#or book as it were

[loungemermaid]

Based on this post, here’s a sneak peak of The Shaft, a fictional medical drama set in District Twelve that consumes Haymitch and Katniss. @mollywog @triassictriserratops this is both y’all’s fault

(Formatting is weird on tumblr so I’m not fixing it.)

[ Scene opens on establishing shot of small brick building, stained black with coal dust. A sign reads DISTRICT TWELVE MINERS' GENERAL HOSPITAL.]

"Haymitch, what the hell is this?" I ask, but he just shushes me. I groan. It's been ten years since the end of the war, and now that the Hunger Games are over, tv has turned into mostly optional, mostly dumb shows about things that don't really matter. A legal warning flashes on screen.

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to anyone, living or dead, is completely coincidental.

"Well I was gonna say. Is this that thing that Plutarch wanted us to sign off on?" There was a District Twelve miners' hospital, abandoned for years while I was a kid. Now it's mostly restored, but we still airlift most trauma cases to Thirteen or Three.

"Would you be quiet? Please. I'm trying to watch, sweetheart."

I roll my eyes and watch as the show changes to the inside of a locker room. A girl, round about my age, with olive skin and black hair, and big grey eyes that have to be fake, is changing into a pair of dark blue scrubs. She takes a second to breathe and the text at the bottom says 6:54 am, then she pushes the door open.

The scene cuts again to a round desk in a middle of a big room, filled with machines beeping, a flurry of people in different colored scrubs, some in white coats and some wearing cardigans, all running around, caring for people in gurneys screaming. An older lady, about my mom's age, is talking to middle aged doctor. Both apparently Seam.

“Got two new doctors today, one fresh out of med school, one in residency. Both local kids. Dr. Florian Graves is your resident, and Dr Anthracine Caldwell is the fresher. Which one you stickin' with Clearwater?"

The man scrubs his face. "None of 'em. Neither."

"Oh come on, Nash, you cain't punish her forever."

"Ain't a punishment! Who said I was punishing her? Naw, I just don't think she needs to be teaching right now, not after. It's alright. I'll take them. Thank you Sadie."

Sadie sighs, looks back to her computer, then looks up. "There's your fresher, I bet."

"Hi." The young woman says. "I didn't, should we have met at an office or something? I didn't see…" she trails off. She looks terrified. The man, Nash, walks over to her with a stack of charts.

"No, ain't no time for that. Come on, let's get your feet wet, Dr Caldwell."

"Anthci, please." The two start walking together and for the first time, how small Anthci is compared to everyone around her is shown. Dr Nash is head and shoulders above her.

"Antsy? You really want us to call you Antsy?"

"Anth-ci. With a th." Anthci sniffs.

Dr Nash nods. "Sure, whatever. We're just about to do rounds, have everyone from night shift switch off. Stick close to me for now, we have some attending doctors comin in a bit later, round abouts nine or so."

A golden haired man comes streaming by in a white lab coat.

"Dr Graves, I presume? How good of ya to join us. Welcome to the Shaft."

"Sorry I'm running a bit late this morning. Did you call this the Shaft?"

Dr Nash laughs. "Yeah, boy. Minin' term. Dimly lit, long hallways, poor ventilation. And if you stay here, you're bound to get shafted eventually. Hop to, Townie."

I don't want to be drawn in, but I'm captured by it immediately. "They did their research."

"Yeah, on some of it. This part they did good anyway." Haymitch whispers.

"Names are a bit stupid. Hers especially."

"Yeah, well. They're Capitol, sweetheart. Course they gave her a coal name."

"But they didn't have to name her literally coal."

"Sh!"

"You know, I went to school here too. I toured the mines." Dr Graves says.

"Duddn't hold a candle to workin' in em. Or pullin' people outta them. Mines for you is a school field trip. Ain't your life. It's just the set dressin'."

The camera pans back to Anthci, with a pensive look on her face. "Did you work in the mines, Dr Nash?"

"I did, as a medic, before we were allowed to test out of the District and go to medical school. Back when most of what we treated people with were herbs and ripped bedsheets. Y’all don't know how lucky y’all are."

"Lucky? In District Twelve? I know you're lyin'". Florian quips.

"Are they suggesting the bombing still happened?"

"Are you gonna interrupt every five seconds?" Haymitch groans.

I roll my eyes, but shut my mouth and keep watching.

The next scene is a small group of people in a huddle around Nash. Some obviously ethnically Twelve, but some hail from other districts. One, a very tall woman with lavender hair and nice clothes, presumably Capitol, has the look of rage barely brewing beneath the surface.

"Alright, fairly normal day so far, but don't nobody rest easy. We are a trauma center in a rural area still not totally used to routine medical care. That means y'all're gonna see people who should've come in a lot sooner than they did, having exhausted all the answers they could think of. These people do not have medical knowledge, and they are no strangers to desperation. They ain't gonna always make the smartest decisions, to y’all, but it made sense to them at the time. Do not make them feel stupid, or next time they'll die on their couch. Do not underestimate pain. Just because they say they're fine, it don't mean that they are. A lot of the people who grew up here have chronic health conditions that would've been unsurvivable only a few short years ago. Managing long term conditions is a luxury these people never had before the Revolution. We also, thanks to a certain few people that played a part in said revolution-

My cheeks burn.

-Have a bustling tourist industry. Tourists are not responsible. This is a new freedom not many know how to handle. You're gonna get a lot of shit thrown your way but you do not have the luxury of faltering. You need to stay calm. Remember your training. If you need help, ask. No one needs a hero. They need a medical professional."

The camera pans back to Anthci as she breathes it all in, her terror turning into quiet determination. She can do this. The group starts rounds

[twinnfawn]

Yknow rewatching gravity falls makes you realize how batshit insane Ford truly was

1. Lights his face on fire instead of shaving because “it’s faster”

2. Suggests Rudolph should’ve murdered the other reindeer for making fun of him

3. Had a situationship with a triangle

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[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.

[furrybluewhatever]

I just learned that Jim Henson was so conflict avoidant that there was this time his lawyers were arguing and they wanted him to get involved and he said 'nope, I've got to catch a flight to London' and then he got on a plane. He did not actually have to go to London he was just trying to get away.

That is so profoundly relatable and absurd.

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)

[sparemoon]

im suddenly 12 again and having feelings towards them

[gampix]

Guilt.

[corrodedaphroditus]

I love the idea that Bill’s manipulation tactics are horribly obvious but Ford is so socially inept that it works on him perfectly

“He was a masterful manipulator.”

No bestie he was just nice to you and you folded like a house of cards

[lunar-years]

To Snow, Lucy Gray is forever the same 16-year-old girl who ~betrayed~ him, and she haunts him accordingly. But Lenore Dove ages and grows gray alongside Haymitch, like she’s walking next to him through the years instead of lying in her grave. If you even care.

[sowlmates]

best friends to lovers is about DEVOTION it's about CODEPENDENCY it's about the intimacy of being known and being seen it's about holding someone so close to your heart you forget where you end and where they begin it's about knowing the worst parts about someone and loving them not only despite but FOR it

[espeonkin]

[chloesimaginationthings]

Sometimes I think about the FNAF 3 ending,,

[egophiliac]

GET LOVED, IDIOT

GET LOVED SO HARD YOUR KIDS HOLD HANDS AND POWER-OF-LOVE YOU BACK TO LIFE

sorry guys, this is just my brain now. this is going to be the only thing I think about for the next week at least.

oh and also this

FIVE YEARS IN AND IT'S FINALLY CANON 🎉🎉🎉

WE DID IT

[raptorrobot]

...like antennas to heaven

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