The Dragon And The Wolf And The Tribute

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives" Formerly Nightlockedkatniss

[daeneryskairipa]

Where were you before?

[blondiepoison]

Game of Thrones Hotline for Confused Fans [x]

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[2/5] romantic pairings; katniss and peeta.

you love me, real or not real?

real.

[ladystarks]

Sansa Stark | first appearance in every season of Game of Thrones

[platypusinplaid]

this is THE funniest punchline I’ve ever seen

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From bastard to heir to the throne.

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[kyloren]

#is this not how the scene went?

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[unrealunearths]

#this is real life guys

[rubyredwisp]

1.01 | 8.01

[fenharel]

[loloftheday]

Fucking dropped him…

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[makoredeyes]

If I don’t reblog this assume I died

[givemeinternet]

So my cat likes unpacking..

[daksinakke]

thats the happiest fucking cat ive ever seen

[sunfortune]

the gale/prim stunt was so cheap too bc narratively killing prim didn’t do ANYTHING and it was only written so suzanne collins could easily solve the dumbass love triangle She CREATED. so katniss loses her sister, her mom leaves, And her best friend from childhood leaves. and what she has at the end is fucking uhhhh Peeta Parker and some kids she never even wanted ???? like ?? gale was a whole antifa legend for 2.9 books and she ruined All that at the VERY end for some romance?! completely glossing over the fact that katniss did not romantically want to be with either of them!!!! 

[brinnanza]

the whole reason prim died is because it IS senseless. like that is literally the point. 

suzanne collins and ka applegate are cut from a similar cloth and that cloth is refusing to shy away from depicting how brutal, how senseless, how cruel war is. prim died for no reason and that is the point. it had absolutely nothing to do with resolving a love triangle.

also Y’ALL COME ON the presence of romance in a book does not make the book A Romance; the ‘love triangle’ was literally never ever the point - which is why it’s what the capitol focuses on. 

also katniss’s happy ever after: she fuckin grew up, y’all, come on. listen, I get the knee jerk hate for a baby boomer-style happily ever afters (I will sue jk rowling in court for the epilogue) but the fact that katniss, after everything she went through, felt comfortable enough to settle down with peeta and actually have kids - kids she knew were not going to be thrown into a gladiatorial arena for the entertainment of the super wealthy - is proof that what she did mattered. it cost katniss goddamn near everything she had - her family, her friends, her hearing, her home - but it was still the right thing to do.

the hunger games is about the cost of revolution: it’s so, so high, but in the end, it’s necessary.

[gallifreanpotterhead]

Furthering this, Katniss said she didn’t want kids because she didn’t want to bring them into the world she grew up in. The fact that Katniss grows up to have kids is supposed to show the reader that the world has indeed changed for the better. Not wanting kids was conditional, and the conditions changed.

[sroloc--elbisivni]

Also, just– that’s the point, that gale does it. That’s the other point Suzanne Collins likes to make, and if you look at her earlier Gregor the Overlander she makes it even more brutally clear. war lets people do terrible things. war encourages people to do terrible things. some people stop. some people don’t, because they don’t know how, or because they can’t until the war is over, or because they’re just that good at it.

Collins said in an interview that Gale and Peeta were “less as two points in a love triangle, more as two perspectives in the just-war debate” (as in, whether a war is justified) “Katniss isn’t just deciding on a partner; she’s figuring out her own worldview.” And in Katniss’s case, she lost everything to war. She chose to be done with it.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

Furthermore one of the big points of the Gale-Katniss thing was that everyone expected her to be with Gale. Even Gale did. Everyone in their family, in their town, just assumed she’d end up with him. And Katniss and Gale were too much alike, Katniss says it herself. She realizes that she and Gale would urge each other towards mutual destruction because they are both angry and full of fire.

Katniss being with Peeta in the end is her going against the assumption everyone made about her, the choice everyone made for her. Everyone assumed that she was in love with Gale this whole time and that she was only pretending to be in love with Peeta when in reality she was in love with neither of them to start with and only grew feelings for Peeta late in the game because she had literally no time to focus on romance and didn’t care for that shit while she had a war to survive. But everyone just made that assumption for her and that choice for her and so in choosing Peeta, she not only showed her worldview, she once again went against the fate that was decided for her (only this time decided by the people she grew up with instead of the Capitol).

Peeta is soft, he’s forgiving, he’s loving and nurturing, all things Katniss struggles with. Peeta represents peace and an end to arms. In choosing him Katniss not only chooses the person who balances her out, she chooses peace, she chooses an end to war.

[askinnyblackman]

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