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it’s actually insane how commonplace pro-trump propaganda has become. i thought it was just a twitter thing at first because of elon musk, but since the inauguration it’s infiltrated across social media platforms because why the fuck is this here:

and i’ve noticed that the ads are always related to the assassination attempt that was 100% real, not at all a last ditch effort to reignite his voter base, and totally wasn’t staged at all

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Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

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I’m dreading lenore dove’s death so much right now.

y’all can’t do this to me. I don’t even know the girl yet and I’m already upset.

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I catch a glimpse of myself on the television screen on the wall that’s airing my arrival live and feel gratified that I appear almost bored. Peeta Mellark, on the other hand, has obviously been crying and interestingly enough does not seem to be trying to cover it up. I immediately wonder if this will be his strategy in the Games. To appear weak and frightened, to reassure the other tributes that he is no competition at all, and then come out fighting. - "You know what my mother said to me when she came to say good-bye, as if to cheer me up, she says maybe District Twelve will finally have a winner. Then I realized, she didn’t mean me, she meant you!” bursts out Peeta. “Oh, she meant you,” I say with a wave of dismissal. “She said, ‘She’s a survivor, that one.’ She is,” says Peeta.

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Delly Cartwright

I love Delly Cartwright. I wished we had more Delly ):

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All I’m saying is a Native American actress portraying Katniss Everdeen would have made a lot of sense and also added multiple layers to the political commentary.

The book description is vague, but there’s a clear racial connotation in the internal politics of District 12 and how Katniss is perceived, and I just think it would have been interesting to explore.

Inspired by this fanart on Instagram by @myrthena, directly linked below!

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Let's have a toasting

I don't think it would take very long for these two to die the knot and toast that bread. 🔥🍞 

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It’s crazy bc if you think about it … snow followed all the district 12 victors home one way or another

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Haymitch Abernathy being just a silly, lazy, sixteen-years-old boy in SOTR is exactly what i needed. The poor man just wanted to hang out with his girlfriend on his birthday, Maaaaaaaaaa

-Haymitch was less mature than Katniss because his mother was actually a functional women and he could be a teenager instead of a small adult raising his little brother. He won’t be making life change realizations and quoting poetic stuff. He just wants to lay down all day in the woods and have a few kisses with his girlfriend

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It aggravates me to no end when people say that Katniss’s olive skin can still be white because of undertones. The difference in skin color between Seam and Merchants is immediately identifiable. That’s why inter-marriage is so taboo in D12 and Mrs. Everdeen was disowned for marrying a man from the Seam. The difference in skin color upholds their class divide. If a district 12 resident marries outside their race, everyone would know. Merchants find it unacceptable because to them it’s “dirtying” their gene pool and bringing in more poverty into an already deprived district.

For that reason I’ve always been curious about how Katniss and Peeta’s relationship is perceived by the district after their first games. Katniss mentions in the cave that Peeta’s parents wouldn’t be thrilled with him dating a girl from the Seam. And while Peeta knows this is true, he also mentions that the newfound wealth she’d have upon winning would remove the prejudice they hold against the Seam.

These details about class and race in District 12 are so important. I will always have distaste for the movies as they continue to whitewash the Seam. I already know that SOTR Haymitch will be played by whoever is the white boy of the month™️ at that time. I only hope SC doesn’t recon his olive skin in the book.

Literally 12 pages in and we're already getting into the commentary on how systemic racism is a key part of maintaining a classist status quo! Katniss discusses here in so many words that it is white people who cater towards and therefore benefit most from the system, while the brown people of the Seam are the ones who do the manual labour in the coal mines.

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I love that Katniss and Peeta clearly didn’t have kids to have a happy ending to the story. They had kids because it was a choice and because they felt safe enough to do it. I also love the fact that even though they do have a happy ending it still isn’t happily ever after. It’s clear in the epilogue they both struggle on a regular basis. It definitely makes the point that in life you can’t just get married, have kids, and live happily ever after. You will still struggle with things and work on yourself and strive for contentment and consistency. The epilogue is just chefs kiss because it is so real and honest.

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“You said be your rooster. You said you wanted to get to the woods at daylight.”

This was bothering me because of what Katniss says about the woods and the fence in the first book.

Even though trespassing in the woods is illegal and poaching carries the severest of penalties, more people would risk it if they had weapons. But most are not bold enough to venture out with just a knife. My bow is a rarity, crafted by my father along with a few others that I keep well hidden in the woods, carefully wrapped in waterproof covers. My father could have made good money selling them, but if the officials found out he would have been publicly executed for inciting a rebellion. Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry for fresh meat as anybody is. In fact, they're among our best customers. But the idea that someone might be arming the Seam would never have been allowed.

I was assuming the fence was up and that would put Haymitch among ‘the few’ who go beyond the fence along with Katniss’s father who:

My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal herbs and sell them to her shop to be brewed into remedies.

But then @heavensbeehall suggested that the fence wasn’t there at that point and if so wouldn’t a lot of District 12 citizens be out there?

We know there was a time when whippings were more common based on:

Snow begins, thick and wet, making visibility even more difficult. I stumble up the walk to my house behind the others, using my ears more than my eyes to guide me. A golden light colors the snow as the door opens. My mother, who was no doubt waiting for me after a long day of unexplained absence, takes in the scene.

"New Head," Haymitch says, and she gives him a curt nod as if no other explanation is needed.

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"Can you save him?" I ask my mother. She says nothing as she wrings out the cloth and holds it in the air to cool somewhat.

"Don't worry," says Haymitch. "Used to be a lot of whipping before Cray. She's the one we took them to."

I can't remember a time before Cray, a time when there was a Head Peacekeeper who used the whip freely. But my mother must have been around my age and still working at the apothecary shop with her parents. Even back then, she must have had healer's hands.

So what if the fence went up after Haymitch’s victory as punishment…

As @mage-chocolate pointed out, it would be the President using a boundary against him (turning the District against him) in the same way he used a boundary against the games.

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first chapter and he already couldn't stop mentioning his girl lenore dove and how much he just wanted to spend time with her ... haymitch abernathy was the original lover boy.

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Lenore Dove.

Haymitch's girl is Covey. Lenore, the poem by Edgar Allan Poe, is about a man whose love has died, and Dove is a gray color.

Now THIS is something I don't think anyone had in their bingo card.

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Haymitch every reaping

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it’s mildly funny (in a sad way, of course) that Peeta so refuses to undergo the “the world has made me cold” process many a MMC does that Snow has to invest presumably thousands of taxpayer dollars and untold man hours (this is why you lost the war) into chemically rewiring him and it still doesn’t work

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also I love that suzanne wrote katniss and haymitch in first person pov but with coryo she was like “third person for you… you get some distance, creep.”