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I always love thinking about Katniss and Peeta having friends post war.

Like not only do they both sorely need it, I love the ideas of them showing off their friends to one another and the other being so supportive.

Peeta makes friends with the lead builder working on the bakery, and they bond over both having less than great, complicated feelings about their family whose gone but that they still miss somehow. He comes over for dinner and Katniss is protective but warms up to him. She ends up sending him home with dired herbs, and later regularly sets aside some of the better fish she catches for him.

Katniss slowly gets closer to the lady running the orphanage. She helps Katniss comes to terms with the side of herself that really wants to love an care for others, the part of her maybe in another life would love to have children. She encourages Katniss to become a familiar face at the orphanage. Peeta brings her random cookies and pies.

It's so important to me that these two not only have one another, but they give one another a safe place to build themselves into a wider support network post war.

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I present to you, the VICTORS of District 12

Lucy Gray Baird, Victor of the 10th Hunger Games Haymitch Abernathy, Victor of the 50th Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen, Victor of the 74th Hunger Games Peeta Mellark, Victor of the 74th Hunger Games

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Most "down bad" Katniss moment that's rarely mentioned:

Not only refusing to use a different ladder than Peeta but literally standing on the same rung as him because any amount of space between them is Too. Much.

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Katniss saying “Because that’s what you and I do, protect each other” was such a sane way to describe two unhinged people who choose to use their bodies to protect the other even when they’re vulnerable and two seconds away from death.

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2025 GRAMMY Nominations for Sabrina Carpenter and Short n' Sweet

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The year of the Games is fifty. That would make it the second Quarter Quell.

And the name of the victor is Haymitch Abernathy.

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idk why but i don’t see katniss being particularly talented at doing hair. the only thing we know she does/can do is do a straight braid down her back (i’m assuming her mother did the double braids when she was a kid).

when the toast daughter is born, i’m inclined to believe peeta is the one who does her hair. he’s the one who’s spent the majority of his life plaiting anything from 3 strand fletbrød to 6 strand challah. she probably gets his curls too, and katniss doesn’t know the first thing about how to deal with that.

i also just love the idea of them having a shared daddy-daughter curl routine. can’t explain it.

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Short n' Spooky Tour 🎃

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🎃trick or treat! 👻

Hii thank you @mollywog :) adding @headcavedin because they sent me a trick or treat too 🤍

it’s nov 1 🙃 but ive been working on a playlist that’s the chronological order of the trilogy from katniss’s point of view told through songs i like and think relate to the story/her feelings. everlark centric of course and heavy on taylor swift though i tried to diversify the artists. you can listen to it here:

for reference and if anyone is interested, below the cut is the timeline i created in my head while making this.

(PRE-) THE HUNGER GAMES

seven

Class of 2013 - after Mr. Everdeen’s death

(They Long To Be) Close To You - post Peeta throwing the bread

The Archer - Katniss is reaped

epiphany - Katniss finding and healing Peeta

The Only Exception

CATCHING FIRE

making the bed

At Your Best (You Are Love)

this is me trying - start of victory tour

Treacherous

Down Bad - training for the quarter quell

The Great War

Till Death

peace

MOCKINGJAY

Nobody

Guilty as Sin?

Red

Forever & Always - Peeta is rescued from the Capitol

A Pearl

The Story of Us

my tears ricochet - Peeta joins the Star Squad

What Was I Made For? - Katniss returns to d12 post-war

the lakes

How Deep Is Your Love

Golden Hour - “you love me. real or not real?” / “real?”

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just rereading my favorite horror book for halloween

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trick or treat? 🎃

Hii @maidstew thank you for the ask!

I’ve been procrastinating these but it feels sacrilegious to answer them after 31st. So I looked through my drafts, and how about a poll I’ve never posted?

You can find it here.

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SABRINA CARPENTER performing at the Short n' Sweet Tour in Dallas

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so many people are lament that 'peeta will never be the same again' after his hijacking.

but i feel like that is only because katniss views peeta as this perfect, unchanged figure throughout the first two books.

the type of person who could never be changed by the games.

but readers, just like katniss, forget that peeta couldn't fit into his old roles after the games. because he had changed. just like katniss.

he was no longer a star on the wrestling team. he was no longer the baker's son who would greet everyone in the morning from the bakery's steps.

instead, he was a boy who limped into town to see his family once a week for dinner. a boy whose eyes adorn bags because he can't get a good night's sleep. a boy whose biggest fear is losing his lover. so much he is ready to die for her.

and so, the whole point of peeta's character in mockingjay is that he is not a new, 'mutt' version of himself. or even a post-mutt version. he simply is peeta, a teenager who has gone through hell and back. and forgive him if that changed him a little.

and yet, everyone is still convinced by katniss's "he's changed" instead of focusing on johanna *and suzanne's* point that "everyone has" (mj, 205).

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Trick or treat! 👻

You can ask one question to a Hunger Games character and they have to tell you the truth!

Who would you pick and what would you ask them?

Thank you for the ask @thesunpersists !

I’m really curious to know when Haymitch learned and got involved with the rebellion. When was he told District 13 still existed? If Katniss and Peeta weren’t reaped in the Quell was there still a plan to overthrow the government in the near future? Even Plutarch didn’t know what the 75th Quell would be when he showed Katniss his watch with the mockingjay emblem, so I have a lot of curiosity about the rebel forces.

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“They will not use my tears for their entertainment.”

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now i don’t wanna hear ab anyone complaining that it’s confirmed haymitch is the narrator for sunrise on the reaping as if it’s not his games and the tragedy that befalls his family and his life to begin with.

also who else is it gonna be? a dead tribute who’s not going to be alive to witness the consequences of haymitch’s wee act of rebellion against snow? an adult, in a series that’s always been centred around its young people? let haymitch have his moment.