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biblically accurate haymitch abernathy

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cute odesta headcanons:

unconventional compliments are their jam. both because they're obsessed with everything about each other and because it can't bring up bad memories if those words have never been strung together by a human before.

it takes a really long time for them to admit to having feelings for each other

they're effectively living together and already sleeping in the same bed some nights before one of them finally works up the courage to be like "hey so um i think i have a crush on you"

they like to playfully manhandle each other. play fighting and play wrestling and grappling (they're both combat trained they gotta use it somehow)

there are days when finnick cannot stand to be touched, even when he's in an otherwise decent mood. on such days annie sometimes shows affection by lightly throwing small objects at him. a pebble, a wad of paper, a pen cap. just as a small, nonverbal "hey, i'm thinking about you," since she can't kiss him about it

on the days when it is viable, there is so much kissing. on the hand. on the wrist. on the shoulder. on the neck. they both do this. they use it to punctuate interactions, to signal contentment, to directly acknowledge each other when they just haven't in a while.

finnick particularly favors hand kisses, because they make him feel like a gallant knight swearing fealty to his lady.

annie particularly favors forhead and nose kisses, because they're chaste and sweet and they make him make cute faces.

in bad moments, sometimes, annie completely loses speech. for this reason, finnick always has a pen on him when they're out of the house. she carries one, too, but it's always good to have a backup.

once they had two pens and no paper, and he ended up letting her use his forearm to write down what she needed.

this turned into the two of them doodling on each other as a grounding exercise, which was surprisingly effective.

every time she falls asleep on him while he's still awake, she wakes up with her hair in dozens of tiny braids

finnick occasionally brings her gifts from the capitol (purchased by him with his own money, of course). because i hc annie as a stem girlie this usually takes the form of niche scientific nonfiction that you just can't get in the districts

they take their coffee opposite ways. finnick with lots of milk and sugar because he's a baby, annie black no sugar because she finds strong flavors soothing

they've each gifted each other multiple pieces of hand-made jewelry, which rhey both wear as often as possible

finnick was beginning to earnestly hate the color green until annie came along, and now he struggles to resent the color of her eyes

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Haymitch, seeing everlark daughter for the first time: she is beautiful, and she has peetas eyes.

Katniss: and his eyelashes

Peeta: My what?

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odesta come home pls

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rough style study inspired by alphonse mucha ft. finnick!

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a little companion peeta to my last finnick drawing!

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Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut

Reblog this if you want readers to come into your ask box and ask for the ��director’s commentary” on a particular story, section of a story, or set of lines. 

Or, send in a ⭐star⭐  to have the author select a section they’ve been dying to talk about!

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I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out

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nobody asked but i gave finnick's little sister a cat named miter, which is a type of ridged seashell and also refers to various things with sharp points or corners. because he's her cute little seashell but watch out!

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without changing anything else about the hunger games (allegedly you wouldn’t need to), if you take katniss and peeta’s relationship out, just lift it from the text, as I have been told it would be easy to do, and more meaningful, since the love story is incidental and tacked on for marketing, what is left of the plot?

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it’s you or me

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things we know about Katniss and Peeta’s children:

- their father wanted them badly (they will never have to feel, as he did, like a waste of space)

- their mother has had a primal fear of losing them ever since they first stirred inside her (and before she even conceived them, let’s be honest)

- but … they bring her fear-conquering joy

- they dance

- they seem to have a good relationship themselves, given how the boy traipses after his sister

- they play in the Meadow where so much tragedy happened, their existence a punctuation of hope literally atop a graveyard

- they are well-fed (chubby!!!)

- they don’t know the atrocities that came before them, but their parents are proactively planning to teach them in a way that will make them brave

- their mother is also proactively planning to teach them about her trauma management mechanisms, working to break the cycle of generational trauma she was subjected to, while teaching them about the goodness of humanity that can sometimes be hard to note and appreciate

- their privacy is crucial to their mother (at least, I think that’s why we never get their names)

- their physical features represent the breaking down of class divisions within a once segregated district

- they take for granted being safe and warm and loved because their parents keep them safe and warm and loved (Katniss’s dream came true: Peeta’s children ARE safe)

*** by the way: I don’t understand how people can even suggest Katniss doesn’t love her children after reading that the babies take Rue’s lullaby for granted … you take something for granted because you’ve always had it! just read the lyrics of that song!

- and, as Peeta says, they’re going to be okay, because they all have each other (and the book)

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try as i might i simply cannot put a hard "a" in "coriolanus". "coriol-AY-nus". nuh uh. that man's name is coriol-ANN-us and if he has a problem with that he can take it up with me personally.

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I’ve been in an art-rut lately so I ended up redrawing a hunger games scene but with how I imagined the characters would look!

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annie cresta headcanons i enjoy (not all of these are my primary interpretation, and not all feature in my fic, but all of them are dear to my heart.)

that she's an artist of some description (i've seen drawing, music, sewing, jewelry making, and making paints. all are very good.)

that she did, in fact, kill people in the hunger games/was an active participant in the games before her district partner's death.

career!! tribute!! annie!!

related: that her feelings about her games remain somewhat complicated for a long time afterwards, possibly even increasingly complicated as time goes on

bisexual icon annie cresta my beloved

she had a relatively "normal" teenagerhood, which included dating around a bit and having sexual experiences

her relationship with finnick developed slowly. like, snail's pace.

back when she didn't know what was really going on in the capitol, the idea that finnick just liked sleeping around really didn't bother her, nor did it impact her desire to be his friend

she has a close relationship with mags independent of finnick

during particularly bad moments, she sometimes loses speech and has to write or use hand signals to try to express her needs

she's a very structured person, with rules and routines which she uses to ground herself and maintain a sense of control over her life

speaking of a sense of control

soft domme annie cresta queen of my heart

she is in general a very stubborn and opinionated person, the type to tell you exactly what she thinks

which is why it sucks that, on a bad day, she can barely produce enough words to ask you to pass the salt

it takes her a while to learn to ask for support

she's really into the fiber arts, as an artistic outlet and/or a grounding technique

did i mention career tribute annie?? because career tribute annie.

also curly girl annie. the woman the myth the legend curly girl annie.

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this fandom seems to have pretty different demographics from the ones i'm used to, so i have a curiosity. for those actively participating in the hunger games fandom...

please refrain from discourse about what "counts." exclusionists are not welcome anywhere near my blog and will be blocked on sight.

no pressure to share your answer if you're uncomfortable doing so, but please reblog! i'm genuinely curious.