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everyone how many victors do YOU think district 4 has

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the bored and autistic urge to rewrite all of my odesta oneshots from the opposite perspective

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I catch a glimpse of myself on the television screen on the wall that’s airing my arrival live and feel gratified that I appear almost bored. Peeta Mellark, on the other hand, has obviously been crying and interestingly enough does not seem to be trying to cover it up. I immediately wonder if this will be his strategy in the Games. To appear weak and frightened, to reassure the other tributes that he is no competition at all, and then come out fighting. - "You know what my mother said to me when she came to say good-bye, as if to cheer me up, she says maybe District Twelve will finally have a winner. Then I realized, she didn’t mean me, she meant you!” bursts out Peeta. “Oh, she meant you,” I say with a wave of dismissal. “She said, ‘She’s a survivor, that one.’ She is,” says Peeta.

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you cannot fix that blond man please step away and let the professionals take over

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when i was in the 4th or 5th grade i wrote a fic in one of my school notebooks where all the tributes unionize and refuse to fight lol

Was just thinking about how, in 4th or 5th grade, I created my own Hunger Games characters, and the only one I can remember is the damn Capitol escort named Flourescent. That name is so stupid, I'm choking.

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One thing I like about the Hunger Games films over the novel is the fact that all the tributes are in the same hovercraft on their way to the Games. Like, it's got evil school bus energy (i.e. very Capitol-esq, too, with how its letting the bigger tributes taunt the smaller ones by just looks); all these kids will be at each other's throats within hours, and they all have to sit in the same vehicle as if they are going on the fucking magic school bus field trip.

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hiiii

new chapter of love in a foxhole finally

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god writing for finnick is stressful sometimes

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when i wrote my first ever tentative fics about annie cresta, before i'd looked much at the tumblr fandom, or pulled out specific passages from the books to work off, i wrote her as having dark eyes. and i was a little disappointed to discover that her canon eye color was green. i write it book-accurate now, and i've found a shade of green i really like for her, but there remains in my mind and heart and year-old drafts an alternate universe where everything is the same except annie cresta has big brown cow eyes. explore this magical world with me friends.

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Family Portrait

The only family he has.

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You know Queen somehow I don’t think Finnick thinks your botoy is the most specialest guy in the whole world. I don’t think that’s what he meant.

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if i can keep it real with all of you im not watching sotr if some random white guy comes onto the screen like hey. im haymitch abernathy

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Do we think that the use of mother/father rather than ma/pa has something to do with how Panem changed in the intervening years? From my impression, there were some freedoms in the past that are simply non existent in the Katniss/Peeta timeline - such as the missing fence, music in the hob, etc. maybe the regime took on a stronger presence in peoples lives and, by extension, affected peoples speech patterns somehow?

ahh, Idk but that could be! it seems weird Haymitch would grow up in a freer environment and follow the change in speech pattern later, though.

I am tempted to say not enough time has passed between the 2QQ and the 74th to make that big of a change in intimate language. but I also shouldn't underestimate the power of a dystopian dictatorship. I also know next to nothing on this subject, lol

(the closest thing I could relate it to is a family speaking one language at home and their kids learning another in school and slowly losing their native tongue as they get older? but again. no direct experience with this - just from my older 2nd generation family members that only knew a couple words in their old age vs being more fluent when they were younger/lived at home with their 1st gen parents)

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i wrote the smut

i should write the smut.

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i mean, i don't think i agree with the idea that poe is more high-brow than wordsworth.

the poem lucy gray itself feels less high-brow than the raven, i suppose, because it's a story about a little girl of no specific socioeconomic background getting lost in the snow, and there's a solid chance you hadn't heard of it much if ever before, meanwhile we tend to associate poe with the victorian era at large, and by extension, the upper classes.

but we associate poe with those things because he was and still remains popular. insanely popular. and i'm not saying wordsworth isn't. but wordsworth is popular among people who like poetry. poe is just popular, period, full stop. most english-speaking children know the line "quoth the raven, nevermore" by eight years old.

so in that way, i actually find it more plausible that a random girl in district twelve would be named for poe than wordsworth.

i'll agree that "lenore" feels a little...classy? for district twelve, but i think the main problem there is that it's not a common or popular name anymore, so the main association most people have with it is "the raven." see above. whereas "annabel" isn't a particularly common name, but you wouldn't really bat an eye if you met an annabel. meanwhile, if you met a leanore, your first thought would be "oh, like the raven."

but that's just my two cents.

I'll say, while I love Lenore Dove as a name, I'm not that sure how I feel about that choice for District 12.

I love how the names are either things characters do on a practical level (Swamp potato, bread dude), or very simple (Hey! Mitch, Lucy (Gray)).

I love the name, but a Edgar Allan Poe memorial name is a bit too literal for 12. I'm sure they never touched Poe's work for the simple reason that it wasn't accessible, but this feels a bit more highbrow than Lucy (Gray) did.

Love it, but not fitting the location. Although, I don't know where else I can see it in Panem.

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wait hello new annie cresta face