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all the people saying peeta mellark was useless are the same people that think the hunger games movies are perfect adaptations and think katniss was a white girlboss that didn’t want romantic love so you can’t expect me to take them seriously

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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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"peeta was always nagging on katniss about whether she loved him when she was just trying to be a revolutionary boss babe"

in reality, katniss was throwing next-level mixed-signals (think... risking your life for a boy *twice* and then saying it wasn't like that).

because this poor child was being so manhandled by the adults in her life that she wasn't given space to think about what she was feeling. and not to mention that all of these confusing feelings emerged as she actively being hunted in a child murder game.

and then peeta is left like, "i'm sorry, what?" *insert elle woods gif i can't find* because he is very confused. about WHAT IS REAL AND NOT REAL. so much that he eventually just comes to the conclusion that none of it mattered romantically and that katniss doesn't like him like that and he should just focus on being friends because he has to be a part of her life because they are intertwine for life. and he will go insane without her.

all while poor girly over here is daydreaming about the sun shining off his hair and wondering why his eyelashes don't get tangled.

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so many people in Katniss’s life take her “I don’t need anyone’s care or protection” defenses at face value, so big shoutout to Peeta who saw the defenses and ignored them

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you know what? it’s clever to have Peeta’s “you love me. real or not real?” come after “so after” because I think that presents a stronger case that he does know, and he’s just wanting to hear her say it, and now she finally can

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I luv ur style please keep posting these 🩵

hunger games brainrot blehhhh blehhhh pukes all my art up

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art from after exams yesterday!!

ps drew this before I got to the hijacked peeta part of the book. I've read it now. I'm drafting the note /silly

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i love thg movies but i would love a thg series with book accurate casting and details that were left out of the movies (madge etc.)

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Bro this is soooooo goood

More Katniss

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say it with me now. GALE. DID. NOT. WANT. PRIM. TO. DIE.

GALE. DID. NOT. KNOW. THE BOMB. WOULD. KILL. PRIM.

If Gale truly had wanted Prim to die, he wouldn't have fed her while katniss was in the games. He wouldn't have saved her when D12 was being bombed. He wouldn't have gone with her when she went back for buttercup in the D13 bombing.

Gale cared about Prim. Gale was NOT a bad person. He was a jealous person. Coin made him seem like a bad person. Coin was trying to shape him in HER image. Just like Dr. Gaul and Coryo.

Gale helped make the bomb, yes. He didn't want it to kill Prim. Gale is a flawed individual, yes. That doesn't make him as evil as Snow.

Gale cared about Katniss's family, and Katniss. I'm tired of the fandom saying he PURPOSELY had the bomb kill Prim.

He didn't want Prim to die. I'm sick of people saying "Oh Gale killed Prim!" when there are other vaild reasons to dislike him. Gale played a part in her death, but he didn't kill her directly. It was Coin more than anyone.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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Yall Katniss wasn't lying

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Katniss and the Motherhood Ending

I've been seeing the (frankly exhausting) resurgence of the "Katniss was forced into a motherhood she didn't want/sexism/feminism" debates and holy shit does it make me want to swallow splinters.

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The Katniss of the rest of the series is not choosing not to have children because she doesn't want to have children.

She loves her children so much, and so deeply, that she would rather they never exist than to have to grieve them. Then to subject them to the terror, the hunger, the death, the risk - even if they are never reaped. Even an unreaped life in Panem is cruel and dangerous.

Katniss takes on the stance of "no children" because that is the biggest act of love she can ever commit for her unborn children.

This conversation with Gale specifically happens after she is thinking about the hardship of life for the Everdeen's and the Hawthorne's - even with two hunters/traders between them.

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During the baby announcement, Katniss thinks to herself that, if she hadn't made the choice to cut off that part of herself - to shut the door firmly on romance, marriage, and the children that result - this baby could be true. And she ties it in to the fear and pre-grief experienced by EVERY SINGLE parent of Panem.

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And, boom. Here it's made explicitly clear. Katniss can only connect a child being safe with an entirely different world than the one she lives in. No games. No Capitol. This is what she needs from the world to imagine a safe child.

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So now we have our epilogue.

The fear she feels she describes as "old as life itself". This is the fear that every parent has when they're bringing new life into a world that they can't always control. But she does not refer to being afraid of her ability to keep them fed, clothed, or loved - she just can't promise them a perfect world - which NO parent can.

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But her children? Her children (whose identity she protects, because the curtain is closed and she will not strip them of their right to privacy the way she was) they take a lullaby for granted. They dance in a meadow built on ashes of the past. They are CHUBBY.

How could you read this and not see the closed loop that it is? She has accepted, TRULY accepted, that the world is as safe as she can make it. So these children that she ALWAYS loved are now allowed to exist. Because now, EXISTING is the biggest act of love she can grant them.

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I have always, always, always understood the choice to have the series end with Katniss as a mother but now? As a 32 year old woman? I understand it so much more.

I don't have children. And, if someone were to ask me, I would say I don't want children.

But the truth is - right now "no" is the only answer I have to give because I'm not in a position to make any other choice.

I don't feel safe in the country I live in. I don't want to bring my children into the state of things as they currently exist. We have a legally dead woman in a hospital right now being forced to be an incubator for a clump of cells. Women are dying entirely preventable deaths because cells are being given more rights than the real, live, breathing human beings in front of us.

It is dangerous to be a pregnant woman right now - EVEN if you want to be.

People are being detained and deported to international "prisons", never to be released, without due process. In too many cases, the crime is their last name and the color of their skin.

I cant, in good faith, bring a new life into the world as it exists.

Do I want children? I DONT KNOW. I can't let myself think that far. The ability to sit down and make that choice was taken away from me and all I'm left with is "no".

Not here. Not now. Not like this. And maybe not ever?

But in a different world? In a different time? Would I still make that choice? Would the answer still be "no"? Would I ever feel safe enough? I don't know.

I hope I get to find out.

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“I have said goodbye to Gale. I’ll never see him again, that’s for certain. Nothing I do now can hurt him. He won’t see it or he’ll think I am acting for the cameras.” 

(Not “he’ll know,” Katniss? Not “he’ll understand?” Not “he’ll realize?” No. He’ll think. Almost like, maybe you’re not acting at all?) 

(Just saying.) 

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finally

Lmao so many ppl are having post nut clarity abt SOTR 😭😭 the book was not that good

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

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There’s something very primal about Katniss, especially about her feelings for Peeta, that I love so incredibly much. The way she feels about him has nothing to do with any labels or social normals or gender expectations. When people try to label it for her she gets uncomfortable and confused. The way she feels about him is less the way a girl feels about a boy and more the way a wolf feels about its bonded mate. She wants to hide in their den together, to protect their pack together, lick his wounds, join up with him to assure both of their survival. Something about how feral she gets trying to protect him and keep him close feels like an animal standing over its wounded counterpart snarling and spitting and growling like a predator backed into a corner. Like when you put a feral cat in a carrier. People are like “katniss who do you LIKE like? Who’s gonna take you to the prom?” And she says “idk about all that human crap but I do want to tuck Peeta into a snug underground cave where he can be best defended against predators and make sure he has enough stock piled acorns to survive the winter.” It’s like she’s so stressed she’s devolved into animal instinct only and her inner animal is a guard dog.