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The agony of thinking you’re finished doing the dishes only to turn around and to your horror: the pot.

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i don’t feel like i’m old enough to be my age

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I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I love how Suzanne included the details of the hair and eye colour of Katniss and Peeta's children. On repeated occasions, it is emphasised that a social divide exists between the olive-skinned, dark-haired, grey-eyed Seam folk and the pale, blond, blue-eyed town folk. Although Katniss primarily attributes this to being a facet of the class divide, there are certainly racial connotations to this social disparity (which the headcanon that Katniss is Indigenous demonstrates well).

Suzanne doesn't mention their children's names. But she does mention their features--a true blend of the dark and the light, the grey and the blue. These children are a visual marker for the changes in 12 and at large Panem for a better future; not just of a world without the Games or the hunger, but without the prejudice that allowed that system to flourish.

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all this talk about how all the hunger games boys are so obsessed with their girls and that makes them unreliable narrators but NOT ENOUGH talk about how katniss is so obsessed with peeta and that makes HER an unreliable narrator

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katniss’s first memory of Peeta happens with baby clothes:

She tries to sell the last things she can to survive. When no one buys, she drops Prim’s old clothing in a muddle puddle and leaves them there. She’s too weak to survive, too weak to kneel down and pick them up. She gave up. She was going to let the community home take them— give in to the one thing she had fought so hard to prevent:

Then, Peeta tosses her the bread. She doesn’t tell us if she goes back for the threadbare clothing, she instead runs home to Prim.

He didn’t just save her life, he saved Katniss’s reason to live: preventing Prim from getting taken to the community home.

If we examine this more generally as a metaphor:

Katniss had given up on kids. She dropped the last hope she had about having children in that mud puddle. She spent all day in front of adults, none of whom spared her any food or help. She realized she could not care for herself, never mind a child. The only person who helped her reclaim her position as protector was Peeta.

She was forced to leave the dream of caring for the child behind until Peeta arrived. Until the bread.

So it makes sense he would ask for a child and ensure the safety to care for them in the epilogue. It’s her going back for the baby clothes. Only now, she’s not too weak to pick them back up.

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I literally can not stop thinking about how bad Teeth by 5 seconds of summer is soo unbelievably Peeta Mellark coded

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okay, yes, Haymitch did choose Katniss in that first arena, whether it was because he thought she had a better chance, or because Peeta oozed martyrdom, or because of personal loyalties to Burdock, or all of the above — but as soon as it becomes possible to save both of them, let’s not forget that Haymitch is doing his damndest to save Peeta too; he is getting the money for drugs and food and expensive medicine; he was prioritizing Katniss initially, but the line “he loves Peeta too” isn’t in there for no reason; Haymitch didn’t have to save them both; he could have communicated “cut your losses; he’s too wounded and too much of a liability” to Katniss, (who, again did not need Peeta or the romance to survive at that point in the Games) but no! he wanted to save them both, and he did

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I know that in the year of our lord and savior 2025, most of thg tumblr is pro-Peeta, but one thing that irks me is his frequent fandom portrayal as intensely vulnerable or essentially helpless. yes this man wears his heart on his sleeve, but he still tells half-truths about his upbringing and omits things he’d rather not say. He lies and manipulates and twists reality—for the greater good, perhaps—but charisma is his weapon as much as Katniss’s is a bow and arrow. what makes him a good man and such a likable character is his ability to admit weakness, accept help, not be prideful, and to ultimately and endlessly value humanity. sure, he’s patient, but he’s not a doormat. he’s not physically incompetent. he’s not a perfect goody-two-shoes soft boy. he’s a real human being with flaws and a heart bigger than the sea.

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Haymitch loves both of his grandchildren deeply, but there's something special about him finally getting to watch a little brother grow up in a world without a reaping.

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All of the music I've ever made... now belongs... to me.

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All of the music I’ve ever made... now belongs to me. And all my music videos. All the short films. The album art and photography. The unreleased songs. The memories. The magic. The madness. Every single era. My entire life’s work.

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raise your hand if you loved reputation from the day it was released

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can’t stop, won’t stop movin’

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