I thought this year would be the end of it all, but it was just the beginning. ••••• Losing everything to the Hunger Games leaves you stripped bare, inhuman and raw and feral in the most primal of ways. It is freeing to have nothing left to lose. The Capitol has made the mistake of thinking I value my life; they are wrong. I don't care to live. I haven't in quite some time. I have one foot in the grave already. There is nothing they can take from me. Perhaps that mindset will be my saving grace as I confront my destiny- the destiny I take into my hands and craft for myself. Death is only a new beginning, a sea of razor-sharp stones and crashing waves that I am ready to embrace. In the end, we all live to die. Finnick won't like it. He will blame himself as he watches me fight and bleed and fade. But he'll endure. He fears death too deeply to do anything but survive. He will have to look away as I confront my chaos.

this was written in like 2016-2017 so ignore the outdated references 😟😟 Collection of lgbtq+ tumblr posts

"Two shots. And I just knew who had been the targets. I knew whose heads those guns had aimed at. Will's eyes met mine over the table, and we both saw the despair in each others eyes. Once again, no words were needed. Two bullets. Our lives would never be the same." Fourteen year old Cassidy Wildeman is fighting for her and her family's lives. They're starving, and she has no way to save them but to kill herself. Before she get the chance to commit suicide, she's reaped into the 69th Hunger Games. She is soon sucked into a dangerous game of lies, love, revolution, hate, loyalty and death... Where only one can survive.

The best of the dead. most of these are taken from mentalfloss.com

Five letters written while Ida distracted Rio from his homework. She never received them as that was never the plan. Rio folded the letters away into five different books, knowing that Ida would never find them. They never spoke, but their story lives on. [cover by decadently]

Long before she was sorted into the Gryffindor house, Kefira Walsh was known as the "little lion" in her family. The youngest of the four Walsh girls, Kefira wasn't supposed to survive long after birth, but as she celebrates her eleventh birthday, the girl has already proven that she is a warrior. With her fearless attitude and a wild mane to match, Kefira prepares to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as the only witch of her family. Aboard the Hogwarts Express, she meets a boy by the name of Neville Longbottom. Neville initially comes across as a nervous boy, who stutters and stammers when he talks and won't look a person in the eye. But Kefira takes a liking to him instantly as she can see the lion in the boy's heart waiting to be woken. All he has to do is learn to be brave.

[FIRST PLACE IN THE ANCHOR AWARDS- POETRY] ❛❛ I spend hours in the garden, I walk alone to the store- and it's quiet uptown; I never liked the quiet before. ❜❜ © Caroline 2017

My daughter, as smart as she is, sometimes says the craziest things. This is a collection of actual quotes that came directly from her. You can't make this stuff up. I blame it on her hair.

❝my body is a sanctuary for the butterflies you give me.❞ [ ron weasley x male!oc ] [ lovely cover by @kmbell92 ]

❝mummify my teenage dreams!❞ [ in which a cringey gryffindor tries and fails at figuring out life ] [ cover credit goes to the lovely @kalypsowolfe ]