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Haymitch and his ducklings
i love not talking #theobserver
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Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying
does it ever get better? has it gotten better? will it get better? when will it get better?
âDonât mess with District Twelve.â
Half my mouth manages a smile.
âScared them pretty good, you reckon?â
âI donât. But at least now they know weâre here.â She helps me to my feet. âIâd rather be despised than ignored.â
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My love for SOTR bringing me back to tumblr? AS AN ARTIST? Make a wish everyone! I canât stop thinking about this book so so so perfect from start to finish. Brilliant work. I love these characters with all my heart so hereâs my interpretation of Haymitch, Maysilee, Wyatt and Louella!
cant stop thinking about sunrise on the reaping. a revolution IS really just trying again and again and again and having HOPE that itll succeed this time. and oh god plutarch talking about how they would need better timing ... the 75th hunger games arena being a clock... im SICK
sunrise on the reaping is just this onion headline over and over again:
Okay but itâs fucking brilliant that one of the themes of the book was about the distortion of history.
Usually prequels are a dangerous thing to write because unless theyâre planned out well in advance, they risk contradicting lore in the main series. Even still, we knew barely anything about Haymitchâs games. They were the perfect stomping ground for new information, with a rough series of events but without a close temporal connection to the main books.
But though she had this freedom and safety net, while she could have just written a story that aligned with what we knew, Collins leaned into the idea of contradicting past lore head on and made it the damn thesis of the book; that yeah, actually, it did play out entirely differently from how the characters saw it, and yes that contradicts what you were told, thatâs the point.
We didnât really know what happened in the 50th games until we read it from Haymitchâs perspective, because what little information we did have was spliced up and edited. The video evidence was processed through the Capital, and twisted to serve their purposes.
Tackling that idea of history being written by those in power with a notoriously inconsistent medium? Goddamn, writer that you are, Suzanne Collins.
iâm so appreciative to suzanne for reframing the rebellion from the original trilogy as a âthey saw their moment and took itâ type situation and showing us that theyâve been trying, over and over, with so many failed attempts, to break the arena and incite a rebellion for decades. in this current political climate never giving up hope is so essential. haymitch wasnât the first nor the last, and they kept going even when it seemed completely futile, and thatâs what counts, and what ultimately saves them all.
shout out to suzanne collins for, in the middle of Everything Else she was doing in sotr, dropping a paragraph thatâs just âbtw fuck aiâ
Haymitch tried so very hard to break the arena and make the Capitol look stupid, only for 95% of his efforts to get edited out. But Katniss sees the bit with the axe and concludes that Haymitch was punished for messing with the arena in a way he wasn't meant to.
Yes, it's hideous how Haymitch tried to send a message over and over again only for it to get erased. But the Capitol couldn't get all of it. There was still a little in there that they couldn't erase.
i love how suzanne just gives us a little treat by mentioning the katniss plant every book. like here u go. ik u miss our girl. she's fine. enjoy lowercase katniss
Katniss *thinking about the Mockingjay pin*: Wow this was Madgeâs auntâs, what a precious and valuable family heirloom, it must have been special to her, Iâll treasure it forever.
Maysilee *thinking about the Mockingjay pin*: this bird is ugly and stupid Iâm literally never going to wear this.
Peeta Mellark is an integral member of the four D12 victors. He is literally the sunset on the reaping! How is this not clear? Iâve never wanted to report people for bad literary analysis more and Iâm only half joking. It has forced me to commit a cardinal sin: analyze in anger!
1. Him being chosen by absolute accident is the point. Not only does he represent every single other tribute who simply gets chosen because they live in a messed up country but he represents how even with some odds being in your favor (older siblings, merchant family, being white, being popular, etc.) you are still very likely to be victimized by the oppressive structure of Panem.
2. When Haymitch says, âBut she was smarter than me, or luckierâ - the luck is all the people around Katniss who created the circumstances for her to lead a successful revolution (her father teaching her to hunt, the arena having woods, Rue healing her with leaves, Thresh not killing her, Haymitch consistently giving her support, her mother teaching her aspects of medicine, on and on and on) and Peeta is the number one, most important part of her luck in the first book. She has someone in the games actively putting her life before his⊠are you kidding? There is legitimately no better luck than that.
3. Even if we take Katniss out of it, Peeta is so impactful as a victor because most of his scenes would not be cut/doctored. Whatâs there to edit out? Instead, the viewers get a full view of him loving a girl so selflessly, using trickery and strategy instead of violence, keeping himself alive through art, joking on literal deathâs door, and sharing so much of himself with the audience it becomes harder for them not to see him as a real human boy. How rare do you think that is for the games? Haymitch and LGB are caricatures of themselves in the games, playing roles that flatten them down. Even Katniss becomes one dimensional on screen without Peeta (and Rue, of course). It is also heavily implied that he does not kill anyone during the games (in a straightforward way) and even if you count Cato or the girl from 8 or even foxface, itâs never him hunting them or seeking out a kill - again how rare do you think that is to see on screen for Games viewers?
4. I didnât think this needed to be said but: Katniss dies without Peeta in the first games. a) she goes for the bow and dies in the bloodbath; b) she is hunted and killed by Careers; c) she is killed by game makers because thereâs no love story angle to keep them from just burning her entirely; d) she dies from tracker jacker stings or Cato because Peeta doesnât defend her or tell her to run⊠I could go onâŠ
5. But even if she does win and wins alone - the victory means as much (I would argue less than) any other rebellious victor winning, certainly less than Haymitchâs win. The biggest rebellion for their games is that two of them win! This is legit the only thing that distinguishes them from any other sympathetic, kind child who would have won the games. Like if Haymitch or Finnick or Wiress winning isnât jarring enough for the Games to end⊠why do you think Katniss killing Peeta and winning solo would be? It would not.
6. And finally, I cannot stress this enough: There is no peaceful end to the rebellion or the trilogy without Peeta. âPeetaâs a whiz with firesâ (HG) for a reason! Collins, over and over, shows us how fire can get out of control and destroy even those who are innocent and who you love (Gale, Beete, Peetaâs family, Haymitchâs family). If everyone really burns, thereâs no one to clean the ashes. The reason not everyone burns is because of people like Peeta who can coax the flames in a way that is nurturing and consistent. I meanâŠ. âPeeta fashioned some kind of incubatorâ is such an obvious detail. Those goslings donât hatch without Peeta, life does not go on in peace and joy without Peeta.
It is no coincidence that when Maysilee says Lenore Dove got the âjump on us allâ (in being a rebel), she is referring to LD using orange paint to make protest art!
We must stop pushing Peeta Mellark out of the narrative! He is literally the sunset on the reaping!
Suzanne Collinâs just said fuck you to everyone whoâs ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a âteen girl saves the dayâ story. She said oh, Mockingjay didnât make it clear enough? Hereâs a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.
#where is the evidence
mari is so funny i hope she never gets a backstory or emotional depth. sheâs in the woods to cook stew and be a hater. and theyâre all out of stew