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shaved my head to force a change / to be unrecognized

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all it takes is one whiff of a certain smell and suddenly you’re everywhere you’ve ever been before

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cant stop thinking about sunrise on the reaping. a revolution IS really just trying again and again and again and having HOPE that itll succeed this time. and oh god plutarch talking about how they would need better timing ... the 75th hunger games arena being a clock... im SICK

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Long shots

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who else fucking lol’ed at piss poor peacekeeper coriolanus snow putting up posters of his face with PANEM’S #1 PEACEKEEPER like ok loser sure is this peacekeeper in the room with us

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actually i love the reveal that the only reason effie got involved with the hunger games at all was because her little sister needed her.

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You're telling me Katniss is a living reminder of everything Haymitch has ever loved and lost? Cool!

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People are complaining about Effie being older than Haymitch but I really could not care less about it. She's older than him and she's Capitol so she probably looks younger due to having a bunch of fancy Capitol beauty regimes. Haymitch is younger than her but he's had a rough life and doesn't look after himself so he looks older than he is. And they've known each other for 25 years and spent every one of those years sending one boy and one girl off to die. And they have depressed middle-aged hookups about it.

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SotR is a realisation. A realisation that the rebellion didn’t start with Katniss. That all the people we see supporting her or helping her have all been wanting to fight but they’ve been failing. That there weren’t merely “rumours” of a revolution but there were many active plans playing out and failing.

It’s a reminder that the perfect Hunger Games we saw in the first hg book was an illusion because we had Katniss as our narrator. We didn’t have Haymitch, hell, we didn’t even have someone like Peeta because these people played the games. Katniss didn’t.

Katniss was introduced to us as a mad, simple, naive girl who literally only survived because of others. She didn’t know how much her taking Prim’s place mattered because she didn’t realise what it meant to everyone who came before her. To everyone who had heard rumours of how the last District 12 victor actually fought his games. No, Katniss had just kept her head down, hunting and providing for her family.

See, she grew up way before the Games got to her. She’d already lived through her dad’s death and watched it destroy her once lively mom. Haymitch didn’t have to go through that. Lucy Gray didn’t have to go through that. They were both angry, yes, but at the Capitol. Katniss? She was first and foremost angry at her mom. At her dad. She knew who was to blame but she had too much to do and deal with to think about that. She was already jaded in a way that the Games couldn’t touch.

Peeta? He was Haymitch. He knew what he was getting into and realised he was just on a chess board with no control. So, he adapted. He played the knight, the rook, the king, the pawn. Katniss? She just… did. Changing directions, not playing the piece she was assigned because she didn’t realise that’s what was going on. Remember her surprise at the crown twisting into two after the Games?? She was so oblivious. Until Catching Fire where everything caught up to her. Where everything so many other people had been waiting and working for caught up to her.

SotR is a history book. Rewritten and edited and published as a piece of fact. SotR is a mirror and it’s a reflection of what actually happens vs what ends up being shown. SotR is the playbook of those in control of any and every kind of media that we come in touch with. SotR is a wake up call and I truly don’t know how many will see it as such.

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It hits so hard, Haymitch being one of if not the rebellion’s first attempt at turning a tribute into a “Mockingjay” type figure and him failing at it.

And even though we as the readers know that in the future Katniss will succeed where he failed, Suzanne Collins does such a good job still making us feel and understand Haymitch’s despair and feelings of hopelessness. Like there is such a tragic truth in knowing that you’ve given everything and done everything right and sacrificed everything but it’s just going to take someone luckier or with better timing. And yeah it would probably feel pretty impossible to be optimistic about the future and anything changing after that, it makes so much sense why Haymitch hung on but just barely.

Like it’s miraculous that Haymitch didn’t give up on the cause entirely. But also I love this because like that’s not something you often see in media and I appreciate the depiction of overthrowing corruption being a decades long process and even though there are failures you have to keep trying.

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“and while lenore dove will forever be my true love, louella is my one and only sweetheart.”

that line hits so hard when you realize how quickly he was calling katniss sweetheart. through katniss’ eyes, it seemed insincere at first, almost like haymitch was mocking her. but now we truly know haymitch wouldn’t just throw that around. he truly cared for her from the start.

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the thing i keep thinking about is how katniss, despite knowing the capitol is evil and despite seeing how they edited her games to tell a story, didn’t question haymitch’s much at all really when watching them. really drilling in the message that no one is immune to propaganda.

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Song: a Poem by La Dispute

My picture and edit!

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me vs your friends - the flat stanleys

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just saw a post referring to neck deep as midwest emo as if they’re literally not generic pop punk and also welsh

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