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[deedoesstuff]

hey gang, i transcribed the page of wylan’s song “safe harbor” that leigh bardugo posted on instagram yesterday into a composition app to hear what it sounds like! this should be pretty much exactly what’s on that paste of music we’ve got so far, give or take a few accent markings and dynamics. so, spoiler alert! if you don’t want to hear the beginning of this song before its official release, don’t watch the video!

[brimay]

for some reason, i'm thinking about an alternate version of events where haymitch figures out the gumdrops are poisoned before it's too late, and then spends the rest of his life taking the first bite of everything lenore dove eats. just to make sure. and of course he's paranoid.

it would be such a delicious parallel to snow. the man willing to poison himself to kill others vs. the man who's willing to poison himself to save someone he loves.

and then it's an even more powerful image, in a way, because katniss and peeta did it with the berries, too.

[aurora-sadprose]

something so poetic about maysilee saying if she escapes the Capitol she’ll give her mockingjay pin another chance. Little did she know, Capitol and Snow would get what they deserved and she and her pin would be part of it all. Goodbye, Maysilee Donner. You were part of the fire that melted the snow.

[naegiribian]

snow’s “I hate mockingjays because they exist despite the capitol’s intent” and maysilee’s “I hate mockingjays because they’re part mutt and I dont want anything that has to do with the capitol” and haymich’s “I think they’re resilient and stand for surviving against all odds” and katniss’s “mockingjays remind me of my father and the other district 12 tributes before me and though they mean resistance to others, nobody can take that away from me” which brings us back to lucy gray’s “nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping”

[livingfandomly]

SotR is a realisation. A realisation that the rebellion didn’t start with Katniss. That all the people we see supporting her or helping her have all been wanting to fight but they’ve been failing. That there weren’t merely “rumours” of a revolution but there were many active plans playing out and failing.

It’s a reminder that the perfect Hunger Games we saw in the first hg book was an illusion because we had Katniss as our narrator. We didn’t have Haymitch, hell, we didn’t even have someone like Peeta because these people played the games. Katniss didn’t.

Katniss was introduced to us as a mad, simple, naive girl who literally only survived because of others. She didn’t know how much her taking Prim’s place mattered because she didn’t realise what it meant to everyone who came before her. To everyone who had heard rumours of how the last District 12 victor actually fought his games. No, Katniss had just kept her head down, hunting and providing for her family.

See, she grew up way before the Games got to her. She’d already lived through her dad’s death and watched it destroy her once lively mom. Haymitch didn’t have to go through that. Lucy Gray didn’t have to go through that. They were both angry, yes, but at the Capitol. Katniss? She was first and foremost angry at her mom. At her dad. She knew who was to blame but she had too much to do and deal with to think about that. She was already jaded in a way that the Games couldn’t touch.

Peeta? He was Haymitch. He knew what he was getting into and realised he was just on a chess board with no control. So, he adapted. He played the knight, the rook, the king, the pawn. Katniss? She just… did. Changing directions, not playing the piece she was assigned because she didn’t realise that’s what was going on. Remember her surprise at the crown twisting into two after the Games?? She was so oblivious. Until Catching Fire where everything caught up to her. Where everything so many other people had been waiting and working for caught up to her.

SotR is a history book. Rewritten and edited and published as a piece of fact. SotR is a mirror and it’s a reflection of what actually happens vs what ends up being shown. SotR is the playbook of those in control of any and every kind of media that we come in touch with. SotR is a wake up call and I truly don’t know how many will see it as such.

[nefarious-vex]

can’t believe Suzanne Collins had Wyatt Callow, who knew the odds of all the tributes’ deaths better than his own name, die protecting Lou Lou, who he statistically knew wouldn’t make it anyway. had Louella McCoy, who was immediately ready to try and stick it to the capital any way she could in the games, die before she even reached the arena. had Maysilee Donner, who constantly talked back, who wanted to die with her head up, who didn’t want to be treated like an animal by the capital, die mangled on the ground after having her vocal chords ripped out by a capital-manufactured bird. had Haymitch Abernathy, who from the moment he learned of Beetee’s plan, knew he was ready and willing to give up his life so that his friends and family could live, be forced to live without them, knowing all he did in the arena was for nothing. that everyone died anyway. sick and twisted.

[fromevertonow]

This YouTube comment has been on my mind since I finished SOTR so this is what I came up with:

Lucy Gray was the mockingbird, living on the outskirts of district 12 and was there at the wrong time when they were forced to stay there after the Dark Days. They were subjected to the Capitol’s politics despite not being a part of Panem, technically speaking. Lucy Gray became part of the Games and, likewise, the mockingbird became affiliated with the Capitol through the jabberjay’s release into the woods, but it still continued to sing its own song.

Haymitch was the jabberjay, a Capitol tool that did what it had to in order to survive. The Capitol thought they could control them, but they retaliated in the form of rebellion. Haymitch refused to be a piece in their game and tried to end it, and the jabberjay, in the eyes of the Capitol, created a freak of nature that showed the Capitol’s lack of complete control.

Katniss was the mockingjay, a slap in the face of the Capitol, something that was never meant to exist. Together, the song of the mockingbird that lived on for generations and the stubbornness of the jabberjay that refused to die, the mockingjay had the best of both worlds. It was a symbol of rebellion and unity.

[seaglassdinosaur]

The doubling of tribute numbers. The miscarried Abernathy twins. The Donner sisters who Haymitch carries a fascination for as consequence. Louella being replaced by Lou Lou, a name that only mimics the first half of her name, and a girl who matches her in appearance only. Tam Amber’s set of pins, one dropped down a well, the other discarded. The two versions of the games: the one that Haymitch remembers and the edited, falsified version of them without the real content. The two bags of gumdrops. The fraternal affection he feels for Louella and Lou Lou, the artificial twins, and Maysilee’s offer to be his sister—the second one she gives in the book. A bond with a real twin, both pairs healing the sisters he never did know. The split between what is natural and what is manufactured or forged, bonds that that grow on their own, or are forced into existance. And if the distinction makes any difference to the person it impacts.

[shoepolishpolice]

If finnick was 14 when he won his games ten years prior to Katniss and Peeta, that means he was born the year of or after Haymitch won? Not unlike Haymitch being born the day Beetee was reaped.

Something to think about

[miracle-and-wonder]

A reason I think I've latched onto Kingdon and the idea of Mel and Langdon together so fast and hard is because they managed to take an already excellent trope of grumpy/sunshine and turn it into something better: brick wall vs open book.

Langdon is honest about nothing in his life. His whole persona is a way to shield himself from everyone around him by being a cynical, sardonic asshole. He doesn't want to have anyone see that he's sensitive, that the ER broke him and he's hiding something. He's also good at it. So good that no one around him realizes that something's off and it takes a day one intern to realize that something's fishy about him.

Enter Mel. Mel who can't tell when someone's joking. Who can't hide it when she's excited or sad or frustrated. She wears her heart on her sleeve and every emotion on her face, and suddenly Langdon can't wear his mask around her.

It's so telling to me that the person in the ER that Langdon is the most earnest with, the most kind to is Mel. He tries to joke with her, sure, but he goes out of his way to be sincere with her whenever he has the chance. When he actually confessed that he learned something from her with Terrance, I was blown away because I guarantee he's never admitted that out loud to any other resident or attending physician in his career.

But he has to admit it to Mel because that's the only way she's going to know. Mel is forcing him to lower his defenses, to be kind and complimentary, and I am eating up every second of it.

[winteragentofficial]

HE COULDVE HAD AN ARM CAPE AND A MAN BUN ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[ilovesuzie]

David & Billie: "It was a blast"

David: "Oh, Bill... I'm gonna miss you, Bill."

Billie: "Aaw, I'm missing you already."

Aawws, they are so cute. Such a bittersweet thing to do to watch the Doomsday together.

This Doomsday commentary was released on the DVD boxset. Thanks to Doctor Who Don for putting these up on YouTube. You can watch the full commentary on their site.

All the other commentaries are listed here. Some are audio only.

[shoepolishpolice]

Keeping this clip safe here

[karmaspidr]

Mileven's Season

I want Season 5 to be Mileven's Season. What I mean by that is that I don't want to see them fight, be separated, be sabotaged or go through all of the other shit they went through in the last few seasons. I want them to be together, happy, fighting side by side and willing to kill for each other. I want it to be undeniable that they are in it together for the long haul.

We've had enough angst since Season 2.

[karmaspidr]

Mike can canonically sense Eleven’s presence. Not just in the Void but also in the real world.

Do you guys realise how big this is? Why aren't we doing anything with this?!?!

[shoepolishpolice]

There’s been so much chatter about rigging the tributes, but I think we’re ignoring the rigging of losers. Do you think snow was going to let district 12 have more victors, let haymitch win in some way again . He’s smart enough, he could’ve helped. But I imagine after a few years of trying to keep those other kids alive, he realised the moment they were reaped they were just as dead as his loved ones. Snow didn’t need to rig the d12 tributes, they were never going to win. But Plutarch was at the 74th and I imagine haymitch might have let him know that someone an awful lot like himself was entering the games. She was the plan from the start.

[mage-chocolate]

What gets to me is that as similar as Haymitch is to Katniss and Peeta, he’s still so much himself in how much more open he is relative to them ? None of the abandonment issues of Katniss from physical and emotional neglect. None of the defensive self-esteem issues of Peeta from abuse. His issues with himself are normal for a 16 year old in Panem. He’s just a boy with a family he trusts, with a friend he’s open with not because of survival, and a girl he loves. It’s such a tragic fall. Katniss and Peeta came in with so much self-loathing, we see the trigger for Haymitch’s.

[justafewberries]

Katniss and Peeta's feast in the cave comes with silverware and plates. I always found this odd- it seemed as if it would have inflated the cost frivolously. I figured it had something to do with standards in the captiol, especially with how Effie remarks about table manners on the train.

no. it was haymitch both honoring Maysilee and continuing her poster.