#katniss thg

[irlplasticlamb]

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[grocerymice]

hunger games renaissance has motivated me to reread all the books :3

katniss is very lovely to me and i do adore her.... she is very relatable and i love her for that :-)

will add image description when i wake up -- am the type of sleepy where you're dizzy and achy rn (still recovering from being sick)

[millennium-queen]

You know her as the girl on fire but we know her as the lovely KATNISS!! EVERDEEN!!

Working on an actual BUCKETLOAD of other things but I was wanting to practice my old lineless style that I used constantly in art school and come on!! Of course I was gonna draw my girl

[moonslesbology]

peeta mellark remembers katniss everdeen singing so beautifully that the birds stopped singing but i cannot remember a stupid quote for english

it’s me,

i’m the problem in life

[your-local-ruebit-hole-detective]

I adore fan artists who draw Katniss as brown, like in the books.

[dawningfairytale]

🔥 Happy Birthday Katniss Everdeen 🔥

What's your first impression of Katniss after reading or watching The Hunger Games?

Do you find Katniss likable? Do you think her characterization is realistic?

What do you think the strengths and weaknesses of Katniss?

If today, you can make new movie/series adaptation, who would be suitable as Katniss? Based on visual description and acting talents.

Thank you :)

@curiousnonny

hi hi hi!! thanks for sending this ask!! getting this in on the end of katniss day (in australia) lol

i first read the hunger games years ago, and even before that i read the wikis and got the entire plot from there. i'm weird, i'm a weirdo, i don't fit in and i don't wanna- (look i was 10 i was an idiot). all that said, i'm sure i thought katniss was really cool and passionate and a fighter and So Mature. she was 16! sure, still a teenager, but old enough to hold her own, right?

i think katniss, when we're reading from her perspective, is likeable. her priority is her family, and she cares so much about people around her (insert that eleanor shellstrop post here). i think she is very realistically characterised: due to her upbringing and situations, she finds great importance in justice, and has a deep need to protect people who aren't as well off as there (also in a sense stemming from the value she finds in justice). while she considers herself prickly, i don't think she's actually that unpleasant to be around. she's more introverted and lacking in social skills. but for the people who aren't predisposed to not caring about her (ie half the people in the trilogy), they find her good to be around (see: peeta, madge, delly, castor, pollux, finnick, boggs, even young gale to an extent).

strengths: justice, as previously mentioned (although this could be a flaw because of how much it eats her up at times); loyalty; perseverance; stubbornness; those sorts of things

weaknesses: she is such an unreliable narrator, majorly because she is rather oblivious; her stubbornness is also a flaw; she is rather impatient (though i think less impatient than she thinks)

i am lowkey so bad at faceclaims, but i always thought jennifer lawrence (while a great actress and portraying the character well given the script) was too pale (she canonically has olive skin). after seeing a bunch of very well thought-out posts, i do not think she is white and i would cast a person of colour in that role.

these are the main thoughts in my head at this time, but i'd love to see anyone else's thoughts!! again, thanks for this ask, anon!!! :)

[jellyturtles-art]

Lay Down Your Head (446 words) by Ari_The_Axolotl Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Katniss Everdeen & Rue Characters: Rue (Hunger Games), Katniss Everdeen Additional Tags: Blood, Spears, Hearing Loss, The Author Finally Accepted That Its Favorite Character Is Dead, Angst, 74th Hunger Games, Rue's Lullaby (Hunger Games), Singing Summary: Rue's death scene, from her perspective.

[scout-sms]

We’re cookin’ somethin’ here…

[adamalade]

i tried to watch The Take's video on katniss a while ago and usually I like their stuff but their katniss video was just... wrong. incorrect.

katniss was not "incorruptible," she was a 16-year-old who was trying to survive. she was used as a puppet, and manipulated, and was hardly innocent herself. that was part of the point. i mean, come on, man

[sassy-cass-16]

look i know the hunger games fandom is entrenched in songbirds and snakes brainrot right now but i just wanna mention how horribly genius the tesserae system is

like. it's designed to keep the poorest districts from ever winning the games, by keeping the population of those districts on the verge of starvation without ever tipping the line too far. the poorer you are, the more you need your children to take tesserae. the more tesserae your children take, the more times their name is added to the reaping pool. the more times a name appears in the reaping pool, the more likely they are to be drawn over a person who doesn't need to take tesserae. a kid who's been surviving off of tesserae grain and oil is exponentially more likely to die early on in the games due to the effects of malnutrition (low muscle mass and body fat, not to mention the mental consequences).

pretty much the only reason katniss was physically capable of surviving the games was because she'd been able to catch meat in the forest. surviving on just the tesserae she was taking for her mother and prim, there's no way she would've had the physical strength to make it out alive.

say what you want about the realism of the hunger games but the tesserae system is horrifyingly well-designed to do exactly what it's supposed to do.

Edit: guys I wrote a fic that's meant to dissect all these horribly genius systems involved in the functioning of Panem, check it out

[agentmilayawithshield]

This is the funniest take on "what if Snow chose to be a good person" because instead of imagining young Snow being this sweet kind person, it's just Donald Sutherland playing a senile old uncle who constantly beefs with birds.

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EDIT: OP is posting a fic to AO3 and it's amazing

[agoddamnrayofsunshine]

I’m sure someone has talked about this before but one thing I absolutely love about tbosas is how Snow’s descent into villainy is never once presented as something that was inevitable

So many villain origin stories portray this idea of a person who tries incredibly hard to be a good person, who takes every opportunity to be kind and to better themselves, but are ultimately doomed to fail by the narrative. Their environment and their circumstances make it impossible for them to be a good person, and while this is effective from a storytelling point of view it’s not exactly accurate to real life

In real life there is always a point where a bad person makes the decision to do something bad, they make the decision to prioritise themselves, their own power, money or desires over someone else. That’s how real life dictators are made, they are presented with every opportunity to be good, and they purposefully choose to not take it

This makes Snow’s storyline so effective because he is given so many opportunities to do the right thing and yet, at every single turn, he chooses to serve himself instead, exactly like how real dictators are made

Snow, unlike most people we see in the capitol, is in a unique position where he could genuinely have the chance to understand and relate to the people from the districts. He, unlike his classmates, is poor and spends most nights going hungry, he witnessed firsthand the cruelty of the capitol when Clemensia was bitten by the snakes for nothing more than lying about doing her homework, when his sister was forced to sell herself on the streets in order to feed the both of them

Throughout his book, the three people he is closest to are Tigris (who dislikes the hunger games, is a rebel, and a victim of the capitol forced to turn to prostitution), Sejanus (who is originally from district 2, dislikes the capitol and knows he will never be accepted there, and also a rebel) and Lucy Gray (who is a victim of the hunger games, from district 12, and is also treated horribly by the capitol). These are all people who gave him an opportunity to realise the cruelty of the system he was in, a chance to directly confront his prejudices and see that people from the districts are just the same as him, and yet he still refuses to take the chance to change

He is given every opportunity, he’s sent away from the capitol to be a peacekeeper in the districts, he forms personal connections with people from the districts, he helps Sejanus perform funeral rites, and yet at every moral crossroads he comes to he makes the wrong decision. He didn’t have to become a villain, and yet he made the choice to do so anyway, despite every chance he was given

I think it’s a really effective portrayal of Snow as a character, and it’s a very effective villain origin story for the type of villain that Snow is. It never once excuses him from his actions because it highlights just how accountable he was for his actions

[nunyabznsbabes]

Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes fine that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.

Think about it: they both grew up poor and deeply vulnerable, losing parents at a very young age, with a matriarchal adult (Katniss' mother and Coriolanus' Grandma'am) who fails to provide for them emotionally and physically. They intimately understand the threat of starvation, even developing with stunted growth because of it, and their narrations in the books share a fixation on food. Throughout their childhoods, both experienced constant fear and suffered a fundamental lack of control over their circumstances. Because of this, they're inherently suspicious of the people around them. They resent feeling indebted to others, especially those who have saved their lives. They're motivated almost entirely by family and deeply connected to their communities. Both are used and manipulated by the Capitol, both are forced to perform to survive and despise every inch of it, both are thrown into the Arena and made to kill. Both have a self-sacrificial, genuinely sweet sister figure acting as their conscience. Peeta and Lucy Gray - performers and love interests with a fundamental kindness and sense of hope about them - fulfill markedly similar roles in their narrative. Both contribute to the development of the future Hunger Games, Snow throughout tbosas and Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.

It's easy to ignore these similarities because, as mirrors of each other, they are exact opposites. Katniss is from District 12, viewed and treated as less than human; Snow is the cream of the Capitol crop, given the privilege of a name with social weight, an ancestral home, and the opportunity of the Academy despite having no more money than a miner from 12. Katniss has no agency over her life, and responds by being kind whenever she's able, while Snow justifies horrendous evils in order to continue his quest for complete control. Katniss does everything she can to protect her family; Snow does everything he can to protect his family's image as an extension of his own ego. Katniss loves her District and connects with its inhabitants on a meaningful level, but Snow is indifferent at best to his peers - the apparent "superior people" - and only engages with his community for personal gain. Katniss emerges from the Arena horrified at herself and the system, but Snow takes his trauma and turns it into an excuse to perpetuate the violence with himself at the top. Katniss cares for Prim until her death and then snaps at the loss of her little sister, while Snow survives on Tigris' blood, sweat, and tears and then torments and abandons her, presumably because she calls him out on his insanity. Snow actively adds to and popularizes the Hunger Games because of his vendetta against the Districts following his childhood wartime trauma - Katniss briefly agrees to a new Hunger Games in the pursuit of vengeance, but later stops them from happening by killing Coin and choosing a life of peace and privacy. Snow is obsessed with revenge, but Katniss empathizes with the Capitolites and does what she can to keep them from suffering. He exists in a cruel system and selfishly upholds it; she exists in a cruel system and works to dismantle it for the good of her family and community, at great personal cost. And Peeta and Lucy Gray are incredibly similar, but Katniss and Peeta forge a relationship of genuine love and understanding that shines in comparison to Coriolanus' obsessive projection onto Lucy Gray.

So, yeah, Katniss is Lucy Gray haunting Coriolanus. But I bet you anything that eighty-something year old President Snow looks at her, the girl on fire, bright and young and brilliant, emerging from a childhood of starvation with a relentless hunger for success, a talented and charming performer helping her win the Games, and he sees the ghost of his own past. And that's why he's so afraid of her! Because if he sees himself in her, then he's up against his own cunning, his own talent for manipulation, his own charisma, his own genius. He's up against the version of himself that he once wished to be, with the nightmare army of his childhood at her back and her star-crossed lover at her side, spewing Sejanus' truths in his own voice. This isn't to say that Katniss ever achieved the level of power and agency that Coriolanus did during her time with the rebellion, but it is to say that Snow was taken down by what truly terrified him - his own morality, come to finish the job.

[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

[moonslesbology]

spoiler for the ballad of songbirds and snakes

if katniss ended up mentoring, she’d be exactly like how sejanus was when he saw marcus’ state.

[your-local-ruebit-hole-detective]

What do you think about Star Crossed Lover strategy on the 74th THG?

Who did invent it?

Who benefited from it?

Thank you, @curiousnonny

Hmm, I think that it was a great strategy. I personally wouldn’t have liked it much if I was watching, but I’m Aroace, so.

It definitely benefited both Katniss and Peeta, the audience just ate the romance up, thus giving them more support, sponsors, etc.. As for who came up with it, I’m not sure if Peeta is the first person to try it, but I do think he came up with it on his own, if that makes sense.

Overall, 9/10, it’s a good way to drum up support without actually doing much. I think the only way there could be a better strategy would be if it was a guaranteed win, and that’s just not something we’ve seen so far.