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im losing it over this comment omg

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saw someone on this hellsite saying they didn’t like Peeta for Katniss because he didn’t even know her and had to laugh.

There was a period of months in Catching Fire where he came to her house and hung out with her all day every single day. Do you think they just sat there in complete silence the whole time? One of the most well-known passages in the Mockingjay book is just Katniss rattling off tiny details about Peeta out loud… do you not think he’d be able to do the same for her? Katniss straight up says that the majority of the real, not real game she played with him was him trying to recover all of these random minuscule things about her. AKA, things he knew for a fact before he was hijacked. They knew each other almost too well.

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pjo/hoo fans, listen to me. *shakes you* listen to me. read the kane chronicles. read it. have you read it? read it again. i mean it. there's other reasons, but the main one is that i'm out here making genious posts about tkc, and there's so few people to appreciate my massive brain.

reasons you might want to read tkc:

narrated by two different characters. the framing device is that it's being audio recorded, and you can often see snippets of them being like "don't look at me like that sadie" or "carter just kicked me for saying that"

the god tier character that is sadie kane. she's so in touch with her emotions and unafraid to express them, it's refreshing. she's only 13 in the beginning of the trilogy, and she's so ready to tell people off for being pricks. she chews bubblegum and dyes her hair and she's even british. makes fun of her brother. consistently the funniest character in the series, all while not losing impact as a dramatic figure

the gods are seen really differently than in rr's other books. in pjo, the gods are these all-powerful beings and we mustn't anger them. in tkc, they're your buds. your parents have probably had a fistfight in an applebees parking lot with at least two gods. you see a god for drinks every thursday.

gods literally inhabit the human character's bodies, it's like a venom situation. it makes up for some very funny moments.

where pjo/toa is about acknowledging your family has problems and at times, you're fully right to distance yourself from them, because they're horrible people, tkc is about reconnecting with your family again. it's about finding stability in your family, and how they're, in the end, always the ones that are left there for you

incredibly interesting magic system. they have infrastructure built all over the world. not just two wands (rather a wand and a staff) but also a whole magician's kit.

cast is near-entirely made up of people of colour. two main characters that are both mixed, and the series focuses on how their different appearances affect how people treat them. the magicians are mostly descendants of egyptian rulers

canon polyam couple!!

in conclusion: EVERYBODY READ TKC NOW

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Love triangle? It was never a love triangle. There was an obligation corner with Gale, and a love line straight to Peeta

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Plutarch sure does like asking children to risk it all meanwhile he risks almost nothing every time.

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THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL - TAYLOR SWIFT

and, baby, that's show business for you

(out oct 3rd)

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Katniss: In my defense, I was left unsupervised. Effie: Wasn’t Haymitch with you? Haymitch: In my defense, I was also left unsupervised.

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High School Musical: The Musical: The Series ➳ Ricky looking at the camera

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reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

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My favourite trope in the world is overpowered main characters who think they aren't that great at whatever they're doing and they're just scraping by, meanwhile they're the devil incarnate from everyone else's pov

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Reblog this if your posts don't have expiration dates.

So that your followers know it’s okay to dig through your blog and send in memes, starters, or responses to opens days, weeks, or months after they’ve been first posted.

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the underlying comedy of Catching Fire is that Peeta is rooting hard for Team Gale while Katniss “[chooses] Gale and the rebellion” and then proceeds to be the most unhinged Team Peeta stan to never have internet access

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Katniss and Peeta were feeding each other long before they met!!! Peeta ate Katniss's squirrels and Katniss ate Peeta's bread!!!

Nothing was going to keep them apart not even a death match.

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the fact that people are still arguing over if gale killed prim...when the entire point is that it did not matter if gale killed prim because he openly advocated for the deaths of hundreds of little girls just like prim on the 'other side' and katniss could no longer see those prims as separate from her prim...and the bombs from 13 stole prim from katniss as brutally and absolutely as the sadism of the capitol would have because they were founded in the same desires for revenge and propangada

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katniss feeling guilty for "withholding" kisses from gale I feel is very telling about their entire relationship

everything between them is transactional, it was like that from the start, with their hunting and taking care of each other's families. pre- 74th games katniss didn't think anything romantic about gale, and I'm pretty sure she didn't really feel strong (romantic) feelings for him at all even through mockingjay. even while making out with the man her brain is a mile away. but, I think, subconsciously, she's aware that gale likes her in that way. so she sees showing him romantic affection as a way of repaying him (for what? I mean, taking care of her family, but also lots of her guilt revolves around even remotely caring about peeta at least in my opinion)

so gale was right, katniss only shows him romantic affection when he's in pain, because she does care about him, but she's also distantly aware that kissing him or returning his advances even temporarily is what he wants and is what would make him feel better

gale is also immaturely entitled to katniss and feels threatened by her having any sort of relationship with a man not even necessarily close to her age.

he clearly feels some sort of ownership over her, as can be seen with his aggression towards peeta, finnick, and it's implied he wasn't very friendly towards darius. jealousy can be understood, he is/was a teenage boy after all, but voicing those jealousies and by extension putting pressure on katniss to return his feelings because he did so much for her is the harmful part

in a previous post I pointed out how peeta defended gale after he was whipped without any romance-related comments to katniss at all, regardless of if he felt them or felt jealous (which it's implied he does feel at least sad after katniss wakes up from sleeping beside gale) he didn't voice those thoughts and therefore didn't push any guilt onto katniss for not paying enough attention to him, which is the biggest difference between him and gale.

whether it be consciously or subconsciously, I think gale was pushing guilt onto katniss for her not returning his affections, tying back into that entitlement thing. his hostility towards finnick, and saying he's "back on track" after getting Annie back, which means he probably just wasn't spending as much time with katniss anymore, is a wild thing to say about a man 7 years older than she is, and who was her anchor in the weeks/months before getting peeta back

gale apparently just has an entirely different set of priorities from everyone else, and katniss is at least on some level aware that he wants her affections. she feels guilty for not giving him what she and he think is "owed", and that forms the basis of their relationship post-74th games.

I personally think this type of dynamic would've culminated anyway, since katniss was appalled and apparently had never even considered romance with gale, but he was already thinking about it. it's just a disconnect that I think would have festered with or without the games or peeta.

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just came to the conclusion that if peeta had been called and haymitch volunteered, him and katniss would have been an absolute MENACE of a duo in that arena. i'd be scared of them. as a career, i would run the other way.