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itsdetachable replied to your post:Waitaminute.
Woah, woah… gonna re-read as I ride home.I googled and found the line.
“The skin grafts still retain a newborn-baby pinkness. The skin…
I’ve always read that olive is a tone that is characterized by a greenish cast to the skin? Either way I don’t think some described as white and pale would be able to haves an olive cast to their skin - white/pale skin usually has a red or ruddy cast to it, doesn’t it? A pale person whose skin has a ruddy cast will not be tanning olive.
-sidenote, we have just discussed thid matter at work and come to the conclusion that Katniss is either olive or white, she can’t be both. Even if we think of olive as a skin cast, white skin has a red cast, not olive.
It’s odd, I wonder why she was described differently in the last book from the first. It’s hard to believe the author would forget what her own main character looks like.
It’s much easier to believe that she believes that olive-skinned means olive-tanned. And yes, pale-skinned people can and do tan olive.
I generally stayed out of this chat cause I understand why her being olive skinned is a big deal. But I do know plenty of people who would never count as anything BUT white who are also often referred to as olive skin. My roommate and her mother (Welsh and Argentinian and a bunch of mix), and a large chunk of my step family (Basque).
All of them are white, but because of whatever mix they have in their back round they can also end up olive tones that come out more when they tan (As oppose to me, who is more norse/gaelic, and come out more golden when I tan. If I tan and don’t just fry, which is way more common) It’s not so much that they go from white to olive, it’s that the olive doesn’t show up until they tan because it’s such an undertone. They’re always olive, just usually such a pale olive it doesn’t register as anything but white.
OOTD: Self loves makes me smile. A lot.
I have had more and more days like this lately. Days where I just feel too cute to be alive, and I can’t stop from smiling. It’s not always easy, but breaking yourself of the self-loathing habits you were brought up to know is hard. Once you start breaking free, though, life is better in all the ways.
There’s not much to say about this outfit, because it was too hot (or I was too lazy) to accessorize. The dress is thrifted, and it was the first thing I thrifted upon moving to Georgia! I wear it probably once a week. Love.
Want that dress. Miss your face. Love you 5ever.
Holy cow this girls looks like a real life version of Sammy from helion.
soultired: Why are people still comparing Battle Royale (among other books) to...
Why are people still comparing Battle Royale (among other books) to the Hunger Games? Let me tell you why it’s inane.
- People have been writing the same stories in slightly different ways for a very effing long time. That doesn’t make the rewrite any less legitimate.
- Battle Royale is building on…
Listen I agree with you but ugh these reasons annoy me
1.So how many other books about kids being forced to fight to the death are there?
4. Are you fucking kidding me?
Well, the Hunger Games is, admittedly, based on Theseus. Which is about the big city coming and gathering up kids and putting them in a death arena.
“ His retribution was that, at the end of every Great Year (seven solar years), the seven most courageous youths and the seven most beautiful maidens were to board a boat and be sent as tribute to Crete, never to be seen again.”
There’s also The Running Man, and another Stephen King book which, although not focused on kids, are pretty much the exact same plot. Just about any idea will have multiple variations, what makes it good isn’t the idea but the execution. Originality isn’t a virtue as much as people might like to think it is.
That greek story does not revolve around kids killing each other till one is a victor. The kids are just sent to die that’s it. The Running Man is nothing like BR or THG. It’s about a guy who has to escape people sent to kill him. You people are so dumb sometimes it’s annoying.
Uhm. That’s canonly the inspirration for the hunger games. Not…me reading into where I think it came from. That is word of god where it comes from. So take your argument up with Suzanne Collins.
So….don’t know what to tell you. If you can’t see where a bunch of kids being taken to a large city and put into a death arena to be killed off ties into THG…we’re not the dumb ones. Sorry.
Yeah, there’s differences. She wasn’t rewriting Theseus. Or The Running Man. (Which, by the way, is about a man in a dystopian society forced to participate in a giant televised competition to the death. Again, if you really can’t see why people would compare THG/BR to The Running Man…yeah. Dunno what to tell you)
The point was that this idea is not new to The Hunger Games OR Battle Royale. If your argument is that there are difference between them well…duh? There are plenty between THG and BR as well. That doesn’t means that the idea of “Bad society uses people under it’s control as entertainment.” is a concept only used by Battle Royale. Yes, the stories have similar themes. Nobodies arguing that. Having a similar theme=/=being a ripoff.
Edit: Edited out some of the snark because I realized the person was only in high school, so it seemed jerk to tease them about not having learned this in high school.
so I wonder what it's like for their kids
Daughter: But Mom I'm too lazy to clean my r-Katniss: WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE
Katniss: I HAD TO KILL CHILDREN
Katniss: SO I THINK THAT YOU CAN
Daughter: Mom you always pull this speech on-
Katniss: CLEAN YOUR GODDAMN ROOM
Peeta: ALSO
Peeta: YOUR MOM DID IT ALL FOR THE GAMES
Peeta: SOMETIMES I WANT TO CHOKE HER OUT OF NOWHERE
Daughter: Dad why are you even-
Peeta: MY LEG IS GONEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people.
Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.
The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card.
And it is distributed under a Creative Commons license, meaning it is not only free to play, but remixing, and changing the game are more than just encouraged.The official hard copy has been sold out for a while now, but a PDF of all the cards, and instructions distributed by the creators for making your own deck can be found here.
You’re welcome, and enjoy!
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