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Jacob and Sam (unprompted, regardless of the question): he's my best friend 🥰🥰💖💖💖 I would not be here if it wasnt for him 😍😍😍💞💞💞😘😘💖💖 we complete each other and we created our own ship name
Assad and Eric (unprompted, regardless of the question): okay so it was hot and steamy 😏😏🫦🫦 with room to be hottier and steamier😈😈😈😈 we wanna get down the way you guys have been getting down🥵🥵
I KNOW Woody Harrelson and Elizabeth Banks were blowing up each other's phones after reading this btw 🥰
"Effie Trinket was a brainwashed Capitol villain who cared only about herself and Haymitch hated her."
🌸 Effie pats [Proserpina's] back. "Well, I'm not going to let my baby sister - or her friends! - fail because some slackard didn't do his job!"
🌸 At least the Trinkets aren't mean, just clueless, which makes for a big improvement over Drusilla and Magno.
🌸 "Well [Great-Aunt Messalina] owes us after all the disgrace she brought to the name of Trinket. We'll be recovering from that for years," Effie says, crinkling her brow. "If even half the stories are true ..."
🌸 "You deserve to look beautiful tonight," Effie replies. "And I think you're all being very brave."
🌸 I rise shakily to my feet as the door handle turns and Effie Trinket flies into the room. "Wait, not yet! I have to check on him!" She's white as a sheet.
🌸 The trembling of her hands allows me to ask a favor. "Will you make sure my token gets home to my girl?" Effie nods and lays a hand over it solemnly. "I will do my absolute best." She steps back and the door begins to slide shut. “Remember, Haymitch, don’t step off your plate for sixty seconds!”
🌸 I rise up, locking my eyes on hers until things go black, making me lose my bearings.
🌸 Her sister, Effie, told her a positive attitude's ninety-seven percent of the battle. And Maysilee ... Maysilee had said ...
🌸 I hope they've spared the prep team and Effie.
🌸 Behind them, my prep team huddles and would likely flee if Effie Trinket didn't have a firm grip on their grooming belts. "Well," she says with false cheeriness, "who's ready for a big, big, big night?"
🌸 Effie, to her credit, stands by me. When the Peacekeepers object, she says, "He's the second Quarter Quell victor. Drusilla and Magno are not available. Someone should be with him to honor his achievement." "Your funeral," a Peacekeeper says.
🌸 I feel grateful for Effie. "I won't hurt you," I mutter. "I know that," she says. "I've known who you are ever since you helped with my makeup box."
🌸 Effie Trinket, the only one I might ask.
🌸 The only person who keeps an eye on me is Effie Trinket. She mingles nearby, watchful, but careful not to take any credit for my success."
🌸 It’s Effie who finds me thus, the morning of the Victory Tour. I come to, startled, to discover she’s taken possession of my knife.
🌸 Effie does her best to keep me sober, but the train’s loaded with booze.
Sunrise on the reaping bellow, you know the drill
“I know that,” she says. “I’ve known who you are ever since you helped with my makeup box. And I know your position could not have been easy.”
It’s surprisingly touching. “Thanks, Effie.”
“But they really are for a greater good. The Hunger Games.” And now she’s lost me.
this scene really struck me, because…does she really think that? I find it funny how fast she recognized the anti-government edge of her speech, implying that “she knows his position could not have been easy, thus she felt sorry he had to go through it”, and how it went against the whole purpose of how it was all the great sacrifice she was supposed to believe, and just as fast made sure to reaffirm that it all was for a greater good. Even though it sounded out of place.
Stay with me —since the beginning, when she broke into the apartment with those outfits in hand, telling everyone they should work hard because “A lot of people lost their lives to guarantee peace and prosperity for their nation”, effie wasn’t giving her opinion on the matter, she was repeating the propaganda the government sold. Word for word.
which reminds me how she wasn’t clueless to the consequences of their acts during the first two books. How upset she was every time Katniss did something reckless, because she knew it was going to affect “all of them”. How she knew about Seneca’s not-quite-suicide, and was terrified to know that Katniss did know too…all of it doesn’t imply the sky-level of ignorance we usually associate with her.
the trinkets were somehow disgraced in society, hence effie had to do the double duty of clawing her way back into the high class to be respected in the field and still try to protect her sister’s reputation and, more likely than not, her safety. This was hard labor and it probably gave her some privileged knowledge of how it all really worked. She was the victim of a dictatorship, and i feel like she knew exactly what it meant…she did believe in the propaganda Snow sold, at some level,but she also knew she didn’t have a choice of supporting it or not
which brings us back to the scene— effie was in the bugged apartment of District Twelve with a dozen of peacekeepers standing right behind her, her little speech about her recognizing haymitch as a real person, and feeling sorry (or the closest thing of remorse she could afford) was risky (if you know how not-understanding a dictator is when it comes down to anti-government speeches, you know that she was in danger only for feeling sorry) and she knew that. she had a sister, she had a reputation, she had a family and friends, and years of life…is it really a surprise that she would jump right into her parrot-mood when she noticed she was that close to imply she didn’t really agreed with the whole ordeal?
Was Effie truly a loyalist who buys into the capitol propaganda, or is she just a person under a totalitarian regime who knows the boundaries of safety? She was terrified of the president, you can see that when she said “HE asked you to wear it”. she had people to lose, she had her own safety on the line, should she risk it all for a boy she barely knew?
I am not saying she didn’t have her controversial opinion, or that she didn’t believe in the idea that the games guaranteed her safety. What i am saying is that she saw it more like an unavoidable social dutty than a necessity, and she’s aware that she couldn’t speak against it if she wanted to see the sun rising the next day. She is a much more complex character than just “a selfish loyalist who truly buys the entire propaganda” or the “innocent daughter of Panem”
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A witch and Black Cats
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
lestat's hair getting longer between season 1 and 2 is so funny to me. do you think louis approached daniel after 1.07 like "daniel, i want to thank you for what you said to me last night about lestat's murder. i have been reevaluating certain events, gaining new, truer perspectives. i feel that i need to tell you, daniel.... i lied to you, and to myself, about lestat's hairstyle. it was longer than i led you to believe, more shoulder length really, though no less seductive.... i want our readers to understand that" and daniel wrote in his notes for lestat "no cunty bob"
i wish we had seen more done with the symbol of Bella Swan as the lamb. Edward got his "lion & the lamb" scene. i wish there was a point where Bella was reflecting on this with Jacob.
"the wolf & the lamb." how sick it is that the lamb always finds herself in the company of predators. how beautiful it is that the lamb has the courage & tenacity to seek them out.
"the wolf & the lamb." how wise it is that the little lamb who the lion teased for being so delicate uses her softness to cozy up to the warmth of yet another natural-born predator.
"the wolf & the lamb." the lamb has left the flock only to be abandoned by the pride; now, here is the lamb running with the pack as if her claws are just as sharp & her canines sink just as deep.
here is Bella Swan, the "wolf in lamb's clothing."
HOW FAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO TO LOVE A MONSTER?
HOW FAR ARE YOU WILLING TO GO TO LOVE A MONSTER IF THE MONSTER IS YOU?
