Lay

the 1 in folklore, the researcher in the lab 📚 currently: sotr

[folkveliant]

“Maysilee leaves the world the way she wanted, wounded but not bowed.”

i actually cannot do this anymore

[folkveliant]

“I don’t know how, and I don’t know where, I don’t know anything, but I feel that in my heart. You and me, we will find each other, as many times as it takes […] You stay alive, play your songs, love your people, live the best life you can. And I’ll be there in the Meadow waiting for you. It’s a promise. Okay?”

it’s NOT okay, i’m crying my eyes out

[folkveliant]

“You are on a high horse, mister. And someday someone will knock you off it straight into your grave.”

[folkveliant]

ever since i read the thg trilogy, katniss has been permanently engraved in my brain. any tiny reference, whether direct or just something that reminds me of her in tbosas and now in sotr, makes my mind scream “KATNISS!!!!!!”. she's everywhere.

[folkveliant]

“I never saw them, but Merrilee’s featured a hummingbird and Maysilee’s a mockingjay, birds being one of the Covey’s great loves.”

[folkveliant]

“Coriolanus felt sure he’d spotted his first mockingjay, and he disliked the thing on sight.”

in the end, the mockingjay came for you

[folkveliant]

just realized lucy gray actually poisoned the water reaper drank... i was so oblivious until highbottom mentioned it to coriolanus

[folkveliant]

i'm at the 50% mark of tbosas and dr. gaul is completely INSANE!!!

[folkveliant]

finally reading the ballad of songbirds and snakes. can't wait to see why everyone is obsessed with lucy gray

[folkveliant]

i can't believe what avery did, and of all people, to chiti. i'm going to have to read her remaining chapters so slowly just to process this

[folkveliant]

thrillers are just not for me. i feel like i'm going to die of anxiety if i don't find out what happened right away

[folkveliant]

with every new book ali releases, the confirmation that she values quantity over quality just keeps growing

[yourstupidface]

the crows are so young. they're so young. they make fun of wylan for playing the flute and being a bad criminal. they love waffles. they mock kaz's bad haircut. matthias mentally addresses kaz only with insults for nearly the whole two books. they have all been jealous of each other showing other people attention at some point -- jesper is jealous of anyone kaz gives attention to. matthias is jealous of anyone nina gives attention to. kaz is jealous of how comfortable the others are with each other. wylan is jealous of kuwei flirting with jesper -- they're all insecure at some point. nina gets mad at them for eating her cookies. they're all horny and fantasize about their crushes while actively running for their lives. they all want to kill the woman they kidnapped because she's whiny. they tease inej for sounding philosophical. they have secret hand signals. jesper and nina make sex jokes all the time and love to make others blush. they spite each other. they threatened to tattletale on each other to each other. they compete over who has the biggest bounty on his head. inej uses "being a matthias" as an insult. kaz and jesper have a physical scrap and have to be pulled apart by an Adult. i adore them so much

[folkveliant]

I love them so much 🥹

[folkveliant]

finally watching catching fire and there’s something so satisfying about katniss saying “it must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down” right to snow’s face. her audacity is everything

[blans]

nobody is doing it like her

[heavensbeehall]

One of my fave Everlark scenes isn’t kissing or anything romantic. It’s when Peeta admits he painted Rue for the Gamemakers, and everyone is shocked so Katniss is like, “well I hung Seneca Crane whoopsie.” And then they just giggle because they are both so alike in some ways. Maybe Peeta is more artistic and intentional while and Katniss is more confrontational and reactionary, but they are in step with each other in a way that is truly impressive.

[folkveliant]

“It’s like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.

But there are much worse games to play.”

the end.