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It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.

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Ya'll remember in Oathbringer how Gavinor and all those guards were in the time dilation room, and it felt like days for them, but months or maybe even years passed outside.

And how gavinor is considered quite small and underdeveloped for his age.

Because he wasn't actually his age, he was actually younger.

Because he was in a time dilation room.

So either kal adolin and shallan just didn't fucking believe these guys (not surprising,) or they forgot to mention anything even in passing to Navani (which I don't blame them there was a lot going on).

Anyways.

Jasnah.

Childhood trauma.

Locked in a room for days or weeks or months (i can't remember what she mentioned), and no one remembers.

She landed in a time dilation room. Was it an accident? Did gavilar put her in there? Did amaram?

Everyone thinking she's off her rocker when she finally escapes/is let out. Belittled. Accused of making things up. It was all a dream, just a nightmare!

But it was real, dammit!!!

No wonder she's cold toward Navani and the ardents. No wonder she's a stickler for facts. No wonder she carved herself into the perfect figure. Everything is her choice, her calculation. Dissected, appraised, and evaluated. Ground down to the finest edge, buffed and polished. Not a scuff nor a smudge nor a hair out of place.

She was nearly torn to shreds because she was too easily dismissed as a child.

She will not be dismissed again.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence

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I miss them forever and always

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quiet scenes from around the house this winter 🕯️

all three originals are available on my website

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The agony of thinking you’re finished doing the dishes only to turn around and to your horror: the pot.

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i know this is old news but i literally can not get over the fact that a 'covey' literally means a small flock of birds. the covey people really are their own little flock of songbirds that were never meant to be tied to one place. suzanne collins the woman you are but when i CATCH you i swear.

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I can’t find the post, but someone suggested that Clerk Carmine is the fiddler who makes it out of the 12 firebombing and to 13 where he plays at Finnick and Annie’s wedding and if that’s confirmed somewhere, it just gives me ALL the emotions.

You mean to tell me that Clerk Carmine, who was just a kid when Lucy Gray got reaped, lives all the way up through every single one of these books and makes it to 13 where he presumably survives to see the sun stop rising on the reaping?

He lost his brother, Billy Taupe to Snow when Snow shoots him in TBOSAS. He lost Lucy Gray to Snow, (whether he killed her or is responsible for the mayor coming down on her for Mayfair’s death leading to her leaving 12– either way she had a grave in the Covey cemetary). He lost Maude Ivory (Clare) (presumably when she gave birth to Lenore Dove), and then raised Lenore Dove like his own child. Only, of course, for Snow to kill Lenore Dove too. Did Barb Azure make it out? Did Tam Amber? Or is he the last of the true Covey?

He’s also the first person to bring the katniss plants to Snow’s attention. This is one of the ONLY district characters that we have known all the way through the saga. There’s a good chance that he was alive for every single one of the hunger games, that he’s one of the only ones who knows the entire history of district 12 since the first war. And, in the end, he LIVES. He lives, and he’s still playing music and carrying on the legacy of the Covey into the new sunrise. And I think THAT is extremely significant.

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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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The Covey, on top of insisting that they aren’t being district and their more outright rebellions also bring a really interesting aspect of chaos to District 12: the world BEFORE the war.

I’ve been hung up on how Maude Ivory sings “Oh My Darling Clementine”, a real folk song from even well before OUR time. The fact that the Covey are able to remember and bring back culture from before the Districts existed is extremely powerful and dangerous to the Capitol, as it suggests knowledge of a world without the district system.

Very few other characters mention this, one being Plutarch (MJ 74 “We’re going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don’t look so suspicious; it’s worked before.”)

One of the biggest reasons why the Covey are dangerous is because through their music, they preserve times of old, and enforce further that the sun may rise on the reaping now, but it didn’t always, which means that it may not always in the future either.

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randomly thinking of this iconic king sleeping through the annihilation of district 12 that probably interrupted his nap

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post canon everlark…inspired by the scene at the end of mockingjay where peeta is planting primrose

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It's fun reading writers who clearly grew up in suburban/urban environments as someone who grew up on a farm because they're always like "oh it was so creepy, woods at night, eerily breathtaking, something was living in there..." and it's like yeah that'll be the deer.

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Nice!

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everybody give it up for female characters who are WEIRD and OFFPUTTING. maybe even LOUD and UNAFRAID TO TAKE UP SPACE. round of applause. NOW.

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PSA TO ALL READERS while wandering around a mall today I was ensnared by a powerful force that bade me enter a place called Barnes & Noble. in a daze I wandered the displays and was compelled to even pick up several books that this force attempted to foist upon me at great personal cost to myself. it was only through great strength of will that I was able to fight off this befouling force by withdrawing my cellular device from my pocket and logging into my library account to place requests for the same books at no cost that i was able to escape without grievous harm. truly it's crazy out there, stay safe and remember that libraries are always there to provide aid as you fight against such forces of darkness