#Plus his parallels with Lucy in the first half of the book.

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I wanted to do a list of death flags that each Dracula character had but once I started with Jonathan it already got too long despite trimming it... So here's a list of how death-bound Jonathan is, will make a different one for all the others

J Harker's Mortality-coding

🏴 “The first [letter] should be June 12, the second June 19, and the third June 29.” I know now the span of my life. - He extends his life span beyond June 29, when he was supposed to die.

🏴 Dracula, a dead man, wears his clothes, bringing death.

🏴 I determined that if Death came he should find me ready.

🏴 Becomes the chief mourner of his father figure, later of his wife.

🏴 Dracula took lives on land and sea because of his actions.

🏴 I would sell my soul to do it.

🏴 May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me - He's the only one who asks for divine punishment for his actions.

🏴 Physically "transforms" into an old man overnight.

🏴 Vows to follow Mina to eternal undeath.

🏴 Warned of God's punishment by Mina and Van Helsing for his blasphemies.

🏴 The only one shown writing his Will, the only one whose Will we know the contents of.

🏴 Described while hunting as dark, cold, silent- while the men with him are called fervent, lively, and excited.

🏴 Declares We should stand or fall by our act - and that he is ready to face the gallows.

🏴 Mina: It took all my courage to say good-bye to my darling. We may never meet again.

🏴 Returns to the place where he was condemned to die, on a boat on a dark river.

🏴 Three times he writes goodbye, three times heading to his likely death.

[criminalmindsgonewrong]

is this your first time reading the hunger games series? whos your favorite so far? best book?

i read it for the first time last year and have read the full thing maybe 3 or 4 times since, i love it sm!

make sure you read book 4 as well, even though it isnt really in the *main* series, it includes so much background information about different characters (snow, tigris, the capitol & war in general) and draws so many parallels between the main three books and this one. not to mention it explains and puts snow's beef with katniss in a whole new light. (plus a movie is coming out in november!)

Hi hi!

So I am old and I am a total OG. I read the books as they were coming out, saw the movies as they were coming out, went to both minight showings of Mockingjay, cried both times!

I actually read BOSAS last month and that, along with the hunger games renaissance that's happening and Leftie on tiktok, are what have gotten me back into reading them! I'm also a teacher, so occasionally THG comes up on a syllabus, so I've been tabbing, highlighting and annotating this time as I go along.

I loved Ballad, and I've loved reading THG and highlighting things that now feel like references - the D12 victor who disappeared, all of the mentions of snakes and poisonings!

I owned BOSAS for a good year and a half before I picked it up - I thought it would be like a To Kill a Mockingbird/Go Set a Watchman moment, where I'd hate the addition to the series. I wasn't prepared to see Snow as an at all likeable character, but it was so expertly done! I loved it and I loved Lucy.

potential spoilers for Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

I had to put the book down during the hanging scene, the song's origin, when I realised the connection. I literally had to set the book down because that was so genius to me, it had so many levels. I don't even fully understand why, but that moment hit me right in the chest and I had to take some time away from the book.

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Season 7 Spec and Thoughts based on previous patterns. Updated 9/22

After SDCC and rewatching the series this season here’s a few things that I’ve thought of.... (and if you don’t care about the patterns, skip to below cut)

1) Once is the journey of 3 villains, Emma and Henry and the people that affect their journeys.   2) The way the villain’s redemptions are written are similar a) Killian turned dark for love and Emma was his catalyst.  b) Regina turned dark for envy and Henry was her catalyst.  c)Rumple turned dark for power and Gideon was his catalyst. 3) All of the curses had two individuals involved, except the final one.  One person’s intentions were to hurt and the second person to help.  Season 1 curse - Regina to hurt, Rumple added savior twist.  Season 3 curse - Pan cast to hurt, Regina to save.  Season 3 curse - Snow cast to save, Zelena to hurt.  Season 5 curse - Nimue/DH cast to hurt, Emma to save. Season 6 - BF cast to hurt (was there a save added? perhaps) 4) When Rumple tries to do things alone bad things happen.  Pan came back, Zelena came back... and in the finale, he dispatched of the worst evil around alone. 5) To me, the overarching theme is that to save your family/town you work as a team but ultimately it is up to you to save yourself.  S5a, Emma saved herself, S5b, Kilian did, S6- Regina and Rumple, started so S7 needs to be Rumple and Henry. 6) The S4 finale AU persona, at their best, were where the characters really see themselves.   7) Throughout the entire series, consistently they say magic comes with a price and that love, hope and belief are the most important things. 8) Season 6 yelled at us that season 7 was going to be the future and told through the eyes of the next generations POV.  

THINGS WE’VE HEARD ABOUT SEASON 7

1) It’s a requel - this fits perfectly because it’s a sequel for Regina, Rumple, Hook, but a start of Adult  Henry’s story.  2) Time is wonky because Henry aged but no one else did and Lucy is 10 3) It’s the ones who weren’t cursed in S1 plus characters from different versions of some stories they’ve already told. 4) We won't’ see other versions of the Old Guard 5) They continue with the same narrative. 6) In the round table interview that Adam/Eddy did they said a couple of things that stuck out a) that the cursed would be among the uncursed in the real world, b) that ‘she’ learned something from the first curse and separated the fairytale characters, c) that the show won’t be all about magic and d) that we wouldn’t know who cast the curse like we did in S1.   7) Also just my thinking is that season 7 and Henry’s journey is a metaphor for a teen growing up and leaving home and exploring the world.   8) The story is Henry’s love story and the journey of his adventure with Hook, Regina, and Gold.  And the words to promote are “To Save the World’. 9) In the finale, we saw Tiger Lilly with Lucy - the book that Lucy had there was the brown leather one. The book on the train is a hand drawn one like the one Henry made for Emma.  Significant?   10) We see a new savior this season.  Is it Lucy who is sent from the future to save her family?  Is it Tiger Lilly who sends Lucy to help OR Is it Rumple who steps up to the plate and realizes love is power?  (I do not believe it is Henry)

So I think that........

We see Henry leaving home in the opening of S 7, - based on what Lana has said it’s 5 years later. (I think it’s because the BF has already started creating turmoil in the eF)

Because of his realm hopping, he aged differently - similar to how the BF never aged in the Dark Realm yet the kids seemed to, at least Gideon aged to 28 after starting as a baby.  

He gets involved with a Cinderella from another realm and the wicked step mom wants to keep them apart.  In the stories, she does not have magic and so either she met up with the person who cast the curse OR they changed the rules, but I don’t buy they completely tossed what they did for 6 years.

He requests help from his family and Hook, Rumple and Regina go to help him, but the curse sweeps them up before they can help.   BUT not only does the curse sweep up Henry, Hook, Rumple and Regina, it also sweeps up all of SB, spreading all of the fairy tale characters into different places, possibly both in the real world, other realms, stories, etc.  (based on the CS pictures, I think CS go but she goes back to SB and sends Regina and possibly Rumple to the EF)

The reason the 3 villains were left with Henry is because villains never work together plus w/o Emma and Belle to keep Killian and Rumple on their good path, it is going to be easier to ‘turn’ them.  

Tiger Lilly sends Lucy from the future back to save her family and she works to get them all to believe.  Once they believe then the last half of the season is the journey to different places to ‘save’ their families/friends.  That way they can bring back old characters yet not have to worry about them being there at the same time.  

As for the villain.  I’m saying that it is Fiona.   Rumple dispatched her far too easily and on his own and that is going to come back and bite him on his behind. They will have to fight together BUT using the same motto as previous where ‘you do what you have to do to protect those you love’ would allow them to not necessarily make the best choice - which fits Colin saying it’s not all good or bad, you might see both.  

It also fits them not pulling a brand new story into the show just in case they don’t get renewed.  

Serves as a jumping off point IF by some chance they do get renewed.  

And just like in the S4 AU Emma will be ‘trapped’ unable to help them - she will be under a sleeping curse, possibly putting herself to under assuming her family would save her - and we finally get a CS TLK. - I know not holding my breath but please.  So I’m thinking possibly she’s going to be a swan - as I feel that Hook/Tiana’s stories are going to parallel.  So Emma will be ‘with’ Hook but not in the same form. 

Updated  -Lana said she was getting a LI and described Richard the Lionhearted very well.  I”m thinking we’ll see another book’s version of Robin Hood but Robin Hood is actually King Richard in disguise.  Now I need Sean back.

It’s a chess game and Killian (Rook) switches places with the King (Emma) then he, Regina (Queen), Rumple (Bishop) get swept up in the curse.  The King (Emma) is also removed from the game by the villain and I believe she is either under a sleeping curse or is a swan -  2 of the 3 (Rook, Bishop, Queen) will defeat the villain and then they will rescue the King.