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one day he'll follow you home

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everything that gets "revised" about the games in sunrise on the reaping is less interesting than what we can infer from the original series. which is a big issue if your book is about propaganda. haymitch's story as we inferred from the trilogy is as follows: a sixteen year old kid randomly gets chosen for a nightmare death match, is lucky enough to find an arena loophole and gets punished ruthlessly for it, and then goes into substance abuse and retreats from society as he has to watch two kids from his home die every year for 23 years.

all of that is so much more interesting than a 16 year old who is chosen to go into the arena after an act of rebellion, who gets chosen to be an agent of the rebellion before entering the arena for no reason, who personally stands up to and defies the fascist leader, who somehow does not die a brutal death in the arena as soon as possible because of said defiance (so that snow can kill his girlfriend in front of him? each collaborator dies brutally but for some reason haymitch lives and it makes no sense). and then descending into madness and alcoholism explicitly and immediately because your puppy love girlfriend dies and you can't handle it.

also collins took one of the most interesting and multifaceted characters of the trilogy and was so afraid of exploring negative qualities. haymitch is known for his mean streak, his intelligence, and his deep-rooted care. none of that is seen here. in fact, he reads (and reads himself) as dumb, his intelligence eclipsed by his rebellious girlfriend, who teaches him big words and that maybe the world could be better. he's never mean - the haymitch of sunrise on the reaping would never tell 17 year-old katniss "you could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve that boy." in the arena, everything he does is out of kindness for the weakest tributes. every alliance and action pure, when it could have been really interesting to navigate what being placed in a "49 other kids or me" death trap does to your psyche in the moment.

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i love you like all-fire

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Love Death Robots Season 4 How Zeke Got Religion (2/2)

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roy mustang but she's a butch lesbian. and she looks exactly the same

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has this been done before

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What a happy and normal newlywed couple

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still thinking about the new photos

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funger doodles

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a couple studies of Cobel just standing there menacingly

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