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hey, do you wanna see the west with me?

A post-medieval scale tang knife handle with inscription 'make you bleed' from the 17th - 18th century

I cannot go through another winter out here.

WE’RE HALFWAY THERE

misty as the final one standing. they're all going to hunt each other until nobody's left except misty will always be left. she's always been the outsider of the group. she was desperate to be one of the girls but despite what they all went through together in the wilderness, she's still the outsider and she is always going to be just that and this time it might actually save her life

TAISSA TURNER 1x01 "Pilot" / 3x09 "How the Story Ends"

feel like people forget jeff's love for and devotion to shauna is all based in guilt too. he feels guilty he cheated on jackie and she died as a result of it. he feels guilty for getting shauna pregnant right before the crash so she had to give birth to HIS child and lose that child under very traumatic circumstances. he feels guilty he betrayed shaunas trust and tried to blackmail the other yellowjackets, instigating the path of destruction shaunas created now. ofc hes devoted to her, hes had a huge part to play in so many of the awful things that have happened to her. his love for her is dripping in guilt just the same way hers is for him, its not pure or romantic, its utilitarian. they're stuck with each other because of what they went through. the pain they caused together and the guilt they feel over it is too much to bear alone so they stay in it together and whilst theres a comfort and devotion in that i wouldnt really call it love in the traditional sense of the word.

The Everdeen family + their flower namesakes

botany lore drop time w ur local biologist: burdock root is a medicinal plant with anti inflammatory and antibacterial properties. it’s family? asteraceae. order? asterales. clade? asterid.

suzanne i’m in ur fucking walls

So you’re telling Burdock saves Ortho by punching him in the leg. And “ortho” is the root of the word orthopedic the branch of medicine dealing with the correction of bones or muscles. Then 24 years later In The Hunger Games, Peeta looses his leg after being injured saving Katniss.

SUZANNE WE MUST TALK

Hmm actually Lucy Gray is different from Haymitch and Katniss and Peeta because her tragedy is she caused the games to continue. If the games hadn't become entertaining, they wouldn't have continued and she made it entertaining because she was an entertainer - she saved herself but she doomed dozens more because she performed too well and it allowed the Capitol to make the games a performance in the later years. Haymitch's tragedy is that he couldn't end the games, Lucy Gray's is that she continued them.

i love how suzanne just gives us a little treat by mentioning the katniss plant every book. like here u go. ik u miss our girl. she's fine. enjoy lowercase katniss

Getting the vibe that Snow just lies in wait and stalks the District 12 tributes every year just desperately looking for some minor detail he can project his Lucy Gray angst onto. Like GET OVER IT you actual loser

god. of course. OF COURSE District 12 never had any Victors. of COURSE the only Victors after Lucy Gray were rebels who won over the Capitol with a veneer of charm after making it to the end so Snow HAD to let them win- or, what, no Victor? an even bigger sign of the Capitol crumbling?

District 12 is an underdog in the narrative's setting as they are the one of the poorest, who don't even have their district related skills to rely on in the Games (eg District 4's swimming/knots/traps, District 11's food sourcing/agricultural weapons) because the Capitol draws the line at child labour- purposefully so- by not letting people work in the mines until 18, after they've aged out of the Reaping. To make it even worse, most of the kids reaped aren't going to be the well-fed, better educated kids from town, but the starving kids with multiple siblings who had to take out tesserae in exchange for more chances in the Reaping.

12 is also a political underdog through the lens of a postcolonial metanarrative, as the Seam is mostly Native Americans. Added to the economic context above, of course the White, Patriarchal, Hollywood Capitalist Capitol would ensure Indigenous bodies are mere cannon fodder- Haymitch (because he seems to notice a lot more than Katniss apparently) never even mentions any other tributes from 12 in previous games. Clearly they would mostly die in the bloodbath, or from starvation, or not knowing how to protect themselves like Haymitch and Katniss did due to their private rebellions such as hunting or knife skills. This is even more emotionally devastating as Native Americans used to live off the land, know how to hunt and use every part of an animal to its fullest extent, and have all of these skills which would be extremely helpful in the Games, if not for the Capitol imposing this economic and social culture and stress, and rules such as not being able to leave (not to mention how they "rounded up" the Covey, who were nomadic in nature before trapping them in 12).

and then.

Snow has his incel vendetta against Lucy Gray, a member of the Covey who he blames all of his problems on, and rather than inspecting the society he lives in and family's legacy and even His Own Actions which put him in these situations (his father's Games, mentoring, Dr Gaul, Peacekeeping, the fact that maybe the rebels had a reason for the rebellion leading to the Dark Days and the economic instability that followed and plagued his family), he uses every opportunity to gain power over everybody around him, and projects his own self-victimisation onto Haymitch, Katniss and Peeta, and who knows who else.

All Snow knows is to fake it til you make it. He's an underdog, too, with his family on verge of eviction, terrified of losing control of his elite classist image, and doesn't think twice about being a secondhand murderer by giving Lucy Gray the rat poison if it will get him the Plinth Prize. I think we forget, in a series filled with death, that Snow had never killed anyone before this, and while most people won't think of it as the first example of Snow killing someone, it obviously foreshadows Snow's use of poison to kill his enemies later. Same with Sejanus's hanging and using the Gamemakers- he gets others to do the killing for him. He removes himself from the guilt by justifying his motivations and victimisation. His way is the right way, which is why, even at his lowest, he can't fathom any sympathy from the Districts. Capitol today, Capitol tomorrow, Capitol forever.

Lucy Gray is an outsider to Snow and the Capitol by being District. She's an outsider to the Districts by being from 12. She's an outsider to 12 by being from the Seam. And she's an outsider to the Seam by being Covey.

if Lucy Gray, a quadruple outsider, can threaten his grip on power and control, simply by existing while he thrust his way into her life, and just disappear, nobody else ever gets to.

If Lucy Gray gets to win the Games, he has to, too. Every. Single. One.

So every year, Snow watches the Reapings. 12 is first, so he'll watch it under the guise of being a good President, and even if he'd prefer to be alone I'm sure he's with some higher-up propaganda media coordinator to tell the cameras in the Districts to cut away, film this, keep rolling, just like when Haymitch was reaped. He'll do his best to ensure, until he has full power, that the next few 12 tributes after the 10th Games are absolutely unremarkable, or at least suggest a rogue mutt their way if they get too far in the arena. A vain man himself who can't stand colour, even and especially after the Capitol fashion explodes with crazy colours after Lucy Gray and the Games become more of a spectacle, he might even plant the idea in District 12 stylists to dress them in the same boring coalmining suits each year. Snow will watch as Haymitch gets drunker and drunker each Reaping, keeping a keen eye on the boy and girl chosen to make sure they won't make any trouble. Maybe they're Covey some years just to send a message, or maybe they're not. Either way, he can't tear himself away, nor recognise to himself that he's inspecting every inch for a songbird, a knowing smile, any flash of a rainbow which could destroy him.

However, as was always his downfall, he trusts too much in his own believed righteousness, that any troublemaker Newcomers who present themselves will die in the arena, because he controls it.

But it doesn't work.

He reframed his problems as stemming from a District 12 Covey girl who he saved, thereby owing him her life, and who claimed to love him, but didn't. So he manipulates life and love when he projects this onto Haymitch and the people closest to him and to Katniss and Peeta's relationship.

"It's the things we love most that destroy us."

He couldn't trap Lucy Gray. He couldn't control Haymitch. He couldn't separate Katniss and Peeta. And he was the final casualty in the 76th Hunger Games, his father's creation and his own fruition, trampled to death by his own people, in a rebellion of his own making, led by a girl from the Seam, of Covey descent, from District 12.

Thinking about how Snow poisoning both himself and his target is the only thing that makes sense for his character, because with every evil act he does, he justifies it by victimizing himself

haymitch "no grave can hold my body down / i'll crawl home to her" abernathy