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i constantly think about how, upon recognition that she was dying, lenore dove immediately turns to haymitch to try and get her final poster out. This girl, with such a feverishly rebellious spirit, needed to make the final thing she said to haymitch matter. And it was incredibly desperate, because haymitch at the time had no real way of stopping the reaping, but still, she makes him promise, promise to stop that sun from rising on another one; and 25 years later, this promise directly leads to the dismantling of the systems she ached to bring down so much.

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The Reluctant Victor, inspired by The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche - I just thought that this painting was SO perfect for Katniss and I had to draw it!

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The doubling of tribute numbers. The miscarried Abernathy twins. The Donner sisters who Haymitch carries a fascination for as consequence. Louella being replaced by Lou Lou, a name that only mimics the first half of her name, and a girl who matches her in appearance only. The Appalachia legends of mimics. Tam Amber’s set of pins, one dropped down a well, the other discarded. The two versions of the games: the one that Haymitch remembers and the edited, falsified version of them without the real content. The two bags of gumdrops. The fraternal affection he feels for Louella and Lou Lou, the artificial twins, and Maysilee’s offer to be his sister—the second one she gives in the book. A bond with a real twin, both pairs healing the sisters he never did know. The split between what is natural and what is manufactured or forged, bonds that that grow on their own, or are forced into existance. And if the distinction makes any difference to the person it impacts.

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when your circle small but y’all doomed by the narrative

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haymitch says himself katniss is like him, but luckier.

katniss realized the berries were nightlock before peeta ate them.

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just saw young haymitch fanart of him with white skin and blonde hair and it threw me off so much😭😭 i truly forget that’s how he’s probably going to look in the movie it’s so heartbreaking

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LOLL the way this ended being exactly what happened😭😭😭 don’t know why i was so convinced that this wouldn’t happen, i guess i just didn’t think she would show everlark again

i just had a very unrealistic wish that i desperately want fulfilled in sunrise on the reaping… what if the epilogue is set post-haymitch accomplishing everything he wanted to, i.e., the revolution, meaning we get to see him as he was at the end of mockingjay. Katniss talks about how he finally opens up and contributes 23 years of tributes whom he mentored and then were killed by the capitol, so what if instead we see that from haymitchs perspective? of him living his life after everything he’s been through, and showing us whether he ever truly found peace? (as much as he could, anyway)

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Long shots

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well, i just finished sunrise on the reaping, at sunrise, and. The first thought to immediately strike me as the tears flowed was, how many people have died fighting, and waiting, for the sunrise of liberation to come? how many people are still dying, right now, to fight for it, or just as collateral? The epilogue was beautiful but also heartbreaking to read because we are still very much in this fight in our world, and will likely be for a long time.

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"Uhmm, says the comic book nerd who collects trading cards in her spare time."

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the chances of the SOTR epilogue being of Haymitch, Katniss, and Peeta just raised exponentially for me

they're giving that man a NORMAL and PROPER birthday !!

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i just had a very unrealistic wish that i desperately want fulfilled in sunrise on the reaping… what if the epilogue is set post-haymitch accomplishing everything he wanted to, i.e., the revolution, meaning we get to see him as he was at the end of mockingjay. Katniss talks about how he finally opens up and contributes 23 years of tributes whom he mentored and then were killed by the capitol, so what if instead we see that from haymitchs perspective? of him living his life after everything he’s been through, and showing us whether he ever truly found peace? (as much as he could, anyway)

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Analysis on the SOTR excerpt

The upside of being born on reaping day is that you can sleep late on your birthday. It’s pretty much downhill from there.

This is his last "happy" birthday with his family. By this time next year, he'll celebrate his birthday by being shipped off to the Capitol, having watched two kids get reaped and mentor them until their death.

“Happy birthday!” My 10-year-old brother, Sid, gives my shoulder a shake. “You said be your rooster. You said you wanted to get to the woods at daylight.”

This level of family care and love is a strong entry to the book, as this is Haymitch's last day being surrounded by loved ones. There will never again be a morning where he wakes to his brother being his 'rooster'. It's a clashing contrast to the brief glances we receive in his victor's home.

Haymitch & Katniss parallel + Did Haymitch know Mr. Everdeen? Are they friends gathering (Haymitch) and hunting (Mr. Everdeen) in the woods? This could imply a similar relationship as Katniss and Gale initially had (potential parallels between each character?)

It’s true. I’m hoping to finish my work before the ceremony so I can devote the afternoon to the two things I love best — wasting time and being with my girl, Lenore Dove.

LENORE: Edgar Allan Poe reference: "Lenore" by Poe is a poem that explores themes of mourning, loss, and the hope for a better afterlife. The poem is about the death of a young woman named Lenore and the grief of her lover, who laments her passing but also finds solace in the belief that she is now in a better place. The poem contrasts the sorrow of those left behind with the idea that Lenore has transcended to a more peaceful and heavenly existence. Poe's use of language and imagery creates a haunting and melancholic atmosphere, reflecting the deep emotions associated with loss and the hope for eternal peace.

DOVE: Although no colour, her double name might suggest a potential Covey relationship. Dove could be a reference to the bird (grey or white) which might reference both Lucy Gray (grey) and Snow (white).

“Haymitch!” wails Sid. “The sun’s coming up!”

Wonderful reference to the title, 'Sunrise' on the Reaping. It starts at Midnight Sunrise.

“All right, all right. I’m up, too.” I roll straight off the mattress onto the floor and pull on a pair of shorts made from a government-issued flour sack.

This implies that Haymitch is taking tesserae, making it likely that this already existed during the 50th Hunger Games

The words "courtesy of the Capitol" end up stamped across my butt. My ma wastes nothing. Widowed young when my pa died in a coal mine fire, she’s raised Sid and me by taking in laundry and making every bit of anything count.

Haymitch's and Katniss' mothers are stark contrasts here. This increases the parallels between them and what he might have seen in Katniss when she was reaped.

In addition, Katniss remembers the loss of her father as a deep cut into her life. Potentially, Sunrise might answer whether Haymitch feels that way, too, or if he had been too young. Does he feel sorrow when walking not only around the Seam (mother, brother), but also around the colliery (father)?

Out back, my ma’s already stirring a steaming kettle of clothes with a stick, her muscles straining as she flips a pair of miner’s overalls. She’s only 35, but life’s sorrows have already cut lines into her face, like they do. 

His fondness for Hazelle as his housekeeper and potential friend might be due to seeing a resemblance of the mother he lost in Hazelle.

What with pumping and hauling, filling the cistern’s a two-hour job even with Sid’s help.

The brotherly connection he has with Sid being one of mutual aid, in contrast to Katniss' motherly role toward Prim. Haymitch had a real chance at a (relatively) normal family life and an actual childhood until this very day.

A blanket of mist wraps protectively around the worn, gray houses of the Seam.

It's interesting that Haymitch perceives mist as protecting the seam. Mist could potentially link to poems akin "Spirits of the Dead", where mist is a "symbol and a token", "a mystery of mysteries". This Poe poem itself reflects on the inevitability of death and the idea that the spirits of the dead continue to exist in a different realm. This could be a foreshadow for Haymitch and his relationship with the seam; insofar that his past life and soon-to-be-deceased family resided there; still lingering due to his own grief.

Don’t give the Capitol that. They’ve taken enough already.

"When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I’ll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction." (Katniss) and "Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping" (Lucy Gray)

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when katniss was talking about the reaping at the start of series, she stresses how it’s absolutely mandatory to attend unless you’re literally “at deaths door.” So i wonder what it was like, for haymitchs mother, an extremely pregnant teenage girl, who just managed to escape the reaping herself a year prior, to go into labor on that day. Having to worry about how you could potentially be punished if labor isn’t enough of an excuse to miss the reaping while going through the horrors of it; Knowing that two children from your community were once again ripped away, while you bring a new one into those horrors. And then, 16 years later, you have to watch as that same child marches off to his certain death, on the day of his birth.

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HAYMITCH AND HIS LITTLE BROTHER BEING PARALLELS TO KATNISS AND PRIM GET OUT OF MY FACE

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THE SUNRISE ON THE REAPING EXCERPT??? REAPING DAY IS HAYMITCHS BIRTHDAY???? suzanne collins’s try not to make me depressed about the implications of new facts from sotr within like 5 seconds of reading challenge!

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another old-account exhumation, for those who missed it the first time.