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The way i screamed when i read this. I was not prepared. Nuh uh

The memorial book?! 😭 Just kill me now

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When Snow first meets Maude Ivory in tbosbas he gives her a bag of candy as a kind gesture, then forty years later, Snow uses a bag of poisoned candy to murder Maude Ivory's one and only daughter and one of the last covey women. im unwell.

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hey guys um. comments are great and we love them but. don't ever comment on a fic to tell the author that you couldn't finish because you didn't like something about it. never. yes, even if it's just because of the formatting. thanks.

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some things about sunrise on the reaping/the hunger games universe i'm thinking about today

haymitch was close friends with katniss's father when they were teenagers... how many times did haymitch see her at the hob or around town and do a double take?

burdock everdeen is lenore dove baird's distant cousin, meaning katniss is connected to lucy gray's bloodline... literally snow's worst nightmare come back to haunt him, down to genetics

reaping day is on the fourth of july. idk what else to say about this one i think we're all on the same page about this

katniss wanting wiress, beetee, and mags as allies despite over half of the victor tributes wanting to pair up with her... the three victors who helped haymitch win his games

haymitch, the victor of a games with twice as many tributes, bringing two victors home as a mentor in the 74th games

despite having the most tributes and therefore the most deadly, with the least odds of survival per tribute, the 50th hunger games had the most alliances out of any other games

beetee's son being a tribute in the quell- i know we're all there already and it's been talked about endlessly but i'd like us to recall in catching fire when katniss tells the reader that the children of victors are reaped at a disproportionate amount... ampert was not the first nor was he the last. how many tributes were reaped to punish previous victors? "you tried to take away control from the capitol... look what we can take from you"

the circumstances of ampert's death: mutts that were engineered just for him, just for beetee, designed to literally strip him of anything that made him recognizable while they killed him. beetee and his family didn't even have a body to bury, just a pile of bones

we also know that at the end of sotr, beetee's wife is pregnant, but when beetee comes to district 13 in mockingjay he is alone. was his family killed in the uprising, or was yet another one of his children sent to the games as punishment for beetee's actions before and during the 2nd quarter quell?

effie was the last person haymitch saw before the games began. she came into his launch room before he went into the tube... she was the last face he saw, the last person he touched, before the games changed him forever. she was the last person to know the "old" haymitch

maysilee didn't even like the mockingjay pin- it wasn't a beloved token that had a deep meaning to generations before katniss. it meant nothing until katniss made it mean something- until madge, maysilee's niece, made it mean something

gale mocking madge for wearing an especially nice dress and trying to present herself well on reaping day, and her defending herself by saying "i want to look nice if they send me to the capital" - maysilee being scorned by haymitch for her nice clothes and her necklaces until he realizes it's her own way of rebelling against the capitol... "i am going to make you see me as human too if it kills me" (they all try to dress their best for reaping day but gale & haymitch were bothered by madge & maysilee’s clothes as a status symbol)

haymitch mentions that hattie used to tell him "fire is catching", which later became one of the slogans of the rebellion via katniss's propos with plutarch

haymitch's token being a flint striker, and katniss being the girl on fire. katniss inciting the rebellion by succeeding at the exact task at which haymitch failed- destroying the force field. she wasn’t special, she was just in the right place at the right time and got enough support

we've always seen the quarter quell as a way of snow getting back at katniss for her rebellion in the 74th games, but after sotr we know she is hardly the first victor to rebel against the capitol. beetee was already a rebel in his own right, wiress and mags were instrumental in haymitch's victory in the 50th games, we can infer from johanna's characterization as loud and outspoken and certainly less than palatable to the capital's propoganda that she may have had a less than ideal (to the capitol) history... how many victor tributes were reaped on purpose? how many of them won their games through an act of defiance that was covered up?

similary, we know plutarch's plan with katniss was similar to his plan with haymitch... but surely they weren't the only two. how many other tributes, district 12 or otherwise, did plutarch and co. try to use as weapons, simply by being victims of circumstance? how many families of rebellious tributes, whether they were victors or not, were punished, because they went along with plutarch's plan thinking they had nothing left to lose seeing as they were probably going to die anyway? so much of haymitch's games was covered up and rewritten to hide his defiance of the capitol,,, how many other games were significantly or almost entirely fabricated by the capitol because of "unruly" tributes? was any of it real?

anyway i may be reaching with some of these but suzanne collins just gave us so much to think about with sotr!!! i've seen some dissent about how some of sotr disrupts the canon of thg but i think that's entirely the point... none of what katniss knew about haymitch's games was real to begin with, it's just what was fed to her by the capitol.

don't let media literacy die friends there are too many stupid people in the world already!!! mwah

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the "I'm not a drinker myself" to gradually becoming an alcoholic to numb out the pain pipeline

the "I don't want them to change me. turn me into something I'm not" to being turned into a mutt version of himself pipeline

the "I do everything in my power to protect my sister" to losing her anyway pipeline

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i can’t ever be angry with Sunrise on the reaping, when Suzanne Collins finaly broke the illusion of responsibility being black and white that this fandom drowned themselves on for ten years. Not when she managed to tell us that, even though the majority of District Twelve were political victims who relied on utter submission and obedience as a result of fear, there were the groups who enjoyed it —who’d fun in watching the Games and gambled about tributes chances of surviving, not any different than the dirty rich sponsor. Not when she made sure to approach the Capitol through the new understanding of how intelectual submission and the false sense of safety could create the illusion of freedom that was powerful enough to manipulate some Capitols to do exactly what Snow wanted them to do, while still believing they were ever giving a choice on the matter. Not when she had to watch this fandom segregating Capitol and District for ten year, with the argument that they were both different breed thus they “could never be the same because they were both raised in extremely different conditions and ethos”, and then made sure to spell out that those people didn’t fit in boxes of good and bad. That they were complex people and the ideological discussion can’t ever be widespread. That not all the Capitol supported the Games to it’s depths, and not all District was against the Games to it’s depths. And i am grateful for that! You’ll never make me hate this!!!

She saw how little we understood about society and how primitive we’re to develop empathy, then she’d created Wyatt’s father and Effie Trinket and Drusilla and Plutarch and Proserpina and Panache and the guys who gambled in Twelve and the woman with cat ears and Louella and Silka and Wellie and Great Aunt Messalina and crackhead Magno and Burdock and Lenore Dove and the Peacekeepers who didn’t want to look after Haymitch because they wanted to go to the after party and Woodbine and Willamae and Sid..

Those were people, those were complex individuals, those were imperfect characters that were perfectly described by Haymitch’s innocent teenager eyes and you can pry this gift from my fucking dead body..

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📻 v. 🍎

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Am I the only one who, for some reason, can't not constantly think about the memorials Katniss references in the epilogue?

"The arenas have been completely destroyed, the memorials built."

Is there a memorial for all the children who were murdered in the hunger games? All 1,725 of them? Did someone manage to dig up the names of all the past tributes? Can Haymitch go to the capitol and run his fingers over the L in Louella's name? Can Katniss look at Rue's name, engraved in something permanent?

Is there a memorial for all the rebel soldiers who died while fighting the capitol? Does Finnick's name reside right next to Prim's on a big glossy slab of marble or granite?

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Effie: What do you call disobeying the law?

The team: A hobby.

Effie: *crosses her arms*

The team: That we do not engage in.

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We don't talk enough about just how excited Via was on the morning of Seeing Stars. How there doesn't seem to be a single cell in her body that would've thought Stolas could've possibly forgotten about the stars. Showing us how rare (this is possibly the first time?) it is for Stolas to forget their plans.

And I will die on the hill that if it wasn't for Stella and the divoce being on his ass (and eventually the worry of looking for Via), Stolas would've 100% remembered Azathoth's Tears, because it only took Via saying "the stars you promised" for him to remember.

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PEOPLE. IN THE HUNGER GAMES MOVIE THERES A SHOT WHERE HAYMITCH WONT WATCH THE CHARIOTS.

IM GOING TO BE SICK BECAUSE WE KNOW WHY NOW

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the article got posted !!!!!!!

actually completely entirely over the moon at my name being right next to The Batman in ROLLING STONE !!!!?? i could scream. oh my god !! also, and most importantly, I’m very excited to help bring awareness to the harms of AI in fanfiction spaces. here’s the link to the article, and below are screenshots from it of where my interview was quoted !!

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happy birthday to my number 1

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happy birthday to my sister, my daughter, my best friend, my favourite protagonist, and the greatest to ever do absolutely NOTHING wrong ever: katniss everdeen!!!!!!

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does anyone else wish the blocking function on ao3 would also remove the ability to bookmark my fic for the blocked user?

That would be a nice feature

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Bruce, introducing his kids at a family Interview: This is my eldest Dick, my second eldest Cassandra, then my son Jason, my second youngest Tim, and my youngest Damian

Bruce: That's my daughter-in-law Barbara, and my other daughter-in-law, Stephanie

Tim: ??? Steph and I broke up forever ago?? How is she your daughter-in-Law?

Stephanie: I may not be dating any of you anymore but I'm the State of daughter-in-law. Daughter-in-law is not a family title, it's the friends you make along the way

Jason: I'm not high enough for this shit

Golden boy Dick Grayson: Me fucking neither

Jason: what

Dick: what

Bruce: ??? What do you mean she's not my daughter-in-law anymore?? I was counting on her marrying into the family :C

Steph: Sorry B, unfortunately your son would rather kiss superbitch than me

Dick: TIM IS KISSING WHO NOW

Bruce: >:( We'll talk about that later, right now-

Tim: I don't think that's necess-

Bruce: We'll talk about that later. Right now can't any of you date her?? Jaylad, you're sin-

Steph: HELL NO

Jason, already on his second blunt: You're so funny, old man. I'm literally co parenting my best friends kid. I'm literallyyyy be gay do crime. Haha.

Dick: YOURE WHAT WITH WHO NOW

Bruce: CAN ANY OF YOU JUST DATE HER

Cass, slowly raising her hand like in Hunger Games: I volunteer

Bruce: ...

Tim: ...

Dick: ...

Bruce: This is why you're my favorite daughter 🥹

Cass: Father, I'm your only daughter

Tim: Untrue. I did drag one time, that has to count

Steph: Does this mean I have a girlfriend

Damian: This family is a disgrace

Interviewer: ...