#thresh the hunger games

[ayowotsdis]

Do you know the taste of your flesh?

It tastes like,

Salt.

Do you know your skin is made up of stitches?

A thousand or so,

I pulled apart.

You bite,

It stings.

Do you feel ashamed?

When you taste the salt?

When his neck broke, he tasted himself. It was a rainy day, clouds in the sky, rains are tears of the sky. Tears taste like salt. Did Coriolanus feel ashamed when he tasted the salt? Did he feel ashamed when Lucy Gray ran and he shot? How does shame taste like, Coriolanus Snow? When the rain hit, what did our flesh taste like, Coryo?

[witchthewriter]

Would you ever write for Thresh Morrowson from the hunger games?

Yeah I definitely would, but I would make alterations - like maybe somehow he escaped the game. Because I don't want to write for underage characters xx

[bethany-antonias]

The Hunger Games (2012) dir. Gary Ross

[ghaniatreides]

The Hunger Games Appreciation Week 2024

➸ Day 6: Favourite District — 11

Well, I’ve learned one thing today. This place is not a larger version of District 12. Our fence is unguarded and rarely charged. Our Peacekeepers unwelcome but less brutal. Our hardships evoke more fatigue than fury. Here in 11, they suffer more acutely and feel more desperation. President Snow is right. A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

[margokesses]

Cannot stop thinking about thresh and reaper in the hunger games movie. Two black boys who are shown to really strong and could easily take out the other tributes. And how they're precieved as violent because of it.

But when they enter the arena they're seen as the exact opposite. The only death that we see thresh take on screen is clove bc she kept bragging about rue's death. Which we can tell hurt him bc if you look at scenes before the games he seems to be protective of her. And he could have easily killed katniss but he spares her life because katniss humanized rue.

And with reaper. We're told that he killed a peacekeeper in his district and he threatens snow but in the arena its shown that the only thing he cares about is protecting dill. He even defends her from attackers in the beginning and tells her to stick by his side.

And I cannot stop thinking about rue's death. And how although it is violent (a spear through her body) it's not shown in a grotesque way (I don't think we even see blood when she pulls it out). And with dill it's a similar situation. A girl with tuberculosis who drinks water that she doesn't know is filled with rat poison. And when she drinks it she doesn't convulse or do anything dramatic she just lays down and dies.

And I can't stop thinking about how those deaths are instantly humanized. Katniss and reaper both scream in anger when they find out about it. They cry about it. And then they instantly mourn her. Katniss stays with rue until the end and sings with her until she passes and then gathers flowers to give her a proper burial. And it's the same with dill. Reaper grabs her body (and the other tributes and removes their weapons) and he covers them with the flag of the capitol. To show that they're the cause of tributes deaths.

And then katniss and reaper bodly faces the camera and expresses disdain for what's going on. Katniss raises the 3 finger salute and reaper screams "are you gonna punish me now??"

And I cannot stop thinking about how when thresh dies you don't see any of it you just hear screams. And when marcus is in the arena he is tied up and beaten and shown as an example bc he ran away and he could have easily died a violent death from the other tributes. But he is given a mercy killing by another tribute. And when Jessup dies. It's because he has rabies from protecting Lucy gray from the bats on the train. But he also dies in a non violent way bc he was given water to scare him away and he just ends up accidently falling. And how when reaper dies its him being engulfed in snakes because he finally accepted his fate.

And idk this probably doesn't make sense bc it's currently 4am in the morning but as a Black fan I am glad that in a world where my people are constantly dehumanized and our graphic deaths are released in video format for the world to see and be desentized too....

It's nice to not see anything violent and dehumanizing about us in a series about kids dying to the death. Like everyone knows that the black kids are gonna die but they could have done something really violent with them and it's nice to not see that happen.

[ilajue]

hunger games eve for districts 12 and 11 aka ila got a little crazy with the crosshatching 

[nourtarts]

felt the spirit of the hunger games take hold of me and drew a bunch of characters from the first book the way I imagined them! might post finnick and the catching fire gang later

[stillcarmine]

Forever haunted by Katniss, who took months to warm up to Gale and didn’t realize she and Madge were more than just acquaintances of convenience until she was about to ship off to her death, saying that she and Thresh would have been friends if they both lived in 12

[scouts-mockingbird]

I want the Hunger Games AU where Rue survives up to the point where they announce that two victors from the same district can win. I want Thresh, still crouching in wait in the tall grass to suddenly stand up and start to search, because he doesn't know Rue, but she's a child and she's from home and now they can both make it back.

I want him searching for her, and finding her, scared because she never managed to find Katniss after they destroyed the supplies, and promising her that they'd find a way out of this. I want him teaching her to fight and her teaching him to hide, to make himself light and small so he can flee when he has to.

They make it to the end, the last two to survive after Katniss sacrifices herself to save Rue and Peeta dies from his wounds. The rule change is announced, and Thresh is ready to die because Rue's just a kid, and as much as he wants to see his family again, it's not worth that. But Rue refuses, sets down her weapons, and looks at the cameras and says she's not leaving without him. If the Capitol wants a victor, they have to accept two.

I want the version where a revolution wasn't started because of two teenagers in love, but because of two kids from the same community looked at each other and said "I'm not leaving here without you".

[allovesthings]

The hunger games were created to show what a "beast" humanity is, to show that, in our most desperate circumstances, we will put our survival above all else.

So, every time a tribute decides to put their own survival at risk for someone else's, it's a form of rebellion against the games.

And we see it constantly during the games:

Lamina mercy killing Marcus and putting herself at risk because no one deserves that kind of agony, Reaper making sure the tributes get some dignity in theirs deaths and Lucy Gray staying out in the open with Jessup as he dies.

It's Haymitch running towards Maysilee to save her regardless of the fact that theirs alliance is broken and it could be a trap and staying with her as she died.

And it's especially there in the 74th hunger games. It start with Katniss volunteering for Prim but it's not just her, she is the first spark but she is not the only one in the game to do it.

It's Rue deciding to heal Katniss when that couldn't be that safe for her on the ground, it's Peeta, who understands what the hunger games are for since the beginning and decided to put all of his skill in favor of Katniss's survival, not his. It's Thresh too, sparing Katniss, a very dangerous opponent for Rue.

[kitkatdoodlez]

Some biblically accurate tributes

[risingoftime]

I have such a soft spot for District 11 tributes.

Thresh, Rue, Reaper, and Dill. All of them were so wholesome and didn't deserve the end that they were given.

[patheticblorbloscholar]

There is something so special about District 11. The love, and loyalty. The kindness passed on to other tributes. They are my Roman empire.

[britney-rosberg06]

i’m sick i’m Sick because before Chaff and Katniss hold hands on stage and before the old man whistling to Katniss and Peeta, before Thresh saves her, before 11 sends her bread as a thank you and before Rue is even a name in a bowl there’s Reaper. Taking the bodies of his comrades and enemy’s laying them down in a row and closing their eyes and covering them with the best “burial shroud” he could find and sitting vigil beside his nations flag begging them to do something about this rebellion

[books-4-life9]

So I was thinking the other day, and...

The whole point of the hunger games was to show people how that, without civilisation, rules, restrictions, and structure, people would basically revert back into their true nature - animals, killers. They were to show people that even little kids can become murderers when there are no rules, and that they need rules to stop the world going to waste.

The irony of this is that it doesn't really work. Sure, people get killed, and there is always a victor, but the tributes still find ways to show love and kindness.

The way Katniss lays Rue down with flowers, when Thresh spared Katniss because of her friendship with Rue (even though he knew that he was making it harder for him to win), Mags sacrificing herself, even Reaper gathering the bodies of the tributes and laying them out, all of this just shows that while the Capitols plan sort of worked, they couldn't completely hide that humans are kind, and loving, and not just the animals they tried to portray them as.

[nourtarts]

mercy