#It is thrilling to draw fanart for some of the world's absolute worst books ever like real garbage

[crow-caller]

I love your videos and decided to draw the sad girls club

Have a nice day

thank you thank you thank you

[little-lynx]

About all this drama 🤪

Oh wow! Never thought I would cause such a drama!

Anyway I want to say a couple of words so we can close this theme :) sorry for my awful English again

First of all thank you all for your support! It means a lot for me!

Secondly I fully understand why this topic is such a pain. I’m exactly that girl who was chosen the last in gym classes 😂 haha. Also I’m maybe new here on tumblr’ thg fandom (although my first illustration here was upload in 2014) but I’m a big thg fan since 2012. And I was a part of Russian THG community (which is nearly dead now), and also participated in community contests with my fanarts and nobody liked it hahaha, so I know the feeling, ok? Please don’t think that I want to hurt someone. I absolutely thrilled to read different stories and draw more fic fanarts.

About fanfiction. 2012 was the worst year for me and Hunger Games literally saved my life. I spent hours in the public library reading and rereading THG series, drawing fanart (awful of course haha, I’ve published some of it here a month ago) and I spent my money on “The Hunger Games” movie tickets instead of my lunch, I watched this movie around 10 times and sometimes I was the only one in the cinema 😅. I just really didn’t want to go home and THG was my safe place, my escape from all the shit that happed in my life those days. And now I have this strict connection with peace and comfort and the Hunger Games. When I feel bad or hurt I just open one of the books or reread full series (my husband thinks that I’m mad and always like “what, hunger games agaaaain?” haha, oh and our first date was “Mockingjay part1” premiere so ok, you can see why I love THG so much, this series brought me happiness, joy and husband 😂).

But! But I’ve never read any Hunger Games fanfiction even at my deepest obsession times. I just didn’t think it would work with me. I’m very canon-head to be honest. You can see it in my main fanart series: I draw canon outfits and moments, it was my main purpose when I’ve returned to thg fanart. Back in 2012 I started to read “Grow Together” by Miss Scarlett 05 and through it was really interesting I didn’t finished it because it didn’t feel canonical enough to me 😅. So that was my only thg fic experience till this fall. And to be honest I had no intention to read something at all. Like AT ALL. But at some point I felt like I want to give “Grow Together” a second chance because I remembered that it was really enjoyable. And I failed to find it! I didn’t know where to go and what to do 😂. That’s how I found @everlarkficquestions blog (thank you guys!). So when I finally find this story and read it in full (great fic through!) I’ve started to think maybe I was wrong about fanfiction? I subscribed to @everlarkficquestions and sometimes looked through their posts that appeared at my dash. And one day they mentioned @katnissdoesnotfollowback and I was like AHAHA WHAT A FUNNY NICKNAME and I knew literally NOTHING about her and had no idea how popular she is. I just thought that person with such funny nickname should write something interesting maybe. And I decided to read something from her. And (it’s time for one funny story I promised) it was not one of her super popular fics (I even didn’t know they existed) it was “Maybe Tomorrow”. I didn’t read summary properly, I just caught something about snowstorm and “write more smut” and I was like what the hell smut is? 😂😂😂 I had no idea 🤣. So when I’ve started reading I was really confused because what? Airport? Tinder? What the hell is going on? And then I understand that it was modern au and I didn’t know what to do with it. My brain was boiling trying to imagine Peeta and Katniss in our world and it was not easy for me to be honest. And at some point I wanted to stop reading but I just kept reading because the writing style! Characters! The plot itself! When I got what “smut” actually was... HAHAHAHA if you just saw my face at this moment 😂😂😂 I was like OH MY GOSH ARE THEY GONNA... OH MY GOOOOOOD WHAT THE HELL MY SWEET LITTLE BABIES OH GOSH AGAIN?? OH WOOOOOOOW HOW COULD SOMETHING SO EMBARRASSING BE SOOOOO WONDERFUL??

Ok, I liked it, haha.

So that was my first ever modern au and first ever smut fic and I didn’t know what to do with all this new information. Through I really love this story I was not convinced if I really like something so not-canonical. So I open masterlist and pick the story with what I thought sounds canonical “The Act” and... haha, I read the summary and it was modern au again and moreover it was about the band! My brain screams “STOOOOOOP” but I read it and ok, now I know that I LOVE modern aus 😂. And I decided to return to @katnissdoesnotfollowback and read her other stories because I really loved her writing style and ok, you know they say you can’t forget your first love?

So please don’t blame me for loving her (nobody recommended her stories to me I found them myself and just feel in love), she introduced me to this spectacular world of “not only canon stories” and different versions of everlark and helped me to break the “only-canon” wall in my head and all this perfectly written smut haha. So now my mind is open for all kinds of fanfics and I’m ready to read your fantastic stories and draw more fanart! I’m really thrilled about it! Oh @sunsetsrmydreams says something about sexy librarian Peeta oh my god I’m reeeeeeady!

But before I read and draw something new I want to draw some more fanarts for @katnissdoesnotfollowback fics and I really REALLY hope you all will enjoy it and don’t feel bad about it ❤️

I love this fandom and all your support and comments on my art and hope you will enjoy my illustrations and fanarts for different stories and authors!

Love,

Ilona