You Make Me Better Than I Was Before

Hi! I'm Ellie and this blog's dedicated to Haymitch and Effie, the love for the ages Hayffie and their semi-adopted kids Katniss and Peeta

[thgdiscovery]

THG Discovery, what a lovely initiative! Thanks for showcasing my drawings, I really appreciate it! Any chance you could do the same for my Hayffie fic Taste of Strawberries? It’s my heart and soul project that I’m infusing all of my Hayffie and THG love into and would love it if more people discovered it :)

Hello! Your welcome, and I’m glad you are enjoying the blog😊. Also, I’d be happy to showcase your writing. Thank you for the fic rec!

Taste of Strawberries (Rated M)— Four years have passed since the end of the war when Effie returns in to Haymitch’s life once again. An old friendship is renewed. Will it lead to something more? Meanwhile Panem has entered a new era. The rebellion’s over, the borders are open but in the shadows, anger and mistrust are smoldering. Something that will affect Haymitch and Effie’s life in a way they never saw coming.

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

[ohwaitimthewriter]

Especially the last one!

[hayffiesongdaily]

Hayffie Song Daily Day 17

I've seen the world, done it all, had my cake now Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel Air now Hot summer nights, mid-July When you and I were forever wild The crazy days, city lights The way you'd play with me like a child

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul? I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now Channeling angels in the new age now Hot summer days, rock and roll The way you'd play for me at your show And all the ways I got to know Your pretty face, and electric soul

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul? I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

Dear Lord, when I get to Heaven Please, let me bring my man When he comes, tell me that you'll let him in Father, tell me if you can All that grace, all that body All that face makes me wanna party He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds

Will you still love me, when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me, when I got nothing but my aching soul? I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

Will you still love me, when I'm no longer beautiful? Will you still love me, when I'm not young and beautiful?

[hayffiesongdaily]

Hayffie Song Daily Day 16

My feet are aching And your back is pretty tired And we've drunk a couple bottles, babe And set our grief aside The papers say it's doomsday The button has been pressed We're gonna nuke each other up, boys 'Til old Satan stands impressed

And here it is, our final night alive And as the earth burns to the ground

Oh, girl, it's you that I lie with As the atom bomb locks in Oh, it's you I watch TV with As the world, as the world caves in

You put your final suit on I paint my fingernails Oh, we're going out in style, babe And everything's on sale We creep up on extinction I pull your arms right in I weep and say, "Goodnight, love" While my organs pack it in

And here it is, our final night alive And as the earth burns to the ground

Oh, girl, it's you that I lie with As the atom bomb locks in Oh, it's you I watch TV with As the world, as the world caves

Oh, it's you that I lie with As the atom bomb locks in Yes, it's you I welcome death with As the world, as the world caves in

As the world caves in

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[honey-kyun]

Spent the week in the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen… and spent a significant amount of that time prioritizing dandelion pics for Everlark reasons 😅💛

[seraphtrevs]

The thing is that sex scenes actually are incredible ways to explore character. People are at their most vulnerable during sex! The way they have sex says a lot of very interesting things about their desires, obviously, but also their psychology, their vulnerabilities, their hopes and fears, etc. It is completely insane to me to think that sex scenes have no value other than to sexually excite the audience. And even if their only value is to sexual excite the audience - SO WHAT?? A movie is supposed to excite and entertain you! Grow up!!!

[hayffiebird]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hayffie post-war. Hayffie post-I love you. But will they get their happily ever after? A mini multi-chap for those of you who can't get enough of the steamy roller-coaster that is hayffie! 🔥

Author's note: I was so unsure if I should start this project when I already have like 12, but your response to first the sneak peek here on Tumblr, and then chapter 1 was absolutely lovely!

So, without further ado, here’s chapter 2! It’s got VIRGIN HAYMITCH in it. 😉

Chapter 2

The whistling of the coffee pot filled the kitchen and Haymitch quickly lifted it from the stove. Carrying it over to the breakfast table he set it on the trivet, surrounded by a sea of pink squares of Tickle Me condoms that Effie fucking loved.

It’s not really stealing, he argued with himself. Not technically. They belonged to Katniss and Peeta – he ran over to their house while Effie showered – but they weren’t home so who could he ask permission? He just grabbed a handful and made a mental note to replace them later.

The package they came from was Effie’s anyway. Initially, at least. She certainly was preachy when it came to protection next door. Always made sure there were rubbers available in every room. He wondered what the girl would say had she known her former escort didn’t even walk the talk. Not always.

Then again: it made perfect sense, didn’t it? Effie was in her 40s now. Perimenopause. Katniss was not. Peeta was a healthy, virile young man, while Haymitch shot blanks.

True, he hadn’t gone to see a doctor yet. To have it confirmed. Partly because he didn’t want anyone but Effie poking around downstairs, but most of all – what’s the point?

If there’d ever been a time when he could father any children, those days were behind him. He was sober now, sure, but all those years of heavy drinking had definitely taken its toll.

If he had the ability to put a baby in Effie’s belly, he would’ve done so by now. Shit. He’d lost count on how many times he and Effie had been raw-dogging, post-war. So why waste time and money to confirm something he already knew?

READ MORE.

[whatdeweydo]

“Haymitch finally joins us, contributing twenty-three years of tributes he was forced to mentor. additions become smaller. an old memory that surfaces. a late primrose preserved between the pages. strange bits of happiness, like the photo of Finnick and Annie’s newborn son.”

[elle-oh-ve-ee]

mockingjay audiobook chapter 12 - the valley song (zoo lullaby) by @maiahwynne and inspired by a passage posted by @whatdeweydo

tried out a new text style, not sure i like it.

[hayffiebird]

*Katniss and Gale, lying on the couch watching TV*

Katniss: *looks over at Gale* Hey, babe … if you found out that we were cousins … would you break up with me?

Gale: YES!

Katniss: Whoa, fast. 😾 No follow up questions, you’re just out like that?

Gale: It’s ILLEGAL, Katniss!

Katniss: Well, so are mushrooms, and we did THOSE! Now you’re this law-abiding citizen just cause we’re cousins?!

Gale: You’re SO wrong about this, ask ANYONE we know!

Katniss: *angrily grabs her phone, texting* Hey Peeta, if you found out we were cousins, we didn’t know it when we met, we haven’t known this whole time we’ve been together, we have the same relationship we’ve always had but WHOOPS we’re cousins, would you break up?

Peeta: Do we have to tell anybody?

Katniss: *shows Gale her phone* THAT’S 😡 WHAT 😡 LOVE 😡 LOOKS 😡 LIKE!!!

[textsfromlastseason]

[mandrake-mistakes]

Do you think that, after the war, Gale gets over Katniss easily??? How long do you think it takes him???

Katniss thinks so. She thinks while hunting in 12 after the war that he’s already kissing another pair of lips. I tend to agree with her. I think he spent her recovery time getting over her. He comes to give her the arrow she uses to shoot Coin with a very defeated attitude and doesn’t try even a little bit to recover their relationship. No apology, no sympathy. Just a detached goodbye. I also don’t think Katniss was a good match for him at all. I focus on how he is bad for her because Katniss is my girl and Gale angers me, but from his side of things she does not support his vision or match his freak and continuously falls short of the version of her he seems to be in love with. So I think it doesn’t take him long to get to 2 and find some fiery girl who thinks all his war crimes are super heroic and hot. Tiktok is sure full of ppl like that these days. He can start there. Good riddance

[hayffiebird]

Hm, I disagree. I’m not a Gale fan but he was heartbroken during their goodbye scene, only he doesn’t have the words the way Peeta does and as for Katniss, well, she also believes most of Twelve hates her so I reckon we gotta take whatever she thinks not only with a grain of salt but grabfuls of the stuff.

I think he more or less fled to Two, diving into work as a way of distracting himself from his own sorrows, regrets and short-comings. I think he was first heartbroken, then angry, then really angry then heartbroken again until he finally in his own way with the help of whatever tools life had given him found a way to move on with his life.

With enough time and reflection, as an old man, I think he probably even sent Katniss warm thoughts whenever she popped into mind or showed up during some old footage on TV, thinking “Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing I hope you’re happy and has found all that you need to heal. Catnip.”

Just my two cents. 🙂

[thattripleabattery]

[hayffiebird]

I fell in love with her the way you fall asleep: Slowly, and then all at once.

[mayakah]

“What kind of idiot gets born on reaping day anyway?”

“The kind that likes a challenge,” says Burdock with appreciation.

“Just playing the hand I was dealt. But you know what they say, unlucky at cards, lucky in love.” I arrange my chamomile.

[coeurworm]

childhood & post-war

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]