#fuck gaul

[mintaikkcorpse]

Moments in the Hunger Games that Dr. Gaul would hate

Dr. Gaul says that humans are naturally violent, and to prove her wrong, here are moments in the Hunger Games that show that they aren't.

-Lucy Gray comforting Jessup when he wasn't feeling well

-Lucy Gray crying and mourning when Dill died (Wovey in the book)

-Lucy Gray making sure Jessup ate despite her having the advantage if he didn't eat

-The first thing Lucy Gray doing in the arena was look for Jessup and run away with him so they could both have a chance at surviving, despite all the murder and chaos happening around them

-Lucy Gray comforting Jessup as he was dying

-Lucy Gray in general

-Jessup protecting Lucy Gray from the bats (rabid raccoons in the book)

-Reaper giving Lamina cloth and Lamina giving him food. Then Coral, Mizzen, and Tanner came and she warned him (in the book)

-Reaper collecting the bodies of the fallen tributes and covering them with the flag to give them proper respects

-Reaper warning Wovey when she was walking to the snakes

-Lamina killing Marcus. Ik it was still murder, but it was a mercy kill. She even comforted him before and stared at his body and curled up into the fetal position after

-Lamima has a lot of empathy in general and I love her so much and she's litterally just walking proof of Dr. Gaul's theory being wrong. Her name is litterally animal spelled backwards, which is what Dr. Gaul belived the tributes were. Violent animals

-Bobbin letting Wovey sleep on his shoulder

-In the walk to the cart, Bobbin was holding Wovey's hand

-Lucy Gray letting Wovey hold her hand before the games

-Treech protecting Lamina when Brandy was killed from the bullet

-Reaper going out of his way to protect Dill. I could make an entire post on this alone. But like, in every scene with them together, he's always looking out for Dill. Even when he jumped at his Mentor, he was looking at Dill before to see how she was doing. Dill's death is what made him want to honor the other tributes deaths. I can only imagine how that made their friends and families feel at home, to see the person they loved getting the respect they could in such violent games

-During the bombing, Marcus ran back to go get Lucy Gray despite thst fact that his chances of dying there were very high

-Ik he wasn't part of the games, but Sejanus going to spread bread around Marcus's dead body (I love Sejanus sm and I better not see y'all thirst over Snow anymore)

-In the book, there was no bloodbath scene. Most tributes ran straight for the tunnels, while Coral, Tanner, and Reaper went to get weapons, but even Coral, who was known for being violent, ran. Only Reaper stayed

-Reaper apologizing for having to kill the tributes the night before, and promising to honor them

-In the book, Teslee was running from the snakes and Lucy Gray came out of the tunnels singing so the snakes would be distracted so Teslee would have time to escape

-Screaming and crying and throwing up because Reaper killed Teslee but brought her body over to the other bodies because it's really all he could give her

-In the book, Lucy Gray and Reaper were the last ones left, and they procrastinated on killing each other. Lucy Gray killed him by getting him to drink poisoned water, not by any violence. She even closed his eyes when she realized he had died.

This was just the 10th Hunger Games. Damn. Imma go on to the other ones now

-Instead of of breaking their alliance by killing each other, Maysilee just left Haymitch saying that she didn't want it to come down to the two of them

-Haymitch staying with Maysilee as she died

-When Annie's district partner died, she gained serious PTSD, which should be proof enough that naturally, HUMANS DONT LIKE VIOLENCE

-Katniss volunteering to protect Prim

-Thresh smiling at Rue when she managed to steal the knife from Cato (this is so sweet to me, I love the District 11 kids sm)

-Foxface not killing anyone (that Katniss knows of) and running away, proving thst people are just trying to survive and not be violent

-Foxface and Katniss bumping into each other but then running away. Especially Katniss, because she definitely had the advantage

-Peeta joining the careers to protect Katniss

-Peeta telling Katniss to run when the careers were hunting her

-This wasn't shown to the audience, but Katniss said that if her and Rue were the last 2 left, she'd let Rue win

-Katniss letting Rue cuddle under the sleeping bag so that she could stay warm

-Katniss mourning the death of Rue by leaving flowers over her body and then giving respects to District 11. She even cried and threw her spear when Rue died

-Clove and Cato's entire friendship (also, Clove smiling at Cato while they were on the plane)

-Thresh killing Clove purely because of what he thought she did to Rue, implying that he wanted to protect Rue. (I like to believe that he didn't make an alliance with Rue the dame reason Katniss didn't make an alliance with Peeta in the beginning; he didn't want it to come down to the two of them). Despite that, he was still heartbroken when she died

-Thresh sparing Katniss's life because she was friends with and protected Rue

-Clove calling for Cato when Thresh was threatening her, and Cato coming to help (in the book)

-Cato crying and begging Clove to get up when she was dying

-Katniss mercy killing Cato despite everything (in the movie)

-Katniss and Peeta not wanting to kill each other and deciding to eat the berries together instead

75th Hunger Games

Yes, ik the rebellion. But I'm still counting it.

-Peeta volunteering to avoid having Haymitch go to the games

-Mags volunteering for Annie

-The female morphling (who I headcanoned as her name being Chassis) sacrificing herself to save Peeta

-Peeta staying to comfort Chassis and talking about how pretty the sky was

-Chassis and Autus (male morphling) teaching Katniss how to camouflage, despite her not knowing about the rebellion, and for all they know, she could try and kill them. But they still wanted to save everyone, so they kept Katniss alive

-MAGS. Mags is the best

-Finnick staying with and protecting Mags despite her chances of surviving being very low

-Katniss keeping Finnick alive, despite not knowing about the rebellion

-Peeta staying to comfort Katniss and Finnick during the jabberjay attacks

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

every year i draw davepeta and get to colors and flip my shit and give up and idk if i ever even post them and im too lazy to look but heres this years davepetasprite^2

[xxsinisterxx]

[sweatyvvords-blog]

coriolanus: Jabberjays>>>>mockingjays

[cutter-kirby]

so um. I’m thinking about tbosas again. and there’s one part after sejanus argues with gaul where coryo thinks to himself that if sejanus isn't too careful then he'll end up as one of her experiments. so. what if that actually happened

[thestarlightforge]

In another episode of “Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence write essays with faces”

And MORE

[felixravinstills]

what’s up haven’t bugged you in a minute

but the mutuals have been talking twilight and i’ve now got the image of volumnia and carlisle having a conversation in my head

omg, Lily in inbox! Hi!

Genuinely, I would love to see this. Volumnia and her belief that people are fundamentally violent vs. Carlisle who (say what you will about the man and his bizarre family) desperately tries to see the good in people (perhaps, to a fault... or at least to a fault in terms of human lives. He's letting other people do them to a degree it turns around and becomes a little hypocritical. But he is a vampire and that is the name of the game so whatever)! Volumnia would definitely look down on him both for that and also being religious. Girl, you too have a weird faith in your own beliefs, but you're just dressing it up differently.

You know just a sidebar about Twilight in general, but I've been reading the Interview with the Vampire book and truly I am understanding things better about why SMeyer describes things certain ways. (bell like laughter, statuesque vampires, Jane = more beautiful as a Botticelli angel and Claudia being compared to a Bottacelli). Carlisle's desperation for companionship is reading very much like Louis and Claudia's search for vampires like them. (Also like... I love how everyone was upset about "vegetarian" vampires like Twilight was the only series that did that lol)

I also read Wuthering Heights because of Twilight, and what SMeyer thought she was doing with Bella-Edward-Jacob makes way more sense now in Eclipse, but damn, I don't think she accomplishes it. Anyway, SMeyer sure is a person.

[vanitythevantropist]

My father: you need to start being honest with us

Me: *is honest*

My father:

[solar-halos]

i know i am so late to the party but someone pointed out that it’s canon that the mayor reads out the names of previous victors before each reaping and i just can’t stop thinking about that. like i really love the idea (in a tragic way) of everyone knowing lucy gray’s name without the story attached, especially since we know her art ended up having such a big impact on the country without a lot of ppl in the original trilogy even knowing it

[kierancaz]

Y’all what the fuck was Coriolanus even doing. Did I miss something or what did he think would happen to Sejanus after sending that jabberjay recording out ??

Maybe I’m missing part of the story bc I am watching this as an upload on an online website and there was a section where there was just like some foreign language happening so idk.

Also the mockingjays repeating Sejanus cry for help and his ma was literally haunting.

[moreespressoformydepresso]

So I was thinking what if the mentors save the tributes because one of them snapped at their mentor and told them “you really think you’re gonna get me to victory? Aside from sending me food and water with sponsor money that I have to earn myself, what will you actually do to protect me?!” And some others overhear and it gets all of them thinking.

Because like- that’s actually a good point that they never even considered. The mentors will only get their tributes sponsors during what few interviews they’re involved in and even then they’re not the ones people are sponsoring, their tributes are. Once they’re in the arena, how much influence do the mentors really have? And some of the sympathetic mentors like Lysistrata and Pup verbally point out how unfair it is that they’re getting a reward for something they didn’t do when the person actually doing the hard work might not even survive the affair in the end. They’ve been taught all their life that the Capitol is so much better than the districts, but they’re not really showing that are they? Because in this case the Capitol kids are just taking their tributes’ achievements as their own. Some of them have even complained about being done dirty by getting a “bad” or “hopeless” tribute, so how can they claim their performance in this program as their own?

Once that ball gets rolling it inevitably keeps going until they make it all the way to “if we’re so much better why are we okay with watching kids who didn’t do anything wrong die horrifically while trying to make it entertaining for personal gain?” At which point they get off their asses and do something about it.

And by “something” I mean blow up Gaul’s lab and kick her out of her job/rank with the power of nepotism. Highbottom takes over the job temporarily and stalls expertly while the mentors use Androcles’ mother to broadcast that the logical conclusion to the games is another rebellion because who the fuck wouldn’t take the first opportunity that rears its head to topple over a government that kills 23 of your kids every year and starves or executes you for funsies????

[nickbutnodick]

dude im nearly two fucking grades ahead of average and my mon was so fucking disappointed and i dont know what she wants from me

[mr-nauseam]

are many reasons why I reject coriolanus daddy issues take, mostly theres its the fact he got two possible masculine figures, one was casca closer friend of his father that he literal didnt give a fuck about and just want he stop to annoy him, the other was pluribus a very decent man that he literal feel frustate for him for no fucking reason HOWEVER CORIOLANUS SPEND 1 MINUTE ALONE WITH THE OLDER EVIL WOMAN AND CHANGE,,, he got in shambles, trembling, eager to meet her again

[snowbirds-and-snakelets]

is this a safe space to say that my problematic crush was never coriolanus but dr gaul or should that have stayed in the drafts. she’s captivating and cruel and godawful and for some reason that appeals to me. evil scientists are my fucking kryptonite

[hussyknee]

Today in discovering I'm a flaming ignoramus: TIL Asterisk and his people (the comic characters) were not Vikings and those are not Viking helmets. Which I should have clocked earlier because he's Asterisk the Gaul. I had the image of them being Vikings so firmly in my head since I was a child that the adolescent knowledge of where tf Gaul is simply did not connect until today. And then I had an actual crisis like, wait are the French descended from Vikings?? and had to google.

If I had actually read the books or watched the cartoons I would have seen them fighting Vikings but I was a Tintin girl and Asterisk was too visually chaotic after Herge's clean lines and clear details. My sister is laughing at me because she says the cartoon said they were the last remaining Celtic village even in the Sinhalese dub.

Sedimented knowledge is an amazing thing. Whatever you believe in your earliest years just sinks to the very bed of your brain and lies there, undisturbed by intellect or new knowledge, right up until you happen to think it out loud and have an immediate record scratch moment. This is why I deeply believed until my 20s that pineapples grew underground (and I have seen pineapple groves over their fences!) and that pythons could spontaneously regenerate if cleaved in two unless you throw the two halves in opposite directions (this is such a deeply held folk belief that my former father in law actually argued about it with me).

[felixravinstills]

actually sad that Felix is the mpreg baby (canon) bc that baby should have been called Prometheus. Like Prometheus Ravinstill? Hello………

Prometheus Ravinstill could be a weird stillborn mpreg baby... He could have come either before or after Felix. (Before would give Felix a very funny/fucked up reason for getting named "fortunate." And after could be Max attempting to ensure his family has an heir... you know cuz I murder the rest of them)... also Prometheus Ravinstill is such a good name. Actually shocking that no one is named Prometheus in canon yet.