So, I already posted this, but I'll give it one more shot:

I think the view that the reality of The Hunger Games is literally happening right now is so right and probably way scarier than people even realize. When we talk about The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins literally just reflected real capitalist-caused issues to fit into a dystopian world, but it's literally here, from the most obvious thing to the simplest detail:

How the riches and concessions from the Capital to loyalist Districts made people from 1, or 2, or so on, think of themselves as closer (in nature) to people of the capital than people in the poorest Districts? That's middle-class thinking, stopping them from realizing they're just as pressed by the Capital as the poorest Districts (the guy from 2 in the last movie, saying he wasn't Snow's slave when WE KNOW he is, everyone is?)?

How the electric fence around 12 is THE ONLY THING stopping people from starving to death since they could very well USE the land? That's literally the argument for legalized occupation movements on unused land, like MST and MTST in Brazil.

The use of addictive drugs and the idea of a "war on drugs" in District 6 to control the population and quite literally render them useless to weaponize such an important thing as medical supplies against the Capital (not that this should happen, but still)? That's literally happening in most poor countries in the world, just as much with legalized drugs - like the COVID vaccine (which Africa had and is still having trouble acquiring because of the Global North) - as with illegal drugs like weed, which is used as justification for police to invade favelas in Brazil, kill innocent people (children especially) and brutalize dozens more each time in a war against poor POC in special.

What they did to Finnick, Cashmere, and Gloss? Lemme tell you two words: Epstein Scandal.

The control of the media? Comms people can tell you: media always has a side, it's not bad in itself, but most of the mainstream media is right-wing and/or conservative, and I'm not talking just regionally, but globally, hence what we're seeing at mainstream media trying to hide important news, manipulate or maintain the narrative of equivalence between Israel and Palestine when we know what is happening is a genocide, an ethnic-based genocide.

The dehumanization of the people from the Districts suffer by the people of the Capital? How billionaires see the working class, how white people view POC, how the North looks at Global South countries - that's exactly there, people.

It's literally there.

But we're not the Capital, not entirely at least. It's true that we live in constant alienation caused by the overwhelming amount of content we have to swallow on a day to day basis — Brave New World, hello? — but we, the working class, are also the ones who pay the price of the "Capital's" need for profit without wanting to actually work — we work so they don't have to, even though we should be the ones to benefit from the result of our own work.

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Daddy’s girl: *Is in jail*

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Wait... annie is rescued from the capitol naked and with her hair and body physically intact whereas johanna and peeta.... and right after finnick's reveal of sexual slavery in the capitol

That is a dark implication

It's weird to me that people in Panem think that they use coal for their electricity needs. The books are set at least a hundred years into the future after some serious climate change and sea level rise, why would they use coal when they would have had efficient renewable technology? Also after the revolt from district 13, why would they be dependent on just one district for their power needs? I think they make district 12 mine coal just to keep them subservient.

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Okay, it really bothers me how many people, especially on TikTok, are willing to forget how bad Snow really is just because he's hot. I mean, I'm not one to be above Tom Blyth's "hotness", but guys, really? Have you learned nothing at all from what you just watched?! Are you that unable to understand the film's problematic?

I try not to judge because I know sometimes people just want to be silly and give themselves a break from the heaviness of it all, but ffs, stop romanticizing creepiness and abusive behavior. TBOSAS is NOT a dark romance, Snow is NOT hot, he's a fascist-minded, not-so-borderline misogynistic, completely narcissistic villain from the beginning. He may have loved Lucy Gray or not, but it doesn't really matter as much as how he did it, how he treated her - how he (maybe) killed her (y'all know that, if she died, it was a femicide, right? At the very least, it was an attempt).

And I hate when people say "It's not that deep, he's fictional, I'd never do that irl" because that may be true for you but pay attention to the content you're spreading, the message you're getting across to people more vulnerable than you, in a position of doubt about what's really acceptable or not. Children, teenagers who think they have enough judgment when they don't, women in abusive relationships trying to normalize what they're suffering, young people being brainwashed, or trained, or raised to be prejudiced, violent, and bigoted... they're all exposed to what you're posting and if collective well-being still doesn't sway you...

Noah Schnapp.

That's it. There's your real-world version of Coriolanus Snow age 17. A young man, who supports genocide, who supports a massacre of children because he thinks his people are the rightful owners of the place they are actually colonizing. Still think he's so hot?

He's not.

He's just another fascist.

And what breaks my heart the most is that there are so many characters in THG and even TBOSAS who are so pretty, even "hot" and are still kind and, at the very least, VICTIMS of that society. Case in point, obviously, Peeta, Finnick, and even Haymitch, if you prefer a dilf. But also, Treech and Reaper, both of them victims of the Capital, and kind in the case of Reaper, I'm not sure about Treech, but he's still just a scared boy trying to go back home. And they're both so beautiful (and hot, and both actors are of age, I checked lol) and should be a lot more crushed on instead of Snow. Hell, even Sejanus is hotter than Snow just because he's not a fascist.

That's how low you have to go to find Snow actually hot. And again, I get that Tom Blyth is hot, but learn to trace a limit. It's not cool, nor funny, to throw away every message and cautionary warning this story ever gives you just because the actor playing the villain is hot, it's actually you just proving the whole story's point: we can ignore anything for the show.

Quand j'éprouve de nouveau cette sensation brûlante qui s'était emparée de moi sur la plage, je comprends que cela ne pouvait pas se terminer autrement. Que pour survivre, je n'ai pas besoin de la flamme de Gale, nourrie de sa rage et de sa haine. J'en ai déjà bien assez en moi. Ce qu'il me faut, c'est le pissenlit au printemps. le jaune vif qui évoque la renaissance plutôt que la destruction. La promesse que la vie continue, en dépit de nos pertes. Qu'elle peut même être douce à nouveau. Peeta est le seul à pouvoir m'offrir ça.

Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games : La Révolte.

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I can't stop thinking about Steve, after learning to paint from Will (Steve literally has no hobbies, why wouldn't Will try to teach him to paint?), soon painting his nightmares, using a paintbrush as therapy. He keeps the paintings to himself, locked in a bedroom in his home that's never used, too ashamed of the art he made, of what nightmares he brought to life, of what they represented, all of the pain, suffering, and death. But he couldn't stop. For some strange reason, painting the demons and ghosts that he faced was so much easier than talking about them.

He painted everything he saw in his nightmares, his brush strokes realistic and so, so impactful. He painted Barb's lifeless eyes, her face pale, staring up at the moon, covered in water from his pool, the water shimmering over her waxy skin; a plate shattered on the ground, dripping with blood, covered in shadow, as if the one who broke the plate was standing right over him, his fist bared; Max hovering over a grave, the dying sun making her figure burn red, her hands lifted in the air, like a puppet on strings, a grey ground below her; bats flying in a tornado of wind, tails lifting up a small figure who's chest and feet were bare, his hands failing around, unable to escape; teeth biting into flesh, the red, oozing blood coating the skin like it was becoming one with it; Eddie's bloodied hands weakly gripping his spear and shield, the red lighting from the Upside Down reflecting in his empty eyes, his lips parted in a scream that was silenced.

Steve covered his paintings with spare bedsheets, hiding them from the sun and the eyes of others. It was something about him that he didn't want to share, that he wasn't ready to show. He knew that everyone would be breathless if they saw them, too shocked to speak, too horrified to breath, too scared to understand. But for Steve, his paintings allowed him to breath once again, to finally be free of the fear he always felt, if only for another night, and he knew that he couldn't stop, at least not until the nightmares were gone.

But the end didn't seem to be in sight, so Steve continued to paint.

Peeta Melark is my Roman Empire. I cant stop thinking how this boy loves Katniss and all the gestures of love he's made for her.

Katniss never thinking about Gale romantically and when she thinks about him in the The Hunger Games it is always about how he would feel seeing her with Peeta and now how she feels about him. Katniss understand that the bond she has with Gale is not what most people assume of platonic friendships and because of that wondering if she has romantic feelings.

Peeta's love for Katniss being shown mostly to how much he paid attention to her and Katniss also paying a lot of attention to Peeta. Katniss being confused with her emotions, trying to rationalize everything bc she dislikes the uncertanty and the unknown of her emotions. Katniss so clearly also having a crush on Peeta and not knowing.

She is the aro representation.