#happy hunger games! (again)

[lovesdevotion]

every new prequel that describes the horrors of the games that so many endured and lost their lives over it just makes katniss and peeta’s happy ending so much more meaningful like what they went through was awful but the fact that they made it out together and that haymitch finally managed not to save one but two tributes that he gets to see grow and make a family and bond after all the they have been through is just really special to me

[guess-i-do-art]

Some traditional art for the soul

[little-de-vil]

Another D2 Tradition: Onyx

Para @julietasgf, tu tradición favorito!

This is another part of creating lore that comes from research. I want everything that I make to be based in realism, to seem as though it could be practiced in our world. So when researching Colorado quarries I ended up on onyx, which is historically mined pretty predominately enough in the area. And with every new stone I encounter, I always go through whatever meaning is usually associated with it.

For onyx, that's a talisman used predominantly for labor and delivery for a smooth and easy birth. (I can already hear ya'll typing "but what about unakite?" Shut up, I'll get to that!) I wanted to continue that lore for that stone in 2, so here's the tradition: at an announcement of pregnancy, women are given onyx; rough (not tumbled) onyx by the community (many people will have them on hand as they're prevalent to the area and hand them to pregnant women), representing the ultimate difficulty of pregnancy. Many expected parents in the district would be so overwhelmed with the amount of onyx they'd be given that they would set a small basket outside their home for people to come by and place their stones in. The closer to the due date comes, she’s given smoother onyx until the baby comes, when she’s presented with final fully smooth stone.

The future parents would hold onto the first stone of each month in a separate, smaller bowl. At the Home Name ceremony, the baby is given the final, fully tumbled one, which is usually turned into a bracelet for the child to wear for always, reminding them of their life, how difficult and painful and sharp it is, and will ultimately become smooth and simple. Many Cutter kids end up having that as their token in the arena, if they don't take a small satchel of their families stones, that is.

If a pregnancy and subsequent labor was particularly difficult, it’s pretty common to have that child be named Onyx, Home Name or not.

As for unakite, I'm leaning more towards it as a grounding, healing stone. It's usually placed upon the sick or injured as a healing talisman on either the area affected or some families put it on the meridian lines.

Onyx is a labor talisman, to help mothers throughout pregnancy, to remind them of the difficulty and beauty of creating life. Unakite is a healing talisman, to aid those throughout any painful journey, to remind them all that what is being done can and will end. The two are not mutually exclusive. Onyx gives life, unakite sustains it.

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

All the angst I wrote today represented in one gif:

[bogbutteronmycroissant]

If I had a nickel for every for every time I saw a movie with a rose-obsessed villain character who holds a position of political power in a fictional universe in which said character has beef with a teenaged girl with a sister who literally just wants to go home and believes all is utter madness while also being perceived as a threat to the character's reign, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[tennessoui]

the hunger games au! anakins confidence! obi-wan being the mentor! the fact that they’re together BEFORE anakin even gets picked!

poor robin tho lol :( but you know the games go on for like 12 hours longer while Anakin waits for someone else to kill her. In theory it’s because of his ruse with the capital, but it’s definitely just for obi-wan. So really, obi-wan did help her live longer than she would have otherwise, from a certain point of view.

also obi-wan definitely finds it romantic that anakin let someone else kill her & rewards him for it after the games ;)

(also for a sec i thought maybe the other girl would be padme & maybe anakin used to like her and is briefly sad & padme is a master manipulator and makes obi-feel like shit for choosing to let her die (making anakin hate her lol) and also making obi-wan feel super insecure about the ruse and also maybe really petty and bitchy? and she’s also really popular in the capital and canon padme isn’t a terrible fighter either)(maybe padme pretends to be (or is) pregnant and she pretends their anakins and obi-wan is SO insecure and/or seeing red)

lmao sorry for the massive ask the hunger games awaken something terrible in me

oo i think maybe a braver writer would probably have made anakin's other tribute padmé, and i guess there's still time for that, but i didn't want to for a couple of reasons, hence using a made up oc instead

i think the tug of guilt obi-wan would feel over having a preferred victor (anakin) and giving them both trainings but then really carefully only campaigning for sponsors to take a look at anakin, not the other tribute.....because anakin needs funds for a blanket, anakin needs food, obi-wan is watching anakin suffer and any second he may have to watch him die.... he feels guilty about the other tribute but he cannot watch anakin die....like that's enough guilt for obi-wan, i don't think specifically padmé could make him feel worse

also i think another reason i didn't choose padmé was because i didn't want anyone to think anakin used to like her lol this anakin is not normal this anakin is a creep this anakin was like. fourteen, saw obi-wan being all pathetic and sad and decided if obi-wan wasn't going to take advantage of him anakin was going to take advantage of obi-wan, worm his way into his confidences and affections and then never ever leave like this is not a boy who had a crush on any sort of padmé amidala he would not be sad he is not capable of being sad about the other tribute this is not a normal dude and tbh its easier to just. not have her in the story than to push back against that all the time

or i think i'd have her as part of the capitol who works with obi-wan to overturn palpatine once the rebellion is going on, but i think she would find anakin off-putting because he's 100% creep but not a creep who is in love with her and it just actually makes her uncomfortable to be in a room with him. asks obi-wan to blink twice if he needs rescuing. obi-wan blinks a lot of times because he's confused as to how anyone could ever need saving from anakin

anakin wouldn't hurt a fly

[thegreenthepeacetheorange]

i won't tag gale because his fans will be mad at me but how you can read mockingjay and still like the idea of gale and katniss together, romantically or otherwise, is beyond me because 20% of the time she's grateful she still has a district friend with her, 30% of the time annoyed at him and wanting away from him and the last 50% of the time wholly indifferent to him because she's got so much else going on.

[peculiaritybending]

I’m thinking about odesta again, fuck my life.

[your-gracee]

WHY ARE THEY TAKING ALL THG FILMS OFF OF NETFLIX AGAIN??? MY HEART CANNOT SURVIVE THIS!!!

[nomattertheoceans]

Help I'm deep in my Hunger Games feels again and I need some fics of Finnick and Annie falling in love 😭😭

[blupengu]

Y’all is Hollow Knight hard or do I just suck because oh my god??

[unsurebazookacore]

between the new hunger games movie and the pjo tv series coming out does anyone else feel like they’re 13 and in middle school transcending their school library checkout limits again or is it just me

[holidaywishes]

oh my gosh! I’m so excited to see my baby back on screen somewhere. I know he’s been on a few shows, but I haven’t seen him act in anything major in a long time. 😆

[casiavium]

I'm planning on seeing Barbie this weekend and after everything I've seen about it 1. Still don't really understand the plot and 2. I don't know if I want to see it. It's not a Barbie movie it's a movie with Barbies in it

[megan0013]

Her arms are wrapped around his waist, face buried into his chest when he forces the win.

She realizes what’s happening the instant he pulls the knife from its sheathe, but her shock paralyzes her just long enough for him to make his move. His arm arcs sideways and there’s a gasp and the sickening sound of steel piercing flesh and then she’s jerking away from him.

“What have you done?” Clove whispers, eyes wide and, suddenly, very afraid. “Cato, what have you done!”

“I can’t…” He takes a strained, wheezing breath. “I can’t go home without you.”

“No!” She shouts, backing away from the boy in front of her. “This… This isn’t how it was supposed to happen.”

“Clove,” he whispers, taking a single step toward her before collapsing onto his knees.

She rushes forward and helps him onto his back, careful not to aggravate the knife sticking out of his side as she pulls his head onto her lap.

“I’m sorry,” he tells her. “I’m too… selfish. Can’t live… without you.”

“So, what?” She growls through her tears. “I’m just supposed to go on without you? I can’t, Cato.” She shakes her head. “I won’t.”

“Have to.” He tries to smirk, but only manages to grimace in pain.

“No,” she says and reaches into her pocket. She pulls out a handful of berries and holds them out. “I can just eat these and we can go together.”

“Clove, no!” Cato makes a feeble attempt at knocking the berries out of her palm, but his hand barely manages to leave his chest. “No.”

“Wait! Wait! Ladies and gentlemen, presenting-“

But she doesn’t listen to the message Claudius Templesmith is trying to deliver to them. She throws a handful of berries into her mouth and swallows them whole.

“Clove,” Cato groans, eyes fluttering as he tries to maintain consciousness.

“I have always,” Clove whispers fiercely as she leans forward to rest her forehead against his, “loved you.”

“I wish…”

The cannon booms, followed seconds later by another. There is no winner this year, no hope, and the Capitol burns because of it.

[nightssideblogofshame]

This game is so bad to play, i now need to figure out how to speedrun what took me 8hrs to figure out so the guy survives, but also no other game has stuck in my mind like this one

I was fucking scooping ice cream at my job and im sitting there like: ok, so maybe if i skip that hallway, but that hallway has all the equipment coin tosses, but if i snag a detour to the armory room and get lucky on tosses-

This game is haunting me and i am, against my will, highly engaged