I Mean Surely We All Grew Up Feeling Like There Was A Wrongness Inherently Deep Inside Us That Will Endure

Effie: Why is Katniss on the bathroom floor crying?

Haymitch: She’s drunk.

Effie: And?

Haymitch: She heard that Peeta has a girlfriend.

Effie: …but she is Peeta’s girlfriend.

Haymitch: Yeah, we know that.

idk if it's been talked about before but suzanne collins never misses a BEAT when it came to names, specifically coriolanus snow and dr volumnia gaul. just from their first names alone you can already guess what type of role might play between them (well... if you've read shakespeare's coriolanus that is. i do recommend it btw).

a lot of bits were taken from shakespeare's play for tbosas like the motif with scars / wounds / the body as being a microcosm of the nation, the common people fighting up against the government, coriolanus' hatred of the common people wanting to be "equal" to him, the rebel arc etc etc but i'm soooo so so interested in the fact that dr gaul was named volumnia and coriolanus is coriolanus because in the play, coriolanus' mother's name is volumnia!

volumnia is arguably the only female character in the play that has any depth (i am so sorry virgilia). his mother shapes her son into the warrior he is. she reminds him at every turn that he is nothing more than a weapon to be wielded. in fact, she's the one who gets her son to come back from his "revolt" against rome which ultimately lead to his demise. this parallels tbosas in the same way because dr gaul took coriolanus and molded him into the villain you would see in thg trilogy. she brought him back from d12 and then brought about the end of his humanity (a death, so to speak—at the end of the book he said something similar to this to try to save himself from lucy gray's suspicions but he was right because he did kill a part of himself to be where he is)! coriolanus snow's mother is present but off-page. her ghost haunts him, comforts him, but the 'mother' figure is the ever-present, all-knowing dr gaul.

UGH! like with just their names you could map out where they end up at the end of the story and that's literally insane. like the caliber of writing is literally next to none fr

I’ve seen so many JayVik passing notes things on TikTok, and they are so cute like, oh my goodness.

BRO.

THE OUTRO OF ‘HOUSE SONG’ BY SEAROWS??

ABSOLUTELY LETHAL.

“Something is rotten inside of me.

I have to find it and,

Cut it out.

Cut it out.”

LIKE????

Shauna shipman is the queen of projection istg