[mage-chocolate]

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I wake with your memory over me

I am seventeen years old. I was in the Hunger Games. Twice. I was captured. I'm supposed to be the Mockingjay. 

Or at least that's what everyone has told me about the last year of memory I've lost. They've told me a lot and nothing. Prim, Gale, the town drunk, all these strangers from a grim District that isn't home. 

The only one who seems to be giving me space is Peeta Mellark. The boy with the bread. My co-victor apparently. Among other things.

After her rescue from the Capitol, Katniss has lost a year. A very eventful year. And between the videos, and slow return of her memories, it seems that Peeta Mellark is the only person who knew what to do with her.

empty words

Words may be Peeta's thing but the Capitol was the next best when it came to using them to rattle Katniss to her core, especially when they kept writing dumb things about her and Peeta.

- 5 times Katniss read something ridiculous and the 1 time she didn't care

Complete

all of you, all of me intertwined

Panem taught their bodies to endure. The Games taught their bodies to be weapons. The war taught their bodies to be pieces.

In the calm that follows the war, they learn how to let their bodies be theirs. And like everything else, this leads them to each other.

special blanket

"He was missing Mama. I told him my special blanket was a good substi—substitute for her,” she stumbles over a word, remembering the same one her teacher used when she was out.

Haymitch lets out a loud laugh. "What, is it a blanket for kissing?"

Willow stops for a second. Papa Haymitch has a point, they do kiss a lot. "No. It's the best blanket for feeling better."

- With her Mama not around Willow has a new theory to share with everyone.

lose a song, love a bird

“Yes”, she grumbles defensively. She places the last blanket over me with a quick pat, then gently pushes me back down.“It helped. Just like resting will.” 

Helped me in more ways than one. Nothing feels more Peeta Mellark than narrowly missing the songs of Katniss Everdeen. 

- 5 times Peeta missed Katniss sing, and 1 time he didn't

pawns, pining, & progress

I turn back, unimpressed. "Is flirting part of the routine too?"

By the grin on his face and the way he’s in her house every damn morning, I’d say it already is. He confidently slides his queen forward. "Checkmate."

I take a swig from my bottle. Flirting and chess. The routine now. Beats the hell out of kids dying.

Haymitch drinks. Katniss and Peeta grow back together. They all somehow end up playing chess along the way.

[blans]

CANCEL THIS WHOLE THING MOST CURSED TOURNAMENT OF ALL TIME

[blorbocedes]

sabalenka's comments in the press conference, in light of the men's match just had their match closed now, once again

[mysharona1987]

Oh, Kim would have figured his ass out from the get go.

[the-chelseahotel]

Crying😭

[servesociety]

you can only hope that this roland garros finally retires the “weak era” discourse after seeing the level of tennis and the fights these players are putting themselves through every round. there’s this sentiment now that some of it comes from the fact that carlos and jannik might be missing, and that players are playing out of their minds because this feels like their best chance at a grand slam title. but that just shows what the field is actually capable of and this level didn’t suddenly appear overnight.

and this “weak era” take only makes sense if you’re not actually watching the tour week to week. the field is deep and dangerous and there’s real upset potential everywhere: there were 35 different singles atp title winners in 2025, 14 champions outside the top 50, and nine “match point saved” champions. sorry, but that’s not what a weak era looks like. that’s what a high-floor era looks like.

the gap at the top isn’t because everyone is weak; it’s because carlos and jannik are accelerating in a coevolution loop, stacking improvements across multiple parts of the game at once and validating them in the latest rounds over and over. this makes the whole tour level up because everyone is training with “how do i beat them?” in mind, which pushes the rest of the field to improve rapidly too. players aren’t just trying to become top 10 anymore, they’re trying to solve the specific problem that carlos and jannik represent. but they’re all chasing a moving ceiling that keeps rising in real time.

[serendipitous-posts]

Just saw the interview where Curry Barker explained that it's totally possible to get a normal wish from the One Wish Willow, and I love the way they did that so much. The reason Obsession happened isn't because it's trying to twist Bear's desires into something evil. It's not even because he phrased his want wrong. Obsession happened because Bear got his hands on a magic item that could do anything in existence, and chose to force someone to fall in love with him, which is an inherently evil thing to do.

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

[peterdyckmancampbell]

[steveyockey]

affirmations they will not kill me at work today. it is not in my job description to get killed. if they did kill me at work that would be weird and probably not worth it for them

[disasterfoxx]

Watching the upsets press conferences just to feel something (pain)

[mage-chocolate]

Katniss please tell me what was the reason for kissing a boy you only knew for a day on the cheek, when you hate touching or being touched by people you’re not close to? And why did Finnick and Gale not receive this treatment when you were annoyed at them when you first met them?

[viralfrog]

[dandelionsunset1210]

The progression of a normal relationship:

The progression of a relationship according to Katniss Everdeen:

[bagels-and-breadsticks]

Cocoiga meeting up at the airport instead of the final oh my god

[wulfhalls]

forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

[cumaeansibyl]

yeah I have political reasons for it now but my original and still most powerful reason is "I am not getting out of this bed one single second before I have to"

[aromanticduck]

[grasscourtmerchant]

Rafita and João being murdered simultaneously #soulmatism

[sailermoon]

I’m such a “yay <3” person like unironically a hip hip hooray type of personality