okay but is anyone else pissed how the district 11 guy literally did favoritism for late districts or what
rues-song
the careers literally did an alliance r u fucking kidding me i hope u get reaped
theeclove
clearly SOMEBODY doesnt understand the strategy of the games
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PLEASE tag your hunger games spoilers. this is literally common sense the games have been going on for 74 years you should know better by now
#hunger games spoilers #SOOO pissed rn theres never been a live announcement and now i found out from fucking everlarks
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Yes I’m a 30 yr old hunger games watcher. I’ve been watching kids die since you were in diapers. You have NO idea the tragedies I’ve endured. Hunger games is escapism for many of us when I come home from a long day of logging the last thing I need is for some 13 yr old tribute dying in a high stakes competition that we ALL knew was high stakes starting a riot and destroying all the nations grain
corholeanussnow
lmao. get a load of this guy
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haymitch stans rise tf up
#yes girl get that salve #i would fuck that old man
cinnagirl3000Follow
i wld nvr survive in thg fr baby im killing myself
#thnk goddddd im cap 😁 #i woulda stepped tf off that platform cinna its been an honor
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does anyone else think it was fucked that peeta invaded ceasar’s space when he CLEARLY wasn’t comfortable with being SNIFFED by a STRANGER
softgreenpillow
fuck you this is clearly so fucking capitol-centric no one in the capitol would ever be comfortable with any districtperson doing ANYTHING these days. it is capitol-boot-licking scum like you that holds the movement back. get BLOCKED idiot
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Just something I’ve noticed I think we as a fandom have gotten WAY too comfortable using the phrase “get reaped” as an insult, when it’s a very serious reality that many children live with and should not be taken this lightly. Some people online have had to put their names in more for necessities like bread or water and the absolute terror that grips a person waiting for their name to be called doesn’t leave you even in adulthood. Please think before you speak
#many of you are not acting in a way that johanna would be proud of. get it together #reaping mention
i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:
You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone’s favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he’s known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.
You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.
You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend’s long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.
You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn’t exactly in their image that you have failed.
You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn’t. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.
You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn’t save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.
You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.
i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake
fabulous
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.
Sometimes you read Martin Luther King Jr’s actual writings and speeches and you’re like damn this guy actually saw the patterns. He understood all of it
This is one of those things that people discover every once in a while but I think the most interesting thing about it is how it’s a case study in how capitalism deals with its most successful critics. If you got a leftist who’s too famous or popular you 1) murder him and 2) paint a seaside caricature of him going “I have a dweam uwu wouldn’t it be nice if we were all fwiends” and hang that over his portrait at the funeral. One holiday per year, one street per city, and every ghoul gets to namecheck him at least once on the campaign trail, because he has been reduced to a brand and that brand is tolerance. Tolerance of what, you might ask? Well, don’t.
[[ID by @chronologicalimplosion: An excerpt from a speech that Martin Luther King Jr gave on March 25, 1965 at the conclusion of the final of the three Selma marches. The full text can be found at this link:
Our whole campaign in Alabama has been centered around the right to vote. In focusing the attention of the nation and the world today on the flagrant denial of the right to vote, we are exposing the very origin, the root cause, of racial segregation in the Southland. Racial segregation as a way of life did not come about as a natural result of hatred between the races immediately after the Civil War. There were no laws segregating the races then. And as the noted historian, C. Vann Woodward, in his book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, clearly points out, the segregation of the races was really a political stratagem employed by the emerging Bourbon interests in the South to keep the southern masses divided and southern labor the cheapest in the land. You see, it was a simple thing to keep the poor white masses working for near-starvation wages in the years that followed the Civil War. Why, if the poor white plantation or mill worker became dissatisfied with his low wages, the plantation or mill owner would merely threaten to fire him and hire former Negro slaves and pay him even less. Thus, the southern wage level was kept almost unbearably low.
Toward the end of the Reconstruction era, something very significant happened. (Listen to him) That is what was known as the Populist Movement. (Speak, sir) The leaders of this movement began awakening the poor white masses (Yes, sir) and the former Negro slaves to the fact that they were being fleeced by the emerging Bourbon interests. Not only that, but they began uniting the Negro and white masses (Yeah) into a voting bloc that threatened to drive the Bourbon interests from the command posts of political power in the South.
To meet this threat, the southern aristocracy began immediately to engineer this development of a segregated society. (Right) I want you to follow me through here because this is very important to see the roots of racism and the denial of the right to vote. Through their control of mass media, they revised the doctrine of white supremacy. They saturated the thinking of the poor white masses with it, (Yes) thus clouding their minds to the real issue involved in the Populist Movement. They then directed the placement on the books of the South of laws that made it a crime for Negroes and whites to come together as equals at any level. (Yes, sir) And that did it. That crippled and eventually destroyed the Populist Movement of the nineteenth century.“
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tags by chronologicalimplosion: #not to be all ‘why aren’t we talking about this’ but like #in the process of trying to double-check the source on this #it is pretty notable that this is not at all the excerpt you see in most of the collections#talking about this speech #this is the 'long arc of the universe bends towards justice’ speech #if you’re looking for an equally pithy takeaway the next bit goes #'the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow’ #'when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide he ate jim crow’
It’s days like today I like to remember that Elon Musk is a crybaby who sulks after losing at trivial pursuit
My grade 12 physics teacher studied engineering at Queens University and was friends with Elon Musk’s brother. One time they were all hanging out playing trivial pursuit. My teacher won and afterwards Elon, being the little bitch that he is, refused to talk to her for 3 days.
Back what I was told this story in 2016 it was a lot more ‘cool’ but it still brings me joy. Cause no matter what he does he’s still a loser who couldn’t handle being beaten at a board game.
