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I love how mrs everdeen thinks Katniss is too young to have a boyfriend but she's completely fine with her going hunting in the forest to provide for the family. No one understands how parents work better than suzzane collins does lmao
#thg#hunger games#the hunger games#katniss everdeen#mrs everdeen#peeta mellark#everlark#suzzane collins
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I think that, as a literary device, Finnick’s story is one of the most effective ones I have ever read.
When you think of victims of sex-related crimes, you so rarely think of a man.
In our modern society, we more often imagine women to be victims of such crimes. Beautiful women who are battered and bruised, their eyes holding that faraway gleam of pain and trauma. Sex-related violence against women is such a common occurrence that it is difficult to find a woman who doesn’t have intimate knowledge about it. Perhaps not every woman has been raped but every woman knows at least one who has. As young girls, we’re told so many things to try and prevent rape. Don’t go out by yourself at night. Be careful of what you wear. Don’t drink alcohol. Fight them off. And yet, if you did everything right and still fail at protecting yourself, just give in. Better raped than dead. Come home to your family and friends hurt and bruised but alive.
And it is this message that Finnick, a man, lives by.
Better taken advantage of, bruised and hurt, than dead. Better you than your parents or your siblings or Mags or Annie. Do whatever it takes to stay alive.
And, the thing is, we didn’t have to hear this story from him. We could have heard it from Cashmere.
In his propo to the Capitol, Finnick reveals that attractive Victors are pimped out by President Snow to the residents of the Capitol. One such Victor is Cashmere.
Knowing this layer of her story makes Cashmere the picture perfect victim. A woman who is repeatedly described as beautiful. She is a typical description of what a rape victim is. Suzanne could have used her character instead of Finnick’s to portray an instance so familiar to so many women and yet, she didn’t.
She chose Finnick. And I think the reason why she did that is because hearing it from Cashmere would have made the story fall flat.
Would we have blinked an eye had it been Cashmere who revealed the horrors of being a Victor? Would we have felt anything other than a vague sense of sympathy? I don’t think so. Like so many women before her, Cashmere’s story is so familiar to us that it no longer leaves that bitter taste in our mouths. We, as a society, have been so deeply desensitized to this plight that we no longer feel the same indignation we used to feel. Instead we are resigned to our fate. Cashemere isn’t the first victim of rape and she won’t be the last.
Yet to hear it from Finnick had us shocked. Finnick? A man? Attractive, to be sure, but he is at the prime of his life and yet he is a victim? Finnick, who can wield a trident so effectively he became the youngest Victor in the 75 years the Hunger Games operated, was raped? Finnick, who has literally killed people with his bare hands, was prostituted? Finnick, who cracked jokes about killing people was whored out by President Snow?
It is absurd! It is a bizarre and strange! It has to be untrue!
And yet it’s not.
Finnick being representative of that particular storyline was effective at reminding us of what it means to be victimized like that. And using Finnick, a man, instead of Cashmere, a woman, reminded us of why we have to be rightfully angry and upset about such things instead of resigned to our fates.
Suzanne Collins is an absolute literary genius.
#74th hunger games#75th hunger games#finnick odair#district 4#cashmere#hunger games#catching fire#mockingjay#katniss everdeen#katniss and peeta#peeta mellark#annie cresta#haymitch abernathy#effie trinket#suzzane collins#media analysis
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i think the most frustrating part about tbosas is the fact that you want to root for coryo. you want him to be a better man for lucy gray. you want him and sejanus to become closer, to become the best friends sejanus believes them to be. you want him to run away and find a way to relearn all the oppressive and tyrannical ideals the capitol instilled in him.
but that’s not what happens.
coriolanus isn’t necessarily a good person. he’s not a bad person either, not yet, but he’s no where near good. and rather than try to be good, he gives up, he lets himself “go bad”, he rats out sejanus, he lets his anger get the best of him and loses lucy gray.
the idea that coryo could be a good person but chooses not to be is exactly the reason this book and this character are brilliant.
#idk if this comes across the way i wanted it to#i am in no way excusing his actions at all please do not think i am#he has done unimaginable things and damage and has caused so much horror#but the idea isn’t that he’s evil because there’s nothing else to be#he CHOOSES it#that’s what makes him even worse#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#tbosas#coriolanus snow#suzzane collins#lucy gray baird#sejanus plinth#i’m pretty sure people have made this connection but#i just wanted to add my two cents#suzanne collins is a genius
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Okay but “District twelve where you can starve in safety.” Is such a cold line. It just has a raw honest feel to it, like that’s what Katniss thinks of her district in a nut shell. I love how Suzanne Collins was able to put so much information in the first chapter without it feeling like it’s overwhelming.
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IM SHAKING YOU HAVE NO IDEA IM HAPPY CRYING
#the hunger games#thg#haymitch abernathy#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#tbosbas#suzzane collins#destiel confession meme#icarus the mockingbird#katniss everdeen#peeta mellark#effie trinket#quarter quell#the quarter quell#50th hunger games
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Suzanne Collins really took a small detail from the first Hunger Games book and ran with it.
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This has all been said before but I just need to put it in my own words.
Snow truly believe he had Peeta after the hijacking, right on the palm of his hand, to be wielded like a knife that would always strike true into Katniss's heart. Because that's humanity for Snow — animals whose hunger can be twisted and corrupted, and would kill to sate it. To him, this boy from 12 was just a smoothtalker who trailed after his childhood crush like a lovesick puppy, had his feelings manipulated by this stubborn brunette from 12 who could sing, just like how Snow was.
So he sought to twist that adoration into something ugly, feeding the mistrust and indignance that he thought was in Peeta, thinking them powerful enough to overshadow any affection. Because that was what happened to Snow. Lucy Gray is wrong once again. Snow lands on top.
But no. Despite it all, Peeta's heart, who he is at his core, survived because Snow never really understood him.
Though Katniss had Lucy Gray's songs and heritage, Peeta had her heart. The pair of them combined was the true threat. Two halves of a Lucy Gray.
Lucy Gray and Peeta didn't hunger.
They fed.
Him with his burnt bread, and her with her haunting songs.
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Suzane Collins whispering in my ear: write write write write write
me crying: I WANT TO SLEEP.
Suzzane: SHUT UP and write about propaganda techniques so people can recognise it in real life
Me:…propaganda techniques…
Suzzane, shaking my shoulders: YES and rework the worldbuilding so it painfully reflects real life and make sure the government falls and make up an entire species and make a group of magical creatures gets trafficked on the regular but no one in the world cares about it and point out how fucked up that is (this is resolved by the end dw) and how it happens in real life but everyone justs excepts to as apart of life and how the cops (or your world equivalent whatever) gets bribed and looks the other way and everyone knows that but doesn’t do anything about it and make all of the non human characters be oppressed by humanity because for some reason thats humanities nature right now but it isn’t at the same time and-
Me: but…sleep…
Suzzane, wiping my tears: AND THE FACT THAT THE MOMENT YOU CONSIDER SOMEONE LESS THAN YOU, YOU FORFEIT YOUR HUMANITY AND THAT A TRAGIC BACKSTORY DOESN'T EXCUSE SHITTY ACTIONS
Me, cracking open my 4th can of pop of the night: GIRL I NEED TO SLEEP
Suzzane: what about a death tournament that directly points a finger at the audience for consuming similar media and how betting on human life is BAD BECAUSE EVERYONE SEEMED TO MISS THE POINT OF SQUID GAMES hM??????
Me: So…I write the Hunger Games?
Suzzane: yes but no also why are you fighting me on this Hunger Games inspired you to write this
Me: oh shit yeah so...death tourament?
Suzzane visably shaking: FUCKING DEATH TOURNAMENT!!!!!
#I have no idea what this is#also I'm so excited to see what she's got to say in her new book AHHHHH#suzzane collins#hunger games#thg series#the hunger games#thg#politics#writing#writers on tumblr#writeblr#writers and poets#writing funny#writers#on writing#writing memes#writer humor#just writer things#writings#writing problems#suzzane whispering in your ear#ao3#ao3 writer#fanfic#fan fiction#archive of our own#ao3 fanfic
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Blah blah blah katniss is like sejanus peeta is like Lucy gray and just like snow underestimated her, he didn't expect peeta to give a warning in the broadcast
Sejanus throwing his desk and calling them all monsters and katniss volunteering for prim both of them acting in passion knowing there will be repercussions
Sejanus going into the arena to give the district 2 boy his funeral rites and katniss covering rue with flowers, both showing empathy and care beyond death
Lucy gray and peeta both charming their way into a victory that should've been impossible
Snow loosing his grasp of reality at the lake after he found the guns, his understanding and admittedly already conditional trust of Lucy gray completely fractured and him doing the same to peeta as some kind of vindictive revenge bcs he was too much like her for his own good
(I haven't read any of the books in a hot second if im wrong shhhh)
#im not smart enough to talk about the hunger games#i have so many thoughts#if anyone has already talked about this i probably read your post and just unintentionally remixed it in my head my badv#gods i love it#suzzane collins#the woman you are#the hunger games#hunger games#katniss and peeta#katniss everdeen#peeta mellark#everlark#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#lucy gray baird#president snow#sejanus plinth#thg series
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Suzanne Collins referencing Hume in her description of the new book is a great continuation of the literary references she made in tbosas.
I truly wonder if the juxtaposition of this year’s MET gala and the genocide in Gaza - and its subsequent comparison to the hunger games precipitated this new book. Or, at the very least, the decision to announce it now. The hunger games series is uniquely poignant and powerful in this era of increasing class disparity and violent political turmoil.
Anyway, free Palestine!
#free palestine#free gaza#thg katniss#the met gala#katniss everdeen#katniss and peeta#thg#thg series#everlark#peeta fanart#katniss fanart#fanart#the hunger games katniss#peeta mellark#haymitch abernathy#suzzane collins#sunriseonthereaping#thg tbosas#coriolanus snow#lucy gray baird#tbosas
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Seeing Sam claflin as finnick odair in 2013 was the most life changing thing that happened that year, then it was my younger sister being born 😁
#finnick odair angst#finnick odair fluff#finnick odair imagine#finnick odair smut#finnick odair x reader#finnick odair#hunger games#the hunger games#suzzane collins#katniss everdeen#peeta mellark
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im gonna need some of you to freak out with me hELLO WE'RE FINALLY GETTING HAYMITCH'S STORY!! I AM GOING TO CRY OH MY GOD
Sunrise will take place 24 years before the events of the first novel The Hunger Games, “starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell,” per Scholastic.
"With Sunrise on the Reaping, I was inspired by David Hume’s idea of implicit submission and, in his words, ‘the easiness with which the many are governed by the few,’” Collins said in a statement. “The story also lent itself to a deeper dive into the use of propaganda and the power of those who control the narrative. The question ‘Real or not real?’ seems more pressing to me every day.”
#suzzane collins#the hunger games trilogy#the hunger games#katniss everdeen#katniss and peeta#catching fire#mockingjay#thg#haymitch abernathy#haymitch x effie#thgedit#thg series#thg tbosas#tbosas#katniss x peeta#katniss and prim#the ballad of coriolanus snow#coriolanus snow
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The way everything makes sense now. District 12 going from a district that enjoyed music and concerts on the regular to people almost never singing. The hanging tree being banned because of how much jealousy it brought in snow when he first heard it.
How the mockingjay symbol must have really killed snow because this man hated them from the get go.
How the hunger games developed over the years. How in the beginning they were kept in cages and then the tributes saw how lucy performed and it got her fed and so they started entertaining the crowd to get people to give them food as well. Later on its the same concept. They please the crowd (they dress up and ride on chariots waving to the crowds) in order to stay alive (get sponsors) and adopt personalities for interviews. The crux of it is the same entertain the rich spoiled capitol people to stay alive.
#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#the hunger games#hunger games#hunger games tribute#hunger games trilogy#suzzane collins#katniss everdeen#coriolanus snow#president snow#lucy gray baird#peeta mellark#haymitch abernathy
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hear me out hear me out hear me out
Hunger Games x EPIC: the musical crossover
#might elaborate if this gets notes#hunger games#epic the musical#epic#epic fandom#epicthemusical#odysseus#odyssey#epic musical#jorge rivera herrans#suzzane collins#i guess#crossover#crossover fanfiction
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me, 14 and reading the end of mockingjay:

me, 24 and reading the end of the ballad of songbirds and snakes:

#the hunger games#the hunger games: mockingjay#mockingjay#the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#suzzane collins#no amount of poverty or tragedy could possibly make coriolanus snow into a decent person#i went into the book knowing that it would make him out to be sympathetic and then he would just be The Worst™#but he really really really REALLY is just The Fucking Worst™#spoiler! the man just up and stole his friends parents! the friend that he got KILLED!#also the way that she was always referred to at lucy gray/lucy gray baird was very telling#he never called her lucy. just lucy. it was always lucy gray#even in their last scene together he was calling out for lucy gray not lucy#idk something something he doesnt see her as herself he sees her as an idea a tribute on a pedestal she has to think the same way as him#and when she doesnt he gets angry she has to love him only and when she admits to having a lover before him he gets angry#he gets angry and she has to apologise he gets angry and its always her fault she's the backwards thinker and he's far above her#idk his superiority complex was so intriguing especially since i think lucy was playing him and the capital like a fucking fiddle#nearly everything she said was too perfect for her to actually think like that#and when she said something wrong she would sooth him over#both manipulators in their own way and for completely different reasons#his was for superiority and her's was for survival
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"I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me."
hey suzanne collins, i want you to know that that is not okay and my lawyers will be in contact!! luv ya
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