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apologist? not necessarily. explainer? perhaps. understander? intimately. enjoyer? greatly. sexualizer? frequently,

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in light of the new book - it annoys me when people talk about the victors of district 12 and talk about lucy gray (the mockingbird, the entertainer (where the other 3 tried to stop the games she actually kept them going by introducing the entertainment factor in her efforts to survive), rigged reaping) and haymitch (the jabberjay, the flintstriker, forced into the games) and katniss (the girl on fire, the mockingjay, volunteered for love) but leave out PEETA. the boy with the bread, the dandelion in the spring, the one who is genuinely reaped and had the most chance of surviving and actually DID have the odds in his favour and yet still was made to join the games. where lucy gray and haymitch and katniss were the rebellion and the rising up of the districts - peeta is the hope for the after. he is the hope for what it takes to survive. the kindness of humanity, that we do good things purely for the rightness of those acts. dont get me wrong, he is rebellion. he can be a calculating game maker in the face of the odds moreso than haymitch or katniss or lucy gray ever was in their somewhat mostly incidental large acts of rebellion. his acts of rebellion were calculated precisely, again, in view of the future. he pushed the star struck lovers act with katniss in calculation that it would push HER in favour where she could not get it herself. so that she could have sponsors and and audience that loved her and the spotlight so that she could win and survive the games. he helped her in the 74th hunger games purely because it was right and kind and the quasi-formed love for her that he could have had for just about any other district partner he could have had - whether if it was prim or whoever. (where his love was also a crush on the surface, i believe that at the start at least, it was mostly out of goodness that he wouldve had in any odds) - peeta would have been wyatt callow again, sacrificing himself immediately for a 12 year old primrose everdeen in the bloodbath of the arena. because that is just who he is. he is goodness and the hope for a future

so, dont discredit him too fast in your pool of district 12 victors.

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no i don't want you to redirect me to your app i want to look at recipe

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genres i'm tired of:

"feminist retellings" of stories that can already be considered feminist in their own right

"feminist retellings" that fumble the "feminist" plotline so bad it just turns misogynistic

"feminist retellings" that still center around and hinge on men

"feminist retellings" written by people who don't understand what feminism is

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Some of you are too afraid to admit this but we all know Star Wars works best when it goes full soap opera

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Franz d'Epinay says "...one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught," to which Edmond Dantes responds: "Skill issue."

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men don't sob and collapse into chairs like they used to in classic lit anymore. because of woke.

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We always find greatness in the dead. In the end, we forgive them. I don't want anyone to forgive you.

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I love how in almost every adaptation of "The Count of Monte Cristo" the Abbe's last words are something like "Remember, do not let vengance consume you. Promise me you won't seek revenge. Justice is served by God" or smth like this, while in the book, the literal source material, he just goes "Find the treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Get the money" and then dies.

This book is so unhinged, I can't even. It's pure chaos. Don't let anyone ever convince you that it's sophisticated classic literature. Dumas loved drama, schemes, adventures and dumb ironic humor.

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who gave him that

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Men will be like "it's my favorite book!" and show you 19th century Batman

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'hey so what's the plot of Count of Monte Cristo?'

The plot:

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wuthering heights is better than persuasion because when wentworth was rejected for being poor he ran away to become a sailor and came back all yearning and strange but when heathcliff was rejected for being poor he made it everyone’s problem and came back as a menace ready to ruin everyone’s lives and cathy, an arguably worse menace, got jealous and possessive despite being married, called her sister-in-law an “impertinent little monkey” for showing interest in him, and then died with all the flair and drama of someone who knew she’d haunt the narrative

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When Emily Brontë wrote, “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

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They took his child from him😭

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