learning to cheerfully dislike other people is I think a critical component of getting along with people who don’t like you. Like as soon as I got a solid grasp on the fact that there is a wide swath of humanity that gets on my nerves and that it’s my problem, not theirs, it got easier to be around people I find annoying. Once that’s settled, it’s easy to flip the reasoning around and conclude that if someone doesn’t like me, that’s a quirk of their own strange and arbitrary tastes, not a judgment upon either of us as a person. You can’t like everyone. Not everyone will like you. It’s fine. It’s not a personal attack in either direction. We can exchange cordial nods across the room and then go on with our lives
you know what there were a lot of jokes in this movie that went over my head as a kid
that’s because this movie was filmed as an R-rated (18+) parody, but at the last moment before release, warner bros decided it would loose them too many fans of the cartoon for children and sully the good name of Scooby Doo and had the film re-edited down to PG. why do you think so much smoke was coming out of the mystery machine? why shaggy’s girlfriend is called mary jane? daphne and velma were lesbians and one of the first instances of cgi costumes on human actors was used to raise the neckline on their blouses. Freddy was played as gay with only the scene where they admit it deleted.
if you don’t know about this, seriously look it up. here’s a very toned-down wiki article but there’s much more out there. this film sounds like it was written for tumblr ten years early
the gale/prim stunt was so cheap too bc narratively killing prim didn’t do ANYTHING and it was only written so suzanne collins could easily solve the dumbass love triangle She CREATED. so katniss loses her sister, her mom leaves, And her best friend from childhood leaves. and what she has at the end is fucking uhhhh Peeta Parker and some kids she never even wanted ???? like ?? gale was a whole antifa legend for 2.9 books and she ruined All that at the VERY end for some romance?! completely glossing over the fact that katniss did not romantically want to be with either of them!!!!
the whole reason prim died is because it IS senseless. like that is literally the point.
suzanne collins and ka applegate are cut from a similar cloth and that cloth is refusing to shy away from depicting how brutal, how senseless, how cruel war is. prim died for no reason and that is the point. it had absolutely nothing to do with resolving a love triangle.
also Y’ALL COME ON the presence of romance in a book does not make the book A Romance; the ‘love triangle’ was literally never ever the point - which is why it’s what the capitol focuses on.
also katniss’s happy ever after: she fuckin grew up, y’all, come on. listen, I get the knee jerk hate for a baby boomer-style happily ever afters (I will sue jk rowling in court for the epilogue) but the fact that katniss, after everything she went through, felt comfortable enough to settle down with peeta and actually have kids - kids she knew were not going to be thrown into a gladiatorial arena for the entertainment of the super wealthy - is proof that what she did mattered. it cost katniss goddamn near everything she had - her family, her friends, her hearing, her home - but it was still the right thing to do.
the hunger games is about the cost of revolution: it’s so, so high, but in the end, it’s necessary.
Furthering this, Katniss said she didn’t want kids because she didn’t want to bring them into the world she grew up in. The fact that Katniss grows up to have kids is supposed to show the reader that the world has indeed changed for the better. Not wanting kids was conditional, and the conditions changed.
Also, just– that’s the point, that gale does it. That’s the other point Suzanne Collins likes to make, and if you look at her earlier Gregor the Overlander she makes it even more brutally clear. war lets people do terrible things. war encourages people to do terrible things. some people stop. some people don’t, because they don’t know how, or because they can’t until the war is over, or because they’re just that good at it.
Collins said in an interview that Gale and Peeta were “less as two points in a love triangle, more as two perspectives in the just-war debate” (as in, whether a war is justified) “Katniss isn’t just deciding on a partner; she’s figuring out her own worldview.” And in Katniss’s case, she lost everything to war. She chose to be done with it.
In the bathroom and cascada every time we touch just came on and the girl in the stall next to me was like oh my god this is my song and started peeing harder
