(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool
Absolutely nothing worse than finding out that you share interests with someone you hate. Has you thinking things like fuck you I'm better at enjoying star wars than you are
I am currently feeling deep unexplainable anguish
Thinking about tbosas from the other perspective is so funny to me because imagine you’re Lucy Gray and the way you make a living is by singing and being a charming, charismatic performer. The people in your district love you, you have a nice family, sure your parents are dead but things aren’t so bad.
Then you get Reaped because your boyfriend cheated on you - so now you have to fight for your life in an arena.
When you get to the Capitol you’re met by a guy around your age who says his job is to take care of you in the arena, so you figure you should probably use some of those charms you live by on him so you have a better chance at survival. So you flirt with him a little, save his life etc. It works! He helps you! Now you’ve won the Hunger Games! You get to go home and see your family! Thank you random Capitol guy for your help, bye bye now.
And then you’re singing on stage, with your family who you literally killed people to see again, thrilled to be alive and this fuckin Capitol guy has followed you home.
Oh and also he’s a peacekeeper now so is legally allowed a gun.
And now he kind of won’t leave you alone - the charm worked too well and he’s obsessed with you. Brilliant. But you’re a survivor. So you let him get closer, just enough to feel safe. And as you get to know him better, maybe you’re thinking, hey this guy isn’t so bad, he’s kind of cute with his buzzcut and he seems to really like you, maybe this could be something. Also it might be useful to have a peacekeeper on side - everything in your district is about survival.
Things are going well, you write a song about him, he cries, your little cousin loves him.
And then he murders someone in front of you and you’re like oh shit he crazy. And THEN you realise that because of the person he murdered, the mayor is now out for your blood and you’re probably gonna die so you have to get out of there ASAP so you say bye to this guy and he INVITES HIMSELF TO YOUR ESCAPE PLAN and you have to be like “oh sure, that’s super news, would absolutely love to have you along with me, I’m so glad you asked.” So now you’re stuck with him again.
And THEN you’re in the middle of escaping and he fuckin tells you he’s murdered an extra person you didn’t know about and when you ask him who, he says his old self and now you’re thinking oh shit he CRAZY crazy. And THEN he finds the gun he used and you realise that if he destroys that evidence then you’re the only loose end and he has a kind of crazy look in his eye so you’re like, okay time to nip this in the bud, I’m outta here gotta go pick some katniss. So you run away from him and THEN he follows you again and fuckin shoots at you so you run FASTER and now you’ve disappeared and no one will ever find out what happened to you which drives him absolutely crazy for 60+ years.
Oh and also they’re going to erase all footage of your Games so no one will remember you and he’s going to become a tyrannical dictator who has personal beef with three different sixteen year olds from your district over the years, all because you hurt his feelings one time.
oh not to mention merrilee giving madge the mockingjay pin that maysilee hated so much— perhaps as a reminder that she’s madge not maysilee, that maysilee wouldn’t wear that pin but madge would
thinking about how katniss recognises merrilee when watching the recording of haymitch’s games due to her resemblance to madge; do you think that merrilee got to see maysilee grow up again through madge? do you think merrilee could barely look at madge because she was a reminder of the sister she lost? do you think merrilee saw maysilee in madge before seeing her as madge everytime she looked at her? do you think merrilee broke down when madge turned 17? because her twin never did? do you think merrilee saw madge die seconds before she herself died when district 12 got bombed? that merrilee saw both her twins die in front of her?
I really hope whoever wrote thunderbolts is okay because you dont understand and interpret and write mental illness with such depth and understanding unless you've dealt with depression yourself. Seeing Bob's pain was like holding a magnifying mirror up to my own.
guys i’ve been on shiftblr for literally a week and learnt more than shiftok has taught me in about 2 years. 😭
just imagine Jason and Piper carrying whole ass flamethrowers around
wait if Percy heals in water does Leo heal on fire? Quick get Hera to throw him in the fire again.
thinking about hazel levesque like i'm eleven years old again
It has come to me that, although I am one of the many people who were changed and radicalized because of The Hunger Games as the book series explored the many sides of society and capitalism, I am also one of the many people who giggles every time there is a cute take on Katniss and Peeta’s relationship.
And, to me, that’s girlhood and womanhood.