leah and only leah is safe from my mockery

~ Catching Fire Chapter 14

Like that has got to have messed Katniss up more than we are led to belive. Her romantic relationship with Peeta is already shaky BEFORE the hijacking; so after (hehe) when they're trying to get back to each other, they each have their own mountains of insecurities that have been building over time. And I so rarely see these two addressed in fics, or when they are they're barely brushed over and quickly dismissed.

If that was me, those comments would've destroyed me, especially the more time that passed without them being acknowledged.

“You’re not very big” to me is “why was I so intimidated by you? Why were you so terrifying? You’re objectively much smaller than me.”

So to me this combo “you’re not very big or particularly pretty” is him sorting through his two conflicting feelings about her—“Katniss is terrifying” and “Katniss is captivating”.

He’s not sure which, if either, is real.

(Also he’s got no filter and he’s bitter).

His hijacking seems to have some element of Katniss as an evil vixen, so this is him being like “oh. You’re just a regular girl.” There wasn’t anything sinister or powerful about her that forced him to love her so she could hurt him.

This is I think, him piecing together that he loved her on his own (before) without her manipulating him with irresistible feminine wiles or intimidating him with mutt-strength.

Also he’s being mean af here and he’s unhijacked enough by this point that he could have filtered himself enough to verbally process this with someone else and not her.

He’s like, still mad at her for things she never did and punishing her for them. It’s absolutely unfair.

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Peeta : ashy blonde hair that falls across his forehead in waves, his height, his eye color, his facial expression, his warmth—

what’s more unsettling - a wolf crying “a tear the size of a baseball” or edward calling jacob “son” ??

SILVER SPRINGS Fleetwood Mac — The Dance (1997)

By 1997, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s romance should have been ancient history. The pair had split two decades prior, fueling Rumours’ famously raw breakup anthems. But during a taping of a Fleetwood Mac reunion show later released as The Dance, shit once again got very real. Midway through a non-album rarity called “Silver Springs,” Nicks turned and faced her former flame as she sang the song’s rueful bridge: “Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me / I know I could have loved you but you would not let me.” The pair locked eyes, and Nicks gradually built to a cathartic howl — “I’ll follow you down ‘til the sound of my voice will haunt you / You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you” — indicating that, for her at least, resolution had never really come.

This was by design. Nicks has admitted that the fiery take on the song that appears in The Dance was “for posterity,” as she told Rolling Stone at the time. “I wanted people to stand back and really watch and understand what [the relationship with Lindsey] was,” she later told Arizona Republic.

The track’s primary exposure was as a B side to “Go Your Own Way” — Buckingham’s own expression of anger and revenge against Nicks, where he claimed that “packin’ up, shackin’ up is all you wanna do.” The song would become one of the band’s biggest hits, charting in the Top 10. “He knew it wasn’t true. It was just an angry thing that he said,” Nicks told Rolling Stone in 1997 of the “packin’ up, shackin’ up” line. “Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. He knew it. He really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, ‘I’ll make you suffer for leaving me.’ And I did.”

Of course, Nicks had the exact same motivation when she wrote “Silver Springs.” In a 1997 interview with Arizona Republic, she explained the song’s message as “I’m so angry with you. You will listen to me on the radio for the rest of your life, and it will bug you. I hope it bugs you.”

Edward says Carlisle was lonely and wanted a companion. but what kind of "companionship" can a man get from a child? Carlisle was desperate, sure, but he could have picked anyone dying during the influenza pandemic to be his companion. why Edward?

imo, Carlisle didn't want a companion in the sense that he wanted an equal partner. Carlisle wanted someone he could care for forever without having to worry about them dying. he wants to play the role of caretaker because—up until this point—it's the role he knows best and the only role he's comfortable with. because the influenza pandemic put this image of himself in jeopardy (as he has to watch countless die of a novel disease he cannot treat), Carlisle looked to someone who could reaffirm his role. Carlisle doesn't want a relationship between equals—he wants validation that he'll always be needed in this world. what better way to do that than to change a young boy who will never mentally progress beyond 17?

the argument here is, "oh, well Carlisle treated Edward's mom who made him promise to save her son." it begs the question why THIS plea is the one that gets to him. was this the first time a 200-year-old doctor got pleas from his patients to save them? i highly doubt no one on their deathbed ever thought to appeal to the Mysteriously Perfect Hot Doctor to save their life by any means necessary.

Well, their pet dog would live in drugged up misery as it was scared to death of these rock monsters that kept it imprisoned, so being eaten would really be a relief.

Socialization is key, though, it's insane what you can socialize animals to do. Dogs used to be wolves, now we have them thinking all they want to do is sniff down specific animals. They've gone from eating sheep to shepherding them. So maybe, if vampires stole the dog away when it was newborn, blind and barely aware of its surroundings (having raised a litter of puppies, I can attest to them being alramingly unaware of their surroundings in those first few days), then the puppy's instinct to align itself with its caregivers would outweigh the instincts telling it that they're predatory. Said instincts wouldn’t notice vampires are predatory for some time anyway.

So theoretically, then yes, domesticated dogs (and cats for that matter) should be possible to have their instinctual fear of vampires socialized out of them.

However, I imagine this would only apply to the vampire that did the raising, and they would still need to move carefully around the dog. No suddenly standing right in front of it, no other quick movements, no growling or hissing at it. Really, the way to go if you're serious about this is to breed your own brand new dog breed, where you socialize entire litters like these and then use the puppy of the litter that's the least scared for future generations.

umm???? have you seen Breaking Dawn part two??