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Between the clock and the “we need someone like you- luckier maybe or better timing. Wouldn’t help if they had an army at their back”…

What if Plutarch or other Capitol members of the rebellion were the ones to arrange the third quarter quell reapings? Either planted the seed for Snow or made the swap themselves.

Plutarch probably had multiple schemes in place to be in charge of the games or at least one of the lead game makers. What if this was his way of getting MULTIPLE rebellious victors in the arena to try and blow it up together? Ones with more training and anger and protection from their victor status than the average kid reaped. He probably figured he’d get Haymitch again, or some other victor similar to him, and could get Beetee and Mags and Haymitch in there to back them up.

It was just extra good timing that Katniss and Peeta came along the year before.

Sunrise on the Reaping really makes you question how many rebellions took place, how many attempts to break the arena and stop the games happened before Katniss came along. Plutarch says “Luck or better timing” and it truly is timing. Knowing that the people in the rebel plot in catching fire had already done this at least once (because this is not guaranteed to be the first attempt), makes its success make more sense.

They learned from their mistakes, they had people (aka Plutarch) on the inside in a better position, timing was essential to making the rebellion work.

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There’s something so ironically twisted that Haymitch’s name was never pulled from the reaping bowl for his games - he took someone else’s place in a rigged draw.

Then 25 years later Haymitch’s name is pulled in truth for a draw rigged in a different way - and someone else takes his place.

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Not to mention a character who for the first three books all we really know of him is that he canonically abuses the students he teaches.

(Obvious blanket fuck harry potter disclaimer)

I’m white so obviously take what I have to say with a grain of salt but it does set off some alarm bells for me to be casting a Black man to play a character who is:

* Repeatedly described in the text as extremely ugly

* In part defined by an unrequited romantic and sexual obsession with the (white) protagonist’s mother

* Textually a former member of a racial supremacist organization, only defecting after the death of aforementioned white woman

Also who has a backstory where he gets tormented and bullied by a group of white kids, including being hung upside down (!!!), which I cannot possibly imagine they will handle at all tactfully given the massive change in connotation this casting brings

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Apollo dodgeball, bless us all

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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Hen Wilson is stronger than I am because if my boss vaguely implied that he was leaving and I was about to be in charge AGAIN (a responsibility that has brought me nothing but stress and trauma the two times it has happened before to the point I willingly flew into a hurricane in a helicopter to get my boss back) and then implies via a terrible name pun that this involves being a pseudo parent to my coworkers and nods behind me NOT to the baby probie but to the two men who are maybe a DECADE younger then me…..

I would walk out and take Chimney with me

Bobby said “I’ve tried my best but so far we’ve had minimal results, I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a job for a member of the LGBT. Good luck, finish what I started. Do what I couldn’t do”

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^^^seriously. I had seen 9-1-1 posts for YEARS I knew everyone was shipping the two guys together with no other context for the show. It was all over this fucking site.

I finally started it last week once I heard they actually did confirm the one guy as bi, because “hey actual openly queer representation!” Only to learn there was an OPENLY LESBIAN WOC with a WIFE and a KID on the show since episode fucking one. Y’all really tanked this one.

while 911 is blowing up rn here is hen shes a lesbian paramedic also she has a rocket scientist wife

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“I’ve never heard of them.” No matter who you’re talking to you’ll infuriate them.

the beatles are an infuriating band to me as a relentless contrarian. liking them is cliche, hating them is cliche, being indifferent towards them is cliche. it's impossible to have an novel or interesting take on the beatles in current year. like how am i supposed to win here?

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I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

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 New Years Resolution? No, you misheard me. I said New Years Revolution.

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The last bit is deeply reassuring to me, whose first thought after finishing book three’s epilogue was “this was perfection and I love this group of seven queer radicals” and second thought was “oh god WWI is in FOUR YEARS.”

Hello! I just finished reading A Power Unbound, and firstly I wanted to tell you that I love this trilogy so, so much. I recommend A Marvellous Light to basically everyone I meet, and I was SO excited for this last book upon learning Ross and Hawthorn were the main couple. It did not disappoint!! I'd loved Hawthorn from his first scene in AML and him getting his own book and romance made me so happy. So THANK YOU for these wonderful characters and beautiful books, I'm very much looking forward to your future writing!

I did have a couple questions, if you had answers you're at all willing to share. Hawthorn stan that I am, I'm also fascinated by the drama that is Edwin/Hawthorn lmao, I think that sort of doomed relationship is so delicious. Have you written or would you ever write anything prequel-y about them? A short story or the like? If not, is there anything you brainstormed up about them that didn't make it into the books?

Secondly, do Edwin and Robin ever find out that Ross wrote the Roman books? Because that would be such a funny scene.

Thank you again, and thank you for answering the asks about this series you've gotten here, I love reading your responses and learning more about the books/your writing process :D

hello! thank you so much!

I'm skipping a few asks ahead in the queue to answer this one, because I think my answer will apply to (and hopefully anticipate) some other asks: if it's not in the books or any other Official Published Content, then I'm mostly not going to comment on events that happened offpage or may happen offpage in the future*.

as a fanwriter myself, and as an author who's made the decision to engage with readers on a predominantly fannish platform... I prefer not to come down all Word Of God and deny readers or fans the pleasure of coming up with their own answers. whether you intend to write fanfic about it or just happily develop your own headcanons: the text is out there, so it's yours now!

so the answers to 'what was edwin and jack's relationship like' and 'do edwin and robin ever find out about alan's books' are both: whatever you want it to be. whatever the next fanwriter wants it to be.

*the only exception to this is: yes, they all survive world war one, I'm not a monster

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Bruce Wayne coded

On my way home from work tonight I saw a white tail doe with five fawns of varying ages. Ma’am. Those are not all yours.

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Call Shrodinger, we found his cat.

Venus fly trap

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Hi. Teacher here. Middle school, specifically.

You’re right, it is bullshit.

It’s bullshit that I have to require kids to ask to use the bathroom because we’ve had students just walk out and spend the entire period in the bathroom or wandering the halls, kicking doors or vaping. It’s bullshit that I have to make sure I have a system in place to ensure I know where students are for their own safety, because schools aren’t a safe place.

Tardies are bullshit. The kids that come to class half way through the period aren’t “tardy” they’re skipping, and it’s bullshit that I have to pause my lesson, update the system, and then catch them up at the detriment of their classmates who arrived at the start of the period. But hey, no child left behind right?

Not accepting late work is bullshit. You know what is also bullshit? A kid turning in all of their assignments the last week of school and demanding the teacher grade them all because the school doesn’t allow for a no late work policy.

The biggest bullshit of all though? Is that the kids and teachers are shoestringed into following these rules because our government can’t bother to fund schools enough to make them a safer, better place to be, where ALL the students can get the support they need to succeed.

to any teenagers reading this i just wanna say that you're right. homework is bullshit, not accepting late work is bullshit, tardies are bullshit, having to ask to use the goddamn bathroom is bullshit. any adult who tells you differently is either lying or doesnt remember how much it sucked

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I missed the weight of this line in theaters but upon rewatch (especially as a got older) it became more impactful.

Because that’s really their choice isn’t it? They BOTH know what they’ve been sent on is basically a suicide mission, even if most days they pretend not. Go on your own. Find these impossible items that can only be destroyed in more impossible ways. Then come back and STILL fight in the front lines of this war against dark wizards who will not hesitate to kill you, against a man who has killed the greatest wizard of your age already.

Because they’re 17/18 years old and already know the true happy ending lies in just getting to grow OLD. Not true love or happy every after or achieving all they ever wanted - just getting to live. They’re teenagers and they get up each day knowing they “have”to pick the “right choice” - the selfless one, the heroic one, the one that gives everyone else more of a chance then it does them- instead of just running away and getting to live. And this moment of true honesty and friendship and love between these two is the first glimpse we see of how much that WEIGHS on them; tempts them.

They could give up and save themselves and they know they’d hate themselves forever if they did.

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I thought it was because copper was used in the telegram

It's been said before, but goddammit I love the material components for spells in D&D. They're so stupid.

Detect Thoughts requires a copper to cast. Gust of Wind needs beans. Sunbeam requires a magnifying glass. Passwall uses sesame seeds.

Darkvision needs fucking. Carrots.

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just go see an ob-gyn