#peeta vs gale

[mystictaledelusion]

MY FELLOW PEETA STANS! I REQUIRE YOUR HELP

im really bad at putting my thoughts into words and i got into an argument with a girl in my class over peeta vs gale and i need help writing an essay on why peeta and katniss are the superior ship (she is writing one for gale x katniss) WE BOTH SHOOK HANDS!!! I AM A WOMAN OF HONOR AND WOULD RATHER DIE THEN NOT HAND IN ANYTHING PLEASE HELP MEEE

(i have till july 24th)

[punkeropercyjackson]

If you asked me who my favorite female book protagonist and what my favorite noncanon lesbian book couple are,i'd respond Percy Jackson and Everlark not as a joke but with transfeminism on the mind

[sinematically]

after re-reading the books I see Gale as the epitome of regretting the decisions you made as a young adult.

because you do something thinking it was the right thing and then you find out that no, not only was it the worst thing you could do at that moment it irrevocably hurt the people you cared about. it’s about seeing the big picture a moment too late. It’s about fucking up monumentally when you’re trying to do the right thing. It’s about turning into who you wanted to be and realising that person isn’t good, not anymore. It’s realising maybe you’re not good. It’s about being mad at yourself but not feeling like you can because you deserve all the pain. It’s about being happy at the cost of your happiness.

It is looking dead in the eyes of the person you love and saying ‘I don’t know if I’m the reason your sister is dead but it doesn’t matter because I failed you. Even if you had it in you to forgive me I don’t deserve it’

It’s knowing you won the war, but lost all the battles that mattered

[jakeperalta]

I think a lot of hunger games takes that revolve around "the movies are exactly what the books were warning us against" or "people picking a side of the love triangle are ignoring the point of the books" just vastly underestimate the message. like the point goes so far beyond "oh the capitol people are bad for watching the games for entertainment"

[mayhemthemamp]

I couldn’t sleep last night so in the midst of my insomnia-driven thought spiral, I began thinking about the so-called “love triangle” in The Hunger Games. And I could make so many points about how Gale really never was an option—his possessiveness and jealousy over Katniss’ relationship with Peeta even though it is heavily suggested that he never stopped seeing other girls; his utter disregard and dismissal of Katniss’ experiences in the Games, and by surviving, he essentially began to associate her with the Capitol; the two-fold bomb attack that was specifically designed to target first responders (like Prim).

But ultimately I think it boils down to this one point:

Gale was a “I had to suffer and so should you” type of person

Whereas Katniss and Peeta (even more so after the Games) were “I’ve suffered and I don’t want anyone else to have to go through what I did.”

And those two mindsets are not compatible with each other.

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

I'm in class studying the hunger games for my degree, slay, literally

[anoverwhelmingannoyance]

Tbh I think people are starting to hate Gale for the wrong reason… like sure his assistance in prims death was there and certainly didn’t help his case, but how entitled he felt to Katniss and to speak on other people’s traumatic experiences will forever be the thing that enrages me about him the most…

The way he treated her and the rest of the people around him who went through experiences like hers is my current Roman Empire.

[nimuetheseawitch]

In another world, maybe Katniss Everdeen would've fallen in love with Madge, the Mayor's daughter, who she brings strawberries and partners with in class, and who gives her the mockingjay pin.

[likeabxrdinflight]

binged through the hunger games movies because I wanna see the prequel at some point here, and I have to say- some of y'all are way too harsh on these films. many of your problems with them were not with the films themselves but with the marketing and, in some cases, the fandom.

[inmydrcams]

I went into the gale tag and I am now reminded why I don't go there

[tboys]

So glad Suzanne collins doesn't tweet cause If she did I would be soooooo embarrassed about how autistic I get over the hunger games

[pinkfey]

peeniss truly rewired my brain no one did it like them

[dxnyarya]

Do you think gale and katniss would have ever worked

Not really.

Gale is obviously a very important person to Katniss, he's her best friend and she does love him, but in my opinion they could have never worked out, even if Prim had lived.

In canon, Gale has always been into Katniss and she never truly reciprocates. Katniss kissed Gale in Mockingjay but even Gale say she doesn't mean it the way he wants her to mean it, she's doing it out of desperation.

"I knew you'd kiss me."

"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.

"Because I'm in pain." he says. "That's the only way I get your attention." He picks up the box. "Don't worry Katniss, it'll pass." He leaves before I can answer.

Additionally when they kiss further in the book, she's kissing him as a way to cope with the war and with losing Peeta, not because she's in love with him.

Despite what I feel for Peeta, this is when I accept deep down that he'll never come back to me. Or I'll never go back to him. I'll stay in 2 until it falls, go to the Capitol and kill Snow, and then die for my trouble. And he'll die insane and hating me. So in the fading light I shut my eyes and kiss Gale to make up for all the kisses I've withheld, and because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

Ultimately, Katniss and Gale are too similar to be compatible romantically. It's what makes them great friends, it's why they understand each other the way they do, its why they were hunting partners, but it could have never worked out between them because Katniss needs balance. She needs someone who is different, who is calmer, she needs an opposite.

That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction.

Even in a world where there are no Hunger Games, or where Katniss and Peeta didn't get reaped. I don't think Katniss and Gale could ever work out romantically.

Now, if we're talking friendship wise, I don't really see Katniss and Gale being friends after the war ever again, not after Prim. Katniss will always see Prim's death when she looks at Gale, they both understand that. I do think they could have found closure years after Mockingjay but never a friendship like the used to have. If Prim had survived, I think Katniss and Gale would have remained friends, they both had to grow through the series and would have needed time to get to know the person that came out of the war and understand how the changes in each other affect their friendship, especially since they both wanted different things out of it.

[sodafizzyart]

Do you think Katniss settle for Peeta in the epilogue?

Thank you,

@everlarkshipper

No :)

Mockingjay CH 27

[dykesbat]

btw the way gale’s not being given a lot of nuance and is only given harsh analysis and the way a lot more people are taking on the “seam is indigenous” hc is certainly something huh !

[erik-christine]

idk why people are talking about thg again