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This YouTube comment has been on my mind since I finished SOTR so this is what I came up with:

Lucy Gray was the mockingbird, living on the outskirts of district 12 and was there at the wrong time when they were forced to stay there after the Dark Days. They were subjected to the Capitol’s politics despite not being a part of Panem, technically speaking. Lucy Gray became part of the Games and, likewise, the mockingbird became affiliated with the Capitol through the jabberjay’s release into the woods, but it still continued to sing its own song.

Haymitch was the jabberjay, a Capitol tool that did what it had to in order to survive. The Capitol thought they could control them, but they retaliated in the form of rebellion. Haymitch refused to be a piece in their game and tried to end it, and the jabberjay, in the eyes of the Capitol, created a freak of nature that showed the Capitol’s lack of complete control.

Katniss was the mockingjay, a slap in the face of the Capitol, something that was never meant to exist. Together, the song of the mockingbird that lived on for generations and the stubbornness of the jabberjay that refused to die, the mockingjay had the best of both worlds. It was a symbol of rebellion and unity.

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katniss: how do you think haymitch won the games?

peeta: he outsmarted the others

haymitch in his games: drinks poison water, falls asleep in a blueberry patch without attempting to cover his tracks, tries to pet a bunny during the countdown, makes an alarming number of bunny-related decisions in general

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so you’re telling me that after what happened to louella/lou lou haymitch had to watch peeta come back from the capitol as a “mutt version of himself” and question whether the shell of a human with peeta’s face was even peeta at all

and he had to do all that SOBER???

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I'm reminded of "The Hunger Games" and how perfectly Suzanne Collins showed the discord, descent, and dystopia of how the Capitol used hunger, poverty and isolation between the districts as a way of controlling those same districts.

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump will also die in my lifetime.

It really is so beautiful to think about.

I think about those three and death a lot.

Jk Rowling will die in my lifetime and that’s so beautiful to think about

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Tumblr.com is a great place where you can go to traumadump things you’ve never told anyone in your life to thousands of strangers for no reason

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Eating uninspected food is going to crush supermarkets when food poisoning and E. coli start wiping out brands.

Lawsuits for selling tainted food.

This will kill people. This will not save money or end waste or stop fraud.

Republicans are sadistic bastards.

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i hate when rich people condescend with the whole 'money can't buy happiness' argument like listen. just because buying your fourth car didn't fill the void in your deluded disconnected-from-reality life doesn't mean not having to worry about food/ bills/medicine wouldn't greatly improve the mental health of literally everyone else on the planet

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#SHE’S GONNA ROLL BACK INTO WINTERFELL AS THE PEOPLE’S PRINCESS#like THE WOLVES ARE BACK#with her being the poster wolf girl

if I think about how the smallfolk/lesser nobles all refer to sansa as "winterfell's daughter" who transforms into a wolf, but all the nobility refer to her only as the dwarf's wife, or lady Lannister, and now sansa stark while masquerading as bastard is thus stripping her self of the deference and superficialities of her class but is yet becoming closer to her heritage for too long i will cry.

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WOTD: theofascoligkakracy

MAGA for short.

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Make it dangerous to be a Nazi. Organise a group in your local community. Stalk them. Make them aware they're in danger. Show them that being a Nazi won't pass. Write Nazi on their house, lawn, door, mail. Tell everyone they're a Nazi. Make sure people know they're a Nazi. Make them feel unsafe without ever laying a finger on them.

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#What else didn't you fully appreciate Katniss?#What colour are his eyes Katniss#How long are his eyelashes#Hey Katniss what does his heartbeat sound like#Katniss I dare you to tell us what literally any other person's arms look like. You can't. You simply don't know.#You've never noticed that anyone else even has arms#I'm joking I love her forever she's perfect to me#His arms aren't as steady as they used to be because he's SHAKING from having them around you

I had to include the OP's tags, because they are gold!!!

"not fully appreciated then" from the girl who not once in three books could shut up drooling over his arms. Katniss be serious. If that's not fully appreciating his arms then quite frankly Full Arm Appreciation does not belong in a PG13 rated book.

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Not to mention the emotional/physical abuse he faced at home from his mother. Plus the general trauma of the Hunger Games. Took on the entire career pack to give Katniss a chance to escape when she was high as a kite from the tracker jacker venom. Blood poisoning from the leg wound Cayto gave him. Oh, and lost said leg that Cayto stabbed. Came back from his own torture and found the strength to fall in love with Katniss, not once, but TWICE!!! Plus, being re-traumatized when he and Katniss did invade that Capitol and were fighting to get to Snow's mansion so Katniss could assassinate him.

In conclusion...find yourself a Peeta.

peeta has the strongest constitution known to man bc he survived his heart stopping at least twice, running into flames and all the burn scars & smoke inhalation that comes with that, and ALSO being tortured to within an inch of his life. what the fuck is he made of?? bricks??

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I wholeheartedly believe Peeta knew Katniss loved him, in Catching Fire and pre- hijacking Mockingjay.

It’s part of the reason why they had to hijack him.

They showed him propaganda and tried to convince him that Katniss betrayed him and never cared about him.

They tortured and threatened him.

And it should have worked but Peeta knew Katniss loved him. He felt it on the beach. He could see it in her eyes.

Nothing they said to him, showed him, threatened him with could change what he knew in his bones.

The Capitol tried to use him as a mouth piece, to discredit Katniss and the rebellion. To dowse the fire that was started. But it wasn’t enough, especially when he outright aided the rebels by warning them of the incoming bombing.

Hijacking was the only why they could convince him Katniss wasn’t who he thought she was.

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iconic things suzanne collins did in sunrise on the reaping:

had haymitch declare himself an lgbt+ ally

confirmed snow is still habitually crashing out over lucy gray 40 years later

made me cry over the regina george of district 12

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I didn’t want to let them in, her and Peeta, but the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love.

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The Hunger Games (2012) dir. Gary Ross