Standards

this is still so funny to me

isn't it kinda crazy how nya was once forced to embody a man's dead lover, a woman she never heard of and had nothing to do with, just because she shared a face with her?

And now she has to look into the eyes of a stranger, one who shares her own lover's face, and plead for him to become someone he's never known.

SotR is a realisation. A realisation that the rebellion didn’t start with Katniss. That all the people we see supporting her or helping her have all been wanting to fight but they’ve been failing. That there weren’t merely “rumours” of a revolution but there were many active plans playing out and failing.

It’s a reminder that the perfect Hunger Games we saw in the first hg book was an illusion because we had Katniss as our narrator. We didn’t have Haymitch, hell, we didn’t even have someone like Peeta because these people played the games. Katniss didn’t.

Katniss was introduced to us as a mad, simple, naive girl who literally only survived because of others. She didn’t know how much her taking Prim’s place mattered because she didn’t realise what it meant to everyone who came before her. To everyone who had heard rumours of how the last District 12 victor actually fought his games. No, Katniss had just kept her head down, hunting and providing for her family.

See, she grew up way before the Games got to her. She’d already lived through her dad’s death and watched it destroy her once lively mom. Haymitch didn’t have to go through that. Lucy Gray didn’t have to go through that. They were both angry, yes, but at the Capitol. Katniss? She was first and foremost angry at her mom. At her dad. She knew who was to blame but she had too much to do and deal with to think about that. She was already jaded in a way that the Games couldn’t touch.

Peeta? He was Haymitch. He knew what he was getting into and realised he was just on a chess board with no control. So, he adapted. He played the knight, the rook, the king, the pawn. Katniss? She just… did. Changing directions, not playing the piece she was assigned because she didn’t realise that’s what was going on. Remember her surprise at the crown twisting into two after the Games?? She was so oblivious. Until Catching Fire where everything caught up to her. Where everything so many other people had been waiting and working for caught up to her.

SotR is a history book. Rewritten and edited and published as a piece of fact. SotR is a mirror and it’s a reflection of what actually happens vs what ends up being shown. SotR is the playbook of those in control of any and every kind of media that we come in touch with. SotR is a wake up call and I truly don’t know how many will see it as such.

a little bit the biggest difference between haymitch and katniss and peeta is that haymitch never for a second doubted the fact that he was loved

I MISS THEM ALOT. 😭😭😭💔💔JAYAAA💔💔

What if Poppy is already keeping secrets? 👀

We just don’t know. We find out the same time as Branch. 😲🫢

That would be a surprising turn of events for us as the audience I think, since we may presume that she wouldn't pull something like this, as she has expressed dislike of the secret-keeping her father did (like father like daughter I suppose!). Since we can't do the calling out, it will have to be Branchifer

watched some season 1 episodes the other day

image description by vampireautism under the read more

[ID: a digital sketch of ninjago characters. Cole, Zane, and Kai are drawn with comically large eyes and no mouth as they loom over Jay, who sits on the floor in front of them, with a focused expression and a screwdriver in his mouth, ignoring the others.

Cole is labelled "isn't close to his dad, mom's dead." Zane is labelled "doesn't remember his dad." Kai is labelled "parents disappeared when he was a kid." An arrow pointing to Jay says "doesn't want to visit his very nice parents." /end ID]

All this time we had been watching Yaz and Sammy fall in love with each other don't fucking touch me

me whenever suki is left out of the gaang official art

Okay but what gender is Casita, I mean I feel like we’re leaning towards female/woman, but could it be male/man??