#madge undersee

[smallpapers]

“He can wrestle,” I tell Haymitch. “He came in second in our school competition last year, only after his brother.”

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I hear Peeta’s voice in my head. She has no idea. The effect she can have. Obviously meant to demean me. Right? But a tiny part of me wonders if this was a compliment. That he meant I was appealing in some way. It’s weird, how much he’s noticed me. Like the attention he’s paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread.

[moved2fshfish]

district 12

note STOP telling me you dont think katniss is tall idgaf . ooh i would switch madge and katnisses height IDC! these are my designs for them and short peeta tall katniss is real TO ME just say u hate tall women 😒

[leulahart]

Some more pre-canon doodles!

Alternative title: Katniss and her blondies :)

[askclato]

Gale: Katniss isn’t answering her phone.

Peeta: I’ll call.

Gale: Madge and I have both tried six times each, what makes you thi-

Katniss: Hello?

[mollywog]

Thinking about Katniss’s friendship with Madge (and also Gale)

I think Madge is important for several reasons, but one being: She shows us that Katniss doesn't 100% 'buy' the whole merchant vs seam thing.

The mayor’s daughter, Madge, opens the door. She’s in my year at school. Being the mayor’s daughter, you’d expect her to be a snob, but she’s all right. She just keeps to herself. Like me. Since neither of us really has a group of friends, we seem to end up together a lot at school. Eating lunch, sitting next to each other at assemblies, partnering for sports activities. We rarely talk, which suits us both just fine.

Katniss (and Gale) are actually progress thinkers in this way. They hold biases/resentment about the merchants, but also can recognize it as a Capital driven division.

Even though Gale snaps at Madge at the start of the book, Katniss credits him with knowing ‘his anger at Madge is misdirected.’ In fact he is the one verbalizing the idea to her.

You can see why someone like Madge, who has never been at risk of needing a tessera, can set him off. The chance of her name being drawn is very slim compared to those of us who live in the Seam. Not impossible, but slim. And even though the rules were set up by the Capitol, not the districts, certainly not Madge's family, it's hard not to resent those who don't have to sign up for tesserae.

Gale knows his anger at Madge is misdirected. On other days, deep in the woods, I've listened to him rant about how the tesserae are just another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to plant hatred between the starving workers of the Seam and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another. "It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves," he might say if there were no ears to hear but mine. If it wasn't reaping day. If a girl with a gold pin and no tesserae had not made what I'm sure she thought was a harmless comment.

Madge and Gale inspire Katniss’s rebellious actions just as much Peeta

Madge’s pin is what makes Rue trust Katniss.

I unclasp the pin and hold it out to her. “Here, you take it. It has more meaning for you than me.”

“Oh, no,” says Rue, closing my fingers back over the pin. “I like to see it on you. That’s how I decided I could trust you. Besides, I have this.” She pulls a necklace woven out of some kind of grass from her shirt. On it, hangs a roughly carved wooden star. Or maybe it’s a flower. “It’s a good luck charm.”

And Katniss is reminded of both Gale’s rants and Peeta’s piece in their games speech in the aftermath of Rue’s death

Gale’s voice is in my head. His ravings against the Capitol no longer pointless, no longer to be ignored. Rue’s death has forced me to confront my own fury against the cruelty, the injustice they inflict upon us. But here, even more strongly than at home, I feel my impotence. There’s no way to take revenge on the Capitol. Is there?

Then I remember Peeta’s words on the roof. “Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to . . . to show the Capitol they don’t own me. That I’m more than just a piece in their Games.” And for the first time, I understand what he means.

Please also check out this beautiful analysis of Madge by @wistfulweaverwoman!

[little-lynx]

lovers

Can I go where you go? Can we always be this close? Forever and ever, ah *

*Lover by Taylor Swift

p.s. Gadge is the love of my life and despite the fact that it’s not canon ship (but who knows really) I will always include them in this kind of posts ♥️

[witchhazelevesque]

Forever haunted by Katniss, who took months to warm up to Gale and didn’t realize she and Madge were more than just acquaintances of convenience until she was about to ship off to her death, saying that she and Thresh would have been friends if they both lived in 12

[smallpapers]

The Reaping sketches/wip

[moved2fshfish]

underrated thg girls fans syand up

[bramblrose]

“What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to rill in and die for their entertainment?”

[theartofdreaming1]

Finally finished my regency everlark drawing - hope you like it, @mollywog 😊

[kald-dal-art]

Doodles of the D12 teens, just experimenting with designs and color palettes for a potential future project

Also have an art give away at the moment so check out my pinned post if you are interested in that :^)

[everlarkyuri]

do you think that after district 12 was destroyed katniss saw strawberries and thought of the undersees. of madge, one of her first friends whom she never got to say goodbye to.

[askclato]

Peeta: I have written a small list of reasons I love Katniss.

Madge: It’s ten pages!

Peeta: I wanted to keep it brief.

[mollywog]

While I expect Maysilee will be the ‘most stuck-up girl in town’ character, I don’t actually think that will be a defining character trait - I suspect that’s Haymitch’s perception of her before they meet, similar to Katniss telling us that you might expect the mayor’s daughter to be a ‘snob’

[littlemarianah]