i love characters who do the “i worship the myth i make of you” and in turn dehumanize and get wrong the object of their devotion and love. yes project a thing that does not exist onto a pedestal and kneel at it like it is your altar. this will surely not blow up in both of your faces eventually
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.
people talking about “forced diversity” like characters being PoC or LGBT or disabled “for no reason” like
are people in real life PoC or LGBT or disabled for a reason
do these critics run up to people on the street like WHY ARE YOU BLACK
this post is nearly ten years old and unfortunately the government is now out here asking anyone with a halfway decent job WHY ARE YOU BLACK
“are you a man or Political? are you white or Political? are you straight or Political? are you cis or Political? are you able-bodied or Political?”
I forget where I read that, but it rings horribly true nowadays
I thought this was a lot older, but the main internet source appears to be a tweet about a video game
I know we talk about Peeta giving Katniss the will to live but … for three whole books he keeps trying to give up his life for her, and multiple times in the series he begs to be allowed to die, and, even worse, begs to be killed or given the means of taking his own life … he is not in a good way … but he comes back to the district for her, because she needs him, and that will always give him the strength to carry on … and more than that, the girl who enchanted him with her beautiful voice, the woman he wanted to live in a moment with forever, his scar-crossed (but not so star-crossed) soulmate … she surely gives him as much hope as he gives her …
Top 5 The Hunger Games characters as voted by my followers: #5 → Haymitch Abernathy (10% / 50 votes)
“My mother and younger brother. My girl. They were all dead two weeks after I was crowned victor. Because of that stunt I pulled with the force field,” he answers. “Snow had no one to use against me… I was the example. The person to hold up to the young Finnicks and Johannas and Cashmeres. Of what could happen to a victor who caused problems.”
they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"
being neutral about other peoples kinks is necessary by the way. when consenting adults are doing things between consenting adults, and you prioritize your discomfort over their autonomy and right to exist safely in a space without having their private interests excavated and recontextualized to make them out to be predators, that says way more about your willingness to place yourself in the position of moral authority than it does about them and you deputizing yourself on the basis of nothing but vibes and your personal traumas makes you very dangerous politically.
