But she did look back.

lindsey | 25 | chinese american | scorpio | sleepy

[maxburnett]

[hyperfixatedmess873]

In Mockingjay, Katniss’s squad was called squad 451. Like the book Fahrenheit 451°.

Plutarch Heaveansbee, the man who had a huge ass library, and libraries were considered RARE, named them after a book about censorship.

Plutarch is such an interesting character, the fact that he was trying to stop the games for at LEAST 25 years. And he was so devoted it makes you wonder why he even cared.

[i-enjoy-too-many-things]

My interpretation of Plutarchs character in SOTR is that he is a commentary on how freeing education and access to culture really is.

He mentions how reading is a rare pastime in the Capitol, and as Haymitch sugests books are an even rarer. No doubt this is intentional: a population that has been deprived of information, of "dangerous" ideas of social justice and freedom, that is unaware of the mere possibilty of an existence that doesn't involve opression, is easier to control, to manipulate. It makes them more susceptible to propaganda.

Plutarch, however, has an extensive collection of books, no doubt some of the "dangerous" ones aswell. And despite being one of the most privilleged people even within the capitol, he is fighting to desmantle the very system that benefits him.

His access of culture and information give him the rare advantage of different perspectives, and therefore, the freedom of knowing that things don't have to be like this forever.

[watching-chaos]

After reading this, my heart actually felt scared for a moment that in the future, this might become human reality. Considering how much THE HUNGER GAMES are similar to real life, there are very high chances of this happening. Maybe not soon, but some time in the future, definitely. And a world without books....... scares me 🤐😶‍🌫️🫥

[alicerohrwacher]

THE GILDED AGE S03E08

[hgedits]

In America, you don't have to live like your parents lived.

[eloiscbridgerton]

PEGGY SCOTT and WILLIAM KIRKLAND THE GILDED AGE 3.08 – My Mind Is Made Up

[whartonists]

I'm too obsessed with John giving Oscar a house to be fully coherent about it yet, but there is something here about a house as an overt symbol of both domesticity and status, as a final manifestation of everything John's been doing for him this season in reestablishing him in business and society, but also as a place of privacy and personal as well as social security (especially as we know they spent time in this particular house together).

A house is in a lot of ways the ultimate symbol of this kind of stability, an overt statement of wealth and status and the place where one hosts one's friends and.or social connections. But at the same time, and for John and Oscar in particular, they clearly understand the value of privacy that a home can provide--I mean, my god, they were out there living the one-bedroom apartment lifestyle together in 1882, they clearly felt like their home provided safety and insulation from the outside world.

So the gift of the house is at once granting Oscar a symbol of the kind of position and security that he had been trying to find through marriage, as well as a place of privacy and safety for him to exist outside of the public eye. It's a hugely symbolic as well as practically useful gift, and personally speaking I may never get over it.

[maxdibert]

Not Bertha Russell humiliating her daughter’s bully using the feminism card, what a problematic icon she is. I love her despite being so power-hungry she'd literally sell her children for a title. My favorite white bourgeois feminist ever.

[sunbeamsandmoonrays]

"He's English! His loyalties are to the Queen and to the bottle! And not necessarily in that order." Another BANGER line from Agnes omg 😂😂😂😂😂

[youricariancarrion]

this is killing me

[itwas-sohuman]

the sad™️ is back 

[foryouforallofusforalltime]

I love Agnes being such a principled person. She really is just like, ‘I am neither a racist nor a misogynist but god damn it I will be a classist to the day I die’ 😂

[berthas-russells]

Are you willing to exile your own daughter from society?

THE GILDED AGE (2022- ) | 3x05 "A Different World"

[madisoncounty]

BERTHA RUSSELL, MAMIE FISH, and AURORA FANE in The Gilded Age, 3x05 "A Different World" (2025)

[sunbeamsandmoonrays]

Nothing gets past Aunt Agnes. I love this scene between her and Marian. She didn't threaten her! Progress!

[tallmadgeandtea]

Marian Brook isn’t prominent enough… I’m surprised Agnes didn’t manifest into the room with a full family history in her hands to show off her prominence

[tallmadgeandtea]

Bauer is Jack’s surrogate mother 🥺🥺 I love the downstairs so much

[lilacsilver-writes]

I fast-forwarded through a lot of the episode to get to the wedding (mostly to yell at George for his continued lack of spine) so I’ll have more to say once I’ve actually watched the whole thing, but !!!!

there is no “thinking” that you failed Gladys, George. You did fail her.

I understand that George loves his wife and that that was a rarity for the high society set. I do respect him for that, and only for that. But love absolutely does not mean simply giving in every single time your spouse demands something. It seems to me that he never learned how to say no to Bertha, and that, I think, is going to be their eventual downfall.