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tomthebassoon · 9 months

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Ok listen. I'm dying. Reading the hunger games, I was vaguely aware that district 12 was supposed to be located in my homeland, but I didn't fully feel it till I read tbosas. Like, that's Appalachian folk music, baby! The music of my people! Lucy Gray talks like me!! The humidity Snow can't stop bitching about? That's my summer!!!

And then the movie came out and let me tell you, the joy I felt hearing the covey speak. That's my accent on the big screen!!! And of course, the music was just how I imagined it!! Straight up, The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird was *the same* melody I thought of when reading the book!!! (musicology is my passion ok). Every single song killed me I swear. And the cinematography of district 12! I can imagine my home town like that. I know meadows and lakes just like those. That's my home.

#the hunger games #tbosas #anyways i wish thg movies had given us the appalachian accents. ik they forgot that detail & thats ok #then again maybe it was on purpose to show that the culture faded. like how katniss is unique for knowing the old songs and hunting #most peopke in 12 don't have access to their culture at that point bc of the oppression of the capitol; live music was shut down #access to the woods was limited. so while some people might have been able to keep their accent #that piece of our culture was lost to katniss.#idk im probably rambling #katniss everdeen #district 12 #thg series #tbosas movie #thg movies #thg

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