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i can feel silka and panaches brother/sister love/hate relationship radiating through the pages when i read sotr

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alright so this took me twenty six hours. yay! please click for quality there are way too many details that i’m super proud of

you know what? labeled version under the cut

1. The flowers/vines wrapped around the frame are primroses. they’re also present to the right of Prim herself

2. The Capitol insignia is present in the four corners of the frame

3. The mockingjay (obv)

4. Dandelions in between Katniss and Peeta

5. A lark for Peeta (I had all the other birds, needed one for him!)

6. The katniss plant is by Katniss herself and Boggs, with a flower right in front of Katniss’s chest

7. A burdock plant, between Katniss and Prim

8. A Honeysuckle flower (Katniss runs into these after her tracker-jacker debacle in book one and remembers them from home)

9. Rue flowers, with other wildflowers (specifically white, purple, and yellow, which are the colors of the flowers Katniss used after Rue died)

10. Buttercup flowers (did you know these are poisonous? I didn’t)

11. Nightshade plant, of which the night lock is based on

12. Dahlias, because if I remember right there was one on Finnick and Annie’s wedding cake

13. Pine tree branches/pinecones, to represent Johanna’s home district, district seven

14. Potato plant/flowers next to Betee and Ampert. They’re also present to the right of Haymitch

15. Mockingjay graffiti

16. Yellow roses in between Haymitch and Maysilee, for friendship

17. Haymitch’s four little doves

18. Cattail, for Mags

19. Graffiti reading “The odds are never in our favor”

20. Blueberries—Maysilee uses blueberries in Sunrise on The Reaping to replenish her poison for her darts

21. Bee Balm

22. Sunflowers, for Lou Lou and the district nine and eleven tributes in Sunrise on The Reaping

23. Red Roses

24. Another mockingjay for Sejanus (this one is a little bluer/more saturated than Katniss’s, due to less generations of breeding with mocking birds)

25. Wheat for Reaper

26. A songbird for Lucy Gray

27. A snake, particularly the one Lucy Gray uses in the beginning of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

28. A raven, for Lenore Dove

29. Marigolds, symbolic of the cycle of and connection between life and death

30. White Roses

31. A snake from the 10th Hunger Games

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bring back engaging with fanfic authors if you like their work. you can't outright refuse to read WIPs and in the same breath whine that there's less fics being completed

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Wyatt. Wyatt Callow

whose luck just ran out.

In honors of Ben Wang <3

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White Katniss ruining lives since 2010. RIP black Louella and Loulou you are so loved

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immediately following up the whitewashed casting announcements for louella/lou lou with fan favorite elle fanning is hilarious damage control in real time

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same people that were mad about lenore dove not being white and ginger are probably defending louella/lou lou being white right about now

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I'm fucking furious. Absolutely furious.

Look. I have accepted that the movies removed the racial implications in the storytelling from the first. If it wasn't clear in the main character casting, it was certainly clear in the shot of that first reaping scene in District 12 where there isn't even a single HINT of melanin.

I've accepted that the relevant themes of racial subjugation were removed not just from Capitol to District but also within classes in the districts themselves.

But the ONE case in which the movies maintained the racial themes in their storytelling? District 11. Across FIVE movies it has been made clear through FILM CANON that District 11 is predominately black. And the characters we have known by name from 11 have all been black. And their blackness has always been a part of their kindness, their heroism, their rebelliousness, their community, their bravery, their sacrifice, and their mercy.

To cast a white girl as Lou Lou (and by extension Louella) is so cowardly I don't even have enough words to express it.

"But Katniss reminded Haymitch of Louella and movie Katniss is white."

FUCK YOU

Rue reminded Katniss of Prim. That is the SINGLE argument people have used for AGES to justify the argument that Rue should have been white.

As if skin color had anything to do with how young and vulnerable and GENTLE she was. As if all of those reasons weren't ENOUGH reasons to have Katniss be reminded of Prim when she saw Rue.

If you can't look at a child and be reminded of the spirit of another person because of their skin color - that's a skill issue, I don't know what to tell you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Choosing to cast these girls as white is a very specific backtrack on the ONLY racial commentary we EVER got in these films and everyone who had a decision in it is a COWARD.

(and, to be VERY clear, I'm certain these two kids are going to be incredible. I don't want to hear a single thing about them or see anything directed towards them. ALLLLLLL of my smoke is for the decision makers. Cowards, every single one of them.)

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btw, the only physical similarity katniss and louella have that haymitch talks about is the hairstyle. they did not have to make her white.

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louella and loulou being white is certainly... a decision

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been forever since tbosas (come back) but i'm still gonna share these moodboards i made last year! (dennis fling and pup harrington moodboards are here!)

in order: persephone price, vipsania sickle, festus creed, clemensia dovecote

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it seems to me that people were more upset about Lenore Dove not being white and ginger than they are about a JKR defender being cast as Snow

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ok they are safe guys

will be jumping the casting directors if they fuck up wyatt

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will be jumping the casting directors if they fuck up wyatt

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sotr castings have really been a hit or miss so far huh

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something about the fact that the tributes in sotr were using the abandoned academy gym just stuck with me. like... did haymitch stare up at the same showerhead as snow did back when he was still a student?

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can all wyatt lovers drop their favorite tribute from tbosas? i'm trying to see something here