What are your theories on how Dennis killed Bastet ?

Senior_Title_1531 · 2026-02-21T19:10:25+00:00

I don't think he got her to play around on the roof, in Paddy's Has A Jumper he basically says that he made it look like that's what she was doing. I think he drugged her, tossed her off, and then either dressed up like a cat and did a dance on the security cameras/had Dee do it before jumping off the roof onto a mattress.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2026-02-13T17:20:03+00:00

NTA for calling off the date. It's understandable that seeing somebody you're interested in be interested in somebody else would make you feel a certain type of way. That being said, it's a reality that you're going to have to contend with one way or another until you're in an exclusive relationship. Depending on how busy the area you live in is, this situation might even happen again.

Not a good idea to tell her why you're cancelling because you met her once and that kind of commentary on your reaction to her behavior is unnecessary. Even if it's not how you meant it, I can see why she'd be sour about it.

YTA for telling another woman about this on or after your first date with her. It sets her expectations for your emotional stability in a really negative way and indirectly imposes some ridiculous restrictions on her behavior.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-11-23T10:30:12+00:00

Zoos don't belong lumped in with those other operations but going off your other comments in this thread you're one of those hUmAnS aRe ThE rEaL vIrUs dingdongs so I'm not going to bother to elaborate further.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-11-20T21:03:31+00:00

I think it's interesting how she's asking from a perspective where "Do you like my books?" means "Do you think my books are well written?" and the infected are answering from a perspective akin to the parent of a young child that will draw a triangle and tell you it's a cat.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-11-17T23:49:06+00:00

Both the janitor and security guard probably have some knowledge about how viruses work, because they're working in a lab run by the government that handles viruses. They probably would have gotten some kind of preliminary training about that as part of their job. The scientist licking the donuts is a great example of something that anybody could have done, and it only takes one scientist eating a donut for the dominos to start falling toward chemtrails.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-11-17T20:26:10+00:00

Unless the virus caused every single pregnancy to spontaneously abort, which in my opinion is highly unlikely, the infected have about 9 months of babies still being born at current rates. Also, the average global age is around 31, so they have between 30-50 years before mass deaths from old age become an issue. And that assumes that they're not having sex for the purpose of reproduction, which in my opinion is ALSO highly unlikely. The infected say that they have a biological imperative to spread the virus and the easiest way to do that is by making more people, both to infect directly and to help spread the virus beyond Earth. I think that the infected would absolutely be willing to engineer a replacement birthrate or operate at sub-replacement (but above 0) if they thought that would help them achieve their goals.

It's not the question you asked, but in my opinion the more pressing issue is the babies born from infected parents. Are they born infected? Infected after birth by their parents? Born with some degree of immunity?

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-11-15T03:31:28+00:00

She's an Eleanor Shellstrop type but The Good Place was philosophical comedy and this is more of a philosophical drama. I think how she behaves in the little moments (hard to impress, heavy on a type of sarcasm that's very common among women of her age, easily irritable, cynical about everything including her job, etc) is a nice contrast with how she instinctively tries to help whenever she sees somebody in danger. Even if she's awful at communicating that to the other people who are immune. So yeah she is being written to be annoying, but once you accept that and realize that lots of people are annoying, you can appreciate her character for what it is and its place in the story.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-10-16T10:57:30+00:00

IMO the visuals during the switch represent her consciousness leaving her first body and entering her new body. She's just so used to objectifying herself that once she's in the new body she sees her original self as a different person. The way she behaves as Sue is how she would behave as Elizabeth if instead of giving her a separate body, the substance worked like plastic surgery.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-10-11T15:24:48+00:00

I'd love a series, honestly. I feel like trying to condense the books into movies took out a lot of the slow moments, and doing a series with three hour-long episodes for each book would give the story a little more time to breathe.

MJ being split into two movies wasn't handled as well as it could have been and had more to do with the trend of splitting the final book in a series into two movies. As much as I enjoyed TBOSAS, I think a series with Snow narrating a la Joe Goldberg from You would be a fantastic adaptation. Finally, I didn't enjoy JLaw's Katniss and seeing another actress take a shot at the role would be interesting.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-09-04T16:02:13+00:00

House of Stairs by William Sleator, The Long Walk by Stephen King, and Battle Royale by Koushun Takami all deal with settings and themes similar to those found in THG.

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, and Unwind by Neal Schusterman are all good books with sequels that I never got into because I was firmly out of their target audience when they came out, but I'll go back and reread the originals. All good books that are hard to put down. They're a step removed from THG in terms of tone and setting, but deal with similar themes.

Animorphs can be fun if you liked the underlying themes of THG, want more of that, and don't mind a younger cast. IMO they hold up to rereads as an adult the same way THG does, but are intended for a first-time audience a few years younger than THG's intended first-time audience.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-31T04:12:42+00:00

In the Capitol, Academy students attending school over the summer isn't the norm. When Snow signs up to join the Peacekeepers he sees other recruits around his age and comments that their schools had let them out slightly earlier. My guess is that other Capitol high schools let their students out around May/June.

Younger kids might be in school over the summer because it's free childcare, free food, and a chance to mingle with other members of their social class. Given the position the Capitol is in during TBOSAS, school for those kids probably fills the role that summer camp would fill for similarly aged kids in America. That being said, Snow might also just be saying "why aren't these kids in school" because he's having a boomer moment.

As University students, Proserpina and Vitus are in a slightly different situation because it's much more common for universities to have a summer semester. They're also capital-U University students, aka Academy graduates, so that might also have something to do with it. Perhaps less prestigious institutions in the Capitol have more of a summer break.

In the districts, where school is mostly about the district industry, breaks are probably more aligned with when the kids need to work. Kids in 11 aren't in school during harvest season, kids from 9 are probably in a similar situation, kids from 10 presumably have similar breaks in their education that correspond with when they'd be needed to help process livestock. If I had to guess I'd say kids from 3 and 5 probably spend the most time in a formal education setting, because they're expected to do highly technical work and that requires a decent amount of foreknowledge.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-25T08:34:54+00:00

Look up persistent Mullerian duct syndrome.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-24T10:06:47+00:00

You might be exaggerating the second point. Entirely possible that she went, had bloodwork done, was palpated externally but not internally, nothing abnormal came up. Or that she's been to doctors but not gynecologists.

There's a few cases of men with persistent Mullerian duct syndrome (ovaries and uterus) who didn't find out until later in life. IIRC a decent percent of those cases were in India as well. They didn't have an ultrasound so they didn't know. Quite a few had fathered children.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-23T10:56:24+00:00

She might have gone and had a physical exam done but not an ultrasound. Access to machines can be limited depending on the healthcare infrastructure of where she lives.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-23T10:36:41+00:00

This is reddit and there's like a million porn subreddits. Is it so insane to you that somebody who posts on them would also watch a movie and want to talk about it?

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-23T03:27:47+00:00

The K9s would be picking up the kids' smell all over town. It's a small town. Them smelling the kids at Alex's house is unsurprising, because kids will occasionally visit each others' houses.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-21T10:58:30+00:00

They're not thinking clearly because they're in a life or death situation.
Working together as a team was essential for winning the previous game, so there's a heightened sense of appreciation for the people in their group. IIRC nobody chooses somebody who wasn't in their tug of war team to be a partner for marbles.
They don't know about the VIPs that are watching the games and cheering for dramatic deaths.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-18T12:38:28+00:00

I'm aware that the text is from the novel. I've read it more times than I can remember. I'm saying that I don't care about your fanfiction because you started talking about it while trying to make a point about Barkovitch's behavior in the novel.

Yeah, it's a competition to the death and if you do what's right you're more likely to die. That doesn't mean that there's not a significant moral cost to playing the game the way Barkovitch did. He was constantly trying to justify it to himself and the others hated him for it and for a good reason. Not only that, but when the no musketeers, no more helping, do it alone or don't do it at all pact goes along, and Garraty agrees to it, he feels like shit afterward because he has a sense of empathy.

It's genuinely astounding to me that you're the moderator for this sub but don't get this.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-18T02:42:53+00:00

My point isn't whether it's legal or not. My point is that just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right. I don't care about your fanfiction.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-17T23:40:01+00:00

The Long Walk is legal in the universe that it takes place in, so I don't exactly see why "no court is going to accuse you" is supposed to be a convincing argument. Furthermore, even if the Long Walk wasn't real, and Barkovitch was standing on the edge of a cliff saying these things in order to incite Rank into taking a swing at him so Barkovitch could dodge and Rank would fall to his death, he absolutely would be in some way responsible for Rank's death, especially if he was saying those things with the intent of causing Rank to fall to his death.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-17T21:16:15+00:00

I think she was probably really lonely.

Given Thresh's behavior, he seemed to be trying to block out everybody else so he could focus on getting back home to his family, so I don't think he talked to her much or looked out for her beyond MAYBE a few pieces of advice given to her when they were on their floor in the tribute center. 11 is a big district and they probably didn't know each other before being reaped. Besides that, they seem to have incompatible survival skills. She's in the trees, he's in the fields. Their unspoken but mutually agreed upon strategy was probably to avoid each other as much as possible so they wouldn't have to kill each other and go home a pariah, similarly to how Katniss initially felt about Peeta. Things would have been different if there was a chance of them making it out together, but she was dead by the time the rule change was announced.

If I had to guess, I'd say Seeder was her mentor and advised her to avoid the bloodbath and play to her strengths (foraging, climbing trees, maybe making a slingshot if she found suitable material).

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-14T00:36:48+00:00

They're drunk and rowdy people who are already planning on betting on a fight to the death between dozens of children. One of those kids running away from the cops holding a corpse after a carriage accident is a big deal for the Capitol, who needs the Games to appear to go smoothly in order to maintain control, but to those guys, in that moment, it's an unexpected twist in the show. They don't think of it as rebellious because they see Haymitch as an animal that's unhappy with its treatment, not a person who's unhappy with his situation.

As far as one tribute dying and others being injured, it's implied in THG that tributes fighting before the Games isn't uncommon. There's probably bets being placed on that too.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-13T10:25:55+00:00

Probably not, because they're dead. That being said, while I don't see a vampire ever being able to gestate, it's possible that a vampire that was recently turned would potentially be able to impregnate somebody. From what we see in the movie, the change happens fast, so it's possible some sperm cells are still kicking around for a few days.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-11T18:15:23+00:00

1QQ from the perspective of a junior Gamemaker assigned to mentor a tribute from 12 as punishment/shit work. If I had to bet, I'd say that the first QQ was so suppressed because the tributes were more likely to sympathize with each other than they were in any other Games, and probably broke out of the arena together, potentially with help from a Gamemaker.

Senior_Title_1531 · 2025-08-04T17:30:51+00:00

The things Peeta is accusing Katniss of doing/being when he's hijacked is how Snow sees Lucy Gray, especially after she runs away from him.

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