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haymitch says himself katniss is like him, but luckier.

katniss realized the berries were nightlock before peeta ate them.

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in many ways, Prim is Katniss’s baby, and she raises her alone, forced, by her mother’s functional (even if temporary) abandonment, into single motherhood at age eleven, which is why it really gets me that when she has her babies after the war, she won’t be raising them alone: those children have a father who loves them like Burdock loved Katniss, a good man she can rely on, who, even when the flashbacks come, quite literally hangs on (just like she told him he could in the sewers), and stays with her, a man who is no doubt proud of her, and proud of his children

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Arrowhead - Sagittaria latifolia (Katniss)

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reverse gatekeeping. I am on my knees begging people to engage with the source material

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The reason why SOTR is going to be so heartbreaking is this:

In the original series, Katniss Everdeen has a hard life. There's a lot of angst and hard shit. But in the end, she still gets her happy ending.

In TBOSAS, Coriolanus Snow is an evil male manipulator but he is objectively the protagonist of that book. He succeeds in the end and reaches his goals.

Haymitch Abernathy does not get to win!! He never wins!! Ever!! Fuck.

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The fandom criminally neglects so many characters. And I am no better.

GENUINELY! SIDE CHARACTERS NEED MORE LOVE. Y'all, rb this with like your favorite like side character. Not side main, side character.

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imagine being haymitch though. imagine being in 13, forced sober for the first time in years, and suddenly, you’re getting your boy back. the one you were so sure snow had stolen from you, like he’d stolen everyone else you’d ever loved. but somehow, by some miracle, your kid is here and he’s breathing and in one piece. imagine how excited you’d be.

imagine how excited you’d be for your (little) girl, your sweetheart of new, who’s about to get her love back. who’s about to experience that same joy you felt for those five minutes you had lenore dove in your arms, before the gumdrops and the poison and everything else came crashing down. only katniss’ joy isn’t going to be for five minutes.

imagine watching as your golden boy runs towards your sweetheart and you’re watching as her arms are outstretched, reaching for him like it appears he’s reaching for her.

now imagine how it must have felt for haymitch to realize the boy’s hands are locking around your girl’s neck and he’s not peeta anymore and this hijacked boy, this lou lou peeta is now strangling katniss. and you’re frozen in place.

just like you were frozen in place decades ago, when the peacekeepers were manhandling lenore dove. you have no choice but to hesitate because you’ve hesitated all your life, and that’s what you do, and once again it almost cost you everything.

once again, hesitating almost cost you your entire family.

no wonder haymitch is so angry all the time.

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I was about to write: I love the fact that Katniss‘ first reaction to Haymitch‘s absolutely traumatising story is „You need some goose eggs. Goose eggs will help.“

And then I realised… She‘s mimicking Peeta. Peeta comes back to 12 and the first thing he does is plant primroses. And somehow… that helped her. So she‘s doing the same thing for Haymitch.

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“Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.”

How are we holding up? I’m still crying about Lenore Dove and the gumdrops

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love this trio <3

I just think these three are silly

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Omfg. Straddling both the Ever After High fandom and the Harry Potter fandom is actually going to kill me because this ONE SINGLE LINE made me start foaming at the mouth

Anyway um Dexter Charming and Harry Potter ily both

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to be loved is to be known except nobody knows me cause im fucking crazy

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The problem with the “Peeta doesn’t truly love Katniss the same way” opinion is that it basically says Peeta never heals from his biggest fear happening to him. What’s so wonderful about how Suzanne Collins wrote Katniss and Peeta is that their love for each other isn’t just based on devotion, it actually made sense that Peeta chose to love a protective, compassionate girl who broke the law for her family when you consider his background of being from an abusive family that made their youngest feel not needed. Peeta reflects Katniss’s worldview, but she also reflects his. Peeta is a person beyond Katniss, but a Peeta who has his core principles and actual memories of Katniss back, would absolutely be in love with her. Now of course he’s changed because everyone changed from the war. But to say he loves her less or not at all after she embodied the principles he always loved her for, you might as well say that Snow won and Peeta did lose himself forever.

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"I love you like all-fire" 🌄 Ko-Fi

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Just a reminder that we don’t know all the good things Katniss does/did for her community, because Katniss wouldn’t tell us unless it was relevant to what was going on.

In Catching fire, she doesn’t tell us that she’s being going around and bringing food to poor children in the seam until she needs to explain why she had a bag of food and why her mother wouldn’t find that odd.

In the first book, when she’s telling Peeta about the story of how she got Prims goat, she refuses to admit that this wasn’t a selfish move so she could get money out of that goat. (You could also argue that this is her refusing to be vulnerable in front of Peeta and all of Pamen though. I think it’s both, because she doesn’t even admit that she did this purely for her sister in her internal dialogue.)

And in Mockingjay, she never tells us that she’s the one that got Haymitch the goose eggs to help him heal after the games. All she says in the epilogue is that Haymitch raises geese when the liquor runs out. And we would never know otherwise if Haymitch didn’t mention that SHE was the one who got him the geese in sotr.

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me when my disabilities disable me: