I Am That Person Who Takes Three Books To Read To School "just In Case"

bringing my thread here in honor of the ballad of songbirds and snakes trailer today because the "lucy gray parallels katniss" people are out there and they are wrong, lucy gray baird is peeta mellark and sejanus plinth is katniss everdeen and i will die on this hunger games hill

Currently thinking about how the only four people from district 12 to win the hungergames did so by "cheating".

Lucy Gray's scent being given to the snakes.

Haymitch ducking the ax after he ran to thr cliffside.

Katniss and Peeta's double suicide threat with the berries.

The thing is, none of it is cheating. It's survival. Lucy Gray wasn't even really responsible for her "cheat". Haymitch was on the verge of death and unarmed, using the only weapon the arena had to offer that would work in his favor. Katniss and Peeta were promised a win together, they won by the Capitol's rules, but the Capitol, being the Capitol, changed the rules.

Katniss never really knew just how much of a menace she was to Snow.

In a new fucked up way, Snow probably once again believed he "owned" Lucy Gray, because he was the only person left that truly remembered her.

But then Katniss sang Lucy Gray's song in her meadow, turned it into a hymn of the second rebellion, and unknowingly freed her from Snow's grasp.

Lucy Gray plays a part in Snow's downfall, The Hanging Tree becomes immortalized in history.

She no longer dies with him.

"Wylan’s first thought was that this boy had the most perfectly shaped lips he’d ever seen. His second was that his father had sent someone new to kill him."

~ Wesper's first meeting in Crooked Kingdom

Or as I like to say. Wylan van Eck having his priorities in order.

First: be gay

Second: worry about potentially dying

KAZZLE DAZZLE: The fandom nickname for Kaz Brekker, due to his sparkling personality.

I’m fucking dying. I got roasted in the best way possible.

Between the new percy jackson tv show coming and the hunger games prequel no-one will stop me from going back to my 2012 self

honestly so many words sound like pretty baby names but then it turns out you can't use them bc they have Other Stupid Meanings. i mean come on. Allegra. Edema. Nitroglycerin. pretty! pretty baby names

im sorry but something needs to be said. the "kanej and helnik are so deep and poetic and wesper is so fun and silly 🤪🤪" joke is SO FUCKING TIRED. its not even TRUE. do i really need to explain the poeticism of wylan and jesper?? they both spent their whole lives thinking a fundamental part of them was wrong. wylan was abused and manipulated by his father into thinking his disability made him worthless. jesper repressed his grisha talent his whole life because his father told him it was dangerous; that he'd be be better off without it. it got his mother killed. but having each other makes them realize that they are worth something. they love and trust each other so much that knowing that the other values them gives them a whole new perspective. they didn't think they deserved love. THEY NEVER THOUGHT THEY WOULD GET TO HAVE THIS!! WITH EACH OTHER!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND

Now here me out I love this….

But personally this is my favorite <3