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Coagulate - The Suck (2022)
Katniss absolutely wanted kids....just not at the moment considering what she was going through. I think people tend to forget that she is a teenager when having these thoughts, and she’s going through ultimate trauma and horrible things so...like people’s minds can change?
The only qualm I have with SC’s writing of that change is the “but Peeta wanted them so badly” which even with the background of the story does and can at first glance read “Peeta pestered her into having children”. I think a cleaner line might have been something like her affirming her constant love and trust in Peeta and his thoughts, especially with something so intense. I mean we’ve gotten it throughout the series I don’t think one more time would have hurt anyone
Oh, for sure. And I think it shows how deeply she loves her not-yet children, because she won’t subject them to the horrors of the world that is already so awful to her, a child. She’s not remotely in the space for that, and good on her for being aware of it. But even she says if the fear and defenses weren’t there (and please don’t hear me say that her aversion was invalid: far from it), she could envision a future like that for herself.
I understand why the “Peeta wanted them” line sometimes rubs people the wrong way, because, I confess, on very first glance, it rubbed me the wrong way too.
I don’t know why, though. Genuinely, I’m curious. 🤔 I also don’t know why that read on Peeta is so prevalent, because the man hardly talks about children at all, much less indicates he’s desperate for a family (outside of Katniss). It’s Katniss who walks us through her thoughts on family and children, Katniss who says what a good father Peeta would be ... except for the baby bomb before the Quell, it’s all Katniss.
I get you, Nonny. I get why the line reads funny — but even I have a hard time figuring out why. I think on one hand it may have to do with this idea that Katniss can only fall into one concept of empowered womanhood (broadly speaking, it’s often some variation on the Strong Female Character™ trope) and when she doesn’t fall into cookie cutter place in the pursuit of what she wants, people assume there must have been some coercion involved. So maybe it really has to do more with expectations placed on the characters than it does with the actual actions of the characters. Katniss making the choices that she wants to make after all the manipulation she endures is really important to me, on an in-text and meta-textual level.
That said, it’s not my favorite line ever. Alas, but such is literature.
Magical Manipulations
Displace
Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
Conjuration cantrip
Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
Quickly blinking out of existence, you teleport to an unoccupied space within 5ft of where you currently are.
Coagulate
Bard, Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
3rd-level Necromancy
Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: 60ft
Components: V, S, M (a small piece of iron shaped in a spiral)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Choose a target you can see within range. That creature must make a Constitution saving throw as you harden their blood. On a failed save, the creature takes 2d6 necrotic damage and are stunned, half as much on a successful save excluding the stun. A creature can repeat their save at the beginning of their turn, repeatedly taking the damage and staying stunned for every failed save.
Sylveth's Speed of Thought
Wizard
4th-level Divination
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
You speak rapid arcane words and time begins to slow as your thoughts speed up. For this turn only, the excessive arcane knowledge flowing through your head allows you to take two Actions instead of one. The actions can only be used to attack or cast a spell.
(New spells! I just had a burst of inspiration in felt the need to share these. The one-word monsters are still coming up, but they've proven to be more difficult than first anticipated. I don't need sleep. Ever. Nevertheless, new spells and one from Sylveth, arcane dabbler!)
“Visit the Interior of the Earth and by Rectifying what you find there, you will discover the hidden stone, the true medicine.” Art/Temperance from Thoth Tarot. The Major Arcana card for Sagittarius. Alchemy. The Philosopher’s stone. The Coagulation, reassembly.
I see Art/Sag as the desire for reunion. The child whose parents got divorced. “I just don’t understand.. Why did you ever seperate?” Yet enjoying the process and feeling like a genius for having discovered the component parts which equate to the truth of the whole. Clear seeing of the ingredients which created the initial Love union.
Ask your doctor.
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 21st, 2026
Vol VI Issue 18 Who Said this? Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Toda
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