the double orpheus and eurydice symbolism!!!! what do you MEAN mark might have kept going if gemma hadn't turned around and made him realise this isn't what he wants!!!!!! what do you MEAN mark might have kept walking if he hadn't turned and seen helly behind him!!!!!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN!!!!!!!

OH MY GODDDDD ITS PERFECT 😭😭😭😭😭😭

anyone else thinking about effie spending 24 years watching haymitch completely fall apart. effie, who met haymitch by accident, who knows exactly what kind of person he is, who sees him every year on his birthday for 24 years and each year he’s drunker, each year he’s angrier, each year he’s faster to give up. and then they get katniss and peeta. peeta, who is kind and open and understanding, who refuses to give up on haymitch. and katniss, who is so much like haymitch at 16 that it hurts. and over the few days they’re together, effie watches haymitch come back to life. watches him try. watches him have hope. and then they get to keep not one but both of those kids. they get to come home. and then, less then a year later, effie pulls haymitch’s name at the reaping.

I wish Maysilee Donner would've met President Snow. He wouldve said some corny shit like "Snow lands on top" and she would've eaten the words and chewed them right back up so nasty that he would've been so ashamed to say them ever again.

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.

[id: a digital drawing of a scene from the film I Saw The TV Glow. a character stands on a road, silhouetted by a pink glow. Pink chalk drawings form loops and tangles on the ground, with large words reading ‘there is still time’ glowing faintly pink. the setting is the suburbs in early evening. the sky is static like a tv screen. end id.]

If you have a willing doctor and your primary vaccination series was before the new millennium, see if you can get titers drawn for MMR! When I had to get proof for grad school student teaching in 2018, turned out I was fine for mumps and rubella but NOT measles, so I needed another booster as an adult.