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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?

Very interesting that the narrative seems to be about everyone’s projections of the girls facing a tragedy without ever asking their own input.

Getting better. Writing style is growing on me. Digging the development and background building being done for MC. Melissa is my favorite mom rn.

Not sure how I feel about the slang and like... contemporaryness of the way it's written? I feel like it's gonna age badly or I'm going to hit a bit that feels out of date or something. :')

Narrator is kind of throwing me off because I feel like I’m supposed to know who he is even though everyone insists I didn’t need prior knowledge ab him.

Main plot hasn’t quite kicked yet. Yumi is interesting but painter seems a lil cringe rn. (He’s 19 though so I think that’s the point.) Hoping it develops him further, and gives her more monologue rather than ritual.