✧ clementine ✧

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.

one of my favorite things about the long walk  is how often the characters laugh. like here they are, staring the inevitable, imminent threat of death right in the eye, and still they laugh. it’s so deeply human and unbearably beautiful.