Her kids, final. :) With Abby this time! Little Allison getting her hair braided, little Renee with rainbow hairties because she’s too little to get her hair dyed just yet, little Matt taking a nap that will absolutely ruin his spikes, little Nicky most certainly talking Abby’s ear off, little Aaron who got into the shiny med tools and is now giving Abby her annual checkup.
Her kids! Continuation of this post because some of the foxes are Bee’s. :) Originally it was only going to be Andrew but I decided to add Seth because I think if he got the chance to live and recover, he and Bee would be really close.
eleanor shellstrop one of the protagonists of all time honestly. woman who sucks so much who gets put in a situation specifically made to make her worse and instead she gets better. filled with love for other people but replaced it with malice for as long as she could because love got her nothing. went from being selfish for survival to selfless for survival and in the end she lands on being selfless for selflessness’s sake. she even has mommy issues. she’s even bisexual.
jimmy has never been cancelled because the fans woobify him too much. he can’t do any wrong in their eyes. like police could find human remains and evidence of cannibalism at his LA from 2013 and they would still treat him all owo smol bean
lister can not escape transphobia allegations since the suitcase incident. also people react insane chronically online when a picture of him smoking gets leaked. his response to that is to start smoking weed too. he thinks hes so funny
rowan has been cancelled for fatphobia because he once tweeted a picture of lister eating a burger saying something dumb like ‘look at this fat fuck’. he probably didnt even mean to put it on main. hes barely used twt since. lister thinks this is hilarious and quotes it all the time
post iwbft lister makes a joke saying jowan could never be real because rowans actually extremely homophobic. a small minority either take it seriously or are upset with lister for making the joke in the first place
if jimmy was cancelled for something i think itd be funny if it was something like that time people called quackity, a mexican man, racist for speaking spanish like what an era man.
also the arktwt is constantly at war with kpoptwt they hate eachother so much and there are constantly 'calling out ___’ threads about random people being posted there lols
SotR is a realisation. A realisation that the rebellion didn’t start with Katniss. That all the people we see supporting her or helping her have all been wanting to fight but they’ve been failing. That there weren’t merely “rumours” of a revolution but there were many active plans playing out and failing.
It’s a reminder that the perfect Hunger Games we saw in the first hg book was an illusion because we had Katniss as our narrator. We didn’t have Haymitch, hell, we didn’t even have someone like Peeta because these people played the games. Katniss didn’t.
Katniss was introduced to us as a mad, simple, naive girl who literally only survived because of others. She didn’t know how much her taking Prim’s place mattered because she didn’t realise what it meant to everyone who came before her. To everyone who had heard rumours of how the last District 12 victor actually fought his games. No, Katniss had just kept her head down, hunting and providing for her family.
See, she grew up way before the Games got to her. She’d already lived through her dad’s death and watched it destroy her once lively mom. Haymitch didn’t have to go through that. Lucy Gray didn’t have to go through that. They were both angry, yes, but at the Capitol. Katniss? She was first and foremost angry at her mom. At her dad. She knew who was to blame but she had too much to do and deal with to think about that. She was already jaded in a way that the Games couldn’t touch.
Peeta? He was Haymitch. He knew what he was getting into and realised he was just on a chess board with no control. So, he adapted. He played the knight, the rook, the king, the pawn. Katniss? She just… did. Changing directions, not playing the piece she was assigned because she didn’t realise that’s what was going on. Remember her surprise at the crown twisting into two after the Games?? She was so oblivious. Until Catching Fire where everything caught up to her. Where everything so many other people had been waiting and working for caught up to her.
SotR is a history book. Rewritten and edited and published as a piece of fact. SotR is a mirror and it’s a reflection of what actually happens vs what ends up being shown. SotR is the playbook of those in control of any and every kind of media that we come in touch with. SotR is a wake up call and I truly don’t know how many will see it as such.
OP, I find it so interesting that you say Peeta was Haymitch, because all the time I was reading SotR I kept being viscerally reminded how Katniss and Haymitch were so alike. But in retrospect, your point is so right. Peeta almost immediately saw the Games for what they were and adapted his mindset to fit his circumstances, and that’s what Haymitch did too.
You brought up something I hadn’t even thought of before, but now it makes so much sense - thanks for mentioning it!
