Cinderella in Rubber Shoes

My Bookworm Valentine. Valentine’s Day is approaching! As a gift for you guys, here are some geeky hand-drawn cards, inspired by the awesome doodles of elledoubleyou and butthorn. Feel free to print these out and give them to your loved ones if you want! ;) It will surely make a happy, Cupid-esque single this February 14. Haha!

Card 01: Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark from Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games (whoops! Looks like Cupid managed to slip one of his arrows in your quiver, Kat!).

Card 02: Daenerys Targaryen & Khal Drogo from George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones. I originally planned to draw Cersei and Jaime, but I guess the Khaleesi’s love life is less…poisonous. If you know what I mean.

Card 03: Of course we’ll have a gay couple! It features Jack & Grayson from Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Love Will Tear Us Apart (anthologized in Zombies vs. Unicorns and Wilde Stories 2011). Grayson’s drooling because Jack still smells like a happy meal to him. :p

Card 04: Touchstone & Sabriel from my ever-favorite fantasy YA series, Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom Trilogy.

Supposed-to-be Card 05: I have a lesbian valentine card too, but a friend took it away before I had the chance to scan it. It features two girls from Malinda Lo’s Ash, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella. I drew Kaisa and Aisling with their backs to the viewers, looking up at a small clock that reads 12:01. The caption says, “I’ll love you even after midnight.” ~~Maybe I’ll just post it later, when I feel not-so-lazy to doodle again. LOL~~

With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water. One time, I spent three days mixing paint until I found the right shade for sunlight on white fur. You see, I kept thinking it was yellow, but it was much more than that. Layers of all sorts of color. One by one. I haven’t figured out a rainbow yet. They come so quickly and leave so soon. I never have enough time to capture them. Just a bit of blue here or purple there. And then they fade away again. Back into the air…

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—	Peeta Mellark (Catching Fire)

To anyone who still hasn’t seen it, Lionsgate has released the official poster of The Hunger Games movie a few days ago. There are also two official stills: one featuring Katniss and Peeta clad in their Cinna-designed, yet-to-be-lit jumpsuits before the tribute parade, and the other featuring Team District 12 either watching the recap of the chariot parade or the announcement of their training session scores.

EDIT: There’s more!

Is it March 23 yet?!

(source: mockingjay.net)

the world will be watching

Hunger Games by einlee. (L to R) Gale Hawthorne, Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Cinna (I thought it’s Beetee!) and Finnick Odair.

“If I’m gonna die, I want to still be me.”

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!

boywiththesnares:

maytheodds:

Do you remember just a few short months ago we were going through the thrill of all the castings? I remember when I would look at the tracked tags such as The Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, all there would be was graphics of Kaya and Hunter. Then we were slowly getting news… Slowly hearing rumours of who auditioned and being very nervous. Then finding out Jennifer would officially be our Katniss. A lot of people were unaccepting but finally made peace and knew she was Katniss. Then we got more and more confirmed actors for certain roles and everything was just getting so real. And pictures, and the anticipation for pictures. The trailer. Just, everything. I remember how this all started and I will remember this journey with all of you. We are The Hunger Games fandom and I love you all.

I remember. And I’ll never forget those moments.