Day 1: Favourite Canon Divergence
Today is the day to celebrate fics centring Lenore Dove that diverge from canon - such as fics in that coveted Lenore Dove Baird Lives tag!
Tag @lenoredoveficrecweek to have your rec reblogged!
Fai_Ryy
KIROKAZE
occasionally subtle
Not today Justin
Cosimo Galluzzi

Origami Around
NASA

ellievsbear
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

tannertan36
Game of Thrones Daily
RMH
Monterey Bay Aquarium
I'd rather be in outer space đ¸
EXPECTATIONS
Doug Jones

Product Placement
$LAYYYTER
ojovivo
The Stonewall Inn
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Day 1: Favourite Canon Divergence
Today is the day to celebrate fics centring Lenore Dove that diverge from canon - such as fics in that coveted Lenore Dove Baird Lives tag!
Tag @lenoredoveficrecweek to have your rec reblogged!
JOSEPH ZADA and WHITNEY PEAK as HAYMITHC ABERNATHY and LENORE DOVE BAIRD
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on The Reaping (2026) â dir. Francis Lawrence
Lenore Dove being in that uncomfortable twilight between Lucy Gray's loud and proud Covey and Katniss's oblivious Covey, where she is proud of her culture but can't be loud about it.
Lenore Dove being the girl perpetually managing not to have a tirade about something, except when she does in fact have a tirade.
Lenore Dove being more clever at getting away with things than she ever gets credit for, because when the circumstances become extreme, she starts to do things she can't possibly get away with.
Lenore Dove being very patient about explaining her thoughts, even when they're big and important.
Lenore Dove being a teenage girl who likes a boy and blames herself for what happens to him.
Haydove Secret Santa 2025 Master List
Thank you to all who contributed to the Haydove Secret Santa 2025!
We truly love our little Haydove community, and events like this are a reminder of how kind, supportive, and fun it is to be part of it.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76265371
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76272326
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
haydove
reblog if you love haydove
defending lenore dove with words isn't enough I need a knife
âI know every word of the song, since I learned it for Lenore Doveâs birthday last December. - I sang it to her in an old house by the lake in front of a fire. We were toasting stale marshmallows and weâd skipped school, which we both caught hell for later. She said it was her favorite gift ever. . . .â
âThe moaning wind conjures up the cabin by the lake last winter, her birthday, the best gift ever . . .â
Happy birthday to our rare and radiant girl đđ§Ą
haydove nation on twitter decided sheâs a winter solstice baby :)
Art commission for my lovely Mare đŤś
The Hunger Games: Sunrise of the Reaping (2026)Â The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023) dir. Francis LawrenceÂ
Lenore Dove is so misunderstood and mischaracterized by the fandom it makes me sad to see.
She is not this manic, dream pixie girl. Her character very much shaped, flawed and real. Haymitch is able to oversee and ignore her âflawsâ because heâs a 16 year old teenage boy who is madly in love with her, but it is not hard for us readers, to look between those lines and see how fleshed her character really is.
She is seen to act before thinking, making rash decisions which arenât the best for her wellbeing. She is way too emotional, feels too many feelings and has too many thoughts and she doesnât know how to articulate them into words because sheâs an introvert and she fears her words being lost in translation.
She only reveals her unfiltered, (sometimes) dark thoughts to her loved ones, and often enough she does it by using metaphors so she can still backtrack incase she gets misunderstood because she still feels like her thoughts could be a burden to the people around her.
She is not a âLucy Gray Rip-Offâ.
Lucy Gray was a born performer. She loved to be on stage, she loved performing for her people and knew how to get the crowd on her side, how to keep them entertained.
Lenore Dove doesnât sing in front of people. It makes her uncomfortable. Sheâs not a âBorn Performerâ nor does she know how to control a crowd, at least not in the way Lucy Gray did.
Sheâs a rebel. Sheâll only use her voice when she realizes she absolutely HAS to. Sheâll use it when sheâs mad, and sad, and in despair.
Sheâll go against the rules at any given time, especially when it comes to protecting her loved ones. She doesnât realize nor care about any consequences at the time, she only acts because sheâs in pain and wants to avenge her people.
Sheâs a sixteen year old girl who dreamt big in a world where dreaming was a luxury and not something many people can afford.
In spite of her dark, burdened thoughts, she had still kept her innocence and was able to dream of a world without the reaping, she had hopes that one day that dream could become a reality, no matter how crazy it sounded to others.
She also had dreams of growing up, having a loving family and living peacefully with her loved ones and her boy who she loved more than anyone and she was willing to die for him.
Lenore Dove đď¸
Lucy Gray / Lenore Dove / Katniss
She truly is descended from the Covey!
Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove đŞż
the kiss đď¸
Happy Birthday, Haymitch! âď¸
I love you like all-fire.
You, too.
âWe will be together alwaysâŚâ đ
our dove <33
Started rereading the Hunger Games series and I feel like itâs so overlooked how in 74th and 75th Hunger Games, we donât know every Tributeâs names, with Katniss only referring to them by their District numbers but in TBOSAS, we knew every single Tribute by name. We associated them with the clothes they wore on the Reaping Day and Suzanne even goes so far as to describe how they looked, however briefly. We see these Tributes and weâre familiarized with them by the little tidbits provided to the mentors and to Snow and Lucy Gray. But we never get this in the original trilogy.
In two generations, President Snow alienated the Districts from each other so much that Katniss didnât even care to know all the names of the Tributes sent into the Arena with her, with the exception being those who posed great risk against her safety and those she felt great compassion for (e.g. Cato, Thresh, Rue, Mags, Betee, Wiress etc.). Katniss even went so far as to call the D6 Tributes in the 75th Hunger Games morphlings, for their affinity to imbibe in the drugs that help them forget their own traumas (an incredibly hurtful description, in my own opinion, to be known by the qualities you hate the most about yourself). We never know the real name of the 74th D5 girl, with Katniss only referring to her as Foxface and we donât even know Marvelâs name until we get to the second book and he was Katnissâ first personal kill. Katniss even kills the D4 girl in the books with the same tracker jacker venom that killed Glimmer and yet still, we donât know her name. We are so removed from the identity of the other Tributes that we donât even know what some of them looked like beyond brief descriptions of mangled bodies and dead Tributes in the bloodbath at the Cornucopia.
And, the thing is, Suzanne established the importance of names in the series. Even in real life, we recognize the importance of being named. It is a fundamental aspect of being human. If youâre ever in a perilous situation where a person might be placing your life in danger, weâre told to remind the person that youâre human. âKeep saying your name, how old you are, where you came from. Remind them you are a human being just like them.â Before any propaganda can work against a group of people, refusing to recognize a personâs name is the first step to dehumanization. And just like the people of the Districts, we donât care enough about the other Tributes to even want to know their names. Their propaganda worked on us, the readers.
In two generations, President Snow completely wiped out any sense of familiarity and camaraderie the Districts may have shared with the other. In two generations, Snow sowed the seeds of distrust and division into the Districts so deeply that even we, the readers, were affected by the effects of Capitol propaganda. In two generations, the Districts ceased to genuinely care about the others beyond the vague sense of injustice they feel for their shared plight. Itâs why Career Districts donât seem to care about killing the other Tributes. How can you care, to show your compassion and humanity, when you can barely see them as people? Yes, they may have been in the Arena with you. Yes, they may have been starved and beaten and forced into labor like you were. Yes, they might be children just like you. Yes, they might be subjected to the same deplorable system that turned you into virtual slaves. But they are not your friends. They are not your allies. They are strange, with different customs and traditions that you have. You do not share the same values. They do not care about you. At the first chance they get, they will kill you with your bare hands and they will do it with alacrity if it meant their survival. There can only be one Victor and it canât be them. It has to be you.