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Things that happened at some point after the book.

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im sure its been said before but its so important to me that suzanne collins wrote casca highbottom into tbosas as a direct parallel to gale years after all of the (in my opinion) excessive hate the guy gets, being effectively villanized vs the perfect everlark lovestory.

and this is me saying it as someone who loves peeta and his kindness with my whole heart but – gale is not the monster in this story, he is still a victim! he is a consequence of the suffering endured at the hands of the capitol! that is the point of his character!

we don't clearly get that from katniss' pov. katniss' perception is warped by grief. she is not thinking about things from a moral or ethical standpoint, but rather from the fact that gale – someone she loves – was part of murdering prim – the person katniss loves more than anything.

seeing katniss ripped apart by her grief leaves you unable to forgive gale, and that's understandable. but again: gale is not snow, he's not coin. you cannot condemn him with the same energy that those two deserve.

gale is casca highbottom. gale is someone who watched horrible things happen around him and to the people he loved, felt anger and disgust at it, and made a horrible plan AS A CONCEPT to process his grief. something to channel the rage into. a hypothetical way to strike back.

gale was used by coin the way highbottom was used by crassus snow, his anger given the power to destroy by those with looser morals. and i have no doubt that, like highbottom, gale will live the rest of his life regretting ever making that plan.

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i really picked the wrong book to stan bc there are 134 fics in the host ao3 tag and a lot of them are AUs based off the book and not about the actual characters.... (rips up a pillow with my teeth like a dog)

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@ fellow host fans if any of yall are interested in a disco/rd server for the shared brainrot let me know 👉👈

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not to come for smeyer's weird age gap beliefs but i think that wanda's final form should have been someone a little older/around the same age as ian (in her late 20s/early 30s). mel being young makes sense in the story but not wanda.

there was deadass no point to infantilizing her besides "making her seem innocent" to people who were already beginning to trust her, and the whole point!! of wanda!! is that she's not some young soul!! she's old, could be a mother, has seen the universe and never quite fit in.

that poor soul could and should have been given a body to match her actual personality, and jamie should not have been allowed to pick her body. mel should have, the very person who knew wanda inside and out.

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self care truly is going back to your #1 comfort series when things start feeling a little too much

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I dunno the thing about the Host is this unnameable feeling of longing that saturates the whole novel… this idea of wandering through so many lives, traveling aimlessly and experiencing so many places yet always leaving them behind… the thought of having eight lives and homes and none of them anchor you enough to stay and still you dream of them in your next life and your next heart aches for them…. Then finding a place and experiencing this deep-seated yearning to feel like, after all of those homes, you have a place where you belong, like you weren’t wandering, you were searching… and that you can find so much of that home in the people around you, that a mind falls in love with a mind and wanting that sometimes means even more than having it… that she really was dying to be human….

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every time someone else makes a sideblog for the host when this book should really be dead and gone an angel gets its wings

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it would've been 100% funnier if Edward's approach to getting Bella to appreciate her humanity was less begging her to not be a vampire and more....forcing himself to hang out with her human friends so she has a normal teenage experience lmao

could you imagine Edward Cullen at like...a high school football game?

getting dragged to an amusement park on senior ditch day

at some party and he has to pretend to be drunk to fit in with all the others

Mike, Eric, Tyler and Ben all start insisting on calling him Eddie

he goes on shopping trips with the girls because he's the only one with a running car that also has trunk space for their bags

he starts using his mind reading powers for The Gossip(tm) and Jessica is absolutely obsessed...finally someone with decent intell

God at some party everyone's lowkey high and they start playing truth or dare and Edward's using his powers to choose the least embarrassing option but Bella catches on and Edward Trusts Her so she picks him and he's expecting something tame like...truth what's your favorite color, dare kiss me or something lol but Bella looks him in the eyes and with no mercy dares him to strip tease while rapping an Eminem song. Mike films it. Edward didn't talk to her at all the next day lmao

they all go see a horror movie together and to Bella's absolute delight 1) it turns out to be a vampire movie and 2) Edward falls for every single jump scare

The Guys(tm) invite Edward to some weird bro bonding sleep over and Edward's expecting to be bored out of his mind without Bella but 3 redbulls, 2 video games and one ouija board session later they're all crying about their deepest fears to each other. Edward's telling them he's scared that if Bella marries him it will doom her eternal soul to hell but he can't live without her and they're like 'Eddie dude that's so specific calm down' 'have you considered therapy man??' 'bro you guys are 17'

Edward and Bella get roped into helping out with the senior prank and it goes t e r r i b l y. First time in half a century one of the Cullens have gotten suspended from school lmao

he sneaks Angela's little brothers candy every time they hang out at her house

Jessica begs him to tell her what Rosalie's skincare routine is but the vampire's don't even really have to shower they can just wipe stuff off and be good to go and he knows Nothing about skincare so he panics and tells her something absolutely batshit that nearly ruins her skin and Bella and Esme make him treat Jess to a spa day as an apology and Rose searches up everything on human skincare and buys some stuff for her

GOD can you imagine how helpful it would of been during eclipse to have completely non-objective friends chime in on the love triangle bullshit...Edward can vent about it without mentioning the vampire's and werewolves and they can tell him he's being dumb because she's clearly head over heels for him and is just friends with Jake

He's like 'but what if she stops loving me,,,' and they're like 'dude she's literally wedding planning with your sister and mom right now please shut the fuck up'

one day they plan a beach trip to somewhere other than La Push and it's cloudy enough that Edward should be fine if he keeps a shirt on and from then on the group has a mission: See Edward Shirtless. they go to LENGTHS. switching into his gym class. spilling things on him. begging Bella to take pictures for them. Good Christian Edward(tm) is scandalized but Bella thinks it's hilarious and keeps telling them he had crazy tattoos

Edward trying to fake pop culture knowledge to fit in but it's not working so he actually has to start paying attention to shit from the current decade and now he won't stop ranting to Bella about Harry Potter and he's very invested in Britney Spears' mental health

Edward trying to decode text talk and everyone makes fun of him bc he texts like a grandpa

Edward after one joint is on a full rant about how America should have handled the Spanish Influenza- like he has a detailed list of complaints and ideas- and everyone is like 'Bella I know he's rich but he's such a nerd Are You Sure you love him' skdjjdmd

anyway. let the old man act like a teenager for once. as a treat.

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Me: the Host is a deeply problematic piece of fiction. The depictions, approval, and romanticization of pedophilia saturate the entire work, not to mention the fetishization of weakness in female characters. Almost every male character is incredibly toxic in at least one way, the love triangle is convoluted, and the main character is at times simplified into essentially a martyr complex in moments of glaring incongruity to the beginning of the narrative.

The Taco Bell employee: so why did you start a blog for it in 2021

Me:

Me: also I pretend Ian O’Shea is perfect and I’m in love with him

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oh man if anyone thinks im ever gonna shut up about this stupid book y'all are sorely mistaken

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You know that one scene?

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the inherent homoeroticism and intimacy of two people sharing the same body 💔

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“Then what am I dying for?” I wondered, the pricking feeling returning in my desiccated tear ducts. “I guess it’s because I lost, then, right? Is that why?”

No, she thought slowly. It doesn’t feel that way to me. I think… Well, I think that maybe… you’re dying to be human. There was almost a smile in her thought as she heard the silly double meaning to the phrase.