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LMAO Laurence proposing and Jane being like immediately no

I love this conversation between Laurence and Temeraire. Temeraire really pushes Laurence to see the world differently, to strip away what he’s always known to think more critically. Because if dragons are sentient, intelligent creatures, capable of dealing in philosophy, writing poetry, evaluating flight formations—they should be compensated for their service. They should have agency. Otherwise it IS slavery.

I picked up Novik’s short story collection, Buried Deep, and read the Spinning Silver short story she wrote before it turned into a novel. Made me want to reread.

Poor Wanda.

YOU TELL HER SANDRY. YOU TELL HER BRIAR

My girl’s gay awakening 🥺 I fear it won’t end happily if I remember well

Also, I can’t help but feel like Sandry was always the most unrelatable of the four for me… And she was the most sheltered and privileged. Just this convo she’s having with this commoner woman… where is the sympathy for a woman who was raped and forced to bear that rapist’s children? How could she have pride? She doesn’t have the money, magic, or social influence you do.

This book rly shows how time, age, and the things they’ve been through wore through their childhood innocence and realistically confronted the fact that these young adults could share their thoughts no longer. At the same time, they’re still so young. Building up walls and protecting themselves from imagined hurts that would smooth over with honest communication lol

I fear this scene with Edith and Florence is pretty GAY lmao

katniss, as if all you victors don’t do similar things to what annie does. you’re all traumatized and mentally ill

EVERY TIME GALE IS ALONE WITH KATNISS HE BRINGS UP HIS STUPID FEELINGS. LIKE BRO. HAVE SOME RESTRAINT. HOW CAN YOU LOOK AT PEETA, A COMPLETELY DISTORTED VERSION OF HIMSELF BECAUSE OF TORTURE, BECAUSE HE LOVES KATNISS, AND JUST THINK ABOUT YOURSELF?? FEEL SORRY FOR YOURSELF?????

not haymitch also double taking lmao. it’s moments like these when you realize katniss is an unreliable narrator of how people perceive her, what others think of her

katniss is just the biggest symbol of humanity. she’s the force that reminds us what really matters. gale, coin, snow. they’re the kinds of people who are able to forget that it’s people fighting, people dying. that for the cause, the agenda, it’s acceptable. to katniss, it’s not

the heartbreak of realizing peeta’s been hijacked. that the thing he was afraid of, losing himself, behind changed by the games. the capitol. came true.

the way haymitch experienced this with his mother, his brother. listening to them burn. with lenore, holding her as she died. he spent decades trying to avoid this feeling again. and now his best friend’s daughter experiencing it too.

god i just wish gale would’ve been just her friend. she needed one so badly.

it’s painful how angry katniss is with haymitch. of course he wouldn’t be able to bear seeing district 12 burned to the ground after he’s spent nearly his entire life in self-imposed isolation to protect it. his home, people he loved

to be treated like a puppet over and over again

finnick 🥺🥺🥺 “Why? Do you find this distracting?”

peeta is SO good at playing the game

oh cinna

GOD peeta loved her

he absolutely will love that you chose them 🥺

when finnick died he was still so young… early 20s… he could’ve been one of my students 🥺

that merrilee never healed from her sister’s death…

FINNICK. WAS. FOURTEEN. A BABY WHEN THEY DID FOUL THINGS TO HIM.

gale this is NOT the fucking time for your feelings they are literally about to go back into that hellhole of a battle royale

god the unfairness of it. how they don’t just crumble underneath it is astounding. and the pain in haymitch’s eyes because he knows there’s no way to protect her. what’re the chances of her winning twice? his best friend’s daughter, with braids like his sweetheart louella mccoy.

gale is so infuriating ugh. like have some empathy???? why are you jealous when both katniss and peeta were stuck in an arena to kill each other and other kids and came back home with trauma and a missing leg, fearing for their families?????

the clooooock

Haymitch protecting vulnerable Katniss from these awful people who wanted to surgically alter her to their standard of beauty after she nearly died 🥺