#read it and reap

[readitandreap]

Have you ever wondered how the "What Would Jesus Do?" Movement began?

Long we there for bracelets and t shirts and caps and stickers.... the was a man, and man who truly wanted to know what it would be like to do as Jesus did. It started as a small group in a large church and took off from there.

This book truly gripped my heart. I find myself asking "what WOULD Jesus do?" In my own life. So many of us call ourselves Christians, but do we have what it takes to make the same decisions Jesus would make? No matter the consequences??

7/10

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[lokielly]

“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.

[outromoony]

“They’re just fictional characters” ok then why do I feel like their heartache personally cracked my ribs?

[katnissmellarkkk]

saw this days ago but I wasn’t there yet… just got to ampert’s death. brb losing my mind.

[thesunpersists]

i cannot get over how much of a loser snow is honestly 😭😭 puked his guts out in front of haymitch, divulged how he's hung up on a covey girl from FORTY YEARS BEFORE, finally said something pathetic like"don't make fun of me again 😠" ffs be cool man

[assigned-boyking-at-birth]

[katnissandpeetamellark]

Idek we’re all depressed

[nonymous06]

Today I offer a few sunrise on the reaping sketches

[barbiesraven]

fucking hell

I just realized that haymitch is an alcoholic. AN ALCOHOLIC. not a morphling addict. though he probably could have ended up one.

so anyway. alcohol.

alcohol is highly flammable. so much so that it evaporates quickly and leaves vapors in the air that ignite when exposed to heat. like a spark, or a flame.

a spark. "It's almost as bad as us with the berries."

fire is catching. "Almost but not quite."

who mentored Katniss? who laid down the groundwork for her eventual acts of rebellion? who planned the extraction in the 75th games around her? who fueled her fire in order to pull of a full-on political movement?

suzanne collins I am begging you to stop making every last detail of your books symbolic in some way holy shit my brain hurts

[readitandreap]

How it started? Attending to read the entire Bible in 1 month.

How it ended? Started Dec 31, 2025- Finished Feb 1, 2025

Shortest book to the longest.

[everlarkyuri]

haymitch nicknaming burdock burdie that one time which sounds like birdie because we know that when he sings all the birds stop to listen and his daughter is the mockingjay and

[lokielly]

“plutarch seems genuinely happy, saying he's going to be able to edit the clips together into some fine propos. he sighs when he mentions the tools that were abolished and incapacitated in the past, ones deemed fated to destroy humanity because of their ability to replicate any scenario using any person. ‘and in mere seconds!’ he snaps his fingers to emphasize their speed. ‘i guess it was the right thing to do, given our natures. we almost wiped ourselves out even without them, so you can imagine. but oh, the possibilities!’”

WACK GENERATIVE AI AGAIN FOR ME, SUZANNE!

[thebadguyswinhere]

Ive seen Hunger Games fans say Snow was too much of a dramatic bitch in SotR. But to be honest, he made soldiers sprinkle rose petals to his enemies after bombing them, he has always been like this.

[chase-solidago]

Invasive Species and Xenophobia

Invasive species are complicated! People have a lot of feelings about them, positive and negative. Are plants that move "invaders" "colonizing", "immigrants", "citizens"? What does it mean to kill species that are from somewhere else? What if that species legitimately makes a poor neighbor and causes extinctions in other, native species? This complex, culturally-loaded issue is a foundational issue behind a lot of plant conservation and restoration.

This is a juicy and still actively disputed topic! The Guardian recently had a big article on colonialism in Botany, (tbh her views are dated and reductive, imo) and it’s come up again this week, to much hostility (cw: reddit). Yes, my region's native plant restoration came from literal nazis, but also, the impacts of some invasive species are real, not figments of a racist imagination. How do we balance these issues? What does ethical invasive management look like?

Since it’s such a juicy topic, I wanted to offer a few fun readings to share:

The Native Plant Enthusiasm: Ecological Panacea or Xenophobia?, Gert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, 2004, Arnoldia.

THE CLASSIC 20th century German nazis and native plants paper. Made a huge splash when it came out, and you will still encounter people who paint all native plant stuff with this brush. Summary: yeah the nazis loved their native plants and used them as part of their conquering process. Also, the first prairie plantings ever, located in Chicago, were done by a racist probable-nazi for racist reasons, full stop. I’ll let him speak for himself: “The gardens that I created myself shall… be in harmony with their landscape environment and the racial characteristics of its inhabitants. They shall express the spirit of America and therefore shall be free of foreign character as far as possible… the Latin and the Oriental crept and creeps more and more over our land, coming from the South, which is settled by Latin people, and also from other centers of mixed masses of immigrants. The Germanic character of our race, of our cities and settlements was overgrown by foreign character. The Latin spirit has spoiled a lot and still spoils things every day.” - Jens Jensen

Botanical decolonization: rethinking native plants, Tomaz Mastnak, 2014, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Rather than viewing native plant plantings as an act of racially-pure occupation, Mastnak positions native plants in California as a decolonization of the sub/urban lawn. Uses a lot of quotations from 16th century English philosopher Francis Bacon, and is heavy on the philosophical musings.

From killing lists to healthy country: Aboriginal approaches to weed control in the Kimberley, Western Australia by Bach et al., 2019, Journal of Environmental Management.

This paper talks through some of the native vs invasive debate, and offers a different perspective on how to approach to plant invasive management based on cultural relations, rather than country of origin or behavior.

Beyond ‘Native V. Alien’: Critiques of the Native/alien Paradigm in the Anthropocene, and Their Implications, Charles R. Warren, 2021, Ethics, Policy, & Environment

DENSE but thorough, if you want to follow the entire history of the native/invasive debate, this has you covered. The most interesting stuff, in my opinion, is the discussion of invasive denialism, IE: the impasse of “You’re just being racist!” Vs “You know nothing about ecology!” I recommend the Discussion, which starts on page 13.

[thesunpersists]

haymitch is like "the baker's son is huge. has meaty hands. built like a brick house. big log of a guy. AN ABSOLUTE UNIT. did i mention he's big? a large lad."

like damn we get it 😭