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[katnissmellarkkk]

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about me :

name : samantha 🤍

inbox : open 🤍

accepting writing requests : yeah 🤍

fandoms : i reblog all sorts of content but i only write everlark 🤍

links to my multi chapter fics on ao3 below the cut! 🤍

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AO3 username : vanillacottoncandy

multi-chapter fics :

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gravity : https://archiveofourown.org/works/28529094/chapters/69908583

[ katniss and peeta grow back together through a series of snapshots. set post mockingjay. ]

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every breath you take : https://archiveofourown.org/works/47690269/chapters/120210367

[ katniss and peeta must navigate a violent stalker - post mockingjay ]

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dancing on my own : https://archiveofourown.org/works/32258038/chapters/79950562

[ set at the end of mockingjay, before the growing back together enters romance. Someone new comes to 12 before katniss can fully realize her feelings for peeta. someone who peeta cares deeply for. apparently controversial. ]

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candy coal : https://archiveofourown.org/works/27720584/chapters/67847771

[ when katniss’ sister is reaped, volunteering is outlawed and it’s up to the alluring, charismatic victor, peeta mellark, to bring prim back home. ]

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crash into me : https://archiveofourown.org/works/38085640/chapters/95136910

[ snapshots of katniss falling in love with peeta the more she really gets to know him. set during catching fire. au ]

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sunset in a dark sky : https://archiveofourown.org/works/29837277/chapters/73414197

[ katniss is captured alongside peeta at the end of the quarter quell. they must both navigate captivity in the capitol while also coming to terms with their feelings for each other and their fate at the hands of snow, coin and the rebellion. mature subject matter. ]

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angel kisses : https://archiveofourown.org/works/32723776/chapters/81183853

[ everlark + neck kisses - post mockingjay ]

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like the stars hold the moon : https://archiveofourown.org/works/30507552/chapters/75235482

[ au - katniss’ father is a prominent victor and mentor in district twelve when katniss’ secret boyfriend, peeta mellark is reaped for the seventy - fourth hunger games ]

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lullaby : https://archiveofourown.org/works/66775006/chapters/172306513

[ au - lenore dove never ate the gumdrops, leading to a butterfly effect that alters katniss, haymitch and peeta’s lives in unimaginable ways. a world where if one thing had gone different, nothing else is the same. ]

[senatortedcruz]

Fandom shit is just straight up not fun when everyone interprets everything in the worst possible faith and acts deliberately obtuse for the sole purpose of getting mad online

[doctorsupernova-archive]

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[wonderful-anarchy]

i know a lot of people complain about the hunger games movies focusing more on the romance between katniss and peeta but like... in the books katniss was deliberately putting on a show for the rest of the country, the only reason we knew it was fake was because we had her internal monologue.

without her own thoughts of course it's going to seem like there's more romance because that was literally the intended effect

[katnissmellarkkk]

what books did you read? what movies did you watch? katniss’ relationship with peeta was closer and more intimate in the books than whatever the films did. they did not focus on the romance more than the books, they squashed it and added in extra gale for no reason other than liam seems like a better leading man than josh. but even with katniss’ inner monologue, it’s clear she’s in love with peeta and not gale. movie katniss is so monotone for 75% of the films, it’s hard to tell if she had an opinion on peeta at all until he’s about to die.

[rainagainstthewindowatnight]

my grandma died yesterday and i miss her so much.

unknown / halloweentown (1998) dir. duwayne dunham / poem by shannon barry / the princess diaries (2001) dir. garry marshall / unknown / tuck everlasting (2002) dir. jay russell / unknown / buffy, the vampire slayer (1997-2003) creator joss whedon / mockingjay by suzanne collins / joy (2015) dir. david o’russell

[everlarksupremacy]

Contrary to growing popular belief, Peeta is a VASTLY more complex character than Gale.

Shout out to @glimmeringpearl for getting my juices flowing on this, and please check out her post that I re-blogged yesterday.

Anyway, Gale is reflective of the majority of Panem. There are thousands of people around him at any given time that act and think just like him. He fell for the anger and division the games were designed to create on countless occasions. Again, just like the majority of people. He has a revolutionary spirit, yes, but with no gauge within it that could materialize it on his own (more on that later). Katniss conducting more analysis on him ≠ more complex; in fact, it says the opposite.

Peeta utterly puzzles Katniss a number of times. She cannot make sense of him, though we know she rather passionately attempts to, and it’s to the point where she often times just gives up on trying. THAT is how complex he is. PEETA is the radical one in this society for daring to choose humanity over brutality. He broke the status quo. A child abuse victim who has the brute strength to be exactly what the Capitol desires, yet is the designated character to symbolize peace throughout the series. And when he inspires Katniss to tap more into her own similar qualities and showcase them alongside him, THEY are the catalyst that spark the revolution Gale merely rode the wave of. And just like Peeta overcame his childhood of violence, he overcame his hijacking without us ever knowing how exactly he managed to. The important part is that he DID, and his kind nature could never be stomped out for good.

To be clear, both characters are incredibly complex. Suzanne put so much work into crafting their arcs, and I will never set out to indicate otherwise. But it is Peeta who is more often taken for granted and looked over, even by those who love his character sometimes, simply because his actions are often undefinable (again, complexity in and of itself) and less aggressively imposed.

[everlarksupremacy]

I think one of my favorite things about the SOTR epilogue is that the ONE new piece of Peeta lore we got is he knows how to build shit 🛠️

[katnissmellarkkk]

our one piece of new lore is peeta is the one who fixes things that break around the house, not katniss 😭

[katnissmellarkkk]

my gramma just passed.

[katnissmellarkkk]

She collapses against me, and I cradle her in my arms as the convulsions begin. There is nothing I can do but watch, helpless again. Just as I was to save Louella. For a moment, the two merge, Lou Lou and Louella. She’s just one pigtailed kid I’ve known her whole life, and I would do anything to spare her this.

something about the way louella and therefore lou lou look like katniss to haymitch. something about haymitch calling lou lou in her death “a pigtailed kid he’s known all his life” and then going on to admit he’s known katniss all her life and he noticed her because of her two little braids, like louella. something about all of that makes this passage feel like it’s meant to parallel his later feelings about katniss, his second sweetheart after louella, and how he’d do anything to spare her from the pain she has to go through.

[katnissmellarkkk]

one thing i will always love about the hunger games (mainly the everlark) fandom is we will always separate church (the book versions of everlark) and state (movie versions), unlike series like twilight and harry potter which conflate the two together as one.

[katnissmellarkkk]

it’s interesting, when comparing twilight to hunger games (which before you say it, you’re right, they’re not similar in storyline at all. but they were aimed at the same exact demographic for the same generation so comparisons will happen), how differently katniss and bella’s feelings are taken and perceived by their audience.

katniss struggles to decide who she is really in love with because she’s so emotionally repressed and socially underdeveloped. bella knows right away that she’s in love with edward, right from the first book.

however, throughout the series there are dozens upon dozens of cues to who katniss loves and about five blaring neon signs pointing to peeta. the overall conclusion in the end is she never ever was in love with gale. she’d been in love with peeta since at least catching fire, if not the first hunger games book. it was always going to be him for katniss. yet, her feelings are constantly scrutinized, undermined and misinterpreted by the fandom, casual movie goers, randoms on reddit and tiktok and, most irritatingly, the movie cast and crew themselves.

on the opposite end of the spectrum, despite all the unjustified and, frankly, misogynistic bullying bella’s character gets, her feelings for edward are never undermined. which yes, on one hand, makes sense since she was always so sure of them.

except, between these two girls, bella is the one who was actually in love with the other guy. bella really did fall in love with her “other” love interest. whereas katniss never loved gale romantically, bella goes on a whole journey in eclipse to discover she is actually, really, truly in love with jacob, he’s her personal sun, he’s her real soulmate. in a world where there are no mythical creatures and life is as it should be, jacob was the one for her.

i’m just saying. ironic how the one who’s feelings are constantly undermined is the girl who loved one boy for her entire story arc.

[katnissmellarkkk]

so, just to update, i still hate the asterid and burdock casting…

[katnissmellarkkk]

the fact that by this point, peeta’s been through so much he no longer even reacts to watching someone get the flesh melted off their bones… my poor traumatized child 😔

[katnissmellarkkk]

haymitch and katniss are kind of like a more miserable version of giles and buffy.

[mage-chocolate]

The thing about taking Haymitch’s “You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him” as a fact is it dilutes every character by ignoring Haymitch’s self-loathing, Katniss’s selfless devotion, and Peeta’s various flaws.

[stealingpotatoes]

Random question but what's your opinion on Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark from the hunger games?

they make me start frothing at the mouth and punching drywall thanks for asking <3

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[katnissmellarkkk]

haymitch gently kissing lenore dove’s tear away is so sweet but also makes me annoyed that they couldn’t even try giving everlark in the films this kind of stuff.

like why can they (rightfully) give this content to one ship but fail the main relationship of the og series so bad 😭