#and ​Katniss agrees

[mollywog]

Gale knows his anger at Madge is misdirected. On other days, deep in the woods, I’ve listened to him rant about how the tesserae are just another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers of the Seam and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another. “It’s to the Capitol’s advantage to have us divided among ourselves,” he might say if there were no ears to hear but mine. If it wasn’t reaping day. If a girl with a gold pin and no tesserae had not made what I’m sure she thought was a harmless comment.

As we walk, I glance over at Gale’s face, still smoldering underneath his stony expression. His rages seem pointless to me, although I never say so. It’s not that I don’t agree with him. I do. But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods? It doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t make things fair. It doesn’t fill our stomachs. In fact, it scares off the nearby game. I let him yell though. Better he does it in the woods than in the district.

Gale isn’t blaming the Merchants for the division: he is correctly identifying that the Merchant/Seam divide is a Capitol created division to distract the district citizens from the real enemy.

[nightlocked-in]

“peeta is bisexual” you guys are losing the vision. peeta isn’t even straight. katniss INVENTED sexuality for him. whatever katniss identifies as, he’s like “yeah, i’ll take that one” no questions asked

[devildogdemon]

I gotta be straight with y’all: in a story full of brutal maiming, unforgiving starvation, and scorched earth warfare, that R-i-i-i-p is probably the most real and painful thing to read for me. Every single time 😭 Being a dude, it’s a pain I also have the heavenly privilege of never knowing, which means it’s probably worse than I’m imagining 😬

It makes me feel even more for Katniss later on their Victory Tour. She’s absolutely fuming at the bullshit double standard of Peeta getting to sleep in AND keep his body hair while she has to be up early and stripped to the bone 😤 And she is so right for that. She even mentions how she actually liked the return of it 🥺 and they’re taking it away from her again 😠

This is why post-Mockingjay, I will accept nothing less than a Peeta Mellark who adores his furry-legged kitty. For one thing, he’s probably been checking out her legs since the sixth grade, hair and all. But more importantly, between now and the end of the story, he experiences probably the worst leg pain imaginable 😭 He sees no sense in being cruel to your legs, especially when you have the good fortune to still have two. He will kiss those hairy legs of hers every opportunity he gets. When Katniss speaks of them growing back together, there’s absolutely a literal component to it for me 🥰💚🧡

[fyreflys]

Can you draw everlark cuddling?

Omg yes I can. Here they are cuddling in the meadow :3

Timelapse, alternate version, & extra notes below :)

[For the peeps lookin for a link to Swan Upon Leda in my pinned, there you go]

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I’ve sat on this anon for a while bc I wasn’t in a drawing mood for a while, but I will have you know that when this ask came in I was not having a good day & seeing this made me LIGHT UP bc I haven’t posted my art in a long time (or made any for that matter) & didn’t expect to get any requests like this and it was just so sweet & innocent- I’m rambling, ANYWAYS.

I wasn’t planning on this being a fully colored or fairly-rendered piece; thought it was just gonna be a simple sketch. And then things got out of hand & I really liked how it was turning out so I just kept going 😁 I like the result. Picasso.

[thegreenthepeacetheorange]

It is telling that when Katniss is supposedly trying to be distant from Peeta in the first half of CF, there are two specific instances where she notes she’s in a state where her inhibitions are lowered and she worries about things she might say or do around Peeta. First, is under the influence of sleep syrup when she hurts herself and the second is after she gets drunk with Haymitch when the QQ is announced.

“A side effect of sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue. But I don’t want him to go.”

“My head’s spinning from the drink, and I’m so wiped out, who knows what he could get me to agree to?”

These aren’t instances that tell us that Peeta is a danger to her in some way while she’s in these states - because there’s absolutely no world in which Peeta takes advantage of her like that. But it reveals to us a lot about where she herself is in regards to Peeta. For all her talk of choosing Gale and the rebellion, she knows she’s harbouring feelings for Peeta, feelings she can’t even fully say to us the readers. She knows that with her inhibitions lowered around him, she’s emotionally vulnerable to him. She knows she has to restrict herself from saying/doing certain things, or even seeing him altogether because seeing him in that state? She’s a goner.

It’s that whole notion of “drunken words are sober thoughts.” In the first encounter, she’s the most physically affectionate and essentially needy (!) with him that she’s been since the victory tour and since her conflict over the rebellion/Gale’s whipping. All the restraint she’s been trying to have, the flimsy wall she’s tried to build comes crumbling down. She asks him to stay repeatedly, she holds his hand to her face and takes in his scent. And that’s her while she’s trying to be in control. So it’s a good thing she doesn’t at all go to see him the second time because she’s fully drunk then. And considering that when they meet the next morning, she’s disappointed that he’s not comforting her with hugs and kisses, I can imagine how a meet up between those two that fateful night would’ve been.

[boyharder]

yes i am the biggest advocate of surrogate father haymitch & adopted daughter katniss but like. they're so Awful. they've not got a mother/daughter relationship, they've got that father/daughter relationship where the dad is both reaching for a connection and rejecting the thing that he made because she's too much like him, too close to what he is and far away from it because of her potential and the daughter rejects because she doesn't understand him. understanding him is understanding herself. caring for him is caring for herself. and then she's awful to him because she doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand. and he's rejectful of her because she's got so many traits that are for the worse and not for the better. their similarities don't hurt nearly as much as what their differencee impale them with. it will always be what katniss could be (haymitch), and what haymitch prevented/could've been (katniss.)

[yourfaveisanavatar]

Katniss Everdeen is marked by the lonely and the hunt

katniss everdeen from the hunger games is marked by the lonely and the hunt!

[paintedpeeta]

saw a comment on tik tok saying the writer wished katniss had ended up alone and gone to explore the districts… am i wrong in thinking that is a fundamental misunderstanding of her character?

[defenestrationtactics]

i know a lot of people have been going 'oh, Katniss reminds Snow of Lucy Gray' and 'Katniss reminds Snow of Sejanus' but has anyone thought that Katniss might remind Snow a little of himself too?

One of Snow's biggest struggles was admitting to himself that he loved Lucy Gray, that he could see her as a human, and that it was okay to have those feelings. He was then 'betrayed' by her, something that caused him to lose a lot of his growing faith in humanity. At the beginning, he was 'playing the game' and trying to win Lucy Gray donations and sympathy points, but somewhere along the line those fake feelings became (what he thought was) real.

Katniss, to some extent, was the same. She had such extreme trust issues, both in the people around her and herself, that she couldn’t trust that what she had was Peeta was love. She couldn’t trust that Peeta really loved her. Snow, the whole time, knew Peeta was a showman like Lucy Gray. Snow was convinced that Peeta wasn’t in love with Katniss. And he saw himself in Katniss - someone rebelling the system but unsure if it was for personal gain or love. He knew that, at the start, Katniss ‘faked’ the love to win the game, and later on was confused if it was real. Playing the game. Just like Snow. He was watching Katniss in the 74th games, and then the 75th, and he was reminded of himself all those years ago.

Imagine. He knew, the second she started to sing, that she was going to bring change. Unlike him, she made the decision to stay good, and she didn’t take that step into the ‘evil’ territory. She was like him, but she was stronger.

[vixnarts]

Hey guys can I share something... Not that this is woke or anything but...

Do you guys get bi vibes from Finnick Odair and lesbian vibes from Johanna Mason?? Feel free to reblog and share with me your thoughts. I don't mind if you disagree, it's okay if you don't think he's bisexual. I'm totally okay with that, I'm not going to lash out like the Percy Jackson fandom. I'm not a rabid animal.

[little-miss-sad-eyes]

CORIOLANUS AND LUCY GRAY ARE THE REVERSED BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

I know this sounds crazy but hear me out.

In the original tale, the Beast keeps his roses hidden, and wants no one to touch them. The tale starts with the Beauty asking her father for the purest rose he can find as a gift from his travels. She could have asked for anything, trasures, money, jewelry, but she only asks for a single rose.

In this story, roses simbolize the human side of the Beast, that wants to remain isolated and never be close to someone again after being cursed. The Beast shows only the monster, hides the human. Similarly, the Beauty asked for something kind and sweet as a gift, for the simplest act of love and humanness.

Now, let's get back to the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

The first thing Coriolanus does when he meets Lucy Gray is gifting her a rose, and the first thing she does is EATING it.

Coriolanus doesn't hide his human side for selfish motivations (gain her trust), using the rose to cover his monstrous and wicked one. Lucy Gray didn't ask for a rose, she didn't want or expext it, and when it's offered to her she eats it, consuming it like an animal would. He acts like a human and she acts like a monster, but the truth is the opposite.

They both act like this because they're performers. All the story is just a long performance that breaks in this two points. Coriolanus shows the human because he's the Beast. Lucy shows the monster because she's the Beauty.

[readingforaneternity]

One thing I hate the most is when I see ppl use “you could live a hundred lifetimes and never deserve that boy” from CF as a way to say Katniss isn’t worthy of Peeta, and that he deserved better than her.

I hate it so much and I hate Haymitch a little for saying that to her. If we’re talking about reaction times, it’s not a fair argument to say that Katniss didn’t turn into the Flash and zoom on over to Haymitch’s to strike a deal with him to save Peeta’s life.

She had a PTSD episode. I just never get the fact that ppl hold that against her.

I think ppl forget that Snow came into her home and threatened her. The burden was on her to convince the Districts and Snow of her love for Peeta. So for her to see the consequence of her failure is frightening.

[animentality]

I know hunger games is good, I just can't put myself through a sad dark dystopian world where things are sad and dark and suck and everyone hates each other and everyone dies.

Like I could watch the news...

[mellarked-katnisseverdeen]

Another random question being asked just because I am curious on the fandoms opinion. This is why I should have polls taken away from me- I use them on way to small a whim XD.

[thesweetnessofspring]

Hunger Games characters and my interpretation of their Enneagram type (explained by Sleeping at Last's Enneagram songs)

Sejanus-"One" I, I want to sing a song worth singing / I'll write an anthem worth repeating

Peeta-"Two" I just want to love you, to love you, to love you well / I just want to learn how, somehow, to be loved myself

Finnick-"Three" It's so exhausting on this silver screen / Where I play the role of anyone but me

Lucy Gray-"Four" Flashlight in hand, determined to find / Authenticity only poetry could even begin / To try to describe

Beetee-"Five" I want to watch the universe expand / I want to break it into pieces small enough to understand / And put it all back together again

Katniss-"Six" I want to take shelter, but I'm ready, ready to fight / Somewhere in the middle, I feel a little paralyzed

Haymitch-"Six" Is it courage or faith / To show up every day?

Delly-"Seven" I'll find the silver lining / No matter what the price

Gale-"Eight" I was just a kid who grew up strong enough / To pick this armor up / And suddenly it fit

Johanna-"Eight" Now you won't see all that I have to lose / And all I've lost in the fight to protect it

Prim-"Nine" It looks like empathy / To understand all sides / But I’m just trying to find myself / Through someone else’s eyes.

Snow-"One" but he doesn't get Sleeping at Last he doesn't deserve it.

[boyharder]

tonight's thoughts are consistent of catwhisperer haymitch. the seam strays are ON HIS ass and demand food immediately!!!!!!! (he very much obliges) (kat & peeta are privy to an extremely loving side of him as soon as a cat even steps into his VICINITY)