Aren’t you grateful to be alive Amanda ?
( birthday gift for my bestie, my king @monsieurlerobot )
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no, you’re not listening. katniss isn’t a part of the “not like other girls” ya stereotype. katniss has a more masculine energy by nature, yes, but also because she had to. she filled that role her father left after he died. she had to hunt. she had to feed. she had to protect - because there was no one else that could. she spared her mother and prim that responsibility (until she was reaped). it doesn’t make her less of a woman to be masculine, even if she feels uncomfortable tapping into that feminine energy because she’s never had the luxury of growing up in a safe world that allowed her to just be a girl. she’s always been a protector, and if sacrificing that idea of femininity was the only way to keep the people she loved safe, then so be it. in this essay i will -
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Can I talk about sugar for a second? Like all of the berzatto children are tragic and doomed by the narrative in their own right, but nat’s story means so such to me idk if I can even fully talk about it all. We see her relationship with her mom is strained at best, it seems like she’s the least favorite child, maybe BECAUSE of her existence as a woman.
And then we find out that her lifelong nickname is based off of a childhood mistake, her being overeager to help her family literally turned into a lifelong reminder of her fuck up. Is there anything more tragic?? A child wanting love but getting scorn?? And then it makes the flashback scene where she tries to add raisins in season 1 all the more upsetting because why did she add them?
“That’s how mom makes it.” she’s the only one that still follows their mom’s recipe. The reason? Could be anything. But I have no doubt in my mind if she DIDN’T add the raisins if Donna had been around she would’ve been ridiculed even more.
I have such a soft spot in my heart for girls and their complex relationships with their moms and motherhood, and it makes her scene with cicero in the car that much more impactful. When cicero says he would let his kids make more mistakes and not been as careful, i almost started crying. Nat has a nickname from her mistakes and it seems like in her mom’s eyes she’s nothing but mistakes. And then her uncle tells her that she’ll be a good mother and that it’s okay for kids to make mistakes, great, even.
I’m so happy nat is in a place where she’s happy and supported. She has a husband who deeply understands her family and doesn’t judge her for it, even making an effort to try and include Donna. I was kind of meh about pete before season 2, but it solidified for me that he’s so so good for nat and a great character. He is so excited to be a dad, he’s patient and kind with her and her family, and he doesn’t call her sugar.
She’s nat. And she’s allowed to make mistakes.
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I JUST WOKE UP IM GONNA CRY
GEM;;;;;;;;;
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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
S01E07 • "Full Count"
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I truly love how passionate Kristen is about researching religion. she sees a pile of books and is so excited she literally dives into them
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I love Tigris so much, yes in TBOSBAS but also how that then translates into the Hunger Games
She’s one of the last living people (if not the only other living person) who knew Lucy Gray well other than Snow himself. And we see how lonely and outcast her life has become, imagine the wonder she must have felt to hear the Mockingjay sing again, how she must have looked at Katniss and saw the ghost of her old friend
I think Snow forgot even an old cat can be pushed to bare her claws when she’s needed most. She sheltered the rebellion, she fed them at her table (cooking an act we see so closely intertwined with love in her character). She spits in the face of everything Snow dismisses her as her entire life, and I love her so dearly
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the one. the only. alex fierro. 🩷💚
(aka my queer awakening pfft)
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