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YOU'RE JUST PLASTIC.

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NOTHING IS REAL IN THE LA LA LAND MACHINE. district 12's capitol escort EFFIE TRINKET. as crafted by nosta (27).

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give a human being all they could possibly want or need, and their desire to question things diasapears.

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nosta the way you write effie (and every muse you touch) is soooooo on point it’s insane. plus your analysis and metas??????? 10/10 i’m in love 🥰

HOW´S MY PORTRAYAL?

SFJS mavis you're an absolute legend, i am honored !!!! tysm !!! @70th

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nosta the way you nail every muse you write is wild and your Effie is no exception!!! her voice is so strong in your writing. it’s giving MOTHER 🧎🏽‍♀️

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Im CRYING I FEEL LIKE A TUNGLE MOM SO IT FITS 🥹 TYSM ILY BB @70won

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beep beep how’s my portrayal ?

[gameraboy2]

Dolly Parton in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

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ALSO, the difference between snow and the capitol citizens who defied the regime ( effy, cinna ) is exactly that. snow is a product of the regime as well, but he embraced it, he craved the power to be at the top and craddled it. it had nothing to do with lucy gray or him feeling betrayed. he always wanted to climb the ladder, and thought he could take lucy with him as a nice little accesory.

SNOW IS A PRODUCT OF THE REGIME TOO, YES, BUT WHAT MAKES HIM A VILLAIN IS THAT HE EMBRACED IT UNTIL HE BECAME IT.

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i'm a sucker for the haymitch/effy ship tBQH

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"...i'm sorry."

for a moment, the moment when she speaks, her mask slips, and the concern creeps through. escorts aren't supposed to show concern, escorts are supposed to smile and wave and make sure these kids show their best face to the camera.

but they were promised they'd get to go home. both katniss everdeen and peeta mellark were promised they could go back to their families. haymitch had said it well enough: i'm already dead, but they still got hope in their eyes. effy feels sick thinking about it, thinking about watching them go through the games again.

it's the first time effy has come to think about the fact that panem isn't kind, or just, or safe for any of them.

" i'm so sorry ... you were supposed to be safe from all this." @mckngsong

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i think we need to acknowledge how the regime keeps the capitol compliant.

yes, snow's goverment keeps control over the capitol citizens by overindulging them, bombarding them with consumism and excessive comodities, but that is on a surface level. there have been people from the capitol who have been punished or straight up executed for not catering to the regime and the 'status quo' of panem ( cinna, seneca crane ). there have been escorts who have been 'vanished' (executed) for not viewing the tributes as spectacles because as i said in a previous post, it endangers the regime. that is why the escorts are trained to not view tributes as human beings, but marketable objects. becaused the regime relies on the idea of this perfect bubble that is the capitol, and outside of it, nothing else exists.

that's why annie and peeta voting no for the 'capitol games' is so important. because they both know and acknowledge that it's not the solution. that it would continue the cycle and lead to another rebellion. and coin knew this too; coin knew that it was not 'an eye for an eye' situation but a way of maintaining control over panem.

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Silkstone barbies˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

I love the hair of the one on the top right.

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" i can't believe he hasn't shown up yet. who does he think he is?! does he not care about anything at all?! "

despite common assumption, effy is perfectly aware how disliked escorts are amongst mentors and other victors. effy doesn't pretend not to know the reason. rumor has it, johanna's escorts last very little, because the victor keeps scaring them away. still, effy wonders if she'd rather have to deal with johanna mason's attitude than haymitch's.

" this event is important. it's going to secure his tributes good sponsors and he can't even be bothered to show up? " heavy sigh leaves her grotesquely plump lips, tapping claw against the glass of champagne, " there's only so much i can do on my own! " @70won

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" you didn't show up to the press conference. i told you how important it was for you to show up. twice. "

despite how she acts around him, effy is perfectly aware that haymitch abernathy cannot stand her ( the sentiment is mutual, really. he has a talent for making her job twice as hard each year ). however, in the time during the games when they are forced to coexist together and bring out the best, marketable version of a dirt poor, tattered-clothed child, effy tries to be civil and polite. he might not care about making those kids win, but she does. in her own way.

" our job is to make sure those children have a chance out there. your job starts at the arena, but you still need to pretend like you actually think they stand a chance, " she perches her hands on her zinched waist, glares down at the man before her, " you know caesar flickerman will eat them alive during their interviews if you don't give them some extra confidence." @unquell

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" don't look at me like that. it's chardonnay. "

effy quips with a purse of painted lips, bringing the bottle to her mouth for another gulp, she shrugs her shoulders, tugs then silken nightrobe that has slid down her right shoulder up. she knows finnick odair will wonder how come an escort allows herself to be seen in such deplorable state ( perhaps she has picked up too many cues from haymitch ), and truth is, she cannot give him a valid answer. there is a feeling of emptiness within her chest that sometimes creeps in past the point of conealing it, and because she's seen haymitch do it so often, she's begun to turn to alcohol to fill it.

what could you possibly know about misery, sweetheart? get over yourself.

" i guess we've become the definition of misery loves company, " she sighs, tapping pointy claws against the side of the bottle, " ... i don't want them to go in that arena, finnick. i don't want them to go through that again. those two kids ... they should be able to go back to twelve and hug their families like they were promised. " @4thdistrict

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i love the idea that effie's sense of empathy has been 'deformed' so to speak by the escort's training at the capitol. while the socioeconomic situation that katniss lived in district 12 all her life led her to develop a sort of delayed sense of empathy towards other people, i like to think effie's is also skewed but by the capitol's influence. they are more or less brainwashed to see their tributes as spectacles, as simply things they are supposed to promote and sell. that is how they are trained to act around the tributes and other district victors. they are taught to view everything in the games from a marketing's point of view, and to do that, they need to see the kids as products to sell.

it's not only that effie, having been born in the capitol, has a view of the world and the districts vs the capitol that is absolutely disrupted by the capitol propaganda, but the escorts are actively trained to have those views because they are the ones who are closest in interaction with the district kids. snow cannot allow the escorts to get too close to the kids as to view them as human beings, because in a way, he learned from his experience with lucy gray. it's a dangerous thing for his regime to let the escorts empathize too much with the tributes.

thus, the training the escorts endure, which is basically a brainwashing camp, turns them into the perfect salesmen. i love how disgusting and dark this concept is, ngl.

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" you haven't eaten anything. you all right? "

she remembers annie cresta's victor tour. women all around the parade were boasting their skeletical frames to mimic annie's decrepit state upon leaving the arena - her emanciated appearence had become the latest fashion trend. truth is, effie never understood that particular one; there is something absolutely distasteful about starving over nothing at all when you're overflowing with fancy food.

effie presses cherry tiers together ( her lipstick shade is tattooed over botox-filled lips, always prepared for a spectacle ), and while she pushes the bowl of cooked shrimps closer to the girl, she realizes she cannot fault annie for losing her appetite. escorts are trained to force themselves to drink and eat while district kids are slaughtered on a massive broadcast, death is nothing new. but victors were promised they would never have to kill again -- yet here they are.

" i'm not hungry either, but i'm used to spending a whole day without a bite. you know, i absolutely love district four's dishes. they feel so natural compared to anything they serve in the capitol. " @70th