#Mockingjay

[am2c]

[lovedinn]

Taylor actually wrote ttpd about the hunger games

[deadboydoodling]

I love your art ❤️. Could you draw everlark cuddling on the couch post war/mockingjay?

Peeta could live a thousand lifetimes and fall in love with Katniss in every single one of them. And he is grateful to be fortunate enough to have had the pleasure of falling in love with her twice all over again in this one.

OH MY GOD?? THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME THIS !!! Here is the sketch I had for it! I wanted it to come out closer to the one below.... but long story short, ur residental dumbass mucked up layers and had to crop & salvage what I could. Anyways,,, thanks for the support!!! And the ask, ofc!!

[holly-the-book-bear]

Curious about what everyones headcannons are for an alternate universe where the rebellion didn't happen and quarter quell hadn't reaped the previous Victors. What would Katniss and Peeta's lives have been like in the Capitol and as mentors? How many kids would they be expected/forced to have? Would Finnick and Annie still end up having a son? What would Prims future look like? When would the "this would have happened anyways" moment take place if they'd still been forced to marry and perform for the Capitol/entire country? So many what ifs

[highladyofterrasen7]

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[thedarknesspervades]

I think something that truly shows Katniss’s character growth is her reaction to death

She says in THG that she used to double over in pain, wondering where her father has gone. In mockingjay, she collapses with Buttercup because she knows where Prim is.

Her father’s death gave her the ability to kill - it gives her the strength to hunt, both animals and people. Prim’s death gives her empathy for life as she cares for the cat she once tried to drown.

I think Prim’s death also shows what she is at her core - a caregiver. Prim kept her going after her father died since she had someone to look after - she only starts to properly process her feelings once she has Buttercup (named after another small yellow flower) to care for.

And that is Katniss’s problem. All throughout the series, she never lives for herself, only to care for others. And if that keeps her going, it’s enough. But I like to imagine that perhaps she learns to care and live for herself after the war.

[sadsongsandstories]

I love that the BOSBAS book sets up Snow as having this sudden and violent hatred towards Mockingjays as soon as he sees them. And like, there are thematic reasons, they represent a failure of the capitol, challenging its assumed superiority. They also pose a threat to his world view, singing for no vested interest other than the pleasure of singing. In a world of cruelty and chaos, how could anything sing so freely??

But aside from all the brilliant meaningful themes, it's just hilarious to think of Snow having random beef with some birds. And proceeding to petition for them all to be shot down and killed, which they then attempt and fail at. And of course, it is the Mockingjays that haunt him from the trees with echoes of Lucy Grey's song.

More hilarious still, is the idea that some 65 years later, as an established president with a firm grip on the entire nation, some girl shows up at the annual child murder games you've been running wearing a Mockingjay pin. Then the same girl becomes a nuisance and challenges your world order, only to ignore your attempt to control and suppress her, and, when you create a quarter quell to destroy her, her designer burns away the wedding dress you made her wear to turn her into an ornate Mockingjay, standing on stage for the nation to see. Then she somehow survives the second games, joins the rebellion and fully embraces the Mockingjay persona, ultimately destroying you and your capitol.

Oh and best of all, she uses your dead loves song to do so, repeating it once again like all good Mockingjays should.

He must have been pissed!! And I for one, am all for that!!

Also Lucy Grey was definitely laughing from through the trees and across the wind.

[feywild-meadows]

thresh - “Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we're even then. No more owed. You understand?”

[gay4azi]

i had to. i’m sorry.

[sabsgames]

what makes Snow such a formidable villain within THG universe is that nothing he does was set in stone. there was no sense of inevitability about his actions and his brutality. Snow had enough perspective of poverty, capital cruelty, district hunger and not to mention his own arena experience’ and yet he actively chose at every moment to stray from natural goodness. its even more terrifying in the sense that he had the ability to care. Snow is not a mindless sociopath, he displays feelings to others such as sejanus, lucy grey and tigris but ultimately he will always choose himself. his ability to betray those he cared about in order yo advance himself makes him so much more than the stereotypical villain who is forced into his actions.

[stephsycamore]

I think the most radical thing the hunger games does is tell young people that the most revolutionary thing you can do is have unconditional love for humanity. Katniss throughout the entire series is guided by a deep sense of compassion for the people around her. It is what causes her to volunteer, to bury rue, to mercy kill cato, its why she tries to save peeta, why finnick telling her to remember who the real enemy is works, and even though her compassion for the larger world falters when peeta is kidnapped, it comes back when she visits hospitals and asks for mercy for other victors and ultimately, it is love and belief in a better humanity that makes her kill coin. Through it all, she maintains an unfaltering belief in the fundemental goodness of humanity, which is diametrically opposed to dr gaul's and snow's worldview. Peeta is even more unwaveringly compassionate

So the series tells young people that the most revolutionary thing you can be is compassionate. Let compassion drive your politics. Let yourself believe in the fundemental goodness of people. And i think that's deeply important in a world that touts the superiority of pure reason or logic, to allow yourself to be guided by something as emotional as compassion. Katniss everdeen tells us that your politics should be rooted in compassion in a world that thinks detatchment or cynicism is intelligence and i think thats v cool

[ringtoned]

suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomenon of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008

[cant-find-anyone-elseeee]

there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too

suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.

all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.

[brothersnackariahsbitch]

Now when I reread The Hunger Games series, I’m going to be giggling and kicking my feet every time something pops up that I know triggers Snow. Because once you read TBOSAS, you realize it’s literally EVERYTHING. Katniss’s name. Her mockingjay pin. Her singing. Where she’s from. Her falling for a blond boy. Her entire existence is torture for him. We don’t know if Lucy Gray lived or died, but she sure as hell lived on in Snow’s memory. She haunted him until the day he died.