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The camera pulls back slowly as they carry me away, for the first time revealing the arena as a whole. It looks like a giant eye. The Cornucopia marks the pupil. The wide circle of spring-green meadow makes up the iris. On either side, the darker green of the forest and mountain terrain narrows to points, forming the whites of the eye. Well, the symbolism has been lost on no one. Even the little kids in the Seam know the Capitol powers are watching us. I wonder if they ever consider that we’re watching them, too.

Sunrise On The Reaping, Chapter 25

The way I love this kid. Even after the most horrifying experience of his life, even as he reluctantly accepts that he has to play the Victor game and try his best to be a funny, crowd-pleasing, shameful thing for the people who cheered on his friends' deaths to play with, even as he resolves that he'll do it, of course he'll do it, if it means there's a sliver of a chance for his loved ones to survive- He just can't help it. I wonder if they ever consider that we’re watching them, too. Even when it seems that all is lost for good... I just love that Haymitch was always a rebel through and through.

#haymitch abernathy #sotr #sunrise on the reaping #thg #the hunger games

Maybe I am wrong. Any house can catch fire. What with rusted stoves and unwatched hobs. Maybe it’s not mine. I know it’s mine.

Sunrise On The Reaping, Chapter 26

Strongest contender for the most devastating lines I have ever read actually

#haymitch abernathy #willamae abernathy #sid abernathy #thg #the hunger games #sunrise on the reaping #sotr

dailynarnia

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

helloitsbees

happy pride month to this post specifically

#the old texts!!!!#hellsite my beloved

folkveliant

“You are on a high horse, mister. And someday someone will knock you off it straight into your grave.”

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Oh Haymitch yeah. And it's going to be your little girl 💔

#haymitch abernathy #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #sotr #sunrise on the reaping #thg #the hunger games #goose family

theladyeowyn

“Joy to see you; but pain, because now the fear and doubt of this evil time are grown dark indeed. Éowyn, I would not have this world end now, or lose so soon what I have found.” “Lose what you have found, lord?” she answered; but she looked at him gravely and her eyes were kind. “I know not what in these days you have found that you could lose.”

LOTRWEEK - Day Five ↳ it grows perhaps the greater

#look at my babies LOOK AT THEM #faramir #eowyn of rohan #eowyn #éowyn of rohan #éowyn #lotr #tlotr #the lord of the rings #the return of the king #farawyn #faramir of gondor

persianmom-deactivated20260602

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Haymitch when talking to Snow

#haymitch's like yeah she's got more unhinged plans than geese that's like half the charm what's not clicking #haymitch abernathy #lenore dove baird #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #haydove #thg #the hunger games #sotr #sunrise on the reaping

uhoh-teddi-ohs

After 5, 10, 15 years, Katniss casually mentions over breakfast “I stopped taking my birth control” and Peeta just

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She's like FINE YOU WIN. Peeta has never once mentioned kids to her btw

#katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #everlark #toast babies #thg #the hunger games #mockingjay

ellemnopie

#fun fact these two were not the original targets of the tunic prison ned had it made for jon and theon after one particularly loud brawl #did it work on jon and theon? no #did it work on sansa and arya? absolutely no #did it bring inordinate amounts of joy to robb in both cases? oh yes #sansa stark #arya stark #jon snow #theon greyjoy #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #starklings #house stark #fanart #arya and sansa

1x20

It is every mother’s fate to think her child is special, and yet I would give my life that Merlin were not so.

— Caitlyn Siehl

#hunith my beloved #hunith #merlin emrys #bbc merlin

It's the pinkie swear that gets me. As someone with a sister, I can testify that that silly little gesture really is the highest oath I can fathom. It's dumb and childish and fucking sacred. You don't break it. Ever. Of course Haymitch was going to keep his word if it killed him. I pinkie swear, Maysilee. Of course.

#having a lot of maysilee feelings today #maysilee donner #haymitch abernathy #sotr #sunrise on the reaping #thg #the hunger games

"[...] I’d like them to consider that fifty years is enough.” That sounded sufficiently diplomatic. I wait for them to laugh or roll their eyes, but no one does. “So you want to make them end the Hunger Games for good. How?” asks Maysilee. “I don’t know yet,” I admit.

Sunrise On The Reaping, Chapter 7

As much as I love Maysilee's defiance, I love even more that the first time they discussed actually trying to end the Games it was Haymitch who brought it up. She gets so frustrated with him in the Arena, when he doesn't seem to fight back against the Gamemakers. She insists so much on painting their posters, on one of them surviving to become a sting in the Capitol's eye, the worst Victor to ever win, and sometimes I forget that, though she was a rebel from the beginning, Maysilee might have never set her hopes so high as to actually end the Games, not until Haymitch says it. It kills me that she never knew just how much he was fighting back, too. I like to think that she was watching him, from the Sweet Old Thereafter. That she was so proud of her brother, when, 25 years later, he finally made it happen.

#maysilee donner you will always be famous #maysilee donner #haymitch abernathy #sotr #sunrise on the reaping #thg #the hunger games #cf #catching fire #mockingjay

Maybe I’ll ask Mags what she thinks. Funny to have someone from 4 — a Career — as a mentor.

Sunrise On The Reaping, Chapter 7

I LOVE how important having Mags as a mentor was for Haymitch, not just as the source of support and unwavering care we know she was to him, but because, in the long run, she was critical in helping Haymitch overcome his prejudices. In him understanding who the real enemy is.

Not Maysilee and Wyatt, she insists, they are your partners no matter how much you dislike them now, you'll end up understanding that. And he does. Not the Newcomers, you'll need allies. Mags is from Four. Haymitch decides to join Ampert.

Not the Careers, they are children, misled and used. Mags is from Four. Haymitch hears Silka cry and shares his chocolate with her.

This lesson doesn't help him for a long time. Lessons are funny like that, you never know when you might need them. Turns out twenty-five years later, this lesson will matter. Haymitch will have to pass it on to a teenager that is as stubborn as he is, as prejudiced as he once was. Mags is from Four. Katniss, stick with Finnick.