Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 631
November 25, 2013
Call for blogs to follow
Just a heads up! The lovely people who run the Grisha Trilogy FB page are looking for tumblr blogs to follow. Pop by and leave your url, yes? Because I luff you, yes?
"I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina" He said.”You and...
"I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina" He said.
”You and I are going to change the world.”
I like it. I like it a lot.
Hi;) I´m so happy that I found you! It would be great, if you could help me. I don´t know much about Shadow and Bone, but my sister is a huge fan! I would love to give her a book-related present at Christmas. Would a "Antler Collar Necklace" (you can find
Hi! That actually is a perfect present for a shadow and bone lover. The nail polish and buttons are also cute, there are also rings as well. Maybe you could make a creative vintage book using Mal’s Letters in the first book or you could even pick an interesting chapter in the book (maybe one of her favorites) and copy it down in pretty script and turn it into a vintage booklet, that would be lovely also! But yeah, the necklace would be cute and so sweet.
Hi;) I´m so happy that I found you! It would be great, if you could help me. I don´t know much about Shadow and Bone, but my sister is a huge fan! I would love to give her a book-related present at Christmas. Would a "Antler Collar Necklace" (you can find
Hi! That actually is a perfect present for a shadow and bone lover. The nail polish and buttons are also cute, there are also rings as well. Maybe you could make a creative vintage book using Mal’s Letters in the first book or you could even pick an interesting chapter in the book (maybe one of her favorites) and copy it down in pretty script and turn it into a vintage booklet, that would be lovely also! But yeah, the necklace would be cute and so sweet.
November 23, 2013
"i. in our minds, you
and i
made gods out of ourselves,
but when i wanted to
run, i found
the match..."
i. in our minds, you
and i
made gods out of ourselves,
but when i wanted to
run, i found
the match you used
( i didn’t know
you’d already made
a god in my image )
ii. the flames danced
a dance of
blood and ichor
iii. “come.
( when did we begin to
bleed gold )
stay,” you said
“watch the world
burn;
i set it all
alight for
you.”
- Lysander J. Anderson, we were never meant for mortality
(via myrcellas)
yagathai:
It’s the small touches that make an outfit. Because...
It’s the small touches that make an outfit. Because even in a tux, I try to be metal as fuck.
approved.
elloellenoh:
tiffanyschmidtwrites:
Here there be dragon...
Here there be dragon (cake)!
Tiffany wins Best Mom in the World.
!!!!!!!
November 22, 2013
"The Capitol are the enemy: its citizens are vapid, selfish, exploitative, narcissistic and worst of..."
At its core, The Hunger Games is a book about the trauma of hyper-consumption–but when it comes to traumatizer vs. traumatized, CoverGirl’s Capitol Collection falls squarely on the side of “traumatizer.” The makeup line comes with a lookbook that will help you “get the looks of the Districts” and is so unaware and self-absorbed that it kind of feels like it has to be a joke. The only time anyone from the Districts looks anything like something in that lookbook is when children are brought to the Capitol and dolled up to be paraded around on live TV as though they were props instead of humans (because of course, to the Capitol, they are props). Then two days later they take the makeup off and kill each other and probably die themselves while their families look on, horrified and defeated. FASHION!!!
But of course, the reason that this line even exists is because we, as a culture, are actually pretty close (metaphorically anyway) to the Capitol. Consumption at any expense is pretty par for the course here, and the people who grow our food and make our clothes aren’t really in much better shape than the people of the Districts. Our culture really, really values outward appearance and it insists that girls about Katniss’s age should be less into leading a revolution and more into getting the right look. The Capitol Collection encourages girls to identify not with rebellion and justice, but with superficiality and self-interest. We think that is not only ridiculous, but scary and super dangerous.”
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You’ll Have to Kill a Child, but at Least You’ll Look Good Doing It
our new project, Capitol Cuties, is a response to CoverGirl’s Capitol Collection line and we are really, really excited about it.
(via sparkamovement)
Seconded. Of the many whackadoo merchandising tie-ins associated with Catching Fire (Subway comes to mind), the CoverGirl campaign may be the worst. There were plenty of ways to create cosmetic tie-ins that didn’t fetishize poverty or so thoroughly embrace and sanitize the barbarity of the Capitol.
