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Peeta in Catching Fire: favorite color is orange, soft, like the *sunset*

Collins when people miss Peeta’s role:

Peeta Mellark is an integral member of the four D12 victors. He is literally the sunset on the reaping! How is this not clear? I’ve never wanted to report people for bad literary analysis more and I’m only half joking. It has forced me to commit a cardinal sin: analyze in anger!

1. Him being chosen by absolute accident is the point. Not only does he represent every single other tribute who simply gets chosen because they live in a messed up country but he represents how even with some odds being in your favor (older siblings, merchant family, being white, being popular, etc.) you are still very likely to be victimized by the oppressive structure of Panem.

2. When Haymitch says, “But she was smarter than me, or luckier” - the luck is all the people around Katniss who created the circumstances for her to lead a successful revolution (her father teaching her to hunt, the arena having woods, Rue healing her with leaves, Thresh not killing her, Haymitch consistently giving her support, her mother teaching her aspects of medicine, on and on and on) and Peeta is the number one, most important part of her luck in the first book. She has someone in the games actively putting her life before his… are you kidding? There is legitimately no better luck than that.

3. Even if we take Katniss out of it, Peeta is so impactful as a victor because most of his scenes would not be cut/doctored. What’s there to edit out? Instead, the viewers get a full view of him loving a girl so selflessly, using trickery and strategy instead of violence, keeping himself alive through art, joking on literal death’s door, and sharing so much of himself with the audience it becomes harder for them not to see him as a real human boy. How rare do you think that is for the games? Haymitch and LGB are caricatures of themselves in the games, playing roles that flatten them down. Even Katniss becomes one dimensional on screen without Peeta (and Rue, of course). It is also heavily implied that he does not kill anyone during the games (in a straightforward way) and even if you count Cato or the girl from 8 or even foxface, it’s never him hunting them or seeking out a kill - again how rare do you think that is to see on screen for Games viewers?

4. I didn’t think this needed to be said but: Katniss dies without Peeta in the first games. a) she goes for the bow and dies in the bloodbath; b) she is hunted and killed by Careers; c) she is killed by game makers because there’s no love story angle to keep them from just burning her entirely; d) she dies from tracker jacker stings or Cato because Peeta doesn’t defend her or tell her to run… I could go on…

5. But even if she does win and wins alone - the victory means as much (I would argue less than) any other rebellious victor winning, certainly less than Haymitch’s win. The biggest rebellion for their games is that two of them win! This is legit the only thing that distinguishes them from any other sympathetic, kind child who would have won the games. Like if Haymitch or Finnick or Wiress winning isn’t jarring enough for the Games to end… why do you think Katniss killing Peeta and winning solo would be? It would not.

6. And finally, I cannot stress this enough: There is no peaceful end to the rebellion or the trilogy without Peeta. “Peeta’s a whiz with fires” (HG) for a reason! Collins, over and over, shows us how fire can get out of control and destroy even those who are innocent and who you love (Gale, Beete, Peeta’s family, Haymitch’s family). If everyone really burns, there’s no one to clean the ashes. The reason not everyone burns is because of people like Peeta who can coax the flames in a way that is nurturing and consistent. I mean…. “Peeta fashioned some kind of incubator” is such an obvious detail. Those goslings don’t hatch without Peeta, life does not go on in peace and joy without Peeta.

It is no coincidence that when Maysilee says Lenore Dove got the “jump on us all” (in being a rebel), she is referring to LD using orange paint to make protest art!

We must stop pushing Peeta Mellark out of the narrative! He is literally the sunset on the reaping!

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Besties in matching leather coats stay besties forever

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I actually forgot to type the point I was trying to make. The doctor is an old man, he can’t hold the sonic the way he used to. He had to adjust.

Ok but the new sonic screwdriver looks like a computer mouse.

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It reminds me of a mouse we bought for my husband’s abuelita. She has issues with a regular computer mouse because of arthritis and that new mouse helped her.

Ok but the new sonic screwdriver looks like a computer mouse.

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It’s the valeyard/rory

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It was amazing. I died and came back to rewind and watch again

thinking again about last night and like, man, if I hadn't heard the goblin song in advance, I think it would have knocked me the fuck out. is there anyone who didn't know and was then just confronted with a full diegetic musical number out of nowhere? how was that for you?

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watching doctor who when someone's run wraps up is like watching the superbowl knowing that as soon as the game ends they're going to kill the winning quarterback on live tv

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Ok, but listen… what if the curator from the 50th is 14 as an old man…

When the curator’s body is wearing a bit thin, he turns into 15.

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I was making chitchat with the woman who works at the plant nursery and I mentioned that two baby trees I bought the other day aren't doing too well, their leaves are yellowing, maybe I'm watering them too much? what could be behind this phenomenon? and she looked like she was trying to find a gentle way to phrase it but then gave up and just said plainly, "Autumn."

another social interaction that will come back to haunt me at 3am five years from now

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This wasn’t written for me… but it also was? I’m almost 40 and I keep thinking the Writing Train(tm) has left the station. But maybe it hasn’t; maybe I haven’t even made it to the station yet.

Anyway, on my way to find one of my unused journals to start writing. I remember being young and writing a lot more and it may have been because when writing in paper, it’s harder to edit myself. I’m taking this a s a sign.

Hello Neil,i know you have 120k asks, so you will never see this, but genuinely, how do i start writing? I know it probably sounds silly to you, but I am 15 and already feel behind. I want to be a writer, I have loved reading ever since I read Coraline at 9 and have always wanted to do something creative with my life and to be an author just feels so fitting for me,I just don't know how to do it I guess. I keep trying but it always turns out bad,I don't even know where to beigin and how to pace the story or do anything really.I write short fanfics sometimes and when i go back to read them they are just objectively bad. I know what I do and dont like in stories,I just can't seem to accomplish what I want when I try to write it. And I do have so many ideas, but it never goes anywhere, and I can't put the words on the page. I know improving takes time but I just wish I had some guidance on how to improve(English is my third language so I probably made mistakes, I apologize )

You sound a lot l would have done at the age of 15, had I been articulate enough for anything like that. At the age of 15 or I knew was that I really wanted to be a writer and that I wanted to write and draw comics one day. I had some ideas that would turn out to be good ideas 15 years later or 25 years later but at that time they were just ideas and I didn't know how to make them into stories.

The most important thing you can do is to keep writing. The second most important thing you can do is to live and learn and experience the world and accumulate a store of things that you have to say and things that you need to write about.

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Grantaire makes the best pillow after a long night at the bar

for @p-trichor <3

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I’ve been calling it EX-iter as in exiting the platform 😂 chitter makes more sense

Hey can I apologise for my dad according to him he may have pissed you off on blue sky so yeah this is his apology.

It's practically impossible to piss me off on social media. (Although on Bluesky I block people more than I ever did on Xitter. Even then I'm probably not pissed off, I would have felt like everyone's life would be easier if the person I was blocking wasn't interacting with me.) Reassure your dad we're good.

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Day 38 of posting Good Omens memes Everyday until Season 3

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Just finished season 2 of Good Omens.

I love Muriel - they are the best

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Enjolras is a little confused, but he’s got the spirit.

Grantaire saves the grass between the pages of one of his favorite books.

Enjolras thinks flowers are overrated, so he brings Grantaire a chunk of grass on their first date instead.