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The face of a woman who has her best friend back, her memories back, an open UNIT job with 5 weeks holiday on a £120K salary, a husband, a daughter, a TARDIS… DONNA NOBLE YOU WON

daily-spooky

blue-eyed-author

Writing rule:

Every character who speaks gets their own paragraph. If two characters are talking, each time they switch you must create a new paragraph.

Do not add more than one characters’s dialogue into a single paragraph or it will be too confusing for the reader.

ad-wills

thegreenthepeacetheorange

Ultimately I think the books show that Katniss and Peeta are always on the same frequency whereas Katniss and Gale are rarely ever on the same frequency. Katniss and Peeta are really in tune for most of the trilogy, whereas Katniss and Gale are really not. Politically, emotionally, mentally fundamentally.

rosegardeninwinter

finnicknot

It's just so funny to me that Snow had to see Katniss sing the hanging tree song, use the mockingjay as her symbol while her name is Katniss and she is from District 12 but he had NO ONE to tell. He just had to keep it all to himself, being the only person to know what that all means. So many coincidences and you can't even tell anyone.

rosegardeninwinter

Coriolanus Snow did not mansplain, manipulate, manslaughter his way to the top for some of y’all to decide that Peeta is the toxic one

booksandpaperss

Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one

a-strange-inkling

I’m not saying he’s not evil, I’m just saying he’s also ✨relatable✨

judas-is-scary

Suzanne Collins has me deranged.

We know from the Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes that many of the features of the modern Hunger Games are Snow's invention, including those that motivate the districts, like prizes. It's fair to assume he likely came up with the idea for tesserae, it's an easy way to keep the districts well fed while encouraging/forcing participation and general involvement in the games. It's a great reminder, even the food you eat is linked to the games themselves. Tesserae is a type of tile work commonly associated with Romans which Collins draws a lot of inspiration from in her depiction of the Capital. It has also in the past been used as a token. In this case, you take the token of food in exchange for extra names in the bowl. Now that's fucking excellent on it's own, real neat bit of linguistic worldbuilding.

BUT what really gets me, what truly fucks me up is that Snow didn't name it that because he's like a language nerd. Tigris had to use tile buttons, tesserae buttons on his shirt during songbirds because they couldn't afford anything else. Snow inherently associates that material with poverty, specifically with the lack of food he had during that time. As a result tesserae represents poverty starvation and desperation to everyone in the districts. Snow is so god dam self obsessed he imbedded ,intentionally or not , personal fucking references to himself within the districts.

AND THAT is why Collins is so crazy to me that detail is tiny, you truly would not notice and in the grand scheme it's not that important but that's woman is on her shit and she's fucking thinking her thoughts and its genius. HER MIND UGH. truly has me messed.

amethystmercury

Coriolanus missed out on having a wife who would sing for him and a husband who could cook for him

rylandsgrace

DOCTOR WHO I Wild Blue Yonder (2023)

disgustinggf

would u guys still follow me if i was a worm

spikedaily

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 4.22 “Restless”

i-know-the-endss

i think the most frustrating part about tbosas is the fact that you want to root for coryo. you want him to be a better man for lucy gray. you want him and sejanus to become closer, to become the best friends sejanus believes them to be. you want him to run away and find a way to relearn all the oppressive and tyrannical ideals the capitol instilled in him.

but that’s not what happens.

coriolanus isn’t necessarily a good person. he’s not a bad person either, not yet, but he’s no where near good. and rather than try to be good, he gives up, he lets himself “go bad”, he rats out sejanus, he lets his anger get the best of him and loses lucy gray.

the idea that coryo could be a good person but chooses not to be is exactly the reason this book and this character are brilliant.