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I love how Alec, Jace, and Isabelle clearly care deeply about Simon but they're allergic to expressing their emotions so he just assumes that they hate him.

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I’ve never really understood why Tam and Linh dipped their hair in silver

like I understand that it was a symbol of their defiance towards the elven systems and a way to express themselves but I mean I don’t get why they would do THAT. They have chunks of metal dried on their hair tips. That’s got to be both impractical and uncomfortable. How do you brush it? How do you cut it? Unless they dipped each strand individually and let every single strand dry separately, all their hair is stuck together. I know it’s just a book and just a fictional hairstyle, but it bugs me.

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I don’t know why but I like to consume people’s hate for things I love. Like one of my favorite things to do when I’m bored is to go on Goodreads or Reddit or Tumblr and find the worst reviews and most detailed hate posts about my favorite books, authors, or characters. I don’t get upset about the hate or try to change the op’s mind. I just thrive off of reading those posts. I say I like seeing other people’s perspectives but actually I just like watching them rant and idk why

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i don’t want it to be the sad ending but i DO

Any theories on how the kotlc series will end?

Quite a few, actually.

Some of these are going to be a writer talking about a writer's stylistic choices, and some of them are going to be a fan talking about the content creator's possibilities.

The Coward's Way Out(I would not put it past Shannon to do this): It was all a dream. Everything was a dream. Sophie got hit by that car and has been in the hospital since, in a coma for the past four years. None of it was real.

The Unsatisfactory Ending: Nothing is tied up well at all. All the villains live, the council is still full of jerks. Sophie's still having a mental crisis. Keefe is still off being an idiot. But hey, at least the plot is... sort of done. There's going to be a sequel series, though. It's going to be twice as long. Maybe Sophie and Fitz are dating again at the end, but none of their pressing problems have been solved.

The Boss Battle Ending: Everything culminates in one last battle. Everything ends here. This is usually what I go for when I write stuff that takes place within canon that hasn't been dealt with by Shannon yet. Like, it all gets tied neatly with a bow. A bunch of people are dead, possibly some of our faves, some adults, all the Neverseen officials, etc. Everything is done, over, and will never be resurfaced. Because the war has been won on a battlefield.

The Annoying Ending: So idk if anyone's read The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. If you have, you remember how the last book was just endless discussions of war and politics and Mare going back and forth between hating and loving Cal? Yeah. Imagine that, but it's the council and Sophie and Keefe. Because it's just exhausting and endless. And by the time you get to the end of the book, all you've got is a girl with some earrings and some emotional damage and a life that's in ruins and a guy that's somehow still waiting for her despite how it would be better-- Okay. I'm sorry. But a long drawn out war discussion would be really annoying. Gimme action or gimme death.

The Feel Good Ending: This is literally just going to be found family good vibes. The comfort we've all been wanting, craving, needing. They're chilling or eating dinner or laughing or talking or just being whole again. The world is done trying to hurt them. They're finally free from the chains of being the saviors of the world, and they're finally allowed to be kids again. They'll be okay. It's finally, really, truly going to be okay.

The Sokeefe Ending: It ends with a Sokeefe confession/kiss. That's honestly all I want in this world. I want it to end with them kissing in the rain. I want it. So bad. Please. And if I could get a hunger-games-esque flash forward I would cry. Thank.

The Twist Ending: Some key piece of information is revealed at the last moment. Something important, something needed. And, just like that, all the stakes change. All the weapons shift. The entire stance of the book is altered. Now, loyalties have varied. Sides have shifted. People are having breakdowns. How do you keep going? Some of them won't. Some of them have to. Who's going to be able to make it out alive? No one knows until you get to the last page, staring at the book that has held so much of your life, and whispering, softly, "what the fuckkkk"

The Memory Loss/Lazy Writer Ending: Basically any cheap wrap-up tactic that sets up another series. Memory erasing, mysterious illness, the Neverseen destroying themselves, blah blah blah. Something cheap and quick and easily swallowed by editors so they let you take the next year off before starting the sequel series.

Happily Ever After: Everything. Is. Done. Everything is finished, all the plot points are dealt with. Every character gets a satisfying ending, from Tam getting hugs and Keefe coming home to Sophie getting to sleep at night again and Dex getting page time to Stina getting character growth and Biana dying her hair purple. Everything solved, everything finished, you sit, softly, holding the book, and feel like everything has come to an end. Everything is done. And you're not sad. You're happy. Because the characters are happy. The void in your chest is filled, knowing that they went where they needed to go.

Sad ending: All your darlings are dead. Never coming back. Everything hurts. I'm not even going to say what could happen here. But everyone could die. I'm talking Divergent levels of character death. Like, sweet and holy stars dEATH. Like, all the death you'd never want and more. And who's left crying at the end? Who watches the world burn? Who's sobbing as everything they loved is taken? Who won the war, but lost everything else? Is it Sophie? Is it Fitz? Is it Keefe? Is it Linh? Tam? Wylie? Teirgan? Forkle? Gisela? Who is left? And why are they crying?

but yeah these are just a few theories i have for how it's going to go. :DD hope they are satisfactory!

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the spark was everybody

when looking at posts about the hunger games revolution, i always see things like "prim was the spark that started it all", "no, rue was", or "actually, it was thresh because he let katniss go". but it wasn't just one person. it was everybody. it was all of those people, but it was also haymitch, maysilee, louella. it was lucy gray and the covey. it was a team effort. maybe one or more of there people had a bigger impact on the revolution than some others, but all the victims and victors in all of the games helped. they built up decades of grief and misery and anger from the districts. they all added fuel to the flames. and when katniss eventually rebelled, it was everybody's doing.

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Whenever Haymitch insulted Effie's outfits during the main triology, it wasn't his fault, he was being possesed by Maysilee's ghost

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so i was talking about sotr with a friend

and she brought up a point: if snow killed off all of haymitch's family, everyone he loved, then why didn't haymitch fight back? there was no more leverage, so why didn't he try to rebel? but i'd like to remind anyone who agrees about one tiiiny fact: haymitch tried. he tried to defy the capitol, only to get his efforts erased. nothing he did mattered to anyone in the districts or the capitol. by the end of the book, after his family and lenore dove are dead, he's pretty much lost all will to keep going. he numbs the pain with alcohol. he isn't in any fit shape to do anything about the capitol's cruelty. haymitch won't be trying anything for a long time, because snow squashed everything he had out of him.

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Time to talk about it… Peeta erasure. Why is it so easy to fall for that trap?

The most obvious answer is that he isn’t the main character, Katniss is. But then, why do we laud Lucy Gray, also not the protagonist of her book, as the OG Mockingjay? What does Peeta lack?

Well, Peeta is a bread aka a carb. We avoid carbs. It’s just the way of life. (Hahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha I’m so sorry guys it just came out as I was typing 😭)

Anyway. Yes. Peeta.

Well, his manner of playing the games is very similar to how Haymitch played his, but executed stunningly better. His “rebellions” can literally be passed off as a smitten boy wanting to keep his crush safe and guess what, here’s the biiiiiig reveal, we fall for the same trap that the Capitol does.

As readers, we see him through Katniss which means the first sight we see him with is suspicion. Why does he want to talk to Haymitch alone? How is he so good at faking it and winning everyone over? What is he planning, what’s his end game? So on and so forth. The second emotion we feel towards Peeta is confusion and anger. The same questions repeat themselves with no answer unveiled, leading to an unsettling doubt planting seed - is he telling the truth? By the time the third emotion comes around we, along with Katniss, now care about him. This is still just the first book.

Now, this exact narrative is how the story plays out to the Capitol and we, with them, fall for the sweetened trap of a love story. That’s the entire argument about the series anyway, no? That we care about the couple more than the point? Well, unfortunately, that theme continues to play out as we see Peeta as someone caught up in an unsuspecting web when he’s actually the one who spun it.

It’s an unfortunate fact that Katniss would not have made it out of her games if Peeta hadn’t been the other tribute from her district. Having Peeta immediately removed the first part of her competition - your home tribute. Then, he goes above and beyond to make her look pretty, to talk her up, sacrificing every second he could use to keep himself alive on her. The plot plays out with him in the centre, protecting her both from her fellow tributes and from the watching world. Even when the berries scene comes up Katniss only wants them to come out alive and realises the repercussions later. Peeta? His quote is, “Hold them out. I want everyone to see.” Defiant. Direct. Dangerous. But no, to the audience - both in and outside the book - it just meant “let them all see clearly so that they can stop us in time”. Alas, us readers are as naive as our protagonist.

We see the picture of Peeta as painted by Katniss, someone who loved her so much that he’d do anything to keep her alive. We even pity him by the end of the first book because that’s what Katniss does, once again not realising that he orchestrated so much of why they’re now in trouble. His perspective is washed away, much like Haymitch’s games are retold, and we don’t take him as a serious contender… maybe ever?

—————————————Tis Part I. Lemme know if you’d like a Part II and III though I’m likely to not have any self-control on the matter anyway.

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SotR is a realisation. A realisation that the rebellion didn’t start with Katniss. That all the people we see supporting her or helping her have all been wanting to fight but they���ve been failing. That there weren’t merely “rumours” of a revolution but there were many active plans playing out and failing.

It’s a reminder that the perfect Hunger Games we saw in the first hg book was an illusion because we had Katniss as our narrator. We didn’t have Haymitch, hell, we didn’t even have someone like Peeta because these people played the games. Katniss didn’t.

Katniss was introduced to us as a mad, simple, naive girl who literally only survived because of others. She didn’t know how much her taking Prim’s place mattered because she didn’t realise what it meant to everyone who came before her. To everyone who had heard rumours of how the last District 12 victor actually fought his games. No, Katniss had just kept her head down, hunting and providing for her family.

See, she grew up way before the Games got to her. She’d already lived through her dad’s death and watched it destroy her once lively mom. Haymitch didn’t have to go through that. Lucy Gray didn’t have to go through that. They were both angry, yes, but at the Capitol. Katniss? She was first and foremost angry at her mom. At her dad. She knew who was to blame but she had too much to do and deal with to think about that. She was already jaded in a way that the Games couldn’t touch.

Peeta? He was Haymitch. He knew what he was getting into and realised he was just on a chess board with no control. So, he adapted. He played the knight, the rook, the king, the pawn. Katniss? She just… did. Changing directions, not playing the piece she was assigned because she didn’t realise that’s what was going on. Remember her surprise at the crown twisting into two after the Games?? She was so oblivious. Until Catching Fire where everything caught up to her. Where everything so many other people had been waiting and working for caught up to her.

SotR is a history book. Rewritten and edited and published as a piece of fact. SotR is a mirror and it’s a reflection of what actually happens vs what ends up being shown. SotR is the playbook of those in control of any and every kind of media that we come in touch with. SotR is a wake up call and I truly don’t know how many will see it as such.

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anyone else thinking about effie spending 24 years watching haymitch completely fall apart. effie, who met haymitch by accident, who knows exactly what kind of person he is, who sees him every year on his birthday for 24 years and each year he’s drunker, each year he’s angrier, each year he’s faster to give up. and then they get katniss and peeta. peeta, who is kind and open and understanding, who refuses to give up on haymitch. and katniss, who is so much like haymitch at 16 that it hurts. and over the few days they’re together, effie watches haymitch come back to life. watches him try. watches him have hope. and then they get to keep not one but both of those kids. they get to come home. and then, less then a year later, effie pulls haymitch’s name at the reaping.

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idk if this is an unpopular opinion but

i'm really happy that sunrise on the reaping didn't reveal anything about lucy gray. they made a few references to her but nothing that tells us anything that we didn't already know in tbosas (there was a grave for her but still, it might have been symbolic). i loved how much suspense there was in tbosas and the way the cliffhanger left you reeling. i feel like if suzanne collins did say what happened to lucy gray, it would have ruined all of that, so i'm just glad she's still a mystery

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so did they find lucy gray???? is she dead?? or did they never find her and they made a grave for her because she never came back?? maybe she's still out there...

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nina/jesper, wylan/kaz, inej/matthias

are all two halves of the same coin. Nina and Jesper both are the flirty, extroverted ones, and more importantly, they both suffered from addiction. But while Nina immediately started trying to end her addiction to parem, Jesper kept going back and ruining himself. Wylan and Kaz were both pushed into the barrel and had to survive, but Wylan kept himself from become a monster. Kaz, on the other hand, embraced his new life as a criminal. And finally, Inej and Matthias. They both are faithful and religious. However, Inej always used her faith to be merciful. Her religion made her a better person. Matthias believed that to stay loyal to his god, he needed to kill and persecute others simply for existing.

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Sound on 🐱😊

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i can’t stop laughing the way they all jump is so true to their characters.

izzy, graceful front-flip, executed perfectly, so as not to lose her wig or snap her heels on impact.

jace, dramatic idgaf back-flip, with a little twisty bit at the end, so the squad all land facing the same direction.

alec, just falls.

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