spidey-mike pilled

mike who works a mindless desk job and his life has literally no meaning until it’s raining cats and dogs one day and he’s forgotten his umbrella so he ducks into the closest building he can, a random art exhibit, and is flabbergasted when he wipes the water from his glasses only to be met with dozens of portraits of himself. he’s more than a little disturbed, looking around and worried he’s being pranked or something. he walks to the center of the room, slowly turning and taking in all of the pieces and halfway through his mindless spinning, pauses when he makes eye contact with the only other person in the gallery. will fucking byers. “mike?”

i love how suzanne just gives us a little treat by mentioning the katniss plant every book. like here u go. ik u miss our girl. she's fine. enjoy lowercase katniss

i’m so appreciative to suzanne for reframing the rebellion from the original trilogy as a “they saw their moment and took it” type situation and showing us that they’ve been trying, over and over, with so many failed attempts, to break the arena and incite a rebellion for decades. in this current political climate never giving up hope is so essential. haymitch wasn’t the first nor the last, and they kept going even when it seemed completely futile, and that’s what counts, and what ultimately saves them all.

Suzanne Collins just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

I may just be late to the party but I genuinely believe Mike Wheeler is awful at reading social cues and Will was easy to read (up until s3 I guess) because they understand each other so well, but then Will (canonically) starts hiding his sexuality and repressing them around Mike between seasons 2 and 3 so he can’t read him as well as he used to which is one of the reasons why they start to grow apart + Mike’s internalized homophobia also makes it hard for him to understand and articulate his own feelings so really he’s just growing away from his old self and Will in one swing