District Four Mermaid

¡ PASSED ON !

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

Young'uns

if you give a man the power to feed you you give a man the power to starve you.

so you’re on all the bank accounts. do you have an account of just your own that he can’t access? because he has one. do you have a way to get money into that account uncontested? because he does. do you have a credit card in only your name? he has one. do you alone qualify for a mortgage or car loan? he does. do you have employment history? he does.

have you considered that if he hurts you and you file a report or get medical attention, that will damage his career as a public figure, and his career is your only income? have you considered that unless you are 100% certain you want to divorce, it’s in your best interest to keep everything as quiet as you possibly can? have you considered that your husband plays a sport with high rates of CTE and drug and alcohol abuse which all correlate to rage and loss of impulse control? have you considered that at any time he can get traded and you’ll be off to utah in 24 hours? have you considered that your support system is a group of women in the same place as you who consider this all normal and even enviable? are you a good wife? are you a caring mother? are you a hot girlfriend? have you learned to find value in your commodification? if you broke up with your boyfriend and cut your hair and changed your name would your friends still be your friends? would your community still be your community? it all seems exciting and romantic and like a perfect story when you are 21 and he proposes on the beach. it seems like the way you want your life to go. now you’re 31 with 5 kids and no work history in a place you didn’t grow up surrounded only by women in your same situation.

and maybe nothing bad happens! maybe he loves you and treats you well. maybe he is kind and caring and a good partner and a good father and a good husband. maybe you are respected and valued.

For Gale, 🦇

For Katniss, ✉️

For Johanna, 📿

For Haymitch, 📜

For Hazelle, 🌪

ahh thank you!! I love the variety of characters, so much to think about :)

[ 🦇 ]ㅤ.ㅤ what is a fear they never talk about ?

Gale is afraid of old age. it's considered a proud accomplishment in D12 to grow old and he understands that but with old age comes disease and body decline and he remembers what his late maternal grandpa was like toward the end and it's just. something he'd rather not talk (or even think) about. it's not fear of death so much as what all could come before it, if he's not blown up or killed first.

[ ✉️ ]ㅤ. ㅤwhat kind of letter would they write but never send ?

this brings me back to CF, the letters Peeta suggests they send to their loved ones they didn't get to say goodbye to before the 3QQ, that Katniss knows she'll never write. I think outside of this circumstance, she'd write to Madge. maybe she even adds to it little by little over the years, this incomplete letter she can never send. and then one day she tears it up and burns it bc it wasn't doing anything but make her sad and angry, and it's like she's lost her friend all over again - but now it's as though Madge has lost her. Katniss doesn't write to her again.

[ 📿 ]ㅤ.ㅤ what superstition or ritual do they cling to ?

heavy cotton gloves. it's a logging superstition, and Johanna doesn't think of herself as superstitious, but she kind of is. cotton gloves bring her comfort; leather gloves bring her the urge to tear them off and replace with the right kind, you fucking idiot. are you trying to kill us?! (Peeta, who just wanted to invite her along with him to stack the woodpile: wat.)

[ 📜 ]ㅤ.ㅤ is there a story they love sharing with others ?

answered here but let's say Haymitch is past the tooth-pulling stage, he's with trusted friends and kin... he's sharing all kinds of stories about his weird ass grandma on his mom's side and his absolute coal fire of a family on his dad's side. ("they made nursery rhymes out of the Abernathy side! I'm somehow not the worst one")

[ 🌪️ ]ㅤ.ㅤ what’s the one choice they regret (not) making ?

Hazelle is careful in how she thinks about certain choices in her life... she does not regret having Gale or marrying her husband, full stop. but she does regret having Gale at not yet 20 years old and marrying her husband before they had truly gotten to know each other as individuals and as partners. they had to become parents fast, and that colored the relationship. but Hazelle also holds that there's no use in wishing away the past. she's made a whole life since then.

Young'uns