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“The cabbage began to boil, filling the kitchen with the smell of poverty.” (tbosas, 8)

I’ll always find it funny that Snow and Katniss grew up in the same conditions (poverty, dead dads etc), and although they share similarities, they are opposing characters. Snow used his past experiences to oppress others because he knew how horrible it was. He forced people into poverty, even though he spends half of his time in tbosas stating how awful poverty is, and got the idea of prostituting the Victors from Tigris being a prostitute herself to help out with their poverty. Snow says how even the thought of Tigris being sexually abused “made him feel sick and helpless.” (tbosas, 4) But he still inflicted this oppression onto others.

Yet Katniss wanted to help those in similar situations because she knew how horrible it felt.

And it’s clear that what Suzanne was trying to say is that, at the end of the day, it’s a choice to be a horrible person or not. Your shitty past experiences are not an excuse to inflict harm on others. “I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.” (tbosas 493)

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At the beginning of book 1!

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I want to know how she read the hunger games and thought that PEETA was useless?!? Because shes clearly not reading the same book as me. Peeta is a MAIN character. Without Peeta, him and Katniss wouldn’t of even survived the Games; if Peeta wasn’t in the arena with Katniss, Katniss wouldn’t of survived on her own. He was able to play the Capitol in ways Katniss couldn’t even fathom. And he provided so so so much support for Katniss throughout the entire trilogy.

There’s many more examples where Peeta is not useless (because there’s never a point in the trilogy where he is “useless”) but I really cannot be bothered to write them all because Hazelwood is just so obviously wrong.

the thing about the ali hazelwood comments that make me not want to read her books isn’t that she’s team gale.

it’s that she thinks peeta is “useless.”

what makes him useless? his softness? the fact that he had a debilitating injury (from saving katniss’s life) that became a disability? is it because he has more feminine-coded traits and skills?

that doesn’t make him useless. that makes him human.

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So, after

Tiny Peeta POV "so after" drabble

@rosegardeninwinter and @triassictriserratops are to blame for this getting yanked out of my head

I look at her flushed cheeks and awe struck eyes in total euphoria. Something shifts in her expression and it’s a familiar look, something both soft and knowing, long suffering and friendly. It’s a look I’ve seen a thousand times from her. This morning, last week, in the quell, in her kitchen, on the train. I can’t think of when I first saw that particular gaze, it’s become such second nature to accept it with a grin or a squeeze of the hand. For her to be here, naked in my arms with the red stain of pleasure still hot on her cheeks, and look at me the way she’s always looked at me… it’s…

Oh what a fool I’ve been. 

How much time have I wasted gifting her space that she didn’t ask for? How long have I ignored those looks, made excuses for intimacies, reasoned away every stubborn, reckless act of self sacrifice? My memories of the quell are some of the hardest to sort through, but I know at least that we were in disagreement on who should make it home. Did I know then, and just lost the memory? Or did I push it down because I didn’t want to see it when I knew I wouldn’t make it back? 

Katniss dips her head to lay a petal soft kiss on my collar bone. How did I not notice? 

“You love me,” I breathe in realization. In shock. In shame for ignoring it all this time. “Real or not real?” 

Her eyes flick up to meet mine, and I watch my words settle over her. She smiles. 

“Real.” 

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a family can be you, your soulmate, your trauma bonded uncle, an ugly cat, and some geese

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More Katniss

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This is beautiful

Been thinking a lot about The Hunger Games again recently so here’s a Katniss 🏹

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“No, [...] we need someone exactly like you.”

"Just luckier?"

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Wyatt. Wyatt Callow

whose luck just ran out.

In honors of Ben Wang <3

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‘Panem isn’t segregated’, it literally is though. Although district 12 isn’t racially/ethnically homogenous, there is a identifiable ‘seam look’ (canonically a mixed future race) and town look (white and blonde). Of course not everyone in district 11 is black, but it’s not a stretch to assume that most of the field workers and likely most of the revolutionaries who stir up enough trouble for their children to be stolen are. Suzanne Collins is very hesitant to talk about race even though she’s made a story set in America with heavy racial implications, and it does absolutely matter that the movies are whitewashed.

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Never drawn Katniss in the first games before somehow

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Do you think Wyatt Callow died early protecting Lou Lou so that people back home made no money on his death. He knew his odds, he knew he wasn't supposed to die protecting someone, that he wasn't supposed to die in the bloodbath, and that's why he did it. One last fuck you to the people trying to make money on his death.

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Omg 🥺

Hawthorne family, because it was really relaxing drawing them happy

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“because he loves Peeta too” is the only line ever because it tells us, with the plainest read of the text, that Haymitch loves Peeta just as Katniss loves Peeta; so Katniss admits she loves Peeta here; and, read another way, I think it also tells us that Haymitch loves Katniss, and he loves Peeta too

and Katniss knows they are loved by Haymitch (she articulates it more later, but the fact that she reaches for his comfort also speaks volumes), which is just … a whole thing …

and he’s there for his sweetheart, immediately, and they’re united in their grief over Peeta, even as everyone else is fretting about how they’ve lost their propaganda piece

he didn’t want to let them in and this is why — and he does know what she’s feeling, more than she can handle hearing right now, not only because of his past, but because he too is watching Peeta’s decline, and Katniss’s decline because of it … so he just tells her he knows, and he holds her

this messed up little family has my heart