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Please please please

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Only day you can rb this

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missing them so bad rn

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oh I am feeling very very normal about the next to normal west end cast recording being released on friday 30th may... so normal about this like what a very typical event and I am reacting in a calm and appropriate low-key manner.. yeah

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why r u male

Because of the way that I am

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I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, "So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?"

I turn in to him. "Put you somewhere you can't get hurt."

- The Hunger Games, Page 368

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I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out

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The Reluctant Victor, inspired by The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche - I just thought that this painting was SO perfect for Katniss and I had to draw it!

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potentially hot take but I LOVE mockingjay book so so so much.

the last 50 pages are so gorgeous and tragic and sickening and beautiful I will never get over it

and the insight we get into katniss and haymitch and gale and prim and how they l live and love is insane and everything was written in from the start. the ending was inevitable. always.

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RIP Wyatt Callow, you would have loved hearing math teachers say that you're a pleasure to have in class

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been thinking about this and really bro was INSANE for letting beetee anywhere near that arena and the quarter quell, never mind INSIDE the arena. when he's managed to pretty much pull off a scheme to at least partially seriously damage an arena AT LEAST ONCE (probably MORE times that we don't know about) and since then has had a quarter of a century to plant seeds and scheme and whisper and build connections and hack their little systems and lose more and become angrier and smarter and WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE!!

the more you think about catching fire and the quarter quell, the more you realise the whole thing was a farce. the whole idea and execution was so counterintuitive towards the capitol's cause. these people, these oppressors work against themselves. their own logic fails them. crazy, right?!

Everyone's giving Beetee shit for using the same plan twice, but nobody is giving Snow nearly enough shit for letting Beetee near an arena again and not having a plan for the exact thing he tried last time.

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first catching fire re-read post sotr and there's ofc a multitude of things, however idk if I'm seeing anyone else talk about this specific thing which is CHAFF. and WHAT WAS HE UP TO in that arena

so him and haymitch were close and obviously haymitch is now confirmed badboy rebel rule breaker troublemaker, so it kinda makes sense for chaff to be the same? something like refusing a prosthetic arm, a bit of a smack in the face to the capitol. 11 is mentioned as having knowledge of the plan to break the arena and escape to 13, but in catching fire it's not confirmed how either seeder or chaff is killed in the arena. them and district 8 are the district pairs with knowledge of the rebel plan who don't end up in the alliance (or at least interacting with katniss and peeta in the alliance) during their time in the arena.

seeder, along with the two tributes from 8 (cecelia and woof my babies) and one from 6, is killed at some unknown point in the bloodbath. bur then chaff apparently doesn't make any effort at all throughout the games to connect with katniss' alliance, whether to hunt or help them. the arena is small and katniss & co spend plenty of time on the beach, in the open. the arena is small. they're not hard to find.

chaff is not with the career pack. he spends his time alone. it would make plenty of sense for him to join the allies - a friend of haymitch would have to be a friend of katniss and peeta's, plus he and seeder knew at least something of the plan. so why didn't he join them? why wouldn't he seek them out to better protect katniss & peeta and further ensure the success and security of beetee's scheme?? finnick and johanna clearly had good communication with haymitch, so would know which of the districts were in in the plan and joining the alliance, right? neither finnick or johanna ever really mention chaff - a strong, capable and popular tribute - yet make extreme effort to rescue mags and wiress, who are realistically liabilities who aren't essential to the plan. so where was chaff? why never make any effort to find him??

unless he had a job. a specific role. a task. set by plutarch or beetee or himself. who knows. but why else would he prowl the arena alone??

call me crazy but what if there was a sub-team, of sorts. 8 and 11. maybe 6. but it didn't work out like it did for katniss and finnick, and most of them lost their lives in the bloodbath. so chaff had to go it alone. but he still had a job, a task that he NEEDED to fulfil.

I'm also now seeing a striking resemblance to thresh - prowling the arena alone, mysterious. perhaps on a mission? whether personal or from the rebels, I firmly believe that these two were both up to something at their respective games. think of haymitch, going it alone to achieve his goal, a child sent as an operative to hurt the arena and the capitol and snow. surely chaff had a larger purpose than going it alone for his own safety. especially after all we learn about him and haymitch and seeder and thresh and district 11. and plutarch doesn't like to be unprepared, right? so maybe there were even more ploys in that arena. further scemes and plans and moving parts. who knows what thresh might have been up to.

just a thought.

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going insane about haymitch the rebellion’s sacrificial lamb. they saw a kid honor the dead and make a mockery of snow in a public setting and knew he’d earned himself a death sentence. so they recruit him. ask him to do something that will only increase the target on his back. maybe it’s heartless but it’s for the greater good. they can achieve their aims of rebellion and let him make his death mean something in the process. it’s the best they can make of an unbearable situation

but then it doesn’t work. the arena doesn’t break and haymitch doesn’t die and the world and the games go on. and the personal consequences are dire.

fast forward twenty four years and now haymitch is the adult and he’s got the same kind of teenager on his hands and the same heartless choices in his lap. how much do you think it killed him to feed her to the same machine, when he knows intimately exactly how high the cost of failure can be?

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Everyone's giving Beetee shit for using the same plan twice, but nobody is giving Snow nearly enough shit for letting Beetee near an arena again and not having a plan for the exact thing he tried last time.