#Suzanne collins

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[themenacetheprophecyfortolledof]

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi and Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (completely unrelated books)

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[sncinderdoodles]

The meanest girl in town

Maysilee Donner

[stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese]

actually i love the reveal that the only reason effie got involved with the hunger games at all was because her little sister needed her.

[irlplasticlamb]

the only person who keeps an eye on me is effie trinket.

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[slaymitchabernathy]

lucy gray in heaven watching coriolanus snow get haunted by generations of covey girls.

[eaglerayys]

Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

[fluorescentbalaclava]

Long shots

[batcavescolony]

the difference between Haymitch and Katniss's narration is so funny. Haymitch would give us everyone's social security number if he knew them, while Katniss wouldn't even tell us her mom's name.

[endgaymme]

Katniss is so cagey because names are sacred.

in the reaping, names are odds against you. if your name is in the bowl, you’ve got a chance to die.

in the districts, names are links. links give peacekeepers and capitol informers a way to find you, to charge you with crimes you may not even be guilty of.

for the covey, names are belonging. but snow learned their naming conventions and how to identify them, a ballad and a color for the people that are vulnerable, other than district and capitol. having a covey name was dangerous.

Katniss doesn’t give us any extra names because they can be used to do harm.

[bnh8]

All of these actions can be easily defended though, so I don't think Haymitch was acting stupid.

Him drinking poison water wasn't stupid because none of them had any way to know that it was poison. It's not like the game makers told them beforehand, all the tributes just had to find out by trial and error just like Haymitch did. The first few tributes that ate the fruit or drank the water died, and the others learned what not to do by witnessing it.

Supporting quote: "I think about the two cannon shots that fired after the bloodbath. Did one career and one newcomer die, thereby alerting the rest of their alliance to the poisonous nature of the arena? Reminds me of the canaries we take down to the coal mines in 12."

During the countdown, he did get distracted by the rabbit, but it wasn't just because he's a dunce, it's because they literally put some kind of drug in the air around the cornucopia that impaired the tributes' thinking and made them all disoriented and unable to think clearly. He had to cover his nose and try not to breathe it in in order to get his mind back on track, and some of the other tributes were so dazed by whatever was in the air that they didn't even step off of their plates until several seconds after the gong had sounded.

Supporting quotes:

"I remember the dazed look on the tributes' faces as we awaited the gong. Did the air drug us? And is it contributing to how weak and sick I feel now?"

"I block my nose and begin to mouth-breathe to avoid the dizzying scent." "...Focus! my brain orders. What are you supposed to be doing?"

"The heady scent of pine and blossoms wafting through the woods calms my racing heart. Charming.... enticing.... these words don't do it justice. There's something almost magical about it, as if once inside those leafy arms, nothing bad could ever befall you. This must be how insects feel in the nepenthes plant, right before they drown."

"I allow myself one quick glance over my shoulder, which is enough to reassure me that the careers are late to the party, some still on their plates, others slow on the uptake and just reaching the weapons."

Him not covering his tracks in the bushes was obviously not good, but in his defense, he was still impaired and recovering from the effects of the poison. He was VIOLENTLY sick and barely able to walk. Yes, he should have covered his trail if he was well enough to think logically, but he physically wasn't able to do much of anything except use the last of his strength to drag himself to that bush and then collapse (and again, he had no way of knowing that the water was poisoned, so not his fault).

Supporting quotes:

"...so I wobble off the the north. It's no good. After a few hundred yards, I slide to the forest floor, throw up my latest charcoal tablet, and scrunch back into a ball. The chills begin, racking my body and causing my teeth to chatter so hard I'm in danger of breaking them."

"...[I] consider climbing a tree, but I'm so woozy I'm sure to tumble out."

"For several hours I alternate between violent chills and drenching fever sweats. Pain spikes my muscles, and my head feels like it's trapped in one of Tam Amber's vises."

I don't want to be that annoying person that goes actually-🤓, but I think most of Haymitch's actions weren't particularly stupid. He was a teen that was put into a really fucked up arena unlike anything there had been in the past, where the air and water are poisoned and he has no way of knowing this except for finding out by trial and error. Most of his mistakes were pretty reasonable mistakes to make.

(Also I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say an "alarming number of bunny related decisions." I'd love to hear you elaborate on that lol.)

katniss: how do you think haymitch won the games?

peeta: he outsmarted the others

haymitch in his games: drinks poison water, falls asleep in a blueberry patch without attempting to cover his tracks, tries to pet a bunny during the countdown, makes an alarming number of bunny-related decisions in general

[irlplasticlamb]

so after, when he whispers, “you love me. real or not real?” i tell him, “real.”

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[shyjusticewarrior]

Katniss's reaction to Peeta's heart stopping was the moment in the arena that proved to doubters that she loved him.

But the first moment in the arena she behaved with love towards him was when they announced the two victors twist and she instinctively called out his name despite it potentially endangering her.

[slaymitchabernathy]

i like that geese have a lot of meaning to haymitch but he also isn’t above eating them lmfao. that tracks with his character.

[twelvebooksstuff]

Awww

I also drew some epilogue scenes cause they can’t all be sad!

Burdock showing off baby Katniss at the Hob :,)

Katniss showing up at Haymitch’s house to sell him rabbits after Burdock’s death :,,,,,,)