i have been reading some hunger games fic (i know, surprise). here are some things i have read and loved and probably already read two or three times in the last eight weeks. to think, eight weeks ago i had neither read nor watched the hunger games and now i have done both of these things. anyway enjoy this descent into effie trinket et al also please read my fic
the sun also rises by effies_tardis.
Out in public, Effie is seen by everyone. Like a disco ball in the sunlight: she demands attention. â Effie Trinket, a history.
This is a glorious, lovely thing! I eagerly awaited its final installment. Moments of Effie's life before and after (and during) the rebellion. Delightful writing, absolutely wistful and visceral images, lovely and lyrical and just *fist clench*. I reread it again just writing this description.
When he first meets her Haymitch is determined to dislike his new escort. But there is something about Effie Trinket that is impossible for him to resist. As the rebellion draws nearer, will their history together be enough for Haymitch to take her with him?
okay actually this is one of many of mirixmoya's effie and/or haymitch stories and you should read all of them, but this is the one i have bookmarked and keep returning to. this fic is uncomfortable and brutal (compliment). i LOVE this haymitch. he is awkward and horrible and damaged because, who isn't? one thing i love about mirixmoya's fic is that it doesn't shy away from the yuckiness of Panem, the (probable) pimping of victors and escorts, the confusion, the beauty.
suppose i suddenly screamed by ssstrychnine
Thirteen years of Effie Trinket's life.
what you need to understand is that i'm obsessed with the stories that show effie before and after, and this is another one of those. i can't get enough of effie when she pulls haymitch's name from the bowl; effie when she realises what she has done and the tool that she is. this is much shorter, more focussed on the events of the books.
when the smoke clears by eienvine
It's been exactly fifty-one weeks since the downfall of President Snow's regime when Haymitch Abernathy sees Effie Trinket again.
This is post-rebellion, and Haymitch is a perfect mess. I love post-rebellion fic where Haymitch and Effie have to come to terms with what kind of people they were beforehand.
reconstruct by avocadomoon
"I always tried to be gentle with you," he says. His face is still creased with pain, with things that Effie is remembering too - fights and tense silences, misunderstandings and that morning on that boat, all those years ago. Sunburned and sore and heartbroken, the both of them. "I wasn't always. And I'm sorry for that, Eff."
post-rebellion. in which haymitch builds effie a house, and also this contains some of the lines in this fandom that make my heart WEEP and WRENCH. i have reread this so many times. it's a work of art.
(you should also read speechless by avocadomoon, in which Effie is always a rebel and the ways in which she suffers for it. phenomenal. tearbending.)
to heal is to grow is to love by koipotato
She tells herself that she came here on a whim but the two perfectly packed bags clenched tightly in her hands say otherwise.
post-rebellion. on flashbacks and depression and healing.
So I stayed in the darkness with you by dollsome
Moments of darkness and light. (Effie adjusts to life, and Haymitch, in District 13.)
and two non-effie based things
How Rue Became the Mockingjay by aimmyarrowshigh
An alternate chronology for The Hunger Games.
absolutely lovely and thoughtful!
There's Another River on the Other Side by Mithrigil
District 11 wins the 74th Games. The rest is history.
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