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rereading catching fire and it's insane how i never fully understood before the bigger picture of snow needing to be "convinced" of katniss and peeta's love for each other and how they were doomed from the very start of that.

it's not that they were bad at performing it. she says it herself, they're "borderline delirious in their love for each other" in public constantly. and not to mention, they really do enjoy each other's company and are around each other 24/7 during this time, never apart. they got publicly engaged. what more could they have even done??? started having sex on the stage???

literally nothing they would have done would have been enough. whatever katniss and peeta did couldn't satisfy snow because he is undyingly determined to project his own past onto this. no matter what, katniss will be equated to lucy gray in his eyes so she can never truly convince him that she loves peeta - because he is delusional.

reading the books growing up as a kid with autism, i just took everything katniss said and thought literally and was completely unable to read between the lines- and we all know that her perception of things is pretty unreliable. katniss, who is unaware that she actually is for real in love with peeta at this point, is convinced that SHE has somehow failed because she hasn't put on a good enough show. the irony is to the rest of the world, you're doing a perfectly good job babe because you both are LITERALLY IN LOVE, but snow will just never believe that because of a personal vendetta.

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I saw someone say that by dying in the bombing that Prim died the way she was always meant to if Katniss hadn't intervened. Surrounded by innocent children. I haven't been the same since.

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rereading the entire hunger games trilogy and just reached the part where Peeta and Katniss watch Haymitch's games and idk if this has already been talked about but the exact lines are

"We watch from the point of view of one of the tributes as she rises up through the tube from the launch room to the arena."

first person pov. of a female tribute. someone capitol had put a camera on. as in, someone who has been bugged by the capitol.

AS IN, FUCKING LOU LOU!

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Bruce, holding Jason by the back of his hoddie like a stray cat: Hello, Dick. Guess what I have.

Dick, done: A sad looking child?

Jason, frowning: A kidnapee?

Bruce: It's Robin 2

Dick, Very Done: W h a t

-

Dick, holding Tim close like a wet cat he found on the street: Hey B, guess what I have?

Bruce: ...

Bruce: A sad looking child?

Tim: Robin 3?? :D

Dick: It's the neightbor's child neglect case

Bruce: * pinches the bridge of his nose *

Bruce, Tired: W h a t

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anyone else thinking about effie spending 24 years watching haymitch completely fall apart. effie, who met haymitch by accident, who knows exactly what kind of person he is, who sees him every year on his birthday for 24 years and each year he’s drunker, each year he’s angrier, each year he’s faster to give up. and then they get katniss and peeta. peeta, who is kind and open and understanding, who refuses to give up on haymitch. and katniss, who is so much like haymitch at 16 that it hurts. and over the few days they’re together, effie watches haymitch come back to life. watches him try. watches him have hope. and then they get to keep not one but both of those kids. they get to come home. and then, less then a year later, effie pulls haymitch’s name at the reaping.

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i really want there to be a future interaction after jason is publically revived and all the kids are grown up where people keep trying to ask about bruce’s children and their lives and he just. struggles.

bruce: ah yes, i’m so proud of my sons,

bruce: dick works in police enforcement, tim is CEO of a company, and now damian’s become a doctor!

person at a gala: they’re all so accomplished! and what’s jason been up to?

bruce:

bruce, abruptly remembering that jason’s entire job is being a criminal:

bruce: jason… is…

jason, walking by with an entire platter of shrimp that he just wrestled from the hands of a terrified server in one hand and the beer keg from under the bar that he just stole in the other: jason’s fucking LIVING. IT. UP.

bruce and his friend, watching him go:

bruce:

bruce: we’re just happy he’s here.

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Bruce being a dad and telling Damian to mind where he steps while out on patrol (especially with snow on the roofs) and Damian being a ten year old boy and also not knowing what paternal concern and fussing looks like and being like “I KNOW”

eventually getting more and more frustrated that when Bruce grabs his arm to steady him, he just ends up shouting in his shrieky-boy-voice all the missions he’s fulfilled and all the monsters he’s killed and all the places he’s climbed with NO HELP and “i bet you haven’t done THAT, Father!”

Bruce, looking down at him with an imperceptible expression that Damian can’t decide is angry or sad, then says, rather softly, “No, son. I haven’t.”

Damian yanks his arm away and nods as if that settles it, and goes to stomp down the ladder until Bruce can’t help himself, imagining a little accident that could end in a big injury and is like “it’s slippery so watch your step” and Damian is like

*sharp inhale* *pterodactyl screaming*

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Happy Father's Day to Katniss Everdeen, who looked at Peeta Mellark, a teenage boy that the reader never sees interacting with younger children, and said, "yeah, that's the guy who needs to be a parent."

This is your day, girl.

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this is your reminder that according to best medical practices and the text of the DSM-V, any symptom a human experiences should NOT be diagnosed as/considered anxiety until all physical medical causes have been ruled out.

if you report a new symptom and your doctor tells you it's probably anxiety without doing tests, they are failing you.

if you report new anxiety or a new anxiety symptom-- even with an anxiety disorder-- and your doctor doesn't recommend doing tests to rule out other possible causes, they are failing you.

if you were diagnosed with anxiety without any other medical tests (and possibly put on meds that don't seem to help or help inconsistently), your doctor is failing you.

the actual recommended guidelines for diagnosing and treating anxiety require that physical causes are ruled out FIRST.

not after months of waiting to see, not after trying three meds, not after symptoms worsen. anxiety is the last potential diagnosis on the table, not the first one, even if it seems the most likely.

if you are told it's probably anxiety- chronic pain, racing heart, shortness of breath, new mental health thought patterns, fatigue, brain fog, panic attacks-- ask for labs and referrals. you aren't being paranoid. it might be a symptom of anxiety, but it is best practice to check first and you aren't being too difficult if you insist.

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The Bat kids definitely all know each others' most embarrassing moments and leverage this knowledge mercilessly.

They have an unspoken rule that these stories never leave the family, but within Wayne Manor, everything is fair game.

Tim can't live down the time he sleepwalked into a Justice League meeting and gave a twenty-minute presentation on why hotdogs are basically a taco before anyone woke him up.

Dick is still haunted by the security footage of him practicing pickup lines in the Batcave mirror while wearing the Nightwing suit. ("Hey there, they call me Nightwing, but you can call me... anytime." finger guns)

Jason refuses to acknowledge the existence of his teenage poetry journal that Damian found and distributed to everyone. No one is allowed to mention the phrase "darkness of my bleeding soul" in his presence.

Damian pretends he doesn't know about the video of him baby-talking to a kitten for forty-five minutes straight while thinking no one was home.

Bruce has no embarrassing moments because he's Batman. Except for the time he got his cape stuck in the Batmobile door and dragged himself halfway across Gotham before realizing.

The only person with no embarrassing stories is Alfred, because Alfred has never done anything embarrassing in his entire life. He does, however, have a comprehensive file of everyone else's moments that he threatens to show at galas when they misbehave.

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The Batkids play a game called “Guess Who Bruce Is Disappointed In Today” and it is a bloodsport.

It started as a joke. It is no longer a joke.

Every morning, without fail, one of them walks into the kitchen and says:

“Guess who Bruce is disappointed in today?”

And they all take turns guessing based on crime alerts, nightly patrol rotations, and vibes.

It’s become a system.

It went like:

Jason: “I knocked out a senator by accident. My odds are high.”

Tim: “I drank seventeen Red Bulls and fell asleep on top of the Batcomputer.”

Damian: “I released three bats into Gotham General Hospital as enrichment. They were bored.”

Steph: “I called him ‘Brucie’ in front of a senator.”

Cass: Just raises a finger and shrugs.

Then Bruce walks in, dead silent, pours his coffee, looks at no one, and walks away.

Tim: “It’s Jason.”

Jason: “DAMN IT.

Rules:

If you guess wrong, you have to do patrol with Damian and listen to him rant about the superiority of traditional swordsmanship for two hours.

If you guess right, you get to choose the movie on family movie night.

If Bruce is disappointed in himself, everyone gets ice cream. That’s the law.

It got so serious they made a whiteboard. Labeled it: “DISAPPOINTMENT LEADERBOARD.”

Top scores:

Tim (17 correct guesses, possible mind reader)

Cass (14, reads vibes better than Google Translate reads Latin)

Steph (11, mostly via chaos intuition)

Jason (2. constantly thinks it’s him. It often is. But not always.)

Damian (0. refuses to acknowledge he is ever the cause)

One time Dick guessed correctly for the first time in 3 months and everyone clapped.

He cried.

Alt. Version: Guess Who Bruce Is Proud Of Today.

Game cancelled due to lack of data.

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I need a situation where one of the younger batkids are in an argument with Jason, and bring up the fact that he "wasn't a good kid"

Damian: "Tch. Todd, you are just angry because you were too busy rebelling to get father's attention."

Jason:

Dick: "..What?"

Damian: "Your degenerative behavior as a child is the whole reason father does not respect you now."

Bruce: "Damian, Jason was a saint."

Damian: "What?"

Dick: "Jason had a self imposed bed time."

Bruce: "He had a weird obsession with homework.."

Dick: "Once, I tried to sneak him out, and he cried."

Bruce: "I once implied that he could sneak out, and he cried."

Damian:

Jason: "Dami, B and I don't get along because of our terrible morals."

Bruce: "Well, I wouldn't say that-"

Jason: "He hates me because we both have extremely fucked up versions of justice that we don't agree on-"

Bruce: "Now, I never said-"

Jason: "I was a child and he hated me. He hates children-"

Bruce: "God damnit, Jason-"

Damian:

Damian: "My whole perspective has been altered."

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I'll never get over the fact that when Gale asked Katniss where they would be if Peeta had been a jerk and died in the Games she's all 🙄 "we'd be hunting."

But then Peeta drops the baby bomb and Katniss is like "if I hadn't denied myself of ever wanting children, this would be real and I'd be pregnant with Peeta's child right now."

!!! GIRL !!! Those are two VERY different outcomes!

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The Batcave has a “Do Not Talk To Me” couch. It’s sacred. It’s unspoken. It’s real.

okay so. picture this:

the batcave has one couch. it's in the corner. it’s hideous. it’s like beige or green or something equally offensive to every one of their aesthetics. no one likes the couch.

and that is exactly why it became sacred.

because one night jason just. drops onto it. full gear. bleeding. absolutely done with life. says nothing. doesn’t even take off the helmet. sits there in silence for 3 hours and then leaves.

next week tim uses it. sits there post-mission. face in hands. someone tries to ask if he’s okay and jason throws a batarang at them.

and thus it began.

Rules of the Do Not Talk To Me Couch:

You sit there? No one speaks to you.

You cry? No you didn’t.

You eat cold noodles off your chest at 4 a.m.? That’s sacred time.

If someone tries to comfort you? They are excommunicated for 12 hours.

Dick (sitting on the couch):

Damian: Grayson, are you—

Jason (from across the cave): HE’S ON THE COUCH.

Jason: I don’t make the rules.

Steph: You LITERALLY made the rules.

Jason: And I am the defender of the rules. There’s a difference.

one time damian storms in. covered in blood. absolutely furious. 10/10 rage goblin energy. throws his sword. marches to the couch. sits. arms crossed. steaming.

tim takes one look at him and goes: “i’m making tea.”

jason: “that’s acceptable. tea is allowed. talking is not.”

bonus:

once bruce sits on it.

and the ENTIRE CAVE goes silent.

tim literally freezes mid-typing. cass stops mid-flip. jason just mutters “oh shit.”

they all leave. immediately.

the couch is not ready for bruce.

extra bonus:

alfred vacuums around the couch. never says a word. leaves snacks in a silent offering. once placed a weighted blanket gently on jason’s shoulder. that’s different. he’s allowed.

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cries begs and screams for more pit withdrawal art. ur amazing.

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Can’t take the Robin out of the boy