#sotr spoilers

[mellkellyismyhero]

beetee latier came up with one singular plan ever to defeat the hunger games and canonically tried to make it work TWICE despite the fact that it literally blew up in his face the first time.

this officially makes him the world’s most accurate fictional scientist because he HAS a favorite hypothesis that he IS going to make sure works even if it fucking kills him

[batcavescolony]

the difference between Haymitch and Katniss's narration is so funny. Haymitch would give us everyone's social security number if he knew them, while Katniss wouldn't even tell us her mom's name.

[mockingjay-sings]

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

[eaglerayys]

Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

[redisnotonfire]

shout out to suzanne collins for, in the middle of Everything Else she was doing in sotr, dropping a paragraph that’s just “btw fuck ai”

[evermarch]

how do y’all think haymitch felt when katniss came back to him all “i want wiress, beetee, and mags as allies” in catching fire? hand-picking his two and a half men(tors)!!

“of course you do” as his response now means so much more bc he’s not just exasperated he’s like “you really are me with a braid”

[doodlebugdpj]

😆

Whenever Haymitch insulted Effie's outfits during the main triology, it wasn't his fault, he was being possesed by Maysilee's ghost

[brimay]

for some reason, i'm thinking about an alternate version of events where haymitch figures out the gumdrops are poisoned before it's too late, and then spends the rest of his life taking the first bite of everything lenore dove eats. just to make sure. and of course he's paranoid.

it would be such a delicious parallel to snow. the man willing to poison himself to kill others vs. the man who's willing to poison himself to save someone he loves.

and then it's an even more powerful image, in a way, because katniss and peeta did it with the berries, too.

[browneyedgenius]

ok I’ve been seeing a lot of comparisons between haymitch and katniss’ narrative styles but can we just take a moment to appreciate the absolute skill and range of Suzanne Collins’ writing

[josielikesthg]

Sweethearts 🤍

[queenofshenanigans]

I dream of Maysilee meeting Cinna and the two of them judging everyone, and she would immediately adopt Johanna. And she would 💯 heckle Snow as he dies. (And the rest of it)

things maysilee donner would've loved:

pushing drusilla down the escalator

kissing girls

cyberbullying

pinterest

selling handmade jewelry on etsy

johanna mason

CINNA.

judging people's outfits at the met gala

panem's next top model

and last but certainly not least: watching president snow die!!!

[batcavescolony]

Katniss's Narration vs Haymitch's Narration

[all-the-pretty-stars-shine]

I’m having heart palpitations yall, Effie knew everything. She played it so good and it’s safe to think she was doing it for much longer. So just thinking about baby Effie having to be very careful of not saying the wrong thing breaks my heart.

Literally every conversation she had with Haymitch in the beginning is like:

“I am so sorry, this is so fucked up, I hate it, none of you deserve this”

And then in the next sentence:

“BUT THE CAPITOL IS REALLY COOL, AND THE GAMES WOW I MEAN JUST WOW SUPER DUPER COOL”

[triassictriserratops]

about Haymitch's casting announcement...

Joseph Zada would have made an INCREDIBLE Peeta. Like, visually. (which makes Katniss thinking that Young Haymitch was hot THAT much funnier.)

[rowanashings]

I think when she’s like “can’t wait for a decent district next year” it’s because she’s spent 24 years taking care of a worse and worse haymitch. At what point is she allowed to want something better for herself? When is she allowed to not want to love a person who she watches suffer year after year, on his birthday and for a month after?

Just like proserpina, Effie wasn’t born evil. She just had a lot of unlearning to do.

anyone else thinking about effie spending 24 years watching haymitch completely fall apart. effie, who met haymitch by accident, who knows exactly what kind of person he is, who sees him every year on his birthday for 24 years and each year he’s drunker, each year he’s angrier, each year he’s faster to give up. and then they get katniss and peeta. peeta, who is kind and open and understanding, who refuses to give up on haymitch. and katniss, who is so much like haymitch at 16 that it hurts. and over the few days they’re together, effie watches haymitch come back to life. watches him try. watches him have hope. and then they get to keep not one but both of those kids. they get to come home. and then, less then a year later, effie pulls haymitch’s name at the reaping.

[brynnsasha191]

When Snow first meets Maude Ivory in tbosbas he gives her a bag of candy as a kind gesture, then forty years later, Snow uses a bag of poisoned candy to murder Maude Ivory's one and only daughter and one of the last covey women. im unwell.