born under the only sky

hunger games side blog. mostly stuff about katniss and peeta. currently reading TBOSAS.

[kald-dal-art]

here were the THG drawings people requested, just doodle pages but still fun to draw.

[kindaokaymaybe]

Unfortunately, the packet of coockies hits the ground and bursts open in a patch of dandelions by the track. I only see the image for a moment , but it reminds me of that other dandelion in the school yard years ago...

I had just turned away from Peeta Mellark's bruised face when I saw the dandelion and I knew hope wasn't lost. I plucked it carefully and hurried home. I grabbed a bucket and Prim's hand and headed to the Meadow and yes, it was dotted with the golden-headed weeds. After we'd harvested those, we scroundged along inside the fence for probably a mile until we'd filled the bucket with the dandelion greens, stems and flowers.

That  night, we gorged ourselves on dandelion salad and the rest of the bakery bread.

"What else?" Prim asked me. "What other food can we find?"

"All kinds of things," I promised her. "I just have to remember them."

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

[prince-geo]

girl on fire and her dandelion in the spring 🌼 

happy hunger games renaissance y’all 🔥 have a rendition of how i imagined book 1 katniss & peeta in my head during my thg trilogy re-read. gosh they were so so young… 

[drunktuesdays]

[aimeegbbs]

peeta mellark + being that bitch

[hhartes]

Welcome to 2014… Here is Katniss Everdeen

[absnow]

“Annie. Uh-oh. Totally forgot her.”

— An actual direct quote from Katniss Everdeen in Mockingjay

[mollywog]

Katniss -> Annie

[ashleysjohnson]

“I have a message for President Snow. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground. But do you see that? Fire is catching… And if we burn… you burn with us!”

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 (2014)

[rosegardeninwinter]

one thing I really do think Ballad shines light on is why Snow pulls such personal punches against Katniss and Peeta; it really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense if he’s just trying to stop a rebellion and kill them to act some of the ways he does; why toy with Katniss? why taunt her with Peeta? why taunt Peeta with her, making plea deals he knows he has no intention of following through on? why the hijacking? isn’t that so risky? yes, it is; but it’s also so personal. it isn’t enough for Katniss to die: she has to die by the hand of her lover … she has to see his eyes … it isn’t enough for Peeta to die: he has to be stripped of his identity, and if he has any clarity before he’s killed by 13, it has to be to know he’s choked the life out of the only person he really loves: why? I think it’s because he has a far more personal than practical hatred for them … not because he sees old ghosts of Lucy Gray or Sejanus but because he sees what made them dangerous to him: righteous anger, an untamable mind, and then, beyond that, he sees these two kids in the cave, in the jungle, display a kind of love that is willing to give, to humanize, to sacrifice, and that unnerves him, because it cannot, like a spark, be contained. because someone who tried (and succeeded, at least once) to kill people he thought he cared for cannot entertain the idea, the worldview paradigm, that love ends any other way but tragedy, in the final analysis; you can almost imagine him thinking “this story will end the same way stories always do … rabid boy, trapped girl” … it’s all about star crossed lovers, doomed from the start and love is selfish and love is weak … and of course, then his mind can turn to practical and powerful matters of politics, and no one will know this calculating old man who drinks poison to kill his enemies has shadows that he can’t shake, shadows that show up as firebrands in the City Circle … but he’s so wrong … love is selfless and love is strong … it is not that Katniss and Peeta are special or destined or chosen by fate or bloodlines … even if they were, they never know … but such things as old folk songs get into the wind and water of the Appalchian hills and seek out those sorts of people who will use them … and is it a wonder then, that they found a girl with a songbird heart and a boy with a silver tongue?

[lesbianlarks]

Finnick Odair and Mags Flanagan in Catching Fire (2013)

[thewormformerlyknownasletojrjr]

Reading a Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is fucking hilarious at times cuz mass murderer and evil dictator President Snow is like ‘the crazy scientist who terrifies me wants me to write an essay and I don’t even know what a social contract IS!’

[lesbianlarks]

‘all my classmates are getting worked up about dead kids but some of us have REAL problems to worry about like our TAX BILL’

[thewormformerlyknownasletojrjr]

Reading a Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is fucking hilarious at times cuz mass murderer and evil dictator President Snow is like ‘the crazy scientist who terrifies me wants me to write an essay and I don’t even know what a social contract IS!’

[darkstarshine]

Viola Davis looking absolutely crazy here, exactly like Gaul is. I feel she's gonna steal the show.

[kitkatdoodlez]

Some biblically accurate Hunger Games characters

[lesbianlarks]

potentially hot take that I will definitely live to regret posting BUT im genuinely flummoxed by the sort of moral outrage I see floating around the tags about how some people aren’t enjoying THG in the correct way because they just don’t (!!!!!) understand (!!!!!) that it’s (!!!!!!!) about child murder (!!!!!!). I’m sorry but we all understand that it’s about child murder. The child murder is on the tin in GIANT red lettering. It’s the most overt, extreme element of the premise and as such, Suzanne Collins uses it as a tool for asking more complex moral questions about trauma, warfare, selfhood, vengeance, governance, identity, resilience, etc. She uses it to explore multifaceted dynamics between characters who are framed as good and characters who are framed as bad and many characters who are somewhere in between. The fundamental question of the narrative isn’t “is child murder evil?” because that’s an incredibly basic question that we all know the answer to and it’s frankly ridiculous and insulting to our collective intelligence to imagine that we need to reiterate that every time we discuss the text.

THG is effective as speculative fiction because it engages with themes and ideas that are relevant to the world we live in — income equality, the violent acceleration of resource extraction, celebrity culture and the 1%, the commodification of people’s bodies and identities via social media, the increasing normalization of global war. But it is, and I cannot stress this enough, not real, and it’s in fact a very extreme exaggeration of reality. Just because SC was engaging with some questions about the ethics of entertainment does not mean we are the same as one of the fictional watchers of The Hunger Games if we enjoy diverse elements of the series. That’s not how fiction works, or at the very least it’s not how fiction must work, and I reaaaaaaally don’t think it’s a useful way to engage with this text.

I’m already cringing at the thought of how this discourse will continue as the TBOSAS release gets closer because TBOSAS is in many ways an even knottier text than the original trilogy, especially when viewed with the sort of reductive lens that boils any nuance down to the most basic sort of morality test.

[lesbianlarks]

Love the fact that SC had to make a hunger games situation more/differently sinister than a celebrity-endorsed fight to the death reality show and the answer was “it’s actually some rich school kids’ extracurricular enrichment opportunity.” Like yea actually that might be worse

[deepseapenguin]

Uhhh have you read the book. That's straight up what it is and that's why it's so horrible

[lesbianlarks]

I —

this is my reaction take to the book.

that’s what. the post is about

[lesbianlarks]

Love the fact that SC had to make a hunger games situation more/differently sinister than a celebrity-endorsed fight to the death reality show and the answer was “it’s actually some rich school kids’ extracurricular enrichment opportunity.” Like yea actually that might be worse