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good evening do you think Haymitch ever has “I’m okay once I realize you’re here” nightmares about his kids? okay that’s all

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Rachel Zegler should be in the soundtrack of Sunrise on the Reading because Lucy Gray is haunying the narrative

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Prim likes to catch Katniss up on all the gossip she missed while away on her hunting trips

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it's over. men are not allowed to talk about the hunger games anymore. especially not about katniss and peeta.

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I feel I am guilty of skipping over this bit to get to ✨ eyelashes ✨ but can we sit with this? this intense and removed expression that shows up when he is drawing is the same he wears in the arena, when he’s speaking to a crowd, and when he’s physically shoving danger away from his girl … this world locked away inside him, one that is, by Katniss’s analysis, perplexing and unpredictable and interesting under different circumstances … we don’t get to see much of it, but I’m glad at the idea that he will get to share that intense interiority with her in peacetime

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sotr is hilarious i crack up everytime i remember wyatt saying "i don't snore, i was just pretending the other night" and haymitch legit goes "BAD NEWS BUDDY" LMAOO

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Peeta: *gets a papercut*

Katniss, under her breath: Hasn’t he suffered enough?

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"I love you like all-fire"

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Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton in “Capital R Rake” (Bridgerton - 2x01)

Gifs 153/?

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A few weeks ago I watched the fault in our stars for the first time and tell me why that movie with very little sfx requirements was able to pull off a prosthetic leg and the hunger games wasn't

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No because I remember Team Peeta vs Team Gale back in 2012-2015 and you know what it was actually a little fucked up and I'll tell you why.

In the first book, Peeta looses his leg after the Games. This permanently disables him despite the Capitol giving him a prosthetic.

In 2012, the movie comes out and they cut this aspect from the movie, aka, the Capitol healed him and he is now an able-bodied character.

However, in the second book, Peeta struggles to escape the fog in the arena due to his disability and his recent force-field charged death and resurrection. Peeta is physically disabled and weakened.

In the 2013 movie Catching Fire, Peeta struggles the same way, despite his disability being erased and being portrayed as able bodied. This left his vulnerability without explanation during a very crucial and costly scene (hence why Mags had to sacrifice herself).

His characterization in the movies felt inconsistent (not to mention some good scenes of him got left out) and didn't quite do the book version justice. Some character changes are inevitable wwhen translating book to screen, but erasing his disability was a mistake.

There was also a lot of outside factors that made the Team Peeta vs. Team Gale a whole thing. Twilight had firmly established the young adult love triangle teams, and The Hunger Games, in a ironically meta way, fit right into that idea.

Teen heartthrobs were still a thing, and the actors also played a role. Liam Hemsworth entered the scene already 6ft tall, younger brother to hot Australian super hero. Josh Hutcherson was a child actor, known for Zathura and Bridge to Terabithia. It was almost a textbook "mysterious hot guy" vs. "boy next door". And, when insecure people project the idea of the sanctity of masculinity onto these love interests, men want women to choose the most masculine one, and in this case, Liam Hemsworth/Gale fit that archetype more.

So yeah the whole thing was a product of culture of toxic masculinity with people largely ignorant of an erased disability.

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okay I’m in a “romantic gestures from Katniss” mood … headcanons?

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silly seals from outer space

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stop putting german foliage in my district twelve

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All the birds I’ve encountered are vicious.

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Rachel Zegler for ID Magazine