#bird!katniss

[mollywog]

“So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent,” Peeta says.

When Prim’s name is called for the 74th reaping, Katniss sweeps Prim behind her, Volunteers in her place, stands up on the stage, and when Effie calls for applause, District 12 takes part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

[prettyprettypretttyalien]

i love these posts so i made my own this was highly enjoyable tbh

hopefully this isnt too niche

[buggiebite]

thinking about how angelic Katniss’ voice must’ve been to enthrall a five year old.

[pollinarys]

I fascinated by the symbolism and imagery of the birds in the hunger games books. It fits the story very well and is actually very poetic.

Therefore, I would like to portray Katniss not only as a mockingjay symbol in a figurative sense of a bird, but also as an actual bird-like fantasy or even mythical creature, straight from a fairy tale. And it may not be a good old fairy tale, but children still need to hear it and learn the lesson.

"The Swan Princess"/ "Tsarevna-Lebed" by Mikhail Vrubel. 1900 and Katniss Everdeen as The Mockingjay

[hungryhungrygames]

this is really just a ramble and im not going to provide a lot of evidence to back this theory up besides what i feel in my heart. 

but i feel like president snow manipulated the games so that no tributes from district 12 ever won the games.

because seriously, how is it possible that in the all the games between the 10th and 73rd, only hammich was able to win? katniss says that it is because people don’t work in mines until they are 18 so they don’t go into the games with knowledge of their trade like many of the other districts do (18 year olds can get reaped still), learn any survival skills (guess katniss was the only one in more then 60 years), or were small due to starvation (peeta, gale, and haymitch are all described as either tall or muscular). and even if all this were true, it explains why they dont win often, but it doesnt explain why they dont win EVER. even just from dumb luck they should have won at least a handful of times like the other poorer districts, unless something (or someone) was interfering

and after reading the ballad of songbirds and snakes, i believe this even more. I think that snow hates all of the districts, but after lucy gray he has a specific vendetta again district 12 and all of the people that reside within it. snow is a very driven and ambition person, and he almost lost everything because of a girl from district 12, and i think this absolutely drove him mad 

so once he started having more control over the games, he decided that district 12 should never get even the slight benefits that come from a tribute from your district winning the games. the people of 12 could stay poor, and starve, and send 2 kids off to die every year with no hope

also, this would make sense why president snow reacted so harshly to how haymitch won the games. killing his whole family doesn’t feel like the appropriate response to haymitch using parts of the arena not as intended (maybe one would have but all of them?). and we have seen at least one other tribute use the arena not as intended explicitly (the landmines being repurposed in the 74th), and it probably have happened other times too. i think that if the really had a problem with how haymitch used the force feild, they would have killed him immediately after discovering it, i mean he did kind of imply that the forcefield must mean something/be useful.

really though i think snow was just so angry that someone from district 12 won. he probably would have intervened, but felt he didnt need to since haymitch was literally holding his guts in, and would have died even if the other tribute wasnt able to kill him

i guess snow was technically right though in his fear of district 12, eventually a tribute from there did become his down fall

[maxdibert]

favorite female characters? not from HP but in general.

Well, I have many, but I’m going to mention the ones I remember because I’m terrible at making lists like this on the spot — I always forget people — so I’ll just say whoever comes to mind.

Lady Bird: from the movie Lady Bird by Greta Gerwig. If anyone wonders what I was like as a teenager, I was very much like Lady Bird (terrible story with the typical soft intellectual boy who smokes and reads Tolstoy included). I’ve never felt so identified with a coming-of-age film. That movie was literally me, including the complicated relationship with her mother — mine and I didn’t get along back then — and also the crash-and-burn experience of going to college, plus the pretentious aspiration of being part of an intellectual elite like the Beat Generation. The only thing that didn’t happen to me was trying to fit in with rich people and having a boyfriend who turned out to be gay, but the essence of the movie is very similar to my adolescence. I’m from a mid-sized city that felt too small at the time, and I went to a Catholic school. That character stirs a lot of emotions in me.

Brooke from Mistress America, also wich is por trajes by Gerwig. Basically, I’m Brooke now. Greta Gerwig and I must be soulmates or something because for some reason her female characters always have qualities I deeply relate to. Or maybe we’re just two highly dysfunctional people who don’t really know what to do with our lives. This also leads me to Frances from Frances Ha.

Julie from The Worst Person in the World, another character I strongly relate to. In this house we love young adult women with clear attachment issues, chaotic and aimless lives, low-key depressed, semi-alcoholic, and with disastrous personal lives.

Cassandra from Promising Young Woman. Crafting a perfectly planned revenge to ruin the lives of your best friend’s abusers after they drove her to suicide? Something I’d totally do. I love her.

The protagonist of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh, who remains unnamed. Basically, a girl bored with life and deeply depressed who decides to take a sabbatical year popping every kind of antidepressant, anxiety med, tranquilizer, hypnotic, and psychiatric drug to spend the year sleeping and watching Whoopi Goldberg movies. An absolute queen. We stan.

Elle Woods from Legally Blonde. Always rooting for women who perform traditional femininity while proving they can be fashion-obsessed, beauty salon-loving, ambitious, brilliant, and determined to make the world a better place. Let’s protect the Elle Woodses of this dark, hostile world — we need them to keep the darkness at bay.

Emma Woodhouse from Emma. My favorite Jane Austen novel and my ultimate heroine. Emma is like a mix of Elle Woods and Blair Waldorf. Many people adore Lizzie Bennet because they think she’s super badass, but there’s no one more badass than Emma Woodhouse. In a time when all women were husband-hunting, she was perfectly content living with her father. She literally mentions that her father will leave her a huge inheritance, and she doesn’t need kids because she already has her nieces and nephews — so why rush? She’s super frivolous but has this childlike charm that makes her adorable. She can be insufferable and even a mean girl, but she never acts out of malice — she just lives in her own bubble. Also, the best Austen hero ever is Mr. Knightley. He’s the ultimate “my future wife is my best friend, and I love her so much that I’m willing to leave my mansion to live in hers with her quirky dad because she doesn’t want to be separated from him.” Such malewife vibes. We love malewives.

Katniss Everdeen. Katniss is fed up with everything and just wants to die. She’s not a compliant or pleasant protagonist, and I love that. Many people dislike her because she doesn’t fit many typical narrative standards for female characters, and we love her for that.

Sansa Stark: Hating Sansa Stark is pure misogyny, period. Sansa is the most realistic female character in the entire saga, and that’s why everyone hates her. She’s not about muscles, swords, dragons, or powers. Sansa is about brains, learning, growth through hardship, cunning, and manipulation. We love our damsel-in-distress-turned-political-strategist. A true survivor. I love her; if anyone messes with her, I’ll fight.

My beloved Lila Cerullo and Elena Greco from My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. If you haven’t read The Neapolitan Novels, you’re seriously missing out. No one has captured the complexity of female friendship over the years like Ferrante. No one has portrayed femininity in a patriarchal world better. It’s a story about violence — all kinds, from physical to structural and political — against women, class violence, and social violence. It’s a story about love, loss, generational change, and the turbulent twists of the 20th century. But above all, it’s the story of two girls, two teenagers, two women navigating a violent world that tries to shut them out from the start — a world they must carve their way through, blow by blow. Two women who are two sides of the same coin. Two women who represent passion and reason, natural talent and hard work, lack of opportunity and breaking new paths, physical violence and psychological manipulation. But most of all, two women bound together since childhood by a complex, toxic, beautiful, and tragic friendship. This saga will break your heart but also fill you with life. It’s truly magnificent.

And well, I can’t think of any more right now, but if you’re familiar with these, you’ll get a sense of the type of characters I enjoy.

[the-star-rigel]

HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS.

dc comics’ Superman / Netflix’s Shadow and Bones (Six of Crows) / Canary in the Coal Mine, the Crane Wives / Star Wars: A New Hope (the Millenium Falcon) / Bird Song, Florence + The Machine / Marvel Comics’ Phoenix (Hope Summers) / dc comics’ Robins / The Hunger Games: Catching Fire / Blackbird, The Beatles + dc comics / Avatar: The Last Airbender / For Example, Mary Oliver / dc comics / Lord of the Rings: Return of the King / The Hunger Games / The Origin of Birds, Nicole Callihan / Man of Steel / THE TREES WITNESS EVERYTHING, Victoria Chang / Emily Dickinson

[sukibenders]

Snow instantly not vibing with the mockjay birds is so funny to me, they were in his mind from the start and would continue to haunt him. Love them for that.

[mellarked-katnisseverdeen]

Underappresiated thing about Everlark: Katniss has such strong feelings for him. Like she can't stop thinking about him even when she is mad and thinks he's betrayed her.

[moved2fshfish]

stop making up parallels between katniss everdeen and coriolanus snow that just arent there or i will literally shoot myself infront of you

[mollywog]

Not sure if I ever posted this, and it's very very old, but hopefully it scratches some regencylark itch!

Regency Katniss!

Regency Katniss!!

Regency Katniss!!!

This is not a drill!!!

A reaction to opening this ask @charlunday

[harrowscore]

the only wrong katniss everdeen ever committed is being a cat hater

[cieuxgris]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

[heavensbeehall]

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all - -- Emily Dickinson

"Rue, who is dressed in a gossamer gown complete with wings, flutters her way to Caesar. A hush falls over the crowd at the sight of this magical wisp of a tribute.”

-- The Hunger Games

I'm in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it's the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that's when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings.

Because Cinna has turned me into a mockingjay.

-- Catching Fire

[mal-alina-katniss-peeta]

Can’t stop thinking about the similarities between these 4. I feel like there are some parallels between Mal & Peeta and Alina & Katniss. But I feel like the more important similarities are between Mal & Katniss and Alina & Peeta.

Mal/Katniss- Bird, Hunter, Brunette, Constantly losing their shit, Can’t admit they have feelings till it’s to late.

Alina/Peeta- Saint, Painter, Blonde, Good public speaker, Always knew they had feelings never did anything about it till it was to late.

Meadows, The Great War by Taylor Swift, THE girl and her guy, The boy and the girl, Caves, Underground civilization, Firebird/Mockingjay, Rich yet live a simple life, friends in high places, and my tears ricochet by Taylor Swift.