Rereading Catching Fire after having read TBOSAS is interesting because Snow's entire pr strategy around the quarter quell is based entirely on his way of thinking and fails precisely because of its flaws
He puts Katniss in her wedding dress for her interview because he wants people in Panem to know that nothing will save them, because what he sees is a stupid kid who stepped out of line and needs to be eliminated for it
But because he thinks compassion, sympathy, and treating other humans like valuable people are stupid, worthless weaknesses for inferior people, he fails to anticipate that the rest of Panem will see one more injustice done to the Districts, and a hand twisting the knife as hard as it can for no reason
He fails to anticipate that even in the Capitol people have hearts, and there's only so long you can spend watching the same people on TV before you grow attached to a couple of them in some way, and thus will be sad when they die unnatural and unfair deaths (and maybe even start wondering why the rules can't change after all)
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Towers of Midnight keeps making me laugh.
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I need someone to show Charlie this tweet 💀
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Matt Haig, The Comfort Book
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"I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books."
―Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
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You know, I feel like the falling out between Katniss and Gale is framed as a choice between him and Peeta for romantic interest and there's a part of it that is that
But at the same time I think Peeta not being in the picture romantically wouldn't have prevented it, and the two of them wouldn't have worked out in the long run even if they gave it a go
Gale thinks too much like the Capitol for that
ETA: Like. He's definitely a hero and what's left of district 12 owes their lives to him AND there's no guarantee that under Coin's government he would have turned to horrible things... But he showed a knack for it and for coming up with ideas that were ultimately very similar to the way Gamemakers think and that's too opposed to how Katniss looks at thing for them to work, Peeta or no Peeta
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Finally getting into the Liveship Traders which means its hating Kyle hours
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Reads of the Week: Mar 24-Mar 30
*indicates smut
green font represents multiple characters (poly, rh, etc.)
I could give 50 reasons by @thatdammchickennugget
Ruin The Friendship by @amongemeraldclouds
Intoxicatingly Sweet* by @hpimagines
Tumblr Girls* by @thugpugs4lrh
Hate Me by @luverboychris
Hate Me Pt.2* by @luverboychris
I’ll Make It Up To You by @space-matt
How Long* by @chris-slut
Drivers Pleasure* by @sturnioz
Not So Innocent* by @mega-katya44
wisdom teeth removal by @freshloveee
Drunk by @sturniolo-fall-enthusiast
massage by @flynnriderishot
gross* by @sturniolosstar
First Hit* by @sluts4matt
All Too Well by @vanteguccir
12 am by @flynnriderishot
Always yours by @vanteguccir
Secure* by @rootbeerworshiper
Sleepy by @slutz4sturniolos
pranked by @orangelala
Right here* by @evie-sturns
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Genuinely confused as to how Mercer got a reputation in the D20 fandom for being a humorless, Rules As Written Robot, inflexible and player-antagonist DM.
Like obviously this is coming from people who haven’t watched him DM on CR but where on earth did the idea emerge from in the first place
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Green Arrow in Batman #128
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