rainymyx

Please follow @rainydov for the acolyte content! love earnestly, love honestly

[probuccalfat]

do not ever slander the beautiful goddess carbs around me

[probuccalfat]

“empty carbs” don’t you dare talk about her like that. you’re empty. how do you like that.

[shigure]

i'm sorry i never did your tag game. i love you

[rainymyx]

Hi

[rosegardeninwinter]

you’re telling her the horrific loss of her sister ruined your chances of dating her I am planting her primroses to memorialize her sister with no expectations of a relationship we are NOT the same

[rainymyx]

Gale is always trapped in the future, or stuck musing about alternative realities.

This imo, was the nail in the coffin for their relationship and is evident from their very first conversation where Gale muses about running away.

Katniss is terrified about the future, and can’t bring herself to hope for anything different.

What pulls her out of that is Peeta. But he does it inadvertently, by living in the now, and focusing on the one thing he has total control over, himself.

“I wish I could freeze this moment” vs “She’ll pick whoever she can’t survive without”

“I don’t want them to change me” vs “We could live in the woods”

Primroses vs Ruined chances

[rainymyx]

I really hate the unpredictability of how my period is going to be.

[potatoesofpanem]

Just thought you should know I'm currently eating an Old and Easy Potato

We'll toast to that!

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[mostmagical]

I truly truly believe that the most important thing you can do in fandom is be a cheerleader. comment on fics. reblog art and rave in the tags. support the people making the things you want to see. this is how you keep a fandom alive. this is how you get more of what you want. you never know: that person could have decided to make more just because you liked it.

[thesunpersists]

It’s funny how you only care about potatoes when it comes to Sunrise on the Reaping. No mention of the 9 potato references in the trilogy and not a single discussion of the 22 potato shout-outs in Ballad. Interesting.

Oh, anon... I know you're accusing me of unnecessarily attacking SOTR over the potato situation, but you lay down the facts right there in your ask. It seems everyone else in the fandom is blinded by the potato battery lights but me.

I wanted your count to be wrong at first. I did not want to believe SC could be so cruel as to triple the potatoes from one book to another. But, alas... I checked for myself and you were right...

Look at this pie chart of potato count across the books. 68% of all potatoes are in SOTR. Do you think this is normal?

As if this wasn't unsettling enough, I was also compelled to see the situation visualised in a line chart. Please look at this monstrously steep increase. Don't avert your eyes. LOOK AT IT!

I wanted to do a projection on how many potatoes would be in a potential 6th Hunger Games book, but just in case the number was obscene, I did not want to speak it into existence. (I also couldn't figure out how to do it, sorry, I'm a social sciences major.)

The question isn't why I'm potato sensitive. It's why you are not??

[mollywog]

Let’s go!

@thesunpersists was gracious enough to provide her data.

As for the number of potatoes to expect in the future...

Looking at a linear trend, sunrise is an outlier (a potato Georg if you will)

But if we look at an exponential or polynomial trend, we are set to have upwards of 120 potato mentions in a book 6...

Or perhaps, potato mentions are a product of year of publication rather than the book number…

The years between books has halved from Mockingjay to Ballad then from Ballad to Sunrise. If that trend continues, we can expect another book in 2028.

in which case, we should all hope that if there is a sixth book, it is published sooner rather than later.

[mage-chocolate]

I think you cracked it. We’re getting a Potatoes in Panem cookbook next.

[mollywog]

[justafewberries]

This had me curious, because 66 mentions of a single vegetable in anything other than a cookbook is already crazy, but I'm now wondering how many times potatoes are mentioned in actual cookbooks.

So I found a few from this article about the their recommended top cookbooks and complied the data.

For the sake of chart readability, I only compiled 20 of the cookbooks from the article.

I used archive.org's search feature to find the article's books, then searched each book individually for the terms "potato" and "potatoes". I found that both terms pulled up separate results, so I combined them at the end to create a total sum of mentioned potatoes per cookbook. Then, I divided the number of mentions of the term potato by the overall number of pages in the book as represented by the archive's page count. This does include the covers, table of contents, publication info, etc. If I were submitting this somewhere, I would have removed those pages from the count. However, I'd have to get a copy of each book, and it's... that's a lot.

SO, essentially, I created a potato mention per page ratio for 20 cookbooks and sotr. There are 0.17 mentions of "potato" per page in Sunrise on the Reaping (based on my 382 page copy).

SOTR is represented via the red bar:

It ranks 19/21 for most potato mentions out of the article's first 20 cookbooks.

Now, the article I pulled was fairly arbitrary, so I decided to play around with more data. This time, I researched a few Appalachian themed cookbooks:

In this significantly smaller sample, it ranked 8/10 for most potato mentions per page.

While it's not quite the median, in both samples, it still ranks above real cookbooks for more potato mentions.

Now, if we crunch the numbers of the projected book predicted by the earlier exponential model— assuming the new book is around 400 pages, and potato is mentioned 120 times (although, it may be more, but we'll stick to rounded numbers)— then we're looking at something more like this:

With a 0.3:1 ratio of potato mentions per page, it lands right in the middle of the pack. And Appalachian cookbook comparison lands about the same:

In conclusion, yes, the next book would be about an average cookbook level of potato-themed.

Limitations:

The "potato" count may be inaccurate, as I used archive's search feature, which doesn't always pick up on every single instance of the inquired term. To remedy this, I searched both "potato" and "potatoes" and added the totals to produce a sum. I also didn't delve into every cookbook on planet earth, and these sample sized are relatively small. But. yeah. there's a whole lotta potato in sotr.

[potatoesofpanem]

certified potatoes of panem post

[dankmemeuniversity]

[warmhappycat]

[rainymyx]

I’m snitching on a coworker tomorrow and I feel awful about it but I think it’s important to do. I feel so anxious oh god 😖

[rainymyx]

I did it! It went well. Asked me some questions and said he’d take some time to digest and think of next steps. I think this is going to be a really good thing

The coworker is going to know it was me if he talks to her. And I’m prepared to deal with the awkwardness of that.

[thesunpersists]

Submitting some Sunrise on the Reaping Costume design inspiration

Source

^^^^ This is Burdock's hunting jacket. And each time Haymitch sees Katniss wearing it, he's reminded of his friend AND his potato-related failures 😔

[potatoesofpanem]

certified potatoes of panem post

[rainymyx]

I’m snitching on a coworker tomorrow and I feel awful about it but I think it’s important to do. I feel so anxious oh god 😖

[stuckinapril]

deep rooted respect for women who openly get mad and are okay w being perceived as bitchy

[anniewananie]

katniss everdeen . yay!

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[heavensbeehall]

On Thresh

I found out recently that some people don't like Thresh and this upset me. Because I think he's great. I consider him the Patron Saint of "Talk Shit, Get Hit."

Futher, I think there are a couple times in the text when Collins intentionally links Thresh and Katniss.

"If only I was his size, I could get away with sullen and hostile and it would be just fine!" - THG

Basically, he is who Katniss wants to be. And from what little we know of his home life, that is not dissimilar from hers either. The family that represents him in CF is a younger sister and a grandmother. A little sis and a sickly parent figure. Same as Katniss.

Also in THG, Katniss apologizes to Lavinia saying she wished she intervened when she was being hurt. "It was wrong," she says, very clearly, to sit and watch while someone is hurt. And Thresh is someone who does intervene when he sees something he doesn't approve of happening. He rescues Katniss.

Thresh must have been hidden, as Katniss and Gale were under their rock, but he chose to come out and face the danger.

“You said her name. I heard you. You kill her?” Another thought brings a fresh wave of rage to his features. “You cut her up like you were going to cut up this girl here?”

And while it is the mention of Rue that spurs him to action via anger, not Katniss's plight necessarily, he does disapprove of Clove's actions. And I don't think anyone would blame him if he killed Katniss and didn't ask her this,

“What’d she mean? About Rue being your ally?”

He's curious about what happened to Rue. I always assumed this was because he felt guilty he couldn't help her. (Katniss goes on about how Gale, Cato and heavy people can't climb trees. Thresh is the biggest. There's real reasons he can't be with Rue besides the fact that a 12yo has never won and she has to die for him to go back to his family.) So when Katniss speaks of singing her to sleep, he feels he is the one failed to help someone.

Conflicting emotions cross Thresh’s face. He lowers the rock and points at me, almost accusingly. “Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we’re even then. No more owed. You understand?”

And obviously, the most obvious reference to Thresh being similar to Katniss is both of them being concerned about "owing."

“I think we would like Thresh. I think he’d be our friend back in District Twelve,” I say.

It's interesting she says "our" friend and not "my" friend. She doesn't think he's like Gale, her friend. It's not that Katniss considers herself to have a lot of friends. He's someone both Peeta and Katniss would like and get along with, which I think is a higher bar.

[rainymyx]

I never considered this but what a lovely post!!

[mage-chocolate]

link to Chapter 3

I groan at him saying "this one." "I have to keep dealing with this every month now."  "As long as I'm around, you bet." He gives me a proud smile. "Your mother said this is a good sign—means your body is healthy and recovering. And I plan to keep it that way." "So this is your fault," I grumble. "Dr. Aurelius wouldn't approve of that kind of thinking. You're in charge of your own progress, after all," he says mockingly. "Shut up Peeta."

Panem taught their bodies to endure. The Games taught their bodies to be weapons. The war taught their bodies to be pieces.

In the calm that follows the war, they learn how to let their bodies be theirs. And like everything else, this leads them to each other.

[rainymyx]

Spoilers

This is so smart to have a story about a second puberty in a way. It really lends itself to some perfectly complicated Everlark moments!