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FBI DIRECTOR: So, Agent Hotchner. How’s your team doing?

HOTCH: *psychotic eye twitch*

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not enough people talk about how genuinely hilarious peeta is?? like in the first games when he's withering away by the river, disguised by his camouflage, a wicked infection in his leg and katniss finds him and he says "here to finish me off sweetheart?" or even when he isn't trying, like before the quell when hes telling haymitch and katniss that they need to get their shit together and he says something like "we don't need a bunch of drunkards on the team" when he knows the night before was the only time he had even seen katniss drink or be drunk. not to mention the fact that TWO YEARS IN A ROW he came to his final interview, chatted with caesar normally and then randomly dropped the craziest bomb right before being sent into the arena. pls u guys i love him

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the way that Prim was always doomed from the moment she was chosen for the Games; the reaping always gets its due; but the way that Peeta does what I’m sure he would have tried to do had he been in the arena alongside her: at the end of all Games, he brings her home, in the only way he can; the garden is the only burial possible for her, and out of that garden, the bright yellow of rebirth will continue to give Katniss hope and motivation; Prim will be a healer still, because her brother (and he would have been) ensured it

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The Rooftop

The roof. We order a bunch of food, grab some blankets, and head up to the roof for a picnic. A daylong picnic in the flower garden that tinkles with wind chimes. We eat. We lie in the sun.��I snap off hanging vines and use my newfound knowledge from training to practice knots and weave nets. Peeta sketches me. We make up a game with the force field that surrounds the roof—one of us throws an apple into it and the other person has to catch it. No one bothers us. By late afternoon, I lie with my head on Peeta's lap, making a crown of flowers while he fiddles with my hair, claiming he's practicing his knots. After a while, his hands go still. “What?” I ask. “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says.

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Katniss describing Peeta: “ashy blonde hair that falls in waves over his forehead”

Me who damn well knows what my wavy hair looks like on July 4th in the humid south: this girl is gone for him

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Katniss: I know you favourite colour. How you take your tea. How you tie your shoelaces…

Peeta: Aw thanks 🥰🥲

Katniss: How you sleep at night. Your favourite sleeping position. The exact hex code for your eyelashes. Your home address. Phone number. Your social security number is-

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We're always talking about how Peeta smells amazing, like cinnamon and fresh bread, but we forget how wonderful Katniss must smell too.

It should smell like rosemary and dried herbs. Like all the things her mother does. Katniss would always be covered in a fresh plant smell.

And it definitely drives Peeta Mellark crazy

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just dropping in to remind everyone that when Katniss said "Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.” she was SPECIFICALLY talking about Peeta. She said this about Peeta because it HAD ALREADY HAPPENED. He was the FIRST kind person to work their way inside her heart and root there. It's why she'd been keeping tabs on The Boy With The Bread. It's why she KNEW to be afraid of the kindness that he represented. His kindness was a risk to her getting back home to her family.

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[edit: to some people mentioning the lack of fake dating and other more fitting tropes, this is a pre-made format from another fan account of another fictional ship, but yes, i agree - fake dating will never not hit this hard ever again. also, yes, the height difference one just had to be an illustration (love you still, jhutch)!]

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Nothing brings me more joy than seeing Katniss and Peeta’s dynamic referred to as a ‘situationship’. Cause the situation involves:

one of them holding a torch for the other for eleven years

the other one paying avid attention to the other for five years

sharing a bed whenever they possibly can

casually hugging and holding hands all the time

planning on giving up their lives for each other

whatever the fuck the hugging with Peeta’s lips touching her neck was

all the flirting and married couple dynamics from the train to the quell on

making out and feeling the urge to have sex on a beach with the country watching

giving up on life when the other is dead/hates you

fighting through the brainwashing to hate the one you love because she kissed you

returning to the other as quickly as possible, whether it be healing from torture or coming back to life from grief

The situation is that they’re unhinged for each other and too stupid to realize they’re married.

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Peeta fr went through poverty, 2 hunger games, 2 months of torture, and a catastrophic war while being plagued by thoughts of killing the woman he loves, and having to rebuild his life again

AND he still chose Katniss. meanwhile, real teenage boys will lose a baseball game and go on a villain arc

i wish fictional men written by badass women actually existed

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Normalize being kind & supportive for no reason

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“I hate the way The Hunger Games ended with Katniss forced into a typical domestic life … she shouldn’t have ended up with Peeta … it would have been more feminist if she didn’t end up with anybody”

like okay President Snow I didn’t know you were active on social media

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“brightening things up”

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God importance of food in HUNGER Games is such amazing aspect of the books and shows the mentality of both Katniss AND Snow.

Coriolanus learns that food is power. He sees Nero Prize cutting off maid's leg to eat it. He sees what tributes will do for food. He knows what Lucy Gray did for food. He knows what he would do for food.

In his eyes food is a luxury and ultimate means of manipulation. That's why there is a tessare system, that's why there are monthly packages for the winning districts, that's why Games are a yearly public spectacle in the Capitol. He keeps districts hungry for food and Capitol hungry for entertainment.

Katniss learns that food is love. It starts with Peeta throwing her the burned loaf of bread. Then goes further into her love for Prim, which is the main cause of her hunting. Then with Gale as her hunting partner. Then with Madge who is her best friend and loves strawberries. Then with Mr. Mellark who loves squirrels. Then with Rue and bread from District 11. Then with Peeta again, with the berries.

Katniss doesn't use the power of food over people. She shares it. That's how she builds connections, forms friendships, wins over people's hearts, starts and wins revolutions.

For Snow food it a tool with which you can sew starvation and chaos.

For Katniss food is a tool with which you can form bonds and find peace.

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a peeta doodle requested by @everdares! thanks for following and supporting my art for a year 🧡💛💚

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I've been obsessed with how the first ten Hunger Games were in an actual arena, like with seats and an event floor and turnstiles and everything. Something that was so clearly human-made, without so much as a weed growing inside of it.

Then Coriolanus goes off to Twelve and has his own private Hunger Games with Lucy Gray in the middle of the woods and comes to the conclusion that humanity is violent, and it must be contained by the Hunger Games. Some point after that, the arenas are still human-made, but mimic nature like Snow's own Hunger Games with Lucy Gray. Some are deserts or tundras or jungles, but all are made to appear like a natural environment. Only they're nature that's been constructed and manicured by humans, just like the Games are.

Fitting, then, that the first hit against this arena is made by a boy from District Twelve. Then a quarter century later, this arena is destroyed by a girl from District Twelve who learned to shoot arrows in the very trees that saw the future dictator of Panem emerge from it with his worldview now set against the natural world.