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i wrote a fluffy bittersweet odesta oneshot instead of crying.

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johanna mason. save me johanna mason.

you know. maybe it's a good morning to be a hunger games fan.

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you know. maybe it's a good morning to be a hunger games fan.

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ok so a lot of what i'm doing with annie narratively revolves around how getting so attached to her district partner was like. antithetical to being a career tribute. that running off to hide was essentially forfeiting the games, and nobody knew this better than her, and now she has to deal with both her own sense of worth and identity and also a relationship with her family which has been severely complicated by the whole thing (turns out the families that produce career tributes often aren't the same ones who are actually equipped to deal with the reality of bringing home a victor).

her crimes were love and grief. she's caught between an awful past and a future she might've had, and both of them have people she loves in them, and neither is accessible to her. by the end of the story she is stuck grieving both the family she had and the family she didn't have.

so all that said.

if i make the executive decision that "annie" is short for antigone. is that too heavy-handed?

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funny when you have to do a lot of character building for a fic and now you're sitting here like "i love her with my whole whole heart" and someone's like. "why?" and you have to start mentally sorting through your dozens of wild extrapolations from like. a scrap of backstory and 3 lines of dialogue.

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hiii idk if you have talked about this before but what do you think of the autistic annie interpretation? i've seen a few ppl talk about it and i kinda like it but i worry it can walk the line of being potentially ableist by people who don't understand the complexities of autism? the whole "mad girl" aspect in particular. interested in hearing if you have any thoughts abt it!

i’ve seen it before, and i suppose she can be interpreted as autistic, but it’s not my personal favourite headcanon for annie. and as someone who isn’t autistic herself, i don’t know if it’s my place to offer an opinion on whether she should be or not. like you said, it should be treated carefully considering she’s a character frequently referred to as mad and unstable.

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rereading one of the earliest bits i ever wrote about annie (before i became a career!annie truther) and it's honestly making me want to write more about a softer version of the character.

obviously i wouldn't rework any existing projects about it, but now that i'm revisiting her, i have something of a soft spot for my annie cresta 1.0. might mix it up a little in future projects.

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so.

There are a few dozen books, perhaps, on a series of bookshelves pushed up against the walls. Beyond that, the room is bare. Bare, and not particularly dusty. She must let avoxes in to clean. Does she know they have a language? That even if they didn’t, most of them can write? Even if she knows, she evidently doesn’t care. She let him in, after all, and she knows Finnick can speak. It doesn’t matter if you can speak, if no one cares what you have to say.

it's called A Few Compensations.

tbh i don't really know where i'm going with this but by god i'm gonna figure it out.

is there any plausible way i could get a copy of the handmaid's tale into finnick odair's hands? not really, no. am i tempted to try anyway? oh, severely.

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is there any plausible way i could get a copy of the handmaid's tale into finnick odair's hands? not really, no. am i tempted to try anyway? oh, severely.

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thank god thank god my girlfriend has only seen the movies and i FINALLY convinced her to read the books with me

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ok somebody booped this account so you guys have unlocked my main i guess. boops from @linecoveredinjellyfish are from me :)

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something one has to remember when writing early-days finnick and annie is that they were literally still teenagers. they were like 18 and 19. barely old enough to have graduated high school. college freshmen age. they were like old enough to think they were adults but they were not properly adults. like, left to their own devices they would be living in an unfurnished house with 1 bottle of beer that they're not even legally allowed to own in the fridge eating nothing but ramen noodles and calling mags with questions like "what are taxes?" and "how bad does a fever have to get before i need to go to the hospital? is 105 bad or should i just take an ibuprofen?" that's the age they were at. crucial not to forget this.

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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:

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i wish all the hunger games character tags were not a garbage fire

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i love nothing more than writing fanfiction about characters that exists to compare and contrast them. joint double or triple character studies. just a series of vignettes about them interacting with each other or doing parallel activities. and i would absolutely love to write one such study about finnick odair and lucy gray baird. but unfortunately they lived 55 years apart so i have literally no idea how i'd go about that in my usual style.

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i think we forget way too often that finnick is literally 8 years older than everlark. almost a full decade. can you imagine from his perspective because he's literally a tired adult that has to deal with two teenagers that are obsessed with each other. do you know how annoying teenagers are especially teenage couples?? like literally rip catching fire finnick he was so brave for dealing with everlark and their NONSENSE

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A quiet morning with Katniss and her Father