Katniss Describes People As If She Was Asked By Police To Describe The Person She Saw

my beloved girl and my beloved yapper of a man, you are so vaild

Comparing Haymitch and Katniss' narrative styles is so funny to me because he's a yapper and she's a gatekeeper. He drops more lore on D12 in the first two chapters of SOTR than she does in the entire trilogy.

Haymitch is like "Yeah, so this person is related to this person who's related to this person and things are this way because of this and this thing actually came from here and this person is actually my best friend and also here's this extra tidbit of random info cause all my lore dropping comes with it's own additional bonus content and all my unnecessary commentary."

And Katniss is over here like "Tf do I care for if y'all know all the lore of District 12? I'm talking about my beautiful husband's beautiful eyelashes."

cassian andor is proof all you need in life is big brown eyes and cathlioc gulit

Something I noted in my reread of mockingjay is the reference katniss makes to hiding away and watching a spider spin its web instead of doing the practice drill for bombardment like the rest of 13.

This may be me overthinking it to hell and beyond but, Robert the Bruce - a Scottish king who killed in a church and had his wife and sister stolen from him with brothers murdered- fled to the Scottish islands because he didn't know how to continue the fight for freedom he was given. He didn't start it, he almost inherited it (technical details not withstanding). It is said when he was hiding in a cave, he saw a spider spin its web again and again after it was destroyed. This encouraged him to return to the fight before thought hopeless and gain a victory that overcame a borderline dictorship(squint a little because kings always kinda feel dictor like but works for the analogy).

Katniss is in an impossible situation. She had to persevere an impossible situation that has played out before and been crushed (Wallace rebellion = dark days) and now has to be the figurehead to do it again. It is after this point in the book that katniss fully commits to being the mockingjay and playing the part.

Felt neat

Fandom discourse is weird. We will have literal adults who will try to analyze ”Princess unicorn in sunshineland” as the second coming of The Plague by Camus. While they can’t even grasp basic stuff like ”district 11 is a direct reference to how black people were and are still treated in the USA” while reading the hunger games.

Snow ending his book with the line “snow lands on top” really set the tone for the rest of his life. As a loser. Especially in contrast to the heartfelt last lines of Katniss and Haymitch’s books. Wtf is “snow lands on top”. Do you think this is Twitter.

Jyn and Cassian deserved the time and space to take the harsh parts of themselves forged by other people and smooth them down with their own hands. They deserved a lazy morning with a warm, soft sunrise and a cup of caf.

Softness and gentleness do not need to be earned but if it did, they would've earned it a million times over.

jyn 🤝 having an intense inherited gulit that gives you pretty haunting eyes that make folk fall in love 🤝 cassian