#silly katniss

[mellarksbunsz]

pretending to love peeta.. sure babe

[zer0brainc3lls]

Like girl no he’s just terrified like you 😭✋

Peeta: *crying cus he got picked for LITERAL DEATH GAMES*

Katniss: is this a strategy?

[carnationhes]

some quick lil screencap redraws

[darknesspervades]

i think that a lot of the fandom mischaracterises hijacked!peeta and it low key bugs me

because he isn't a single-minded murderer or filled with bloodlust - he's terrified

like a wounded animal, he lashes out at katniss because of how much he fears her; his mind has been so utterly warped that he can't see an escape other than through violence. he's convinced she's going to torture him, so he wants to stop her

which is why i think the idea that he hurts her post-mockingjay isn't a fair assumption; by this point, he's recovered enough that he is no longer violent. even in the capitol, his final descriptive relapse shows him punishing himself before he's willing to lay a hand on katniss

while he'll obviously never fully recover, his reported periods of relapse (grabbing the back of chairs and the like) are drawn from terror, previously aimed at katniss and later at himself as he gains back functionality

he was never warped into a mutt, or stripped of his personhood, or turned into a sadist. he was just made to fear everyone and everything - primarily katniss, which then manifested as a fear of himself.

[everlarkyuri]

katniss in thg: peeta is trying to kill me

katniss in cf: peeta is doing everything he can to convince me i should be the one to make it out of the arena, but i already promised to myself this time he would be the one to survive. everyone must be trying to protect him because they can see how genuinely good of a person he is compared to the rest of us.

katniss in mj: peeta is trying to kill me

[beautyofattolia]

I think the order of reasons Katniss gives for why Peeta shouldn't be mad at her for playing up their romance is so funny. Like she starts with the fact that they didn't know each other and she was trying to survive and that she doesn't understand what exists between her and Gale. But then she goes into "well I'm never going to get married and he'll just hate me for that!" and "I can't afford love that leads to children or family!"

Girl. Why are you thinking about marriage or children with a man you claim you have no feelings for? Did Peeta ever say he wanted to get married? Did he ever say he wanted children?

NO! Katniss is literally doing this all on her own! She's coming up with a happily-ever-after-domestic-bliss-married-with-kids fantasy in her head with absolutely no input from Peeta and then is like "I could never give him what he wants!"

What he wants? Or what you want, Katnsis?

She's down so bad for him and we're not even in Catching Fire yet.

[bibbibib]

Isn't it funny how Katniss spends half of the first book feeling threatened by Peeta and afraid of what he'll do and talking about how strong and cunning he is and then once she starts trusting him she goes through most of the rest of the trilogy like: "Peeta's too good to hurt a fly. He needs me to protect him. He won't make it in there on his own. He's not made of the same stuff as the rest of us"

Ummmm excuse me, Katniss, remember looking down at him in the midst of the Career pack? Make up your mind

[unnamednarrator]

it’s really funny to me how katniss essentially acts like a jane austen male lead towards peeta all the time

“not handsome enough to tempt me” “if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more” “i am half agony half hope”

she’s the darndest thing

[yourhighness6]

Peeta Mellark is such a feral idiot for outing his father's crush on national television while trying to impress a girl

[literallymikewheeler]

its always "i love you" and never "'you're not leaving me here alone,' i say. because if he 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."

[disgurrr]

Katniss and Peeta: we’re just “friends”

Also Katniss and Peeta: so, your room or mine?

[bbrooklynbabe]

my silly headcanon is that after the war, as access to healthcare improves, katniss needs to start wearing glasses. and it really annoys her. what makes it worse is that peeta doesn't need glasses at all. he could easily work in the bakery or paint while wearing glasses, no problem, but hunting with glasses? not so easy.

[likesunsetorange]

katniss “i don’t care about peeta mellark outside of trying to help us both survive, all of this is for the cameras” everdeen

“And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don’t want him to die. And it’s not about the sponsors. And it’s not about what will happen back home. And it’s not just that I don’t want to be alone. It’s him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.” thg ch 22

“This is the first kiss that we’re both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither burning with fever or icy cold. This is the first kiss where I actually feel stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another.” thg ch 22

“As we settle in, he pulls my head down to use his arm as a pillow, the other rests protectively over me even when he goes to sleep. No one has held me like this in such a long time. Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else’s arms have made me feel this safe.” thg ch 22

“I pull the sleeping bag up to his chin and kiss his forehead, not for the audience, but for me. Because I’m so grateful that he’s still here, not dead by the stream as I’d thought. So glad that I don’t have to face Cato alone.” thg ch 24

[charlunday]

Okay so….. my silly ass signed up for an ao3 challenge without having an ao3 account. Anyway. Here’s my submission for TWHHA challenge by @promptseverlark

I chose to do district 10 Katniss! Mostly because I love mounted archers

commissions open!

[hauntingyouwithpjo]

I’ve been reading mockingjay and this is a summary of what I think is happening inside peeta’s head rn:

Peeta: once I manage to undoom you from the narrative the wedding is back on!

[notsocooljess]

was just thinking about peeta being the coach for he and katniss’s daughter’s youth soccer team. all of her friends have only ever seen her dad as the happy-go-lucky man with the joyful laugh who bakes the best cookies for their class activities. but his daughter knows how competition makes him.

her friends are all dumbfounded when coach!Peeta comes out, and he’s hammering them with different drills and training. making twelve-year-olds run elaborate drills. making them complete sprints after each loss.

one night, their daughter crawls into her parents’ bed when her mother is in there alone relaxing and begs her to talk to him to take it easy, and katniss just laughs and says, “oh, honey, it sounds like he’s going easy on you. you wouldn’t believe what he did to me”