#hunger games irl

[johannamason07]

We were recently on an overnight trip with class and we were supposed to prepare some fun program to do at the evening with the other class that was there with us and we were chatting about it the day before and well...

1: so we have the game ready, right?

Us: yeah

1: and if we had some time left, we can still play this...

2: or we can lock them in the cellar and see how it ends up

Me: or you know, Hunger Games are also a thing

2: that's an amazing idea-

[amethystsoda]

Since we're talking about it--this was the Grammys this year (2024). EVERY table. Had a huge spread like this. that NO ONE ate... just food for a display of decadence.

"Delp (the person responsible for the boards) put together a whopping 125 boards in 16 hours for the show, with each presented in identical fashion on custom Iler Woods slabs."

[tboynightmare]

not enough people talk about how genuinely hilarious peeta is?? like in the first games when he's withering away by the river, disguised by his camouflage, a wicked infection in his leg and katniss finds him and he says "here to finish me off sweetheart?" or even when he isn't trying, like before the quell when hes telling haymitch and katniss that they need to get their shit together and he says something like "we don't need a bunch of drunkards on the team" when he knows the night before was the only time he had even seen katniss drink or be drunk. not to mention the fact that TWO YEARS IN A ROW he came to his final interview, chatted with caesar normally and then randomly dropped the craziest bomb right before being sent into the arena. pls u guys i love him

[babygirlgiles]

Why does no one else see my vision for post-war Effie Trinket. Like that woman does NOT become a civil servant, she does not join the ranks of government service. She is 100% New Panem’s first influencer. She was already having her It Girl moment as the escort of District Twelve’s victors beforehand and now there’s public perception that she was this Hunger Games insider playing the long con to dismantle the system from within and paid this great sacrifice for it by being tortured by Snow’s cadre for her efforts. Which is not true at all because she had No Clue what was going on but Plutarch needs new programming to fill all the hours that used to be taken up by Hunger Games related media so he decides to capitalize on Effie having Her Moment. And with people being allowed to travel between districts for the first time in over a generation and newfound freedom of information, there would a nationwide fascination how other people live. Effie ends up with her own lifestyle/travel series where she visits different regions of Panem and even exotic far away places such as “England”. She’s posting beach selfies on Panemstigram to promote her upcoming episode on lobster fishing off District Thirteen’s revitalized coastline.

She even gets her own daytime talk show at one point. She tries (and fails) for years to get Peeta on the show as a guest. Katniss has never watched a single episode.

[lullydoesstuff]

- TOP DYSTOPIAN BOOKS -

Well, since I want to use this blog for personal stuff too and not just for requests or stuff concerning my MANY Demon Slayer AUs, here we are talking about some of my favourite books ever.

I love dystopian ones so these three will be very hard-core, I love the Hunger Games, I love Maze Runner, I love 1984 but these three just hit different.

Let's not lose time and let's begin!

3 - Tender is the Flesh (Augustina Bazterrica)

I decided to start with a book that has arrived in my country just this year, I didn't know about it before and I'm so glad I red it, even if it really disturbed me... do you know what the Promised Neverland is? Well, take it but make it Supersayan. And this is the less disturbing one here.

Plot: Marcos works in the meat industry, he always did but recently a virus started spreading, and animals couldn't be edible anymore so what does the government do? They start searching for vegan replacements? NO! They legalize cannibalism. Marcos has a troubled life, his father has gone mad since this "transition" from animal meat to human meat and his wife left him after they lost their son. He works in the meat industry but he swears to himself that he's not like the others, because he doesn't eat meat.

I know what you're thinking, "but this is a book to bring people close to veganism, it's the whole point"... no, congratulations, you didn't understand ANYTHING. This book is way more complex, this because it's about the line that divides humanization/objectification, and this will be a recurring theme in this post.

This book is full of gore (what did you expect?), graphic descriptions, violence, sexual violence so I don't know if I recommend this book to everyone, it's very short but be aware of this if you decide to read it. In any case, the plot is very interesting and it's very well written.

2 - The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

I'm sure many of you have seen the TV series, I've seen it too and it's one of the few cases I say that the series is better than the book, maybe because the series has a more modern setting and so I can actually be terrified by it.

Plot: the world has been almost destroyed by wars and this caused the birth to decrease to 0, and what happens in America? After a coup a new government is instituted... a totalitarian theocracy where religious confessions that aren't Christianity are banned, let's fucking go, this new country's name is Gilead. In this new world women have an only job: being literal baby machines given to rich families to have children.

This is so damn disturbing because, the insemination thing is wild, the man reads a Bible verse from Genesis, and then he just... does it. It's gross, go check for yourselves, human butchering was nothing compared to this.

We follow June, an Handmaid and we just see how things work in this new... amazing... world... I guess.

1 - Unwind (Neal Shusterman)

This deserves the first place, I've never stopped reading a book I loved because it disturbed me too much. I wanted to support the author, he's very good, so I bought all the other books from the Unwind distology... but I finished the first one and never red the second one, please tell me in the comments if it isn't as disturbing as the first one so I can give it a chance or not.

Plot: in the USA a second civil war is fought, but that's not a war where you shoot people from aontoher country to conquer it, or to oppose the government (well... kinda), it's about reproductive rights, many discussions, many things but in the end people decree that you can't abort in any case (*Lully already screaming and tearing off her hair*) BUT you can... well... Unwind your child if you don't want them anymore. But just when he's from 13 to 18.

What does unwind mean? Basically you give your unwanted child to some clinics that literally vivisection them (yes, the person is awake during the process BY LAW) and give thier organs to people that need transplants.

Now you can easily understand why this is the number 1 in this list, it's the destructive combo between "Tender is The Flash" and "the Handmaid's Tale".

We'll follow the story of Risa, Connor and Levi (and this last one oh my God, I wanted to punch his family so bad), escaping their fate of being unwind.

And yes, that scene comes, yes, you will see a vivisection, and yes... you will feel physically sick and need to throw up after, you'll probably have nightmares and life crisis. Also because... the unwind isn't exactly one of the "good guys".

Ah, dear pro-life people that care about a bunch of unborn cells and can't distinguish a human embryo from a dolphin embryo... Read this book, then change your mind about other people's body and take choices just for yours, because it seems we're going back and not aiming foward as we should.

[dollythatdollgirl]

UGHHHHHHH WHY MUST THE HUNGER GAMES BE SO MAIN STREAM YET SO NICHE AT THE SAME TIME???

[stardust948]

Last night, I had this weird Hunger Games/Narnia crossover dream where Peter and Edmund were trolling Snow SO HARD for still obsessing over Lucy Gray. It was great.

[plasticbabyart]

More than one IRL follows this blog and that's kinda scary sorry im so cringe jammers I need to get it out some where

[bread-by-drone]

middle-aged snow complaining and projecting to a teenager about a girl he “dated” DECADES ago is so straight white man in a situationship core

[gt-ridel]

Why are they so pretty? I already have the old style hardcovers I should not be drooling over these special editions I saw at walmart yesterday.

[oolhan]

Snippet Sunday!

This will be the last I’ll share a snippet of this one because… I’ll be posting the first chapter in the next few hours!

Haymitch just gives her a nod and a pat on Prim’s head before lounging where Peeta sat. “Who’s this?”

“Peeta Mellark, sir.” Peeta bends down to shake Haymitch’s hand.

“Oh, my! Katniss is this him?” Aunt Maysilee, in the jolly way she is, comes up to Peeta and pecks him both on the cheeks. “Welcome, welcome!”

Katniss' cheeks burn.

Peeta is now both confused and tense. Had she been sharing about him? They need to talk.

And thank you as well for mentioning me @unnamednarrator last wip wednesday, this is my compensation😂

[definitelynotshouting]

why is it an onion? love ur work btw

idk what ur talking abt these are clearly the same thing 😌😌😌

[sparkles-and-trash]

In the 9th grade our teacher had this tradition to read for us every last hour on fridays, and she really wanted to read us the first Hunger Games book, both in hopes to keep our focus and because she believed the story to be important.

I was seriously changed as a person by that first book, my outlook on politics, humans, of the people in power, all because my teacher read us that first book back in 2009.

In 2012 I watched the midnight premiere of the movie, and later that year, on my 18th birthday I got my first tattoo; a large mockingjay on my calf, not as a fan tattoo, but as a statement, a reminder to the book story that fundementally changed me as a person.

Today it’s very strange to see it’s massive ongoing inpact all over the world, and nothing short of painful to see that it’s relevance has grown to a size 14 year old me never would have expected.

[espi-jama]

My computer is literaly dying, soooooo take this before I delete it, lol

Some doodles with the Hunger Games Simulator

I only have 4.6 GB left 😭😭😭

[thejilyship]

EXCUSE ME SHUT UP SLAM THE DAMN DOOR FIRE THE MEDIA ANOTHER HUNGER GAMES FICCCCC AHHHH IM BEING FED

AHHHH I'M SO EXCITED TO FINALLY SHARE THIS FIC! BUT YES FIRE THE MEDIA LMAO