"Mizzen walked with a limp, but he would still outmatch most of the remaining tributes if it came to a fight. Coriolanus wondered if, in the end, it would all come down to Coral and Mizzen deciding which District 4 tribute took home the crown."
(pg. 295)
you guys I am losing it over Suzanne and the way she just flawlessly parallels EVERYTHING in TBoSaS to the original Hunger Games. i just.. all the little nuances and foreshadowing that Snow is so oblivious to. he's just thinking things guys, he has no clue of the bigger picture. but we do!!! ahhhh!!!!!!
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okay fuck nyrotypicals but esspecially fuck how they make their homes
i had to travel to a nyrotypical house and Oh My Fucking God
nyrotypicals design their home specifically AGAINST nyrodivergents
HOW ARE YOU PHYISCALLY CAPIBLE OF SLEEPING IN A BED THAT IS THIS. BAD.
ALL THE PILLOWS ARE THROW PILLOWS.
NONE ARE MADE FOR SLEEPING.
BLANKET IS SCRATCHY,
BLANKET.
SINGULAR.
WHY THE FUCK IS THERE A ???DECORATION BLANKET??? THAT IS SCRATCHY AND GOES ON THE ENTIRE BED AT THE VERY TOP MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO GET TO THE ACTUAL BEDDING
WHY ARE THE OUTLETS SO FUCKING FAR AWAY FROM THE BED???
WHY THE FUCK IS THIS ROOM SO UGLY
DO NYROTYPICALS EVEN LIVE IN THEIR HOUSES? WHY IS THIS ENTIRE HOUSE DEVOID OF SOUL
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO DRY FEELING
WHY AM I RANDOMLY ALERGIC TO ROOMS????
WHY ARE ALL CLOSETS DOORLESS???
WHY IS EVERYTHING MADE TO *LOOK* DRY AND UNINVITING
WHY IS THERE SOMEONE BOTHERING ME EVERY 15 MINUTES
WHY IS EVERY TV SO LOW RES EXCEPT FOR THE SMALLEST TV WHICH IS ON THE CEILING AND ISNT FULLY VISIABLE BECAUSE I HAVE BAD VISION
HOW COME THEY HAVE A TV BOTH IN THE KITCHEN AND IN THE LIVING ROOM, WHICH ARE BASICALLY THE SAME ROOM, AND A TV IN THE MAIN ROOM, AND A TV IN THE SHOWER, BUT NO TV IN THE GUEST ROOM
AAAAAAAAA I WANNA RIP MY SKIN OFFFFFFF
I WANT MY SKIN TO BE OFF OF ME
I HATE THIS PLACE I HATE GOING PLACES FUCK EVERYTHING
ILL FUCKING KILL YOU AND SPIT IN UR FACE IF YOU *LIKE* ROADTRIPS AND DRY HOUSES BECAUSE FUCK YOU
I WANNA KILL MYSELF HERE
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HOLLLLY SHIT one of my coworkers just casually brought up the tiktaalik in the middle of a conversation (she went to the museum recently and was talking about how she had spent half the trip trying to science-talk with her boyfriend [who is an electrician]) and i had to explain that yeah no i am in fact kind of obsessed with this extinct fish
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i do think the jealousy in school reunion is really interesting i think thats a really fun part of the doctor companion dynamic to explore, what makes me roll my eyes is the we're both in love with him "the missus and the ex" thing
but like the jealousy thing on its own? just the flipside of the making people feel special thing that we explored a bit with 12. the doctor does single people out, does make them feel special, their attention is like a fucking spotlight who would be immune to that warmth
but the other side of that then is like, was it their attention that made me special? was it their companionship that made me special? thinking of donna going travelling "it's all bus trips and guidebooks and dont drink the water and two weeks later youre back home" like sure thats comparing what the trips are like but like, that also describes sort of like, who you get to be on those trips right? a tourist vs a hero
thinking of yaz in combat magicks being like "yaz liked wearing her uniform because it marked her out as someone who belonged anywhere. ready to help, and with the right to intervene. the doctor just breezed in and made the whole universe her business, like she was born to it, and yaz longed for that confidence." thats sort of what being the doctor's plus one gives you, right? access to everywhere, without consequences, except maybe your own death but the doctor makes you feel invincible too so you dont worry about that
so sure there would be jealousy but i think making it into an ex-girlfriend kinda jealousy flattens it? "in amongst 7 billion theres someone like you" and then you get to save planets. you become a part of the doctor's hero complex. you get to see beautiful amazing things but you also get to prove yourself a hero every day. thinking of rose "the doctor showed me a better way of living your life. you dont just give up. you have the guts to do whats right when everyone else just runs away" you get to feel powerful. you get a lot of agency where in your daily life you probably dont have a lot. thats what the doctor gives to those handful of the seven billion. so what if they take it away?
thinking of clara asking "why me?" and sarah jane "did i do something wrong?" why did i get this opportunity. and why was it taken away. was it anything i did? and if it wasnt, then doesnt that undermine all that agency you made me feel like i had? can i do this on my own too? and of course lots of companions prove they can, they dont need the doctor to be who they are but idk. i think it would still be kinda insecure-making when youre still with the doctor. when youre still in the middle of it like rose in school reunion. when you dont know yet what After will look like
and this is something the fam doesnt have to deal with i think. because they came to the doctor. they werent picked, they werent offered, they asked. they dont have to wonder 'why did you pick me'. which im kinda relieved about especially thinking about yaz? imagine having to wonder 'was i a friend of convenience' on top of everything else. oof.
and another thing is that of course for the doctor the rejection hurts just as much. when a companion says no thank you, your way of life doesnt seem that fun to me (anymore)
anyway so uh tldr i guess the jealousy thing is interesting but making it a romantic jealousy is not whats interesting about it
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