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hottest sexiest moment in all of leverage is when “we are on a reset. the main objective is the girl, we find her and bring her back safe. we lose the chip if we have to, we burn connell if we have to.” and then “nate, if im engaged–” “do you worst.” and then “this is a goodwill gesture. what i want for it in return is your undivided attention and the benefit of the doubt. my name is nate ford and in a few seconds the phone is going to ring.” all with the screams of the people at the carnival in the background

#leverage

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i am still freaking out about "let me go"/"i can't" scene.

katniss was biting peeta. hard enough to make blood pour from his hand. and she was snarling at him (mj, 317).

she was biting and snarling just like the mutts in the first games (thg, 331). katniss was literally acting like the mutt hijacked peeta was made to fear and attack (mj, 164). the type that snow conditioned him to attack specifically in these situations.

but he didn't.

👏he👏did👏not👏let👏her👏go👏

because no matter how much snow tried to make him forget, nothing is going to stop peeta mellark from protecting katniss's life.

because this is peeta. the person that was inching his way back to katniss (mj, 259). the person who loved katniss more than anything else in the world (mj, 159). the person who would rather die than think about a world without her (cf, 100).

and before this, in all of the moments that katniss notices the real peeta is back, none of it is directed toward her. speaking to annie in a sweet voice (mj, 207). assuring pollux of his value (mj, 255). complimenting tigris on her skills (mj, 288). all of these are like peeta, but nothing is directed toward her.

but prim was right. the old peeta, the one who loved katniss, was still inside him. desperately trying to get back to her (mj, 159).

and so when katniss was finally about to end it all. when she was ready to leave the world with her goodbyes still on her lips (mj, 317). he finally came back to her.

this peeta, the who loved katniss so desperately that he would do anything to protect her.

he. fucking. came. back.

#the hunger games

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No, but the Hunger Games did need the romance plotline. See, Snow got it all wrong for the cause of the districts' rebellion. He thought an act of love is entirely separate and different from an act of rebellion, that the two are mutually exclusive. But we saw even in Katniss' though process that the two are mixed. And for the districts, the two are the same thing. For seventy-four years they've been forced to watch their children, grandchildren, siblings, niblings, friends die in the Games or through exploitation, are told it's an honour for them to die for the Capitol and are not allowed to grieve. And then suddenly this girl comes up and plants her feet and says 'no'. She survives through illegal hunting, avoiding the miserable death via starvation or the terrible community home. She doesn't stand by to watch her sister die, she volunteers. She doesn't treat her friend's death as one of a tribute to the Capitol, but as the horrible killing of an innocent little girl who deserves to be memorialized. She thanks and humanizes another district's people. She gives another tribute a merciful death. She refuses to give up on the man she loves, repeatedly. Defying all sense and establishment.

That is rebellion, for the Districts. Love, loyalty, grief, kindness, mercy - they're all rebellious sentiments.

And romantic love is an integral part of that. Not the be all end all, but an intrinsic part. We see sisterhood with Prim, we see friendship with Rue and Finnick and Johanna (and Gale and Madge a little bit), we see mentorship and connection with Haymitch and Boggs, so of course we need the romantic angle with Peeta. Of course we need the dandelion that grows after the war, the dandelion that started it all through one act of kindness to the starving girl he loves.

#the hunger games

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there is something significant that suzanne begins thg with an interaction between gale, katniss, and madge.

gale specifically calls out madge for having only five entries, implying that her chances of going to the capitol are practically nonexistent (thg, 12). or, at the very least, less than him with his forty-two entries (thg, 13).

suzanne integrates this scene with madge in the novel to show (1) the class division throughout the district that creates animosity.

like, although gale knows that it is not madge’s fault, that doesn't stop him from digging into her (thg, 13).

and it also emphasizes (2) the illusion that some people are safe, or benefit in this system.

but you know who also only had five entries? just like madge?

peeta.

and hell, prim only had one entry. the two people whose names were called that year.

so when the reaping happens, it proves just one thing. no one is safe in this system. not a merchant's son. not even a girl with only one slip in the bowl.

and it just goes to emphasize the theme that follows katniss's throughout the novel: who does this system benefit?

does it benefit a merchant’s son who has always had something to eat, even if it is stale? does it benefit a capitol sweetheart, who is flooded with gifts from people who pay for his company? does it benefit people in the capitol, whose government quickly abandoned them when their city became a war ground?

katniss wrestles with these questions throughout the series. and finally reaches her conclusion at the end: "it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen" (mj, 321).

because no one is safe in a world where people murder children in order to solve their differences. and that means no one.

not a capitolite. not a mayor's daughter. and not even a young medic whose sister has done everything in her power to keep her safe.

#the hunger games

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So you're telling me Peeta practically ran to 12 the moment he was discharged by that therapist guy, and the first thing he did upon his arrival was to look for primroses, to plant them by the windows of Everdeen's house so Katniss could not only, even though metaphorically, finally bury her baby sister and mourn in peace, but also have a tiny piece of Prim living nearby every time the flowers bloomed. Thus, comforting her was on his mind throughout the entirety of his recovery, and by heart, he always knew what to do to help her?

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

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thinking about the fact that they made a point to tell us that there are no cameras in the vents. like- lucy gray is a performer, she is always performing, it is her calling and her survival mechanism and when we meet her she literally cannot stop performing because she is always on camera or being perceived- by coriolanus, by the capital, by her fellow tributes and the folks back at 12. but for that one, awful moment, in the vents, watching dill drink the poisoned water she laid as a trap- for that one moment in the whole entire movie, lucy gray isn’t being observed. that is the only moment in the entire movie she isn’t performing for someone else, and she uses it to grieve

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #lucy gray baird

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the way victors always tried to protect each other because they are the only ones who know what they went through. the way haymitch fought to make sure they didn’t alter katniss’s body. how haymitch fought against finnick sharing his stories to protect him from the memories. how katniss was ready to mercy kill beetee when she thought they were taken by the capitol. how katniss made it a stipulation for the victors taken captive be given pardon no matter what. even enobaria. how peeta comforted the victor from 6 as she was dying. they all protected each other whatever way they could. because they were the only ones there for each other really

#the hunger games #haymitch abernathy

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nothing truly breaks my heart like tigris at the end of tbosas. the way she looked at coriolanus, trying to find a glimpse , just a glance of the little boy she raised. the boy that she tried so hard to pull into the light. the boy she fought tooth and nail for. the boy she swore could be good.only to realize that he is gone . not only that but he turned into the thing she feared the most for him.his father

she looked at crassus’ coriolanus snow trying to find her coryo

#the hunger games #tigris snow #coriolanus snow

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This also reminded me of how she said that Katniss wasn’t quite ready to harvest yet. Saying like “Katniss will take some time but eventually it’ll have you dealt with.” and it did! Fate sent him a Karma in the form of Katniss Everdeen.

Katniss who was a reminder of Lucy Gray, of his loved ones, of everything Sejanus stood for. Katniss who was a reminder of his PAST SELF- of a time where he could’ve done the right choices (with Lucy Gray, Tigris, correcting his father's sins with Highbottom etc.) of a time where everything could’ve been different.

Snow mentioned Lucy Gray strongly believed in fate when she said “You’re mine and Im yours. It’s written in the stars.” Of course he didn’t believe it. So when she was gone and Coriolanus Snow chose to cross that line of evil never turning back, the stars made sure that he will be haunted of it to his death.

A masterclass of storytelling right there. Suzanne you icon, you legend.

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird

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Gale: i have no chance with katniss if peeta is hurt she literally only cares about fixing people it's like she doesn't even love me

Peeta: do i like breathing i think i do

Katniss: i need to kill the president

#katniss everdeen #the hunger games #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne

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the part where they cut off the games to broadcast the president's son died with "an important life was taken today" SECONDS AFTER watching a pile of dead district children was chilling

#hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

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Thinking again about how Suzanne esentially subverted the "beloved famous man that is actually a horrible person in real life" with Finnick, who is the complete opposite of that.

Finnick has this whole image costructed around him by the people that abused him for years: the Capitol's darling, their golden boy, the sex symbol of Panem, the man that has countless lovers but leaves them constantly and doesn't look back etc. And you would expect, initially, to meet a man that retains at least a part of that persona in his day to day life. But Finnick doesn't, not even one bit.

You see instead a man that is deeply in love and completely devoted to the one woman he quite literally adores, a man that protects Mags, his old mentor and his mother figure, as much as he can, a man that wouldn't leave Johanna behind, a man that gathers whatever strenght he has left to speak publicly about the abuse inflicted upon him at the government's hands; the opposite of what the Capitol's media and reputation made him out to be.

#finnick odair #the hunger games

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All’s fair in love and poetry… New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍

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📷: Beth Garrabrant

#taylor swift #ts11

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The other gods: Hades is the king of the dead, he is bad, he was definitely the one who did it all

Hades: hi guys, sorry for the tortuous path it takes to get to my house, would you like some pomegranate juice? A snack?

#percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson

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I can't remember how much of this is implied canon or my own interpretation, but I fully believed that Chiron recognized Percy was a son of Poseidon from the fountain incident with Nancy Bobofit, knew that a child of the Big Three being claimed would be a total shit show, and simply chose not to say a word about it

#percy jackson #chiron #sally jackson

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✨My name is Taylor and I was born in 1989 ✨

http://taylor.lnk.to/1989TaylorsVersion

#taylor swift #1989 taylor's version

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losing my mind at how the opening line “when i wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. my fingers stretch out, seeking prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress” immediately sets up the hunger games story to be pyrrhic if not outright tragic. (SPOILERS!!) line one establishes katniss’s only goal is to protect prim and in line one she’s already too late. she puts herself in harm’s way over and over, kills people, goes to war and brings down the entire world government all for her love for prim, who was doomed from the start. the love didnt save anyone but it was there etc the shire has been saved but not for me etc etc

#hunger games