It's An Open Notes Test And Some Dense Motherfuckers Still Can't Figure Out The Answers.

why do young people live in a constant state of yearning for the present? why do we sing of staying forever young before being able to experience adulthood? what brought us here? what made us fear growing up so much?

SGE (first three books) SPOILERS!

Okay so, I know that the film came out a couple of year ago and that the fandom is practically dead but. One thing that I still haven’t forgiven the film for is its treatment of Lady Lesso. I mean 1) the film had her act like a discount Evelyn Tristus, with her being so in love and obsessed with Rafael and all 2) the way she treats Sophie, I mean Lady Lesso sees Sophie like her child practically, she even tells her in TLEA that she saw her as much as her child as she did her own son!!! but in the movies it’s like, none of that is there, like Sophie is just another student that just happens to be a little bit better and 3) HER NAMEEEE! I mean, one of the things I loved the most about Lady Lesso is how we can see that she does’t trust people easily, especially with her name, and the scene where she’s on the verge of death and she tells Dovey and Sophie her name is one of the best of the whole series in my opinion and it just cancels it by having Rafael tell Sophie as it’s nothing important!

Oh boy oh boy its the discjude official COVEN bingo card!!! not many are about the coven themselves because i uh uh don't know too much about them but yeah. I've put a brief explanation of each of these under the cut (because a few are vague) (WARNING its a lot):

Lady Lesso mentioned: this one sort of coincides with "hester true evil speech". I reckon she's important enough to the witches to warrant a mention. Also. I think all of the Lessos might be relevant but I talk about that in my predictions

Obligatory Sophie cameo: she's Soman's favourite. She's showing up

Political commentary: based off of his substack, I don't think Soman will go too overt with it, but I think there'll be a more roundabout one. I'd love to see him address the fact that he wrote in that homophobia is a thing in SGE. Soman if you can hear me

Drag race reference: He's done this a lot before, in QFG mostly, and I think he'll do it again

TCY acknowledged: this could be like a "haha yeah you remember how the storian almost got destroyed? that was kinda crazy aha". I have a horrible feeling that he's going to completely skip over that part of canon

Hester gives a speech about "true evil": i mean come ooonnnnnnn. I also think this'll include something about evil love that contradicts the canon about it

No blatant fatphobia regarding dot: Soman phased this out in TCY I think he'll have stuck with it

Rats are, somehow, back. Not explained: Japeth killed at least one of those things and I genuinely think Soman will have forgotten it

Events of R+F acknowledged: ties into my predictions a bit, but I reckon the setup regarding neverland and the other stuff in Fall might come up

I'm right about my predictions: I think the entire thing looks very aquatic themed, and there's a lot regarding evil water stuff, so a) the mermaids are relevant b) the saders are (still) relevant c) the lessos are relevant. that's the big three in my opinion. I can't wait to be horrifically wrong

Storian still at fault: i mean. name one book where it isn't. and you cant say OTK that doesnt COUNT

Symbolic ending of the series thing: I want the storian dead. thats what this one means

Obligatory tagatha: come onnnnnnnnn

There is at least one twink: yeah. not much to say here

Vaguely pub-style setting: this one also includes "why is everything british" because i said so

None Japeth: Japeth is mentioned by name exactly no times. I'd love to have faith but I really don't

Tennis reference: I fucking CAUGHT Botic being a tennis player's surname in the prequels. he's GOING to try it again

Colour/lighting symbolism: have a draft rn about colour symbolism in SGE and I think Soman might lean into it

At least one snake: please i want to feel something

hestadil real: come ON he's doing this every tiktok post about coven has had the hestadil tag he's doing this

Aric is referenced: goes with my predictions and lady lesso being mentioned. I hate to say it I think he's far more likely to be referenced than Japeth

Big unanswered question gets answered: the BIG!! one is the Aric Dad Reveal. I want to know for parallel reasons and I think it could happen. maybe

no wait! We'll use the power of friendship: speaks for itself. something like this happens

major character death: goodbye dot. im being fr I think she's dying in coven

Thank you dearly to @liketwoswansinbalance for some of these entries I really struggled to think of some. Also no I'm not convinced of my predictions. But it'd be nice. right

"childlike sense of wonder" this and that. Personally, I'm cultivating my elderly sense of wonder. Hence my excitement over a perfectly ordinary bird in my backyard or an above-average-sized vegetable.

Happy Valentine's Day guys, here are some drawings that you can dedicate to your loved one, your friend or to yourselves!! You deserve it!! 💞💞💞💞💞💞💖💕💖✨️

I literally saw a video about this book 5 mins ago. Does anyone know if it's worth it?

Okay but it’s fucking brilliant that one of the themes of the book was about the distortion of history.

Usually prequels are a dangerous thing to write because unless they’re planned out well in advance, they risk contradicting lore in the main series. Even still, we knew barely anything about Haymitch’s games. They were the perfect stomping ground for new information, with a rough series of events but without a close temporal connection to the main books.

But though she had this freedom and safety net, while she could have just written a story that aligned with what we knew, Collins leaned into the idea of contradicting past lore head on and made it the damn thesis of the book; that yeah, actually, it did play out entirely differently from how the characters saw it, and yes that contradicts what you were told, that’s the point.

We didn’t really know what happened in the 50th games until we read it from Haymitch’s perspective, because what little information we did have was spliced up and edited. The video evidence was processed through the Capital, and twisted to serve their purposes.

Tackling that idea of history being written by those in power with a notoriously inconsistent medium? Goddamn, writer that you are, Suzanne Collins.

Anadil shoul’ve been albino and there’s no changing my mind

DISCLAIMER: I actually really liked the actress they chose to play Anadil in the movie these are just my feelings and don’t reflect on my opinion of the actress.

that being said let me set the scene: little twelve year old me has just been given by my sister a book that she didn’t like a lot (sge) (she has bad taste but that can’t be helped) and I read Anadil being described as albino. Now, at that time, I still hadn’t open access to the internet, and absolutely to no social media, so I had no way of knowing what an albino person was or looked like, but the word makes me curious so I go to my dad and ask him what it means and he explains. I just wonder how many young girls and boys have found out about albino people that way (I’m deliberately ignoring that soman made her being albino what made her “ugly” (when she turned “pretty” at the end of the first book her hair turns brown, and her eyes green)). I also wonder how many young girls are albino and could’ve seen such character and felt represented.

before you write: THINK!

is it Tender?

is it Homoerotic?

is it Implicitly homosexual?

is it Noticeably repressed?

is it Kind of gay?