And also for the people who say, “Katniss can’t have looked like she did! Her mother had blonde hair and blue eyes, and so did her sister.”

Well, here’s a photo with Q’orianka Kilcher and her full, biological brother, Xihuaru Kilcher:

Notice anything about it? What all ya’ll say now?

Looking smart and being smart are two different things.

Because in The Hunger Games, Black people were the backdrop. Not the main characters.

Because white authors have a fixation in writing futuristic totalitarian dystopian stories in which only white people exist and are being oppressed by other white people.

This person clearly did not actually read The Hunger Games. Katniss was mixed-race. She is clearly described as having olive skin. Gale was also mixed race as were most of the people in The Seam, who are clearly described several times as being the result of races mixes over hundreds of years (implied).

Rue of course was black, as were quite a few other characters.

Yep, the movies were whitewashed. Not the fucking books.

Read the books before you comment on them, mmmkay? It destroys your argument — even if the argument itself is sound — when you get basic facts completely and utterly wrong.

This is a pretty good representation of how Katniss looked as described in the novels:

Yeah, not fucking white.

I see people say things like, “I was still just a dumb kid at 25” and such.

Do people really believe that? Is that really true? I can’t imagine that. I’ve felt and acted like an adult since I was 10 or 11 years old.

I guess I was just forced into it by circumstances, and natural proclivities. I didn’t in a lot of ways have any other choice. I was precocious by nature. I had no interest in the childhood world my peers inhabited.

People do seem to mature at radically different rates – my mother was more childish than me for her entire life that I knew her – but it seems self-belittling to speak of one’s self in that way.

One of the main reasons I got into trouble with adults from about 10 years old onward is because I insisted on interacting with them at or above their level and they punished me severely for it.

I never stopped, though, and am very glad I did not.

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