#abosas

[blondeheartgirl]

president snow is literally THE incel. had a failed situationship ONCE and decided that no woman could ever love a man and that women cannot be trusted

warned haymitch about lenore dove

was convinced katniss didn’t love peeta

64 years later and he was still bitter

[mockingjay-sings]

The mockingbird, the jabberjay and the mockingjay 🕊️ inspired by this post by @fromevertonow

[violentlyscreaming]

Everytime Lucy Gray said she only sang when she had smth to say I kept thinking this is Suzanne Collins telling us she only writes when she has something to say

[megamindsupremacy]

I’m sure it’s been said before but it’s no wonder Snow was so convinced, during ThG and CF, that Katniss was heading a master plot to outsmart and make a fool of him in her games. The only two winners of District Twelve had both, explicitly, purposefully, and personally tried to do exactly that during their games. Lucy Gray cheated her way through the 10th and he helped her every step of the way, only for her to (in his eyes) betray him so deeply that he was still furious about it forty years later and ranted to a random sixteen year old about it. Haymitch hit the ground running with Louella’s corpse during the parade and spent the entirety of his games trying his damndest to blow the place sky-high and make an idiot of the Capitol along the way.

With that being the context that Katniss and Peeta were operating in, however unknowingly, of course Snow saw their actions during the 74th as an act of inciting rebellion. He couldn’t comprehend it being anything else, because that’s what District Twelve victors do.

[thatrandomblogsays]

Me: *reading a post that makes the joke “Peeta dropped the baby bomb, Gale drops bombs on babies”* haha good one

Also me: you’re missing the point! You’re missing the point! YOURE MISSING THE POINT! He grew up starving. His best friend almost died of hunger. Most of his people live in poverty. He watched children die in a bloodbath every year for the capital’s entertainment. The girl he loved went into the games. Was tortured by the capitol. His district was bombed out of existence. Nearly everyone he knew was killed. Their only crime was being fed up of being hungry and oppressed and sharing the same district as Katniss. All those innocent people. Murdered. He had to take refuge in a district that was bombed out of existence and forced to live underground. Of course he joined the war effort. Of course he designed unethical bombs and battle tactics. He wanted revenge. He wanted the capitol to have a taste of their own medicine. He wanted the rebellion to succeed. And tell me you could live through what he did, and that no part of you would be screaming for Justice and vengeance. Gale is you. You are Gale. He represents a part of feelings and actions that reside within us, even if you don’t act on it.

“But he killed prim!” Exactly! Gale loved prim. She was a second family to her. He looked after Katniss’ family. He saved them from the district 12 bombings. He loved her. He never would’ve put her in danger. He never would’ve put in order for a bombing if it would kill Prim. But coin would. And did. She took what was meant to be a tool of Gale’s righteous revenge for all the suffering he and his people suffered through, only for someone in power to take it and use it to kill someone he loved.

There’s some many lessons to take. We can’t control the things we create. War spares no one. Even justifiable rage and actions can end up rebounding and hurting those you love instead of your targets.

“He drops bombs on babies” is too simplistic of a takeaway and does a disservice to the story and Gale.

[lunadove]

Something I that makes me roll my eyes is that even if she never realizes it, Gaul’s “humanity will always be violent and awful” take is founded on such biased conclusions. SHE wants to believe that’s true, but for a scientist, she’s not looking at it scientifically at all.

“You get in the Hunger Games and you all revert to being violent and animalistic!” Well, yeah, but only cause the Capital pushes so many buttons to MAKE the kids so.

You’re told if you win, you get a house and you’ll never have to worry about money again. If you’re poor, that’s huge. Never having to see your parents starve themselves so you and your siblings can eat, getting to move into a house where everyone gets their OWN bed, being able to buy that expensive medicine for your friend who’s been sick for months. That’s a big incentive.

If money doesn’t sway you, what about fame? I’ll bet in the wealthier districts the games were marketed as “Want to prove you’re the fastest, smartest, strongest person to the whole country? Join the games!” Drill that into a kid’s head from birth on up, of course they’ll think the games are going to be something to work toward.

If money and fame don’t work, paranoia will do it. There are 23 other people out there, and they’ve got weapons, and they know they have to kill you to leave the arena. Even if all 24 players made a pact to not harm one another, it could still descend into violence because YOU were going to stick to the pact, but you saw that one guy eyeing a sword, and just knew he was going to go for it, so you decided to grab it first.

And if all that doesn’t sway you - the Capital will kill you anyway. If everyone just sits there and refuses to play, the Capital will generate a tornado or a hurricane or mutts or some other horrible disaster.

You throw a bunch of preteens/teens, whose brains are still developing and who have less life experience than adults, into an arena with the knowledge that no matter what they do, they are dead unless they’re the last one left standing, of course you’re going to get violence. It’s the only option you’ve left them.

But yeah, the whole “We’ll always choose violence!” thing? No, not everyone will. But in the cases where violence IS chosen, it’s in large part due to people like Gaul.

[lolairos-mental-illness]

my roman empire are the district 11 boys taking care of the district 11 little girls

[katnissandpeetamellark]

Incorrect Quotes<3

[ladydeath-vanserra]

ACTUALLY

The way the Grim Reaper doesn't actually kill anyone. The Grim Reaper collects the souls of the dead and helps them find peace

REAPER ASH COLLECTS THE SOULS OF THE DEAD AND HELPS THEM FIND PEACE

[thebeetleb0y]

I know it’s been said again and again but there’s something so powerful about the last thing Snow hears is Lucy Grays voice singing the hanging tree and then decades later that same song being used to fuel a revolution by a girl from District 12 named Katniss who’s symbol is the mockingjay. Wherever she is, I hope she knows she got the last laugh afterall.

[lenoredovescovey]

Snow at any given time: I knew a covey girl once

[mockingjay-sings]

“Bet I know a thing or two about your dove.” “Like what?” “Like she’s delightful to look at, swishes around in bright colors, and sings like a mockingjay. You love her. And oh, how she seems to love you. Except sometimes you wonder, because her plans don’t include you at all.” Something something, Coriolanus calling Lucy Gray "my girl" versus Haymitch calling Lenore Dove "my girl."

[a-curious-squirrel]

Lucy Gray Baird

[jacaeryspilled]

maysilee donner // the shrew

[harmonylover25]

You would think at some point the Covey would figure out to start naming their kids after happier ballads.

like "the girl named lucy gray died at the hands of someone named snow? who could have scene this coming? how unexpected."

[shutupcrime]

Spoiler Free Review of Sunrise on the Reaping from someone who just stayed up all night to read it and is now broken emotionally

Suzanne is not fucking around anymore. This book is about so many things but the thing that stuck out most to me was the rage I think dominates this prequel more than any other book in the series.

When the news came out a book about Haymitch was coming after years of fan requests (and a film to be developed in tandem) I’ll admit, I had my doubts.

But what Collins delivers is more brutal a gut punch than I think even the most hard core fans of this series were anticipating. In the wake of political unrest across the US and world wide, in an era of disinformation, she tells the reader clearly to look and think for themselves, and shows the atrocities that can come when we do not.

This book is about anger and injustice and it does not try to convince its reader otherwise. At times you can feel Collins shaking the reader by the shoulders: ‘See?! See what happens when you blindly accept what they tell you? See what you let them take?’.

Fans familiar with Haymitch will not be surprised by a lot of the major beats of this story but the focus on propaganda still leads to some interesting reveals. This is the goriest of Collins series and in many ways I think will be the hardest to adapt, perhaps her own rebellion against the industry that continues to profit off her work and contort her message