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RACHEL ZEGLER GET BEHIND ME GIRL!!! WE RIDE AT DAWN!!

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Happy birthday to the best!!! 💖💖💖

My kind, beautiful, amazing friends made collages of my OCs. Truly the greatest gift a girl like me could get. A great gift for all of you too, to have a stronger visual identity of my cast of characters!

Happy birthday to me!🥳🥳🥳

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Just thinking about the names of district 12s prep team. Proserpina after the Roman counterpart to Persephone which relates not only to the Orpheus and Eurydice myth but also to life, death, and re-birth. Vitus which means life. These are the people who are prepping these children for their deaths and that these are their is ironic yet fitting.

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maysilee donner really said if i have to fight to the death im gonna serve rupaul levels of cunt while doing so and i just think that's really cool of her

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@loungemermaid you read my mind I was just thinking about this post. Excuse me while I go scream into my pillow and cry some more 😭😭

Haymitch raising/taking care of geese has always intrigued me so much and as a textbook over-analyzer I decided to look into it. Now Suzanne may have chosen geese at random, but that won’t stop me from looking for some deeper meaning and this is what I found.

Geese are monogamous, meaning they live in permanent pairs through out the year. And historically, they have been seen as rather easy prey to target especially by the first European colonizers when they came to America. And what else come in pairs and have been seen as easy targets within the Hunger Games? Tributes, especially tributes from district 12.

However, there is also some literary and rhetorical significance to Haymitch raising geese as well. Once again, geese are often associated with the phrase “silly goose” and “goose” means “fool” or “silly one” in many modern languages in which geese have been seen as foolish or helpless. Much of the same can be said for all of the previous tributes Haymitch mentored before Katniss and Peeta. So there is something particularly moving about the fact that Haymitch takes care of geese because of the ways that they mirror the tributes.

However, the same can, in many ways, be said of Haymitch who had gained a reputation for being the drunk and silly mentor who never led his tributes to victory. However, we know just how much the odds were against those tributes and we know just how much trauma Haymitch endured during his own games and from watching tribute after tribute die. And yet, he survived and he played an important part within the rebellion in which he becomes likened to the quote “all his geese are swans.”

And this makes Haymitch (unconsciously) taking care of geese that much more impactful and adds a bit more depth even if it was unintentional on Suzanne’s part.

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Suzanne said “here damn” with every name we’ve ever wanted to know 😂

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okay, i like maysilee.

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Finished Sunrise on the Reaping…gotta go cry for hours now

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dude you gotta watch severance it's so exciting. in season 2 they go outside

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SEVERANCE (2022–) #02.09 ‘The After Hours’

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Happy Ides of March!!

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Let’s talk about the symbol on the Sunrise of The Reaping cover and what it could mean within the context of the book:

After spending some time looking into many different meanings of this symbol, I have come to the strong conjecture that the shape itself is an upside-down upper-case omega symbol from the Greek alphabet.

The omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet and often signifies “the end” or the ultimate limit. In one interpretation it signifies “the end of everything”. However, the upside down omega sign also has two important meanings. The upside down version was formerly used as the SI unit of electrical resistance to represent mho.

The upside-down omega, more importantly, became the symbol for draft resistance during the Vietnam War in the United States. While a symbol of draft resistance generally, the upside-down omega was most synonymous with the draft resistance organization called “The Resistance” which was founded by David Harris and others in the San Francisco Bay Area in March of 1967. In acts of civil disobedience, members of The Resistance would publicly burn their draft cards refused or refused to register at all. Some would register and after being drafted, they would refuse to be inducted and then fight their cases in federal courts. It is also to be noted that David Harris was famously married to Joan Baez from 1968-1973. Baez, the iconic folk singer, is believed by many to have provided some influence for the character of Lucy Gray Baird (and Rachel Zegler herself said Baez’s music provided inspiration for her take on the role). Thus, the symbol was associated with large-scale civil disobedience efforts during the Vietnam war to resist the draft with draft resistance playing a major role within the anti-war movement as a whole.

Scholastic recently provided three different images depicting six different signals. Among those, was the symbol from the cover on what looked to be a poster of some sorts. In a discussion with my friend and fellow THG enthusiast Sadie Rose (@sadieillustrates), we postulated that the release of the symbols in three parts could also signify the structure of the book as a whole. Part I would focus on the leas up to the games, Part II focusing on the games in the arena, and Part III focusing on the aftermath and potential resistance. That the symbol appears on a poster in the teased image could mean that it plays a large role in Haymitch’s story and that we will be exploring the idea of failed resistance in the final part of the book.

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Coleman Domingo looks fantastic in red! So glad to see a man wearing something fun that's not hideous!

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Oscar Winner, Kieran Culkin

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not to talk about flow again, but the thing is, a lot of people talk about independent film making and its importance etc, but it's hard to get more independent than flow this year

not only because it was made with a free and open source software anyone can use, not only because it beat competitors from major studios with an average of 3% of the budget they had, not only because it represented a country that had never won an oscar before, not only because it didn't have any star power involved, not only because it didn't come from a filmmaker with past history, not only because it was made by a small team...

but also because it's an animated movie

animators often get the short end of the stick in the entertainment industry and, for the past years, it was starting to look as if the only way to make an animated project happen was to sell your soul to a major studio and see your work transformed into what they need and how they want it marketed

especially for movies from outside the US, from non-English speaking countries, where insanely talented animators tend to be used as freelance cheap labor for major US studios or have to adapt as much as possible to fit into their market in order to find work

passion projects for animation seemed to only be reserved to the shorts category, or needed to be as high brow as humanly possible to be perceived as "high art" to be valued and, even in the spaces of the industry dedicated to the genre, the way in which awards are distributed are a poor reflection of the vast work animators do

it's major for this film to win awards, let alone the oscar, an award which is notably judged badly for animation and often prefers the marketable easy way out of voting rather than genuine interest

this movie used a resource that is open to anyone and, with good storytelling, made an oscar winning film

in a world in which art is constantly being attacked by capitalist greed, I'm happy that a movie with heart and little resources could do something like this, whether or not people care about the oscars anymore