suzanne collins is god

if i could inject the hunger games books into my veins i would

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ana delvey as maysilee donner

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it’s haymitch’s birthday and thus absolutely nothing else going on today is worth celebrating as his birthday is all that matters

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in the movies it really was just haymitch and that fuck ass bob against the world huh

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SUNRISE ON THE REAPING SPOILERS:

everyone who clowned on the rigged reaping theory ugh i feel so vindicated after sotr i KNEW snow was too controlling not to handpick children for the narratives he wanted to portray

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with every new addition to the hunger games series i’m reminded of just how insane the 2015 dubstep edm remix of the hanging tree was

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with so many important things going on i can’t stop thinking: how are they going to possibly cut ANY of this for the movie

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not a spoiler really but i just got to the scene in sunrise on the reaping where they are projecting all of the tributes who died on the first day in the sky

it hits like a ton of bricks. it always hits like a ton of bricks.

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can’t believe there’s still people out there who think you’re supposed to like snow at any point in the ballad of songbirds and snakes like were we not reading the same book?!

saw some people on threads were like yeah i just skipped it tbosas isn’t important HUH?!?!

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middle-aged snow complaining and projecting to a teenager about a girl he “dated” DECADES ago is so straight white man in a situationship core

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spoiler thread live reactions to chapter one of sunrise on the reaping:

ma is 35 and haymitch is turning 16, is haymitch adopted?

also she’s widowed bc of a coal fire killing her husband ok parallels

is haymitch’s girlfriend covey?! she was introduced with two names and he calls her by those two names the next time he mentions her

“i’m not a drinker myself” HAYMITCH NO MY HEART

SHE IS COVEY

damn leanor dove isn’t just covey she’s THEE covey

and just like that we know mom and papa everdeen’s names

nooooo he was almost out it wasn’t supposed to be like this

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BIIIIIG day for us here in the districts

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in the movie lucy gray says she is the last loose end snow had to worry about not bc that’s something she would say but bc he was projecting onto her all of his paranoia and she says it just like when she says “i’m not made of sugar” because there is not an internal monologue the audience can pull from like in the book

e.g. that sugar line in the book actually comes from him thank you good night .

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the rigged reapings theory

a mini-essay

now while i do really love the “randomness” of the games, there has been a theory going around that the reapings might be rigged by the capitol.

i’m not talking about the “chosen one” theory bc katniss is not a chosen one

i am talking about how the capitol controls everything and one of snow’s fundamental characteristics is his need for control and yet all the reapings are left up to chance?

like believe what you want (personally i still like the random reapings) but it is interesting to note that the hunger games are an entertainment device as well as a means of holding onto political power and control and, like in irl reality tv, the storylines and casting choices are ALWAYS manipulated to pull in a larger audience.

in TBOSBAS lucy gray is explicitly mentioned to be reaped as a result of petty, teenage relationships. if it was happening, even on a small scale, back in the 10th hunger games and snow knows this because lucy gray told him, even if she was somehow wrong or exaggerating, this might’ve given snow the idea to use rigging in the future in order to control the games’ narratives every year.

someone that obsessed with power and control and order would want to manipulate the hunger games to fit whatever would keep the capitol watching and keep the districts obedient and/or fearful.

the OG trilogy also explicitly tells us the fact that victors children are coincidentally more likely to be reaped. katniss being the unreliable, limited narrator she is even makes it a point to comment on it herself.

this theory is not so much trying to make katniss a chosen one but more reaffirms the capitol and snows need for control. it reiterates the point that everybody is in the games all of the time and katniss volunteering was unexpected and not in any way a “chosen one” kind of moment

side note: if they did want to punish either katniss or gale they could’ve just killed them or their family or repaired the fences or made them Avoxes… so on and so forth. reaping prim was probably just the result of some game maker, likely under snow’s influence, trying to find a kid that fit an archetype that capitol officials wanted to have in the games that year.

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not the british district two boy

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“i own lucy gray” sir you quite literally do not own a shirt

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“i own lucy gray”

sir you quite literally

do not own a shirt

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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even haiku-bot don't fuck w coriolanus snow

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i love tumblr so much

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sejanus reminds me of when your grandma recalls a childhood friend of yours like ah yes sejanus such a sweet boy

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“i own lucy gray” sir you quite literally do not own a shirt