#Like COME ON

[teacupfullofroses27]

Spoiler free thoughts on the new episode:

[sillyness-incarnate]

Fuck gender, we ball

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

[dont-call-me-algernon]

Plutarch is the Raven, change my mind

Elaborating on this by absolutely no one’s demand but my own.

I saw multiple comments under a few sotr videos equating the raven to Snow or more broadly to death/fate/tragedy, which are all valid interpretations, but the thing, to me, is – the raven in the poem isn’t actively malicious. It’s just repeating an uncomfortable truth over and over, and the first character that pops into my head when I think about uncomfortable truths delivered quite nonchalantly is Plutarch.

From there I went and re-read the poem, and found a few other parallels (more under the cut!)

The raven perches on a bust of Pallas aka Athena aka the ancient Greek goddess of knowledge and military strategy, among other things. | | Plutarch lives in a huge mansion with a huge library and laments how reading is not a popular pastime in the Capitol. By the time of Mockingjay, he’s also become one of the key strategists of the Second Rebellion.

The narrator describes the raven as looking placid and unruffled throughout. In fact, it barely reacts and seems pretty unbothered even when the narrator starts yelling and cursing at him | | Plutarch is pretty damn nonchalant about his role in the Games and failed rebellion both. We very rarely see him irked, let alone angry or frightened, even in the face of possible consequences for his treason (I mean, we’re talking about the same guy who’s described as being all cheer and smiles while 13 is about to be bombed in Mockingjay…). Haymitch also calls him out for “looking well” and being way too blasé about their failed revolution attempt while many others have suffered the consequences.

The narrator is convinced that the raven knows the ultimate fate of his lost Lenore and more than once begs it to tell him if he’ll ever be able to reunite with her. | | Plutarch is the one who puts Haymitch in contact with Lenore Dove after he’s been taken to the Capitol, and once again the only person Haymitch can rely on to get news about her after his victory.

Towards the end of the poem, the narrator snaps at the raven when it doesn’t tell him what he wants to hear. | | During their last dialogue in sotr, Haymitch snaps at Plutarch after the latter keeps dismissing his grief by trying to convince him that his loss has actually made him more powerful.

The raven ultimately refuses to leave and haunts the narrator for the rest of the night (the rest of his life?) | | Haymitch does his best to avoid Plutarch both during training and later during his Tour, but the man keeps hanging around him, whether he likes it or not. I guess it’s also safe to say that Plutarch must have kept in touch with him one way or another, as by the time of the 75th Games he’s managed to talk him into giving revolution another chance.

tl;dr Haymitch is the narrator, Lenore Dove is his lost Lenore, and Plutarch is the raven who’s been haunting him since the day he was reaped

(not included since it’s a literal case of “the curtains are just blue”, but still fun to think about: the curtains on the window the raven flies in through in the poem are definitely “just purple”, but there is one character who’s explicitly described as wearing purple during his first appearance in sotr and once again in the og trilogy…)

[hyperfixatedmess873]

Words can’t describe how perfect this is

[honeyed-ghost]

Back at home my wife awaits for me.

She’s my everything.

My Penelope.

Based on Paolo e Virginia by Alessandro Puttinati.

[purplehoover]

I ADORE I ADORE I ADORE I ADORE I ADORE

Fat beans

[cedric-k-rossignol]

either hug her or hand her a gun you men are useless

[softestbuckley]

i'll never get over the shameless way eddie was watching buck during the poker game

[i-live-inyourwalls]

“for soccer” LMFAO

[multiversal-madnessblog]

*crys*

LIKE COME ON ALL I WANT IS TO MAKE AN UZI PLUSH WDYM I HAVE TO DO 120 STITCHES IN ONE ROUND JUST FOR THE HEAD

Not only that, but THE PATTERNS HAVE YOU MULTIPLY

Like: (3inc, 2sc, 1dc) × UNTIL YOU'RE DONE WITH LIFE

😭

You think you will take up a nice artistic hobby. FOOL! It is maths!

Crochet? Maths.

Knitting? Maths.

Drawing? Maths.

Sewing? Maths AND Ironing!!!

Everything is maths!

[cxrrodedcoffin]

sorry but this is so absurd like i know this man whimpers so pathetically in bed

[danibee33]

*ahem* Simon “Ghost” Riley (that’s it, that’s the whole post)

[tea-cuz-why-not]

I’m calling it now, Sam’s gonna become an avatar, willingly.

[writingadjacent]

baby steve and his winnie the pooh stuffed animal live in my head rent freeeeeee

like toddler steve dragging his winnie around all the time, sobbing when it needs to be washed and sitting in front of the washing machine and watching it go through so he can make sure winnie is safe

steve cuddling winnie when his parents fight and yell in the living room and steve, sitting on the couch, doesn't really understand whats going on just that his parents are yelling and it's scary

steve growing up and learning that it's 'not accepatible' to carry around your winnie the pooh stuffie and leaving it at home. crying the first time he had to

cuddling every night with winnie through highschool. starting to put winnie away when he has girls over and hiding winnie when nancy comes over because what if she makes fun of him the way tommy did in elementary school

introducing winnie to robin after robin introduces steve to her stuffed dog (puppy) and robin taking it very seriously as she can tell how important winnie is to steve

steve hiding winnie when eddie comes over for the first time, because eddie is his boyfriend and what if eddie makes fun of him for it because eddie is so cool and metal and guys who listen to that kind of stuff definitely don't have stuffed animals or date guys who do... right?

being proven wrong when he vistis the trailer one night and eddie is asleep cuddled around a stuffed tigger and steve smiles slightly because of course eddie had a stuffed tigger. introducing winnie and tigger to each other was easy after that and steve got to spend every night with Eddie and winnie and tigger and yeah

[glissoway]

the 90's audience didn't appreciate S5 john carter with beard working as an RA and for that i'll never forgive them