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Finnick is always serving

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I think one of the reasons that Bridgerton season 2 hits especially hard for me is because the enemies to lovers trope, especially in a regency setting, made it so that Kate did not have to “fit in” in any way to get her romance.

The first time Anthony meets her, she’s riding astride. The first time they talk, she outright argues with him. He recognises it, Anthony himself says, “the rules are meaningless [to her]”. She calls him out when he assumes she won’t be able to manage a gun. She plays pall mall just like he does, with equal intensity, just as competitive. And that’s who he falls in love with.

Throughout the course of the story, she never has to change herself, dull her sharp wit, or chip away anything of her personality, for him to notice her and be attracted to her, for him to fall in love with her.

There’s no grand makeover, for him to finally notice her, because he’s always seen her for who she is, from the very first time they met and he began falling for her from that very moment. Her personality is not portrayed as a flaw that he loves her in inspite of, but rather the very core of the reason he is in love with her.

And in season 3, we see that marriage doesn’t change that either. She still banters with him, and he’s still going around telling everyone who will listen that his marriage is perfect.

Because, to be loved is to be known and Anthony has loved her from the moment they raced each other in that park and he’s known her as she is since then too.

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my only advice is to BE CAREFUL posting about holiday traditions around europeans. you'll post something casual like "anyone else watch the old Grinch movie every year? what a classic" and a european will appear as if summoned and say some shit like "funny how USAmericans always CONVENIENTLY forget that Not Everyone On Earth is from The USA…….. no of COURSE we dont watch 'the grunch' or whatever the fuck that is…. our tradition is to attend a community showing of Glummdorf the Racial Stereotype"

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been rereading catching fire and have some thoughts. I wish that Peeta’s disability was explored more besides being a plot point when they go back in the arena.

I understand that, given everything is from Katniss’ perspective, it’s not an immediate issue to her. But Peeta leaves the arena physically lacking a part of himself, and we know that his integrity was a big part of his mindset going into the games. Wanting to be unchanged. He has a constant physical reminder that Katniss simply doesn’t have, at least, not in the same way.

Sure she has scars and whatnot and the mental effects are the same but Peeta has to think about it in every step he takes. Idk. I wish his adjustment to a newfound, traumatically rooted disability had been explored more

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Hilarious to me when people who are objectively good artists can't draw babies at all

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Idk why I made these lmao

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how u doing

im not thinking about it

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So between Peeta mentioning to the morphling that he once took three days to mix a perfect color, having very detail-oriented hobbies like painting and cake decorating, being careful with his words, and having a mom who gave him a black eye if he made small mistakes like burning bread, it’s safe to say the books hinted at him being a perfectionist.

Which if it’s true makes his backstory of feeling like he’s never needed or the first choice so much more intriguing. The dad who always wanted a daughter, the being second place in wrestling, the abusive mom who calls him stupid, the youngest son who probably won’t get the bakery, the non-survivor compared to Katniss. All while trying his best to minimize mistakes. Maybe almost to a detriment, since he was shown to count himself out as a contender of the games and showed a hesitance to talk to Katniss.

This all makes his ending of coming back to D12 so much more profound. Peeta’s not broken but he’s recovering from his worst nightmare happening to him, and it is something he is going to have hard days with. There will be days where he can’t hide it away under talking eloquently. He’s also going to feel some guilt about what happened with Katniss even if he knows it’s not his fault. But he still chooses to come back to Katniss. They both made mistakes over the course of their relationship, they’re both fully aware of each other’s flaws, but perfectionist Peeta is happy with that and wouldn’t ever go anywhere else.

There’s a lot of discussion when it comes to how Peeta developed over the course of the books, but it seems like while he taught Katniss how to live and not just survive, she also taught him how to live and not count himself out just because he isn’t perfect. Because while the Peeta at the beginning of the books wouldn’t have abandoned Katniss in D12 alone and was very brave and rebellious, he probably would’ve been much more shy about appearing at breakfast and carrying her up to bed after she cried with Buttercup in light of everything that’s happened.

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kind of annoying how irish goodbyes are generally frowned upon. this shit is like an art form to me

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The First Lady and the President of Panem

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I always love thinking about Katniss and Peeta having friends post war.

Like not only do they both sorely need it, I love the ideas of them showing off their friends to one another and the other being so supportive.

Peeta makes friends with the lead builder working on the bakery, and they bond over both having less than great, complicated feelings about their family whose gone but that they still miss somehow. He comes over for dinner and Katniss is protective but warms up to him. She ends up sending him home with dired herbs, and later regularly sets aside some of the better fish she catches for him.

Katniss slowly gets closer to the lady running the orphanage. She helps Katniss comes to terms with the side of herself that really wants to love an care for others, the part of her maybe in another life would love to have children. She encourages Katniss to become a familiar face at the orphanage. Peeta brings her random cookies and pies.

It's so important to me that these two not only have one another, but they give one another a safe place to build themselves into a wider support network post war.

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Hes a big fan in case you couldn't tell

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was i ever team Gale no. can anybody make me hate him also no