#Peetas pearl

[stone-soup-art]

[everlarksquell]

katniss rubbing the pearl that peeta gave to her in the arena against her lips and remembering how his lips felt??? her clinging to the pearl as if it’s peeta’s life itself and as long as she has it no one can take it???and then grabbing it it to try and remember the boy that peeta used to be and the moments they shared together before he was hijacked, because now all of that is gone???? i’m being so serious when i tell you that that damn pearl will make me go to therapy.

[triassictriserratops]

Would you be able to elaborate on your statement about the pseudo sexual imagery of the Everlark pearl? I hadn’t really considered the pearl from that angle before and would love to hear your thoughts on it.

In response to this post So firstly, this in NO WAY takes away from the other symbolism present in the pearl. This is in ADDITION to, NOT instead of. In fact, lemme go into it all from my perspective, although I know MANY creators have expressed a lot of this much more eloquently than I will! PEARLS AS THEY RELATE TO THE CAPITOL

i always viewed the presence of the pearls on Katniss' capitol wedding dress as twofold. Firstly, it speaks of the opulence and extreme perceived wealth of the Capitol. To have a dress adorned with chains of pearls - what a symbol of luxury! I also viewed them as binding/chains. A representation of the "freedom" of the victors. The trappings of their wealth while living under the thumb of the Capitol. Their chains aren't metal, they're beautiful and delicate but still present and just as deadly. Like a gentle hand on their throats.

PEARLS AS THEY RELATE TO PEETA In direct contrast to the Capitol pearls, the pearl Peeta gives Katniss is singular. It isn't purchased, it is found. It is found in a space where Peeta has nothing else to give to Katniss, other than his life. Instead of a chain or a burden it is meant as his symbol of freedom to her, in conjunction with the locket - "I give you fully back to your family. To the people who love and need you. I let you go, but this, here is something to remember me by." (And I also love how it's representative of Peeta's ability to find pieces of beauty in the most horrific of circumstances.) KATNISS' MENTAL CONNECTION OF PEETA AND THE PEARL We also know that, during Peeta's capture, Katniss connects this pearl heavily with Peeta's life and her need to protect it. "Tomorrow morning, I'm going to agree to be the Mockingjay." I tell her. "Because you want to or because you feel forced into it?" she asks. I laugh a little. "Both, I guess. No. I want to. I have to, if it will help the rebels defeat Snow." I squeeze the pearl more tightly in my fist. "It's just...Peeta. I'm afraid if we do win, the rebels will execute him as a traitor." I slip the pearl from the drawer and spend a second sleepless night clutching it in my hand, replaying Peeta's words in my head. "Ask yourself, do you really trust the people you're working with?" I knot the pearl into the corner of the parachute, bury it deep in the recesses of the bag, as if it's Peeta's life and no one can take it away as long as I guard it. Then, later, when Peeta returns and is found to be hijacked, his essence and personhood taken from him and from HER - the Pearl becomes a symbol of the boy she lost and everything he isn't anymore. Then she finds the pearl Peeta gave me. "Is this-?" "Yeah," I say. "Made it through somehow." I don't want to talk about Peeta. One of the best things about training is, it keeps me from thinking of him. "Haymitch says he's getting better," she says. "Maybe. But he's changed," I say. I consider saying a final good-bye to Peeta, decide it would only be bad for both of us. But I do slip the pearl into the pocket of my uniform. A token of the boy with the bread. And, finally, when in the Capitol, in the last mention of the pearl, we connect it with his literal LIFE in Katniss' HANDS. (And Peeta's unwillingness to risk Katniss' life even for his freedom.) "Should we free his hands?" asks Leeg 1. "No!" Peeta growls at her, drawing his cuffs in close to his body. "No," I echo. "But I want the key." Jackson passes it over without a word. I slip it into my pants pocket, where it clicks against the pearl."

And, finally, here we go: THE PEARL AS IT RELATES TO KATNISS' SEXUAL AWAKENING It is no coincidence, to me, that the pearl is gifted from Peeta to Katniss following the events of the kiss on the beach. Katniss has now admitted to herself that Peeta holds sexual currency with her. Her body is reactive to his own and feeds a hunger in her, a flame. The giving and acceptance of the pearl can be viewed as the "tender" of that sexual currency. Katniss ALSO thinks of the pearl as it relates to Peeta in the ways that Peeta was able to make her PHYSICALLY feel. She connects it with both what she felt with him that night on the beach, and what she HOPES to feel with him upon his return. (And what she misses when he is "lost" to her.) I feel around for the parachute and slide my fingers inside until they close around the pearl. I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it's soothing. A cool kiss from the giver himself. I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. To make myself put a name to the thing I've lost. But what's the use? It's gone. He's gone. Whatever existed between us is gone.

all I'm saying is that Peeta would literally pass out if he ever hears about how she basically kept rubbing one out in 13 to thoughts of him. (Because, let's be real. That's what the symbolism of the pearl was.) Rolling the pearl between her fingers? Kissing it to her lips? COME ON. It's so on the nose. (Or clit in this case.) 🦪😏

[everlarking-always]

“I had a dream, though,” I say, thinking back. “I was following a mockingjay through the woods. For a long time. It was Rue, really. I mean, when it sang, it had her voice.” “Where did she take you?” he says, brushing my hair off my forehead. “I don’t know. We never arrived.” I say. “But I felt happy.” ... Peeta pulls the chain with the gold disk from around his neck. He holds it in the moonlight so I can clearly see the mockingjay. Then his thumb slides along a catch I didn’t notice before and the disc pops open. It’s not solid, as I had thought, but a locket. And within the locket are photos. […] “Your family needs you, Katniss,” Peeta says. My family. My mother. My sister. And my pretend cousin Gale. But Peeta’s intention is clear. That Gale really is my family, or will be one day, if I live. That I’ll marry him. So Peeta’s giving me his life and Gale at the same time. To let me know I shouldn’t ever have doubts about it. Everything. That’s what Peeta wants me to take from him. ... He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. ... As I drift off, I try to imagine that world, somewhere in the future, with no Games, no Captiol. A place like the meadow in the song I sang to Rue as she died. Where Peeta’s child could be safe. ....

[oatm3al-c00kies]

if everlark is taylor swift-coded, odesta is so mitski-coded

[softchouli]

"For some reason," the first stage is not Daniel, is Katniss

[leulahart]

i've been doodling around trying to figure out katniss so here is a little idea of her wedding dress/second interview outfit

[knorrig]

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire (2009) // dir. Francis Lawrence, Mockingjay (2013) // Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay (2010) // Mitski, A Pearl (2018)

[starrrbakerrr]

I’m so okay about Katniss bringing the pearl all the way from District 13 to the Capitol, keeping it in her pocket even while in combat.

[triassictriserratops]

I know Peeta is eloquent and a gentleman but I can’t see how the masturbation conversation won’t end with him basically going “it’s okay, I’ve been doing that to thoughts of you since I was 12”. And my personal headcanon is that it got worse the more he got to know her. Loving her intensely just turned hormones from a teenage crush into a feral need. Now he’s not imagining her hair and skin, he’s imagining quirks like how she smiles and her grin that’s only for him.

I’m just saying they have a lot to talk about with this

In response to this post and this post And Katniss, who is literally JUST discovering masturbation and the arousal that comes with a healthy body, is just like "...literally HOW???? how did you have the TIME or the ENERGY????" And you're absolutely RIGHT. Man pants over the weirdest shit for his woman. Katniss struggles to button her pants? HARD. Katniss laughs at one of his jokes? HARD (emotionally) Katniss wears a baking apron? (SUPER HARD) Katniss yells at Haymitch to get his geese under control? SOMEHOW ALSO HARD??? Katniss licks tea off of her spoon after mixing in sugar? UNBELIEVABLY HARD Katniss looking around to see if anyone's looking and then scratching her armpit and sniffing it? LITERALLY RUNNING TO THE BATHROOM TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Poor man spends like a good three months of the growing back together phase just in a near constant state of arousal.

[andfeans]

She's just a girl and she's on fire. 🏹

[actuallyverynormalbtw]

*surgically extracts the trauma from my blorbo's brain*

[heavensbeehall]

"Catching Fire", Chapter 25

Part 3: The Enemy

Chapter 25: More bread arrives via parachute. Same as before. Katniss teaches Peeta to swim. Katniss wants to run off and break the alliance but Peeta wants to stay with the others until Brutus and Enobaria are gone. Beetee has a plan to kill the Careers and he explains in a professorly way. They hike to the tree. Then Beetee gives the kids a day off from school. They dive for oyster, which Katniss thinks is fun. Peeta finds a pear and gives it to Katniss, referencing what Effie said last book about pearls and coal. Peeta realizes the locket didn't work and Katniss thinks he is her biggest enemy in the plan to safe his life.

-- Katniss teaching Peeta to swim is such a random cute thing that I wish we got to see more of but I suppose it's not "important to the plot."

-- Beetee sas that force fields are "nothing to play around" with. And since I know he's going to be paralyzed by this is a bit on the nose.

When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta.

I think this is supposed to be about her thoughts of Peeta having a child (which was the end of last chapter) but when you read a chapter a day it sounds sort of like she had a sex dream about Peeta.

For some reason, it's difficult to look at him. Maybe it was all that kissing last night, although the two of us kissing isn't anything new. It might not even have felt any different for him.

LOL, girl. Gale noticed from his couch that it was a different kind of kissing. I am sure Peeta could tell since his lips were involved.

Maybe three, because who knows what Chaff's up to?

Yeah, Suzanne, what is Chaff up to? Where is he hiding? Is he following Peeta and Katniss or does he have a spot in the jungle that just happens to be near where Brutus and Peeta will be (the Lightning Tree wedge, I assume?). The Lightning Tree wedge does seem the safest? I mean you have to avoid the lightning but there's no fog or monkeys that will come get you. And if he's been in the Lightning Wedge all this time did someone tell him that is the place to go? Because that is where the escape will happen.

Finnick looks at Johanna and raises his eyebrows. He will not go forward without her.

Interesting. So he doesn't know Beetee is trying to bring down the forcefield? But he does know the time of the escape from the bread sent. I would like a chart about who knew what and when.

[marblerose-rue]

ohhh the hunger games! I loved this series so much and then completely forgot about it up until a few days ago. I remember everyone loved Peeta and Finnick but i literally didnt care about them. my favourite characters were Haymitch and Gale lol

YEAHHHH i was casually into it in elementary but it was really overshadowed by pokemon and warriors but now that im rereading the books its all i can talk abt!!!

THATS ALSO FAIR ABT PEETA AND FINNICK im like. head over heels for peeta and finnick has always been a fave of mine but i also get theyre not for everyone BUT SPEAKING OF WHOS FOR EVERYONE haymitch god bless i love him so much. youre also so much stronger than i am for having gale as a fave bc its sooo easy to reduce him down to memes but i think his character serves as good commentary of like. grooming young men into war SOMEONE ELSE PROBABLY WORDED IT A LOT BETTER THAN I CAN

[boisterous-retribution]

gotta finish reading crime and punishment as fast as possible so that i can start with the hunger games and go fucking insane. arghhhhh

[thehappyvet]

This peeta fic is just 👌👌👌