#hg reread

[districtfourmermaid]

Gale, the humble king. "The credit for the survivors' escape has landed squarely on Gale's shoulders, though he's loath to accept it."

These Seam kids and their resistance to tooting their own horns. It's ok, I'll do it for them!

Gale brought as many people as he could to the Meadow and through the fence. He's a leader. And once in the wild, Prim and Mrs. Everdeen stun me by caring for so many wounded with so few resources, and he starts handling the food.

>800 hungry and injured people. 2 bows. 2 sets of arrows. A single hunting knife. A single fishing net. He fucking did it for 3 days. The Everdeens tended to the injured from a bombing for 3 days.

I can't even imagine how hard that was. But he takes care of his people. Even the few survivors from the Town, who are less accustomed to hunger, he takes care of them. No matter how used to starving you are, 3 days is a long ass time to go without a reliable food source. Hunting with Katniss with these resources, he's only been catching enough to feed their two families or sell in the Hob. You gotta turn the work way way up to make that stretch to 10% of your District.

He may be loath to accept the credit, but he never gets enough, imo. Neither do Prim and Mrs. Everdeen for all that medical care. You just know they never slept.

[taumoeba]

Literally the realest 16 year old blond kid/medium height king/cake artist/jock to grace YA fiction. Everyone else go home

[arunswild]

I've been rereading my middle school favorites again. It's kind of cool. Like opening a time capsule or reading an old diary entry.

I'm rereading the hunger games now. everything hits different this year, not because my life is anything like the hunger games obviously but stuff resonates.

the descriptions of the crippling grief, the arguments about ceasefire, the parts where they get bombed and I can imagine it so vividly because I felt the impact and heard the booming myself. the propaganda videos, the talk of psychological terror. how absolutely insane katniss and finnick go when the people they love are held by the capitol.

everything is different this year.

[tenaciousmoneymuffinzine]

I'm rereading The Hunger Games trilogy with a lot more insight on it and the characters than 14yo me did

Updates and lots of unnecessary commentary to come

[no-side-us]

The Invisible Man, Ch. 1

Before I get into it, I want to make note of the full title of the story, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, which is a lot more enticing and evocative and leads to much more imagination for what happens. It implies something at least somewhat disturbing and fanciful, which fits well I think.

Anyways, here are random thoughts I had while reading the first chapter.

There's a lot of references to white objects: the snow, the serviette, his bandages, the muslin, it's all very pale. And the obvious connection is to Griffin's albinism, which doesn't get mentioned until much later (along with his name). If I had to analyze, all of these objects are there to obscure Griffin in some way. The snow covers him, he uses the bandages and serviette to hide his face, and the muslin helps block the view through the window. It's sort of taking the pale features that make Griffin stand out and which he now uses to hide himself, doubly so because his albinism was key to his invisibility.

Also, I had to look it up but a muslin is some sort of fabric which here is used as a smaller window curtain. Like so:

Moving on, the conversation between Mrs. Hall and Griffin about his bandages is just the beginning of all the gossip and rumors which will arise in the following chapters. One moment I like was this exchange:

“He was afraid, one time, that he’d have to have an op’ration—he was that bad, sir.” The visitor laughed abruptly, a bark of a laugh that he seemed to bite and kill in his mouth. “Was he?” he said.

Not only is it just a good line, but knowing what Griffin's own "operation" entailed meant that I laughed along with him at how "bad" scythe boy's accident was in comparison. But if you don't know and you're reading this for the first time, then it comes off as very rude. And Griffin is rude, but in this chapter he's also trying to be polite cause he's in need at the moment, so it's interesting to see the efforts he makes to do so and when it comes through.

Also, he pays two sovereigns (or two pounds) for his room, which is £213.93 today according to the Bank of England's inflation calculator.

Overall, the first chapter is very mysterious. If the book wasn't literally titled The Invisible Man, then we the reader would most likely be as curious as Mrs. Hall as to why this strange person was in bandages and acting so peculiar. I don't think we even see his invisibility until a few chapters in, so we're left hanging for a bit.

Finally, having watched the 1933 film before, I want to say that the first scene of that movie is very accurate to this chapter: Griffin continually staring out the window, pulling down the blinds, telling Mrs. Hall to leave the hat, Millie and the mustard, lines taken straight from the book, it's fun to notice! The film's on Internet Archive if people want to watch. Though be warned, it goes off-book in the very next scene.

[deus-ex-mona]

5am thoughts about how asuna is the same age as the gen 2 cast…

[mariatesstruther]

the last of us x hunger games au in which a young and rebellious ellie is chosen in place of katniss and mentored by joel, district 12’s one and only victor. he’s not at all interested in helping her, too busy being a dick, left cold jaded from his own daughter’s death in the games a few years prior

[mrazfellandco]

new hunger games book i am going to be insufferable

[love-toxin]

not that i haven't already been slackin on my fics but with barbie in my rearview i do need to let you all know that the MOMENT the new hunger games movie comes out this fall i will simply cease to function !!

[biscuitwalk]

They told me it was all over.

But I knew, it had only just begun.

[frogatz]

i love you wind waker manga

[districtfourmermaid]

In addition to the effects of the presumed stroke, Mags's District accent makes it hard for Katniss to understand her at first. I'm desperate to know what District 4's accent sounds like. I've long imagined them in the Gulf of Mexico. Is it a NOLA accent? Does Finnick talk like he's from Nawlins?

Now that I've actually been there and heard it, live in the south, and work in the industry, I'm incorporating that into my belief system.

[taumoeba]

i know this has been rehashed but. peeta being a symbol of hope and beauty and being the one to show katniss how to find those amidst her fire. okay.

[myhikari21things]

Read of The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells (1896) (104pgs)

[cockamamieschemes]

Sci-Fi Classics for the Uninitiated

I’ve read A LOT of old sci fi throughout the years and wanted to drop the ones here that are good reads, also distinguished by difficulty to get into.  So without further ado:

Victorian Era (fairly easy reads, just requires a bit of explanation for certain things pertaining to the times, so try to get an annotated copy)

The Food of the Gods by HG Wells --revolves around a growth formula that can turn chickens into the size of houses...A LOT funnier than I thought it’d be

The Invisible Man by HG Wells --takes a while to get going but goes fast once The Invisible Man starts his plan rolling

War of the Worlds by HG Wells --kinda dark with more involved than you typically see in the television/movie adaptions

The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells --Scientist who makes crazy experiments on an island--warped and weird but I liked it

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne --Adventuring uncle drags his anxious nephew on a trip to the earth’s core

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne --adventuring below the sea, feels more grounded since nothing too fantastical happens, but of course, the characters are on a giant sophisticated submarine so that’s the most sci fi part

“Golden Age” Era (bold ones are a little more heady)

The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation (also including Prelude to Foundation in here because it’s actually a really good prequel!) by Isaac Asimov --the books span several decades/centuries so don’t get too attached to any one character, save in Prelude which follows Hari Seldon and his journey into coming up with psychohistory

Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov --fun sci fi whodunit--with robots!

Pebble in the Sky/The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov --haven’t gotten to the third one in this trilogy yet but I liked these two!

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury --short stories set on Mars that are more like fantasy/sci fi

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury --you probably read this in school...still a good book nevertheless

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke --I mean...kinda weird but I enjoyed it

2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke --if you liked 2001, you’ll like this since it expands on a few things, and it’s a little easier to get into with a bigger cast

The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke --Utopian future story that’s pretty short and intriguing in regards to worldbuilding

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke --Crew explores an alien generation ship, not as high stakes as the Space Odyssey ones so it feels more like a sci fi Jules Verne

Dune/Dune Messiah/Children of Dune/God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert --first book takes some time to get into but goes quickly once you get to Arrakis; to be fair, the books get easier to read once you know the world and what’s going on!

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein --a little more philosophical than what you’d expect from a book about sci fi war

[spideyhexx]

i love your tags about thg switching gender roles and stuff because it KILLS me. in the best way.

like lucy gray being the parallel to peeta and sejanus being the parallel to katniss….whew

YEA I get the comparisons between Lucy gray and katniss, but Sejanus???? Idk I love the Sejanus and katniss parallels and it isn’t a complete parallel but I think Sejanus haunts Coryo just as much as Lucy Gray does

also idk I think there’s smth so much more interesting at points in the book at least (from what I’ve read) about Sejanus and Coriolanus’ relationship because Coryo honestly admires Sejanus SO much yet can’t allow himself to ever be like him because of his own prejudices and feelings

Like Coryo is just an insecure man with mental issues and a product of his environment at the end of the day lmao and he envies that Sejanus can be so passionate openly without caring what others may think of him, cause then to Coryo that makes him weak, he’s showing his weaknesses. But then when Katniss comes along, I think she does the same, but in a way that doesn’t come off as weak. Which scares him!