#project: mockingjay

[garykingz]

Wow I made a long tiktok video explaining how I want to market my novel specifically in a way that doesn't come off as disingenuous or like force advertising and I get a lot of positive feedback I love that so much

Truly shows that just being real and authentic about what you love will have others see it the same way

[morgys-art]

DANIELLE JACKSON

[garykingz]

🔨 BONK X100

THE STATEMENT 1 2 AND 3 HOLY SHITT TTT..,

[asweetsorroww]

[i-dunno-mate]

Why do people always talk like Beetee (and Gale) designed bombs for the purpose of killing children? Like, 'oh, I understand now Beetee wanted revenge for his own son' or 'how could someone who'd lost a child do that to someone else's kid, what a monster'.

Nothing about the bomb's design has anything to do with children. It doesn't kill Prim because she's a child, it kills her because she's a field medic and it targets rescuers. (Intentionally targetting medical personnel is a war crime and he definitely did that.)

The choice to use it on Capitol children is at no point said to come from Beetee (or Gale who explicitly denies closer involvement), but from Coin with the literal bare minimum of other people involved who must be undoubtably loyal and may all be killed for their silence afterwards.

If your point is that anyone involved in the development of weapons in a war where children could end up being bombed is a child murderer, that's one thing. But it's another to act like he orchestrated the operation to bomb Capitol children himself.

[garykingz]

IVE SAID IT A MILLION TIMES N ILL SAY IT A BILLION TIMES MORE THANK U SO MUCH SUNSHINE XOXOXOX

Yooooooooo!! Here we go!!

[kittypatraxd]

Just posting this here. Randomly. No reason :)

[maryasmorevna]

one thing that must be said about coriolanus and katniss is that they both share such a snarky inner voice that despite the seriousness of thg saga (especially mockingjay - the last chapters almost reduced me to tears, it was that heavy) it made me chuckle more than a few times

[garykingz]

SOON

Bundle of Mockingjay: Red Voice novels just came in the mailllll. Gonna sign some and have a giveaway soon! 🩷🔨

[morgys-art]

MICHAEL MAIDEN

[chipjrwibignaturals]

HYPERPOP DAUGHTER VERSUS SKA SON

[garykingz]

LFFFGGGGG IM SO GLAD THEY ARRIVED BAB!!! I HOPE YOU LIKE IT ILYSM!!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

GUESS WHO GOT HER COPIES OF MOCKINGJAY RED VOICE!!

@garykingz

[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 (which is arguably a facade to trick Coin), but later definitively 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, and thinks that he sees the ghost of his own past: 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 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 reads her wrong, obviously, but it means that in his mind he's up against the version of himself that he could have been, 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.

[haymitchsbunny]

Haymitch Abernathy Headcannons

first time writing any headcannons PLEASE GIVE FEEDBACK!!!!!

kinda short because i need advice on how to improve these <3

mentions of alcoholism

(shitty) HAYMITCH HEADCANNONS

- Haymitch who has never held hands with a woman until you and gets cocky over it

- Haymitch who sobers up a little bit any time you make eye contact

- Haymitch who WILL cut your supply off if you start to seem half as dependant as he is

- Haymitch who fought with you about his habit of sleeping with a knife and the compromise was to switch it with a butter knife

- Haymitch who kisses all over your face any chance he gets, leaving slobbery, stinky marks

- Haymitch who keeps ahold of you any time you're in public, no matter what

- Haymitch who will force the sidewalk rule from day one (even though there's no cars in district 12)

DISTRICT 13 HC

- Haymitch who fought Coin for weeks before you made it to 13 for your shared space

- Haymitch who held your hands to stop your trembles from the withdrawls even though he was shaking harder

- Haymitch who will squeeze you so tight it hurts when you're both trying to sleep off the need

- Haymitch who refused to assist Coin in anything to do with the Mockingjay project if you weren't involved, insisting he needed you as his emotional support animal

-Haymitch who lets you braid his hair to distract yourself

[friedwizardwhispers]

Okay: here are some hunger games theories I love:

Otho Mellark was in love with Burdie and not Asterid. Love that, I have no proof except the way Peeta describes how his father talks about Katniss's father.

Peeta was the one who saved Katniss when she is literally on fire in Mockingjay. While the first theory was just a fun theory I love, this one I firmly believe. There were literally nobody else who could have done it. It makes sense thematically and there are a lot of foreshadowing of that in the books. If his own cape also caught on fire while he was trying to save Katniss but he had no one to stop his own fire because Katniss was unconscious, it makes sense for him to be even more burnt than she was.

Snow was the one who decided they were going to trick the tributes into thinking there were going to be two victors as another "I'm projecting myself into this 16 year old boy in love with a covey girl and I'm going to make it everybody's problem" and the fact that the two victors is what brought the berries means that he brought on his own doom in a way and I'm here for it (I just like this one because I'm petty and Snow deserves it).

Peeta had a similar conversation with Snow as Haymitch between Catching fire and the rescue in Mockingjay. This just feel very in-character for Snow to try to talk to the guy in love with a covey girl.

Johanna and Annie's games were probably also rebellion attempts. I think considering what we know of Sunrise, that's really likely. I wonder if Annie got so traumatized by the games or by both the games and the consequences of whatever she did (did... Annie gets tortured twice ? That's... Horrifying).

Okay and here is one I hate:

The Capitol rigged the games and every single tributes were handpicked.

We know sometimes the reaping is rigged. Sometimes, The Hunger Games is the perfect punishment for rebellious people, using theirs children .We've been known since Catching Fire. But the idea that the capitol handpicks every single kid who dies ? I just fundamentally don't believe that. I think that misses the point. Even with Sunrise and Haymitch's connection with Prim and Katniss, I don't believe Prim was picked..

[not-rigel]

Modern AU Sevika hcs

idk just some hcs i have for modern sevika

Def an astrology and mythology gay

She just knows constellations and their stories to me

loves mortal combat. she's a playstation gamer to me so MK1

but she also has a switch. like will set it onto the table and ask "wanna smash?"

has almost fist fought someone for spoiling THG for her. like they told her about finnick and she lost her shit. was in DENIAL until she read Mockingjay

haaaaates vape pens like she definetely says "why would I smoke battery acid?" like cigs aren't destroying her health

this one coulda gone without saying but I gotta say it. STONER!!!

she says "I know a place" and takes you into a wooded area down a creek to smoke

VEGETARIAN. to clarify, no meat, no fish, and as little dairy as possible but LOVES eggs. omelettes are her go to breakfast

eats LOTS of mushrooms too.

projecting here but listens to LOTS of janelle monae

snake mom. just lets her little noodle tangle themselves into her hair. her snake noses into her cheek ALL THE TIME and she loves it

she'll keep the enclosure in a separate room if they freak you out. if you're cool with snakes she'll teach you EVERYTHING about them.