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I drew this back in January🤞 props to the people who always headcanoned that Effie always wished Haymitch a happy birthday regardless how drunk he is every year

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Plinthbaird save me plinthbaird

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Exactly fr fr

The Hayffie-discourse is dumb and here's why:

They're fictional characters, it really isn't that deep, get over yourself. I feel like this is the most obvious one, but I just had to say it.

"but what about Lenore Dove?" Well first of all, nothing about Hayffie ever interrupts with Haymitch's relationship with LD. Lenore Dove is his first love, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't deserve a second after she's gone. Humans are complex beings, and love isn't a pie chart. Haymitch loving Effie doesn't take away any of his love for Lenore Dove. They each have their own pie, and they're even different flavours. If the sole soulmate thing floats your boat, then fantastic, you go with that. Personally I don't want Haymitch to suffer in a depressed drunken haze for the rest of his life where he continues to punish himself for the Captiols actions, but maybe that's just me. Besides, Haymitch having a dead girlfriend is nothing new to us, and idk why we're pretending otherwise. It was always a part of his story

"they have such differing views, her being Capitol and him hg survivor", did we read the same book? If SOTR told us anything about Effie, it is that she's always had a different view of the tributes and games than other Capitol members. Yes she's deeply brainwashed, in the same way someone in a deeply religious cult would be, but there's a layer of her that doesn't buy into the animalistic view of the tributes and games. And that's sort of the beauty of her character and her relationship with Haymitch, that throughout the years she sees more and more the faults of her people. And maybe her ditsy uncaring nature is a façade, covering her rebel thoughts, or maybe it's a coping mechanism to keep from falling apart every time one of her kids are killed, but it could also be just someone learning from their mistakes. Why does that make them unlovable?

"The age difference tho!" What? The six year age difference between two characters in their 40s? Ok let's address it. Effie is likely between 20-22 ish during SOTR. Why do I say that? Cus in BOSAS Snow is 18 and graduating, meaning he would be 18 starting the University. Now, we don't know how schooling works in the Capitol, all we know is that there's lower grades and upper grades. For all we know, stylist school could be 2 years or it could be 4. Where I'm from, in my actual homeplace, it's 2. That's also my headcanon for Effie, placing her at around 20 as a recent graduate. That's a four year age gap, which isn't a lot even at 16, but it's definitely not a lot at 30/40.

Truth be told, I think a lot of the age difference discourse is a lot to do with plain ole misogyny. You rarely see this same outrage over relationships where the man is the older one and the woman is the younger. People have had no problem shipping Johanna and Haymitch for years, and that's an even bigger age gap. Even canon ships like Remus and Tonks in Harry Potter (13yrs), where the likelihood of him having first met her as an infant is extremely high due to Sirius' close relationship with his aunt Andromeda, but ig that's neither here nor there.

In conclusion:

Fandom spaces lately have had a heavy focus on canon-accuracy, and what's more canon compliant. While there of course is nothing wrong with preferring the canon choices made by the author/creator, it's important to remember that a big part of fan culture is and always has been to be able to take the original stories and material and spin off it with your own thoughts, mind, and creativity. The push for only canon-compliant material has become a bit of a problem, and is to be completely honest, something that does not belong in fandom spaces. Hell, you even see this in fandoms like Harry Potter's Marauders, which is entirely made up of fan-made material, where people are complaining that certain characters are behaving ooc when there is no actual canon material on the character.

Now I get that a lot of y'all are new to fandom, so I'll be kind, but rule number 1 of fan culture is "if you don't like it, don't interact with it", it really isn't that deep. Hayffie is probably one of the most normal and common ship dynamics on the internet, and if you think that's "too toxic", wait till I introduce you to the incestuous and 20+ yr age gap minor/adult ships we've all had to stomach over the years. You've got a tough battle ahead of you if the plan is to take down every ship you don't agree with. If you don't like it, don't interact with it. Hayffie has existed for longer than some of you guys have been on the internet, and ships like Hayffie will continue to exist long after you've left the fandom. Life is too short to spend it on actively hating on ships and shippers you don't like. Let people have fun with fiction, free your whimsy and joy and creativity and all that.

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They could’ve been happy and lived in the cabin together💔

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Effie avenue in my state BAHAHAHA

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(Old) Depressing work of mine😪 Coral they could never make me hate you

Yes I ship PlinthBaird on absolute blast no one is stopping me, like wdym Lucy Gray was in front of the crowd at the hanging SOBBING her eyes out when Sejanus was hung

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i think that perhaps my biggest criticism of sotr is that haymitch does not spend enough time thinking about his family for my taste. especially since it feels like such a strong departure from how family is portrayed in the original trilogy. if my younger sibling, let alone my mom, was murdered by the state i would NEVER stop thinking about it. not for one second.

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Final Hayffie requests

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Finnick ily Finnick, I despise your fans tho

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I hated the new live action omg this is perfect

just saw someone justify the ending of the live action lilo and stitch movie by saying:

it’s not about the government taking children, it’s about making sure the child has a proper environment and care and the movie showed low food lilo being alone ALOT as a young teen trying to take on responsibilities of a mother so her sister didn’t get put in foster her neighbors/family stepped in at the end to give lilo stability and her Nani can go to COLLEGE! This movie was so good!

Which reminded me of a passage from the first book of the Hunger Games:

I took over as head of the family. There was no choice. I bought our food at the market and cooked it as best I could and tried to keep Prim and myself looking presentable. Because if it had become known that my mother could no longer care for us, the district would have taken us away from her and placed us in the community home. I’d grown up seeing those home kids at school. The sadness, the marks of angry hands on their faces, the hopelessness that curled their shoulders forward. I could never let that happen to Prim. Sweet, tiny Prim who cried when I cried before she even knew the reason, who brushed and plaited my mother’s hair before we left for school, who still polished my father’s shaving mirror each night because he’d hated the layer of coal dust that settled on everything in the Seam. The community home would crush her like a bug. So I kept our predicament a secret.

Nani and Katniss are very similar. Both women step up to become maternal figures for their younger sisters. Both work to provide food for them. Both go without to give their sisters more. Their worlds revolve around their sisters, but their little girls are never a burden. They are never an anchor or a clipped wing. They are family, not something preventing them from living. They give them life, not take it away.

Having Nani give up Lilo is having Katniss give up Prim. Her whole reason for doing what she does is to keep Prim out of the home. Yet Disney has stripped Prim from Katniss, Lilo from Nani, and turned it into a “hopecore” story. That is not Nani. That is not Katniss.

That is not the story of families all across the world holding onto each other as the only ones they have left. That is not hopeful. That is propaganda.

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SEJAMAUSBANDLUCYGRAY AAAAUGHH AAAAH AAUAUGH AAAAAAH BALLAD RELATTED DRAWING IN TYE BIG 2025 RAAAAAGH

Yall don’t love Sejanus the way I do

Trust

wyd when u see the ghosts of ur situationships waltz together

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“I first saw the girl at the Hob when she was just a baby. Burdock was so proud of her, he toted her around everywhere. After he died in that mine explosion, she started coming alone, trading the odd squirrel or rabbit. Tough and smart, her hair in two braids then, reminding me for all the world of Louella McCoy, my sweetheart of old. And after she volunteered for the Games, that nickname couldn't help but slip out.”

One of my first drawings I drew after reading sotr when it was first released😔

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Hayffie drawing requests part 1 :D

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I’m a day late, but happy 5th birthday ballad🗣️

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No safety. No food. No aid. No water. No healthcare. No education. Is this what it means to live? Is this what world accept as life?

If a group of animals were trapped, starved, and cut off from the world like this, people would be outraged. But because it's us—human beings—somehow, the world looks away.

These are unbearable days. Everything feels heavy. Each hour presses on my chest like I’m being suffocated.

My family needs urgent help.

Basic survival has become nearly impossible. Bread—just bread—now costs over $25 a day to make.

We are not asking for luxury. We are begging for life.

Please, if you’re reading this: help. Reblog this post. Talk about us. Donate if you can. Even a small act can mean everything right now.

#crisis #humanrights #emergency #donate #pleasehelp #tumblrcommunity #survivestories #reblogtohelp #signalboost

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More Hayffie stuff, no one is ripping me apart from this ship and no one is ripping Haymitch and Effie apart either✋ (I drew this before sotr)