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EVERLARK MOMENTS #1: THE ROOFTOP PICNIC

Location description: I follow him to a flight of stairs that lead to the roof. There’s a small dome-shaped room with a door to the outside. As we step into the cool, windy evening air, I catch my breath at the view. The Capitol twinkles like a vast field of fireflies. <…> On the other side of the dome, they’ve built a garden with flower beds and potted trees. From the branches hang hundreds of wind chimes, which account for the tinkling I heard. Here in the garden, on this windy night, it’s enough to drown out two people who are trying not to be heard. / THG, ch.6

The moment: The roof. We order a bunch of food, grab some blankets, and head up to the roof for a picnic. A daylong picnic in the flower garden that tinkles with wind chimes. We eat. We lie in the sun. I snap off hanging vines and use my newfound knowledge from training to practice knots and weave nets. Peeta sketches me. We make up a game with the force field that surrounds the roof—one of us throws an apple into it and the other person has to catch it. No one bothers us. By late afternoon, I lie with my head on Peeta's lap, making a crown of flowers while he fiddles with my hair, claiming he's practicing his knots. After a while, his hands go still. “What?” I ask. “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says. Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints of his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. But I feel so warm and relaxed and beyond worrying about a future I'll never have, I just let the word slip out. “Okay.” I can hear the smile in his voice. “Then you'll allow it?” “I'll allow it,” I say. His fingers go back to my hair and I doze off, but he rouses me to see the sunset. It's a spectacular yellow and orange blaze behind the skyline of the Capitol. “I didn't think you'd want to miss it,” he says. “Thanks,” I say. Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them. / CF, ch.17

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I could spend my life in this sweet surrender I could stay lost in this moment forever Where every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure*

I just want to hold you close Feel your heart so close to mine And just stay here in this moment For all the rest of time*

*Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing is official anthem of the rooftop scene, come on. It’s just PERFECT. I consider this song as a soundtrack for this moment. Right?!

P.S. Once again, what do you know about dream job? This illustration is a commission!! I mean, a person (wonderful, amazing person!) payed me for drawing this! For drawing one of the most beautiful moments from my favorite book! Dear @thehellcaster thank you again. I wanted to draw this moment for ages but considering level of detail I just couldn’t afford to spend so much time on one illustration (it would take me like a month to complete I think, since I don’t really have time for personal projects now). So it is a real luck to have an opportunity to draw this moment properly as a part of my work. Thank you! And hope you like the results ☺️.

stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese

actually i love the reveal that the only reason effie got involved with the hunger games at all was because her little sister needed her.

asweetsorroww

While I do agree that Katniss and Haymitch are fundamentally very similar, I noticed some stark differences through their narration. I've heard many people say that the name-dropping in sotr felt overdone and forced, but honestly, it all makes sense. It’s logical that everyone in District 12 knew each other since it was such a small community. It was only Katniss as a character that stopped us from seeing this. She was very closed off and not particularly skilled at drawing connections between the people she knew.

For example, the fact that only reveals Maysilee’s story in Catching Fire tells is a little.... On the other hand, Haymitch provides us with basically family tree of District 12 within the first few chapters of sotr.

I’ve also been thinking about how Katniss wasn’t a very good performer. And maybe just maybe this worked to her advantage in sparking the rebellion. Because Haymitch fundamentally understood the mechanisms of the Games ( which made him more of a target from Snow?) —he knew exactly what to say and how it would infuriate the Gamemakers. Katniss, in comparison, often acted impulsively and out of hot-headedness ( it was never a deliberate act of rebellion, at least at first). For example, when she shot the arrow at the pig, perhaps deep down she knew she was defying the Capitol, but it wasn’t something she did deliberately—it felt more like a spontaneous, instinctive act of rebellion. And I have feeling Snow knew and understood this about Katniss.

Haymitch honestly feels like a good mix between Katniss and Peeta.

livingfandomly

It always made me wonder how much convincing it took for the existing victors to help Katniss/Peeta in CF but now we know it wasn’t about her at all. They were doing it for Haymitch.

maluceh

songbird, mockingjay and dove

maybe i’m crazy but after tbosas and sotr. snow picking peeta to represent him during the new rebellion is blowing my mind.

he definitely had to have seen a version of him and lucy gray in peeta and katniss. he sees himself as the innocent victim to lucy gray’s supposed manipulative feminine wiles. so when he’s watching katniss essentially play the whole star crossed lovers, in his eyes using peeta to get what she wants. he sees the ghost of the woman he hates in her as well as everything else we already know.

he probably sees himself as peeta in a way, and then of course later realizes that katniss actually loves peeta and uses that love to destroy her.

the line in sotr when snow is talking to snow about lenore dove being covert and says something like “oh how you love her, and oh how she seems to love you” idkidk it’s obvious also but yeahhh also alluding to how he initially perceives everlark during the first games.

#sunrise on the reaping #sotr spoilers #thg sotr #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #katniss and peeta #peeta mellark #president snow #lucy gray baird #haymitch abernathy

rosegardeninwinter

Oh, she’s a madwoman.

You know the scene where Gale and Katniss are talking about how he thought something selfish when he saw the hijacked state Peeta was in? Katniss asks if the selfish thought was that he didn’t have to be jealous of Peeta any more. Gale says it’s the opposite. He tells Katniss he knows that if Peeta never recovers, he, Gale, will never even stand a chance, because Katniss will never be able to let Peeta go. A moment later, in her intense anguish, Katniss allows Gale to kiss her, but her now suicidal grief over Peeta consumes her, effectively proving his point.

Now here it comes: this passage, as they’re talking about and demonstrating a lover never being able to let go of their beloved, even and perhaps most especially when they seem lost forever, they just so happen to be plucking some migratory birds. In fact, as Gale explains to Katniss that he knows she will never be able to let Peeta go, he takes a feather from her hair.

Which birds, you might ask? That’s right, folks.

It’s GEESE.

Gale is absolutely correct.

Katniss mates for life.

runawaymarbles

Reading Mockingjay as an adult is extra devastating because. Of course the plucky teenager and her ragtag friends aren't going to sneak into a government building to kill the president with a bow and arrow. That's absolutely ridiculous. It's the kind of thing that's only possible in the kind of propaganda that Coin developed. But she's so good at it that in some ways she tricks the reader into thinking that's the kind of story this is, too--even after 3 books reminding us that pretty much everything that Katniss does the second she volunteers is manipulated by adults pulling strings to make propaganda in some form or another.

swiftlark

no because katniss says “The way she almost stopped living when he [her father] died” about her mother and then said “They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live” when peeta got taken by the capitol and i’m supposed to just be okay with that?

catradored

finally reread the first hunger games book and katniss is literally obsessed w peeta. her feelings are very conflicting and confusing for obvious reasons and they constantly contradict each other, but the one constant thing is that she's always thinking about him. she's always trying to figure him out. she's been trying to figure him out since he gave her the bread. it's this beautiful mix of feeling indebted to him, actually enjoying his company, finding him funny, finding him to be too nice, thinking he's constantly strategizing (and he is, just never against her), and feeling romantic attraction, which confuses her as she's obviously never felt it before.

usually i hate when main characters have confused feelings because it feels like it's just done for drama, but katniss and peeta's situation is so complex emotionally, and you can tell that katniss would probably be able to acknowledge she likes peeta if they had become friends at school, rather than during the games, where she thinks they are going to have to kill each other for 2/3 of the book. it's so realistic that she's confused and conflicted; she's 16 trying to survive and probably unsure how much of what peeta is telling her is real or for the show for the capitol. and it's not like she ignores her feelings, she recognizes emotions she feels for peeta, but she doesn't know what to do with them, which is totally understandable in her situation.

also after starting catching fire, her reaction to kissing peeta versus gale is so obvious. after having her first "real" kiss with peeta as she calls it (when he isn't burning up from a fever), she says she would like to kiss him again. that she liked kissing him. when gale kisses her, she says she sits in a tree for a long time and thinks it over and comes up with a speech to tell him about how she's never wanted a boyfriend or to marry. those two reactions are so different it's impossible for me to see how someone could think she has romantic feelings for gale at all

medusas-daughter

The Hunger Games epilogue is emotional in so many ways that I forgot so many details until I re-read the series this week. In the book of memories that Katniss makes, among all her and Peeta's memories of the games and the victors and district 12, Haymitch asks her to add every single tribute he mentored and lost ever since he won his own games. Earlier in Mockingjay, Katniss tells him something along the line of "you closed yourself off to everyone until Peeta and I came into the picture" and he neither confirmed nor denied. And while it is obvious that he loves Peeta and Katniss like his own kids, this one line in the epilogue tells me he didn't close himself off as much as he wanted to. He remembered all 46 children the Capitol put under his care only to witness them horribly die. Most of them were from the Seam, just like he was. All of them had families waiting for them, all of them wanted to survive. He remembered them and asked Katniss to write their stories and described them so Peeta would draw them, so that even if history books don't deem them important enough to remember, someone will.

Also while Everlark get married and have kids, he raises geese in his backyard. I think that's also important.

blues-valentine

Gina saying "and now you know were you stand with me" and the "I’ll walk away with my head held high and I will never look back again… unless you stop me" is pretty iconic because it’s her giving him a last chance. She’s saying: you either make your move now or never. I won’t do this again so you better take it or don’t. It confirms my suspicious that she knew deep down that he reciprocated her feelings. It came to her during Kristoff Lullaby but she wasn’t ready then and I appreciate it. Ricky needed to know where Gina stood with him because he wasn’t going to make a move unless he felt like he wasn’t intruding on her boundaries but I love that even when she did say it — it was up to Ricky to finally make the move, not Gina.

mrvelsavengers

i’ve also been starting to realize that the majority of his relationship with nini was him consistently pushing her boundaries because of his fear of change and his need to keep one thing the exact same in his life. so he constantly disregarded how nini was feeling but he consistently kept Gina in his mind when it came to his emotions and what he would want to do but what he wouldn’t so as to not cross her boundaries. and that is on character development and emotional maturity! which are great signs for this upcoming relationship