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never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

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Suzanne Collins gripping my face with her hands: listen listen the first step to evil is dehumanisation, always, the second you start to see people as less than people no matter what they've done to you that's when you start heading down a path of selfish destruction and violence

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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and if you get rid of every depressed scrawny british boy hopelessly in love with his best friend, who's going to be the glue to your fucked up little maze experiments, ava paige?

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I think the most radical thing the hunger games does is tell young people that the most revolutionary thing you can do is have unconditional love for humanity. Katniss throughout the entire series is guided by a deep sense of compassion for the people around her. It is what causes her to volunteer, to bury rue, to mercy kill cato, its why she tries to save peeta, why finnick telling her to remember who the real enemy is works, and even though her compassion for the larger world falters when peeta is kidnapped, it comes back when she visits hospitals and asks for mercy for other victors and ultimately, it is love and belief in a better humanity that makes her kill coin. Through it all, she maintains an unfaltering belief in the fundemental goodness of humanity, which is diametrically opposed to dr gaul's and snow's worldview. Peeta is even more unwaveringly compassionate

So the series tells young people that the most revolutionary thing you can be is compassionate. Let compassion drive your politics. Let yourself believe in the fundemental goodness of people. And i think that's deeply important in a world that touts the superiority of pure reason or logic, to allow yourself to be guided by something as emotional as compassion. Katniss everdeen tells us that your politics should be rooted in compassion in a world that thinks detatchment or cynicism is intelligence and i think thats v cool

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hello good evening i am here to enlighten you and increase your viewership of tdc manifold: when newt goes on his "is this about your little girlfriend" "don't lie to me" spree, consider the following...

newt isn't just jealous of thomas' potentially lingering affection for teresa (although he definitely is jealous of that), he's also flippin losing it because he has felt the same draw towards wicked ever since they started plotting out how to get minho back, the draw to get teresa back or at least the draw to get to scream at her and shake her for betraying them so badly.

and newt is as angry as he is at thomas for still caring about teresa, because he does, too.

and imagine, that's even rougher for newt to feel bc he owes minho his life, so having a part of him that still wants to talk to teresa, that still wants her (back) has got to be killing him. because he should unambiguously hate her for taking minho. but he doesn't.

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what makes Snow such a formidable villain within THG universe is that nothing he does was set in stone. there was no sense of inevitability about his actions and his brutality. Snow had enough perspective of poverty, capital cruelty, district hunger and not to mention his own arena experience’ and yet he actively chose at every moment to stray from natural goodness. its even more terrifying in the sense that he had the ability to care. Snow is not a mindless sociopath, he displays feelings to others such as sejanus, lucy grey and tigris but ultimately he will always choose himself. his ability to betray those he cared about in order yo advance himself makes him so much more than the stereotypical villain who is forced into his actions.

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if i could hold you for a minute

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THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 (2015) dir. Francis Lawrence THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES (2023) dir. Francis Lawrence

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coriolanus snow spends nearly the entirety of tbosas shit talking sejanus in his internal monologue only to throw himself bodily at sejanus when he sees him again in twelve and you know what? he’s so real for that

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THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence

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What I need everyone to understand is that while Belle is “not like other girls” it’s because she’s a little weirdo with a hyperfixation/special interest for medicine and surgery in the 1800s (due to her own life threatening health condition might I add) and it’s not because she is a pick me.

Those of you that think she’s a standard girl boss feminist know it all character with no flaws are entitled to your opinion, but that personally could never be me.

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Jack & Belle 1x01 - pt. 1

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An underrated Jack moment that I haven't seen discussed at all is the ep with Red's c-section. He's entirely confident in his ability to do it, but the second Red refuses his care he's thinking up the best possible alternative to save her life while respecting her wishes (and of course the solution is Belle). I can imagine someone like Sneed or the Prof insisting they do the surgery anyway "in her best interests" despite her wishes. Jack's unfailingly professional about it all though.

I’m sorry I’m so late to responding to this. Mideterms have been midterming haha 😅

But YES! You get it! I’ve said it before but there’s something so appealing about Jack’s character in that he has that snark and confidence and a little bit of arrogance that’s typical of the quick witted genius prodigy character types. But he’s still likable and not annoying because although he’s an asshole to people like Sneed or Gaines he’s respectful to people who are genuinely good or more disadvantaged than him.

I can’t quite explain exactly what it is other than vibes but he’s one of those “I’m better and smarter and more skilled than you” characters but in a different font because he does very much still have insecurities and morals. His wit and mind still aren’t quite enough to outweigh his station in society so he can’t just do whatever he wants. And like you mentioned with this episode he has extremely strong professionalism that he won’t compromise as a doctor he doesn’t put his arrogance above his patients like I feel we so often see with these types of characters.

I could talk about the storytelling genius of this show for hours lol but the point is yes you’re right that scene is so underrated!

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Nothing worse than being obsessed with an ocs ship you haven't even properly written down yet

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me: chat what do we think

the angel and devil on my shoulders: can you not call us that please