#Catching Fire

[teddywidogast]

hey guys btw haymitch sent katniss and finnick bread from district 4 when they were grieving mags in catching fire just like mags sent haymitch and maysilee ham hawk soup from district 12 when they were grieving.

[winter-wise]

Haymitch tried so very hard to break the arena and make the Capitol look stupid, only for 95% of his efforts to get edited out. But Katniss sees the bit with the axe and concludes that Haymitch was punished for messing with the arena in a way he wasn't meant to.

Yes, it's hideous how Haymitch tried to send a message over and over again only for it to get erased. But the Capitol couldn't get all of it. There was still a little in there that they couldn't erase.

[starrrbakerrr]

i read this really insightful post by @thesmileykate and it made me realize how sunrise on the reaping adds a whole new layer to snow’s “convince me.” katniss easily “convinced” the majority of panem and all of the capitol of her love for peeta in the 74th games. but not snow, because he thinks all covey women are deceiving to their lovers. he thought there was no possible way katniss truly loved peeta. he wanted to believe all of her choices were for her own self-preservation. but when he saw katniss’s reaction to peeta’s heart stopping in the quarter quell his belief about covey women was proven incorrect. and once peeta was captured he knew he couldn’t take away katniss’s love for peeta, but he could take away peeta’s love for katniss.

[theknifegirlfromdistricttwo]

I love how Sunrise on the Reaping really highlights the fact that the events of the 75th Hunger Games weren't something they did just because it was the victors going into the games this time or because a rebellion was already starting after Katniss pulled the stunt with the berries. SOTR made it so clear that the rebellion had been an ongoing struggle for decades and that the events of Catching Fire were simply the rebellion finally succeeding after countless failures.

[a-library-ghost]

rip maysilee donner you would’ve loved johanna mason

[sixofbabycrows]

this bit from catching fire hits a lot different now

[beesintreezz]

peeta:

these two are completely unhinged and i love that for them

[songbird-or-snake]

It bugs me a lot when people make posts about the rebellion of the D12 victors, but they only talk about Lucy Gray, Haymich, and Katniss.

Or when people say "all three D12 victors"

Like hello??

My boy Peeta Mellark survived TWO games and y'all don't even acknowledge him?

Was he a narrator? No, but neither was Lucy Gray.

Did he know what was going on? Not really, but neither did Katniss.

A lot of the time Peeta winning is discredited by the fact that Katniss saved his life. But he had to save his life first. He survived Cato's attack and found a hiding spot where he could try and keep himself alive. If he hadn't done that he wouldn't have won. Peeta didn't get a chance to be the face of the rebellion, because everyone puts on Katniss's shoulders. She came up with the berries, she destroyed the arena, she was the Mockingjay. But if they put Peeta in front of a camera and let him speak, that rebellion would've been over and done a lot faster.

Tldr: Peeta Mellark was a big part of the rebellion, and people don't always give him credit, but they should.

[livingfandomly]

When I first read Catching Fire I was aching for Katniss when she begged Haymitch to volunteer for Peeta in the Quarter Quell.

Now?

I’m aching for Haymitch who was begged to re-enter the arena for a second Quarter Quell after the last one took everything from him… and he said yes.

[caitlinscatchingfire]

SOTR SPOILERS

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The way Buttercup always hissed at Katniss until she gave him entrails. But she tolerated him because Prim loved him. Then in the end of Mockingjay he helped her healing.

Then the Geese always hissed at Haymitch until he gave them cracked corn. But he tolerated them because Lenore loved them. Then in the end of Mockingjay they helped his healing.

The parallels will never end :(

[cassidyjaneart]

covey girls

[kneelbeforeclefairy]

More SOTR thoughts

I think we were all surprised that the tribute center hadn't been built yet and the tributes are being treated ....like that. But hear me out, I think the debacle that was the 50th led to it.

You're Snow. You've got 40-some victors and growing. You're trying to contain them to seperate apartments. You keep the tributes handcuffed and locked in. There's Peacekeepers and surveillance everywhere and no one's afraid to use force to subdue. And STILL they do this. They still manage to team up, to build a coalition. And on top of that, you've got people who have NO RESPECT for the Games, and no respect leads to slip ups, leads to mistakes, leads to people seeing the holes in the capitol's security, and more importantly, in their STORY that the Games are necessary to live and the Capitol is all knowing and all benevolent. You've salvaged it THIS time. But they only have to be lucky once and it all comes tumbling down.

So what do you do? Do you increase security? Go back to the zoo days? Keep the tributes chained in their rooms? Take away their mentors?

No, you can't do that. People like the spectacle. You NEED the spectacle. Furthermore, If you go backwards, you look weak, you look like they won something. You have to go on and pretend nothing happened so the rebels don't get the wrong idea, so the truth doesn't spread, while still increasing security so it doesn't. Happen. Again.

So what do you do? You stop trying to seperate them. You put them all together, all 50 traumatized, fucked up, teenage to 50 something victors, in one place, with the 24 terrified teenagers they are in charge of, so no one can escape each other. A place CUSTOM built to hold them, where YOU control their every movement. No more transporting them from place to place, everything is controlled from the train arriving under the remake center to the chariots entering the tribute center to the helicopters to the arena. Smooth. You have a state of the art surveillance system but one that doesn't draw attention to itself, which encourages looking for where the cameras aren't. You let them meet, let them have the hope of each other's society to keep them calm, but if tempers and grudges fly, that's fine too.

And most importantly, because it's Panem Et Circenses, you make them A SHOW.

You hide them in plain sight. You take them out of their gilded bird cages and let them see and be seen almost, but not quite, like a free citizen of the Caoitol. You get the victors dressed and fancied up too. You put them in the crowds during the interviews and cut the camera to them. You bring them out for interviews and retrospectives, make them talk about their lives, all with gratitude to you. You show off how rich and HAPPY they are and how much the capitol LOVES them , so their districts hate them. You keep them busy, so they have no time to rebel. You keep the trauma fresh, by making it impossible for them to hide from the cameras and drop their personas. You turn them into archetypes, into people they'll have to PLAY for the rest of their lives. You tell the tributes they're your honored guests, you treat them like celebrities so there's no holes in the story that they're anything but respected and cared for by the benevolence of the capitol. And maybe, keeping them distracted with luxuries for a week keeps them content. Less time to mull over how miserable they are when they're being treated so well.

Give them Circenses. Make them BE Circenses. An animal in a cage being treated poorly fights back and tries to get out. An animal in a safe warm enclosure grows to like the safety and luxury of it. They'll start acting like calm little zoo animals if they don't realize they're in cages. All, of course, under your complete control.

And it works. Mostly. Katniss can't imagine running from the reaping. She has no idea that tributes HAVE run in the past, just a speculation. The tribute parade goes off without a hitch. Everything runs so, so smoothly.

Except what Snow doesn't realize is the victors become friends. They become allies. They become FAMILY. it's harder to plot sedition under strict surveillance, but they manage it. And it doesn't take long for them to regroup and try again.

And this time, it works.

[beesintreezz]

especially since we know what happens to him afterwards like why would you want to read that

here’s a little meme I made

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[theknifegirlfromdistricttwo]

Reading Sunrise on the Reaping is realizing that the 3rd Quarter Quell wasn’t simply a punishment for Katniss pulling the berry stunt the previous year, it was an opportunity for Snow kill countless birds with one stone

[a-library-ghost]

suzanne collins put everlark in the epilogue to remind me not to kill myself 🤗