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the most terrifying thing about conditional love is realising you are the one with conditions and because of them you no longer love a person you used to

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Today a very friendly Golden Retriever came up to me and I said "hey buddy :D" and the owner asked "do you know each other?" like his dog had a social life he didn't know about

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Hey just a quick check in- now that musk is like severely imploding on trump and their severed ties

Yall won't forget this part right?

Yall won't forget he's still a massive scumbag right? That he's still a nazi right? That won't get lost in translation right???

(I don't THINK it'll get forgotten but I really want to remind people that just because Musk is now bashing trump for all the shit we've known about him for awhile that we don't forget he was complicit. If anything his bashing and airing out trumps laundry makes it worse, because he KNEW all that and still worked with him.)

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I went into Thunderbolts expecting to stare heart eyes at Yelena the whole time and then Bob showed up, said “hi,” and I lost my faculties and OUT LOUD said “hi” back

In a full theatre.

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When I tell you I snorted!

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I believe you’ve sort of ignored the history of cinema with whitewashing here.

It’s not just about the hunger games. It’s about every book adapted to a movie that has come before. It’s about decades of adaptations that have taken canonically non-white characters and casted white actors to play them. Erasing layers of nuance to a story for the sake of “comfortability.”

And to say race is not a factor in the hunger games is actually factually wrong. Skin colour is described in every hunger games book and directly linked to much of the class divides. It may not be the biggest factor, but it most certainly is one.

You cannot discuss classes and the desensitisation of violence without also discussing the systemic effects of racism and bigotry. The inherent differences that a system with racist ideologies creates within each class level.

To ignore the effect of skin colour in the hunger games is to ignore the true levels of horror of the world of Panem, and is to miss out on so many more layers to the story. I hope you’re able to do a re-read at some point with the understanding of how race plays into the story, so you are able to see these layers in a different light, and perhaps delve even deeper into the story itself.

You fucking gringos are way to obsessed with race

Why are you all complaining about the Louella/Loulou casting?

No, their skin tone is never described

No, not everyone from District 11 is black

Race is not a factor in The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is about classes and how we have desensitized ourselves to violence

You will see/read about kids being murdered for entertainment and the first thing you complain in about the color of a child’s skin?

What the fuck?

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oh this is diabolical

If Lou Lou had the bug in her ear, what’s to stop them from having it in her eyes too?

rereading the entire hunger games trilogy and just reached the part where Peeta and Katniss watch Haymitch's games and idk if this has already been talked about but the exact lines are

"We watch from the point of view of one of the tributes as she rises up through the tube from the launch room to the arena."

first person pov. of a female tribute. someone capitol had put a camera on. as in, someone who has been bugged by the capitol.

AS IN, FUCKING LOU LOU!

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i am going to shout this from the rooftops:

Katniss, Haymitch, and the Seam inhabitants are all described as olive-skinned, brown-eyed (edit: and gray-eyed), and dark-haired.

Peeta, Maysilee, Katniss’ mother and the Merchants are largely described as blond haired, blue eyed, light-skinned.

The Hunger Games adaptations have a huge weakness to their casting because they allowed their white audience to overlook this very important fact, that the Mockingjay is a brown girl, that her mother was disowned for having a mixed-race and mixed-class marriage, that Katniss and Haymitch were long shots not just because they’re Seam but because they are brown… because the only brown characters in the movies (i.e. Rue, Thresh, 11 in general) were there to be tragic, not to be saviors.

Katniss Everdeen is brown, and I won’t forgive or forget the movies for erasing that part of her character.

this has been another tea time with hawk ☕️🦅

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Hey don’t cry it’s okay, just make the nestle toll house chocolate chip cookies but cream the sugar and butter for 10+ minutes and use flaky sea salt. Everything’s gonna be okay sweetheart.

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you kind of do have to let multiple layers of meaning and metaphor coexist rather than claiming one is the true reading if you want to get fucking anything out of art

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I read Louella as half native and Lou Lou as black forced into lighter skin. I don’t remember what exact texts led me to that imagining in my mind but it added to the horror of it for me. The horror of erasure being quite literal, of the knowledge of what the Capitol really thinks of people. I knew before the started casting they were going to do this but god why is it still so crushing every time they take an obviously poc character and whitewash them for the sake of “continuity”.

Like people aren’t stupid we actually are capable of suspending our disbelief and you actually could have casted these characters with accurate skin colours and cultures. This was an active, personal choice they made. And I’m so tired of it.

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Sometimes love is finally getting the courage to give flowers to the girl you like, because you found them growing in the meadows and they reminded you of her, wild and beautiful and free

Sometimes love is choosing to smell oniony for the day rather than telling the boy you like that you recognise the flowers he's picked for you

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haymitch says himself katniss is like him, but luckier.

katniss realized the berries were nightlock before peeta ate them.

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Imagine casting the character who is forcibly taken from her home, tortured, robbed of her identity, and dies unknown and largely unmourned at the hands of her oppressors as white. what?

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