Effie is actually not fanservice because she is important to the theme of propaganda in SOTR

Effie is 100% brainwashed AND YET she still hasn't lost her humanity. She believes propaganda completely AND YET she doesn't use it as an excuse to abuse people. Throughout the book, the tributes are constantly dehumanised. But Effie doesn't treat Haymitch that way. She helps the team. She's there for him in the launch room- which Drusilla and so many Capitol citizens would never do.

So there really is no excuse for abusing people, not even "I was lied to" or "i thought i was in the right" or "I was fed propaganda"

You still choose how you interact with people around you and how you treat them.

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Additionally, not all brainwashed people are evil. It's not black and white.

Sometimes a family member that you love unconditionally (and who love you the same) are sipping the kool-aid and don't see what their ideals mean or how they're wrong, but they're still loving. They're still kind. They will still go out of their way to help you or others they see in need.

They may wear the hat and spout the nonesense, but still inherently love the people around them.

I think that's the importance of Effie Trinket.

Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

the boy with the fire starter created the sparks for the girl on fire.

She said, oh you guys didn’t get it the first 4 times??? Here you go!

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I think the difference between enjoying the PJO show or not all depends on if you’ve accepted that it’s simply not trying to be the book but it is doing absolutely everything to be faithful to it

genuinely stunned at the fantastic choice for Percy not to pray to his absent and unknown father—like he did in the books—but to his mother.

the show is really taking us to one of riordan’s central theses straight off the bat.

parenthood isn’t about power and legacy and the recognition of shared blood.

It’s about the incredible act of showing up for your child—again and again and a-fucking-gain. That’s how you inspire respect. That’s how you become a child’s patron and beloved god.

that scene in tlo where thalia tells percy he can't start feeling sorry for luke bc luke made his choices. and thalia reveals that the reason they couldn't make it to camp in time for all of them to make it to camp was bc luke kept picking fights. and annabeth never saw this as wrong bc luke was her hero. so thalia had to pick up the pieces. and percy thinking both that luke was put in a cruel position and that luke was putting others in a cruel position. and percy is the only character who understood both sides of luke bc annabeth sees only the best of him and thalia sees only the worst. and that's why percy is the prophecy kid and the one who gives luke the knife. bc annabeth had spent the entire series essentially giving luke the knife when he didn't deserve it. and thalia was never going to give luke the knife. but percy is the only one who can see exactly when luke deserves the knife.

This is a GENIUS take omg

i ship percabeth and solangelo as endgame and jiper as they are. yeah they broke up, but i like that part too. and jason is dead, but i like that part about them too.

percabeth is about forever and ever. it's about i'll choose you over everything always and i'd do anything for you. it's about The One.

solangelo is about being in love for real for the first time. it's about i never knew love before you.

but jiper its about sometimes love isn't enough. it's about sometimes leaving is better. it's about it was nice while it lasted. it's about love doesn't have to be forever to be meaningful. it's about growing up and realizing there's no happily ever after.

percabeth and solangelo are romantic lover style, but jiper is romantic evermore style.

jiper is like there'll be happiness after me, but there was happiness because of me, both of these things i believe, leave it all behind, leave it all behind.

it's like every scrap of you would be taken from me, and what died didn't stay dead, you're alive, you're alive in my head, and if i didn't know better, i'd think you're still around.

it's like i was catching my breath, catching my death, and i can't remember what i used to fight for, and it was real enough to get me through the violence, this pain wouldn't be for evermore.

percabeth is like it's nice to have a friend, have my back every day, feels like home, stay in bed

percabeth (from annabeth's side) is like who could ever leave me darling, but who could stay, help me hold on to you

percabeth (from percy's side) is like have i known you twenty seconds or twenty years? can i go where you go? can we always be this close?

and solangelo is like my love was as cruel as the cities i lived in, but it's morning now, its brighter now, and now i see daylight, i only see daylight, you gotta stop in the daylight and just let it go, let it go.

This is such a beautiful post🥹😭

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Annabeth's character is supposed to represent smart women who have their intelligence and authority devalued and undermined because of their appearance, not specifically blondes lmao please be serious

That dumb clip of Percy being absolutely ridiculous in the woods - flossing and peeing and admiring a gecko and laying on a log - is the most important thing in the world to me actually. In a scene that had stunning cinematography, insane fight choreography, fantastic acting, and hints of baby percabeth, the bit that had me most hopeful for the show is Percy with his eyes closed, humming to himself and fidgeting with a leaf in the middle of a war game. Because they GOT it. That kid has actual, casual, believable ADHD. And the center here isn’t just his hyperactivity; it’s the quiet moments, the bored moments, the messing around with something because it has a cool texture moments. That kid is me and my siblings and my cousins and Percy Jackson, in all his neurodivergent glory, and it’s so not a big deal that it’s the biggest deal ever. I’m so, so excited for this show.

HE IS LITERALLY A BABY

I WILL PROTECT HIM WITH MY LIFE😭😭😭