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One of my coworkers was joking around with me the other day and we were talking about the Minecraft movie right. And he goes “yeah you seem like someone who would have been into the dsmp” man if only you knew. Had doesn’t even begin to cover it. I’m still here 💪

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Am I the good boy? Really??

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Sometimes all you need to do is sit down and talk

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"One day, we'll look back and be amazed at how far we've come."

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How are my sweetie pees

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I love people who have statuses like "back on my bullshit." bestie, you were never off your bullshit to begin with, and I love you for that

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cant stop thinking about sunrise on the reaping. a revolution IS really just trying again and again and again and having HOPE that itll succeed this time. and oh god plutarch talking about how they would need better timing ... the 75th hunger games arena being a clock... im SICK

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burdock with baby katniss at the hob:

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LOOK AT HIM!! HES MY HAPPY LITTLE GUY!!

@singular-almond @softbeanofexistentialcrisis @boygirlctommy @hyacjnthus @iwillsurvivecollege @kitsu-katsu @marcskywalker

fuck it. worm on a string picrew chain. let's fucking go

happy worm creation my friends

tagging @areyoudoingthis @cursed-coat-of-homosexuality @peanutbutterex @tfemteach @piratecaptainscaptainpirates (no pressure 💛)

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was rereading the scene of haymitch in the tree with the potato light & it struck a lot of thoughts. this is a whole muddled mess, but here are my notes on the symbolic roles of fire/explosion themed throughout the books.

I think Lucy Gray bore the role of flint-striker, which was passed down to Haymitch (mind you, in the literal form of a gift from a Covey member (and bearing her signature snake (yes I know it was made after she disappeared; I mean symbolically!!).

then, Katniss was the flint that finally turned spark, and Peeta was the explosion that set all else ablaze. together, their love was the flame that burned on and amassed real change. or, in other words, everlark, together, not separate, was the flame.

in the books, we have the famous titles: girl on fire and mockingjay. we know she is set up for success by Haymitch and Peeta: positioned popularly and debuted without her knowledge; rebellion orchestrated and executed by the hands of someone else.

and she bore rebellion well, already had the proper fire and passion. but ultimately, and why the revolution starts with the TWO of them, the ultimate success that relied on the capabilities of BOTH Katniss and Peeta.

because we know Katniss as a person primarily motivated by compassion. but her compassion initially didn’t expand into a larger worldview—like, the girl wasn’t even tempted by Gale’s rants—and was limited by the people she cared for. Her initial rebellion came with her desire to protect Prim. It didn’t evolve into something else until after Rue. she did her best to follow rules unless passion got the better of her.

and with perfect timings that passion Peeta’s determination to never be a piece in the Capitol’s games suddenly coincided after Rue’s murder, and she made the conscious decision to rub the Capitol’s nose in its crimes. and from the time she finds Peeta in the first arena, her motivation and concept of truth was almost entirely driven by him. in mockingjay, her choice to be the face of the rebellion only came after Peeta’s safety at the hands of the rebellion was ensured.

there were multiple occasions where she wanted to accept death. she wanted to run away. in cf, she wanted to flee with her loved ones before she lost them. but when faced with the choice between fear and rebellion, Peeta made her face reality and said, (paraphrasing) “sure, I’ll come with you. but I know that you won’t leave.”

which we know he’s right about. he is the fire that burns in her heart! after the fallout of the quell, Katniss couldn’t do ANYTHING until she knew Peeta was alive. she said she’d disappear into the woods (unalive euphemism (and I know unalive is a euphemism in itself)) if she only knew he was dead.

his life, his presence, his power, his wake; her passion, her vindictiveness, her commitment to humanity without both, there would be no rebellion.

furthermore, I headcanon (after reading sotr) that Haymitch only wanted Katniss to survive more in the first games because he thought—knowing himself and what he experienced—that someone less calculated than Peeta; more instinctual; more like himself—was necessary to illuminate a glimmer of hope, just like the fucking potato light. the potato contained some elements necessary. but it needed the copper, zinc, and wire to make it burn.

in the same way, Haymitch knew that Peeta—who Katniss always defines as the detonator (like in the instance of the baby bomb), or references his speech as powerful or explosive—would be less easy to manipulate, less willing to be used. he, and the rebellion needed someone that would cause a scene, like he did.

Peeta was astute, with almost no experience in the Capitol, of the ways to make them recognize tributes as human. this is critical in the rebellion and is illustrated in Katniss’s declaration that they should’ve chosen Peeta. Katniss could rile an army, but Peeta could sway an entire nation. and maybe that’s why Coin wanted him on her side.

Peeta also prematurely (in the sense of a story’s development) understood the tribute’s function as pawns, much like Lenore Dove did, much like Haymitch’s father. he knew it didn’t have to be that way. he knew he didn’t have the play their game.

Katniss was slower on the uptake; more willing to change herself to become what the Capitol wanted in order to live or keep her loved ones safe. but she always turned back to herself and found Peeta as the guiding light. and in the end, even after Katniss’s pressure to perform, and after Peeta’s psychological mutation, both broke free of imposed molds—figurehead; Capitol muttation—to make change as themselves.

Everlark was necessary, both elements together, to make something burn.

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Haymitch's love for Katniss was quick, nearly automatic. A volunteer couldn't not be loved by the volunteered. And she was his best friend's child, for all that he had stopped having a best friend when the man laid on his chest to stop him from dying with his family because attachments would hurt him more than they would help him, so he had to. His heart had always been open to her. She just had to walk in.

But with Peeta? Peeta was a surprise. For a minute there, this merchant boy was just another casualty in his long list, was someone would soon join the legion of ghosts haunting his dreams and fended off by liquor. But then the glass got smacked out of his hand. Then he was kind. Then he had an aggressive and effective interview strategy. A flash of someone he had tried his damnedest to forget. And suddenly there was a place for Peeta not just in his mind but in his heart, as well.

Haymitch knew that he would have to be so so lucky and even then he'd only get one of them to survive. And he voice of Wyatt in the back of his head said it would be Katniss. But damn if he didn't adore both of them.

Damn if he wasn't very suddenly ready to add two more posters to his wall.

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Ok I’m not gonna pretend I know anything about poetry but I’ve GOTTA point out that Lenore Dove’s namesake poem is none other than Edgar Allan Poe’s the Raven. Yk. The same poem that has the summary of this? (Taken directly from sparknotes)

“The poem explores how grief can overcome a person's ability to live in the present and engage with society. Over the course of the poem, the speaker's inability to forget his lost love Lenore drives him to despair and madness”

To mix the stanzas of this in between Haymitch’s time after the games, after Lenore dove dies is like so OBVIOUS but also. Horrifying. It’s like he was doomed to this fate by choosing to love her but also she was doomed by the readers knowledge of Haymitch pre SOTR. To have her death be the final thing that Haymitch could take. She was not only his love but the last person standing between him and losing everything.

And then to have the second bit of her name be the colour dove but ALSO. Impossible to deny the parallels between her and doves the bird. Doves that are literally symbols of “peace, freedom and love” (thanks Wikipedia). Her name literally is like “hey loving me is going to drive you mad with grief but I was fighting for a future where people could be free and I believed things could be better and the thing that will keep you from going off the edge completely is the fact you promised me that one day the bloodshed would end. That the sun wouldn’t rise on the reaping. That you would not accept the inhuman conditions we live in as the way things are. That you will continue to want and fight and strive for that freedom and peace because that’s what we both wanted”. Like her character is great because she is fleshed out enough to feel like a real character but also she is so so clearly there as a narrative talking piece. As a symbol but not just of peace. Shes the duality of the darkness and the light.

ALSO. She’s dove grey. Which doesn’t make her representing a traditional white dove but a grey dove. Which are also known as fucking MOURNING DOVES. And another key addition in their symbolism? Hope. She is the loss and she is the suffering and she is the grief but she is also the joy and the life and the firm believer that just because this is the way things are right now doesn’t mean they have to stay like this. She hopes for a future where the games are gone when so many people have resigned themselves to its inevitability.

Legally obligated to throw a hadestown quote in here from the original recordings before it was changed. She’s literally the embodiment of “Let the world we dream about be the one we live in now” when everyone else has accepted “to the world we dream about, and the one we live in now”

Idk I just have a lot of thoughts on her as an allegorical character and what all she represents not only to Haymitch and but to the districts and the overall narrative.

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shoutout peeta for being the only one actually reaped from the d12 victors. real bad luck u got there bud

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“No, [...] we need someone exactly like you.”

"Just luckier?"

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