heavensbeehall

Emily is re-reading Suzanne Collins' Panem novels About a chapter a day. Read along if you like.

[heavensbeehall]

"Team Gale was never a thing."

Yes and no. It was marketed as a thing and people on this very site argued for Gale, believing his character would do more in Mockingjay. (Which I get. I thought Ginny Weasley was going to get a character arc, so I can't judge.) So it's kind of rude to say it wasn't, when people got in friendship-ending fights over it.

I don't think it was ever a thing for Suzanne Collins though. Nor do I think it was ever her intention to present Gale as more than a friend to Katniss.

IDK. I think fandom is fascinating because characters start to live in your head but they are only really echoes of the characters in the original media. I bet you could write a great story for Gale. That's just not the story SC was telling.

[mandrake-mistakes]

Insane news for those who like me hold details in their brains like a fine mesh siv: The Hunger Games has LASER GUNS

Shout to @justafewberries for bringing this to my attention. I am befuddled

[heavensbeehall]

Oh this is a detail I can talk about at length and probably have. If the Capitol has figured out how to get a powerful blast from a tiny solar panel (I assume a gun doesn't have a lot of surface area), what the fuck do they need coal for?

And basically all I've come up with is that the coal is only mentioned as going to other districts (and probably not the Capitol)? Maybe they are hoping the hovels in District 8 will burn down or something?

But it's just extra cruel to make the men of 12 do this dangerous job if they could just share their technology with the districts. This is how Katniss's dad died.

[writes-too-much]

Idk if it holds any weight but a lot of people theorize that D12 is still a coal-producer both to keep them small/helpless/reliant on the Capitol AND bc, more than likely, the coal is going towards making other things that aren't coal. I can't remember if it's been 'debunked' but things like diamonds or other 'fake' precious stones have got to be possible? Right? Right?!

[heavensbeehall]

they do make diamonds out of graphite in district 1! and maybe effie's pearl theory could become reality.

[mandrake-mistakes]

Insane news for those who like me hold details in their brains like a fine mesh siv: The Hunger Games has LASER GUNS

Shout to @justafewberries for bringing this to my attention. I am befuddled

[heavensbeehall]

Oh this is a detail I can talk about at length and probably have. If the Capitol has figured out how to get a powerful blast from a tiny solar panel (I assume a gun doesn't have a lot of surface area), what the fuck do they need coal for?

And basically all I've come up with is that the coal is only mentioned as going to other districts (and probably not the Capitol)? Maybe they are hoping the hovels in District 8 will burn down or something?

But it's just extra cruel to make the men of 12 do this dangerous job if they could just share their technology with the districts. This is how Katniss's dad died.

[micia-posts-stuff]

He fell asleep in the meadow and Katniss had some fun with his hair

[polartss]

the mockingjay

[electrictouchfob]

Peeta likes picking the fuzzy dandelions to tickle the toast babies' faces with.

[spellfunk]

Hunger games characters according to the book descriptions!

I really enjoyed designing effie and imagining what capitol fashion would be like . For her outfit, I took some inspirations from high fashion on runway shows/ current trends and gave it a new eclectic spin!

P.s. I drew these back when the ballad of songbirds and snakes came out.

[mandrake-mistakes]

Saw a good convo about Gale saving district 12 citizens from the fire bombs that got me thinking and I gotta yap about him some more. Shout out to Rachel Ramras on tiktok and youtube. I believe in my heart she’s with us here on tumblr but she has not revealed herself.

The difference between Katniss and Gale is how they treat their enemies, not their allies. Gale is a brave and capable ally! He defends HIS people. Leads them to safety, pulls them out of the flames, he goes after Prim during the bombings of 13, he goes to rescue Peeta in the Capitol. But he is very specific about who counts as being on his team and over the course of the story, especially Mockingjay, his idea of who deserves his protection gets more and more narrow.

He has no empathy for anyone from the Capitol, no forgiveness for people who forward the Capitol’s cause regardless of circumstances, and he goes so far as to write off citizens of 8 who are working in the nut. A job that was probably the main income for a whole district of impoverished people much like the coal mines in 12 which is a job GALE HIMSELF USED TO HAVE. Katniss even brings up d13’s own spies who are inside the mountain and Gale is willing to sacrifice them because he’s reached a point where the only thing that matters is destroying the enemy. His list of allies gets really short by the end.

His double bomb design is a symptom of this. Katniss finds it unacceptable. Gale has no limits for what he thinks can be done to their enemies. We know that he didn’t intentionally deploy that design against Prim, but I think it comes down to Gale dealing with the inevitable consequences of becoming so war crazed. He fails to empathize with anyone he sees as against him or find any nuance in this conflict, he pairs down his list of who he is willing to call an ally, and then he sees his own violence pointed at one of the few allies he has left. Prim, someone he has sworn to protect for so long, falls victim to something he thought would only ever be used on enemies, and he’s forced to the opposite side of his own equation and ends up losing Katniss because of it.

Katniss figured out in her first games that the soldiers in war aren’t the real source of the evil. She empathized with the tributes trying to kill her because she was trying to kill them and she knew none of them had a choice. Not even Cato became a true villain in her mind. She watched him realize how meaningless his existence was in the end. She admired Fox Face and mourned Thresh. She was able to see humanity in her enemies and recognize that Capitol citizens were only seeing what they were allowed to see. Katniss remembered who the real enemy is and Gale did not

[micia-posts-stuff]

I want to start drawing Everlark fan arts, I already have some ideas! So I decided to make this little character sheet to keep as reference, now hopefully the design I use will stay consistent.

(outfit from the 74th games)

[modernmusess]

haymitch in cf when katniss pulls up her list of allies and it’s just every person he’s ever known

[cafeinama]

lol might do something crazy like post a fic some point this week

[katnissmellarkkk]

y’all 💀 this is a quote A.I says is an everlark quote from the books 😭 and some people trust this thing to write their college essays 😂😂😂

[cow-in-the-sunset]

This read like: The poison for Kuzco. The poison chosen specially to kill Kuzco. Kuzco’s poison

[rosegardeninwinter]

I’m also dying at the idea that Peeta is just chucking bread at Katniss on the daily.

[mollywog]

@thesunpersists

[thesmileykate]

i don't think we talk enough about how peeta went into THE WOODS to find the primrose plants at the end of mockingjay.

in first book, peeta was scared of the woods. in the second book, he was unhappy with katniss risking her safety by going into the woods. in the third book, peeta was so messed up that we really don't revisit the whole 'woods' conversation...

this boy was not a fan of the woods.

but he went there. stayed in the woods for enough time to search for a specific type of plant.

all for her <3

[modernmusess]

katniss: everyone’s so focused on protecting peeta because they too know how pure hearted he is and believe that he—a boy they’ve never even met before—deserves to survive over them and their friends of literal decades

finnick, to literally everyone else: okay if peeta dies she’s gonna kill all of us and then herself, so hands in, protect bread boy on three-

[sompthing-i-am-into]

I love the conversation of good vs evil.

In my rewatch of the hunger games I ask

Is Plutarch Heavensbee a good or a bad guy?

[heavensbeehall]

i have such a backlog of everlark fics to read. stupid work.

[thesmileykate]

one of my favorite parts of the hunger games book is when peeta is like, "what good will hand-to-hand combat and strength be in the games" and katniss just looks at him like: