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I think if you can figure out what is causing Symptoms that the inside of your brain should go DING DING DING and then the Symptoms say Fuck, you got me! and leave

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shoutout to the guy who after unsuccessfully hitting on my sister and being politely declined asked her "is it okay if i ask your brother instead" and when she said yes gave me a long and searching look before sighing and going "no. i am not drunk enough to go for a dude. but you look like an angel" happy bisexual pride to this man and this man only. hope you figure it out soon king

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Oh my god, I totally just realized the one thing that the Rani is doing that the Master would never have even considered.

Using Conrad.

And that’s not to say that the Master doesn’t use people because we all know that’s not true, but he would NEVER let a human be the face, the “god” of his new world.

If this was the Master he would put himself right front and center because if there‘s anything the Master wants, it’s power and attention.

The Master creates a spectacle while the Rani hides in plain sight. Nobody in this new world knows who she is.

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Love when the Doctor goes feral and the companion has a startling realisation of what they're really capable of but remains in denial

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'Oh thank god' someone who fully understands what the Doctor is capable of and is just glad they're on the same side right now

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Most breathtaking moments in an incredible episode:

- dead silent soundtrack, silhouette of a pyramid of a hundred thousand bodies floating up into space

- Susan managing to make psychic contact with the Doctor

- the Doctor's anger is BACK (and the look on Belinda's face)

- that scene where Nine beats a dalek with a crowbar while screaming that he wants it to suffer, remixed

- the moment where she sang

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♬⋆.˚ Well it's a little bit dangerous, my friend˚.⋆♬

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First family dinner back in Ithaca

Penelope: Want some pork for dinner, Darling?

Odysseus (gagging): No, Beloved. I don't think I'll ever look at a pig the same way.

Telemachus: Ooh! Dad, how about some bee-

Odysseus (terrified): No! Don't even finish that suggestion! (Whispering) He'll hear you.

(Penelope and Telemachus look at one another with concern)

Penelope: Well, we also have some fish.

Odysseus: Perfect!

(Odysseus proceeds to stab it as violently as possible)

Telemachus:...Mom, was he like this before or...?

Penelope (swooning): No, but I'm into it.

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Odysseus: *gently hands Athena baby Telemachus*

Athena: …you were PREGNANT AND YOU DIDNT TELL ME?!

Odysseus: what?- no-

Athena: DO YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THAT IS?! I WAS TRAINING YOU!

Odysseus: no I wasn’t the one-

Athena: THAT POOR BOY WAS PROBABLY SO SQUISHED IN YOUR HELMET! LOOK AT HOW SMALL HE IS!!

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he’s gonna be legendary

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people shipping haymitch and maysilee is insane not just because they literally call each other BROTHER AND SISTER but haymitch only has eyes for lenore dove and maysilee is clearly a lesbian

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"I had a friend who went that year," my mother says quietly. "Maysilee Donner."

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There are a lot of really cool themes in The Hunger Games world we love to dive into; like fire, birds, plant life, music, technology, propaganda.

But shout out to these other things I think we should love on more:

Prevalence of Poison - how Snow discovers through Lucy and her snakes and the rat poison his preferred method of ☠️; how poison is the it girl danger in the arena of the 2nd quarter quell; how Haymitch loses Lenore (and arguably himself through basically alcohol poisoning); how Katniss and Peeta turn Snow’s favorite weapon against him with the berries

Matrilineal Impact! - yes we have tragic father deaths of literally every book perspective we get (Katniss, Snow, Haymitch), but I think the mother relationships are most telling! Katniss spends so much of her life coming to terms with her relationship with her mom; Snow takes comfort from the memory of his mother but ultimately gives up all remnants of her to more or less pursue evil; the Grandma’am; Tigris & her parentified elder sister energy; Lucy Gray wearing her mother’s dress; Haymitch trying to do the best by his young widowed mom; Burdock being covey on his mother’s side; Haymitch and Maysilee bonding over losing their grandmas; Hattie & Greasy Sae & Ripper being matriarchs of the Hob; Mags protecting her tributes like more than a mentor but like a mother; Katniss refusing to bring children into the world until there were no more Hunger Games… just… WOMEN! MOTHERS!

Escape the Arena - we see attempts of this in every timeline, but I think it’s Snow that really gets that the war and the games are one in the same, they are extensions of each other. You can never truly leave the arena.

Weapons the Suit their Wielders - Katniss is direct and practical as an arrow, but it’s more than a weapon for people in her hands, it’s a tool for a survivor. Haymitch and his axe and his knife are fairly similar, these are tools, but also require you to be in much closer proximity and risk. Ofc Maysilee thrives with poison darts, they’re the only thing more deadly than her words! Snow and the elegance and power move of poison that he consumes too, his victims not suspicious until it’s too late, striking like a snake. Lucy and Peeta and their songs and words being their strongest weapons.

Honestly it’s pure poetry how Suzanne writes this stuff.

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I knew I was going to like maysilee the moment she started clapping back against drusilla. Never missed once. Diva to her grave

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something something how haymitch lost two sisters because they came a little early to their own lives and then he went on to find two sisters in louella (and lou lou!) and maysilee, but they came into his life just a little late, only a few moments before he lost them again. something about the importance of sisters in haymitch's life, how he has always been surrounded by their absence instead of their love and laughter, and how 24 years after this he would see an older sibling just like himself put her life on the line for her sister, something that he never really got the chance to do. something about the fact that somehow, in just a tiny little way, both of these revolutions started and ended with sisters. something like that.

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obsessed with how. as i was reading sotr, in the first few chapters once he got into the arena, i kept questioning everything. i was so confused, because that wasn't the version of the story we had seen in catching fire. there was no mention of the tank, of louella, of ampert even. i was so confused. i kept wanting to say, "that wasn't how it went!".

obsessed with how i felt once it dawned on me that i had played right into the capitols hands. obsessed with the cold, cold feeling that overtook me once i realized i too had bought it, i had fallen for their propaganda. i had bought their narrative without even questioning it, and they'd done it to me just as easily as they had wiped lucy gray from history, just as easily as wyatt and maysilee and ampert and wellie and the real story of what happened in those games was wiped too.

suzanne you brilliant, BRILLIANT woman.

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maysilee in the afterlife seeing her ugly ass pin becoming a symbol of capitol's falling