Obi-Wan is like I got the kids in the divorce. They aren't even my kids. Or my divorce

— Sunrise on the Reaping, Epilogue

Suzanne Collins: implies that Haymitch might die soon.

Us, in denial because he is definitely going to meet the toast babies:

no one talk to me😭

⚠️Spoilers for Sunrise on the Reaping and the Hunger Games⚠️

For some reason, I thought the first time Haymitch called Katniss “sweetheart” was on the train right after the reaping.

But it’s not.

The first time the nickname slips is after Katniss gets back to their floor after her session with the Gamemakers.

She’d rushed in, tears streaming down her face and locked herself in her room, sobbing and refusing to talk to anyone.

Finally, she comes to dinner, face still red and blotchy and miserable. Haymitch gives her time to eat something before he finally asks about the individual sessions. Peeta expresses his frustration.

Then, Haymitch turns to Katniss. “And you, sweetheart?”

Maybe it wasn’t only that he’d seen Louella in Katniss in that moment, Katniss vulnerable, like his first sweetheart — broken and scared for what would come — it also stirred in him that protectiveness that he’d felt for that little girl he’d held in his arms when she couldn’t stand on her own.

“In every way, you are a thousand times better than anybody in the Capitol. You are loved better, raised better, and a whole lot better company. You are the best ally I could ever hope for. Okay, sweetheart?”

And Katniss was Burdock’s little girl. His best friend’s child, that in another life he might have called his niece, might have called sweetheart so much sooner than that moment.

And while Katniss felt frustrated by the nickname, a little piece of Haymitch’s shattered heart slipped back into place.

Drusilla advises Haymitch to be “naughty, not dangerous” like a university student who dyed the fountains pink.

This is an obvious allusion to a common criticism of protestors, that they should be peaceful, not violent, seen but not heard, so to speak.

But beyond that, it has me wondering if the university student who dyed the fountains intended for it to be about face cream at all. Dyeing fountains red (or, when diluted, pink), is a common way to represent blood in a form of protest.

We know the capitol has complete control over the narrative daily life. In CF, one of Katniss’s prep team members explains she can’t get shrimp for a party because of the weather in District Four, when it’s actually the rebellion.

The prank and the victory tour both happened in winter. All eyes would be on the capitol. The university student was likely genuinely protesting the games, but the capitol recontextualized it into becoming a funny prank, and thus, that’s all it was.

If a meaning of protest isn’t clearly and immediately understood, the narrative of the action is the dominant party’s to write.

The propaganda and public opinion machine completely erased the point of their poster, just like Haymitch’s.

Hayffie interaction in the hunger games script

It's the small details in these interactions that, after the book, enrich the relationship between them so much. It's interesting that this relationship, since the first film, was already thought of as being intimate. I think this says a lot about Hayfie: it's not about big declarations or big gestures, but rather about intimacy, affection and the small details.

Ever since I first read Mockingjay, I've been very intrigued by Plutarch's mention of "panem et circensus," or "bread and circuses," and how that works in the series. I mean obviously, it can be and was applied to what the Capitol does with its citizens. It gives them food and entertainment to prevent them from revolting. But after reading Sunrise on the Reaping, I've started having more thoughts about this concept.

Drunk depressed teenage Haymitch trying to figure out how to stop the sun while Effie just stands in the background concerned

Just a reminder that we don’t know all the good things Katniss does/did for her community, because Katniss wouldn’t tell us unless it was relevant to what was going on.

In Catching fire, she doesn’t tell us that she’s being going around and bringing food to poor children in the seam until she needs to explain why she had a bag of food and why her mother wouldn’t find that odd.

In the first book, when she’s telling Peeta about the story of how she got Prims goat, she refuses to admit that this wasn’t a selfish move so she could get money out of that goat. (You could also argue that this is her refusing to be vulnerable in front of Peeta and all of Pamen though. I think it’s both, because she doesn’t even admit that she did this purely for her sister in her internal dialogue.)

And in Mockingjay, she never tells us that she’s the one that got Haymitch the goose eggs to help him heal after the games. All she says in the epilogue is that Haymitch raises geese when the liquor runs out. And we would never know otherwise if Haymitch didn’t mention that SHE was the one who got him the geese in sotr.

Loving the idea that after cas gets back from the empty dean just becomes a stage 5 clinger

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

Addition for those unaware: Cory Booker is black. Strom Thurmond set the previous record about 70 years ago in protest of civil rights. Booker spent much of the time I was watching talking about the importance of working together for the people and the idea that it's not "left versus right but right versus wrong."

The new record speech is on the right side of history.

One of them will have to get finished eventually, right???

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

that one scene where merlin was going through arthur's drawers and when arthur woke up he panicked and said "i'm looking for woodworms" and arthur just gave him an unimpressed look through his sleepy eyes and asked with the softest voice, "...before breakfast?" the way he sounded so unguarded and so vulnerable in that moment. the way he trusts him with his life. do you even understand?? this is the guy that jumps out of his bed at the slightest noise and pulls out his sword. he woke up to find merlin basically in his face and he was unfazed. he felt so safe and so comfortable around him it's actually making me sob

i do think merlin and arthur had the perfect dynamic. an episode would end with arthur being like merlin you're my closest friend and confidante and the greatest man i've ever met. and merlin would be like i'd kill and die for you we are two sides of the same coin. and then you'd start the next episode and it would begin with arthur smacking merlin upside the head and calling him an ugly peasant and merlin calling arthur a fat idiot.

disco deaky dancing his life out on stage

This deserves 10 million reblogs