#hunger games

[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.

[mockingjay-sings]

“Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.”

How are we holding up? I’m still crying about Lenore Dove and the gumdrops

[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

[irlplasticlamb]

women in haymitch’s life. (from top left: willamae abernathy, lenore dove baird, (loulou) + louella mccoy, maysilee donner. blurred: katniss everdeen with effie trinket’s hand on her back)

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[katnissandpeetamellark]

Idek we’re all depressed

[ladiemars]

when your circle small but y’all doomed by the narrative

[historianroo]

i read the hunger games at an influential age and alongside a dozen other books that showed me the worst that humanity could offer and realized that choosing compassion, choosing kindness, choosing love was always the best choice.

i think that it's a lot of the reason why I am still an optimist today. I love every person I have never met. Because when everything is shit you can still stop and smell the flowers and smile at a stranger and tell your friends you love them.

I think the most radical thing the hunger games does is tell young people that the most revolutionary thing you can do is have unconditional love for humanity. Katniss throughout the entire series is guided by a deep sense of compassion for the people around her. It is what causes her to volunteer, to bury rue, to mercy kill cato, its why she tries to save peeta, why finnick telling her to remember who the real enemy is works, and even though her compassion for the larger world falters when peeta is kidnapped, it comes back when she visits hospitals and asks for mercy for other victors and ultimately, it is love and belief in a better humanity that makes her kill coin. Through it all, she maintains an unfaltering belief in the fundemental goodness of humanity, which is diametrically opposed to dr gaul's and snow's worldview. Peeta is even more unwaveringly compassionate

So the series tells young people that the most revolutionary thing you can be is compassionate. Let compassion drive your politics. Let yourself believe in the fundemental goodness of people. And i think that's deeply important in a world that touts the superiority of pure reason or logic, to allow yourself to be guided by something as emotional as compassion. Katniss everdeen tells us that your politics should be rooted in compassion in a world that thinks detatchment or cynicism is intelligence and i think thats v cool

[vol-au-vending-machine]

Effie is actually not fanservice because she is important to the theme of propaganda in SOTR

Effie is 100% brainwashed AND YET she still hasn't lost her humanity. She believes propaganda completely AND YET she doesn't use it as an excuse to abuse people. Throughout the book, the tributes are constantly dehumanised. But Effie doesn't treat Haymitch that way. She helps the team. She's there for him in the launch room- which Drusilla and so many Capitol citizens would never do.

So there really is no excuse for abusing people, not even "I was lied to" or "i thought i was in the right" or "I was fed propaganda"

You still choose how you interact with people around you and how you treat them.

Thanks for coming 2 my TED talk.

[slaymitchabernathy]

lucy gray is a songbird bc she sings.

peeta is a jabberjay bc he misleads the capitol with his words.

katniss is a mockingjay bc she was never supposed to happen in the first place. a sign that life prevails against all odds.

thanks for coming to my ted talk!!!

[redisnotonfire]

shout out to suzanne collins for, in the middle of Everything Else she was doing in sotr, dropping a paragraph that’s just “btw fuck ai”

[batnanne]

The video the Capitol kept showing of district 13

[mockingjay-sings]

I’m ok, I’m fine, I’ve been handling Sunrise on the Reaping very well -I’ve been crying non stop.

[irlplasticlamb]

when lenore dove comes to me now, she’s not angry or dying (…). she’s grown older with me, her face etched with fine lines, her hair touched with gray. like she’s been living her life beside me as the years passed, instead of lying in her grave. still so rare and radiant.

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[sweetlucygray]

i am holding the internet's hands and begging you guys not to be weird when they eventually cast adults to portray the kids in sunrise on the reaping. probably not all of the tributes and not all of the teens in district twelve but definitely some. the entertainment industry has never been kind to children and i hope every production does it best to protect its young cast but i know that isn't true. i also know that there are younger people in the fandom who weren't around during the original films' run and so they didn't witness all the unjust hate and vitriol lobbied at some of the cast especially amandla stenberg (rue's actress) and i hope to god no young actor goes through that again.

jennifer lawrence was twenty one years old when she got cast for the hunger games and i thank the casting director for that every day. a lot of people complained that she didn't look thin enough or young enough or waifish enough to portray katniss and i'm glad that the producers ignored those comments. because jennifer lawrence was skilled and talented enough to bring justice to katniss' character and most of all she was an adult who had a better chance of surviving all of the pressure and challenges that comes with leading a massive franchise. sure they could've casted an equally skilled actress who was sixteen years old but could that sixteen year old survive all of the trials and tribulations that comes with being at the forefront of a popular entertainment franchise

[katniss-gray]

no, but this is the point. the US commits heinous war crimes against other countries and even their own people and the only thing that's nailed into you in (most) grade school(s) is 9/11 because that's when the US was a victim and that's when the aftermath was overwhelming patriotism. I was talking to a friend last night and I mentioned Japanese internment during WW2 and she *didn't know what I was talking about.* That happened 80-ish years ago and already, so many people aren't aware of the terrible illegal things that happened to Japanese people during the 40s. NOT TO MENTION Chinese hatred during McCarthyism era AND general Asian hate at the beginning of Covid!! i know there are other factors to specifically asian crimes (asian American studies is my university minor) and I understand that there are plenty of other minorities that have suffered at the hands of the state, but asian american is what I know most about.

ANYWAY this is also why the US government is trying to defund the department of education and PBS. if people learn real history, it's harder for them to be brainwashed in 20-50 years.

sunrise on the reaping raises an incredibly important ethical question: how many generations does it take to erase history, to the point of blind, unquestioning acceptance?

i fear the answer is far fewer than any of us are comfortable with.