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Katniss Everdeen at training after Johanna gets naked in the elevator

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just wanted to drop a message to say how much I love your fic!! every update in my inbox brings a smile to my face :)

Thank you that's so sweet! I'm so glad you're enjoying and thank you for sending this! I always doubt after I post!

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I know I already asked one but I am here again. Can you talk about katniss showing up to meet Peeta and then waiting a few minutes in hiding, just watching him wait for her? What’s she doing that for? And why does she eventually stop?

She is a hunter in unfamiliar territory. She’s observing him like she would observe prey, trying to get a sense of who he is when he thinks he’s not being watched, how he moves and if he’s a danger to her. Her guard is pretty up and she is testing him trying to see what kind of game is afoot. But eventually as she becomes more comfortable with him, she doesn’t need to have that wariness anymore.

(And not for nothing she likes looking at him)

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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ girlie you are giving me the best hunger games fanfic in a while 🫂

Thank you!! That’s very sweet!

New chapter tomorrow and we’re really entering a new era in the fic and like it really pushed me as a writer but I love the run of the fic that we’re about to start!

Here’s another fun fact: I write draft of the chapter and then strip back all the “I feel” phrases until I feel Katniss knows to recognize them

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⭐

My fic was basically inspired by @shinynewmemories post about the hunger games actually driving Katniss and Peeta apart than bringing them together because I have always felt that way and that doesn’t seem to be the prevailing opinion. Like people on Reddit seemed to assume she’d have married Gale (which this is a whole different post). The way shinynewmemories articulated it just brought a lot thoughts up the surface. Like “ok if they have chemistry immediately what does that look like?” And “ok but katniss before the games still has a lot going on and is fundamentally against romance- what does that mean?” And “can they be together in a world without the Games?” Etc etc and then I started writing.

I’ve always (since I was a literal teen) had a fic about the premise of “this would have happened anyway” bouncing around in my head. Plus the hunger games prevailing themes about growing up and learning who you are and what your values are in an oppressive world have been at the front of mind lately. ( Ha Ha wonder why!!!!)

So between all that and the post, I finally started writing my first ever long fic! So all that to say - if you ever doubt making a post with fandom analysis, do it! You never know how you’ll affect others!

Also here’s the post:

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⭐️Bestie there’s a directors cut???!!! You know I want this. You KNOW I need it. Especially if it’s anything to do with Katniss and Peeta scenes cuz that’s what I’m most feral for.

You pointed this out in your post about Chapter 9 but Katniss uses an affectionate name for Peeta while they are intimate and that was a very last minute addition that I added as I was writing the first draft of some of the back chapters. I’ve always felt Katniss is a character that lives very much in her body and in such an intimate moment she wouldn’t realize what she’s saying because she doesn’t have time to overthink it so she’s really feeling true to what she’s feeling

Also I changed the song that’s in Chapter 9 because I found one that worked better - this is a major pet peeve I have in terms of posting. Sometimes once you post it’s there forever.

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Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut

Reblog this if you want readers to come into your ask box and ask for the “director’s commentary” on a particular story, section of a story, or set of lines. 

Or, send in a ⭐star⭐  to have the author select a section they’ve been dying to talk about!

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Katniss: I’m not sure how I feel about you except I am willing to die for you and I will try to do so even though you told me not to and I really don’t want to marry you except I resent any implication of other people saying our engagement or love is fake and all things considered it’s a great option for me and also I don’t want to have children except one of the only good dreams I have is one where you are a father and also I’m not sure if I enjoy kissing you but I get mad that you don’t kiss me and when we get to kiss and it’s my idea, it makes me feel all hungry and warm inside and I can’t really handle romance but I think you’re so hot that if the world was different I would be pregnant right now and also I will truly crash out if you’re not around

Peeta: …. Ok! Friends forever!

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My thumb trails down from the welt, over the soft blonde fuzz, smoothing it as I go. I follow the path of his lucky veins that get to live under his skin down his strong sculpted forearm, curving around his wrist, until my fingertips reach his knuckles, where the same light hair curls faintly over his fingers. I want to press them to my lips, just once, to know what it might feel like.

every time you happen to me all over again | Chapter 16-17

Just as Effie Trinket’s hand reached for the slips, a slight gust of wind stirred the air, and a spirit tinkled a wind chime—its ringing whispering a different fate into the breeze.

In District 12, the Games never come for Katniss Everdeen or Peeta Mellark. But survival still does. And so does everything else

(AU — Never Reaped. This would have happened anyway.)

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I need you

Beach scene in catching fire 💛

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people i want to get to know better

I was tagged by @farfromhome87 and @burkygirl-- Thank you!

last song: Tyrant by Beyonce - I saw the Cowboy Carter tour a few days ago and it blew my mind!!! No one will do it like her!

favorite color: Burgundy

currently watching: Everyone's Live with John Mulaney. I don't operate at the same frequency as this show but it's got highs and lows to me.

last movie: This Friday I had like a big movie night by myself where I watched like some comedies that were on netflix and I watched Neighbors and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

sweet, savoury, sour? Savory 100% wish there were most savory treats in the world ad I just had a feta cheese bureka for breakfast

currently reading: Not much quite honestly! The most recent book I finished was SotR and recently reread Song of Achilles. I would love a new rec though! I love literary fictio.

current obsession: Hmmm... so usually I absolutely hate cleaning but I've been in my apartment for 3.5 and miscellany has accumulated. so I've been going through every shelf, every closet every surface and cleaning it out! I've really enjoyed donating the stuff to the community fridge as well!

last Google: Moxie's. This is a restaurant with many many locations across Canada and the US. I originally went when I was at a Miami Bachelorette party. I had a salad so good it genuinely changed my life. Here are the ingredients: VEGETARIAN POWER BOWL* (gc): marinated tofu, shiitake mushrooms, soft boiled egg, fresh vegetables, crisp greens, cauliflower rice, thai peanut dressing & spicy mayo --> add seared ahi tuna and sub regular rice

currently working on: My very long fic each time you happen to me all over again. It is a AU where Everlark is not reaped and how they would have found each other but still very much grounded in the existing world of the Panem. I have written a lot of it and I'm still very much trying to land the plane. Anyway, there will be a new chapter today and I hope everyone likes it!!

I am supposed to be working on stuff for grad school but sometimes we're in a fanfic place

I tag @waywardangel-wilds @thesweetnessofspring @adsosfraser from the Everlark Discord!

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Johanna literally says "Look at Annie Cresta" about how much the arena changes Victors. It's not even subtext that Annie is a career! It's text!!

And you know what? Its important for us to sympathize with the careers too!!

And if i said SOME people's refusal to even entertain the idea of Annie being a career is a perfect example of people wanting a "perfect victim" and not understanding what nuance is.

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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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You are evil.

Amazingly talented

but evil.

Thank you anon! (I think you mean my fic but I'm not sure!!)

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Peeta draws me mazes, each one more complicated than the last, and I race through them, pencil weaving confidently. I show him a maze my father once taught me—one with a hidden exit. When he finally discovers the trick, he just laughs and asks me to teach him how to make one too. When he tries it himself, his lines are sharp and straight, more elegant than mine. I find myself watching the flex of his hands as he draws—how confidently his fingers hold the chalk, how gently he moves to avoid crumbling it. There’s a dusting of blonde hair on his knuckles. I already know the maze’s trick, but it takes me longer to find the exit than it should.

every time you happen to me all over again | Chapter 14-15

Just as Effie Trinket’s hand reached for the slips, a slight gust of wind stirred the air, and a spirit tinkled a wind chime—its ringing whispering a different fate into the breeze.

In District 12, the Games never come for Katniss Everdeen or Peeta Mellark. But survival still does. And so does everything else

(AU — Never Reaped. This would have happened anyway.)

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What I love most about these is how they actually look true to their young age

pioneers of the situationship

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as a writer wannabe, i must ask if you have the entire story planned out. i went back and read it from beginning to the latest update and i must say i love how everything is connecting even little details from like chapter 1 to chapter 12. do you have gist of how the story is gonna end? do you keep an outline? you're an incredible writer! kudos!

Hello anon! I am basically a writer wannabe fwiw. I’ve been reading fic for over a decade and never had the bravery to write until like 2-3 years ago and that was only one shots. ETYH is like my first ever long fic and it’s only 13 chapters at this points 😭 So I shouldn’t be giving advice to anyone until I land the plane.

But to answer more tactically- I try not to write filler. Every sentence has a purpose. That can be 1) help establish setting or feeling or tone 2) move plot along 3) help develop character or relationships 4) establish something about the world.

Foreshadowing and symbolism is something I loved about the original THG trilogy and I wanted to honor that. It helps that because it’s fanfic most of the symbols and themes have been written for me.

I had a vague outline before with major plot beats all fleshed out. I also have just a basic list of characters I want to keep track of and general plot points I want to keep track of. This document also has little sections of future chapters. This is also why I delay posting so much. Because once it’s published I can’t go back and add foreshadowing.

And lastly, I edit a lot! I do one draft of a chapter to get plot down. Then I do a rewrite where I start putting in imagery and foreshadowing and further emphasize the themes. Then I do a grammatical edit for flow and structure (I am terrible at this). Then lastly I do one more skim for pacing and a general vibe check (for example I have to strip back a lot of “I feel” sentences and then imply them because Katniss is not super understanding of her own emotions).

Hopefully that helped!