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Why do you think so many people ship Gale and Madge?

AHHHHH I am so excited you asked me this!! Forgive me but now I get to nerd out about writing!!

Ok, to understand exactly what I'm going to be talking about, I highly recommend this video about good romantic plots (it's about 20 minutes long). The video essayist uses Beauty and the Beast 1991 in comparison to the 2017 remake to as an example, showing why the original works and the remake fails despite using so much of the same storyline/dialogue. But tldw; good romance is a dance, where the characters go back and forth with one another, challenging each other and then coming together before pulling away and coming together again.

Katniss and Gale lack the push-and-pull that gets talked about in this video. Gale pushes, Katniss pushes back, and they end up further away from each other than before. It's this way through the trilogy until they're irreparably separated. Take this part of their first scene together (I'm taking just the dialogue for brevity):

"We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly. "What?" I ask. "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale. "If we didn't have so many kids," he adds quickly. "I never want to have kids," I say. "I might, if I didn't live here," says Gale. "But you do," I say, irritated. "Forget it," he snaps back.

Here, Gale makes a proposal: what if we ran away to the woods? Katniss is quiet, he feels her drifting away so he tries to correct it and brings up how difficult it would be with their families. This prompts Katniss to make a definitive statement about not wanting kids, which pushes Gale away since it interferes with his desire to partner with her. Gale offers his perspective as another little push, that he would want kids, and Katniss pushes him back again by reminding him he does live in Panem with the Games and he's irritated and pushes her away. Occasionally one of them might pull the other toward them (Gale's whipping and Katniss's prep teams, for example) but that's not enough to make up for all of the times they're pushing away from each other.

We only get one scene of Gale and Madge together, but there's more of that push-and-pull dance here:

"Pretty dress," says Gale. Madge shoots him a look, trying to see if it's a genuine compliment or if he's just being ironic. It is a pretty dress, but she would never be wearing it ordinarily. She presses her lips together and then smiles. "Well, if I end up going to the Capitol, I want to look nice, don't I?" Now it's Gale's turn to be confused. Does she mean it? Or is she just messing with him? I'm guessing the second. "You won't be going to the Capitol," says Gale coolly. His eyes land on a small, circular pin that adorns her dress. Real gold. Beautifully crafted. It could keep a family in bread for months. "What can you have? Five entries? I had six when I was just twelve years old." "That's not her fault," I say. "No, it's no one's fault. Just the way it is," says Gale. Madge's face has become closed off. She puts the money for the berries in my hand. "Good luck, Katniss."

We have Gale starting off with the first push. Rather than pushing back by snapping at him, she pulls him in with a challenge: looking nice when everyone (including potential sponsors) is important, so if it's a dig at her, she counter him. And Katniss notes Gale is confused. Madge has thrown him off! He engages in the dance by pushing again, noting how unlikely it is that she'll go to the Capitol. This has shut Madge down as Katniss notes, but this is their first interaction we see in the story, so it's only the starting point. It would be a good opportunity for Madge to get to pull him back in, especially after Prim was reaped with only one entry. We do see from this exchange that Madge can do the pull of the romantic dance with Gale while Katniss doesn't.

Adding in that Madge becoming interested in the woods and shooting after Katniss returns from the Games and then her going to give morphling to Gale after his whipping are the other hints that maybe Madge has feelings for Gale.

Gadge wouldn't happen in canon because it doesn't serve the theme of the just war theory, or Katniss's story. Gale had to maintain his romantic pursuit of Katniss as part of Katniss navigating her feelings about how to engage in war. Madge had to die to show that even a mayor and his family weren't safe from the government that they'd received some benefit from.

But in fanfiction? Their dynamic is RIFE with this potential for the romantic dance. Gale is never really able to engage in the humanity of those who had an advantage from him. Philosophically, he can see it's the Capitol pitting them against each other, but he resents Madge that she didn't have to put additional entries in the reaping ball. He doesn't appear to form bonds with anyone who has been given advantages by the Capitol, and he even grows more distant from Katniss as she can start affording nice clothes and more food (though obviously Peeta is part of this resentment, too). Gale never really understands why Katniss cares about her prep team, even though he tries to engage with them as a peace offering to her.

Pairing him with Madge makes him have to confront this and grow. If Gadge were to form a relationship, Gale would have to really put aside that resentment that holds him back. He would have to see Madge as a whole, not just the advantages she'd been given. And from the pin she gives Katniss to her family backstory to the morphling, you get the sense that Madge wants to rebel. Gale would make her confront the privilege she does have in this system and fight to change it. She would move from subtle acts of rebellion to fully participating in the fight. And seeing this play out with them challenging one another's viewpoints, sharing their life experiences, coming together to work as a team, has potential for really great character growth and exploration for both of them.

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My interwebz is down so I figured I’d go ahead and post this up. I’m really proud of this. For my Screen Design class, we had to take a fairytale and retell it in however we wanted in storyboard form. I chose the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Just as a heads-up, I’ve replaced the bears with Ursa Major/Ursa Minor, the constellation based on a bear.

I could always tell the story myself, but I figured I should let the art do the talking and only answer questions if you’re curious about it. The only hint I’ll give is to pay attention to the faces of the characters. ;D

This sucker took me 3 days to work on. I’m dead, man. ;_;

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Oh my goodness

I remember crying hard while watching this when I was a kid

Well

Now I’m crying too

The Mitten  a 1967 Soviet animated film

The film centres on a girl who wants a dog. She brings home a puppy but her mother wouldn’t let the puppy stay. The girl is upset and goes outside to the playground where all the other kids are walking their dogs. She starts playing with her mitten, pretending that the mitten is a dog.

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A Cruel Romance is a 1984 Russian romantic drama directed by Eldar Ryazanov. It is based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s classic play Without a Dowry (1878). The main female role was played by Larisa Guzeyeva in her cinematic debut.

The film takes place in the fictional town of Bryakhimov on the banks of the Volga River in 1877–1878. The two episodes of the movie differ chronologically: the events shown in the first episode last for almost one year, whereas the second episode shows events of less than one day, and the culmination of the whole story takes place in the second episode.

The film depicts the widowed noblewoman Kharita Ignatyevna Ogudalova, who comes from a very respected family and is blessed with three marriageable daughters. She has sunk into poverty since her husband’s death, but tries to do everything possible to improve the lives of her daughters, which means helping them to happily marry rich and noble men. Because of her lack of money, Ogudalova keeps her house open to strangers, hoping that the company of her three beautiful music-loving daughters will attract many single and rich men who could marry the girls.

english subtitles.

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I was OBSESSED with Charmed 🥰

Do you recognize that person? Yeah, she looks vaguely familiar. Kind of like a sister that we used to have. What was her name? Pipper? Pippy? No. Whatever happened to her? I don’t know. She fell in lust with the next-door neighbor, started spending all of her time there. That’s because she could. For the first time in months, her life was nice and calm and normal.

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I totally forgot about this outfit

Oh my goodness

Why so sexy, boy 🫠

Favorite Peeta moment in catching fire: When he’s a puppy, helps his rival and stays super sexy

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Lol

Also I was always curious about where did he get Gales’s (SMILING!) photo

Man Peeta really did go into the 75th games with a photo of his wife’s crush around his neck to try and motivate her to not die for him.

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That’s me and all my series… like Hogwarts Au, Instapanem, several versions of sqq generation and so on 😫

really crazy how much i’ve imagined this fic. like it’s soooooo imagined you wouldn’t even believe. not writing it though

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If you read The Hunger Games and came away with the idea that Collins is advocating for meek peacemaking in the face of oppression, I invite you to consider the thesis that the question of how does one navigate their humanity in broken world that makes revolution and war necessary? is the real crux of the series. You can simultaneously hold the beliefs that passionate revolution is sometimes necessary and that war is traumatic and destructive. That fighting for what is right can be as important as healing and finding peace and love. They do not negate each other. There’s entire philosophical disciplines devoted to just war theory, the ethics of rebellion, and pacifism — Collins invites us into that discussion through her characters, and gives some of her own views through them. Meet the nuance of the series in good faith. The question isn’t “should we continue to allow the child murder games to maintain economic stability? choose the teenage love interest that best represents your stance!” The question is “how do you maintain your humanity and recognize the humanity of those around you as the world tries to strip you of both?”

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Katniss tells Peeta she’ll see him at midnight. The dead man in The Hanging Tree tells his love to meet him then too. Katniss comes to the hospital in 13 and “reunites” with Peeta at midnight and, ironically, he tries to strangle her. Not a far cry from hanging, is it?

But there’s more: their first post-hijacking conversation, after Finnick and Annie’s wedding, takes place at midnight. Katniss makes note that her watch started at midnight when she and Peeta have the “you’re a painter” conversation. I think that’s significant: Katniss sees him again, flashes of the “old Peeta,” at midnight. He asks about her favorite color. She is able to give him some details of himself back too.

Of course, this is all without even taking into account the fact that they’re from District 12. So, in a way, him returning to her in the ashes of their old home is them finally fulfilling what they promised in the Quell: meeting in 12, meeting at midnight.

And finally, the kiss on the beach? Want to guess what strike of the lightning tree breaks them apart?

The theme of separation and reunion at midnight runs through Katniss and Peeta’s story, right down to “the night [Katniss feels] that thing again,” where it concludes. They get to pick up where they left off on the beach, no longer on anyone’s time but their own.

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Patiently waiting for @katnissdoesnotfollowback to wake up lol 😂

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That’s me…

I'm being very brave today

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YES

I don’t ‘develop’ headcanons. They come to me in visions and I know they’re correct.

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I’ve read Suzanne’s interview and she said that the only scene she didn’t like in the movies was that particular one. Where Gale and Katniss talk in the end. So she asked to change it / reshoot it. And they did. So I’m not surprised that in the end the scene turned out really good.

the stark differences between book!gale and movie!gale after katniss asked him about the bomb was something i was kinda surprised about when i first watched the movie yesterday. like, i had to get my book out for this when i first came to the scene. because in the movie, he actually had the decency to look guilty, to sound like he was actually sorry that he couldn’t protect her family. when katniss said he didn’t try to visit her at all, he tried to make reason for himself and said that he actually wanted to. hemsworth even went as far as making his voice break, and he actually seemed like he felt remorse for the loss of her sister etc etc.

but in the book, what did he do??? when katniss said he didn’t visit her at all, he didn’t answer. when katniss asked if that was his bomb, he only shrugged and said “does it matter? you’ll always be thinking about it” and then continued to say that taking care of her family was the only thing he had going for him. and that’s it. as if his place in katniss’ life was more important for him to talk about at this moment rather than i don’t know. sorry for your loss??? sorry for prim?? the loss of a person you loved more than anyone else?? the reason you did everything you did?? sorry that i might be the cause of it?? even just a slight empathy?? none of that and yet he still had the audacity to touch her cheek before leaving the room. this whole peeta-katniss-gale isn’t the main point of the hunger games, it never was. but how did the debate for the love triangle even came about? how was there even any other choice? you have a man who did this shit and you have a man who came back home to her and plant a garden there to honor her sister’s death with evening primroses because that was the flower her sister was named after. how was there even a competition in the first place