#hijacking

[acekoomboom]

So.

Gale Killed Prim, and his relationship with Katniss ended because of it. Why is Peeta different?

"Why was she able to forgive Peeta but not him? She had dismissed Gale from her life with barely a blink. Snow had twisted Peeta’s gifts and turned him into a weapon against the people he loved. Hadn’t Coin done the same thing to Gale? He loved Prim like his own sister." A quote from oakfarmer on ao3 that I actually have SO many thoughts on, though I can't remember which of their fanfics this is from. Darn me for not labelling my notes well enough.

What it boils down to, for me I think, is that the capitol has to create things to manipulate Peeta but D13 used what was already there for Gale. Gale already had a mean arrogant streak and wasn't good at taking criticism or rejection. He already had a cold callousness about killing and death. He was already a bit radicalized, and Coin did twist that into something worse. No, Gale didn't kill Prim, Coin did. BUT Gale did invent the weapon + tactic used by his ally and superior to kill her. Katniss told him it was wrong, this trap he'd made, and he condescended to her about it, how this is just how war works. Acted like she was just naive about it. His own ignorance of the reality of life and death and his complete disregard for human life on the other side of the war is what got Prim killed.

Peeta, on the other hand, is nothing like his highjacked self. They didn't take pieces of his personality, personal flaws, etc. and twist them into their perfect soldier. The capitol had to use false memories, had to inflate his insecurities, had to use chemicals and torture and mutated venom. They didn't make Peeta aggressive through hatred or vengeance, they made him aggressive through bodily fear. The venom and his body's extreme adrenaline, fight or flight response to that. He didn't attack Katniss bc he thought he was better than her or bc she deserved it, he attacked her because the very sight of her caused his body to go into overdrive of adrenaline to protect himself from her. This is a Peeta that *hates* Katniss, and he wants to kill her, but her specifically. He only reacts negatively towards other people (other than normal trauma-induced stuff) when she is involved somehow, like him flipping out on Delly while Katniss watched behind the glass.

These characters are not equivalent. And from a meta perspective, they're not supposed to be. Katniss ends up picking Peeta. Yes, the character obviously would have picked him, but also Katniss as a narrative figure picks him. She picks what he represents. Integrity and war. That boy on the rooftop that said he was willing to kill himself defense and to do what he needed to do but wanted to stay himself. Wanted to stay a human being even in that violence. Wanted to come out the other side of it still intact. Wanted the flowers to grow again after the harsh winter; a dandelion in the spring. Not the cycle of destruction, of forever punishing those that have wronged you, that both Gale and a capitol-kids hunger game would represent.

Which brings my thoughts also to the male loneliness epidemic. (We won't even get started on the fact that when women have problems it's something they need to just get over and take a joke, but when men have problems it's an epidemic) That is Gale. Yes, he has absolutely valid reasons behind his emotions. But he then takes those emotions and becomes radicalized, become something lesser. And that is so indicative of our current political climate in a lot of ways. Men have been hurt by the patriarchy also, they have been raised and socialized and desensitized and to not forming genuine emotional connections with the men around them or the women there in a relationships with. And I do separate those specifically, because men are also taught to not see women as people, so to a lot of men you are either a. someone they are related to b. someone they are romantically interested in or c. someone they are sexually interested in. And that is all a woman can be to them, not a friend.

So every which way they turn men are not taught the skills it takes to not be lonely. Community and having a support system and a network of people doesn't just happen by accident. That is something that you build, and cultivate, and prune, and intentionally add to. Men are lonely because they want someone else to do the work for them. The onus is on them and the system that made them that way.

And that man is the same as Gale. Someone who is rightfully hurt and wounded by the society they live in but then takes those real feelings and experiences and lets it justify all of the awfulness that follows.

Gale and Peeta are not equivalent. In dumbed down terms, Gale became bad because of what was already in him and then was fine to stay that way. Peeta became bad because of something someone else put in him, and then he did the work to not stay that way.

Oakfarmer again, to bring my rambling back to its original point: "Snow turned Peeta into a weapon, Coin turned Gale into a weapon. Both had been unleashed to destroy Katniss. They were the same, but they weren’t the same at all. The Capitol pumped venom into Peeta to create a hateful mutt. Coin only needed to provide an outlet for the hateful venom already circulating Gale’s veins. Hate and rage, he had never tried to suppress. Hate and rage, Peeta painstakingly clawed his way out of to recover his identity."

[floworence]

I've been thinking about what would've happened if Katniss was one captured by the Capitol instead of Peeta and the results were very depressing.

I think Katniss wouldn't have been hijacked in the same way Peeta was. Peeta's hijacking and torture revolved around destroying him as a person, breaking him and molding him into something completely new. Snow wanted to destroy Peeta Mellark because he knew it would destroy Katniss and, in the process, rebellion.

Now making Katniss into someone who would hate Peeta wouldn't destroy the rebellion. While their love story was important to Capitol, Katniss' bravery and defiance was what made her the face of the rebellion. That's why I don't think her torture would've been focused on Peeta, in my opinion it would've been focused on Prim.

Destroying Peeta meant destroying his kindness and love for Katniss.

Destroying Katniss means destroying her bravery, defiance and love for Prim.

To me they would make her into a Capitol loving, scared girl who reacts aggressively only to Prim. THAT would break the image of the girl on fire, THAT could destroy the rebellion.

Now knowing that, picture Prim's death. It would still be unjust but even more so with Katniss who viewed her beloved sister as the enemy. I can't think of a more cruel ending to Katniss' story.

[nightlocked-in]

please does anybody have fic recs where you see a bunch of hijacked!peeta and katniss hash it out, like they have a bunch of interactions or talk more even if it’s just yelling

before prim dies i mean, or maybe in a canon divergent au

[phobic-human]

The World Must Recognize This

Arabic translation: The Palestinians: twenty two years in the desert

Now the world must wake up and recognize this

Artist: Unknown

Circa 1970

[flymeandtiememaam2]

All Change

“This is your senior stewardess, Carla Smith, taking charge of this flight this morning, ladies and gentlemen. I’m afraid Captain Harris is a little - ah - tied up at the moment…”

“Mmmmph! Mmmmph! Mmmmpppphhh!!”

Click!

Source: Pinterest

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question : Murder and Disappearance Winners 2

These Questions are the winners from the previous iteration.

Please add new suggestions below, if you have them, for future consideration.

[turtleislandhistory]

November 24, 1971

D.B Cooper hijacks a plane by claiming to have a bomb, and demands ransom money. After receiving the money, he parachutes out of the plane into a thunderstorm, never to be seen again.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Scott Scheffer

For 75 years, the U.S. military has occupied South Korea; there are currently some 30,000 troops stationed there on 73 bases, the third biggest U.S. military occupation in the world. The South Korean military is under the virtual command of the U.S., and any actions such as seizing a ship are generally considered to be done at the direction of the U.S.

[adlerorzel-blog]

Hey, I hope you are feeling better and recovering soon :3 We missed you in the week of theories! I really wanted to know your opinion about the theory that Katniss was hijacked in her first games and that's why she fell in love with Peeta. I hope you will be back soon!

Hi Liz!!! 😊 I have missed you too! Luckily I've been discharged and I'm back!

Ooh I hate that theory! Ok, maybe hate is too aggressive, but it's one of the theories I dislike the most lol I think it makes Katniss's decisions at the end of the saga look like they're not hers and that's something that really bugs me. Why are female characters' decisions always questioned to the point of creating theories?

Anyway, since we are talking about a theory we have to give reasons why it is wrong, so here we go~

The hijacking is a fear conditioning method that basically works like this:

Dissociative State (Venom) -> Conditional Stimulus (Katniss or something related to her) -> Unconditional Aversive Stimulus (Torture) -> Conditional Response (Fear/Aggression)

Since the venom affects the part of the brain that controls fear (the amygdala and the production of adrenaline and cortisol), Katniss relating the image of Peeta to love after being stung is not possible. For this to happen, the venom would have to affect the caudate nucleus, nucleus accumbens, the hypothalamus, as well as the insula and produce (or provide) doses of oxytocin and dopamine. 

The text says that Katniss reacts to pain with aversion and to fear with flight, so oxytocin and dopamine are not present. Without these two the theory that Katniss was hijacked with the tracker jackers stings in her first games and thus fell in love with Peeta doesn't hold up.

[Note: This answer uses the complexity of the brain somewhat superficially but covers the basics, I think]

[yeonshisblog]

The Unsolved hijack

D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States on November 24, 1971. Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb and demanded  $200,000 and four parachutes. When the aircraft landed in Seattle,  Washington all the passengers got off the plane, copper asked the aircraft crew for refueling, with a refueling stop in Reno, Nevada, and instructed the flight crew to begin a second flight to Mexico City, as they took flight from Seattle, he asked the crew not to disturb him, Cooper opened the aircraft's aft door, deployed the staircase and parachuted into the night over southwestern Washington. People believed that due to the strong winds and the darkness of night, no visibility, Cooper must have met with a bad landing and died. In 1980, a small portion of the ransom money was found along the banks of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Washington which matched the ransom money serial number, this made everyone renew their interest in this mystery again but there was no additional information about Copper’s identification and fate. For forty-five years FBI continued their investigation but in the end

The daring hijack and disappearance remain an intriguing mystery—

[meowixen]

I was watching tv and thought one of the stations I was flipping through was hijacked, to only realize it was fucking Cloverfield

[0w0tsuki]

Trans woman: Makes a post about trans women for trans women.

TME's: "So is anyone going to derail this and make not about trans women orrrrrrrr?"

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Joseph Sargent)

1/14/23

[everlark4ever75reborn]

The newest chapter has been released!

I had some issues with uploading to fanfiction.net but we are now up and running. I have also uploaded this story to Wattpad under the same name and will upload on A03 when my account is reactivated. Having some issues there. Retuning to the fanfic posting game is hard after 5 years, so much has changed and it’s hard to keep up! Enough about me though, onto the reason you’re here!

Our new chapter is here, it is shorter but I have a few chapters just sitting there waiting to be uploaded. So I thought if I have more chapters there it will help boost up the story in the community.

Another Katniss and Peeta interaction, mainly for Peeta to find out facts about their baby. This story is heavy pregnancy related, but does do a deep dive into the Capitol later on.

I hope you enjoy and share the love around

[queenoftsage]

Yeo Jin Goo's upcoming role. He really went opposite on this one. It's interesting, can't wait to see his portrayal of a real life psycho.

That's going to be a mind fuck... But thank goodness for media literacy.... right? Am I right?

*crickets chirp* ... heh.... good luck with this one.