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The strongest.

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Those puritanical Tumblr users with no critical thinking will go noooo....you cannot be interested in that Morally Flawed Character.....noooo it's not relevant that they are living in a Morally Testing World....what do you MEAN that fictional human beings do not possess Infallible Ethical Systems which ascribe to my own....

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The worst part of being in the middle of mockingjay is knowing that finnick is gonna get it any second now

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personally i think plutarch’s unfettered questioning was written perfectly because have you MET a new philosophy major

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Something that I haven't seen anyone talk about is the fact that Plutarch Heavensbee being the videographer in SotR relates to the real world Plutarch (who he was presumably named after).

Real Plutarch was a Roman writer most famous for his biographies that paired up and compared great Greeks and Romans. He wrote about their character (rather than simply history) and his works are some of the most complete and frequent sources used when studying the Roman Republic and its fall. Essentially, the lack of other sources have made his works the only real reference point for this time, regardless of their accuracy and the fact that Plutarch was writing a good century after the Republic had already fallen. We don't know how much of Real Plutarch's writing is historically accurate compared to biased its production under the Roman Empire.

While Plutarch Heavensbee's footage ends up removed as part of Snow's propaganda, his name serves as a reminder that information that comes from one source (be it a Roman writer or the Capital) cannot be be taken at face value. The trust we put in single sources is what allows for misunderstandings of history and blatant propaganda to persevere.

One Plutarch's stories lives on in a dangerously singular way; the other Plutarch's were swept under the rug to make room for a different single narrative.

TL;DR Plutarch Heavensbee's name is a warning to consider multiple sources. Think critically, and look don't trust something said by a single authority.

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Two kinds of reactions to sotr

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I really think that any theory/whatever that has katniss as a direct descendant of lucy gray is Very Dumb and also Stupid. I like that katniss is descended from the covey in general and i don’t even mind if it’s via another baird, for one thing it helps to explain how her dad learned all this survivalist stuff— while the covey are musicians by trade they were also nomadic and would need to know how to do all that. Between that and how that kinda knowledge can never be truly killed it makes a lotta sense.

But i also GENUINELY love the idea of a lucy gray descendant somewhere out there or even in the mix somewhere in the plot. I love the idea that after all that work to snuff her out she went off, survived, fell in love and had a family. And not in district 13 or some shit bc like… there’s gotta be more teeny lil groups of basically outlaws eeking out livings on the outskirts of panem you know? There’s still a LOT of empty space on the continent.

But just the idea that lucy gray went on to have the life she wanted, that her music lives on and her family lives on and all that is such a fun “fuck you bitches” kinda thing so i love thinking somewhere in the bg of the main trilogy is like, johnny tangerine baird mugging for the camera while all these ppl are saying the most Dramatic Ass Shit. Bonus if lucy gray is still alive and kicking just fine living her best post apocalypse dolly parton life catching snippets of snow on tv and shaking her head like “this evil fucking muppet i stg”.

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Just had a vision

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Hunger Games + YouTube comments again

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when Haymitch says that Proserpina wasn’t a bad person, but just extremely clueless, he backs his argument by saying that she wasn’t evil, she just had a lot of things to unlearn. which is a funny choice of words, cause while Katniss see her team as dumb kiddos, who couldn’t know any better because they simply didn’t have the brains to do so, haymitch doesn’t see their problem as a lack of education. actually, by saying she had a lot of things to unlearn, instead of arguing that she wasn’t very bright and needed to learn better, he’s subtly recognizing that the crux of the problem is not necessarily the quality of the education or how much capable those people were to absorb it, but how biased their system is in stimulating the critical process of their children. the capitol’s strategy was to corrupt their minds with the strongest and most efficient method of brainwashing —they held total power of how further their children could go in terms of knowledge. they manipulated the truth, made up scenarios and changed narratives so they could force them into unnoticed submission.

Intelectual control is the best way to make sure your people won’t start questioning your methods, cause as long as they don’t know any different, they don’t have anything to compare you to. and if you can hold the power of how much of the reality they know, you can easily control their natural desire for change…

and saying they are like that because they are child-like dumb is pushing them way too shallow into the conversation. the point of the capitol isn’t the lack of education. the problem is how much their academic influence aren’t used as a tool of ideology control. the smartest folk at school will still look up at the games as a blessing for the community, because snow’s intention was to efficiently erase the reality off their brains so they can work in his favor. so as long as you don’t have a reason to think out of the ordinary, due to some specific experience, or has the means and desire to educate yourself against what the common sense says, you won’t go any further…

and it’s fun cause most of those people wouldn’t even try to go out of the box, because that system was comfortable for them. if your choice is either to be starved in a war or to be comfy with your family in your three stores mansion, eating shrimps and going to parties in your fancy clothes at weekends, and the price for it is just to watch, for a week every year, twenty-four unknown children sacrificing themselves for the cause (which most of the people in the capitol believed to be a privilege to them, since that was the propaganda the tributes had to sell during interviews —which is another can of worms i am not going to open now), why would you want it to end? if all the government asks you in exchange for your protection is to be in line and don’t let your mind wonder to uncomfortable thoughts you didn’t even want to visit anyway, why would you? that’s the world you’ve been living on since ever, you don’t know anything else. in school they teach you that’s the only normal and you don’t have anything else saying it isn’t, so why would you feel bad? at home your mom and dad tells you the games are fun, so why wouldn’t you think they’re fun? should you feel bad just because you were lucky to be born in the capitol? that’s not your fault, that’s just what it is. if the districts choose to revolt years ago and then lost the war, that’s their fault, not urs

As Katniss says herself:

“In fact, all three are so readily respectful and nice to my mother that I feel bad about how I go around feeling so superior to them. Who knows who I would be or what I would talk about if I'd been raised in the Capitol? Maybe my biggest regret would be having feathered costumes at my birthday party, too” Catching fire, page 46

my question is, in this line of responsibility, where the submission ends and the oppression begins? if we can’t blame them for the way they think, because of how much knowledge they were granted by snow’s tendency of masking the reality, can we blame them for not realizing sooner that it was wrong? and not being to blame for the ideals that were carved into their scowl, does exonerate them from their actions?

i don’t know, those people are just so interesting

[and to be clear, i am not talking about the high classes of the capitol. it’s implied that those who’d access to real information, either from somehow being related into politics or for fitting the category of sponsors who were more or less involved in the underground political process of the victors lives, are part of a limited range of people! the majority of the capitol, though still extremely problematic, weren’t granted a close view to the backstage, thus most of their knowledge about it came exclusively through Snow and his controlled, manipulated narratives]

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I dont think you're ready for the takedown...

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Aang: i can't just go around killing people i don't like!

Toph, who locked two men in a metal box to starve a few months ago:

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i want to talk about my ocs but im literally this image. i got nothing

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my humor might be broken cause I find this trend actually funny

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Calling all Charmed fans! Could you please check out this DOPE lego house and then spend one minute voting for it on the -> Lego website

There's a chance we could get a real Halliwell Manor made by lego 🤗 I've attached a screen shot and bunch of images from the guy who has designed it, and he was happy to hear that I'm sharing this around tumblr. Please reblog if you have even a few Charmed followers!

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i explained the concept of freaking it to my 15,000 year old grandfather and he remained motionless within the glacier

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