#Start with Catching Fire

[mariana-oconnor]

"How to watch every Hunger Games movie in order!"???

These articles are really nonsense, aren't they?

[charlunday]

Just a quick one of mama and babies that I've had in the sketchbook for a while 🩵

Alternately titled: Why buy maternity wear when your husband's clothes fit perfectly?

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[iamnmbr3]

we don't talk about this parallel enough

[hayacinthandlilies]

“I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta”

All I know is Katniss: why is he kissing my man that’s not gonna bring him back to life

Finnick: giving mouth to mouth to save Peeta to protect the plan and these two stupid teenagers

Peeta: fighting for his life after hitting the shield

[adam-scott]

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE 2013 | dir. Francis Lawrence

[bb-enablefreebuild]

a Hunger Games HC I’ve had for a long time is Katniss taking Peeta’s last name once they get married.

I mean, think about it. Katniss Everdeen was the girl on fire. The symbol of the rebellion. The Victor. Her name is known in every lip in Panem; every child born after the second rebellion will know her name.

But Katniss Mellark is just a woman from District 12. A mother and a wife. A provider. A hunter who has the woods around her home memorized like the back of her hand. She is anonymous. She is singular. She is herself.

And I think Katniss separating her identity from the girl in the arena is something she would definitely do.

[fangrurin]

Fashion of the Great Houses of Westeros: House Arryn of the Eyrie

[sunshine-photo-frame]

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.

[pinkbairds]

I actually really like hayffie as a couple cause they really show the strength of love - which is ultimately what underpins the message of the hunger games, in my opinion anyways

like she's been ostensibly indoctrinated - and severely so - since birth. haymitch has rightfully been disillusioned with the world around him. effie being able to look past her heavily conditioned perspective to love haymitch is so important! haymitch being able to overcome his alienated, depressive state to love someone is so important! love is so powerful!

obviously there's the qualms about effie being a capitol citizen that volunteered to send children to their death and her infuriating myopia compared to haymitch losing Everything to the capitol and clearly devoting himself to lenore dove, but I think their pairing has a cute message that demonstrates how powerful love is! the hunger games is all about love!!!

[austin-friars]

Not to speak to much about Daenerys but another thought I have on her, is that she isn't even taking the Iron Throne as a Targaryen. She is so far isolated from that culture, and I don't just mean her being Dothraki. I mean that, after Viserys died, the illusion of the Targ dynasty. Viserys had groomed and abused her for years up to that point, and she thought it was normal, she thought it was okay. And she thought that, because that is the culture/family she grew up in. That is how most Targaryen women were treated by their brothers and male relatives, especially if they were intended to marry them.

So much of Dany's growth in the book/show is her coming to terms with the misogyny she faced and accepted because she thought it was okay. Because it is how her family operated/lived. It was both her Targ and her Dothraki culture. But we can see how she opposes both of them. She completely remade Dothraki cultures, outlawing rapes and abuse of women. She went to slavers bay, and completely uprooted/destroyed the culture.

Maybe it's not accurate to say she completely discards Targ culture, because she doesn't. But she reforms it. Targ culture, has always been patriarchal. But Dany has turned it into a matriarchy. It is Dany who brought back the dragons, it is Dany who is leading salvation. If she is going to claim the throne as a Targaryen, it is completely different from what we know. It is not tied to blood purity, or anything like that. It is the anti-thesis of Targ oppression and imperialism. It is freedom and equality.

You know, the whole idea of the Prince that was Promised is that yes, it is Dany. But this Prince isn't here to save the Targaryen family, she's there to destroy it. But build something new, something better....

[luna-loveboop]

Ok Sky and Hyrule

I have tried forever to write up a good Sky and Hyrule post. I wanna clarify their relationship because it is kind of hard to make sense of, and I've had several ask after I mentioned my thinking that they have issues in this post. However I am tired and just want the thoughts out there, so I'm just gonna give a low-effort post with a bunch of screenshots. Read. Have fun.

Hyrule is very stubborn and Sky is very stubborn. They do not vibe. The clearest starting point of them butting heads was in divine dark reflections when Hyrule showed his ability to get ahead of himself and left Sky behind, something Sky does not take kindly too.

They fight with opposite hands, which isn't a problem when Hyrule is fighting with Wars for example, but with Sky they don't fight well together and clash.

We don't see these two clash that much bc they are both very friendly people! So I think them actively scowling at each other after they bumped elbows is pretty telling. They have beef with each other ok.

HOWEVER for the positive aspects of their irritatingly-ambiguous relationship, their main point of bonding is the master sword. Yeah. bc Hyrule can wield it and Sky falls in love /plat lol with anyone who compliments it

They also both like to joke around/prank others, so they have that in common too yay!

AnD ANothEr thING! Sky can be Very judgy about appearance, and those traits obviously carried over into lu from sksw canon. Whereas Wars showed respect towards Hyrule despite him not being a knight, we never got that from Sky. What internal thoughts does Sky have about the humble traveler?

Sky can tend to be prideful, and Hyrule absolutely could not be prideful. Rulie is still confident in who he is! Firecracker boy. Also they both can have tempers and are stubborn.

Random note: Hyrule thinks himself incapable compared to the knights, but in the discord Jojo mentioned at one point that she thought Hyrule could hold his own in a fight against Sky due to his own skill set. No. Sharing. Discord. Documents. Outside. Of. There. Casual mention only. Mhmm. So I think this is ok. I'm gonna set the discord rules as my wallpaper I check them so often. anyways.

Also please note that I am NOT hating on either of the babies, I love them very much and BOTH have flaws in their relationship with the other. The thing that's so hard about Sky and Hyrule's relationship is that they are both so very friendly it's hard to discern. They're two nice guys who wanna chill! But they do not chill or vibe with the other, most of the time Sky and Hyrule are not commonly hanging out. Yeah there ya go, Sky and Hyrule ramble. Bye!

Art is by Jojo @linkeduniverse au!

:)

Thanks to everyone who asked for elaboration <3 Sorry for the wait.

[charlunday]

"Stay with me." // "Always."

Realized it's been a while since I've drawn these two smooching, so I thought it only appropriate to amend that.

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[potatounicoorn]

Want to bet that the 75th reaping bowl had Haymitch's name there two times, not only because Snow really hates everlark, but because they absolutely did not want Haymitch "I blew two bombs in the arena as a fuck you" Abernathy back to an arena with Beetee, Wiress and Mags and more clever brain

[buffyspeak]

the idea that peeta probably or must have 'liked' being made to pretend to have a relationship katniss for the capitol, with all that entailed, kissing in public and having to put on a show of their affection, etc. is so baffling to me.

like, A) it's a fairly ungenerous read of peeta. i get why to some degree, because a lot of people talk about gale without much nuance or generosity. but i don't think it's fair to say that, because he has had a crush for a long time, he inherently must be enjoying being Made to perform that affection, even knowing that katniss herself doesn't like it. which does not line up with my read of peeta at all.

B) i think it's kind of... demonstrably false. at the end of thg, katniss notes that his voice is "hollow" as he suggests they hold hands again, as he says "one more time [...] for the audience". this is, of course, in part because he feels rejected, but also because they still have to play the part of the star crossed lovers in spite of whatever's going on between them. despite currently being pretty heartbroken, he like katniss, still has to perform his feelings, and he's not happy about it. when katniss suggests the proposal to try to appease snow, she says that "peeta agrees to do it but then disappears to his room for a long time." when she tells haymithch she thought that's what peeta wanted anyway, he responds, "not like this. he wanted it to be real." which is true in two senses: one that he wants katniss' feelings to be real, even though he's been (imho) fairly good about not pressuring her. even when he was hurt after the conversation at the end of thg, the most he did was distance himself. but it's also that... this is peeta's life and future being taken from him, too. he would not, in his ideal circumstances, Choose to marry Anyone who was essentially being coerced into it, let alone the person he loves. like, it's always felt very obvious that peeta is in fact pretty devastated by having to continue to perform their relationship when he doesn't think katniss loves him romantically (and she is unsure herself). and just because he had those feelings first and is more sure of them doesn't mean he's not also being exploited.

edit so as not to be misunderstood: my point wrt the marriage proposal is in fact that peeta is also being coerced, not by katniss or her by him, but by snow and the demands of the capitol. they both are committing to it with the understanding that if they don't, people they care about will die. neither gets much of a say and they wouldn't choose it, not this way.

[buttercups-revenge]

!Long post because I DO love writing about how unhinged Snow is and how he loves shooting himself in the foot—

Remember in Catching Fire when Snow just APPEARS in Katniss’ house to threaten her before the victory tour like the ghost of hunger games past?

Knowing now his obsession with Covey girls and not loving their partners, these lines are a helluva lot more impactful.

(“Peeta. How is the love of your life?” he (Snow) asks.

“Good,” I say.

“At what point did he realize the exact degree of your indifference?” he asks, dipping his cookie in his tea.

“I’m not indifferent,” I say.

“But perhaps not as taken with the young man as you would have the country believe,” he says.

“Who says I’m not?” I say.

“I do,” says the president. “And I wouldn’t be here if I were the only person who had doubts. How’s the handsome cousin?” (Catching Fire, 7))

Snow openly states that he DOES NOT believe that Katniss is capable of actually loving Peeta. (I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s because of his bizarro obsession with Lucy Gray).

Meanwhile, she has risked her life MANY times to save Peeta, thinks about his dreamy eyelashes, and the biggest reason she does not think about him romantically is BECAUSE of the situation that Snow has put them in!!!

(“I want to tell him that he’s (Peeta’s) not being fair…That I can’t explain how things are with Gale because I don’t know myself....That if I do have feelings for him (Peeta), it doesn’t matter because I’ll never be able to afford the kind of love that leads to a family, to children. And how can he? How can he after what we’ve just been through?” (The Hunger Games, 373))

Snow asks about Gale because he remembers Billy Taupe, and sees Katniss’ indecision around him as infidelity toward Peeta. He is MAD projecting. Even if Katniss WAS as deeply obsessed with Peeta like she pretends to be, I doubt that Snow would recognize it.

Further, when Katniss tours 8 in Mockingjay, people in the Districts ask her especially about Peeta (“Despite his controversial interview with Caesar, many ask about Peeta, assure me that they know he was speaking under duress.” (Mockingjay, 81). PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICTS BELIEVE THEIR LOVE STORY IS REAL. Maybe not all of them, but enough that INJURED rebels are insisting to Katniss that they know he is being tortured, and know how hard it must be for her. Even THEY are able to recognize her love is real.

In projecting his shit onto Katniss, Snow has prevented her from realizing her actual love for Peeta, because he emphasizes her need to PERFORM rather than to feel love. And he emphasizes this BECAUSE he STILL does not understand how love really works, only how to manipulate and control. If Katniss had more space and time, (and if a DISGUSTING AWFUL OLD FASCIST MAN wasn’t OBSESSED with her needing to perform love toward Peeta), there is a good chance that she would have figured out her love for Peeta faster and more organically!!!

ADDITIONALLY (I do so love slam dunking on coriobimbam): the fact that snow makes it seem like (or genuinely BELIEVES) their stunt with the berries is THE thing that causes the revolution is so telling to me.

It is the LOVE that Katniss and Peeta have for each other that led them to take the berries in the first place:

(“No, you can’t kill yourself,” I say. I’m on my knees, desperately plastering the bandage back onto his wound.

“Katniss,” he says. “It’s what I want.”

“You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he (Peeta) dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out. (The Hunger Games, 343))

BEFORE she thinks about outsmarting the gamemakers, BEFORE she thinks of revolution, she is DESPERATE to save Peeta. The people in the Districts aren’t seeing the BERRIES as the rebellion, they’re seeing the love that these two have, DESPITE the horrible situation they are in (the situation that SNOW HAS PUT THEM IN), as the revolution. They see that these two act OUT OF LOVE, not out of maliciousness, and THAT is what inspires them to rebel.

AND SNOW DOESN’T GET IT!!!!!!! His (any fascist’s?) inability to understand love, to understand compassion and self-sacrifice, hell maybe even just FRIENDSHIP is what leads to his downfall.

TLDR: snow ‘s inability to understand love and his NEED to project his issues (in an UN-FUCKING-HINGED manner) onto Katniss and Peeta are what led to his downfall.

[motherofmabari]

President Snow told Katniss to make the Districts believe the berries were an act of love, not of rebellion.

I think what he failed to understand is they were one and the same.