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In the end, he became who he hated the most, an old man beefing with a teenager without the teenager even knowing the reason.

And it's really just beef carried on from the previous generation. The teenager didn't even exist when the reason happened.

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Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes find that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.

Think about it: they both grew up poor and deeply vulnerable, losing parents at a very young age, with a matriarchal adult (Katniss' mother and Coriolanus' Grandma'am) who fails to provide for them emotionally and physically. They intimately understand the threat of starvation, even developing with stunted growth because of it, and their narrations in the books share a fixation on food. Throughout their childhoods, both experienced constant fear and suffered a fundamental lack of control over their circumstances. Because of this, they're inherently suspicious of the people around them. They resent feeling indebted to others, especially those who have saved their lives. They're motivated almost entirely by family and deeply connected to their communities. Both are used and manipulated by the Capitol, both are forced to perform to survive and despise every inch of it, both are thrown into the Arena and made to kill. Both have a self-sacrificial, genuinely sweet sister figure acting as their conscience. Peeta and Lucy Gray - performers and love interests with a fundamental kindness and sense of hope about them - fulfill markedly similar roles in their narrative. Both contribute to the development of the future Hunger Games, Snow throughout tbosas and Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.

It's easy to ignore these similarities because, as mirrors of each other, they are exact opposites. Katniss is from District 12, viewed and treated as less than human; Snow is the cream of the Capitol crop, given the privilege of a name with social weight, an ancestral home, and the opportunity of the Academy despite having no more money than a miner from 12. Katniss has no agency over her life, and responds by being kind whenever she's able, while Snow justifies horrendous evils in order to continue his quest for complete control. Katniss does everything she can to protect her family; Snow does everything he can to protect his family's image as an extension of his own ego. Katniss loves her District and connects with its inhabitants on a meaningful level, but Snow is indifferent at best to his peers - the apparent "superior people" - and only engages with his community for personal gain. Katniss emerges from the Arena horrified at herself and the system, but Snow takes his trauma and turns it into an excuse to perpetuate the violence with himself at the top. Katniss cares for Prim until her death and then snaps at the loss of her little sister, while Snow survives on Tigris' blood, sweat, and tears and then torments and abandons her, presumably because she calls him out on his insanity. Snow actively adds to and popularizes the Hunger Games because of his vendetta against the Districts following his childhood wartime trauma - Katniss briefly agrees to a new Hunger Games in the pursuit of vengeance, but later stops them from happening by killing Coin and choosing a life of peace and privacy. Snow is obsessed with revenge, but Katniss empathizes with the Capitolites and does what she can to keep them from suffering. He exists in a cruel system and selfishly upholds it; she exists in a cruel system and works to dismantle it for the good of her family and community, at great personal cost. And Peeta and Lucy Gray are incredibly similar, but Katniss and Peeta forge a relationship of genuine love and understanding that shines in comparison to Coriolanus' obsessive projection onto Lucy Gray.

So, yeah, Katniss is Lucy Gray haunting Coriolanus. But I bet you anything that eighty-something year old President Snow looks at her, the girl on fire, bright and young and brilliant, emerging from a childhood of starvation with a relentless hunger for success, a talented and charming performer helping her win the Games, and he sees the ghost of his own past. And that's why he's so afraid of her! Because if he sees himself in her, then he's up against his own cunning, his own talent for manipulation, his own charisma, his own genius. He's up against the version of himself that he once wished to be, with the nightmare army of his childhood at her back and her star-crossed lover at her side, spewing Sejanus' truths in his own voice. This isn't to say that Katniss ever achieved the level of power and agency that Coriolanus did during her time with the rebellion, but it is to say that Snow was taken down by what truly terrified him - his own morality, come to finish the job.

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sadly the only copy of s10 of thg i found is in the spanish dub but the only thing theyre saying is i love you and i know thats not right so can someone hook me up with their panem plus pleasee

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Lucy gray: *sings the most gorgeous, beautiful, poetic, heart wrenching song*

Coriolanus: Wow… I didn’t realize she was a WHORE

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It’s so funny to me that posts like “Neil Perry x Fem! Reader” or “ Wylan Hendricks x !Fem Reader” or even “Todd Anderson x !Fem Reader” exist because I hate to break it to y’all but your man is in fact really fucking gay so…

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just dropping by to say that manifestations work and astrology is real My crush has a crush on me we r In LOVEEE! so neil and todd coded

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Robert Sean Leonard photographed by WWD Fall 1994 Benefit for Malaparte Theater Company, Irving Plaza, NYC | 1994

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inceptiversary 2016:

Now, in the first layer of the dream, I can impersonate Browning and suggest concepts to Fischer’s conscious mind. Then, when we take him a level deeper, his own projection of Browning should – should –feed that right back to him.

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after i finished watching 500 days of summerr, I looked up "500 Days of Summer BPD" bec tom gave me huge bpd vibes like the boundaries and favorite person thing... but people thought it was summer?? summer just lacks a little empathy at times and can be misleading... Like what.

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 knox: im just so SICK and TIRED of people telling me i have a ‘gay vibe’. like ??? straight people exist !!! and i AM ONE OF THEM! like??? I have no problem with the lgbt people but im NOT ONE OF THEM. AND IM SICK OF HAVING TO EXPLAIN MYSELF.

the poets:

the poets:

neil: knox literally a month ago you said ‘yeah, i don’t care about gender as long as theyre hot’ 

knox:

the poets:

knox: oh

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keatings: okay now get with your assigned partner to discuss the reading

todd:

pitts:

todd, an introvert:

pitts, an introvert: 

*5 minutes later*

keating: okay did everyone discuss something interesting ?

todd and pitts, who just kind of stared at each other: *nodding*

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keating: you have to write these responses so I know you read your readings

charlie’s response: i think willy boy here needs to stop writing plays and go to therapy

keating, nodding: yes he definitely read the plays

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keating: okay todd, its your turn to present your work

todd: *presents*

keating, turning to the class: any commentary ?

some student: that was good, i liked it

neil, nodding immediately, not quite wiping that lovestruck look off yet: yeah, todd ! u were really good ! i especially liked *very specific detail*

todd, shyly: thank you :)

some other student: yeah i liked the second one-

neil, cutting in: I liked the second one too, but I don’t think I could really pick a favorite 

todd, literally only listening to neil: thanks neil :))

some other student: could you explain why you chose-

neil cutting in again: like wow todd, I’mma be thinking about this for the rest of the day :) you were literally amazing

todd, still only really hearing neil: jfakdsfj thank you <33

*later*

neil, ready to bring up todd for the 7534987 time: yeah I liked ur presentation sticks, that part about the butterfly reminded me of todd’s! like how todd used it as a metaphor for -

todd, blushing pretending not to hear:

the rest of the class: 

keating:

the rest of the class:

stick:

keating:

all of them, minus todd and neil: 

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meeks: hey i know its 11:50 and our project is due at 11:59 but what if we added background music

pitts:

pitts: meeks

pitts: ur such a GENIUS OH MY GOD YES WE SHOULD

meeks: i mean it cant possibly make it worse right ???

pitts: yeah ! we’re gonna fail anyway so we might as add music at 11:59

meeks: ok turned it in

pitts: maybe the music will distract from how much this sucked ass lmao

meeks: lmao

(they both end up getting 100% becuz theyre /those/ kids

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charlie: i am actually a very observant person

cameron: yeah i don’t beleive you

charlie: no like seriously; i take one look at people and i just know them

charlie: like, okay, see that group *points* i bet you theyre all potheads; like you cant tell but htey give off this vibe ya know

cameron:

charlie: yeah im amazing

cameron: charlie, are you talking about the group actively smoking pot ?

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keating: like, for example, the hit song WAP

cameron: excuse me? but what’s that

the class:

keating: 

(ok probably not but he’d the only teacher who’s name i remember and that fits cam so)

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richard siken is a delight thank you for that one ao3 author for introducing me to him

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i just love your bio

thank u i also relate to ur username spencereidwannabe

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neil </3

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Damn it Neil, the name is Subway.