#the hunger game

[daenerys-stormborn]

MALI’S 22K CELEBRATION ✶ FINNICK & KATNISS ↬🌷+ katniss' friendship with finnick or johanna (for @rue-bennett)

[itsajollyjester]

Annie Cresta

When ever I know I want to draw a character multiple times (OC or fanart),I make a quick "character sheet" that's not really a character sheet but just a full body and a bust.

[messedupfan]

The Hope of a Free World: The Prologue

Summary: It's the last night of the Victory Tour for Katniss and Peeta and you are expected to attend the social event of the year at President Snow's mansion.

A/n: Hello! Sorry that this has taken so long to get out! I had so many ideas when it came to this request. The other two parts aren't quite ready but I hope that y'all enjoy this start!

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You are threading your coin through your fingers and sigh. Things in the districts were beginning to get restless as rumors of an uprising began to spread. Ever since two teenagers from Twelve defied the Capitol and refused to play by the rules of their game. In the name of love, they claimed. It didn’t matter to those in the districts. You found it to be a bold move by the star-crossed lovers of District 12. But anyone paying attention can see that the girl was acting out of survival instincts and defiance. Not out of pure love for the boy she seemed to hardly know. 

“The train to the Capitol will be here soon,” Finnick says as he knocks your feet off of his coffee table as he adjusts his cufflinks. “You need to get ready and preferably stop crashing on my sofa. You have your own house, remember?” He stops at an extravagant mirror that hangs on the wall to adjust his collar. 

You sigh again, “I made a promise to stop drinking excessively. I can’t do that and be alone over there. Besides if I recall, Annie said I can crash here as often as I please.” 

“Wanda is lucky she only has to deal with you a couple of times a year,” he gripes as he double checks his appearance. “Get dressed, now,” he shook his head because you were still sitting on the couch, moving your coin through your fingers. It was your token in the Hunger Games. This was a coin that your father made you when you were a kid. It was a silver medallion meant to be worn on a chain. But you haven’t worn it in years because you rather fiddle with it whenever you are nervous. On the face of the medallion is a trident rising out of thin silver waves. A blue abalone shell provides a naturally patterned ocean blue background. Your father was very skilled with making jewelry. You were excited to return home from your Games to share your wealth with him and buy him all of the material he could only dream of. But, because of your minor rebellious actions in the Games, he was taken from you. By President Snow. 

Not the man himself, of course, but he gave the order. 

“Okay, okay,” you grumble as you stand up from the couch. “You know, I think Annie lets me stay over because I’m the closest thing to a child the two of you will ever have.” 

Finnick shakes his head with a laugh, “You might be right.” Even though you weren’t much younger than Finnick and Annie, they took you under their wing. They knew exactly what you were going through when you lost your father. Finnick knew better than anyone when you turned eighteen and Snow first arranged for you to meet with a customer. The mistake you had made was keeping in touch with your friends and falling for someone. Snow threatened their lives and their families lives if you refused to show the customer a good time. None of them deserved to die for your mistakes. Or worse, be turned into Avoxes. The tongueless slaves to the Capitol. 

In no time at all, you are on the train to the Capitol. For the past couple of years, you were typically giddy about getting a trip to the Capitol. It meant that you could visit with Wanda. But with talks about an uprising, you wanted to focus on that more than anything. A successful uprising could mean freedom from the segregation of the districts and the oppression of President Snow. Freedom from the Games. Most importantly, it could mean the freedom to love. You never saw yourself falling as hard as you have for someone from the Capitol but Wanda has a certain way about her. Beyond the enchanting green eyes and the vibrant red wig, which she wore to blend in with the Capitol culture. She was a person. She had opinions and interesting ideas. She hated the Games as much as anyone in the districts does. 

“Keep your focus, you’ll be able to see your girl tonight,” Finnick whispered into your ear as the train came to a stop. You roll your shoulders and smooth out your clothing as you stand in front of the exit of the train. Katniss and Peeta had been in District 4 only a few days ago for their Victory Tour and tonight was the final night of their tour. It was going to end with a massive party in President Snow’s mansion and every victor that could be sold was expected to be in attendance. Especially since this year’s victors could not be auctioned off as they have been in the past. 

As you are escorted to a vehicle there are screens everywhere airing footage of Peeta on one knee in front of Katniss. You shook your head. They were smart to get engaged so publicly.  You predict that lot of your clients will be so bummed that they can’t have a night with either of them. It could hurt the government and raise a lot of questions if it ever came out that Katniss or Peeta were ever spotted spending time with someone else. Though, you are certain that there are plenty of people that will still try to spend a night with either of them or even both of them once they have turned eighteen. You just hope that the government is overthrown before that can happen. Thankfully, on this trip, you’re not expected to see anyone until the event. So you don’t have to worry about hearing creepy rich guys complain about how they can’t be the ones to deflower the girl on fire. You know exactly where you’ll be spending your night. 

“I think I know who I’m bidding on,” Wanda whispered in your ear from behind you. Her warm breath tickled your skin and warmed your heart as you closed your eyes to bask in the feeling for a moment. 

“Now, now, Ms. Maximoff,” you say as you step back and turn around to get a look at her. Most women in the Capitol opted for frilly dresses, something to accentuate their womanly curves, or hide the lack of them under layers and layers of thick fabric with outlandish designs. Wanda, however, succeeded in showing off her attributes in a simple yet stylish red and black suit with a black turtle neck. The black on her suit sat on the notch lapels of her coat. It looked as though there was a darkness from inside that was spilling out onto the solid blood red that made up the rest of her suit. She also wore a gold necklace with a gold coin on it. You’ve never seen this one before. You frown as you pick it up to observe it, she hasn’t bought jewelry for herself in years. She was usually gifted jewelry and it was never as simple as this. As you move it in the light, an image of the Mockingjay appears. “That’s quite a piece right there.” You look around and notice all of the memorabilia and cheap merchandise of that bird that decorated the event on both the walls, tables, and even the guests. 

“Like it?” Wanda asks as she leans in. “It’s one of a kind,” she winks. 

You smirk as you adjust the gold coin on her chest. “Very fitting for you, Ms. Maximoff.” You wink. There was a reason this Mockingjay was hidden in plain sight but you weren’t going to ask standing in a heavily monitored event. 

Wanda blushes, “You flatter me too much.” You’re about to ask where you could get something of your own when music announcing President Snow’s appearance cuts the conversation short. Every person that was inside of the mansion filtered out the back doors to give their full attention to the President as he addressed the attendees. You didn’t care too much for the speech when you noticed Finnick slipping away with the 75th Hunger Games head gamemaker, Plutarch Heavnsbee. You narrowed your eyes as you finished the rest of your mocktail. Wishing that you could’ve had alcohol inside. 

That night, you didn’t follow them. You didn’t ask questions. You simply made polite conversation with the guests of honor as well as the other guests while making a mental note of everyone of your fellow victors that you’ve noticed disappear throughout the event. The absence that worried you the most was Wanda’s. You were certain she would have taken you home with her. Luckily, when you went to find out who did win the bidding war for your company, you were relieved to be informed that Ms. Maximoff was waiting for you at her home. 

You didn’t ask Wanda where she disappeared off to when she finally slipped through the shadows and joined you in the bed. You kept your thoughts to yourself in the morning as you committed the details of being with her to your memory. Every freckle and beauty mark that was spread about on her body. Every kiss she placed on yours. Every taste. Every caress. The way her enchanting green eyes made you dream of a brighter future as you gazed into them. You memorized the way her breath changed as she got closer and closer to her climax. Her light giggles when you made a joke and kissed behind her ear. This wasn’t a meeting that you needed to numb yourself from. You wanted to be here between her warm silk sheets, memorizing the way she fit perfectly in your arms as she sat between your legs. Locking all of it away in a place close to your heart for you to use the next time you have to be with someone else. 

“Wanda I,” you sighed where you sat at the edge of her bed as you got ready to leave her. She crawled up to you and wrapped her body around you as she hushed you.

“Don’t say it,” she whispered against your ear as she kissed your neck. “I know.” You nodded and melted in her embrace for a moment before you finished getting ready. Her time was almost up and the Peacekeepers were very punctual. 

It was noon when you kissed her goodbye just as a Peacekeeper knocked lightly on the door to escort you to the vehicle that is going to deliver you to the train you’ll take home. You hated when Peacekeepers picked you up in the Capitol. They were so polite it made you sick. It was unfair. They were meant to keep the peace but often they could be the opposite in the districts. According to your father, that’s how you lost your mother. She was bartering with a Peacekeeper that was trying to lowball her. She refused and that made the officer unhappy. He had every Peacekeeper in Four keep a close eye on her and when she eventually slipped up, they had her executed. Your father never mentioned what she did that cost her life and you never asked. 

But when you return to District 4, you end your streak of not asking questions and you pull Finnick aside to ask him what the hell is going on.

The Tribute The Mentor

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[dorkofclanlavellan]

Haymitch's Darlin' Masterlist

A series in which Reader has a semi-casual relationship with Haymitch, while being secretly in love with him.

Intro - Warning: This one has implied/referenced rape in it.

[katnissandpeetamellark]

Nah I actually do want a book from Haymitch’s Hunger Games

Not really for him specifically. But for Maysilee’s story

[quotesfromall]

I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta.

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

[mega-aulover]

"Some walks you just have to take alone..."

[duck-era-lexi]

i did in fact pause to go and read cato’s speech because i think it’s really good and the way alexander ludwig says it is very endearing and sad

Cato : [holding Peeta in a rear-arm choke]  Go on! Shoot, then we both go down and you win. Go on. I'm dead anyway. I always was, right? I didn't know that till now. How's that? Is that what they want? Huh?

Peeta Mellark : No...

Cato : I can still do this. I can still do this. One more kill. It's the only thing I know how to do - bring pride to my district. Not that it matters.

i like it- it adds a layer of depth to cato as a character, but the way they did it in the movie was a little too clear. like spurring rebellion type shit from district 2 is not to be expected. 

the concept is the idea that cato, despite being a killer, is still a child and a pawn in this twisted game. in the books this is done by the way he is brutally torn apart by the mutts and begging for his life. in the movies he basically goes crazy and starts babbling which works because the movies are not as explicit. tbr the books just does an entirely different thing with katniss commenting on how cato was probably going to use peeta’s dead body as a shield, which is so fucked up and wouldn’t fit with the narrative of him being just a crazy kid. 

in the grand scheme of things i think cato being painted as a kid rather than a ruthless killing machine is better for the plot. cause he IS 18. like, in the grand scheme of things catching fire consisting of adults emphasizes how actually fucked up the hunger games was. even though cato is the biggest in comparison to katniss and everyone else in the arena, he is still just a pawn. and i like how the movies made a point to emphasize that. 

tldr - brb i gotta go finish the greatest book of all time

[mortallyclearwonderland]

Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness - "The Hunger Game"

Episode 67 overall 

Synopsis:

Po and the Furious Five must stop food-stealing rats to end a great famine, but will Po's weakness for food hinder the mission?

Characters:

Shifu and the Furious Five are starving themselves just as the towns folk. 

At first, it seems honorable and a necessity because they also don't have much food. Even when they were offered something to eat by Madame Zhou they refused. And let me tell you how stupid that was. You don't want to eat while everybody is hungry? Then take as much food from the table as you can carry and share it with others. You came to her to get only rice but she offers more food. What is she going to do? Tell you not to share it with anybody?

Later they become so hungry they can't even fight. When Po comes back they complain about him not bringing any food for them. Then why didn't you take some the first time? If they did there would've been no plot and conflict because Five could've defeated the rats while satiated.

Also, I don't like how everybody gives Po a hard time for being hungry. Their argument ''everybody is hungry'' doesn't hold much water when you take into consideration different species. They even acknowledge in the show that Mantis doesn't starve as much cause he's so small and needs less food. They know what a panda is. Don't they realize he needs more food just like a rhino or an elephant would?  

Monkey is the only one to believe in Po just being late. When everybody is upset with his actions, Po singles Monkey out to apologize. They're bros!

Overall great episode!

Villain: Ju-Long and the Lao Shu are rats who still food. It's interesting that Ju-Long is this madman yet still got all those rats to follow him. Wouldn't they be mad at him for wasting food and money? They probably just stash away something for themselves.

Madame Zhou is a good villain but I have some questions. Why does everybody call her old, she looks rather young, middle age, maybe, and everybody acts as if she was older than Shifu. Did the scriptwriters and animators have some miscommunication and didn't know what she looks like? Am I missing something because of translation? And what's with her pining over Po? If there really is such a huge age gap between them it's creepy. I know Po is an adult but he's obviously uncomfortable. This series has a huge problem with determining characters' ages.

Still counting!

Interspecies relationships in Kung Fu Panda:

Mantis and a caterpillar/butterfly. 02

A pig female and a duck male married couple. 13

Mr. Ping, a duck, and all his girlfriends, Mrs. Yoon a goat, a pig, a mantis, a water buffalo, and Lady Scorpion. 15

Tigress's crush on Shifu. 17

Sung, a snow leopard, tries to seduce Po, a Panda. 23

Crane has a crush on Bai Li, a female pig. 26

Tigress and The Midnight Stranger (Tigress didn't know who he was and lost interest when she found out it was Po. If she found out it was any other guy she might still have been interested.) 32

Monkey has a crush on Ming, an Ibex girl. (Finally! I know what animal Woo is!)  Monkey used to have a bunny as a girlfriend.  And many more. 42

Shifu, a red panda, dated a Mei Ling, a fox. Also, Mantis and Zeng, a duck, show interest in her. 44

Mantis flirts with a Bunny lady 49

A pig female and a duck male married couple  are back. 54

Po, a panda, and Lu-Shi, a goat, are engaged. 55

Tigress has a crush on Yijiro, a prawn. 58

Madame Zhou, a gazelle, is allover Po this episode. Ju-Long, a rat, is flirting with her and Madame Zhou likes it. 67

[mega-ringsandthings-world]

I just don't get why people are ganging up on you when I look on your blog I don't really see that your a hunger games (based) blog. You seem to be like whatever you want (not focused on thg) but I don't know the whole situation, there have been everthorne shippers who act innocent but only want to spread drama and hate. (Same with everlark shippers) but I do hate when people question Susanne for how she wrote the book. Because it makes sense for her to pick peeta. (Just in my opinion and experience) It's never good to date someone who's exactly like you or who matches the same anger as you because nothing gets done and you always fight. (From my experience) but if you enjoy everthorne you have every right to. And neither side should be spreading this much hate.

I've been posting a lot about THG lately, but yeah, it's not my main focus. I'll post when I have thoughts/content to share, I'm not making a day job of it. I'm sure there's always bad apples on both sides, but so far I've received mostly negativity from the everlark side and nothing from support from the few that do like Everthorne. I can say at the very least that neither me nor those people like to spread drama or hate. So.

I'm sorry to disagree, but I criticize Suzanne Collins heavily for certain things in her writing. I don't like the dichotomy of good versus evil she tries to do using Gale and Peeta. I see racist undertones in it. She wrote the book through the lense of a military Catholic white woman writing a commentary on war. Such a perspective will always be flawed.   And on the subject of pairing off Katniss with the most “suitable” partner, you people always use Peeta’s “peace” to defend Peeta/Katniss, which a great part of the sum total of my problems. It’s such a disservice and a skewed moral lesson to try and say “you can only have peace with those people who don’t fight a war to gain a better life.” Also “neither side should be spreadiing hate?” It’s the everlark side sending me death threats, which is what qualifies as hate, not me posting crit on Peeta. Get over yourself. 

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[booksandpaperss]

Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one

[quinnspinkcamera]

when people are like "i didn't come here to make friends" i'm like thats sooooo unrelatable. i am always on the look out for some girl friends. I would be in that hunger games cornucopia like "your ex boyfriend did WHAT."

[sweetlucygray]

sadly the only copy of s10 of thg i found is in the spanish dub but the only thing theyre saying is i love you and i know thats not right so can someone hook me up with their panem plus pleasee