Everlark-Reread

Favorite THG Fanfics Revisited

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I Do (4835 words) by HalfHope Chapters: 1/40 Fandom: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mellark Characters: Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna (Hunger Games), Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Rory Hawthorne, Original Characters, Coriolanus Snow, Alma Coin Additional Tags: Originally Posted on FanFiction.Net, alternative universe, Alternative Universe - No Quell, Romance, Angst and Romance, very minor Everthorne Series: Part 1 of I Do universe

Dear Friends. 

Please welcome back to the fandom, our friend and legendary Everlark fanfic author, HalfHope, with a reposting of her previously deleted work, “I Do”.

“I Do” is an unforgettable story and an unforgettable series. If you have never had the privilege to read it before, you can thank me later. 

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The Ashes of District Twelve

by @silvercistern​

A friend recently asked me to recommend some in-panem growing back together stories, and my mind immediately went to this incredible six part series by the super talented @silvercistern​  first published in 2012 and completed in 2013.

The Ashes of District Twelve Series is the fourth book to me. It became my headcanon for everything that what happened after the epilogue of Mockingjay.  If you haven’t already discovered this incredible series,  I think it is truly unmissable.

Link to the Series:  The Ashes of District Twelve

Part 1 -  The List 

Part 2 -   ragged edges

Part 3 -   The Good Wife

Part 4 -   legal matrimony

Part 5 -   The Grandmentor

Part 6 -  The Many and Varied Adventures of Young Fletcher Mellark

As always, my thanks to the author, @silvercistern​ for gifting us with their words. Though this author no longer writes for The Hunger Games fandom, I highly recommend you check out their other everlark works via their profile on AO3.

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Go read an old fic.

There's such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what's new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It's just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.

So go on. Treat yourself.

Read an old fic.

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And comment on them!!!

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This month I am re-reading....

Be Still And Know I Am by @therebelliondies​  

Summary: Modern AU. After receiving a life-altering call from home, Katniss returns home to a tiny rural town in Illinois. She doesn't expect old feelings for Peeta Mellark to arise when he walks back into her life, but she slowly comes to realize that she wouldn't be able to survive this without him.

Rated: M (FFnet)  / E (AO3)  - English - Drama/Romance

Chapters: 8 - Words: 92,750 

Updated: Apr 28, 2013 - Incomplete.    

I was reminded of this incredible story by a recent post on @everlarkficquestions If you haven’t read this one, I think it is truly unmissable.  

It is a modern AU set in a small town, and follows Katniss and Peeta through their troubled on-again / off-again relationship, which begins in high school, though the college years and beyond.  Trigger warning for the illness and death of a major character which is a big driver of the plot.  There is a lot of angst, and a lot of tears, but a lot of love too, which makes it all worth it.  It also has a strong, platonic Gale & Katniss friendship, which I personally enjoy in a fic. 

Though the story remains incomplete, it is left in a good place.  Maybe a few new reviews might encourage the author to return and post that final chapter  :) 

As always, my thanks to the author, @therebelliondies​ for sharing her words.

Available to read on FF.net and AO3

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This month, I am re-reading...

Unjustly Accused by Salanderjade

(also known as “the jeans made me do it!”)

Summary: Katniss has to pick a guy out of a line up but she keeps getting distracted by the way guy number 4 fills out his jeans.

***cover courtesy of Ro Nordman

Language: English

Rated: M - Romance/Humor

Chapters: 9 totalling 47,175 words

Published: Nov 28, 2013  (Complete)

Though not a very long story, this beautifully written modern AU by Salanderjade packs a punch that carries a lot of emotional weight.  It also has what I think is my own personal favourite characterisation of Cinna.

A perfect story for a weekend re-read.  As always, my thanks to the author, @salanderjade​ for sharing her words with us. 

Enjoy. 

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This month, I am re-reading...

Surviving by QueenBrooke

Language: English

Published: 15 April 2012

Words: 51,385

Chapters: 30/30 Complete

Rated: T

Summary: "Katniss will choose whoever she thinks can't survive without." She thinks she can survive without anyone, though. She knows she can.”

Mockingjay, pre-epilogue. .

Surviving

I haven’t done one of these in a while, but if, like me, you are trying to keep yourself occupied during a lockdown, why not revisit some older everlark classics?  

While browsing through my favourites on FFnet  the title of this story jumped out at me and I figured it was a good pick for the time we’re in now, given what we are all trying to deal with in the battle against Covid19.  

So, if you haven’t discovered this short but beautifully written story already, I can heartily recommend it. Or, if you’ve read it before, then I recommend a re-read. :)

It truly is a wonderful example of beautifully written in-panem “growing back together” fic, set between the end of Mockingjay and the Epilogue. Don’t let the T rating put you off either.  

My thanks, as always, to the author QueenBrooke for sharing her words.

Enjoy, and stay safe. 

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This month, I am re-reading...

                       The Kitty Ranch by Diana_Flynn

Language: English

Published: 11 February 2013 

Words: 169641 

Chapters: 32/33

Rated: Explicit

Summary: Katniss Everdeen is not one to look back at the choices she makes, especially if it means providing for the only person she loves - her sister Prim. .

The Kitty Ranch

If you haven’t already read this fantastic work, then put this on your must read list. This work is a truly wonderful example of a well written, well plotted Everlark modern day AU.  

Nominated for the Everlark Smut Awards for Best Forbidden.

Despite placing Everlark in a complex universe where Katniss is a notorious high-price prostitute working out of a famous Nevada brothel and Peeta is the wealthy, charismatic, yet troubled son who is being groomed to follow his Senator father into politics, neither becomes wildly out of character.  Somehow, the author has managed to preserve the core personality traits of our favorite characters, right throughout the story. 

Throw in some great side characters in Haymitch, Cinna, and Johanna plus a well developed and delivered plot, and this is a story you do not want to overlook.  

When you have finished it, there is a bonus (explicit) outtake in the same Universe “Welcome Back, Mr Mellark”, written for PromptsinPanem.

My thanks, as always, to the author @dianaflynn22  for sharing her words. 

Enjoy! 

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This month, I am re-reading...

For the last day of August, (and summer) I thought I’d post another story: 

Portrait of a Victor by sponsormusings

Capitol photographer Peeta Mellark has one job. Meet, and photograph, the current Victor known as Katniss Everdeen. Capture her image in her natural environment in District 12, follow her progress along the Victory Tour.

He's not meant to fall in love. Not when the stakes are high and secrets are being kept.  (Set during the timeline of CF and MJ).

Rated: Fiction M 

Chapters: 30 

Words: 199,631   

Published: Sep 15, 2013 

Status: Complete

Winner of Best Catching Fire Fic in the Nightlock Recs: Nightlock Reader's Choice Awards! 

Sponsormusings has over 100 amazing works in the Hunger Games fandom to choose from, which made it difficult to narrow my choice down to just one for this post (so expect more in the future!)  

I chose PoaV because its a story I’ve wanted to re-visit it for a long time.  I remember reading it as it was being posted and at times I was literally brought to tears by the events that occur within this fic. 

I hope you enjoy, as I know I will.

My thanks, as always, to the author for sharing their words.

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This month, I am re-reading...

The 10 Steps by JW77

Summary: A series of vignettes featuring our favorite little family of four. Rating is for later chapters.

Rated: Fiction M

Chapters: 10                             Words: 44,673

Published: Oct 21, 2012           Status: Complete 

Major Character Death

The first multi-chapter story I selected to re-read this month was suggested to me by @panemposts  - and it was a great recommendation.  (link above).

I’m really surprised that this story does not have more reviews and favs.  It’s not very long, but it is a memorable and moving Everlark post-MJ story.  No spoilers, but if you havent read this before please heed the Major Character Death warning.   It is still heartbreaking, but beautifully written in a way that feels very natural and “real”.

My gratitude, as always to the author JW77, for sharing their words. 

Enjoy. :) 

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This month, I am re-reading...

A Fine Line to Cross by Passionately_Curious

Summary:  You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross. When two toxic lines begin to blur, can anything good come from it? Everlark AU

Rated: M  

Chapters: 11    

Words: 132,902

Published: Jan 7, 2013 - Complete

The story can be read on both AO3 and FFnet.  

The second multi-chapter fic I am offering up for your consideration this month is a wonderful modern AU written by Passionately_Curious (aka @mitchesbcray)

Featuring Professor!Peeta who has a complicated past and an equally troubled Student!Katniss, this story is a rollercoaster of both passion and angst as Everark struggle to find a way to overcome their issues and be together.  Be prepared for each character to make you want to cry one moment, then shout at them the next, in their turn..

My gratitutde, always, to the author. Enjoy!

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The Baker's Son

“All roads out of hell lead home.”

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Keep reading

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Prompts-in-Panem submission re-read of the day, July 15

The Baker’s Son by Misshoneywell

In-Panem AU featuring Dark!Peeta, Peacekeeper!Peeta

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Nobody ever moves to District Twelve. Not voluntarily. No one just shows up, let alone handsome blond men with blue eyes that crinkle at the corners.

No, not handsome. Katniss scowls as she misses the deer that skitters to her left. She’s off her game today.

All because of a stranger.

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My gratitude, as always, to the author.  Enjoy. 

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Fic Back Friday

Make a post recommending a fic you love from at least a year ago. Dust off the archives, dig through your AO3 history and share those old fics with newer fans who might not have seen them - and the fans who’ve been around forever and might want to revisit an old fave.

Reblog art, edits, and gifsets from seasons past. Dig out those hold headcanon and meta posts and bring them back. What were the popular fan theories? What was everyone writing fic about 2 years ago? Five? Go comment on an old fanvid that got you right in the feels. Queue up that OTP playlist and break out the tissues.

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This month, I am re-reading...

 Alone in a Crowded Room by Wollaston

(all artwork above is of scenes from the story, drawn by AiaCR’s co-authors, @alonglineofbread and @yourpeetaisshowing aka Wollaston). 

Summary: After suffering a serious injury at the hands of his mother, Peeta begins treatment with Mrs Everdeen. When Katniss is asked to help with his treatment things take an unexpected turn. AU set in District 12.

Rated: M -  Chapters: 36 - Words: 267,697  

First Published: Jan 8, 2013 - Complete

If you haven’t already read this much loved everlark classic, settle down somewhere comfortable, bring snacks and a drink and maybe a box of tissues because you are in for a treat.  This is one of the most heart wrenching, yet heart warming Everlark storys that I promise you will never forget.  

Once you get through this, there is an extra extended Prologue told from Rye’s point of view...   The Beginning of the End.

My gratitude, as always,to the two wonderful co-authors of this story for sharing their words, and their artwork.

Please enjoy.  

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There’s something very nice about remembering fics you read years ago. Maybe you remember the plot perfectly, maybe the rest of the fic is only a blur aside from a handful of vivid scenes, but you remember the way it made you feel. And sometimes you dredge up the memory - the premise or a favourite scene or a few lines that stayed with you -  and your heart aches a little bit, the way it does when you think about books you enjoyed as a child.

To all the fanfiction writers out there: your work is beautiful and meaningful and it leaves an impact. I promise.

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The Fourth Wife

“Round Five: Peach Blossom”

Summary: In a world dominated by men, Katniss was glad to be an exception to society’s rules. She never had a desire to marry, let alone become the fourth wife to the youngest baker.

Warning: Polygamy. Mild references to non-consent.

Keep reading

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Prompts-in-Panem submission re-read of the day, June 16.

The Fourth Wife by Amelia_Day

Enjoy!

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Bound

When Katniss Everdeen, District 2’s female tribute, begins training with her mentor, Peeta Mellark, she soon discovers that nothing is as it seems.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Trigger warning for references to noncon and underage.

Keep reading

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Prompts-n-Panem submission Re-Read of the Day - 15 June

Bound by Annieoakley1

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This month, I am re-reading...

In My Head, In My Heart by iLoVeRynMar  

"No matter how bad your losses, it can be good again," the blond hair, blue eyed, boy wunderkind, tells the group. Yeah…right. What the hell does he know about grief? I'm only doing this to get my sister back. If he thinks he's going to magically "cure" me by the end of these sessions he's wrong. Dead wrong.  

Modern Day AU.  Rated: Fiction M 

Published: Sep 19, 2012   Status: Complete. 

This is another of those unforgettable everlark fics that I never get tired of going back and re-reading. This particular story has some incredibly emotional-fuelled moments for both recently bereaved Katniss and grief counsellor Peeta as they  struggle with dealing with the loss of loved ones and life and falling in love.....

Please enjoy! 

My gratitude, as always, goes to the author to iLovRynMar (aka @thegirlonpeetamellark ) for their words.