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I found it! Back on3/26I couldn't remember Y I followed U. The reason is post159609319475. The amount of meta research U did there impressed me&even tho I don't like that fandom I kept it & stuck around because it was inspiring. Also, having looked through 3weeks of stuff, I ignore most of the stuff U post, b/c it's fashion ladies, which is cool, but not an interest, but you post stuff about politics that I sometimes like and anything star wars related you post is worth following you for.

Haha! Well, awww, I’m glad – that’s the post that got me a book deal, both of my recommendations for my master’s program acceptance, features in TIME and EW, and in a roundabout way the job I have now, so. That’s a good one to have followed for, LOL.

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I Would Have Reblogged Your Post Were It Not For The Noncontextual Random Bashing of YA Lit Thrown In As An Attempt To Prove You’re Smarter And A More Valid Human Being Than Teenage Girls Because You’re Actually Just A Gross Misogynist: a tumblr lite-opera

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also s/o to the angry white men in the amazon reviews who write 1000-word reviews about how it’s ~too politically correct!!!~

i mean

yes, i guess my analysis of a book about a teenaged girl of color who is exploited into a system of sensationalized violence pitting children of color/extremely impoverished white children against each other by the ultraconservative government (which orchestrated her poverty to make her and others like her more easily exploitable as both labor and raw material) and which she survives in part because two white men work together/simultaneously to sexualize her to make her otherness seem desirable [fetishized] to the detached upperclass (who, incidentally, literally make sex slaves of other survivors in her position) -- men who are positioned in the narrative itself as Good Guys because they don’t realize that they are complicit in katniss’ dehumanization, natch -- is kinda leaning towards sjw-ish

but what canya do

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s/o to the professors who are still assigning the panem companion!

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Hunger Games for the change meme!

send me a tv show/book/fandom and i’ll say the top 5 things i’d change about it. 

The entirety of Mockingjay. Literally every single aspect of Mockingjay, I would change. The structure, the contents, the language, the worst epilogue in literary history, everything. It deviates from the other two books in both structure and tone in a way that seems evident to me that SC had gotten sick of the series by the time she got to the end, and it’s… bad.

You know that passage in Mockingjay where Katniss literally explains the metaphor of Buttercup chasing the light? I would cut that whole thing. It’s condescending to readers AND really bad writing.

The narrative voice, which objectifies Katniss by othering her from her own emotions and perspective.

If SC is going to bring up child sex trafficking as a form of violence practiced by the state in Panem, then she should actually go there so that fans can’t misinterpret it as “lol Finnick is such a sl*t.”

I would clarify the racial and ethnic elements to the caste system of Panem, which are already REALLY FUCKING EXPLICIT, but: white people, so instead the movie got cast the way it did and everything became. inane.

Did I mention that it has the worst epilogue in literary history? It has the worst epilogue in literary history. It is so offensive to Katniss’ characterization, goals, ideals, and person that it’s insane to me that it made it through editing rounds intact. IN. SANE.

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@mihosayuri replied to your post: “@mihosayuri replied to your post: “Hunger Games for the change...”:

I understand. I was impressed with where the plot went, imho.

I'd be able to be more impressed with the plot if she'd written it as well as the other two books (in a three-act structure, similarly voiced, continuing same progression first two books set up) and didn't culminate in an illogical epilogue. If it ended with the last chapter, I think I'd be cooler with it, but I'm still confused why she abandoned so many of the style elements from the first two books.

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@paintednightlock replied to your post: “Hunger Games for the change meme!”:

i'm not trying to be offensive or imply anything, i'm just genuinely interested in hearing, why do you think the Mockingjay epilogue is so terrible?

Because it acts directly against Katniss' long-standing goals/desires and instead shows her living out her worst fears, without the benefit of showing the elapsed time between the final chapter and the epilogue which could have convincingly shown her world and her views changing in a way that would make the epilogue make narrative/character sense, rather than be a horrifying heteronormative trauma-ridden disaster carnival.