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some everlark + haymitch + buttercup silliness i drew for a friend's bday!

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of course the first time in weeks i wear this ballad of songbirds and snakes cardigan it starts snowing outside. coriolanus snow, you are too powerful :(

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Engagement photo of the Capitol’s “It” couple, songbird victor Lucy Gray Baird and newly appointed gamemaker Coriolanus Snow.

By @charlunday ofc and commissioned with @littlebaird

Peep the eye bags and the initial necklace and rose engagement ring hooray for the details thank charlunday, we thought of none of it.

Also Coryo has the lipstick mark because he is a slut™️ for his soon to be wife. Fuck Coriolanus Snow (not affectionately)

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I feel like a lot of fans don't like Sejanus because of the capitalist propaganda that's all around us. Now hear me out! Sejanus's family has money, a lot of it. So much that they were able to buy their way into the Capitol even though they were from the Districts. There is no denying that Sejanus grew up privileged and comfortable- and yet he STILL sees the cracks and injustice in the system that he lives under. He is a class traitor in the best way possible. Many people, including some fans of the Hunger Games, hold onto the belief that if you are wealthy and you fight for injustice, you're a hypocrite. "You're rich and can do whatever you want, you don't understand anything about the struggle." And while that can be a valid thing to express, it is also a reactionary tactic used to divide the people. Being a communist doesn't mean you don't have or use nice things, it means you don't want those nice things only being available to the top 1%. But back to Sejanus. I've seen some fans express that he could have used his wealth to reform the system from the inside, and while I can understand the sentiment, in a fascist government like Panem, reforming it is downright impossible. Fascism is not a system you can reform, it is something that needs to be rooted up and destroyed.

Snow, the boy who grew up during the rebellion poor and hungry, who saw and lived through the struggle, chose revenge and retaliation. Sejanus, the privileged boy with the soulful brown eyes, chose empathy and compassion.

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My illustration class made me make a collage music poster, which means you all get to have this!! 🌈🫡

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for my Hunger Games community specifically -

It feels trite to point out right now, but it somehow also feels appropriate, given how influential and meaningful this series has been to so many of us.

at the end of the day, amongst all of the motifs and narratives and messages - the most important message of the series is that LOVE and KINDNESS is the radical act.

To choose kindness and care in each other in the face of oppression - THAT is the act of rebellion.

To choose love. The protection of your friends, your family, your community in the face of legal ramifications - THAT is the act of warfare.

To make sure to keep your community fed and sheltered - THAT is the radical act.

Go out and be fucking radical. Love each other, and yourselves, more than they want us to. They CANT stop us.

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Headcanon that Peeta takes Katniss’s last name. Katniss’s last name is important to her. It connects her to her father and sister. It was part of her grounding exercise in district 13. She confesses to peeta one night that she’s a little sad to leave her name behind when they get married and he immediately volunteers to take her name

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coriolanus having such a soft spot for boa bell the cat has always been such a funny detail to me because OF COURSE coriolanus snow is a cat person. i imagine when he went to katniss’s home to berate her about the uprisings, he saw buttercup lounging around and stopped to give him some pets! meanwhile, prim and mrs. everdeen are watching like ???????????

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coriolanus and sejanus try their hands at pumpkin carving. sejanus let coriolanus do the carving because he has a knack for stabbing in the back! <3

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I just know I’m gonna read sunrise over the reaping and then go back to the og series and cry over haymitch bonding with katniss and peeta, trying to help them navigate the world (and snows wrath) post-games, almost losing them time and time again, watching katniss (and himself) suffer over losing peeta to the capitol (through the kidnapping and the hijacking), and then eventually getting Peeta back and watching him and katniss have the life and the family he and his love never got (and getting to be a part of that family himself- bc let’s be real everlarks kids def grew up with grandpa haymitch across the street)

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now that the hunger games is once again getting popular, it’s all over my fyp on tiktok.

i literally hate the “we’re the capitol” and “suzanne only writes when she has something to say” and “we shouldn’t be getting another hunger games book” blah blah blah

just shut up and enjoy the series. my god. you’re not “part of the capitol” for wanting another BOOK in a POPULAR book series. it’s the hunger games. it’s a fascinating dystopian society. you’re allowed to be curious on how it works. and other POV’s of how other characters perceive it and their personal experiences.

and the suzanne thing is fucking stupid too. she’s allowed to write regardless of “having something to say”. that’s not required. she can have ideas later on down the line and add onto her series. esp now that her original audience has gotten older and matured enough to see the real horror that’s IN that original dystopian trilogy. we can now handle other perspectives like Coriolanus, and enjoy the way he thinks without boiling it all down to “i hate him because he’s the obviously the bad guy”

i feel like people need to enjoy things and stop being so english teacher mode. relax.

also PS. this is not to say that you can’t read into things but you have to remember it’s not that serious. it’s REALLY not that serious.

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HUNGER GAMES SERIES YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

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OKAYYY, HAYMITCH ABERNATHY!

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i’m actually terrified because this cover alone is giving THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING! and to be centered around propaganda? ohhhh boy