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take this nachos supreme, for it is my body. and take this baja blast, for it is my blood.
Are you a space gay, an ocean gay, or a forest gay?
i donβt leave the house
Honeycrisp moodboard for @gemsandowlsandstuff π΅
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The Hunger Games, Actual Teen style!
On the left, 15-year-old Josh Hutcherson.
On the right, 16-year-old Jennifer Lawrence.
Think how much creepier it would be to see them killing other kids when they look so squishy-cheeked and little.
βThink how much creepier it would be to see them killing other kids when they look so squishy-cheeked and little.β
THATβS THE POINT SUZANNE COLLINS WAS TRYING TO MAKE
Think about these cute squishy kids being forced into a romance in order to survive
And the threat of these cute squishy kids being forced into prostitution after the games are over.Β
REBLOGGING THIS AGAIN WITH A REMINDER THAT FINNICK WAS 14 WHEN HE WAS REAPED/WON THE GAMES AND WAS FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION SOON AFTERWARD
wait the kids were forced into prostitution after they won???
Some of the Victors were, especially if they were attractive to lots of rich people during the games. How do you think you pay off the parachute things people send you to help you win the game? Those books were so fucked up
Thatβs why I feel like actual teens should have been cast in the movie. It would have hammered in the message of the books so much more.
And if they had cast actual teenages, Iβm sure they wouldnβt have focus so much on romance in the films. They would have focus on the horror of the hunger games, like they damn well should have.
The hunger game movies are the exact thing the hunger game books was trying to warn us about
Just going to add in a few other things that a lot of people seem to miss because it was either de-emphasized or cut entirely from the movies:
-Haymitch Abernathy was 16 when he won the Hunger Games, and the Capitol attempted to force him into prostitution as they did with Finnick and many other popular victors. He refused, and in retaliation, they gradually killed off everyone he loved one by oneβhis friends from home, his family, his girlfriend. He began drinking heavily at a young age to deal with the trauma of the Games, the loss of everyone heβd ever cared about, and subsequently having to continually relive the trauma of the Games in mentoring roughly 50 children, two each year, whom heβd then have to send to their deaths in the Arena.Β
-The Capitol also attempted to force Joanna Mason into prostitution. She, too, refused, and like with Haymitch, the Capitol retaliated by killing off everyone she loved one by one. She alludes to this in both the book and the movie version of Catching Fire, not flinching when she enters the Jabberjay area of the arena because thereβsΒ βno one leftβ that she loves. The movies donβt really explore this, though, while the books do more exploration both with everything the Capitol has taken from her and the lingering effects of her PTSD from her imprisonment by the Capitol.Β
-The only reason Peeta and Katniss werenβt forced into prostitution was because the Capitol was too invested in theΒ βStar-Crossed Lovers from District 12β³ narrative.Β
-Also, Katniss spent the latter half of her first Hunger Games deaf in one ear and had to have her middle and inner ear reconstructed after the Gamesβthe explosion at the Cornucopia permanently fucked up her hearing in that ear. Sheβs able to hear again after the surgeries but never quite the same.Β
-And Peeta had a prosthetic leg! He was severely injured while fleeing theΒ βMuttsβ at the end of the Games and was bleeding out from his leg by the time he and Katniss reached the Cornucopia. Katniss gave him a tourniquet using one of her last two arrows to tighten it. Doing so saved his life, but by the time the Capitol doctors took them out of the arena, the leg was beyond saving and had to be amputated. Katniss finds this out in their βpost-Gamesβ interview with Cesar Flickerman.Β
-Just generally the movies glossed over or completely cut a lot of characters whose experiences in the games left them physically disabled (Katnissβs partial deafness and Peetaβs lost leg being cut entirely, Beeteeβs spinal damage from the forcefield leaving him wheelchair-bound being largely kinda glossed over) or with PTSD (Katniss and Peetaβs PTSD isnβt really explored that much, Joannaβs PTSD is pretty much skipped over entirely, Annieβs barely in the movies at all, Haymitchβs entire backstory is cut, the fact that Finnick is basically just constantly putting on a show and barely holding it together under the surface isnβt ever really explored, pretty much all of the addiction subplots including Haymitch attempting to quit drinking and Katniss starting to drink at one point and everything related to morphling are cutβ¦).Β
-Basically asΒ βroughβ as the movies are they sanitized the FUCK out of the Hunger Games and the world surrounding them, and thatβsβ¦not a good thing.
TL;DR: @isashi-nigami is completely correct,Β The hunger game movies are the exact thing the hunger game books was trying to warn us about.
Coheed and Cambria Discography + My Favorite Tracks
this is it, this is the best video on the entire internet, everybody can retire now
yes, this is exactly what you think it will be
i showed this video to my dad and he wants everyone to know that this is clearly the purpose of t-rex arms that paleontologists have been trying to figure out for so long
Look at her opening doors to thousands of girls (if not more) around the world!Β π
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