#it dies

[russilton]

Max’s car at 24hrNBR out in the garage with a broken driveshaft hahahahah HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE

[justafewberries]

Maysilee Donner was the canary.

In Catching Fire, we learn Maysilee had a canary that her parents later gave to Katniss's mother:

Historically, canaries were used in coal mines to detect carbon monoxide. If the canary stopped singing, something was wrong, and the miners needed to evacuate. Beetee says the same thing in text:

Katniss explains further:

"And my mother inheriting her songbird."

Later in Catching Fire, we learn Maysilee died via a throat injury, likely stopping her breathing, just like a canary.

It's telling Collins gave Maysilee Donner, a merchant class girl, a canary, a bird that is "intuitive" and can sense things "before anyone else".

It's also interesting how Katniss's mother, who later "inherited" the canary, stopped speaking when her husband died. It could be that her mother was privy to the things that Maysilee saw long before anyone else. Maybe with the death of her husband, Mrs. Everdeen saw the writing on the wall Maysilee had penned long ago, long before the arena. Maybe that's why she was so grief stricken as opposed to Gale's mother.

As a side note, there's a heartbreaking line about canaries in this Smithsonian magazine article about how "many miners cared deeply for their canary companions" to the point of inventing special cages to get them oxygen immediately after they pass out. I wonder if Haymitch tried to resuscitate Maysilee, even if he knew it was pointless.

[lordofthecoffee]

The food bank down the street shares very ...unusual items.

Like a metric fuck ton of bread, which is very standard food bank fair.

But last week we also got a giant thing of mushroom ravioli and little boxes of valentine's day chocolates.

This week, cake pops and (frozen) raw oysters and bunch of sliced provolone. We're talking almost 3 lbs?? I am cheese rich!

[blitzyreblogs]

Alright, my aunt in the city is gonna buy an iphone for me. :D

[you-are-a-saucy-boy]

for once can i just sew something without it going terribly wrong

[thing-you-do-with-that-thing]

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[marxism-leninism-utenaism]

fucked up that fernando alonso can’t drive a single race this year where his honda engine won’t die