Summary:

Emma: "Go hang a salami" backwards is "I'm a lasagna hog".

Regina: How did either of those sentences occur naturally for you to discover this?

I think in theory Effie deserves better but my personal head canon is that Haymitch and Effie kind of gravitate around and towards each other over the 25 years. Sexually, romantically, emotionally.

Some years she’s in a relationship (my Effie is bi) and other years something reminds him too much of Lenore and he’s too guilty to go to her, but when he’s just the right level of drunk and she’s unattached and they both experience the horrors they find comfort in each other.

They know each other intimately and deeply and horrifically but if it was ever real outside of the apartments of the Capital it would be something that could be lost so they don’t acknowledge it in the cold light of day.

They love each other and in fact at different times they are in love with the other (depressingly it doesn’t overlap) but it’s just something that they never can pursue in reality. He thinks he’s betraying Lenore Dove by loving anyone else and not stoping the reaping.

But after the epilogue, after he fulfilled his promise to Lenore Dove, I like to imagine that Effie comes to 12 to meet the first toast baby and there in the warm summer sun, when Haymitch thinks his time is coming near, it’s actually his final rebirth.

He and Effie finally allow themselves to be together at like age 60 and spend their twilight years essentially in quiet comfort together.

A very real not at all made up deleted scene

Remember when we ate glass? That day we were so invincible it seemed the only thing to do. Funny such a thought can be shattered at the same moment our throats were. You were screaming, clawing at your flesh and gagging, eyes bulging and wet zigzags down cheeks. But I just swallowed, felt the clink in my stomach. Sucked the edges into my edges and used them to sharpen my tongue, sharpen my mind and sharpen my heart.

It hurt me too, you know. It hurt me too.

Just found out my dad has a crush on this man he works with. I'm fucking screaming. There are no straights left in this household except my perv dog.

TWW Summarised:

Biden and Trump are so Giles and Milton coded, one is straight up speaking gibberish and the other one won’t stop lying, giggled when thought this.

the sader + dovey + lesso (+ callis, before she leaves; + the shadow of evelyn sader) dynamic is one of my favourites ever. sader & dovey are good friends, enough that sader literally made her who she is (the crystal ball, the fairy godmother); dovey doubts sader and sader doubts himself in turn. dovey & lesso are. yeah. all that. lesso -> sader is disdain; is distrust; is thinking he's delusional but having to know by the end that he isn't. sader -> lesso is the knowledge that by bringing his sister back, he's going to ruin her life (and others' in the long run, but for now, hers); is guilt; is duty. out of all the teachers in the School they understand best what they're fighting for. they are the foundation, they are its heart.

and callis & lesso are friends, and find themselves in similar positions, only one has the chance to raise their child and one doesn't. the sins of the parent are the sins of the child, or are they? and callis & sader are. well. canonically they never interact. callis is the most important story sader will ever tell. they're coparenting. they both died for agatha.

and the sader siblings are worlds apart. and evelyn -> lesso is ruining her life just because she can; lesso -> evelyn is powerlessness, is futility. and callis & evelyn are two sides of the same coin, one who wanted love too little, one who wanted it too much.

That moment when you finally understand what it means for someone to be so pretty it hurts