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The mockingbird, the jabberjay and the mockingjay 🕊️ inspired by this post by @fromevertonow

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you ever get assigned something as a project in school and for the rest of your life you have a strange attachment to the subject. in like seventh grade i had an assignment to make a poster about the elemental propoerties of osmium and to this day everytime someone mentions it im like 'YEAAAAAAH OSMIUM MENTIONED!!!!!!!!'

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Katniss's Narration vs Haymitch's Narration

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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.

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Bank of Sapphire Cold?

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🌊🧜🏼‍♂️ONE WEEK UNTIL PUB DAY!🧜🏼‍♂️🌊

In seven days, WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON will be in stores, and to celebrate, I pulled together a playlist of everything I listened to while I was writing the book — plus some tracks that perfectly capture the vibes of my turn-of-the-20th-century Coney Island Mer-mance!

“Side A: Siren Songs” are all the vocal tracks, whereas “Side B: Ocean Instrumentals” is pure orchestral/acoustic/ambient music to melt even a cast-iron heart. ;)

**Full disclosure: if you wind up reading the book while you listen to some of these tunes, you may need an extra box of tissues handy.**

In a little while, I’ll have notes to accompany these songs that will explain how they connect to the book. (Can’t share them yet, though; not without spoiling the story!) Hang tight, and they’ll be along in a few weeks!

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy listening to the playlist linked below!

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if you see me finishing all of the hunger games only to start reading it again in a different language, leave me, i'm exactly where i want to be

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no because what was with the division between team gale and team peeta back when the books/movies released anyway? movies I understand, they made a compelling case for gale by erasing 70% of peeta’s loving nature but the BOOKS? miss katniss everdeen herself can only spare a few paragraphs over the thought of gale (usually accompanied by some other external factor like the rebellion or the thought of her mom and prim) but for peeta??? miss girl went on for pages and pages about his hair, eyes, eyelashes, sturdy and strong body, his comforting presence, his concentrated face, his wit, his humor, his ability to draw in the crowd, his ability to clear out the competition with his words alone, how she never has nightmares when she’s with him, how selfless he is, how artistic he is, how good his bread is, how creative he is, how much better he is than her, how much she HUNGERS for his kisses (and more), how willing she is to kill both of them off to save each other from torture, and how she could never live on if he died. she’d become like haymitch. like miss girl peeta was your Lenore dove since day 1 come the fuck ON. Get outta here w team gale.

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nothing brings me more peace than knowing that katniss everdeen spends the rest of her life eating warm cheese buns and being held every night by a man who loves her more than life itself. she deserves everything

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so after, when he whispers, “you love me. real or not real?” i tell him, “real.”

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“Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.”

How are we holding up? I’m still crying about Lenore Dove and the gumdrops

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Comparing Haymitch and Katniss' narrative styles is so funny to me because he's a yapper and she's a gatekeeper. He drops more lore on D12 in the first two chapters of SOTR than she does in the entire trilogy.

Haymitch is like "Yeah, so this person is related to this person who's related to this person and things are this way because of this and this thing actually came from here and this person is actually my best friend and also here's this extra tidbit of random info cause all my lore dropping comes with it's own additional bonus content and all my unnecessary commentary."

And Katniss is over here like "Tf do I care for if y'all know all the lore of District 12? I'm talking about my beautiful husband's beautiful eyelashes."

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2016 was so wack how did mystic messenger, voltron legendary defender, pokemon go, yuri on ice, zootopia, stranger things, and overwatch all come out in like a span of 6 months

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the secret to life is always having something to look forward to

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‘You should only send hearts to ppl you’re romantically involved with’

WRONG! BOUNDLESS PLATONIC LOVE, WARMTH, AND ENTHUSIASM BE UPON YE!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️