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I got into another argument about my faith today, so I went home and made this. These things I hold as truths, the very backbone of who I am. These things I hold as sacred. I will not bend, I will not break in these beliefs.
God help me, amen.
i get why a lot of people don’t like reading mockingjay as much as the rest of the trilogy, but i think it’s actually so essential to understanding the central thesis of the entire hunger games series.
the whole point of the hunger games is this: all human life is valuable, and artificial divisions between people keep them weak. and the only way out is radical love.
and this is something that is literally echoed again and again in the books. take, for example, gale. why is gale such an interesting, complex, and yet reprehensible character? yes, it’s because at the end katniss cannot separate his bomb from prim’s death. but it’s deeper than that. why does gale build the bomb in the first place? it’s because gale doesn’t see every human life as valuable. gale is willing to kill people and to deny them their humanity simply because they are his “enemy.” so, there’s the obvious example of his willingness to blow up the nut with everyone inside and his disregard for the human casualty. and the people in the nut aren’t even from the captiol, he just wants to do it because the stereotype of that district is their allegiance to the capitol, and gale hates that.
but there’s another scene, also in mockingjay, that i think goes under-discussed which is his view of katniss’ prep team. when katniss finds her prep team literally imprisoned in 13, she’s horrified and upset by the conditions they are in. but gale isn’t. and he’s confused about why katniss would care for them! her response is to say that it’s because they cried when she went to the quarter quell. and gale is like, “sure, but they’re still from the captiol.” and this argument is so important. because katniss argues that the prep team deserves to be treated as human beings, and when he presses her on why, she basically says because they treated her as a human being. but gale can’t see that–all he can see is that they’re from the capitol, and he’s confused about why katniss should care.
and this is, so crucially, what katniss learns in the hunger games. she realizes that she doesn’t want to kill the other tributes just because they are from the other districts. she hates the fact that they have turned her against people who are, in their core, just like her. frightened children who have been manipulated to kill other children against their will, all selected based on their district, a social divide that has literally been invented and imposed on them.
and another just absolutely essential thing to understand here is that peeta knows this all along. we talk at length about how peeta’s defining trait is his kindness. but what’s so important about peeta’s kindness is how it transcends any boundaries of social class or social division.
when peeta gives katniss the bread, it’s important to note that just before he does that, we hear his mother talking about “seam brats pawing through her trash.” peeta’s mother buys into the social divides in district twelve–she views herself as better than someone from the seam simply because of her standing as a merchant, and reinforces these class divides by refusing to extend the simplest humanity to a child from the seam. she literally refuses to feed a starving child on the grounds of a social divide, within a world that already has divided them into districts. but peeta doesn’t see it like this. peeta refuses to deny katniss food just because she’s from the seam. peeta gives her kindness. peeta gives her humanity.
and he does the same thing in the games! his entire first interview, the dramatic king focuses, not on the games, but on his genuine love and adoration for another tribute. how radical! to refuse to subscribe to a system which asks him to hate her? to want to kill her? and to instead confess his love for her? sure, katniss ends up being the mockingjay. katniss might have held out the berries. but peeta in that moment is the one who sets the rebellion in motion. peeta is the one who refuses to engage in the senseless hatred of someone who “should” be his enemy. instead, he reaches out in love.
and it all culminates at the end of mockingjay, when katniss votes for the capitol hunger games to gain coin’s trust. and peeta is utterly horrified by this. because he can’t understand how she could have been through everything he has been through and not understand that continuing to senselessly kill human beings (children!!) for some kind of revenge just reinforces these binary modes of thinking. but the thing is–katniss DOES see that. and when coin proposes it, that’s when she knows she has to stop her. because coin, like gale, like peeta’s mother, and like so others many around her, is still buying into these divides. is still viewing the captiol as the enemy. is still viewing a human life as expendable.
and there’s a quote in mockingjay that i think lays this out pretty explicitly. katniss says, after she kills coin and is recovering, point blank: “they can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them.” she’s realized the crux of the entire hunger games–that manipulating us to hate and kill our fellow humans, that drawing up divisions between people because of where they live and what they produce, that believing that hating someone on the basis of any of these is justification for their death, is all a farce. it’s all a distraction. it’s all pretend. she says, in the same chapter: “no one benefits in a world where these things happen.” not the districts. not the capitol. not the victors. no one.
the entire arc of the hunger games is really just about katniss catching up to what peeta has known from the start. katniss overcoming all the manipulation from those around her, all the glitz and glamour, all the artificial social and class divides to see what peeta has seen clearly from the start: love.
I'm once again begging the 118 to go to their fucking union reps
Picture it: all of us and Buck, trying to rationalize cheater!Eddie and failing
I was wrong, Eddie doesn't need a boyfriend right now. He needs to get locked in a room with Frank for a week. Or a month.
then maybe a boyfriend
Okay, but the pulse ox awkward is so real
"I'm not okay, I feel like I'm dying!"
"....finger please"
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WOULD THEY STOP JUMPSCARING ME WITH THIS MAN CRIPES
Next time I have an RSD fueled fit overcommitment and friend-making, and people like I'm insane, I'm going to wave wildly at Evan Buckley
All of my strong feelings about KC and their fans aside, why the hell are Bills Mafia members burning Taylor Swift faces and making signs about how she sucks?? I expected more out of that particular fan base, to be honest. They normally are pretty cool.
She isn't on the field, friends. She's literally just another human in the stands.
Yeah, I love Taylor Swift. I even think the Kelces are pretty cool.
But
The whole culture around the KC football team is racist as hell, and I'm not gonna cheer them on until something changes 🤷🏼♀️
But y'all don't want to talk about that. WHERE IS THAT MISS AMERICANA ENERGY AT 👏👏
Not that I think @wearewatcher will see this, BUT I went to college about thirty minutes from Hinsdale. To answer a few questions:
1) Hinsdale is the area, not just the house
2) We pronounced Olean as "oh-lee-ann" or "oh-lee-uhn"
3) The closest hospital was in Olean, you weren't too far from it!
It was a little wild to watch the vlog. There is, in fact, very spotty service in that neck of the woods. And, truly, there is so very little to do. I should have reached out before you went and told yinz to visit Cuba to grab some cheese or something!
I remember when I went to Israel and saw whole communities behind walls and fences, I asked my Israeli guide to explain. What were we looking at? Because my head couldn't comprehend what appeared to be ghettos in the middle of a country that was said to be a US ally. Our guide said that we needed to read everything, read what the Israeli government didn't want you to read. Learn from Palestinian sources and Arab friendly news.
I remember when I went to West Bank and I stared up at Israeli soldiers who were casually pointing weapons at us. I asked our Palestinian guide what we were doing that warranted such a reaction. Existing, he said, the same crime they condemn us for every day. We shuffled off to the Church of the Nativity as we learned about the lack of water in Bethlehem. We talked to people who lost their homes and loved ones to Israeli farmers illegally crossing the border. I didn't look back. I didn't need to see the soldiers watching us any longer.
I remember visiting the Gaza border and weeping for the people in the city we could barely see. Local officials loudly proclaimed how awful Gaza was, and how all of those poor people wished they were living in Israel. I cried. I wonder how many of those buildings are standing. I wonder if those officials are still using those precious souls as propaganda. I wonder how many of those people are still alive enough to dream of freedom.
I remember coming home and telling everyone I knew what I had seen. Hungry faces and the fear of parents. Children playing on broken playgrounds. The stark difference between what we see here in the US and the occupation I saw firsthand.
I remember screaming about it for years and no one around me wanting to listen. I remember telling them that this "peace" between Israel and Palestine was anything but peaceful. That people were dying, and that it would only get worse if nothing changed.
I remember seeing the news that Hamas had attacked and that Israel was retaliating. I looked at my brother, and I told him that a whole lot of people were about to die.
But did anybody check on Joe Biden?
good morning babygirl are you ready for todays horrors
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sometimes i think life isn’t that bad and then i remember i have ships with less than a hundred fics on ao3 and all of them are under 10k and i remember ah yes. yes this IS the bad place.
