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thinking about how peeta mellark, the calmest and probably the gentlest man ever in the hunger games, only ever went batshit crazy unhinged when katniss everdeen was threatened. even caesar flickerman was gagged.

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Realising that the movies did to us what the Capitol did to the people of Panem and marketed a spectacle of oppression, violence, and abuse as a love story

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so when katniss and peeta are in the cave and he keeps nodding off and then she kisses him awake, and then he smiles at katniss "as if he'd be happy to lie there gazing at me forever."

at this point in his illness, peeta knew he was dying. i don't think he expected to wake up again. so when he's awakened by the feeling of katniss' lips pressed against his and opens his eyes to see her smiling at him and hears her use a special voice for him that he's never heard before but sounds like love, for a second, he probably thought, maybe, being dead isn't so bad.

and then he sees the pot of broth in katniss' hand, feels his wounds pressed against the hard stone floor of the cave, and comes to his senses. and that's when he realizes he needs to fight like hell to live. because he's starting to think it might be his only chance to see heaven.

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🍊 The Orange by Wendy Cope

🌅 Illustrated by Peeta Mellark

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Peeta: *tells Katniss his favorite color*

Katniss, 5 seconds later:

Underrated everlark moments 3 / 2 / 1

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katniss was down bad crying at the gym 😭

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tumblrs great. you can have 6,000 followers & only 9 of them are active/real

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On Peeta's more difficult days, he lies in bed buried underneath the bedsheets for hours, muttering symphonies of real and not reals. Katniss likes to run warm baths for him. She especially collects lavender flowers from the woods to craft her own oil and use it for Peeta's baths.

Katniss softly whispers the shaking boy awake and convinces him to take a warm bath to feel better. She guides him to the bathroom and places him at the edge of the tub, slowly removing his prosthetic, shorts, and shirt. She still blushes looking at his figure even though they have been married for 10 years. Katniss gently guides him inside the silky water, struggling to get him into the tub as he's way heavier than her. Katniss runs his soft blonde hair through the water and places a dollop of shampoo in his hair, gently washing it. Peeta moans softly as her hands massage his aching scalp, whispers of 'thank yous' and 'you don't have to do this' echo through the room. Katniss shushes him and continues to work all over his body. She then helps him out of the tub and makes him sit on a stool as she dries his body with a towel. Peeta just smiles at her foolishly as he watches her work the salve over his stump. Katniss bends to kiss his eyes tenderly and pulls a shirt over his head. The boy protests against her actions, saying 'she's done more than enough' and ' he can do the rest himself' , she smiles and brings down her lips to his and says, "Baby, you just let me take care of you."

Katniss takes him back to bed and holds his head against her chest while softly brushing the soft curls off his forehead. He asks her to sing, and so she sings, lulling the scared boy to sleep.

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i will never EVER forgive the directors of the hg movies for not including the roof scene in catching fire

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A big reason why there's a very stupid, yet persistent old fan theory that Katniss and Peeta were "chosen" to be part of the rebellion is the statistics of Prim (who's name was in once) and Peeta (who's name was in at least five times) getting chosen not just once, but both of them at the same time, is small. And so some fans speculate that it was rigged (it wasn't).

However, we don't know for certain how many entries Peeta had. At the age of 16, he had to have at least five, but could have taken up to 30 slips to get tessarae for his family. We know Madge only had five, and there is an understanding that the merchant class Peeta belongs to has less entries than kids from the Seam. Yet we also learn that Katniss assumed Peeta was eating well, however, he was eating stale bread they weren't able to sell. We also know that his mother hit him for burning the loaves he gave to Katniss, saying that "no one decent will buy" burned bread. Peeta ate at the profit of the bakery, and that stressed out an already-stressed Mrs. Mellark even more.

I wonder, then, if it's possible Peeta had perhaps taken more entries for tessarae? Probably not the full 30, but maybe one or two extra? I really don't think that no merchant kid had ever not taken tessarae out. In the end, they're running businesses and businesses have expenses and some are better off than others. People also make poor money decisions in general, or things like medical emergencies happen. For a merchant family to have their child take out tessarae would be shameful and they wouldn't want anyone to know, but I don't think it's only Seam kids who do it, even if most merchant kids don't.

So could the bakery have had some sort of loss that year that affected their bottom line and meant they could have lost it all? Could Peeta have gotten sick and the Mellarks had to scrounge up money to get him costly medicine, which his mother then had him "make up" by taking an extra entry?

We don't know for sure how many entries Peeta had that year, but lately I've started to favor the idea it wasn't just the five most people assume he had. I think he had at least 10.

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my favorite thing about everlark is that peeta is metaphorical food katniss metaphorically wants to eat

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Can u pretty pleases give us some domestic everlark head canons? Like I know for a fact they're disgustedly in love post war, Haymitch is always gagging looking at those making googly eyes at each other at every chance. I can imagine Katniss following Peeta to the bathroom just because she doesn't want to let go of his hand.

Hi, non. How are you? Sorry for taking so long to answer your ask.

OH YEA, They are terribly, sickeningly in love. They finally experience the suffocating teenage love they never had the opportunity to experience.

Something interesting about Katniss is that she never talks about being embarrassed about kissing, even in front of everyone on TV. I think she just kisses or hugs Peeta whenever she wants. It doesn't matter if Haymitch (recently sober and much more consistent) is there. He just sighs and goes outside to smoke a cigarette until they both calm down.

I think that especially in the first two or three years there is still a lot of pain. There is a lot to heal and a lot to rebuild. I imagine Peeta and Katniss learning to live in that house with so many memories and walking through the ashes of D12.

Katniss still has a lot of nightmares, spends days in bed without wanting to eat or take a shower. If it weren't for Peeta picking her up and putting her in the bathtub and then putting small pieces of bread in her mouth to feed her, she would probably be dead.

Peeta still has some panic attacks. Every now and then he puts his head between his knees and howls like an animal. His large body becomes shaky and fragile. Katniss needs to hug him and hold his hands so he doesn't get hurt himself. When he calms down, she lies down next to him and sings him a song until he sleeps.

They both need each other. They develop an irrational fear of being far from each other. After a few years this improves, a lot of therapy and a lot of healing is necessary to get there.

They learn to laugh and play again. Peeta discovers Katniss has a dark sense of humor. And Katniss discovers that Peeta loves to prank her. They buy a battery-powered radio and learn to dance to the music. They fall in love again.

like I wrote about this once:

We were happy. Happy as we've never been before. We started dancing again. Spinning to the music on the radio in our living room until late at night. We started laughing for no reason again. We fell in love again, as if it were the first time. We had the honeymoon we never had. I wanted him so much that I felt physical pain if I wasn't by his side.

He would drag me to that small storeroom in the bakery and I would pull him to the kitchen counter. It was good to feel desired, it was good to feel his body on mine. We got so much worse than we were, he started telling me things I hadn't even imagined and they actually made me blush. I wanted him all the day and all the time, and when he wasn't around I crawled between my sheets and ran my hands down to the hem of my pants.

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I made a chart on people who have a crush on Bob Belcher.

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the most coupley thing that katniss and peeta do during the entirety of the series is when peeta finishes all of katniss’s food at the celebration at snow’s mansion during the victory tour. there is literally nothing that screams couple more than this. peeta being a supportive fiancé and encouraging katniss to try all the food she wants and finishing what she can’t SCREAMS we are obsessed with each other.

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There's been discussion about a reverse-trope of "too many beds" and bitches Everlark is that trope!!

They each get their own train compartment? Only until Peeta realizes Katniss gets nightmares, too, then they are down to sleep in the same bed all Victory Tour long.

Given their own rooms prior to the Quell? Only Katniss's matters, there's no way they aren't spending every moment together they can before dying and that includes when they're unconcious.

And you know that postwar they have their own HOUSES with multiple bedrooms but it'll only take a few months at most before they're cuddled up together again.

In a hotel with a hundred free rooms and two hundred beds, Everlark will find a way to sleep in the same bed Every. Single. Time.