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“Death is the opposite of possibility.”

had to put this down for a min bc MC is making my skin crawl. 😭

“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

Kinda in love with this weird scene where they’re using the strip club as a place to practice live sketching??? Like omg???

“Good writing is in how you tell the story. In getting people to feel what you want them to feel when you want them to feel it. And I think that’s the kind of writer you are.”

GET EMM MS.MCCURDYYYYY

she’s so me (derogatory)

With that, she condemns me to life.

“Everybody’s real upset this year, so many kids. They needed a place to be together, to raise their voices. Sometimes the hurt’s too bad to bear alone.” Art as activism

“Enduring horrible things is one of my talents.”

cannibalism. cool.

Im planning for you to live a long life because you’ve earned it

“We may have been the smallest, poorest district in Panem, but we know how to dance.”

Weird excerpt about body autonomy, kissing gale because it doesn’t matter anymore. Loss and succumbing to the emptiness + rejecting any warmth.

Also bitch we hate gale

“They hadn’t anticipated it’s will to live.”

“I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the tightly interwoven fabric that was our life. I wish I could go back to it because in retrospect it seems so secure compared to now….” Omg.

Children’s suffering/poverty stricken folks as entertainment. Tlc type beat. Needing a sob story to win a competition. The idea that them being close will aide them—- community being an act of rebellion etc

katniss and her relationship with her mom hit close to home. Parentified oldest siblings living in trauma, the guilt that comes with it, etc.

They confirmed it’s Appalachia lol.
Also the mirroring of the capitol being in the Rockies is insane because Colorado is THE place to be.

Also I’m really weary of Gale without reason.

-literally brought back coal mining. (Area described is giving hometown.)
-hunting for food is considered poaching…. Even though there’s a vermin problem and you can literally eat bears? Tf?