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NOBODY TOUCH ME, I'M EMOTIONAL about how they're starting the series off with how much Ezra's presence still looms over the story, that not just Ahsoka and Sabine are missing him, not just Hera misses him, but even HALF A DECADE LATER, after the Empire has fallen and the New Republic has risen up, the people of Lothal STILL remember Ezra and honor him, massive crows STILL turn out because THEY HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN LOTHAL'S SON WHO FREED THEIR WORLD.
When fics have Erik call Peter by his birth name ‘Pietro’ to show how even after all this time, after decades apart and not knowing the other existed, they’ve managed to build this close father-son bond where they trust each other enough for Peter to even tell his father his real name 😭
I love the parallels between Sabezra and Dinbo which are both my favorite ships. Both ships have a beautiful foundation of trust and respect. To quote Hera...
"It was a simple story about a boy who was lost...
and a girl who was broken..."
Both men have been their rocks and have made Sabine and Bo more vulnerable then they ever have been. You don't need a relationship to heal. Bo and Sabine are very strong in their own right. Ezra and Din have opened their hearts to feelings that they never knew they were capable of. Din is a package deal with Grogu who has really cracked open Bo's heart to the point that she is a mother now.
Bo and Sabine have given Din and Ezra the family they have lost. To be fair, Din found this with Grogu. But with Bo, their family has naturally expanded.
In the photos below, I feel like this is when both ladies realized how they truly feel. Of course Ezra had to sacrifice himself and Din was captured after.
Both pairings are so close to each other that catching feelings would not be out of the realm of possibility. Also, I cannot imagine either pairing with anyone else. They just fit together so naturally. We need couples with a happy ending please. Both ladies need to bring their boys back home.
fucking forehead to forehead is so intimate like pls... be careful........ our souls are gonna get intertwined........
the night we met - lord huron
fucking. what?
I feel like this picture really gives it context
you know how it is with spaghetti
non human characters who are defined by how painfully human they are
I love the parallels between Sabezra and Dinbo which are both my favorite ships. Both ships have a beautiful foundation of trust and respect. To quote Hera...
"It was a simple story about a boy who was lost...
and a girl who was broken..."
Both men have been their rocks and have made Sabine and Bo more vulnerable then they ever have been. You don't need a relationship to heal. Bo and Sabine are very strong in their own right. Ezra and Din have opened their hearts to feelings that they never knew they were capable of. Din is a package deal with Grogu who has really cracked open Bo's heart to the point that she is a mother now.
Bo and Sabine have given Din and Ezra the family they have lost. To be fair, Din found this with Grogu. But with Bo, their family has naturally expanded.
In the photos below, I feel like this is when both ladies realized how they truly feel. Of course Ezra had to sacrifice himself and Din was captured after.
Both pairings are so close to each other that catching feelings would not be out of the realm of possibility. Also, I cannot imagine either pairing with anyone else. They just fit together so naturally. We need couples with a happy ending please. Both ladies need to bring their boys back home.
idk, i feel like it can’t be overstated that satine kryze /would/ be so proud of bo-katan especially right now. she’s unifying the people, she’s gaining respect and loyalty beyond that which lies with the darksaber, and she’s doing everything in her power to keep her people safe and well.
she even gave up and surrendered everything, taking huge risks to ensure the safety of her people, and while it backfired her intent was so good and pure. she’s come so incredibly far from when she was in death watch, she’s living with kindness instead of hate, and i think that’s everything satine would have wanted for her.
i see people say that satine would blame bo-katan for what became of mandalore but i couldn’t disagree more. satine knew how hard ruling mandalore was. she’d never hold it against bo now, especially with everything bo did to save it, and with everything she’s doing now to get it back.
satine would be so incredibly proud of her and i won’t hear any different.
I am so tired of people responding to “Satine would be proud posts” by saying that she wouldn’t because Bo caused her death.
a) Not true.
b) Satine knew Bo’s part in her deposition, and still immediately forgave her and welcomed her home. Because that’s who Satine Kryze was.
And Satine Kryze would be so proud of her sister.
And so proud of her sister’s new little Jedi-Mando son.
“Saying i love you every minute lessens the meaning” um to YOU….freak.
Sabine is going to be 34 when we see her again and I'm not ready for that
@ilovecatsandbaking I’m sorry how dare you say that to me-
so suzanne collins just dropped this absolute BOMB of a passage — and many more, might i add — and we let her get away with it???????????
i get why a lot of people don’t like reading mockingjay as much as the rest of the trilogy, but i think it’s actually so essential to understanding the central thesis of the entire hunger games series.
the whole point of the hunger games is this: all human life is valuable, and artificial divisions between people keep them weak. and the only way out is radical love.
and this is something that is literally echoed again and again in the books. take, for example, gale. why is gale such an interesting, complex, and yet reprehensible character? yes, it’s because at the end katniss cannot separate his bomb from prim’s death. but it’s deeper than that. why does gale build the bomb in the first place? it’s because gale doesn’t see every human life as valuable. gale is willing to kill people and to deny them their humanity simply because they are his “enemy.” so, there’s the obvious example of his willingness to blow up the nut with everyone inside and his disregard for the human casualty. and the people in the nut aren’t even from the captiol, he just wants to do it because the stereotype of that district is their allegiance to the capitol, and gale hates that.
but there’s another scene, also in mockingjay, that i think goes under-discussed which is his view of katniss’ prep team. when katniss finds her prep team literally imprisoned in 13, she’s horrified and upset by the conditions they are in. but gale isn’t. and he’s confused about why katniss would care for them! her response is to say that it’s because they cried when she went to the quarter quell. and gale is like, “sure, but they’re still from the captiol.” and this argument is so important. because katniss argues that the prep team deserves to be treated as human beings, and when he presses her on why, she basically says because they treated her as a human being. but gale can’t see that–all he can see is that they’re from the capitol, and he’s confused about why katniss should care.
and this is, so crucially, what katniss learns in the hunger games. she realizes that she doesn’t want to kill the other tributes just because they are from the other districts. she hates the fact that they have turned her against people who are, in their core, just like her. frightened children who have been manipulated to kill other children against their will, all selected based on their district, a social divide that has literally been invented and imposed on them.
and another just absolutely essential thing to understand here is that peeta knows this all along. we talk at length about how peeta’s defining trait is his kindness. but what’s so important about peeta’s kindness is how it transcends any boundaries of social class or social division.
when peeta gives katniss the bread, it’s important to note that just before he does that, we hear his mother talking about “seam brats pawing through her trash.” peeta’s mother buys into the social divides in district twelve–she views herself as better than someone from the seam simply because of her standing as a merchant, and reinforces these class divides by refusing to extend the simplest humanity to a child from the seam. she literally refuses to feed a starving child on the grounds of a social divide, within a world that already has divided them into districts. but peeta doesn’t see it like this. peeta refuses to deny katniss food just because she’s from the seam. peeta gives her kindness. peeta gives her humanity.
and he does the same thing in the games! his entire first interview, the dramatic king focuses, not on the games, but on his genuine love and adoration for another tribute. how radical! to refuse to subscribe to a system which asks him to hate her? to want to kill her? and to instead confess his love for her? sure, katniss ends up being the mockingjay. katniss might have held out the berries. but peeta in that moment is the one who sets the rebellion in motion. peeta is the one who refuses to engage in the senseless hatred of someone who “should” be his enemy. instead, he reaches out in love.
and it all culminates at the end of mockingjay, when katniss votes for the capitol hunger games to gain coin’s trust. and peeta is utterly horrified by this. because he can’t understand how she could have been through everything he has been through and not understand that continuing to senselessly kill human beings (children!!) for some kind of revenge just reinforces these binary modes of thinking. but the thing is–katniss DOES see that. and when coin proposes it, that’s when she knows she has to stop her. because coin, like gale, like peeta’s mother, and like so others many around her, is still buying into these divides. is still viewing the captiol as the enemy. is still viewing a human life as expendable.
and there’s a quote in mockingjay that i think lays this out pretty explicitly. katniss says, after she kills coin and is recovering, point blank: “they can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them.” she’s realized the crux of the entire hunger games–that manipulating us to hate and kill our fellow humans, that drawing up divisions between people because of where they live and what they produce, that believing that hating someone on the basis of any of these is justification for their death, is all a farce. it’s all a distraction. it’s all pretend. she says, in the same chapter: “no one benefits in a world where these things happen.” not the districts. not the capitol. not the victors. no one.
the entire arc of the hunger games is really just about katniss catching up to what peeta has known from the start. katniss overcoming all the manipulation from those around her, all the glitz and glamour, all the artificial social and class divides to see what peeta has seen clearly from the start: love.
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