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The cup song would have been the worst thing to experience during the tiktok era

i know the fanon is that annie wasn’t a career and just didn’t have anyone to volunteer for her but i actually think she’s more interesting as a career tbh. she trained her whole life, she volunteered, she saw her tribute partner get beheaded and the trauma was so strong it changed her forever. that’s it, that’s the post.

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don’t you dare hide this incredible analysis in the tags i hadn’t thought of any of this

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Regular quiet moments.

Redraw of this and now with my Shep :)

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My favorite thing about hijacked!Peeta is, aside from his occasional homicidal rage, he’s only mildly a dick. Like Johanna and Haymitch on a good day, are more rude than hijacked!Peeta, yet everyone is all aghast by the audacity!

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And he’s only like that to Katniss 😂. He was still kind of Annie and at the very least cordial to Johanna.

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Taylor performing “You Belong With Me” at the Eras Tour, Glendale

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Peeta’s physical and mental fortitude in Mockingjay is serious business. I mean, look at the torment Katniss undergoes in THG Chapter 15 from three (3) tracker jacker stings, accompanied by no other circumstances like beatings and starvation and watching people being executed in front of her. She finally comes out of a seemingly endless psychic onslaught of her worst nightmares in the fetal position, “wracked and feeble.” From one (1) interaction with the bugs. I mean, the fact that Peeta even survives the hijacking is insane, and the fact that he overcomes it is incredible.

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Katniss, you have been our mission from the beginning. The plan was always to get you out. Half the tributes were in on it. This is the revolution, and you are the mockingjay.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE 2013 dir. Francis Lawrence

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Hunger Games didn’t really eat holes in my brain the way that it did for some other people but god the opening lines. The opening lines. Katniss wakes up in bed and immediately, instinctively reaches beside her, only to find the bed empty and cold. Before we even know her name – before we know literally anything about her or this world or her place in that world – we know that she loves someone. We know that she is reaching for where Prim should be, sleeping safe and warm beside her, but Prim is not there. She is not there, and her half of the bed is cold and empty. People talk about characters being “doomed by the narrative” when most of the time the character was literally just a well-foreshadowed death, but Prim WAS doomed by the narrative. It’s the very first thing we learned. It’s the most key, integral, important piece of information we’re given about everything that is about to happen: Every single choice Katniss makes is to protect her little sister, and it isn’t enough. In the end, Prim still dies. Prim was dead before the story even started. Katniss, reaching. Prim’s side of the bed was cold and empty. There is no version of this story where Prim could have been saved. Katniss, reaching. The very first thing she does in the series. She wakes, and she reaches, but Prim is already gone. THAT is how you do Doomed By The Narrative. Edit: Also it is key that there was literally nothing Katniss could have done differently. If she had not acted to save Prim, Prim would not have survived the Hunger Games. But by acting to save Prim, Katniss accidentally kicked off an entire rebellion and ultimately massively increased the amount of danger Prim was actually in. The key is that this is irrelevant. If Katniss had done literally anything differently, Prim still would have died. If Katniss had faltered or changed course at any point, Prim still would have died. There was never a point where Katniss could have changed Prim’s fate. There’s no version of this story where Prim lives to see the end of it. She’s dead before the story begins. That’s doomed by the narrative.