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Nothing gets past Aunt Agnes. I love this scene between her and Marian. She didn't threaten her! Progress!

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Marian Brook isn’t prominent enough… I’m surprised Agnes didn’t manifest into the room with a full family history in her hands to show off her prominence

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Bauer is Jack’s surrogate mother 🥺🥺 I love the downstairs so much

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I fast-forwarded through a lot of the episode to get to the wedding (mostly to yell at George for his continued lack of spine) so I’ll have more to say once I’ve actually watched the whole thing, but !!!!

there is no “thinking” that you failed Gladys, George. You did fail her.

I understand that George loves his wife and that that was a rarity for the high society set. I do respect him for that, and only for that. But love absolutely does not mean simply giving in every single time your spouse demands something. It seems to me that he never learned how to say no to Bertha, and that, I think, is going to be their eventual downfall.

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Not the aunt closing her eyes and lowering her head and Larry almost crying when Gladys walks by while Bertha is the only one smiling 😭😭😭 Such a small detail but it absolutely broke me

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#cousinsthatslouchtogether or however that saying goes

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The Gilded Age | S03E01

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idk if this is a boomer take but I think ppl should make more of an effort to go see movies in theaters bc I couldn’t bear it if the movie theater industry went down and the only way to watch movies was through streaming I’m not strong enough

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"unalive" should just mean the opposite of undead. if undead means a dead thing thats alive, unalive shuld mean an alive things thats dead. no i dont have any examples. ☝️yet

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haymitch's sentiment of there being no winners, just survivors is so important to me because all of them lost what truly matters to them as a result of winning

katniss with prim, peeta with his sense of self, haymitch with his girl and family oh coriolanus snow you're sick just wait until I catch you

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'Why couldn't it have been you? Why couldn't you be who you were supposed to be?'

Emily Henry, from Great Big Beautiful Life

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haymitch didn't have to eat so hard after every character he cares about died... like what do you mean "who will sing your songs now?" "wyatt callow who's luck just ran out. i can't believe how hard it hits me" "whoever lou lou was she's gone now" "buddy? somewhere beetee's heart breaks into fragments so small it can never be repaired" "goodbye maysilee donner, who i loathed, then grudgingly respected, then loved. not as a sweetheart or even a friend. a sister, i'd said." like alright

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If the original hunger games triology would have been narrated by young Haymitch we would probably know under which star constellation Peeta's brothers were born.

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i’m so appreciative to suzanne for reframing the rebellion from the original trilogy as a “they saw their moment and took it” type situation and showing us that they’ve been trying, over and over, with so many failed attempts, to break the arena and incite a rebellion for decades. in this current political climate never giving up hope is so essential. haymitch wasn’t the first nor the last, and they kept going even when it seemed completely futile, and that’s what counts, and what ultimately saves them all.

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all i fucking do is cry on tiktok. just saw ANOTHER video talking abt how the meadow song is actually the covey’s map to their graves.

Deep in the meadow, under the willow A bed of grass, a soft green pillow Lay down your head, and close your eyes And when they open, the sun will rise Here it’s safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm Here your dreams are sweet, and tomorrow brings them true Here is the place where I love you

a safe place away from the capitol GOODBYE SUZANNE HOW COULD YOU?!

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The Careers are a metaphor for the Capitol and the Newcomers are a metaphor for the revolution

The Capitol scrubbed any mention or evidence of the Newcomer alliance because it would have sent the message to the districts that the weak are stronger together.

Wyatt says that the Careers always have good odds but these Games are different because of the alliances. Normally, the Careers have better odds not just because of their strength and training, but because of their alliance. The Careers are always outnumbered by the rest of the tributes but they stick together and they make plans. They are organized. The other tributes biggest weakness isn’t really that they are physically weaker or less trained, it’s that they are often on their own and fighting each other as well as the Careers.

Throughout the book, the oppressed are mentioned to outnumber those in power multiple times: the Newcomers to the Careers, District 12 to the peacekeepers, the tributes in the the training compound to the peacekeepers, and (obviously) the districts to the Capitol.

The tributes from 6 say no to the alliance at first because they don’t want to be targeted by the Careers. This seems so irrational because of how the Games work. The Careers would still try to kill then eventually so why not join the Newcomers to have better odds? But this is exactly what keeps people in the districts from rebelling: fear of retaliation from the Captiol. People know how brutally rebels and their loved ones are punished. But is avoiding being targeted actually better in the end if the Capitol is still in power?

Plutarch asks Haymitch why they submit to the peacekeepers and the Capitol. And when Haymitch says they don’t want to end up dead he responds:

“And yet, I still don’t think the fear they inspire justifies this arrangement we’ve all entered into. Do you?”

The Newcomers are the districts after they unite during the revolution. They find their strength through binding together against a common enemy. The Capitol had purposefully pitted the districts against each other because they knew if they stop fighting each other, they might finally unite and overthrow them.

They edit the 50th Hunger Games to make it look like Haymitch was a selfish jerk who played the Games alone and drove his only ally away in the end. The Games with the biggest tribute alliance ever was completely erased and replaced with a story of a victor who only looked out for himself.

The Capitol wants to push the narrative that it’s every man for themselves. Even the Careers will turn on each other eventually because there can only be one victor. They push individualism because it keeps people weak and under control. Unity will always be the most powerful advantage.

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Thinking about tbosas from the other perspective is so funny to me because imagine you’re Lucy Gray and the way you make a living is by singing and being a charming, charismatic performer. The people in your district love you, you have a nice family, sure your parents are dead but things aren’t so bad.

Then you get Reaped because your boyfriend cheated on you - so now you have to fight for your life in an arena.

When you get to the Capitol you’re met by a guy around your age who says his job is to take care of you in the arena, so you figure you should probably use some of those charms you live by on him so you have a better chance at survival. So you flirt with him a little, save his life etc. It works! He helps you! Now you’ve won the Hunger Games! You get to go home and see your family! Thank you random Capitol guy for your help, bye bye now.

And then you’re singing on stage, with your family who you literally killed people to see again, thrilled to be alive and this fuckin Capitol guy has followed you home.

Oh and also he’s a peacekeeper now so is legally allowed a gun.

And now he kind of won’t leave you alone - the charm worked too well and he’s obsessed with you. Brilliant. But you’re a survivor. So you let him get closer, just enough to feel safe. And as you get to know him better, maybe you’re thinking, hey this guy isn’t so bad, he’s kind of cute with his buzzcut and he seems to really like you, maybe this could be something. Also it might be useful to have a peacekeeper on side - everything in your district is about survival.

Things are going well, you write a song about him, he cries, your little cousin loves him.

And then he murders someone in front of you and you’re like oh shit he crazy. And THEN you realise that because of the person he murdered, the mayor is now out for your blood and you’re probably gonna die so you have to get out of there ASAP so you say bye to this guy and he INVITES HIMSELF TO YOUR ESCAPE PLAN and you have to be like “oh sure, that’s super news, would absolutely love to have you along with me, I’m so glad you asked.” So now you’re stuck with him again.

And THEN you’re in the middle of escaping and he fuckin tells you he’s murdered an extra person you didn’t know about and when you ask him who, he says his old self and now you’re thinking oh shit he CRAZY crazy. And THEN he finds the gun he used and you realise that if he destroys that evidence then you’re the only loose end and he has a kind of crazy look in his eye so you’re like, okay time to nip this in the bud, I’m outta here gotta go pick some katniss. So you run away from him and THEN he follows you again and fuckin shoots at you so you run FASTER and now you’ve disappeared and no one will ever find out what happened to you which drives him absolutely crazy for 60+ years.

Oh and also they’re going to erase all footage of your Games so no one will remember you and he’s going to become a tyrannical dictator who has personal beef with three different sixteen year olds from your district over the years, all because you hurt his feelings one time.