#mockingjay

[hyperfixatedmess873]

In Mockingjay, Katniss’s squad was called squad 451. Like the book Fahrenheit 451°.

Plutarch Heaveansbee, the man who had a huge ass library, and libraries were considered RARE, named them after a book about censorship.

Plutarch is such an interesting character, the fact that he was trying to stop the games for at LEAST 25 years. And he was so devoted it makes you wonder why he even cared.

[entnoot]

Been thinking a lot about The Hunger Games again recently so here’s a Katniss 🏹

[when-sanpape-arts]

“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double knot your shoe laces. ”

been thinking about pre and post mockingjay peeta a lot lately.

[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

[doodlebugdpj]

😭😭💔

so you’re telling me that after what happened to louella/lou lou haymitch had to watch peeta come back from the capitol as a “mutt version of himself” and question whether the shell of a human with peeta’s face was even peeta at all

and he had to do all that SOBER???

[effieotto]

[i danced for my dinners, spreed kisses like honey]

[you stole and you gambled, and I said you should]

[We sang for our suppers, we drank up our money]

[Then one day you left, saying I was no good]

All right, I'm bad, but then, you're no prize either All right, I'm bad, but then, that's nothing new. You say you won't love me, I won't love neither. Just let me remind you what I am to you:

[I am the one who looks out when you're leaping]

[I am the one who knows how you were brave]

[I am the one who heard what you said sleeping]

[I'll take that and more when I go to my grave]

| metaphorical grave to her metaphorical death |

[jabber-jayne]

Do you ever wonder if maybe Tigris saw Katniss in the 74th games, heard her sing to little Rue, and told Plutarch...

"That's your girl. That's the girl who can bring down Coriolanus Snow."

"How do you know?"

"I've heard her voice before, in another life. And I've seen what it can do..."

[mandrake-mistakes]

“No one can sleep with me anyway” katniss lies. There’s someone who sleeps better next to her than they do anywhere else. Who do you think it is?? HMMM? You get one guess

[summersunqueen]

"You were part of the fire that melted the snow."

ABSOLUTE PERFECTION- i have js discovered a profound new love this phrase, ty.

something so poetic about maysilee saying if she escapes the Capitol she’ll give her mockingjay pin another chance. Little did she know, Capitol and Snow would get what they deserved and she and her pin would be part of it all. Goodbye, Maysilee Donner. You were part of the fire that melted the snow.

[runawaymarbles]

Reading Mockingjay as an adult is extra devastating because. Of course the plucky teenager and her ragtag friends aren't going to sneak into a government building to kill the president with a bow and arrow. That's absolutely ridiculous. It's the kind of thing that's only possible in the kind of propaganda that Coin developed. But she's so good at it that in some ways she tricks the reader into thinking that's the kind of story this is, too--even after 3 books reminding us that pretty much everything that Katniss does the second she volunteers is manipulated by adults pulling strings to make propaganda in some form or another.

[hayffieee]

Pov: Effie & Haymitch got reunited in District 13

I just know Haymitch gives the best hugs ugh

[easier-thanlying]

Katniss and Peeta really lucked out that physical touch is both of their love language. The hand holding, the hugging, the cuddling in bed, the hair touching, the kissing... no words just touch.

Of course, they embody every love language to an extent. But Katniss was making out with a pearl to feel close to Peeta in Mockingjay.

[sparemoon]

real or not real 1

[shwinger]

gale is such a villain in the thg movies and I respect the creators for that. they cut out all of peeta's rizz so they had to balance it out by making gale eviler

[gurl-i-just-want-none-to-find-me]

Not Haymitch being the legal guardian of Katniss in Capitol and District 13.

In mockingjay,

Haymitch is annoyed about Katniss ripping off her earpiece, and he is showing her different PERMANENT earpiece option as a threat.

He specifically says, " I will AUTHORIZE them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear".

Authorize, not ask them or tell them but AUTHORIZE.

That imples he has had to NOT authorize previous District 13 demands. Just like in the Capitol with breast enhancement surgery.

Few pages back, Asterid says how she didn't know Katniss was going to 8 till she was already gone. And Katniss goes, I'm sorry I'll ask them to clear everything with you.

And asterid replies, "Katniss no one clears anything from me".

Asterid is not Katniss' Legal Guardian anymore, Haymitch is. He has been running around for god knows how long keeping her safe and sane.

The I wonder is he the reason Katniss got discharged from the hospital while Finnick stays in a drug haze?

Is he the reason they leave her be when she doesn't follow schedule?

Is he the reason they let her hide in pipes and closets?

And I'm reminded of lil Haymitch taking care of even littler children during his games. Wondering why they all come to him. And he's fails to keep any one of them alive.

Except Katniss. That's a daughter thrusted to him. And he's trying so fucking hard to not let her die too.

I'm gonna go cry now

#why do all the little ones stick to me