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He like literally fell down half dead by accident, and Katniss just perceived it as: he made the Capitol look foolish by using their force field to win the games… how genius!

katniss: how do you think haymitch won the games?

peeta: he outsmarted the others

haymitch in his games: drinks poison water, falls asleep in a blueberry patch without attempting to cover his tracks, tries to pet a bunny during the countdown, makes an alarming number of bunny-related decisions in general

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Ok… you killed me with “Lou Lou Peeta”. You have no idea how much that hurt, because this truly was Lou Lou all over again except worse

imagine being haymitch though. imagine being in 13, forced sober for the first time in years, and suddenly, you’re getting your boy back. the one you were so sure snow had stolen from you, like he’d stolen everyone else you’d ever loved. but somehow, by some miracle, your kid is here and he’s breathing and in one piece. imagine how excited you’d be.

imagine how excited you’d be for your (little) girl, your sweetheart of new, who’s about to get her love back. who’s about to experience that same joy you felt for those five minutes you had lenore dove in your arms, before the gumdrops and the poison and everything else came crashing down. only katniss’ joy isn’t going to be for five minutes.

imagine watching as your golden boy runs towards your sweetheart and you’re watching as her arms are outstretched, reaching for him like it appears he’s reaching for her.

now imagine how it must have felt for haymitch to realize the boy’s hands are locking around your girl’s neck and he’s not peeta anymore and this hijacked boy, this lou lou peeta is now strangling katniss. and you’re frozen in place.

just like you were frozen in place decades ago, when the peacekeepers were manhandling lenore dove. you have no choice but to hesitate because you’ve hesitated all your life, and that’s what you do, and once again it almost cost you everything.

once again, hesitating almost cost you your entire family.

no wonder haymitch is so angry all the time.

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🤣

katniss: “so what’s your favorite memory of my da-“

haymitch: “skinny dipping.”

katniss: “…im sorry, what did you sa-“

haymitch: “skinny. dipping. go ahead & write that in your little book while you’re at it.”

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I have little love for the films, you all know this, but this tiny scene actually murders me dead now so that’s fun

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me as a writer

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So true!

Comparing Haymitch and Katniss' narrative styles is so funny to me because he's a yapper and she's a gatekeeper. He drops more lore on D12 in the first two chapters of SOTR than she does in the entire trilogy.

Haymitch is like "Yeah, so this person is related to this person who's related to this person and things are this way because of this and this thing actually came from here and this person is actually my best friend and also here's this extra tidbit of random info cause all my lore dropping comes with it's own additional bonus content and all my unnecessary commentary."

And Katniss is over here like "Tf do I care for if y'all know all the lore of District 12? I'm talking about my beautiful husband's beautiful eyelashes."

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“the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love.”

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Any way you slice it, it’s painful for him. That’s why I’m wondering if this reaping was rigged like reapings go?

Haymitch chooses this time to come staggering across the stage to congratulate me. “Look at her. Look at this one!” he hollers, throwing an arm around my shoulders. He’s surprisingly strong for such a wreck. “I like her!”

- The Hunger Games, Page 24

God, I want this moment from Haymitch’s POV. Drunk or not I bet he realized that his former best friend’s kid just volunteered. And I have to wonder if this was his way of dealing with that rather than an actual drunken outburst. Or both, because even Katniss is wondering who he’s talking to.

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TO ACT LIKE CAREERS

Because I love trainer!Peeta so much.

From Catching Fire:

But after a few days, we agree to act like Careers, because this is the best way to get Peeta ready as well. Every night we watch the old recaps of the Games that the remaining victors won. I realize we never met any of them on the Victory Tour, which seems odd in retrospect. When I bring it up, Haymitch says the last thing President Snow would've wanted was to show Peeta and me—especially me — bonding with other victors in potentially rebellious districts. Victors have a special status, and if they appeared to be supporting my defiance of the Capitol, it would've been dangerous politically. Adjusting for age, I realize some of our opponents may be elderly, which is both sad and reassuring. Peeta takes copious notes, Haymitch volunteers information about the victors' personalities, and slowly we begin to know our competition.

Every morning we do exercises to strengthen our bodies. We run and lift things and stretch our muscles. Every afternoon we work on combat skills, throwing knives, fighting hand to hand; I even teach them to climb trees. Officially, tributes aren't supposed to train, but no one tries to stop us. Even in regular years, the tributes from Districts 1, 2, and 4 show up able to wield spears and swords. This is nothing by comparison.

After all the years of abuse, Haymitch's body resists improvement. He's still remarkably strong, but the shortest run winds him. And you'd think a guy who sleeps every night with a knife might actually be able to hit the side of a house with one, but his hands shake so badly it takes weeks for him to achieve even that.

Peeta and I excel under the new regimen, though. It gives me something to do. It gives us all something to do besides accept defeat. My mother puts us on a special diet to gain weight. Prim treats our sore muscles. Madge sneaks us her father's Capitol newspapers. Predictions on who will be victor of the victors show us among the favorites. Even Gale steps into the picture on Sundays, although he's got no love for Peeta or Haymitch, and teaches us all he knows about snares. It's weird for me, being in conversations with both Peeta and Gale, but they seem to have set aside whatever issues they have about me.

PAINFUL BONUS:

One night, as I'm walking Gale back into town, he even admits, “It'd be better if he were easier to hate.” “Tell me about it,” I say. “If I could've just hated him in the arena, we all wouldn't be in this mess now. He'd be dead, and I'd be a happy little victor all by myself.”

//Peeta watches Katniss walking Gale back into town

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Oh my gosh! After SotR… this goes even deeper! Haymitch would not let his little girl be alter… he painted his biggest poster right there!

Just a friendly reminder that in the end of the first book in the hunger games there’s a detail I wish they included in the movie, something I had forgotten as well…

When Katniss is still drugged after the games, she’s fighting to gain consciousness, we see many of her thoughts, amongst them we read about how someone is yelling in the room about who knows what…forward a few pages later we see her getting dressed with Cinna and she’s puzzled about why she’s wearing padding on the dress. He’s explaining then to her: it was either that or they would alter her surgically and how Haymitch had a huge fight over that…

So here’s the deal folks, they were going to do a plastic surgery on her breasts without her permission . They didn’t wait for her to wake up, they didn’t just ‘heal’ all her wounds and fixed her scaring and her ear. They didn’t do all that for her anyway. But for she’s a victor and now a plaything of the Capitol, even more so than when she was just a citizen of District 12. When you read things like that, remember to appreciate the wonderful detail Suzanne Collins seems to always place, she has managed to put everything in the series and that is one of the many reasons, after all these years hunger games remains amongst favorite . Capitol doesn’t want flaws even when there are none. Haymitch was there for Katniss and tried to protect her even after the games. Remember that.

Just in case you missed it I will place the quotes:

“This happens on and off for an indeterminate amount oftime. My waking, eating, and, even though I resist the impulse to try and escape the bed, being knocked out again. I seem to be in a strange, continual twilight. Only a few things register. The redheaded Avox girl has not returned since the feeding, my scars are disappearing, and do I imagine it? Or do I hear a man’s voice yelling? Not in the Capitol accent, but in the rougher cadences of home. And I can’t help having a vague, comforting feeling that someone is looking out for me.”

“Have you given up the whole ‘girl on fire’ thing?” I ask.  “You tell me,” he says, and slips it over my head. I immediately notice the padding over my breasts, adding curves that hunger has stolen from my body. My hands go to my chest and I frown.

“I know,” says Cinna before I can object. “But the Gamemakers wanted to alter you surgically. Haymitch had a huge fight with them over it. This was the compromise.”

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“Not to eat, to hatch.”

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Reblog if you are a Katniss and Peeta are soulmates TRUTHER

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Your tags! lol…

But really, he actually did… let’s not forget emaciated, tortured, half dead, mutt!Peeta had her by the neck in a blink, and the only reason he didn’t choke her to death was because Boggs knocked him out.

“oh, well, it’s just that Peeta wasn’t really a contender without Katniss, so that’s why he’s not really a victor”

Katniss, early on in book one, keenly aware of how easily Peeta could kill her with a smile and his bare hands: the hell he isn’t!

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I decided to google the meanings of the new names we were introduced to on SotR, and I was incredible surprised to see this:

Her name is the very first result even without finishing typing it!!! Did people actually looked her up this much since the book came out?!?!

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“I need your help,” I say.

Haymitch belches, filling the air with white liquor fumes. “What is it, sweetheart? More boy trouble?” I don’t know why, but this hurts me in a way Haymitch rarely can. It must show on my face, because even in his drunken state, he tries to take it back. “Okay, not funny.” I’m already at the door. “Not funny! Come back!” By the thud of his body hitting the floor, I assume he tried to follow me, but there’s no point.

Now after reading his pov, I just know he felt awful here 😭

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Long shots