Thinking again about how Peeta gets sick from the train food, that it’s too rich for him, that he lived on stale and burnt bread, that he might have had materially enough food but not the right kinds. Thinking about how malnutrition is a spectrum, and food insecurity looks different in different households. That yes, he might not be one missed meal from starving to death, but that his teeth are probably weak. His mouth probably breaks out in ulcers when he eats fresh fruit. That he probably snuck down to the bakery when he was hungry and all there was were spoonfuls of sugar or jam. Maybe he had to take cake scraps to school for lunch, and how awful that would be, because it looks so luxurious but it’s not. How he probably loved when his dad bought one of Katniss’s squirrels because it was so fresh and alive, so unstale. Thinking a lot about food insecurity.
okay, just one more thought about the scene where gale is being treated by katniss's mother in catching fire. i promise.
as everyone, including katniss, is set on looking at gale, katniss notes that her wound (her cheek) is clearly not a priority (cf, 32). but, as usual, while everyone is looking elsewhere (at gale in this instance), peeta is looking at katniss. he gently places her into a chair and holds a cloth filled with fresh snow to her wound (cf, 33). cares for her. heals her wounds.
and i think that it works so well as a parallel to another time when gale is wounded and needs assistance: in tigris's basement. this time, there is no healer, so katniss stitches up gale's neck wound. gale's wound needs to be addressed, so she focuses on it at first. but once gale is attended to, the others quickly move onto other tasks and she shifts her attention to peeta and the wounds on his wrists from his handcuffs (mj, 274). while the others are attending to other tasks, she looks to peeta. cares for him. heals his wounds.
and i think that it is scenes like these ones that really foreshadow how everlark is post-war. two souls that have been hurt, discarded by the movements that used them for all they were. ignored by the rest of the country. but not ignored by each other. instead, they focus on the other, trying to help them heal. because while everyone else was focused on other things, katniss and peeta were always watching each other.
his first two oldest friends are roman and shiv and i cannot be convinced otherwise
Josh Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt Five Nights At Freddy’s (2023) dir. Emma Tammi
life is just about art of people holding each other actually. that’s it.
Erich Auerbach / Salman Toor / Brideshead Revisited / Ed Van Der Elsken / Malcolm T. Liepke / Keanu and River by Bruce Weber
Saw John Wick a couple of days ago and made this to process the ending :’)
brutus the buttress - shiv roy succession
born the cursed sex
