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i had a dream about us and you weren't there

what else would you call a nightmare

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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SotR is a realisation. A realisation that the rebellion didn’t start with Katniss. That all the people we see supporting her or helping her have all been wanting to fight but they’ve been failing. That there weren’t merely “rumours” of a revolution but there were many active plans playing out and failing.

It’s a reminder that the perfect Hunger Games we saw in the first hg book was an illusion because we had Katniss as our narrator. We didn’t have Haymitch, hell, we didn’t even have someone like Peeta because these people played the games. Katniss didn’t.

Katniss was introduced to us as a mad, simple, naive girl who literally only survived because of others. She didn’t know how much her taking Prim’s place mattered because she didn’t realise what it meant to everyone who came before her. To everyone who had heard rumours of how the last District 12 victor actually fought his games. No, Katniss had just kept her head down, hunting and providing for her family.

See, she grew up way before the Games got to her. She’d already lived through her dad’s death and watched it destroy her once lively mom. Haymitch didn’t have to go through that. Lucy Gray didn’t have to go through that. They were both angry, yes, but at the Capitol. Katniss? She was first and foremost angry at her mom. At her dad. She knew who was to blame but she had too much to do and deal with to think about that. She was already jaded in a way that the Games couldn’t touch.

Peeta? He was Haymitch. He knew what he was getting into and realised he was just on a chess board with no control. So, he adapted. He played the knight, the rook, the king, the pawn. Katniss? She just… did. Changing directions, not playing the piece she was assigned because she didn’t realise that’s what was going on. Remember her surprise at the crown twisting into two after the Games?? She was so oblivious. Until Catching Fire where everything caught up to her. Where everything so many other people had been waiting and working for caught up to her.

SotR is a history book. Rewritten and edited and published as a piece of fact. SotR is a mirror and it’s a reflection of what actually happens vs what ends up being shown. SotR is the playbook of those in control of any and every kind of media that we come in touch with. SotR is a wake up call and I truly don’t know how many will see it as such.

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haymitch says himself katniss is like him, but luckier.

katniss realized the berries were nightlock before peeta ate them.

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haymitch: love is love <3

clerk carmine: yeah, but not your love. get AWAY from my niece.

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when your circle small but y’all doomed by the narrative

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Long shots

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The mockingbird, the jabberjay and the mockingjay 🕊️ inspired by this post by @fromevertonow

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how do y’all think haymitch felt when katniss came back to him all “i want wiress, beetee, and mags as allies” in catching fire? hand-picking his two and a half men(tors)!!

“of course you do” as his response now means so much more bc he’s not just exasperated he’s like “you really are me with a braid”

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It’s a shame that the books don’t mention Katniss’s hunting cap as much as her jacket. Haymitch and Peeta both seem like the type to annoyingly pull it down over her head.

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I love how the general consensus on Plutarch is “I can’t really form an opinion on him” - babes, your ‘lack’ of opinion is, in itself, an opinion that Suzanne Collins wants you to experience.

Plutarch isn’t painted in jarringly simple shades of black and white, he isn’t a representative of ultimate good or quintessential evil, he’s neither blindingly pure nor irredeemably corrupt - his morality is questionable, the trappings of his colours grey.

Plutarch is a delicious example of a morally ambiguous character in an age where such a thing can barely exist.

He’s a tireless rebel, mastermind of an underground organisation that risks everything for a seemingly unachievable goal yet he buys his time with the blood of innocent children. He’s an invaluable key to the success of the rebellion yet he airs the gruesome bombings live, severing the putrid cord of war at once. And next to his name, Panem’s history books will bear no mention of the countless souls that were killed, unwittingly or otherwise, by his hand or his word, for the cause of the rebellion or the order of the Capitol.

If there’s one character Suzanne Collins’ done consistently right, it’s Plutarch. And I thank her for it because aren’t we all fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction

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and when i say that detail about haymitch losing his unborn twin sisters foreshadows him being a mentor and losing two kids each year in the hunger games

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i love you like all-fire

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"isn't it unrealistic that every time some rebellion shit goes on in District 12 it's someone related to or connected to Lucy Gray" no because Snow committed the cardinal sin of dating someone from a big family in a small town

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the difference between Haymitch and Katniss's narration is so funny. Haymitch would give us everyone's social security number if he knew them, while Katniss wouldn't even tell us her mom's name.

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Haymitch and his ducklings

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[ID: Seven screencaps from Taskmaster. Gesturing sternly in front of her, Fatiha El-Ghorri says, "I'm busy giving you a dirty look. When I've finished with you I'm gonna go to him." Both sitting opposite her, Alex Horne laughs, and Greg Davies asks, "Is that your dirty look?" Widening her eyes, Fatiha replies, "Yeah." With the faintest smile, Greg says, "Oh." Turning to the studio audience, Fatiha says cheerfully, "Don't worry, we're gonna get married, you don't understand. This is foreplay." End ID.]