This is likely to be the only non-AU (well, the only not OUTRIGHT AU) non-crossover Hunger Games story I write, but I had it pop into my head from one sentence when I was re-reading Mockingjay for the … somethingth time.

DISCLAIMER: Doesn’t belong to me, please don’t sue.

 
“Even Puppets Cry”

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Round 2 of the Circle of Friends Remix is now open for reading at cof_remix.

Disclaimer: Please don’t sue me. I only have pocket lint. Characters either belong to Joss Whedon or J.K. Rowling. I don’t own them.

The original story is “In Truth, Beauty” by Kathryn Andersen.

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Hi, guys! Could everyone do me a favour? It won't take long. Just go to this site: http://cluster.gishwhes2012.com/pledge.php
and sign up to do a random act of kindness. Here's the important part: when you do, it'll ask the email address of the person that referred you. PLEASE put mine: singingal101@gmail.com because it's for GISHWHES scavenger hunt. And who doesn't like doing nice things for people?

In other news, my story for Circle of Friends is going well. Sat down and got a couple thousand words out today.

Back to the first news: PLEASE help me out? I wanna go to Scotland! :D

I'm still alive. Getting used to Ireland. Ireland is awesome. Fiance's little sister passed what we're calling The Plague onto both of us, so we've been coughing like crazy. Also, it turns out that Acetaminophen is called Paracetamol over here, so I took some not realizing that I'm ALLERGIC TO IT. Spent the next three hours puking.

Anybody know why it's called something else everywhere in the world NOT the States and Canada? Because I can't find that one out.

Anyway. I'm alive. It's one thirty in the morning, so I'm going to sleep.

My entry in the CYA Ficathon.

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It's my birthday! Yay! I have Strep Throat. Not yay. Very emphatically not yay.

I read the "Hunger Games" trilogy, and fell in love with it. I've heard people say that it's a weak ripoff of Battle Royale, so I'm reading the Manga (which apparently goes deeper into the characters than the original novel did) and so far, I'm really not impressed, though there has been one funny excerpt.

Um... not sure what else to say, so ending this here.

Basically, it's an opinion you have that you think a lot of people would disagree with you on. (Or more, if you want. This is just my biggy.)

1) Romeo and Juliet is a comedy. Seriously. Read the darn play. It's not a tragedy. It's hilarious as hell, up until they die. So, a dark comedy. But still a comedy. (As my dad put it, "This couple that everyone looks to as one of the most romantic couples ever? They were dead before their third date.")

2) Edward and Bella is a good example of an abusive relationship. He's controlling, he goes against what she wants all the time, he makes decisions for her, etc. He is borderline emotionally abusive. And Bella is dangerously co-dependent on him. My boyfriend breaks up with me, I spend a week eating brownies and ice cream, and then I move the hell on. Her boyfriend leaves her, and she spends MONTHS barely existing. Get over it, and make little furry babies with Jacob. (Not even TOUCHING the Nessie thing.)

That is all.

MAJORBIGTIME EDIT! I really need to give credit to deird1 and her story, “Towels” for this. And a huge apology for not crediting it before. I wasn’t intentionally stealing, and it’s not that I forgot to give credit; I forgot that I’d read this story. It wasn’t until I was talking to my dad and he told me that I needed to credit this story for inspiration that I remembered “Towels”. I’ve been thinking of a roommate war told in notes for a while, and now I know why. So edits to the story have happened, in order to further separate it from “Towels”. (Accidental plagiarism was accidental, and I truly apologize.)


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