#may the sunrise

[crazyness-overpowers]

the way haymitch must have seen it as all his ghosts coming back to haunt him at once when katniss walked onto the train with the face of burdock and asterid, the pin of maysilee, the voice of lenore dove, and a background so devastatingly similar to his own. of course sweetheart slipped out. and of course he did everything he could to keep her alive

[capsicle107]

The Washington D.C. National Mall + Steve Rogers being a little shit

[geopsych]

Sunrise. You should hear the birds!

[districtunrest]

no matter young Haymitch's characterization in Sunrise, I'm always going to be partial to the interpretation that he was a smart-ass punk who thought he knew better than everyone until he was crowned & punished.

the Games changed him, all right. they made him face death and finally flinch, finally see how small & finite his life was and that the world didn't care how clever he was or how above-it-all he acted.

one wrong move, one missed chance encounter with Maysilee, and he would've been dead. and no amount of bravado, or hat tricks, or snarky comebacks would've made any difference.

he went home without the innocence he came with, that he didn't know he'd had to begin with. he'd been so sure of himself. (he'd been so afraid.) he was smarter than the other tributes. (the girl looked like an airhead but she was bigger than him and just as fast, and she'd-)

47 50 other people had to die for young Haymitch to learn he didn't know anything about anything, actually.

because what's more, he had a debt bigger than his own life to pay when he got home. he hadn't expected that. I imagine it took him by surprise. I imagine he felt angry and guilty and powerless, with unimaginable sorrow that cut him down to size... as very small, & stupid, & only sixteen.

imagine that as a coming of age.

[caffeccino]

A copic doodle of 'Otai

She's soon to be Sunrise's coworker and pal, but we're a little ways from her in the comic proper

[olessan]

☼ The Sun Rises ☼

[justafewberries]

haymitch is only 41 in the epilogue btw

[notsocooljess]

after seeing the drug pump used on lou lou and haymitch, i’m absolutely convinced this is how snow hijacked peeta.

instead of being strapped to a bed with tubes in his arms as he watched clips of him and katniss, snow probably had situations where he let peeta go around his normal day and then gave him something that wa a subtle reminder of his games and pumped him with the tracker jacker venom at moments where he wouldn’t even expect it.

[boxfullaturtles]

Breath, should I take a deep? Faith, should I take a leap? Taste, what a bittersweet All my life, all my life

Got an itch to draw a Station of Awakening. Was gonna do everyone but that's a lot, so just Leo for now. Might come back to do the rest of the team but we'll see...

Anyway, I think KH3's theme song, "Face My Fears", fits really well for KH Leo. Especially post-Krang invasion.

[tottmnt]

MARCH FOR RAPH ↳ Day 4: Sunset

[queenlawrenceskingdom]

Lucy Gray having a headstone in the Covey graveyard means she went back home after avoiding Snow. She had told him she wouldn’t last long out there alone, but who knows how long she was out there. Did she come back when she thought it was safe, only for Snow to have risen to power? Did he arrange an accident for her like Lenore Dove? He ranted about her to Haymitch at the Heavensbee’s so he obviously still holds a grudge 40 years later. How did all these Covey girls die so young?

[katnissmellarkkk]

does anyone else notice haymitch uses possessive adjectives a lot when speaking about people?

“my sweetheart” “my girl” “my love” “my doves”

[katnissandpeetamellark]

That post about Jack Black being a covey name…

Does that make all of these people Covey too?

- Walter White

- Charlie Brown

- Sirius Black

- Al Green

- John Green

- Hank Green

- Betty White

- Shaun White

- Jacob Black (shoutout to @threestargirls for coming up with this one in the tags lol!)

[geopsych]

Hello from along the fence this morning!

[buttercups-revenge]

!Long post because I DO love writing about how unhinged Snow is and how he loves shooting himself in the foot—

Remember in Catching Fire when Snow just APPEARS in Katniss’ house to threaten her before the victory tour like the ghost of hunger games past?

Knowing now his obsession with Covey girls and not loving their partners, these lines are a helluva lot more impactful.

(“Peeta. How is the love of your life?” he (Snow) asks.

“Good,” I say.

“At what point did he realize the exact degree of your indifference?” he asks, dipping his cookie in his tea.

“I’m not indifferent,” I say.

“But perhaps not as taken with the young man as you would have the country believe,” he says.

“Who says I’m not?” I say.

“I do,” says the president. “And I wouldn’t be here if I were the only person who had doubts. How’s the handsome cousin?” (Catching Fire, 7))

Snow openly states that he DOES NOT believe that Katniss is capable of actually loving Peeta. (I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s because of his bizarro obsession with Lucy Gray).

Meanwhile, she has risked her life MANY times to save Peeta, thinks about his dreamy eyelashes, and the biggest reason she does not think about him romantically is BECAUSE of the situation that Snow has put them in!!!

(“I want to tell him that he’s (Peeta’s) not being fair…That I can’t explain how things are with Gale because I don’t know myself....That if I do have feelings for him (Peeta), it doesn’t matter because I’ll never be able to afford the kind of love that leads to a family, to children. And how can he? How can he after what we’ve just been through?” (The Hunger Games, 373))

Snow asks about Gale because he remembers Billy Taupe, and sees Katniss’ indecision around him as infidelity toward Peeta. He is MAD projecting. Even if Katniss WAS as deeply obsessed with Peeta like she pretends to be, I doubt that Snow would recognize it.

Further, when Katniss tours 8 in Mockingjay, people in the Districts ask her especially about Peeta (“Despite his controversial interview with Caesar, many ask about Peeta, assure me that they know he was speaking under duress.” (Mockingjay, 81). PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICTS BELIEVE THEIR LOVE STORY IS REAL. Maybe not all of them, but enough that INJURED rebels are insisting to Katniss that they know he is being tortured, and know how hard it must be for her. Even THEY are able to recognize her love is real.

In projecting his shit onto Katniss, Snow has prevented her from realizing her actual love for Peeta, because he emphasizes her need to PERFORM rather than to feel love. And he emphasizes this BECAUSE he STILL does not understand how love really works, only how to manipulate and control. If Katniss had more space and time, (and if a DISGUSTING AWFUL OLD FASCIST MAN wasn’t OBSESSED with her needing to perform love toward Peeta), there is a good chance that she would have figured out her love for Peeta faster and more organically!!!

ADDITIONALLY (I do so love slam dunking on coriobimbam): the fact that snow makes it seem like (or genuinely BELIEVES) their stunt with the berries is THE thing that causes the revolution is so telling to me.

It is the LOVE that Katniss and Peeta have for each other that led them to take the berries in the first place:

(“No, you can’t kill yourself,” I say. I’m on my knees, desperately plastering the bandage back onto his wound.

“Katniss,” he says. “It’s what I want.”

“You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he (Peeta) dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out. (The Hunger Games, 343))

BEFORE she thinks about outsmarting the gamemakers, BEFORE she thinks of revolution, she is DESPERATE to save Peeta. The people in the Districts aren’t seeing the BERRIES as the rebellion, they’re seeing the love that these two have, DESPITE the horrible situation they are in (the situation that SNOW HAS PUT THEM IN), as the revolution. They see that these two act OUT OF LOVE, not out of maliciousness, and THAT is what inspires them to rebel.

AND SNOW DOESN’T GET IT!!!!!!! His (any fascist’s?) inability to understand love, to understand compassion and self-sacrifice, hell maybe even just FRIENDSHIP is what leads to his downfall.

TLDR: snow ‘s inability to understand love and his NEED to project his issues (in an UN-FUCKING-HINGED manner) onto Katniss and Peeta are what led to his downfall.

[caffeccino]

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