#and the hunger games in general)

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

transformers one hunger games simulator with drawings!!!

ive been recovering from something recently and thought about the hunger games simulator website i used to play on as a kid.... so obviously i wasted time all day plugging transformers in!

everything is randomly generated! if u want to see all 4 rounds u can check out my twitter thread here! this one is one of my favorites though! enjoy!

swindle the goat

accidentally forgot to change shockwaves pronouns 😭

now it gets serious

goodbye orion

half the friend group has reunited!

not for long...

for b127

the winner is d16!

[little-lynx]

HAYMITCH

I wish I had more time (and energy) to draw Second Quarter Quell gen characters before the book release. I’m ready for my headcanons to be smashed and burn but I want to enjoy them as long as possible haha.

How are you guys?

[everlarkyuri]

katniss in thg: peeta is trying to kill me

katniss in cf: peeta is doing everything he can to convince me i should be the one to make it out of the arena, but i already promised to myself this time he would be the one to survive. everyone must be trying to protect him because they can see how genuinely good of a person he is compared to the rest of us.

katniss in mj: peeta is trying to kill me

[achromatophoric]

Enid: There's no way Wednesday likes me back.

Yoko: You’re joking, right? If the Hunger Games were real, Darkness Evermean would volunteer as tribute for you.

Enid: *sighs* Wednesday already does that for fun, Yoko.

Yoko: Pardon?

Enid: Yeah, I saw her do it at her totes exclusive family reunion.

Yoko:

Yoko: How exclusive?

Enid: Like just direct family, significant others, fiancés, life partners, soulmates—

Yoko:

Enid: —and academic roommates.

Yoko:

Enid: *plaintive whine* How do I get her to like me?

Yoko: 🤬

[thetorturedpoetsdepartment]

The more I think about it (especially post-SOTR) the more I like the idea of the Toastbabies having Covey names.

We already see Katniss fall back in love with music at the end of Mockingjay. She uses her father's (and by extent, the Covey's) music to help her heal.

And we know Haymitch tells her stories about Lenore Dove, Burdock, etc. He tells her the things about her heritage and her ancestors that she never got to learn. Maybe she even gets to meet Clerk Carmine at some point (I know she technically already "knows" him, but she just knows him as the "lone fiddler", she doesn't know everything else).

The great thing is that the fanon names of Willow and Rye can still be used for the ballad parts of their names! Willow is Deep In The Meadow of course or Taylor Swift bc why the fuck not and Rye can be a reference to "them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye" in American Pie.

And of course the color parts of the names would be some shade of green and sunset orange.

[alittlecartoonie]

🌿take me outside, sit in a green garden🌿

[c0mm/gift for hexmunculus on ao3 and his incredible hunger games au!!!💚]

[kvanderquack]

rereading thg and Rue’s token is a braided chain of grass with a sunflower pendant…

[justafewberries]

In SOTR, Collins includes an interesting passage on immigration and the social ladder:

“Exactly. There’s been a lot of concern in the Capitol lately that district citizens are aspiring to break in here. It’s not entirely unfounded, particularly with people from One and Two who work closely with us. Luxury and military, you know. There are Capitol-born folks assigned out there who’ve got mixed families they want to bring here now. But you’re unapologetically district. And any way you can drive home that the Careers are buying into the Games and trying to be more Capitol than the Capitol itself will increase the social disapproval for them.”

What’s interesting here is the implication that the worst part about someone coming from the districts is that they think they could be worthy of Capitol culture. That Districts 1 and 2 are “trying to be more Capitol than the Capitol itself.”

We see this in part by how they name their children. Glimmer and Gloss. Marvel and Cashmere. Even Sejanus and Cato. All names one might find in the Capitol.

By the 74th Games, District 2 is the closest ally to the Capitol. In TBOSAS, the Plinth family is still shunned despite their money. What Collins implies here, then, is that it is not money nor status nor talent that makes someone worthy of being “Captiol”. Keeping the Capitol pure is what is important.

Money can disappear, but district people, potential immigrants, are always going to be “less than” and making a mockery of Capitol culture, despite their attempts to join them. They will never be “worthy” of the culture. The Capitol sees immigration as muddying the waters. To them, it will not enrich their culture, but corrode it.

But we know, from a reader’s standpoint, this isn’t true. The other predominant culture we know of is the Covey. The Capitol initially finds Lucy Gray’s colors strange, but they grow to love her music. The mere idea of liking something from a district is uncomfortable to them. Thus, Lucy Gray is marketed as being barely district, or not district at all. They grow to love her songs. They want her to return and perform. But let’s not forget here: her culture is not of their own.

Whereas Covey culture in d12 has both integrated and expanded beyond an organized idea by the time we meet Katniss. It transcends a single group. It lives on in tradition, in the wedding dances, the songs, the colors. Lucy Gray’s colors are bright and beautiful. The Capitol’s colors are candy-hued and unnatural. It is not that cultural integration destroys cultures. It uplifts them. It allows them to shine and dance and grow to accept new people and ideas.

And this is all said in a small, missable quote from Plutarch.

[incorrect-multiverse]

*How the first interview went, basically*

Peeta: My crush isn’t picking up on my hints.

Caesar: What hints have you given her?

Peeta: Well, I think about her a lot.

Peeta: And sometimes I even think about talking to her.

[fictionadventurer]

Suzanne Collins: I will write a YA dystopian novel that explores the depravity that humanity is capable of, digs deep into Enlightenment philosophies about the social contract and the best ways to govern people who are capable of great cruelty, shows the horrendous slaughter of children who are deemed less than human by their enemies because of a war they were barely alive for, and shows the character arc of a young man with a sense of superiority who refuses to take the risks of selfless behavior and betrays every friend who comes his way and thus descends from simple selfishness to become a ruthless authoritarian dictator.

Suzanne Collins: And I will also make it

Suzanne Collins: a musical

Suzanne Collins: :)

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

transformers one hunger games simulator with drawings!!! PART TWO!!!

part 1

this is technically round 5 but im not posting all of them here

sentinel keeps getting murdered first and i think its so great LOOL

...orion. 😭

every time

does he know 😭😭

dee and bee together again!

hey this feels familiar

dear god 😭

half the friend group reunited!!!

sorry elita

THE WINNER IS CHROMIA 😭😭 STEALING THE WIN FROM MINERS ONCE AGAIN!!!! 😭

[little-lynx]

SNOW’S BEAUTIES

Heeeey! So how have you been doing lately, guys? 💜

—————

It comes in the form of a brilliant blue butterfly. <…> It navigates the willow tree branches and lights on a nearby bough. I can't seem to tear my eyes from the pattern of tiny golden lightning bolts decorating its wings. Then another lands over my head. <…> As if in slow motion, a stinger descends, a tiny spark jumps off my flesh as it makes contact, and a jolt of pain blinds me. <…> One of Snow's beauties. // Sunrise on the Reaping, ch. 17

[yelenadelova]

Annie Cresta • District Four

[theprophecyforetold]

rip finnick odair and fiyero tigelaar, you would’ve loved each other

[notsocooljess]

“katniss got peeta back but she never got peeta back”

says who? like really says who!?

because suzanne collins never wrote that peeta never returned to his normal self. all she wrote was that peeta continues to have flashbacks which is plenty common for survivors of war.

if anything, she shows a number of snippets of the “old” peeta coming back through his hijacking. his memory coming back as they battle in the capitol. him not letting katniss eat the nightlock pill after she assassinated coin. planting the primrose bushes. carrying katniss to bed after she cries with buttercup. bringing fresh baked bread to breakfast the following morning. providing and receiving safety and comfort while sharing a bed with katniss at night.

seeing this common sentiment that peeta never became himself again after the war is such a crazy take to me. like yes, the war changed him. everyone who faced the war is changed. but while he was stripped of his identity, it’s clear throughout the novel that peeta and those around him fight hard and succeed at helping him come back to who he was as much as is possible for anyone who survived.

[divine-draws]

working on some district 8 covey ocs