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Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

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i’m so appreciative to suzanne for reframing the rebellion from the original trilogy as a “they saw their moment and took it” type situation and showing us that they’ve been trying, over and over, with so many failed attempts, to break the arena and incite a rebellion for decades. in this current political climate never giving up hope is so essential. haymitch wasn’t the first nor the last, and they kept going even when it seemed completely futile, and that’s what counts, and what ultimately saves them all.

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'Step Up' (2006)

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oh so you’re telling me the guy had a 3 page handwritten explanation of his motives and mindset and a gun and silencer that matches the description despite it being a week since the guy was shot? hmmmm interesting

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Garden in Bomarzo, Italy.

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Normalize this response

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What I mean when I do not control the hyperfixation.

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the absolute worst thing is that, objectively, if he was not real, trump would be funny as fuck. as a skit character? like literally fucking hilarious. but no, he’s not a dramatized, satirical parody that exaggerates a stereotype. no. this man is REAL. and that is. fucking terrifying

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Imagine you’re confronting some guy over fucking your sister and he ends up depressing the shit out of you with his Nietzsche ass worldview.

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everyone in hotd: experiencing The Horrors

tyland: mud wrestling, singing, and flirting with a sexy pirate

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Daemon on his knees “I am meant to serve you”. I fucking died. It only took six goddamn episodes and 47 acid trips

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My favorite thing about Helaena telling Aemond about his fate is how she does it in multiple tenses.

“You’ll be dead. You were swallowed up in the God’s Eye and you are never seen again.”

Future, past, present. It’s all jumbled together for her. I really love this detail.

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helaena and alys witch to witch prophetic communication while psychologically torturing targaryen men i love them so much

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gwayne tearing up while defending alicent’s honor and the shock & horror on his face when criston admits that all the kingsguard are breaking their vows of chastity. gwayne is the ONLY TRUE CHIVALROUS knight we have

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Rip Jaime Lannister you would have loved to practice diplomacy by getting a traumatic brain injury from fist fighting the tallest blonde woman in Essos but the fates picked Tyland, who hates it so so bad

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“Aegon the realm’s delight” is the saddest line ever. Aegon wants to be a daughter so bad. To be coddled and gazed upon with love and affection rather than distain and fear. Rhaenyra wishes to be a son. She wants the loyalty everyone has to be unwavering. She wants to be feared and respected like a man. They are truly two sides of the same coin.