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always remember gay men are the reason we dont have to pay for public bathrooms in canada

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I just can’t wrap my head around how thoroughly haymitch’s acts of rebellion were erased. this is a victor who literally set off two bombs in the arena. imagine having to follow a script about your own trauma, while trying to keep track of what’s “real or not real” about the most horrific period of your life.

haymitch’s story is a reminder that the rebellion was decades in the making, built off of generations of grief and trauma. how many other acts of resistance were covered up by the capitol? how many other victors defied them in the arena?

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So if Katniss and Peeta are Penelope and Odysseus

And Haymitch and Lenore Dove are Orpheus and Eyuridice

Then that makes Coriolanus Snow and Lucy Gray Jason and Medea

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The way we see the full progression of the dehumanisation of the tributes as the Hunger Games becomes more established and more normalised in the Capitol

In Ballad, they’re like wild animals, caged and starved as a form of revenge

In Sunrise, Haymitch being likened to some kind of pet by his prep team and in the afterparty of the games

In The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, they’re like celebrities trapped in a sick parasocial relationship with the people who will, in a week, get to see them die

The cage is always there- it just evolves to make it more palatable to the viewers

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Shit in "Sunrise on the Reaping" That Made Me Wanna Eat a Fuckin Pillow: Epilogue

(I read that shit on Kobo, so I don't know how accurate the page numbers are, like compared to physical copies, but I messed with the font size to, hopefully, get it as close as I can)

"When Lenore Dove comes to me now, she's not angry or dying, so I think she's forgiven me" (page 374)

"She's grown older with me [...]. Like she's been living her life beside me as the years passed, instead of lying in her grave" (page 374)

"[...] she says I can't come to her yet. I have to look after my family" (page 374)

"Burdock was so proud of [Katniss], he toted her around everywhere (page 374)

"Though and smart, her hair in two braids then, reminding me for all the world of Louella McCoy, my sweetheart of old. And after she volunteered for the Games, that nickname couldn't help but slip out" (page 374)

"I didn't want to let them in, [Katniss] and Peeta, but the walls of a person's heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love" (page 374)

"I finally out story" (page 374)

"A few days after that, Katniss showed up with an old basket filled with goose eggs. "Not to eat, to hatch"" (page 375)

[...] [Katniss]'s like me, Peeta always says" (page 375)

"[...] when the eggs hatched, mine was the first face those goslings saw" (page 375)

"Lenore Dove likes it best [in the Meadow], and I'm content where she's content. Like the geese, we really did mate for life" (page 375)

"I'm not sure I'll be here in the old therebefore much longer" (page 375)

"When my comes, it comes" (page 375)

"[...] [Lenore Dove] is the most precious thing I've ever known" (page 375)

MasterList

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you deserve to be loved without having to hide the parts of yourself that you think are unlovable.

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“Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.”

How are we holding up? I’m still crying about Lenore Dove and the gumdrops

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The rest of the queers aren't allowed to exclude asexuals anymore; we've got the JK Rowling Seal of Disapproval! It's official, we belong!

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Not the weezer news I expected to hear

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Wellie's death in Sunrise on the Reaping haunts me.

Was it Haymich's biggest mistake?

Maybe.

She could have been his Rue. Even better, he could have helped her win. She was so close. We don't know much about her, but him actually sacrificing himself to save her would have been an act of rebellion Capitol couldn't delete.

Instead, he was too focused on "Painting his poster" that no one ever got to see. He leaves her even if she begs him not to and she's gone while his plan fails once again.

Poor little girl. She deserved better.

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Okay but it’s fucking brilliant that one of the themes of the book was about the distortion of history.

Usually prequels are a dangerous thing to write because unless they’re planned out well in advance, they risk contradicting lore in the main series. Even still, we knew barely anything about Haymitch’s games. They were the perfect stomping ground for new information, with a rough series of events but without a close temporal connection to the main books.

But though she had this freedom and safety net, while she could have just written a story that aligned with what we knew, Collins leaned into the idea of contradicting past lore head on and made it the damn thesis of the book; that yeah, actually, it did play out entirely differently from how the characters saw it, and yes that contradicts what you were told, that’s the point.

We didn’t really know what happened in the 50th games until we read it from Haymitch’s perspective, because what little information we did have was spliced up and edited. The video evidence was processed through the Capital, and twisted to serve their purposes.

Tackling that idea of history being written by those in power with a notoriously inconsistent medium? Goddamn, writer that you are, Suzanne Collins.

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I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.

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reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

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re: that last post, ive said it before and ill say it again: no one deserves to die (deserving is fake and death is bad) but some people need to be stopped and choose to make death the only way to stop them

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reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

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they're gonna make the bedrock

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