourself, do you really trust the people you're working with?" I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it. Then, later, when Peeta returns and is found to be hijacked, his essence and personhood taken from him and from HER - the Pearl becomes a symbol of the boy she lost and everything he isn't anymore. Then she finds the pearl Peeta gave me. "Is this-?" "Yeah," I say. "Made it through somehow." I don't want to talk about Peeta. One of the best things about training is, it keeps me from thinking of him. "Haymitch says he's getting better," she says. "Maybe. But he's changed," I say. I consider saying a final good-bye to Peeta, decide it would only be bad for both of us. But I do slip the pearl into the pocket of my uniform. A token of the boy with the bread. And, finally, when in the Capitol, in the last mention of the pearl, we connect it with his literal LIFE in Katniss' HANDS. (And Peeta's unwillingness to risk Katniss' life even for his freedom.) "Should we free his hands?" asks Leeg 1. "No!" Peeta growls at her, drawing his cuffs in close to his body. "No," I echo. "But I want the key." Jackson passes it over without a word. I slip it into my pants pocket, where it clicks against the pearl."

And, finally, here we go: THE PEARL AS IT RELATES TO KATNISS' SEXUAL AWAKENING It is no coincidence, to me, that the pearl is gifted from Peeta to Katniss following the events of the kiss on the beach. Katniss has now admitted to herself that Peeta holds sexual currency with her. Her body is reactive to his own and feeds a hunger in her, a flame. The giving and acceptance of the pearl can be viewed as the "tender" of that sexual currency. Katniss ALSO thinks of the pearl as it relates to Peeta in the ways that Peeta was able to make her PHYSICALLY feel. She connects it with both what she felt with him that night on the beach, and what she HOPES to feel with him upon his return. (And what she misses when he is "lost" to her.) I feel around for the parachute and slide my fingers inside until they close around the pearl. I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it's soothing. A cool kiss from the giver himself. I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. To make myself put a name to the thing I've lost. But what's the use? It's gone. He's gone. Whatever existed between us is gone.

all I'm saying is that Peeta would literally pass out if he ever hears about how she basically kept rubbing one out in 13 to thoughts of him. (Because, let's be real. That's what the symbolism of the pearl was.) Rolling the pearl between her fingers? Kissing it to her lips? COME ON. It's so on the nose. (Or clit in this case.) 🦪😏

#peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #everlark #the hunger games #thg series #thg #hunger games headcanon #thg headcanons #the hunger games headcanon #thg analysis #the hunger games analysis #hunger games analysis #symbolism of the pearl

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fairytopea · 3 months

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ᨳິ ♡ ദິ

black & white & gold dividers by fairytopea

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strobbylemonade · 5 months

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let sleeping dogs lie / let loyal dogs die

#life series #pearlescentmoon #bdoubleo100 #bdubs fanart #pearlescentmoon fanart #secret life #trafficblr #i think it's interesting how horse boy bdubs is more (symbolically) like a dog than wolf girl pearl does and vice versa #like bdubs who is devoutly loyal to his pack and will put his life on the line for them and sacrifice everything for his friends #and pearl who is calm and elegant at first but fiercely independent and dangerous if she ever feels betrayed #i just think its neat.#strbylmn art #JUST WATCHED EPISODE 8. WHAT DID I SAY. WHAT DID I SAY.

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aulerean · 4 months

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Scarlet Pearl is like evil red riding hood. To me.

#scarlet pearl #pearlescentmoon fanart #pearlescentmoon #my hand slipped while working on another piece-#I love pearl’s evil red riding hood aesthetic ok it scratches something in my brain #even if that’s not what she’s going for the symbolism the mythology - everything in hermit craft/traffic life is actually fantasy/mytholog #y interpretations now #trying to remember the little versions I made in my head before I started engaging with fandom a couple months ago for the first time #I live for the drama #anyway #watching these guys is always delightful I had to recover from surgery and spend huge amounts of time in bed and fr mcyt was a help #secret life smp #secret life #secret life pearl #slsmp #slsmp pearl #my art #art #artists on tumblr #pixel art #digital art #artistsontumblr #this isn’t my best work but hey I made something 🤲#telling myself my deep dissatisfaction w my art as of late is just a sign that I’m growing as an artist my eye has evolved my hand and oth #er skills will catch up I am determined but frustrated lol

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a-dauntless-daffodil · 1 month

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having Marina and Acht be old buddies separated for years like this was so RUDE

so WHY'D side order have to stab me in the heart with this friendship like that huh?? why'd they have to DO that!!!!

I AM UNWELL

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#splatoon 3 #side order #acht mizuta #dedf1sh #marina ida #AND THEY WERE OLD FRIENDS #!!!!!!!!!#AND THEY CARE SO MUCH #AFTER ALL THIS TIME #THE SYMBOLISM OF ACHT HAVING A WOUND THAT CANT HEAL #BUT THEN THEY MEET MARINA AGAIN #AND SHE DELETS THE WOUND #SO HER AND ACHT CAN JAM TOGETHER AGAIN #THE PARALEL OF MARINA BEING TAKEN OVER BY ORDER- BC SHE WAS SCARED OF CHANGE #AND ACHT DEALING WITH CHANGE BY FOCUSING ONLY ON MUSIC- ENDING WITH THEM GETTING SANITIZED #AND AND AND #ITS NOT JUST THEM HELPING GUIDE EIGHT AND PEARL #GOING UP THE SPIRE SAVED THEM TOO!!!!!!!

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plutism · 7 months

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ུᩧ simple pearl dividers by me ✧ㅤᩧ ♩

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liauditore · 3 months

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day 1: sun/moon (gempearl)

so so excited for another round of @mcyt-yuri-week!!!!!! a little late on the start cus i got sick the weekend before lmao but hopefully it should be smoother sailing from here ✌️

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this might just end up being gempearl week for me we'll see 🙏

#mcytyuriweekvalentines #trafficshipping #hermitshipping #gempearl #my art #gem #pearl #there is symbolism here in my brain that makes it shippy #but im too tired to get into it rn eughhhh going to sleep off whats left of this fever now

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im4yeons · 1 month

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(｡•̀ᴗ-) ✧ 💌 dividers

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yunvei · 2 months

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:¨ ·.· ¨:　soft / coquette dividers made by @yunvei

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gunpowder-arti · 4 months

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the intention of inflicting pain, yeah, that's all it really takes.

(lyrics from Forever in You by The Scary Jokes)

#colored pearl #lore pearl #no id #artificer #lyric comic #rain world #cw blood #?? well technically it's almost entirely Nonspecific Symbolic Red Light but . Better safe than sorry i suppose

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nina-scribbles · 1 year

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I like to think that being a Black wasn’t all bad.

I like to think that they loved each-other, once.

#harry potter fanart #the black sisters #bellatrix black #Andromeda Black #narcissa black #Nina-Scribbles #young narcissa #young Bellatrix #young andromeda #this one is CHALK FULL OF SYMBOLISM lol #bellatrix lestrange #andromeda tonks #narcissa malfoy #Mostly cause i wanted this to be sweet but i also wanted them all to be wearing something to symbolize how they grow apart #For Narcissa it's obviously her engagement ring.#But Andromeda's is just a simple locket (to show her love isnt pricey or flashy)#and Bella ofc gets the most dramatic stuff including pearls (tradition)#The pinky meaning leadership and self confidence #and the middle meaning individuality #And ofc they're all surrounded by a green room (which aside from slytherin - green dye was made from arsenic back in the day. I.e poison.)#the Black family #Harry Potter art #Malfoy

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everlarking-always · 1 year

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“I had a dream, though,” I say, thinking back. “I was following a mockingjay through the woods. For a long time. It was Rue, really. I mean, when it sang, it had her voice.” “Where did she take you?” he says, brushing my hair off my forehead. “I don’t know. We never arrived.” I say. “But I felt happy.” ... Peeta pulls the chain with the gold disk from around his neck. He holds it in the moonlight so I can clearly see the mockingjay. Then his thumb slides along a catch I didn’t notice before and the disc pops open. It’s not solid, as I had thought, but a locket. And within the locket are photos. […] “Your family needs you, Katniss,” Peeta says. My family. My mother. My sister. And my pretend cousin Gale. But Peeta’s intention is clear. That Gale really is my family, or will be one day, if I live. That I’ll marry him. So Peeta’s giving me his life and Gale at the same time. To let me know I shouldn’t ever have doubts about it. Everything. That’s what Peeta wants me to take from him. ... He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. ... As I drift off, I try to imagine that world, somewhere in the future, with no Games, no Captiol. A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta’s child could be safe. ....