HIATUS

written by aisling

[aisregret-blog]

FEATURING heather duke from heathers (1988), ty lee from avatar: the last airbender, seamus finnigan from harry potter, marvel from the hunger games, cyborg from teen titans (2003), david from the lost boys, and jon moxley from aew

written by aisling                                         psd credit

[killypool-archived]

❝   don’t be put off by the blood. my flavor of nsfw posts tends to be crude jokes instead of just gore. oh ho ho, except on sexual sunday. no rules.   ❞

( promo. ) ( template/psd. )

[killypool-archived]

❝  Oooh! Ooooh! Drag me. I’m transparent. Isn’t that quality? Nice graphic, nice url, we’re even using those fancy quotation marks. That’s how you know it’s a shitty blog. ❞

[mickoymilkovich]

last year they were just children

[ladytodd]

Cause we’re young and we’re reckless We’ll take this way too far 

[mushi-and-junior]

districts of panem: District 1

District 1 makes the luxury goods that decorate and beautify our great Capitol. Its excellent taste and craftsmanship keep Capitol residents bewigged and bedazzled year-round.

[seeingeverything-deactivated201]

District 1 Female || Hunger Games > Requested by anon, hope you like it! :)

[yourloversstaymyage]

death valley; a playlist for the careers (district 1, 2 and 4)

➥listen here (x)

[mockingjay-songs]

[iheartphishfood]

Glimmer + Marvel - District One

[iheartphishfood]

The Career Tributes: interviews. (c+c)

[roguebelle]

The Training of a Career Tribute

My head is full of thoughts!

So, here’s the meta – and I’m really thinking I will fic this up later. These are obviously just my feeling and suppositions and speculations, extrapolating from what little we know about the Careers.

These Districts, like the Capitol, have more of a Roman feel to them than the outlying Districts do. For that reason, I’m basing a lot of my ideas about the training on both Sparta and on the Roman gladiatorial training.

Training begins young. Really young. I imagine there’s a certain level of separation from the family – though clearly not entirely, as Gloss and Cashmere from District 1 have a sibling bond that seems fairly strong. But I imagine they’re eventually separated from outside influences – perhaps kept in special dormitories or something – and not encouraged to have a lot of emotional bonds with other human beings.

Pride in their District, however, is clearly fostered.

And, they do seem to have a certain attachment to their District partners and to the other Careers – otherwise the pack mentality wouldn’t be so easy to form, and we see pretty strong evidence of a bond of some kind when Cato’s begging Clove to stay with him in the book. So what do their mentors tell them about how to end the alliance? We never really see that, since Katniss is never part of it (nor anyone from D12 that we hear about). What happens in a typical Game when the Career alliance has eliminated everyone else? How do their mentors prepare them for that shift? And how are they meant to handle it if it comes down to just them and their district partner? I want to explore this.

They identify candidates early and then weed out the unsuitable. Non-lethally at first. Rejects go into training as Peacekeepers, or back into the mines or the boats if they turn out just way too embarrassing.

I suspect abuse is systematic. They’re probably taught to endure pain, from beatings to heat and cold to other types of non-lethal wounds.

It seems really strange to me, though, that they aren’t taught either basic survival skills or basic first aid. I mean, you would think at least some of the trainers would recognize that as important to increasing the chances of survival. So what’s going on there? Do they focus, instead, on getting their tributes to end the Games before survival really becomes a problem? Is it sheer arrogance?

Speaking of the trainers, I assume many of them are Victors themselves – since they literally don’t know how to do anything else but kill, and since they turn out the majority of the Victors, it’s not like those Districts lack for mentors.

I wonder if there’s a lot of competition between the Victor-Mentors, then, to get their trainees through all the levels and to get to be the volunteer.

I wonder if the system somehow punishes Victors when their trainees don’t win the Games.

I bet District 2, at least, covers up the training of Career Tributes as Peacekeeper training, if anyone were ever to call their methods into question (since technically tributes are supposed to arrive totally untrained). But they’ve got an easy out, since they basically have to train a fighting force anyway.

For that reason, it is no surprise to me that District 2 seems to turn out more Victors and overall more bloodthirsty tributes than even the other Career districts.

I find District 4 a really odd one to be a Career district, and I wish we knew more about it. It isn’t industrial like 1 and 2. You would think it would share more in common with 10 and 11, the other food-providers. I wonder if more goes on there than we know – like how 2 is theoretically Masonry but really weapons and Peacekeepers. Is 4’s fishing industry a front as well?

Career Tributes have probably killed before they ever make it into the Arena. I imagine that’s somewhat the final exam for getting to be the one who volunteers at the Reaping. Whoever’s made it to the last stages has to face off. Because I really feel, if they hadn’t been blooded before they hit the Arena, at least some of them would shock out the first time they actually take a human life.

My overall point is this: it is a mistake to see these characters as villains. Antagonists, yes; we are clearly meant to root for Katniss and to be on her side and to want her to win. But they are victims as much as she is, just in a very different way. They enjoy privileges, to be sure. But they are also stripped of their basic humanity in a way Katniss is not. They are given no opportunity to become anything other than brutal killing machines. If they look likely to turn in any other direction, that’s it, they’re out. The system is abusing them terribly, and they need to be freed of it as much as Districts 11 and 12. They are not evil; they are the pawns of evil, the tools of evil. And they are still children themselves, which I think is almost the harder thing to remember (but which I think Cato expressed really well in the movie).

And now I’m thinking about writing fic about Clove’s training and eventual selection as volunteer.

[exheather2-blog]

hi i’m lana and i dress up maybe 3 times a year and then put psds on my selfies. i’m not ashamed.

[exheather2-blog]

time to take a nap. i’ll be back later while i’m at work and the plan is to throw things into a queue on all of my blogs. catch me on disco at overwhelming surplus of diggity#4614

current blogs:  @limelited | @falseleadered | @irishcharmed | @auraseen | @oneunwon | @mrbrained | @loveprayed | @yourcorrupt

[remusjohnslupin]

Districts of Panem → district one

↳ District 1 is one of the wealthiest districts of Panem. Its primary industry is manufacturing luxury items for the Capitol. Children in District 1 almost always seem to take pride in competing in the Hunger Games, and are among the group of tributes that band together to pick off the weaker contestants, known as Careers.

[exheather2-blog]

hey so psa on unfollowing

everyone deserves to have a safe dash. like, you can have your opinion about what’s most polite in terms of unfollowing, soft blocking, blocking, etc, but at the end of the day, removing yourself from a situation you don’t feel comfortable in / makes you angry is WAY better than starting drama. we’ve had an ABUNDANCE of callouts lately, and some of them have been legitimate accusations, but it’s produced an environment in which we’re afraid at any mistake of being called out publically and losing friends over things we didn’t previously know were an issue.

i know i haven’t been the best at this, but i’m never going to callout or confront someone for unfollowing me. i may be hurt, but it’s not about me. if i posted something that made you uncomfortable, if i didn’t tag things, if you just couldn’t see a connection between our muses, if you didn’t like my ships, idc. at the end of the day, it’s not about me if you unfollow, and i need to respect that. 

encouraging people to not unfollow, not soft block, not hard block will only ever escalate conflict. always always always chose the peaceful option. if you can walk away, walk away.

all i ask is that if i’m doing something hurtful, you message me about it just so i can correct these behaviors in the future. but besides that? if you want to unfollow, soft block, or hard block, that’s up to you. i will never call you out, shit talk you, or confront you for unfollowing. it’s just not worth it. 

[ablackwhitewonderland]

[oneunwon-blog]

VERSE:  SLOWLY OUT OF LINE TIMELINE: pre - start of the games OPEN TO: any hunger games muse or muse with a hunger games verse

district 1 is a career district. they’re known for luxury, but for some, tbat means only that their knives are made of platinum. mercy is not a word in the lockhill home, and with his father already writing him off as an outcast, there’s no future for marvel besides dying in the games. or winning them, but his father is certain that won’t be the case. his days are spent training, learning, trying to survive. for some, the games begin long before the reaping ever takes place.

CONSIDER THIS A PERMANENT STARTER CALL FOR THIS VERSE.