#Hunger Games results

[notsocooljess]

a silly headcanon i have for peeta is that he is just LOUD. not just his feet when he walks. he has a voice that you can pinpoint out in a crowded room. his laugh can be heard above everyone else’s. sometimes when he gets excited his voice gets even louder and he has to ask katniss “i’m yelling, aren’t i?” when he notices her eyes getting wider. he can command a space with his words but also his sheer volume.

[felixravinstills]

Lysistrata Vickers After Jessup's Death + Book Quotes (Ch. 17)

—The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

[thesweetnessofspring]

Worst Take on The Hunger Games goes to...

With over 1.1k votes on a tumblr poll, with 21.4% of the vote, the worst take on the Hunger Games is

Katniss isn't in love with Peeta, she just doesn't have anyone else post-war

Dandelion Grass Ring by @atelierlili

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that. So after, when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?” I tell him, “Real.”

Runner-Ups

14% voted for The Reaping for District 12 in the 74th Games was rigged for Katniss to go in

12.8% voted for If you like the Games or the romance in THG, you're the same as the Capitol

See the final results here.

Vote for the worst takes on Everlark here (at least for about 16 more hours).

[waywardangel-wilds]

peeta giving terrible relationship advice to delly (she's into someone in town idk who, but the person is very cool):

"why don't you ask if they wanna have some consensual platonic kissing? What? It works!"

"how about this: dont. say. anything. Nothing at all. Just share long and complicated longing looks for a few years. It really helps."

"Oh, I know! why don't you throw food at them? Katniss said it had a big impact on her opinion of me."

"Just hang out with them, duh. But without any talking. Just sit side by side. Katniss said it really gets her going."

[finnickeys]

i think finnick struggled with being a good friend. following his victory, finnick withdrew a lot and his time spent at the capitol and then recovering from the capitol meant he was just not the most reliable or social back home. he wasn’t the one to initiate stuff, and after swearing he’d be somewhere, he’d not show. it’s not that he doesn’t want to be there for people that he does consider friends, it’s just that his circumstances make it incredibly difficult to keep those relationships. and regardless of that, his actions hurt people. finnick can be generous and comforting and is capable of all that, but at the same time he had his flaws & not enough talk is had about how things like trauma impact platonic relationships

[thegreatmelodrama]

In Part III of TBOSAS, Coriolanus tells Sejanus that they are like brothers and that Sejanus can trust him, and this has always stuck out to me for many reasons. However, the one that I want to address right now is the parallel it creates between Snow and Sejanus and Romulus and Remus. Namely, Romulus’s fratricide of Remus which led to Romulus founding the city of Rome, its institutions, government, military, etc. and how it mirrors Snow’s betrayal and killing of Sejanus. Snow’s betrayal is what ultimately led to Gaul allowing Snow to return home and taking him under her wing as a mentor of sorts, as well as him becoming heir to the Plinth fortune. Thus Sejanus’s death resulting from Snow’s actions played a major part (along with Lucy Gray) in setting Snow down the path of evil and to becoming the dictator we see see in the trilogy—the man who instilled new life into the Hunger Games and ensured their survival for the next 65 years.

[transrevolutions]

disappointed but not surprised at the number of posts saying snow's moral depravity is because of his apparent low empathy and not because he. yknow. supports and upholds a fucking fascist regime.

[trampled-and-melting]

hi, fandom that i am fairly new to! i am struggling to find songs for a writing playlist that conform even slightly to my music taste. i have nothing against the soft, folksy acoustic guitar sound, but it's not my thing, and it's like 99% of other people's playlists.

so, if you have any songs that remind you of finnick and/or annie which are not like that, please send them to me! i'm not super picky about genres most of the time, so no real restrictions beyond that. please, friends, i am struggling.

[gutfaced]

something something you do realize gale was a child too. being 18, 19 and legally classified as an adult doesn't take away the fact that there's a TEEN in there. a CHILD. gale's whole thing throughout the entire trilogy was to protect katniss & her family, even if he caused harm to her outside of that (which is ultimately his treatment of her as some sort of trophy/something to be had.) gale's reason for rebellion is because he's seen his home suffer. he's seen his home suffer for so long, he's seen his parents, siblings, best friend struggle. to bring down the capitol is a mission tied to his angry heart, and that anger burns even brighter when forced to evacuate 1000 people in a small, overpopulated district that is blazing with the cruelty of their oppressor's fire.

gale had every right to fight back, but it backfired when his rebellion became cruelty, too. designing the bombs to try and become a weapon for those he wanted to protect, and aiming fire in the wrong places. gale gets so so so much shit for being a flawed and nuanced character, and being boiled down to the "prim reaper" despite his justifications, despite his complexities even feels a little microagressive, considering characters such as PRESIDENT SNOW (arguably the most evil character in the trilogy) gets treated like a saint due to tbosas despite his cruel nature showing there. (he's also, what! white? in comparison to gale being an impoverished poc teen! huh!!)

gale is one of THE most hated characters in this fandom for, what? trying to survive? trying to war on an aching side that craves tranquility and a want to see another sunrise? not getting those means in the correct way, but still having a part in the end game. we could talk about gale as a PERSON, who is painfully messed up and happens to have a lot of moments where his character is unsavoury, but we can ALSO talk about gale as a fighter and a boy in a position of heroism— who is simply a boy in piled-on armour, foolish and naive in his brutish and millitant ideals and finds the cost of revenge a personal consequence (prim's death.)

[babygirlgiles]

I think one of my biggest critiques about Catching Fire as a movie is that there’s entirely too much Gale in it. And I’m not just saying this as a Peeta Girlie, I’m saying this because Gale’s palpable absence is so strong at the beginning of the book that it’s a presence within and of itself and that’s central to the first part of the story!! The fact that Peeta is there when Gale isn’t is key to showing How The Games Have Effected Katniss!!

Katniss is experiencing this meteoric rise in economic class practically overnight. She’s gained an immense amount of privilege, relatively speaking, at an immense cost (the trauma of the Games, the damage to her emotional and mental well-being, the damage to her sense of self, the increased risk that immediate harm might come to her family and loved ones). She’s realizing that she really was part of her community before the Games by virtue of being distanced from that same community now. Because that’s what the Games, and the resulting class hyper-mobility, did to her: it’s set her apart from her peers. And Gale being absent is part of that. She doesn’t have to go to school. She doesn’t have to hunt or trade at the Hob. She doesn’t have to join the district’s industry. But Gale does have to do all those things. It’s why they only ever see each other on Sundays, the one day of the week he isn’t in the minds. It’s why they have increasingly little to talk about when they do meet, because their lives are so vastly different now and because the things that do occupy Katniss’s days are things generally related to her stratospheric class leap and/or the horrific cost of that leap, things she either doesn’t want to talk about or straight up can’t talk about.

She’s had this seismic shift in her life that’s detached her from her world and turned her into an island. Peeta and Haymitch (and to a lesser degree her mom and Prim) are the only ones that have been metaphorically cast out to sea like her. That’s why they’re a constant presence in the beginning of the book when Gale is not. And that’s why adding in scenes with Gale to the beginning of the movie (or keeping in scenes with Gale at the cost of like. literally every other thing that happens in that part of the book, including all the time she spends with Peeta and the others) undermines that point.

[ongreenergrasses]

Pharmakon

“So,” Finnick says. “Come here often?”

Annie bursts out laughing.

…

There’s a new person at Annie’s courthouse. She doesn’t know quite what to think.

a modern AU for day one of @solar-halos ‘s odesta week!

[thesweetnessofspring]

Worst change in The Hunger Games movies goes to...

With over 900 votes on a tumblr poll, with 41% of the vote, the worst change in the Hunger Games movies is

Peeta's leg not amputated

Hijacked Peeta by @millennium-queen

"New leg?" I say, and I can't help reaching out and pulling up the bottom of Peeta's pants. "Oh no," I whisper, taking in the metal-and-plastic device that has replaced his flesh.

Runner Ups

21.2% voted for Katniss, Haymitch, and Gale do not have "olive skin"

12.7% voted for Katniss getting the mockingjay pin from the Hob/Madge erasure

As for our next poll, we're not quite done with reaming the movies.

[bowie-boy]

I’m not anti but PLEASE-

[red-the-dragon-writes]

Fellow writers who come up with wild and/or complicated as hell worldbuilding! Share some of your highlights!

I'll go first:

Two major systems of currency that dramatically increase and decrease in value across the continent in direct conjunction with which particular major country is closer;

Magical person-eating eels who have their own entire society underneath a particular city that never becomes relevant because they think everyone else is frustrating and terrible, who have exactly one (1) ambassador to interface with the outside world but who decided that everyone else was (still) frustrating and terrible and now works as an assassin for hire instead of doing that and just sends the occasional trade good back home with their stipend;

Pseudo-electricity that works by summoning spirits from outside of the world to come hang out in your batteries

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