#@thesweetnessofspring

[thatthingilovewith]

🦇Trick or Treat!🦇

Character headcanon: Mizzen is really good at board games but freaks out whenever he loses.

[lemonluvgirl]

WIP Titles Game

thanks for tagging me @absnow

Rules: reveal the titles of the documents in your wip folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

Holy heck I actually had to count my WIPs and wow! I've got so many!

The Designation Games

Paper Hearts

Best Laid Plans

Build Me Up From Bones

Small Talk

Hitting The Target

Christmas For 3

Senorita

Drabbles/Oneshots/Misc.

This Rebel Heart

Promise Me, Little Brother

Golden Cages

Do you think I might have too many irons in the fire??? LOL Anyways, I'm tagging 12 people hopefully I won't be the only one with a double digit WIP count!

[thesunpersists]

Face Paint by @thesweetnessofspring

Hunger Games Valentine's Podfic Exchange 2025

Prim really wants to get her face painted at the school Harvest Festival, and Katniss can't deny her even with the family finances being tight. And the boy doing the face painting has a few surprises for the sisters.

Listen to the podfic on ao3! [Length: 10:33 mins] Read the original work here!

I enjoy a modern AU more than anything and I was completely in love with this wonderful story by @thesweetnessofspring. I hope you'll enjoy listening to my contribution to the podfic exchange!

Happy Valentine's Day, lovelies! 🧚🏻‍♂️

[notsocooljess]

Mall Santa? 🙏

hi @thesweetnessofspring! thanks for your ask!

here's a snippet from the peeta mall santa/katniss elf AU i've been working on (inspired by you!)

A few days later, Katniss was running late for her first shift, dressed in the itchy polyester costume Haymitch loaned her. Though she didn’t have to wear fake ears, the bells jingling on the ends of her shoe covers while she ran through the mall to her station didn’t help her intense feelings of humiliation.

A line of eager families had already formed at the entrance of the Christmas display, and Katniss jogged past them to set herself on the scene.

“You’re late,” Haymitch grumbled as he swiped the first family’s card, hardly picking up his head to glance her way.

“Sorry I had to brush up on my contortionist skills to get myself into this thing,” she retorted as she made her way into the North Pole.

“Just get next to Santa, sweetheart.”

[fandomsunited4hr]

Hello hello! The launch for the collection is fast approaching so lets late a quick look at the contributors for the Hurricane Helene Collection!!

So to start of us off with thank you @thesweetnessofspring for contributing to the cause!

Please check out their other works or follow them for a taste of what's in store in the collection!

AO3

Katniss Wants Kisses | Roses and Pearls

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[mollywog]

Anne Shirley 🤝 Katniss Everdeen

Hitting her future husband for a perceived slight against her that was actually a gesture of his affection.

(you might have already connected these but I wanted to share)

Oh!!! I love this!!

Anne and Katniss both have this one sided suspicion and misinterpretations of Gilbert and Peeta’s motives. They go on to have these beautiful friendships with feelings that they refuse/struggle to admit are romantic (not to mention, everyone else around them seeing it.) Then later, dramatic realizations over the depth of their feelings.

Then there’s this:

“Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?” I ask.

“No.” A long time passes before he adds, “She crept up on me.”

Which echos this:

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps. . . perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

(While the passage is Finnick discussing Annie, I think it also describes Katniss’s feelings for Peeta)

Thank you so much for sharing @thesweetnessofspring!!

More on Shirbert and Everlark Here

[youreyesholdgalaxies]

🎃Trick or treat!🎃

Most recent fic you've read that you recommend?

hey @thesweetnessofspring

Oooo this is a hard one! I just finished "Troubleshooting" by nonemoreblack on AO3. It was super cute and festive though...not Halloween but Christmas. For a more Halloween themed recent rec I finished "By The Light Of the Halloween Moon" by TwilightCakes on Ao3 yesterday which was super cute too!

Thank you for the ask!

Happy trick or treating!

[felixravinstills]

🎃Trick or treat!🎃

Happy Halloween (month)! Your treat is a small snippet from the beginning of an Arachne Crane-centric fic that I started and then got distracted from:

Arachne should have been the eldest.

Ulysses is smart, but that's all. He doesn't have the mettle to be heir to the Crane's fortune, and it vexes her that she will have to suffer for it. The family business has already taken a hit from the war. They haven’t fully recovered. With the new travel regulations, they might never.

[millennium-queen]

I’ve travelled long and far (on the train) and faced perils unknown (woke up early) so I can see Hades Town on the Westend TODAY!!! AHHH!!!

[wistfulweaverwoman]

🕯

@thesweetnessofspring asks: on a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why is that?

Thank you so much for the ask!!! Um like an 8? I kind of love it. The hard part for me is getting the chapter written, but once it’s written I like to take time and edit and rework till everything flows well.

If the feeling (from the combination of words in a particular section) isn’t quite correct I’ll go through the thesaurus till it feels right.

[petruchio]

34 & 46 for the random asks!

yayyyy!!

34. what do you plan on doing tomorrow/this week?

tomorrow im getting coffee with my grandma, i have a bar trivia night on thursday and on friday going to a movie with friends!! then saturday im traveling back home bc ive been visiting my parents this week :)) so i actually have a v fun week

46. something that made you smile recently

yesterday had an intense wave of happiness because i realized that the thing im craving so deeply right now is peace and stability — but i realize that craving it doesn’t mean that the fact that it’s missing in my life right now is a bad thing. i realized that for me, being 24 is about living my life to to the fullest and creating memories that will last me the rest of my life, and that when i do find the peace i desire (bc i genuinely trust that i will!) i’ll be so grateful for past me for having lived the life i am now, for how much it’s teaching me and giving me. peace is coming. stability is coming. love is coming. then i went outside for a walk and it rained a light spring rain and then there was a perfect full rainbow. so i kind of felt like, yeah, that was the sign i was looking for. and i knew everything was going to be alright. (probably way too sentimental of an answer. but that’s what made me smile)

[thesunpersists]

(character ask) 15. What's your favorite ship for Haymitch?

thank you @thesweetnessofspring!! 🧚🏻

send me something for character ask game

Okay, I thought about it for too long. So, here is a stream of consciousness answer based on canon, and I would love to hear what everyone else thinks-- AU or otherwise!

I don’t really like Haymitch and Effie as a romantic couple. I do think that they care more for each other than they outwardly show, but their dynamic is much more compelling as begrudging coworkers. 

Maysilee or anyone we know from the Second Quarter Quell generation didn’t sit right either since we know he had a girlfriend at the time he was reaped. The whole thing is so tragic that I had to move on before I got too sad.

Hazelle (who is also QQ generation I guess) is such a strong and resilient character, and I can see her working well with Haymitch. The time she works as a housekeeper for Haymitch also coincides with the time that Haymitch must have been involved with some planning around the rebellion. I would love to read a fic where Hazelle picks up on something (a secret message, a phone call she accidentally picks up, anything 👀) and they bond over the secret they share.

Which would ultimately bring about the Gale question. Katniss always thinks of Haymitch as like her because he is from Seam but Gale seems to set Haymitch apart because he is a victor. It is intriguing to imagine how he must have felt like once his mom started working for Haymitch, and whether he would feel differently in the event of a romance. So, Hazelle takes the win for me, mainly because I liked where the story could take them and the implications for other characters! Plus a Seam-Seam couple as an adult would be different from the romances we got to see in canon!* *in canon so far because i am always holding on to the hope that SC will write another book & blow me away all over again

[notsocooljess]

🖤Trick or treat!🖤

Moodboard/drabble/fake fic for: Bonfire 🔥

trick or treat! 🍬🍫🍭

admittedly, i tried to make a moodboard for this, but it was really failing miserably

BUT, i was doing that because and sorry for using your ask for some self promo my CommentFeast fic takes place at a bonfire!

here’s a snippet that feels bonfire-y

As the fire begins to turn into a real blaze, people make their way from the fire to attend back to the activities they were partaking in beforehand. Peeta and I remain at the pit. I’ve never been one for fire, but Peeta seems mesmerized by the swirling flames.

you can read it here :)

[thesweetnessofspring]

💥find your least kudos'd fic - say something wonderful about it.

You know, I didn't reblog any fanfic ask game which where I think this must come from, so anon I'm very flattered you thought to ask me anyway!

My least kudos-ed fic is Some Brotherly Advice which has a whole 13 kudos, lol. It's not surprising, though. It's a very short one-shot from the same universe as my AU fanfic I Do and it's more Gale & Rory, Rory/Prim focused than Everlark focused (which is what the main fic is about). Also I wrote it when I was 18 and just recently reposted it after taking it down, so it's not my strongest work. But anyway, I'm supposed to say something wonderful about it. Well, I think it's just cute. Rory is cute, Prim is cute. Gale is a little cute, too, helping his little brother out. Yeah, just a nice bit of fluff in comparison to the angst of the main fic.

[mollywog]

On AoI now and in an Everlark AU you could lift this Gilbert line following Anne's refusal of him right out for Peeta:

“There isn’t anything to forgive. There have been times when I thought you did care. I’ve deceived myself, that’s all. Goodbye, Anne.”

And then he disappears and doesn't write to her all summer.

Also, I've been trying to settle on a Phil and I've settled that personality-wise and being surprised by love, it's Finnick, even though with historical accuracy he'd never be able to make house with Katniss and whoever else rounds out Patty's Place. This is the passage that made it stick for me:

"I couldn’t really believe before that Jonas would ever care for frivolous me.” “Phil, you’re not really frivolous,” said Anne gravely. “‘Way down underneath that frivolous exterior of yours you’ve got a dear, loyal, womanly little soul. Why do you hide it so?” “I can’t help it, Queen Anne. You are right—I’m not frivolous at heart. But there’s a sort of frivolous skin over my soul and I can’t take it off. As Mrs. Poyser says, I’d have to be hatched over again and hatched different before I could change it. But Jonas knows the real me and loves me, frivolity and all. And I love him. I never was so surprised in my life as I was when I found out I loved him."

Yes yes yes!

Thank you for this ask @thesweetnessofspring!! You made me open my TEoAO doc (created Jan 2023, last modified Jan 2024) and let me tell you: I’m still cackling.

The document is 12k words (longer than any single fic I’ve posted) of outline, notes, snippets, random dialogue… idk how much is usable, but two-years-in-the-past Molly had a vision and it’s a wild ride. wild

Anyways

In my drafts, I have Katniss, Madge, and Johanna in a house together. For some reason Peeta is boarding at Mags house where Annie, her niece, also lives… idk if that makes sense for the time period, so maybe Mags should be his aunt as well and that would make it okay? Or maybe I should just put Katniss, Jo, and Madge in Mag’s house with Annie? Which make me wonder why I didn’t have Annie in school herself (maybe she already graduated? Idk?)

Either way: Finnick was definitely in the mix too. I found this and I really don’t know where I was going with it except that the Katniss & Finnick pairing is always a favorite and they’d find each other and wreak havoc in any au.

The biggest surprise of my time here at Capitol is an unlikely friendship I have made with Finnick Odair. If I was fanciful like Prim I would call him a kindred spirit, but I’m not sure how that makes sense since I’ve never met anyone who on first inspection appear more the opposite of me.

We met at the first year social, though he is really in his third. I was standing in the corner with Madge and Peeta and he caught me in a rare smile.

[buggiebite]

Questions from a Curious Child

and there was a tickle fight…the end.

this reblog has lived in the back of my mind for a bit and it inspired me to make this, so thank you @thesweetnessofspring