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Maysilee Donner was the canary.

In Catching Fire, we learn Maysilee had a canary that her parents later gave to Katniss's mother:

Historically, canaries were used in coal mines to detect carbon monoxide. If the canary stopped singing, something was wrong, and the miners needed to evacuate. Beetee says the same thing in text:

Katniss explains further:

"And my mother inheriting her songbird."

Later in Catching Fire, we learn Maysilee died via a throat injury, likely stopping her breathing, just like a canary.

It's telling Collins gave Maysilee Donner, a merchant class girl, a canary, a bird that is "intuitive" and can sense things "before anyone else".

It's also interesting how Katniss's mother, who later "inherited" the canary, stopped speaking when her husband died. It could be that her mother was privy to the things that Maysilee saw long before anyone else. Maybe with the death of her husband, Mrs. Everdeen saw the writing on the wall Maysilee had penned long ago, long before the arena. Maybe that's why she was so grief stricken as opposed to Gale's mother.

As a side note, there's a heartbreaking line about canaries in this Smithsonian magazine article about how "many miners cared deeply for their canary companions" to the point of inventing special cages to get them oxygen immediately after they pass out. I wonder if Haymitch tried to resuscitate Maysilee, even if he knew it was pointless.

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Secrets of the Mimic trailer

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the reason sotm trailer feels like "every other mascot horror" is because practically every other mascot horror literally copied fnaf...i feel like ppl are forgetting fnaf is the og. how quickly we forget that poppy playtime was literally created to ride off the hype of security breach

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busy day

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Just preparing myself more and more to be broken to bits by this book

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hime sketch page pt 2 electric boogaloo (the first one past posted literally 2 YRS AGO)

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class pic #??????? (pt 2/????)

from left to right: hime, tatsu and hana.

(tatsu and hana are owned by @lesbkinz!)

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croissant & hot chocolate

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pov: it’s Valentine’s Day and you hear a tap on your window 💌🐦

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lil baby garfield

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my favorite Alice piece(and my only piece i have prints of)

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sooooo sleepy today… i hate emails!!!!

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I like radula rooms so much

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tea party birds

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happier days

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i didn’t do much today …