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I've been watching You, and I'm about to start the last season. And I'm really going to miss this show when I'm done!

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I guess the only question left is who is going to write the first Everlark WWIII AU?

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on that everlark coloring page shit [got the page from pinterest]

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If your sibling/relative (with same gender as you) being reaped to the hunger games, would you volunteer like Katniss did to replace Primrose?

Yes/No? Why?

If yes, what kind of strategy would you use to win the hunger games?

Thank you.

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I know this is going to sound stone cold to people, but I’m going to be real here… no. I don’t really want to get into it here because I’m not comfortable putting personal information on the internet like this, but I have my reasons.

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I wouldn’t put it past Snow to have the name changed, to be honest. Doesn’t he manage to get her Games erased from the record?

WAIT A SECOND

so are they reading Lucy Gray’s name out??? has Katniss known her name the whole time??? has Haymitch??? or do they just say … something else? is this a continuity error?

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I know I’m old, because the kids are making “We’re in the Franz Ferdinand stage of WWIII,” and NOT using “Take Me Out” as the song to go with it. 🤨

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i know people say that gale was katniss’s best friend while peeta was her lover, but i think there is definitely a point at which peeta becomes her best friend over gale, probably in catching fire

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When I first finished the original Hunger Games trilogy all the way back in 2012, I had no idea that one day we would actually get a book about Haymitch’s Games, and that we’d wait for the movie under the threat of WWIII. 🥰🩷

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No one is stealing my beloved RebelCaptain from me, you hear me? NO ONE.

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Real Or Not Real by fabiolagarza

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all the fear and the fire of the end of the world

happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl

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genuinely like. imagine being a lukeleia fan in 1983 and then going to see return of the jedi CONVINCED your ship was about to be #confirmed. i think about that so much. we in the modern era of fans have never been vibe checked like that. i’d lose my goddamned mind.

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I can't ever not be angry about how they were too cowardly to make Katniss as vulnerable as she is in the books in the films.

I think it really spearheaded a media movement that could only talk and show "strong" female characters if they were rejecting any of the softer sides of themselves. Where strong just meant more typically "masculine" and I think for a good few years as a teenager, it really did a number on me and I held on to a lot of internalised misogyny as a result.

It's Katniss' moments of weakness and vulnerability that make her such a realistic and human character and it's one of the reasons that makes her stand out against the other imitations of her kind at the time.

The moments where she shows vulnerability are also the moments that are so key to the book. It's what they discuss in 13 that she's better when she's on the spot and improvising- eg. when she volunteered, put the flowers around rue, called out for Peeta in the arena after the rule change. These are all the moments when she has real powerful impact and effect on people and it's because they're moments where she has let her guard down and shown a vulnerability.

Yeah, she can do all her cool badass stuff too and shoot her bow and arrow, it's cool. And I like that her and Peeta subvert the traditional stereotype of gender roles in their relationship. But she has SO much power in her ability to be compassionate and the moments where she is sensitive.

Also, I just have to add that she has rejected a lot of feminine things in reaction to her need for survival and essentially becoming the man of the house after her father dies. THG is about a 16 year old and despite all the chaos is still a coming of age story amongst other things. A big part of her narrative arc is letting herself be emotional and vulnerable and allowing herself to enjoy beautiful things again. On the topic of romance, she has been so independent and has been leading her family for so long that another part of her arc is about letting people in and care for her sometimes, so let her have her boy with the bread, alright?

ALSO she never thinks she's better than anyone else for not being interested in things like fashion, she just simply acknowledges that she has little interest in it, whilst still being appreciative of the work Cinna does.

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more stories where falling in love is a horrifying fate worse than death rather than a source of comfort and hope. more stories where love is understood as a terminal affliction.

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Loathing, unadulterated loathing! for your face, your voice, your clothing!

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