I’m Just Trying To Keep What Sanity Is Left

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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Can we just stop and talk about this for a minute?

Thresh doesn’t make an alliance. Thresh doesn’t waste time liking her. Thresh knows that either he must kill her or she must kill him for one of them to win.

But this is the only way he can repay her for protecting Rue when he couldn’t. It’s the only way he can repay her for honoring Rue when he couldn’t. He honors her by sparing her friend, the girl who would have died for her.

The revolution really doesn’t start with Katniss.

It starts with Rue.

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SOMEBODY FINALLY SAID IT

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This is exactly the point I’ve been trying to make for years. Okay, so the revolution gets it’s kindling with Katniss. She volunteers, well that’s new, she rebels in the display of talents by shooting the apple. This triggers her perfect score, okay. These aren’t really “Revolutionary” though. 

It’s not even revolutionary when Peeta professes his love, because, let’s face it, the rules of the game haven’t changed. They’re still just two kids who would have to KILL each other to win. Without a doubt, it would bring some interest to the games, so the Capitol makes propaganda about it. The “Star Crossed Lovers” in a game of life and death.

But what changes the game is Rue. Right away from her introduction in the books we know Rue is going to be somewhat of a big deal. She was compared to the most important character to Katniss, Prim, so that’s a huge indicator. She’s small, young, she’s what Prim would have been.

So Katniss instantly feels a subconscious pull toward her. 

When they meet in the trees, Katniss could have killed Rue easily, and Rue probably could have pulled a sneak attack or alerted the Careers of Katniss’s presence. Instead, Rue points out the Tracker Jacker nest.

Then it escalates, Rue and Katniss become an odd team, they’re an alliance, which is never new in the Hunger Games, as forming teams and then betraying them at the end seems to be a common, but there’s is different. It’s close, it’s sisterly, protective.

And then Rue get’s impaled. Katniss kills her first tribute with ease after that. Comparing it to hunting game. Katniss holds Rue, she cries, and then she sings. She sings for Rue a song of promised safety and warmth, something completely absent in the arena. 

And this is where the metaphorical canon fires. Katniss could have left Rue, the hovercraft would have been along to pick her up, but she can’t. She’s morally obligated to love this girl as much as possible. And this is where the revolution starts. 

She honors the dead. She honors a dead tribute from a district she’d never seen, a person she’d known for only a short period of time. But she throws away Hunger Games norms. She rejects them completely.

In the Hunger Games you’re supposed to kill mercilessly and leave the victims for the plain box they’re shipped home in. 

Katniss gives Rue a funeral in the Games, she decorates the body, she makes it look like Rue is sleeping. Like no harm had come. Katniss just ignited the coals that Rue had placed.

Rue’s District sends a parachute. Homemade bread. 

Then Thresh kills Clove and distracts Cato by taking his bag. 

The fire is going now, and the actions in Catching Fire are even more obvious.

The Speech for Rue. Peeta’s painting. Everything eludes back to this one little girl who became Katniss’s family.

So the revolution never started with Katniss, she was just the tinder for Rue’s ignition. 

Rue was the real Mockingjay.

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Also, who’s four note whistle is constantly attached to the trailers?

Rue’s whistle.

Rue is omnipresent in the books and movies, and I absolutely love it.

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The rebellion was started because the innocence of a black girl was defiled.

That is a powerful statement that a lot of people gloss over for this book

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Why don’t jedis turn off their opponents lightsabers by force pressing the button?

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I’m laughing so hard because instead of the epic lightsaber fight they’d just be aggressively switching them on and off could you imagine

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traditionally a lightsaber should be unique to its owner - hand built by the jedi and in the process imbued with their own personal connection to the force. therefore in theory it should be just as difficult for an opponent to use the force against your personal lightsaber as it is for someone to open your iphone without your fingerprint.

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The amazing lioness who has grown a mane proves animals can be gender fluid too

This amazing picture shows a lioness who has grown a mane and roars like a male lion. She shows having physical characteristics of both genders is very much a natural phenomenon. Now this lioness with her incredible adaptation has been filmed for the first time by the BBC.
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Scientist discovered the lioness/lion, called Mmamoriri, on the plains of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, southern Africa. They believe evolution is helping the lionesses there grow manes so they fool invading prides into thinking they are males – helping their survival. Mmamoriri in particular not only has a mane but also a deeper and more masculine roar. If that’s enough to scare off other prides trying to invade her family’s territory, it will be a big genetic advantage – helping her pride’s cubs survive.

The scientists believe there are five other lions in the area with the same evolutionary adaptation, meaning they have higher male hormone levels.

While children are taught to believe all animals are either male or female and all are straight, the natural characteristics shared by LGBTIs in the human world are widespread beyond our species. Other examples include male deer which don’t grow antlers and are therefore able to ‘sneakily’ breed with females while the other males are fighting for access to the does.

Mmamoriri is one of the stars of the new documentary, The World’s Sneakiest Animals, which will be shown in Britain on BBC2 at 6.30pm on Christmas Day. The show, presented by Chris Packham, also shows cuttlefish that can change their color and skin texture to disguise themselves and the Californian Ground Squirrel, that rubs itself with the skin of rattlesnakes, its main predators, so they can’t sniff it out.

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“For Mmamoriri, her condition is a double-edged sword. Her appearance as a male gives her the intimidating edge in conflicts, against other lionesses and hyena, for example, but, however, when another male appears, she is targeted as a competitor.”

just like humans.

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@the-introverted-unicorn YYYYOOOOOO

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Okay so this is so freaking adorable… BUT LOOK AT EDWARD’S FACE IN THE BACKGROUND! HE ISN’T EVEN SAD THAT HE ISN’T GISELLE’S TRUE LOVE. HE’S JUST HAPPY SHE ISN’T DEAD AND THAT SHE FOUND HER REAL TRUE LOVE.

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And this is why I love Edward so much. To him True Love is like a religion. The whole world revolves around it. He’ll find his, she’s out there. HE JUST WANTS EVERYONE TO LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

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Why can’t all people who are “friend zoned” be happy for that person like he is?

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Cause the people who believe they are “friend zoned” are assholes not princes. 

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I was  cleaning up files and found this super old comic I made as a joke between myself and a few friends, we were all sick and tired of the pointless Lars hate and drawing dumb little doodles about it.

There was meant to be more of this, but it was so silly and not so important that I just kinda forgot about it after we had our initial laughs!

Please don’t take this so seriously that you get mad, I’m just a silly like the rest of ya

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