#something of our own

[districtunrest]

Peeta to Katniss: Haymitch has his own life apart from us, you know

also Peeta, when Haymitch doesn't answer his daily phone call to tell him that Katniss is still out hunting and he remembered another funny story about his brothers and he added too much nutmeg to his cinnamon buns:

[mollywog]

Katniss and Peeta learning to ride bikes.

Bonus: Haymitch doesn't know either but tries to help them.

Ahhhhh thank you for the ask @professionalfangrrl

(This is in reference to Forts and Dough People where I asked for inspiration for more Everlark reclaiming their youth!)

I’m so glad you suggested this because I am dying to share @districtunrest (marblesharp) story

Something of Our Own

I recommend the whole thing, but if you only have capacity for a chapter at the moment, the bicycle bit in Chapter 21 is darling!!

Excerpt:

"He's going to break his neck on that thing," Haymitch mutters under his breath.

"It came with a helmet," she [Hazelle] points out halfheartedly. She wouldn't let her kids on one herself, helmet or not. She'd sooner trust them on a mule, something that can stand and walk on its own legs and only needs directed where to go.

"I just know he's going to fall and not tell us," says Katniss, and Haymitch shakes his head in grim assent.

Haymitch’s “It came with a helmet” lives rent free in my brain.

[jotasuis]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[frownyalfred]

Reminders for new ao3 users (in no particular order):

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[welightthewaysource]

Alicent Hightower — 1.01 (2022) Aegon II Targaryen — 2.02 (2024)

[egophiliac]

What do you think of Rook's savanaclaw card? <333

I didn't get him (and I need to save my keys for Silver's birthday, sob) so I looked up his groovy, and I'm not over how incredibly dramatic and epic and cool it looks in direct contrast to the absolutely ridiculous context. just look at that dynamic action and his majestic sparkling tears and keep in mind that this is pretty much right after a bunch of characters have been dance battling for his soul.

and then even the actual moment of the groovy is just like

this is NOT a negative in the slightest, I love it all, this truly was an incredible update in so many ways

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

None of our hands are clean

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[districtunrest]

some pre- and post-Games Haymitch headcanons ahead of SOTR:

as one of the oldest grandchildren to his granny/midwife of a maternal grandmother, he was the apple of her eye and learned how to play fiddle from her. he considered her a kook (affectionate) and was respectfully afraid of her

he was "too scrappy" and "a poor sport" for contact sports in school and mostly played baseball. (once, one of the only things kids knew of him was how he successfully retrieved a baseball from a well.) his pitching skills lent to knife throwing

ahead of the 2QQ, he and his peers tried to start a boxing club but it was quickly disbanded for "getting too political" and "turning into a fight club"

like Peeta, he had a circle of friends but didn't have a singular best friend until his girlfriend, who he opened up to more than anyone by the end

he had a reputation because of his looks and because of schoolyard crushes when he was younger, where it was all very flighty and childish. but he was actually as lost as anybody else when it came to dating in his teens. and despite being known as the arrogant, indifferent, wisecracking guy, he did care about what girls thought of him, enough that it embarrassed him

he was whipped at 15 years old for "something stupid" (backtalk)

he worked odd jobs when he could but his mom also pushed him into school theater to fill up his time, in the hopes it would keep him out of any more trouble. he was a backstage hand until the spring show before he was reaped, where he was forced into a minor role (he's still half convinced these are what's connected, not "the fight club")

he was an inconsistent student. his grades would jump whenever he was grounded and had to apply himself, up until he was off the hook - and then they would slip again

he had to catch up on the mending at home whenever he was grounded. with two roughhousing boys, there was always a lot of mending to be done

there was enough of an age gap that he, like Katniss, was more Older Sibling than just 'sibling' to his younger brother

he got into a couple fights at school but strategically off school grounds so they didn't have to notify his mom, who he hated to disappoint or worry - but he couldn't help that people said or did things that deserved a shove (...off the boundary of school grounds)

much of his home interview for the Victory Tour, including the talent portion, was cut for Reasons, which was convenient because he wasn't planning to do much for it (for them) anyway

he weight-lifted into early adulthood for the sense of control over something (his body), which is how he kept so much muscle tone before letting himself go

he's always liked puzzles - and board games & cards, but he mostly liked to see how far he could cheat at those, and he could only play solitaire now. he made some of his own puzzles by coloring slapdash over completed ones to make them harder for when he was trying to come up with things to do, alone in his house

he was glad his grandma died two years before he was reaped. for one, she probably would've been arrested at the reaping. but also, after he came back, she would've had him kiss a toad three times at midnight while holding a cat's tail or something insane like that. though, for all he knew, maybe that would've fixed everything

[mollywog]

also there is no cold shower, haymitch is patting himself on the back for being a good friend today :) he's like wow i am really nailing this normal friend thing (hazelle: ...nailing...😟)

Lol!!

In a roundabout way, he gave her flowers for her birthday.

Something of Our Own

[thatwavephenomenon]

me: i sure hope the crows are not gonna be solely depicted in veilguard as a brave force who 'fight for all' when they are at their core a criminal organization who is known to buy children to indoctrinate them and turn them into assassins, by putting them in overcrowded warehouses and making them fight for scrapes in order not to starve, to later torture those who reach adulthood to finish their initiations and kill them anyways if they dare to try getting out

bioware: i cooka da pizza

[bowenoke]

if you like florence + the machine and also kristen applebees and figueroth faeth. may i offer you cassandra

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Jason keeps accidentally drawing parallels between his running away to Ethiopia and getting killed.

He leaves a note saying he‘ll be back soon? Three terrified bats AND a supe crashing through the roof of a 7/11.

Casually mentioning he‘ll be going overseas to check up on a lead? Surprise! Nightwing‘s going the same way! What a coincidence!

Jason pushes someone off the roof? “Don’t worry Jaylad, I know it was an accident!!!!”

The next gig takes place at an abandoned warehouse? “Explosives whomst?? No, Jason, of course I didn’t scout the area beforehand. Don’t be absurd. Your bombs?? Oh, those were yours?”

Look, it’s not that Jason doesn’t appreciate a demonstration of how much they care. But he’s getting seriously fed up with the level of overprotectiveness everyone’s displaying.

Although, in retrospect, he could have handled this whole thing better than having an open spat with Bruce and then disappearing on them for two months straight. Oops.

(In his defense, Kori got them cards for a once-in-life-time-space-opera.)

[ghostforum]

[theabigailthorn]

You're not uniquely talented or hard working you just went to the right schools.

Yes, yes! This is exactly why I started Philosophy Tube! Why shouldn't someone else, anyone else, have access to the education I got??? The intellectual and cultural heritage of our species is for everyone, not just privileged people like me! :)

[crispyliza]

I just realized that early fanfiction sites provided me my first sex education.

[ao3-shenanigans]

Oh my gosh this is actually so cool though!! I didn’t know this!!

Fourth person uses plural first pronouns for the narrator/titular character(s)

An example might be instead of:

‘I sit in the chair by the window’ Or ‘Jon sits in the chair by the window’

‘We sit in the chair by the window’

Here’s an excerpt from The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides that uses 4th person:

“It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”