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seeing takes and opinions of other users pitching which victor's stories they'd like to be made into full books. finnick, johanna, etc, etc. i'm not here to pitch a character. i'm here to pitch a genre. if there's ever another book in the series, please let it be a comedy. my heart can't take this anymore suzanne-

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and he wore his nicest waistcoat too...

(was rewatching Pride and Prejudice and my hand slipped)

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#thinking about haymitch going from “this bitch snores loud as hell thats another reason i dont want him as my ally” to this……………………. suzanne collins you are so evil

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Wyatt, Lou Lou, Haymitch and Maysilee

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I love maysilee donner bc she knew she was probably gonna die so she just bitched at everyone that deserved bitching, had a picnic, and punched the capital in the face. Literally. No one has ever done it like her

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that louella casting

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in another life, she was auntie maysilee

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peeta: breathes

katniss, internally: hm. interesting. strategic. emotionally destabilizing. soft. fluffy. uncalled for.

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im suddenly 12 again and having feelings towards them

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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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Quiet cat gf vs loud dog bf

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I can finally unveil this personal project! My comic version of chapter one of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, which I finally managed to get to shortly after SOTR came out. This was a unique project for me that I've been working on, on and off, for the past year or so. Lots and lots of fun, although I did mess up in some parts (typesetting :') ) and the limited color pallette was a unique challenge. Rest of the chapter under the cut! Hope you enjoy :)

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lucy gray, haymitch, and peeta are the performers. the ones who knew that in order to gain capitol favor, they needed to put on an act and sell it

sejanus, lenore dove, and katniss were the activists. constantly resisting, fighting, rebelling. even if in some cases, they never meant to after all

and because of that, snow hates them all, the bloody lot of them, all the same

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since everyone is talking about the difference between katniss' and haymitch's narrations, i find it funny how in sotr everyone is vaguely described and in og trilogy we know how most of the characters look and i know it's coincidental but it's like this:

haymitch describing a character: she has two sisters two brothers, her parents married each other on one spring day, one of them is gay, she's a lesbian and broke up with her girlfriend over jealousy

katniss describing a character: idk man he has.... brown hair

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After reading Sunrise on the Reaping Katniss really is the perspective that would cause other characters to lose it if they could read her thoughts. Haymitch has to witness the Spark Notes version of their lives with Peeta footnotes every 2 pages while he has an encyclopedia of everything in his head. Gale has to deal with a girl “choosing” him while pining for some other guy’s arms and hoping to never kiss him again. Peeta has to deal with pages of a girl saying he’s all that’s good in the world, that she lusts after his eyelashes and arms, and in a different world a teenage pregnancy may have happened between them— all while refusing to give what they have a name.

Katniss Everdeen, narrator of all time.

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theres a distinct difference between Katniss’s and Haymitch’s narration style that i think a lot of other people are noticing and it is that haymitch seems to know a lot more about District 12 and Panem than Katniss seemed to. and SotR might seem like lore dropping or name dropping but like. i think it says a lot about them as people.

I think the lack of context we get from Katniss isnt just due to propaganda, but largely due to the fact that she’s so deeply rooted in poverty and survival mode that she simply doesn’t have the mental capacity for anything else. When traumatized, our brains automatically retain less information than they ordinarily would and we see that with Katniss. Not for friends, or school, nor propagandized television lore. Notice how we get descriptions of most tributes before she remembers their names, if she ever does, while Haymitch actually remembers a lot of their names right off the bat. When you’re fighting for your life every day, it really doesn’t leave much energy for anything else. She’s used to saving all of her energy for providing for her family.

But Haymitch isn’t providing for his family. He has several friends, a healthy romantic relationship, and retains information about society because hes not neglected.

It’s just so interesting that Katniss is the luckier of the pair because in their childhood parallels, she drew the short stick compared to him. She’s only luckier cuz she had him.