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ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʏᴄʟᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛɪɴᴜᴇꜱ...

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𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔪𝔰𝔶

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𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔫 𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔡𝔶 𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 🍂

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Today I’m thinking about the significance of Peeta Mellark, the baker. Not because of his ability to make bread and feed the people around him, or the artistry of his decorations. But his ability to work with fire.

To be near it, touch it, manipulate it. To keep it roaring - not too hot, not too weak - to keep it lit and not be afraid of it.

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the fact that people are still arguing over if gale killed prim...when the entire point is that it did not matter if gale killed prim because he openly advocated for the deaths of hundreds of little girls just like prim on the 'other side' and katniss could no longer see those prims as separate from her prim...and the bombs from 13 stole prim from katniss as brutally and absolutely as the sadism of the capitol would have because they were founded in the same desires for revenge and propangada

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Did you know that you can waste your free time by not knowing which activity to do so you do none of them

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One of the many things that kills me with Sunrise on the Reaping is that Katniss and Peeta saw that heavily edited version of Haymitch's Games that makes him out to be a "jackass."

Haymitch in SOTR is so incredibly compassionate and caring and selfless--he's not trying to win the Games, he's trying to keep his loved ones alive, he's trying to rebel against the Capitol, he's trying to protect Louella and Lou Lou and Ampert and Maysilee and Wellie. Despite his running internal commentary labelling himself as selfish and wretched throughout the story, it's clear that everyone can detect his gentleness--Effie comments on it, it's why Ampert feels safe with him, it's what draws the District 6 doves to him--I mean, he calls them "my doves," doesn't he?! It breaks my heart that he narrates the story with so much self-hatred, and it's even worse when the story is edited by the Capitol to convey exactly that--

And then Katniss and Peeta, the people who know him best and love him best, see that heavily edited story, designed to paint Haymitch as a jackass, a selfish wretch, and they don't question it for a moment. Even they, who know what it is to be loved by Haymitch, don't question the way the Capitol paints him. Absolutely everyone is blind to the gentleness in Haymitch, most of all Haymitch himself.

But I guess that's the power of propaganda.

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accepting that you’re objectively weird & owning it is infinitely better than being constantly desperate to appear normal to people who don’t even matter to you