#thg haymitch

[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 |

[hayffieee]

Pov: Effie & Haymitch got reunited in District 13

I just know Haymitch gives the best hugs ugh

[z3phyr23]

Okay Hunger Games fans, I have a headcannon that I’m kinda workshopping…

I was thinking about the Toast Babies, and their names, because all we’re given is “the boy” and “the girl”. I know the common headcannon is that the girl is named Willow, and I like that! But then I got to thinking about Rose as a middle name. For multiple reasons. I’d imagine Katniss wouldn’t be able to name her child Primrose, it would be too painful and personally I don’t really like the “naming kids after dead family members” thing. But Rose as a middle name might work. Just enough of a tie to Prim that she’s still there, without it being painful.

And also: it’s a color. I’d like to think that after the war, once everything settled down, Haymitch talked to Katniss about the Covey. He told her how she’s related to them, if somewhat distantly. He told her how they named their kids. First name from a song, second name a color. Maybe he tells her about Lenore Dove. And she takes that to heart, gives her child the second name of a color, to honor the Covey, to tie her family back to them.

I kinda like Willow Rose Mellark. But would it remind her too much of white roses? Or would it purely remind her of Prim?

I don’t know!! What do y’all think?

[itzrubez]

The Hunger Games books should be required reading in school. Argue with the wall.

[atefingersdagger]

Hunger Games au where it's the Last of Us and it's Katniss as Ellie and Haymitch as Joel

[raeyapper]

Party on you by Charlie xcx except it's haymitchs regrets about what happened. (Part of you knew). About the gumdrops, about louella and lou lou. About maysliee. About the fire. About knowing his loved ones were good as dead and still entertaining the Capitol people in that golden cage in hopes it might save them.

[panemsonlydoctor]

[crashoutreads]

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

i wanted closure. i got emotional shrapnel.

Katniss doesn’t just survive in this one, she endures, and there’s a difference. This is what happens when your trauma gets politicized, your grief becomes strategy, and your enemies start blending in with your allies. She’s not a girl on fire anymore, she’s ash, bone and teeth.

This book doesn’t give us the revolution moment we’re used to. There’s no catharsis. No sweeping victory. Just pain, death, manipulation, and a girl realizing that even when the war ends, the fallout doesn’t.

the vibes:

propaganda machine x weaponized grief x “love interest is feral and brainwashed but i still want to hold his hand”

There’s PTSD, mass death, betrayal, Capitol war crimes, and Gale finally revealing that his moral compass points directly into the abyss. And let’s not even start on Prim. Just… don’t.

final thoughts:

• Coin was worse than Snow, and that’s saying something.

• Peeta deserved peace, not therapy bills the size of District 13.

• Katniss chose survival, not love, and that’s what made it real.

• I’m still not okay.

🧷 read it. sobbed. lit a match.

-crashoutreads

[itsajollyjester]

His first real birthday

[derangedchameleon]

I was about to write: I love the fact that Katniss‘ first reaction to Haymitch‘s absolutely traumatising story is „You need some goose eggs. Goose eggs will help.“

And then I realised… She‘s mimicking Peeta. Peeta comes back to 12 and the first thing he does is plant primroses. And somehow… that helped her. So she‘s doing the same thing for Haymitch.

[ofsilentwinds]

just having the stark realization that the failed act of rebellion was 24 years before katniss volunteered. that begs the question of whether or not there were more attempts. did johanna suffer the same fate as haymitch? did the capitol lie and say she was hidden the entirety of her games because she was given a similar (failed) assignment from beetee? did they have to erase countless hours of footage? edit things to make it seem like she was never where she actually was, simply hidden away from the chaos? how many mockingjay figures did they cycle through before landing on katniss? how many did they cycle through before the revolution actually began?

[lieujones]

Guys.

GUYS.

Haymitch ate the candies.

After all that happened.

Lenore Dove.

He trusted Katniss.

And ate. the. candies.

[brynnsasha191]

One thing I love about sotr is how much Haymitch and Maysilee matched each others capitol hating freak. Them deciding to paint their own posters, deciding to be loose canons and as wild as their horses, deciding to be rebellious victors, and not allowing themselves to be treated like animals

Maysilee said "jump", and Haymitch said "how high?"

[lenoredovesbairds]

Lenore Dove is so misunderstood and mischaracterized by the fandom it makes me sad to see.

She is not this manic, dream pixie girl. Her character very much shaped, flawed and real. Haymitch is able to oversee and ignore her “flaws” because he’s a 16 year old teenage boy who is madly in love with her, but it is not hard for us readers, to look between those lines and see how fleshed her character really is.

She is seen to act before thinking, making rash decisions which aren’t the best for her wellbeing. She is way too emotional, feels too many feelings and has too many thoughts and she doesn’t know how to articulate them into words because she’s an introvert and she fears her words being lost in translation.

She only reveals her unfiltered, (sometimes) dark thoughts to her loved ones, and often enough she does it by using metaphors so she can still backtrack incase she gets misunderstood because she still feels like her thoughts could be a burden to the people around her.

She is not a “Lucy Gray Rip-Off”.

Lucy Gray was a born performer. She loved to be on stage, she loved performing for her people and knew how to get the crowd on her side, how to keep them entertained.

Lenore Dove doesn’t sing in front of people. It makes her uncomfortable. She’s not a “Born Performer” nor does she know how to control a crowd, at least not in the way Lucy Gray did.

She’s a rebel. She’ll only use her voice when she realizes she absolutely HAS to. She’ll use it when she’s mad, and sad, and in despair.

She’ll go against the rules at any given time, especially when it comes to protecting her loved ones. She doesn’t realize nor care about any consequences at the time, she only acts because she’s in pain and wants to avenge her people.

She’s a sixteen year old girl who dreamt big in a world where dreaming was a luxury and not something many people can afford.

In spite of her dark, burdened thoughts, she had still kept her innocence and was able to dream of a world without the reaping, she had hopes that one day that dream could become a reality, no matter how crazy it sounded to others.

She also had dreams of growing up, having a loving family and living peacefully with her loved ones and her boy who she loved more than anyone and she was willing to die for him.

[justafewberries]

love the symbolism of haymitch's outfit in the parade scene. he loses his "cheesy imitation coal miner hat in the accident and, rid of the headgear, our outfits become merely neutral, black and forgettable." (SOTR, 79).

he's wearing the uniform of his district, a coal miner, someone sent to the deepest parts of the earth day after day, working for scrip, not even real money, facing the highest, "most brutal" person in panem with a dead girl in his arms forcing him to confront that he did this.

how he's not haymitch- rather he's every coal miner in district 12, every person who has lost a child to the games, to starvation, to the oppression of snow's regime. he is not haymitch. he is panem.

[burningfudge]

this is so funny to me for some reason 😭