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Thresh doesn’t make an alliance. Thresh doesn’t waste time liking her. Thresh knows that either he must kill her or she must kill him for one of them to win.

But this is the only way he can repay her for protecting Rue when he couldn’t. It’s the only way he can repay her for honoring Rue when he couldn’t. He honors her by sparing her friend, the girl who would have died for her.

The revolution really doesn’t start with Katniss.

It’s not even revolutionary when Peeta professes his love, because, let’s face it, the rules of the game haven’t changed. They’re still just two kids who would have to KILL each other to win. Without a doubt, it would bring some interest to the games, so the Capitol makes propaganda about it. The “Star Crossed Lovers” in a game of life and death.

But what changes the game is Rue. Right away from her introduction in the books we know Rue is going to be somewhat of a big deal. She was compared to the most important character to Katniss, Prim, so that’s a huge indicator. She’s small, young, she’s what Prim would have been.

So Katniss instantly feels a subconscious pull toward her. 

When they meet in the trees, Katniss could have killed Rue easily, and Rue probably could have pulled a sneak attack or alerted the Careers of Katniss’s presence. Instead, Rue points out the Tracker Jacker nest.

Then it escalates, Rue and Katniss become an odd team, they’re an alliance, which is never new in the Hunger Games, as forming teams and then betraying them at the end seems to be a common, but there’s is different. It’s close, it’s sisterly, protective.

And then Rue get’s impaled. Katniss kills her first tribute with ease after that. Comparing it to hunting game. Katniss holds Rue, she cries, and then she sings. She sings for Rue a song of promised safety and warmth, something completely absent in the arena. 

And this is where the metaphorical canon fires. Katniss could have left Rue, the hovercraft would have been along to pick her up, but she can’t. She’s morally obligated to love this girl as much as possible. And this is where the revolution starts. 

She honors the dead. She honors a dead tribute from a district she’d never seen, a person she’d known for only a short period of time. But she throws away Hunger Games norms. She rejects them completely.

In the Hunger Games you’re supposed to kill mercilessly and leave the victims for the plain box they’re shipped home in. 

Katniss gives Rue a funeral in the Games, she decorates the body, she makes it look like Rue is sleeping. Like no harm had come. Katniss just ignited the coals that Rue had placed.

Rue’s District sends a parachute. Homemade bread. 

Then Thresh kills Clove and distracts Cato by taking his bag. 

The fire is going now, and the actions in Catching Fire are even more obvious.

The Speech for Rue. Peeta’s painting. Everything eludes back to this one little girl who became Katniss’s family.

So the revolution never started with Katniss, she was just the tinder for Rue’s ignition. 

Rue’s whistle.

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I worked at a fast food restaurant, and at the time this happened I had been working here for a year and a half. Bit of context, I was 17 at the time and have anxiety. It can vary in severity on a daily basis, but I sometimes have really bad sensory overload. I bought myself a pair of noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones, so I can block out all noise. These cost me £220, a major investment for me as I was only a part timer and made about £160-£300 a month depending how many shifts I worked.

by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore 

never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.

find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.

talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore

picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else

Like every time I trip and fall, instead of saying “l’m just a disaster human” I say “I’m the epitome of grace and beauty”

Or like, when I draw a picture I’m not 100% happy with, instead of saying “my art is trash” I say something like “you know I think it’s time we replaced the Mona Lisa”

When you do that you get to make a joke, but you’re ALSO getting practice building yourself up, y’know?

So I left a lot of information out of my last post and I wanted to do an update that may be more helpful!

***Remember***

Everything can be changed or altered based on your personal needs or preferences! The things I used were a basic guide that gives only one example! Your sigil is yours and you can arrange it anyway you want!

Make a Chart

Begin by making a chart similar to this one above. You can arrange the letters in any way and even take away numbers if wanted or needed.

Get a Phrase

The phrase I am using is

“I am safe and protected”

Your phrase can be as long or short as you like. Just know that if you are following this method and have a long phrase then you will have a more complex sigil and a short phrase you will just have a simple sigil.

Take Out the Vowels

This is another one of those REALLY optional steps. If you take out the vowels then you have a less complicated sigil and if not then it’s just a little more complex. I do this because it makes things not as busy in the sigil itself.

Using the same example from before we are then left with…

“M sf nd prtctd”

Take Out Repeating Letters

This is another one of those optional steps, but again it just cuts down on the business or complexity of your sigil.

The phrase we’ve been using would then become…

“msfndprtc”

Numbering Your Letters

So here you’re just going to match up the letters to the number they are assigned to in that chart we made earlier.

In our example…

416547923

Numbering Your Circle

Now you’re going to make a circle with numbers in it. The number order does not matter. You can do this in any order that you like. This is the one we are going to be using for our example.

Drawing Your Sigil

After you have all your information you get to draw out your sigil! Now this is where everything comes together.

Our number sequence is 416547923 so we are going to draw a line from 4 to 1 on our circle. Then drawing another line from 1 to 6. Then from 6 to 5. Then from 5 to 4. And continuing this until we have connected all the numbers together.

Finishing Touches

Now that you have your finished product you can begin to add your embellishments! You can add or take away anything that you like and make your sigil all yours!

You can add loops and swirls and anything else that you would like to the finished product!

Bonus Lessson

Charging Your Sigil

This is something that I’ll be elaborating on more in a later post that will be dedicated to this whole topic but I’m gonna share a favorite method of mine for charging up my sigils!

I prefer to do this when meditating but I have a few sigils that are all drawn out on the paper that I will be using that day or placing for the future or whatever their purpose is.

I will take the paper and hold it in my hands and focus on the intent that I wish the sigil to possess. If we were using the phrase above then we would be envisioning ourselves in a safe and protected place. We would be focusing on being safe and protected from whatever it is we need protection from.

After doing this for a bit I will know when it is ready and then I will kiss the paper and then I move along to the next one repeating the process.

That’s all I got!