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I think the most radical thing the hunger games does is tell young people that the most revolutionary thing you can do is have unconditional love for humanity. Katniss throughout the entire series is guided by a deep sense of compassion for the people around her. It is what causes her to volunteer, to bury rue, to mercy kill cato, its why she tries to save peeta, why finnick telling her to remember who the real enemy is works, and even though her compassion for the larger world falters when peeta is kidnapped, it comes back when she visits hospitals and asks for mercy for other victors and ultimately, it is love and belief in a better humanity that makes her kill coin. Through it all, she maintains an unfaltering belief in the fundemental goodness of humanity, which is diametrically opposed to dr gaul's and snow's worldview. Peeta is even more unwaveringly compassionate

So the series tells young people that the most revolutionary thing you can be is compassionate. Let compassion drive your politics. Let yourself believe in the fundemental goodness of people. And i think that's deeply important in a world that touts the superiority of pure reason or logic, to allow yourself to be guided by something as emotional as compassion. Katniss everdeen tells us that your politics should be rooted in compassion in a world that thinks detatchment or cynicism is intelligence and i think thats v cool

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“He can’t be real, she thought. A boy made out of flesh and bone could not be so painfully lovely, so free of any blemish or flaw.” | “She’s the only divine thing he’s ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagined she does.”

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It's such an amazing feeling when someone picks up on something in your writing that you 100% intended but didn't think people would notice. Like, YES!! My writing properly conveyed the thing it was supposed to!!! You are so awesome for noticing that!!! I am so awesome for writing that!!! I feel so good about my story now!!!!

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fire and water, even that feels like a foreshadowing of the end. for water douses fire, like nezha drove that knife into rin’s chest.

but fire burns, even when you’re dousing the flames. and is that not what happened to nezha? he survives, but at what cost?

he survives the flames, but at what cost?

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somewhere out there chaghan heard the news of fang runin’s death through the talks of the markets. he stops to ask them what they know, and they tell him she died on speer, by the side of chen kitay, and at the hand of yin nezha. he understands that she is gone—that he is the last of the cike, and he has never felt lonelier.

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I love how love is talked about in the poppy war triology. The way Rin's love for Altan, Kitay and Nezha are all different, and we know they're different, but the books never specify 'it's platonic' 'it's romantic'. And I love love love how Chaghan was never explicitly stated to have loved Altan in any specific way, but we know it's the same way Rin did, and that's enough. Because all their love was beyond definition, love was fluid, all that matters is that it existed. It didn't stop anything, it didn't fix anything, but it changed everything.

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i think sometimes, when we say “i want to die”, we really mean, “i don’t like my life, can i reset it?” and sometimes i think when we say “i want to die” we really mean we don’t like how our society socializes us to be this brand of productive human beings that requires us to grind and slave away for money, in an economy that’s crumbling.

we’ve been socialized to have big dreams - but what if i just want to exist and enjoy art or read books or dance in the fields outside my home? what if i just want to laugh and cry and enjoy my family? what if i just want to braid my sister’s hair or run alongside my brothers? what if i just want to picnic with my friends and stargaze? what if i just want to see the stars beyond all this light pollution and noise?

what’s so bad about just being? that we’ve gone as far as to say, “no, if you’re not achieving, you might as well have been dead.”

i want to see the stars in the sky, not the ones on my linkedin page. what’s so bad about that dream?

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the world wasn’t ready for a stable rin, kitay, and nezha friendship and that’s why r.f. kuang had to write them the way they are in the books,, and for that reason i respect it

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the most sad part about the ending is the fact that they can't never fulfill their hope and dreams for their country since they only talk about it with each other. nobody alive knows about what it. rin wanted a free tuition for school, venka wanted to make a rule to punish sexual predator, kitay wanted to preserve ancient text in every university.

and yet, the country they fought for. the country they spend their blood, sweat, and tears, will have none of that.

their dreams are buried with them.

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im sorry but academic rivals to lovers is better than enemies to lovers bc its enemies to lovers (which is good for its "you see me at my worst and yet you still love me" aspect) but with intellectual understanding aswell like cmonnnn

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as someone who is absolutely disgusted by the "he's bullying her because he likes her" trope, the only reason why I'm fine with rinezha is they are not that trope. nezha bullied rin because he just hated her and thought she was beneath him. he then started to begrudgingly respect her as his rival when she wiped the floor with his ass during the tournament. then he saw her as his ally when they fought together during the invasion of sinegard. as probably one of the only familiar faces in khurdalain, nezha's respect for rin started to turn into friendship. that friendship turned into affection and a budding love when they started working together in arlong. then whatever twisted thing it turned into after he betrayed her. rinezha isn't your generic enemies to lovers, bully-bullied love story. they are more than just a trope.

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fang runin

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“People romanticize their plans but dread the execution. the magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.”

— nazanin mandi

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rf kuang lives in my head rent free, it’s unfair. she should pay rent for tpw brainrot.

what hurts me the most throughout the poppy war trilogy is all the feelings left unsaid and unheard from both rin and nezha nothing else but that i just think they deserve to part in better ways but fate says otherwise

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this is what makes it so much more tragic; that they didn’t even know that love was there. AND perhaps, that is why it is not enough.

what hurts me the most throughout the poppy war trilogy is all the feelings left unsaid and unheard from both rin and nezha nothing else but that i just think they deserve to part in better ways but fate says otherwise

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thissssas

I think one big reason why we don't consider the stars as important as before (not even pop-astrology anymore cares about the stars or the sky on itself, just the signs deprived of context) is because of light pollution.

For most of human history the sky looked between 1-3, 4 at most. And then all of a sudden with electrification it was gone (I'm lucky if I get 6 in my small city). The first time I saw the Milky Way fully as a kid was a spiritual experience, I was almost scared on how BRIGHT it was, it felt like someone was looking back at me. You don't get that at all with modern light pollution.

When most people talk about stargazing nowadays they think about watching about a couple of bright dots. The stars are really, really not like that. The unpolluted night sky is a festival of fireworks. There is nothing like it.

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I'm gonna be honest here I did not expect things to escalate so fast

Chapter 1: omg she's gonna go study at a prestigious school, oh there's bullying, she's going through so much

Chapter 26: GENOCIDE