#hunger games

[mockingjay-sings]

The Reluctant Victor, inspired by The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche - I just thought that this painting was SO perfect for Katniss and I had to draw it!

[sparemoon]

Quiet cat gf vs loud dog bf

[seasonn]

peeta tried to save him and katniss by saying she had a baby, because he knew that would pull at the capitals heart strings. In a dystopian society, peeta mellark knew the capital would care more about a fetus than the real dying children . this sounds oddly familiar

[doodlebugdpj]

❤️

I love your designs!

messing around with some book haymitch designs in preparation for the new book next year!!

[batcavescolony]

Katniss's Narration vs Haymitch's Narration

[mellkellyismyhero]

beetee latier came up with one singular plan ever to defeat the hunger games and canonically tried to make it work TWICE despite the fact that it literally blew up in his face the first time.

this officially makes him the world’s most accurate fictional scientist because he HAS a favorite hypothesis that he IS going to make sure works even if it fucking kills him

[irlplasticlamb]

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

prints + merch + commission info pinned to profile :)

[effie-trinkets-no1-fan]

Th best parents they could have asked for.

[effieotto]

when Haymitch says that Proserpina wasn’t a bad person, but just extremely clueless, he backs his argument by saying that she wasn’t evil, she just had a lot of things to unlearn. which is a funny choice of words, cause while Katniss see her team as dumb kiddos, who couldn’t know any better because they simply didn’t have the brains to do so, haymitch doesn’t see their problem as a lack of education. actually, by saying she had a lot of things to unlearn, instead of arguing that she wasn’t very bright and needed to learn better, he’s subtly recognizing that the crux of the problem is not necessarily the quality of the education or how much capable those people were to absorb it, but how biased their system is in stimulating the critical process of their children. the capitol’s strategy was to corrupt their minds with the strongest and most efficient method of brainwashing —they held total power of how further their children could go in terms of knowledge. they manipulated the truth, made up scenarios and changed narratives so they could force them into unnoticed submission.

Intelectual control is the best way to make sure your people won’t start questioning your methods, cause as long as they don’t know any different, they don’t have anything to compare you to. and if you can hold the power of how much of the reality they know, you can easily control their natural desire for change…

and saying they are like that because they are child-like dumb is pushing them way too shallow into the conversation. the point of the capitol isn’t the lack of education. the problem is how much their academic influence aren’t used as a tool of ideology control. the smartest folk at school will still look up at the games as a blessing for the community, because snow’s intention was to efficiently erase the reality off their brains so they can work in his favor. so as long as you don’t have a reason to think out of the ordinary, due to some specific experience, or has the means and desire to educate yourself against what the common sense says, you won’t go any further…

and it’s fun cause most of those people wouldn’t even try to go out of the box, because that system was comfortable for them. if your choice is either to be starved in a war or to be comfy with your family in your three stores mansion, eating shrimps and going to parties in your fancy clothes at weekends, and the price for it is just to watch, for a week every year, twenty-four unknown children sacrificing themselves for the cause (which most of the people in the capitol believed to be a privilege to them, since that was the propaganda the tributes had to sell during interviews —which is another can of worms i am not going to open now), why would you want it to end? if all the government asks you in exchange for your protection is to be in line and don’t let your mind wonder to uncomfortable thoughts you didn’t even want to visit anyway, why would you? that’s the world you’ve been living on since ever, you don’t know anything else. in school they teach you that’s the only normal and you don’t have anything else saying it isn’t, so why would you feel bad? at home your mom and dad tells you the games are fun, so why wouldn’t you think they’re fun? should you feel bad just because you were lucky to be born in the capitol? that’s not your fault, that’s just what it is. if the districts choose to revolt years ago and then lost the war, that’s their fault, not urs

As Katniss says herself:

“In fact, all three are so readily respectful and nice to my mother that I feel bad about how I go around feeling so superior to them. Who knows who I would be or what I would talk about if I'd been raised in the Capitol? Maybe my biggest regret would be having feathered costumes at my birthday party, too” Catching fire, page 46

my question is, in this line of responsibility, where the submission ends and the oppression begins? if we can’t blame them for the way they think, because of how much knowledge they were granted by snow’s tendency of masking the reality, can we blame them for not realizing sooner that it was wrong? and not being to blame for the ideals that were carved into their scowl, does exonerate them from their actions?

i don’t know, those people are just so interesting

[and to be clear, i am not talking about the high classes of the capitol. it’s implied that those who’d access to real information, either from somehow being related into politics or for fitting the category of sponsors who were more or less involved in the underground political process of the victors lives, are part of a limited range of people! the majority of the capitol, though still extremely problematic, weren’t granted a close view to the backstage, thus most of their knowledge about it came exclusively through Snow and his controlled, manipulated narratives]

[kittiescat444]

Bonnie and Twill are such important characters to me and I think they should’ve been included in the movies. For one, they’re from the first district that started the uprising. Second, they’re the whole reason Katniss thinks about District 13 possibly somewhat thriving. They are just sooo important and I’m so upset that they’re not in Catching Fire because they’re so crucial. At least, to me they are.

[onefail-at-atime]

...like there aren't approximately at least 2,000 other people on a district of 10,000 who are also stubborn and tend to hide their true personality? 🙄

Lucy Gray / Lenore Dove / Katniss

[freelancelobotomy]

Victor's who I think are Body Doubles like Lou Lou

The whole louella and lou lou switch must've become a typical practice for when things went awry when tributes died unexpectedly. I don't think that the capital would abuse this opportunity because i feel like if they did i too often then people would begin to pick up on it....but still I wonder. Could some of the victors possibly be mimics??? A lot of the time, tributes are so near death at the end of the games. so I was thinking... what if they died before their victory tour could even begin and Snow ordered for a body doubles to be created in order to take their place??? Especially the Victors in catching fire who aren't in on the rebellion.

It's mentioned that the morphlings are kind of odd and and that they won their games through hiding (which in my opinion seems like an easy cover up from the capitol). But the person I suspect the MOST of being a body double is Woof from District 8 who was a tribute in the 3rd quarter quell and won his games (12th-15th annual games. It's unclear.) WHY WOOF YOU ASK?:

1) ACCORDING TO KATNISS IN CF, HE'S HARD OF HEARING 2) Both him AND LOU LOU put poisonous things in their mouths at training stations 3) Katniss describes him as confused and unaware of whats going on, just like how Lou Lou is. I JUST CAN'T IGNORE THE GLARING SIMILARITIES BETWEEN SOME OF THE VICTORS AND LOU LOU. THERES NO WAY IN HELL THAT LOU LOU IS THE ONLY BODY DOUBLE AND THERE'S GOT TO BE AT LEAST SOME VICTORS THAT GOT CAUGHT IN THE MIX. And who knows? Maybe something happened to Woof (perhaps self inflicted?) before the 3rd quarter quell Snow ordered a body double for him. I think it's unlikely that a body double would've survived as long as he as because it's established that Woof is an elderly man so he probably wasn't replaced during his victory tour but still. I think theres gotta be a body double who was freshly a victor (By that I mean created because the original victor died before they could be crowned or go on their tour). Snow himself said that there must be a victor for each Hunger Games and I wouldn't put it above him to lie and say that there was. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[katnissmellarkkk]

i love how it’s universally known that catching fire is the most beloved hunger games book (they even keep throwing comparisons between sotr and cf in the promo for the new movie right now) and yet no one wants to admit the biggest reason for its popularity is really and truly, the sheer amount of everlark dating/“not dating” content it contains.

[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.

[dastupid]

WHY WONT YOU LET ME DIE!? Peeta cries while Katniss dreams about his eyelashes and his children playing in the meadow.

The thing about Peeta is that he gave Katniss an out multiple times throughout the series.

He offered to die in their first games. He undid his bandage on his bleeding leg and literally said “It’s what I want”

In the Quarter Quell he volunteered so that he could protect her and guarantee her survival and gave his blessing for her to move on.

In Mockingjay he asks someone in Squad 451 to kill him and in the tunnels he asked to be left behind and die.

He repeatedly gave Katniss the opportunity to let him go and love someone else but Katniss refused. She refused each time because she can’t live without him. She loves him, it was always him.