InevitablySpeaking

i actually have so many thoughts on this but the one thats been eating at me for days is the fact that leo NEVER makes a fatphobic joke. ive reread these books about 4 times. the most fatphobic thing he said to frank was calling him big guy, which a. frank had no issue with and b. is literally just a descriptor.

also the whole 'leo tried taking franks girl!' bit makes no sense because leo never tried to do this?? he knew hazel was taken and was used to girls not liking him back. (the issue was actually hazel giving him mixed signals and having this weird obsession with him, but the fandom doesnt wanna hear that.) my point is, leo was literally dragged into the middle of their relationship??

also, the beef was very one sided on FRANKS side. lets not pretend all his interactions with leo werent laced with very obvious toxicity and dislike cause of the hazel/leo issue. lets not pretend frank bodyshamed him in like their 2nd interaction. lets not forget leo apologizing that one time cause frank was insecure and butthurt.

Jason: that's such a minor detail

Will: We LITERALLY had to get 4 people to hold you down on the bed so I could give you your Flu shot

Nico: I don’t know what you’re talking about

Nico: I am death

Will: There were ACTUAL tears running down your face

Nico: You’re making this up

Nico: The prince of the underworld fears nothing

Will: Jason has it on VIDEO you screamed so loud you nearly woke Gaia again

Nico:…

Will:…

Katniss, Haymitch, and the Seam inhabitants are all described as olive-skinned, brown-eyed (edit: and gray-eyed), and dark-haired.

Peeta, Maysilee, Katniss’ mother and the Merchants are largely described as blond haired, blue eyed, light-skinned.

The Hunger Games adaptations have a huge weakness to their casting because they allowed their white audience to overlook this very important fact, that the Mockingjay is a brown girl, that her mother was disowned for having a mixed-race and mixed-class marriage, that Katniss and Haymitch were long shots not just because they’re Seam but because they are brown… because the only brown characters in the movies (i.e. Rue, Thresh, 11 in general) were there to be tragic, not to be saviors.

Katniss Everdeen is brown, and I won’t forgive or forget the movies for erasing that part of her character.

no, he’s actually a radicalized refugee who witnessed the genocide of his district AS A TEENAGER and then had to lead the survivors into the wilderness towards a pipe dream where he desperately and gratefully gave that power to someone he trusted.

Coin graciously allowed him to work alongside Beetee to make plans for her army. Beetee, a nearly sixty year old man, encouraged the team up and worked with a freshly traumatized 18 year old Gale to develop every single plan and weapon.

Coin’s entire scheme served only to further fester Gale’s growing (and justified) animosity towards the people who murdered almost everyone he ever knew.

…only for her to twist his ideas and use them against one of his own people, who he loved, so she could control his childhood best friend. she encouraged his violence for her gain.

Coin’s betrayal towards Gale almost exactly mirrors how Beetee’s ideas for the games where twisted to kill his own son.

Gale was captured and unconscious when the bombs dropped on Prim, Beetee was in the control room where it happened. (No one blames Beetee. i don’t either, the blame belongs to Coin, but it serves to mention.)

people saying Gale is just like Snow are completely losing the plot and MUST have shipping goggles on, because in no way is a victim of genocide comparable to their oppressor.

is Gale faultless? no. Gale had a problem with boundaries (to say the least) and needed intense therapy. instead, he got to watch bombs destroy his entire life.

Gale represents the “ugly” side of surviving that most people do not want to see but people need to start seeing it. there are hundreds of thousands of survivors and victims in real life and some of them are justifiably just as angry and vengeful as Gale.

if you don’t see Palestine in Gale then you are not reading the story as the political commentary it is.