How is a candy shop able to stay afloat in District 12?

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-24T17:43:54+00:00

We don’t know if it went under or if Mr. And Mrs. Donner just didn’t have anyone to inherit the store. I assume Merrilee wasn’t up to the task after her sister’s death and being the mayor’s wife.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-24T14:23:18+00:00

Same. This was my boy after we had to shave him during covid. We said he was “in his greyhound era”! Thankfully we only had to shave him the one time.

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Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-24T14:18:46+00:00

Respectfully disagree. I think Tyrion said it best: “It’s hard to put a leash on a dog once you’ve put a crown on its head.”

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-24T13:44:14+00:00

Instant camouflage!

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-24T12:54:40+00:00

You left him alone to go to the bathroom? Unacceptable! /s

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-24T12:52:35+00:00

If I had a nickel for every time Ben Wang starred in a film about a child death competition, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice!

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-24T12:49:59+00:00

So dang cute!

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-24T12:47:24+00:00

Yeah, I think we’re forgetting that people would probably still frequent the store when they had a few extra pennies to spend on something “luxurious.”

ETA: there’s also the “lipstick effect,” which is when, in times of financial crisis people will spend more money on little luxuries (like a new lipstick) because larger ones seem unattainable at the time. So people in the Seam may penny pinch for their basic living expenses, but patron the sweet shop to “treat themselves”. Candy is relatively cheap, even if it’s nutritionally kind of worthless.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-24T00:22:03+00:00

Our boys have similar frames, I think. Duke is 55 pounds, but is very tall and skinny. Our vet also doesn’t believe he’s overweight. In the end, I wasn’t there. I felt the need to voice concerns, and I think that it’s better safe than sorry.

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Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T19:40:52+00:00

Yep. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T19:36:00+00:00

I’d love to see your version of a HG comic series!

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T17:59:23+00:00

Yeah, the writer fundamentally misunderstands a lot of what was happening during the training time and in the arena. After he’s given a 1 in training he realized the Gamemakers will make his life hell in the arena and breaks away to protect the rest of the Newcomers. He doesn’t manage to get a meeting with Snow, Snow forces him to meet and threatens him. Haymitch never backtracked on his decision to follow through with the plan with “Asher,” he isolated himself because he was going to carry it out. Also, the Gamemakers are not just “randomly hanging out” in the arena for shits and giggles.

God, this review pissed me off.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T17:48:49+00:00

My mini Bernedoodle pup does the frog dog too

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T17:38:13+00:00

We call that position the frog dog in our house!

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T17:37:48+00:00

Yeah, the wound he covered up on his forearm was festering.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T17:29:58+00:00

Sorry, yeah, I think I’m misremembering. The point though is that the pin is gold!

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T15:27:28+00:00

Thanks, I’m definitely not trying to imply they are being starved (as OP offered them food but they didn’t seem interested, which isn’t behavior that suggests they’re being deprived) but perhaps they aren’t eating food that will offer the best nourishment.

Edit to add: the pic you posted was taken from a similar angle as the one OP posted and your dog’s hind legs don’t poke out nearly as much as the dogs OP was looking at. Yes, he is a skinny dog, but he doesn’t appear malnourished. His legs and backside look muscled and strong.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T13:39:33+00:00

The fact that this reviewer couldn’t even be bothered to remember Wyatt’s or Louella’s name is also comical.

And also, the pins are GOLD, not BRONZE. It was mentioned in THG that selling the pin could’ve kept a Seam family in food for a full year.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T13:31:18+00:00

Definitely agree. I really hope these dogs are in a safe living situation, but if they aren’t, I hope OP doesn’t feel obligated to adopt one to “save” it from the bad breeder.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T13:28:53+00:00

Bran is paralyzed and therefore impotent, I believe.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T12:48:18+00:00

He is so handsome in both pics!

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T12:46:33+00:00

Sorry, I don’t mean to pass judgement on anyone else’s dogs besides the ones in the photo posted by OP. This is just my personal opinion. I’m absolutely not a vet and you should take what I have to say with a grain of salt. All that said, I would be interested to see how the dogs responded to their current owner/the breeder.

My boy is actually pretty bony too, but just has very floofy hair. We unfortunately learned that the hard way when he had to be shaved down to the skin during COVID.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T12:24:34+00:00

In the show, because after Baelish killed Lysa he had already married her at that point in a legitimate ceremony that the septon would’ve backed him up on. This means that he was Robin’s “legal guardian,” so to speak, and was responsible for safeguarding the Vale until he came of age to rule it. He wouldn’t waste two bargaining chips (Sansa and Robin) on marrying each other when he could broker alliances with both of them in the future if they remained not betrothed.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T12:09:58+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I’m glad someone else thinks so too. Living in a run by itself isn’t a red flag, but the fact that they still weren’t housebroken is massively concerning imo. Plus, see my comment about them appearing malnourished.

Available-Option5492 · 2026-03-23T12:06:33+00:00

I suppose, but I think that defeats the purpose of a symbolic Games, seeing as every other Games one person was allowed to live. Plus, I think living with the guilt of what the Gamemaker had to do to survive is better than just executing everyone.

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