#sunrise. please

[itsajollyjester]

Family Portrait

The only family he has.

[et3rnal-dr3am3r]

something about the rebels being associated with fire when the president’s name is snow. haymitch and his flint striker, katniss being the girl on fire. something something snow lands on top but always melts.

[totallywoman]

grandpa haymitch!!!

my biggest epilogue headcanon is that i 100% believe haymitch decides to quit drinking when he finds out katniss is pregnant (because i REFUSE to accept he doesn’t live to see their kids). i can see him reaching the point in his life where he thinks katniss and peeta don’t need him anymore, and starts letting go of living. i imagine that lenore dove visits him in a dream, her hair gray and face wrinkled (but as beautiful to him as ever). she tells him that his time with his family is not over and they will need him more than ever.

then, he finds out katniss is pregnant, and everything changes. he finally sees an opportunity to start over. everyone he has ever loved has been hurt by him, but he refuses to burden another soul he loves. he loves katniss and peeta too much to break their trust like that yet again, and already sees himself holding their sweet baby in his arms. he can’t imagine stumbling around, slurring his words in front of someone so precious. it’s simply unthinkable.

he thinks of burdock. his adored daughter having her own child. he makes a silent promise to him to take care of his grand babies, something that was taken away from him.

so one night, soon after katniss and peeta break the news, he dumps all the white liquor down the drain. he ends up miserably sick, but just the thought of that baby or the sight of katniss’ growing belly is enough to keep him from going into town and buying more liquor.

he eventually comes back to life, and is more present in katniss and peeta’s lives than ever. he helps them put together the baby’s room, cares for katniss when she’s not feeling well while peeta’s working, and never comes back from town without something for the baby.

when katniss goes into labor, he spends the entire day pacing back and forth downstairs in the living room. he is so worried about her. the sound of labor pains is almost enough to put back a drink. almost.

when he goes upstairs and meets their baby girl, he breaks down. katniss and peeta have never seen him cry until this moment. all he can see are the two people he loves most in the world, wrapped up into a tiny bundle of dark curls and chubby cheeks. she looks just like katniss, remembering the days where burdock showed her off in the hob. he imagines the future he wanted with lenore dove, how they were going to have their own babies and grandbabies. she would be so proud of him, so happy he got to experience the love of being a father and a grandfather in this world.

as baby girl and her brother grow, haymitch becomes their favorite person. they love to ride on his shoulders, chase around with the geese, and play dress up with him (which is katniss’s favorite thing to watch - he looks ridiculous and can’t help but scowl at her as she laughs at him dressed up in a dress and tiara. he does it anyway, it makes the kids happy).

he eventually teaches the girl how to play piano (because he obviously learned it to honor lenore dove), and brings her a bundle of wildflowers after her first recital. he is there for every birthday, every school performance, every sport event, and every sunday (at the very least) for dinner. he walks with katniss every afternoon to pick them up from school, and carries the boy on his shoulders while he holds the girl’s hand.

he loves her beautiful voice and her kindness toward everyone she meets. he loves his curiosity, his belly laugh, and the mop of blonde curls on the top of his head. he often finds himself ruffling them, just as he would do to sid so long ago.

they remind him of all the innocent souls he loved and lossed. sid, louella, ampert, lou lou; all too innocent for the creulty of the world. the difference is, they are out of the capitol’s reach.

finally, he is not defined by his faults. he is not the rebel tribute who got his family and his girl killed, a victor, a mentor, or a drunk. he is grandpa haymitch. loved to death by two little kids and their parents, just for being him.

lenore dove often visits him in his dreams, telling him she’s so proud of him, and to keep living for her in this world where the sun rises on days full of love, hope, and peace.

[a-library-ghost]

suzanne collins put everlark in the epilogue to remind me not to kill myself 🤗

[helloimamistake]

Imagine Your on a haunt the narrative competition but lucy gray is there

[sejjiplinth]

there’s something so funny and sweet about maysilee absolutely dragging every other character in this book but being consistently kind to wyatt and sticking her neck out to defend him 😭 we were soooo robbed of more content of them

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

sun doodle from that one scene in the new music video

[lilhawkeye3]

i’m not gonna hold your hand when i say this one:

sunrise on the reaping does not recontextualize the rebellion that we see in catching fire and mockingjay. y’all are just too used to “chosen one” hero narratives and don’t understand history.

what SOTR does do is give personal background on some of the specific rebels we meet through Katniss. but it does not all of a sudden tell us that the rebellion existed before Katniss gave Peeta the berries, or before she sang to Rue. too many of y’all thought that and so Suzanne Collins had to shove it in our faces this time.

y’all read too many percy jacksons and harry potters and “here’s a special person destined to save us all!” that’s not how movements work in real life.

the reality is there are many many names involved in rebellions and revolutions that are lost to history. part of that is because they are killed and no one is there to tell their story. part of that is because anonymity was required to be an effective part of the movement. and part of that is because sometimes there are things that are more important than an individual.

MLK Jr and Malcolm X didn’t spark the Civil Rights movement. Nelson Mandela didn’t spark anti-apartheid movements. Susan B Anthony didn’t spark the suffragette movement, Rosa Parks wasn’t the first to be denied seating on the bus, and the list goes on. It’s not that these people didn’t do things for these revolutions or that they were puppets, but my point is they’re the names most people attribute to them.

Katniss is just in the right place at the right time with similar enough ideals and actions for the rebellion to uphold as a symbol.

and think of the war effort we see in Mockingjay. it takes years to train soldiers. it takes years to manufacture that many weapons. it takes years to even get Plutarch where he is in SOTR, let alone as a gamemaker in THG. and of most of the rebels Katniss meets who die for her to protect the cause— they aren’t young kids roped along into it. they’re middle aged and older.

none of it magically happened in the span of a year after the 74th games. nor do revolutions necessarily wait for the right person to come along to bandwagon on. sometimes it happens, like with Katniss. other times it’s planned (off of a real event, just recreated under better conditions i.e. Rosa Parks).

anyways. hope that gives y’all something to think about bc i’m really tired of seeing this take elsewhere

this has been another tea time with hawk ☕️🦅

[czqy]

The snow may fall, but the sun also rises.

— Suzanne Collins (Sunrise on the Reaping, Acknowledgments)

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[itbemoonchild]

Thinking about how there’s a good chance that the tributes who were selected for the 75th games were probably chosen before hand. Anyone who had been a disturbance during or after their games would now be able to be gotten rid of in an “orderly” way. Like what can you do, those are the odds.

Like Beetee has tried to disrupt the capital multiple times, and this is Snows chance to actually be rid of him. His value to panem is no longer enough to save him, and his “lessons” were not enough. Then they drag Wiress in along too. She’s helped him before, and no doubt he has a soft spot for her, feeling responsible for her torture and what she’s become.

Or Finnick even. Becoming too popular after his games, too powerful in information that could be used against Snow. Annie picked because she’s Finnicks actual love, or with the possibility that they tried to destroy the arena again during her games.

And anyone who would volunteer to be in the games again is most likely a nuisance as well, so they are free to go.

[justafewberries]

maysilee donner had a canary, a mockingjay pin, and a death by birds’ beaks through the throat. does she sing songs she’s not supposed to? Say things that will cause uproar? What does it mean? Why does she have so many birds around her?

I need a copy of sotr in my hands right now

[katnissandpeetamellark]

Say it with me: Maysilee Donner

[searchingforserendipity25]

romcom thing where, in the early 00s, fathers benítez and lawrence get stuck in the same airport during a long storm when all flights are cancelled.

benítez fell asleep in a quiet corner and lawrence feels obliged to shakes him awake when the sound system starts rattling new urgent information for a flight his bag his tagged for.

and the rest is history. lawrence keeps becoming involved in managing crisis among fellow passengers in his flight, from helping them fill out paperwork to being pressed to go on quests around the airport to find someone's brother's lost rosary.

they spend three days sharing long conversation in the kitchy airport chapel with the cheap pink candles. drinking mediocre coffee and eating overpriced chips. immediate chemistry.

lots of sideways looks and sharing of jackets as blankets. talking the long hours away.

both of them are very tired, and very grateful for the comfort and quick friendship they find in each other.

there's still a corruption in the curia sideplot plot, somehow. also a thing with a lost turtle where they both find it from opposite sides of the aisle and meet in the middle to hold it together. it's very moving. take my word for it.

in the last day, benítez, who has been helping with translation in a number of languages, advocates for a family in front of immigration services and security and deescalates the situation. if lawrence had not been in love already, that would have clinched it.

lawrence is bound for rome and benítez is going to staying in touch is not a possibility. they pray for each other still, years later, when cardinal lawrence shakes awake the familiar strange slumped in sister agnes' office.

[thesunpersists]

beloved mutual @mollywog murdered me with this message

time of death 1:38 AM

[the-great-kraken]

feeling so unwell about haymitch seeing both lou lou and louella in his nightmares but he can't tell them apart anymore because the capitol won. the symbolism. the tragedy of it all.

[witawwy-ponyboy-curtis]

I feel that the cornucopia, being the main area of The Hunger Games arena, and the cornucopia, being one of Lord Hades' (god of the dead) symbols, are connected somehow; I just don't know how to explain it.