Month: July 2020

Taylor Swift dropped her surpised 8th album “folklore” yesterday. So, this list will be peppered with my initial favorites:

1. eight – IU feat. Suga
2. Psycho – Red Velvet
3. Greedy – Ariana Grande
4. Lookbook – BoA
5. O2 – Suho
6. I Don’t Care – 2NE1
7. Body Talk – Red Velvet
8. Jelly – Red Velvet Irene & Seulgi
9. Naughty – Red Velvet Irene & Seulgi
10. Superhuman – NCT 127
11. Hair In The Air – RV Yeri x NCT
12. Goblin – Sulli
13. Dorothy – Sulli
14. betty – Taylor Swift
15. the last great american dynasty – Taylor Swift
16. mirrorball – Taylor Swift

I don’t have a lot of content energy for this week, so please enjoy these photos of the plants I began to raise in quarantine.

This week has been exhausting and I have used up all my writing juice, so I will be painting tonight instead.

Hoping everyone is safe and kinder this week – to themselves and to each other.

I’ve got heaps of unfinished work tasks this week, so I’m afraid this blog post will be short.

Mockingay was depressing-er the seventh or eight time around. I’m sorry it had to be this way.

This time around I noticed that in the scene after they discover Peeta was hijacked, Prim reassures Katniss and encourages her to have faith that Peeta will return to her. Not two pages later, we see Gale beginning to plan the bomb that will eventually destory Prim.

I think that’s a very interesting sequence of events.

I never realized until this reread how little we see Prim and Gale actually interact. Like, I can only remember a few instances – Gale carrying Prim after Katniss volunteers or the two of them making their way down to the District 13 bunkers. Even the story of Gale helping Katniss bring Lady the goat home to Prim. Mostly, we see Gale and Prim interact because Gale is lending Katniss a hand.

In contrast to this, we see Prim and Peeta (and Haymitch) make fun of Katniss when they’re tossing around a bag of peppermints in Catching Fire. It was more domestic and Katniss-neutral. Lots of things also link Peeta and Primrose – their physical looks and demeanor, Prim pulling Katniss to look at the cake display of the bakery (which Peeta frosted), and Peeta planting the primrose flowers to honor Prim.

The fact that Prim was the one who thought of a way to reverse-hijack Peeta makes me think that Prim would have chosen Peeta for Katniss too. And that in some way, Peeta replaced Prim as Katniss’ center of goodness.

So yeah, those are my thoughts to think about. I got older and I never forgot the story they told in Mockingjay, but somehow it makes me sadder now that I’m wiser, I guess.

Those are the only thinky-thoughts I have time and space to ruminate on this week. See you all next week back here at our regular “patapon” writing channel.