Just Letting Fandoms Rule My Life At This Point.

Ravenpuff; INFP; this is just a mash pot of stuff that I'm into lol

[calliopeorgans]

starting a collection

[kald-dal-art]

All the entities of the Magnus archives in one place because i learnt that the Tumblr photo limit was higher than I thought.

Anyways this has been a fun series to draw for and have enjoyed seeing you guys feedback for it

[sneezingisnotnormal]

When the episode looked like it was just a “kids these days with their tinktonks” and then suddenly the protagonist kills harry styles and then reveals she’s been racist this whole time

[elftwink]

saw someone today say they thought catching fire shouldn’t have sent katniss back to the arena and instead should have sent gale & prim and while i SUPER disagree, that point is very interesting for two reasons. one, from a media analysis perspective, while it would have made for an interesting story it would have also reduced catching fire back down to katniss’s personal story when at that point the quarter quell is establishing a system. there is obviously some ambiguity in whether or not that game was random (did they really decide that 75 years ago and it was unlucky that katniss won the year prior, or did snow specifically pick that one in order to kill katniss) but in the end it didn’t particularly matter. because while katniss was one of the more pressing concerns… that quarter quell wasn’t about her by herself. and i do think at some point the capitol would have held a hunger games like that regardless because the POINT of putting the victors back in is to prove to the districts that they are powerless. that any power they are given through victory in the hunger games can and will be taken away at the capitol’s whims. they are allowed to break their own rules and the districts are not. that they are safe only when and if the capitol allows it, that they can NEVER feel secure ever. THAT’S why it was like that.

having another opportunity to kill katniss was a bonus, but it’s just one part of that much larger picture of the capitol’s maintenance of power. taking close friends/family of previous victors into the arena would make for a very compelling personal drama about katniss and her life, but sort of misses the larger picture, because that’s not really different from any previous year. a victor’s friends and family (provided they are in the correct age range) are ALWAYS at risk, so there’s no need for the capitol to do any further convincing on that front. they don’t need to target people who already feel unsafe, they need to make those who do feel safe lose that sense of safety.

which brings me to the second interesting thing which is that from inside the story…. that plotline seems much more likely to lead to the capitol’s continued reign rather than the uprising the books see. like, ik we all got caught up in the dystopia ya that followed thg but a major part of thg imo is that katniss is not special. she isn’t different or more powerful. in mockingjay they specifically talk about how she’s a really bad rallying point because she’s just a normal young woman dealing with extreme trauma and she’s not able to turn on her sort of rebel persona on command. she can’t play the political game required of a rebel leader, at least not without help. katniss happened to be in the right place at the right time and yes, she made several HUGE inciting decisions that started the domino effect, but the uprising is no more HER story than it is anyone else’s, because it would not have been possible without concerted efforts from everyone around katniss and also the general unrest in the districts at large. thg is not a personal drama, even though we are most familiar with katniss’s personal story

but ironically, if the capitol had put prim and/or gale in the arena… i think it would have been much more difficult to get to the beginning of mockingjay. because you would lose everything the other victors brought. because to the general public, the friends/family of victors are kind of irrelevant. katniss would endure huge personal trauma mentoring a games like that, but the general, communal unrest that really picks up in catching fire would have much much less room to grow. and it would have been easier to stop.

which is why it didn’t happen. in catching fire the capitol (well snow, but also the whole system behind him) is still confident. katniss is a threat, sure, but not more than a blip on their radar. they’ll crush her and undermine the victors in one swoop. win/win, from their perspective. that hubris prevents them from really understanding why that power has been maintained at all. that quarter quell was them shooting themselves in the foot, something they don’t even begin to realize until the interviews. they had to cut the recording when the tributes held hands. it didn’t even once occur to anyone that they might view each other as allies at least in part because they are so sure that they’ll keep playing by capitol rules, even with nothing left to lose. the capitol is too caught up in its own fiction to see what the real people involved in it are doing

i always think it’s interesting when people discuss thg as a personal story about katniss because it’s not… missing the point per se (thg IS about katniss and her story because she’s the viewpoint character and her personal struggles matter [they matter SO MUCH], and her choices are impactful and she is a main player in the uprising), but it often overlooks how a main point of thg is that personal stories can be planned and manipulated for political ends, often to the detriment of the people involved. peeta’s expression of love in his interview wasn’t HONEST, even if he did really feel that way, it was a tactical decision to make them more likeable and thus more likely to survive. it’s essentially coerced. katniss and peeta have to play nice in the capitol despite the rage and trauma they’re dealing with because the story they present matters more than their feelings. katniss’s position as rebel leader is designed and we literally watch everyone brainstorm how to make her more compelling. katniss kills coin instead of snow at the end because she recognizes the part she is playing and refuses to tie up that story with a neat little bow (and coin set that up in the first place because she wanted snow’s death to be a spectacle, not because of any sense of justice, but as another piece in a larger political game)

everything in thg (or nearly everything) is done with an audience in mind. everyone is always concerned with how they are seen because it is life or death almost all the time. and they have to maintain these stories and facades even when it starts fucking destroying them. when snow does stuff to katniss it’s not about KATNISS, it’s about sending a message to the people watching her. which is exactly what coin does in mockingjay. prim’s death is a great personal loss to katniss but it’s framed by other characters as a necessary sacrifice/unfortunate side effect to achieve a common goal, an explicit parallel to the deaths of tributes in the hunger games to achieve the capitol’s goal of continued power. these stories erase and erode the actual people who star in them and make them into characters rather than human beings, dehumanizes them to the point where their lives only matter insofar that they can help or hinder a cause. the characters MUST put on this kind of show to even survive, but it wrecks them. ruins their lives and their friends lives and eventually they also don’t see people anymore, just pawns in an ever-ongoing game. katnisss isn’t allowed to just suffer trauma and try to recover, she is forced to make it palatable and compelling and interesting and Important™, re-traumatizing herself in the process. it isn’t just katniss’s story, it’s a story about that story and how it’s told. katniss has to reconcile being a person with being a symbol, what she thinks and feels with the roles she is forced and/or expected to play. often with no clear resolution or delineation between the two

i bring this up cos in the vid that prompted this post the person was like “and then when prim dies in mockingjay it’ll be in spite of everything katniss did to save her” which IS missing the point. prim’s death isn’t supposed to be compelling or interesting, it’s not ironic or poetic or anything like that. that’s on purpose. her death is meant to be senseless and go against what you think should happen in a story. it’s meant to be unfair and abrupt, and it would lose actual narrative value if you tried to tie it back into the story of catching fire again. prim just dies. not in spite of anything, not in a tragic twist of fate, but because she is viewed as expendable, the same way all the children who die with her are, the way 75 years worth of hunger games tributes were. katniss having saved her more times doesn’t add anything except appealing to your personal sense of what makes a compelling narrative. you are buying into the story the series explicitly and clearly deconstructs

[mideias]

the absolute freudian nightmare that is petyr and sansa's dynamic. he is obsessed with her because she's like a young version of the woman he loved while also viewing her as the daughter that could've been his, but the cherry on top is him making her call herself alayne which is the name of his own mother. meanwhile sansa is forced to accept petyr as her father whilst having to endure him sexually pestering her on a daily basis. radioactive levels of creepiness over here.

[licorice-lips]

So, I already posted this, but I'll give it one more shot:

I think the view that the reality of The Hunger Games is literally happening right now is so right and probably way scarier than people even realize. When we talk about The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins literally just reflected real capitalist-caused issues to fit into a dystopian world, but it's literally here, from the most obvious thing to the simplest detail:

How the riches and concessions from the Capital to loyalist Districts made people from 1, or 2, or so on, think of themselves as closer (in nature) to people of the capital than people in the poorest Districts? That's middle-class thinking, stopping them from realizing they're just as pressed by the Capital as the poorest Districts (the guy from 2 in the last movie, saying he wasn't Snow's slave when WE KNOW he is, everyone is?)?

How the electric fence around 12 is THE ONLY THING stopping people from starving to death since they could very well USE the land? That's literally the argument for legalized occupation movements on unused land, like MST and MTST in Brazil.

The use of addictive drugs and the idea of a "war on drugs" in District 6 to control the population and quite literally render them useless to weaponize such an important thing as medical supplies against the Capital (not that this should happen, but still)? That's literally happening in most poor countries in the world, just as much with legalized drugs - like the COVID vaccine (which Africa had and is still having trouble acquiring because of the Global North) - as with illegal drugs like weed, which is used as justification for police to invade favelas in Brazil, kill innocent people (children especially) and brutalize dozens more each time in a war against poor POC in special.

What they did to Finnick, Cashmere, and Gloss? Lemme tell you two words: Epstein Scandal.

The control of the media? Comms people can tell you: media always has a side, it's not bad in itself, but most of the mainstream media is right-wing and/or conservative, and I'm not talking just regionally, but globally, hence what we're seeing at mainstream media trying to hide important news, manipulate or maintain the narrative of equivalence between Israel and Palestine when we know what is happening is a genocide, an ethnic-based genocide.

The dehumanization of the people from the Districts suffer by the people of the Capital? How billionaires see the working class, how white people view POC, how the North looks at Global South countries - that's exactly there, people.

It's literally there.

But we're not the Capital, not entirely at least. It's true that we live in constant alienation caused by the overwhelming amount of content we have to swallow on a day to day basis — Brave New World, hello? — but we, the working class, are also the ones who pay the price of the "Capital's" need for profit without wanting to actually work — we work so they don't have to, even though we should be the ones to benefit from the result of our own work.

[imaginaldisk2024]

also as i reread the books i really want to examine the idea of Peeta and Gale as representations of "peace and war" because I think that that is an extreme oversimplification for both of them. Peeta being "peace" is not right because he's not afraid to be disruptive and disobey when necessary. In his first real scene he literally throws Haymitch's glass away from him. Hell, "peace" in stories isn't presented as a good thing. There's the uneasy peace that is literally the purpose of the games to ensure. It's not a good thing. The only reason Katniss is able to settle down and live the life she wanted to is because of rebellion and war.

Peeta is not a metaphor for choosing peace. He is just radically kind and empathetic in a world where selfishness and apathy are the best way to ensure survival. And this is something Katniss cannot comprehend at the beginning. She is confused when Peeta cleans Haymitch up alone, instead of asking a Capitol aide to help him because that would be good revenge. She cannot understand that he is just a kind person.

Gale, on the other hand, is extremely vengeful. And as much as I dislike him for the way he behaved towards Katniss after her games, his anger is justified and sympathetic. But it leads no where. In the end, his line of thinking parallels that to the Capitol, who created the Games as revenge for their peace and comfort being destroyed by the rebels. Obviously, Gale has many more reasons to be angry than the Capitol ever would, but using his rage and anger to lead the rebellion instead of the empathetic and kind view of Peeta, which seeks to create a better world for the oppressed, is what ultimately will crush the rebellion and destroy its root cause.

and the story is about Katniss coming to accept Peeta's outlook on the world is better grounds for a rebellion than Gale's. In the beginning of book 1 she literally tries her best to distance herself from Peeta because she is quite literally afraid of kindness and sees it as a way that he is exposing her weakness. In the end she realizes that the only world safe enough to settle down in is one that prioritizes kindness and its citizens. It's not about "peace versus war" because by choosing "peace" the cause leads to nowhere. But by choosing to create a safer and better society, there is always a greater reason to fight.

[angel-daydreams]

KATNISS HAVING KIDS WAS A GOOD ENDING

i would have been pleased if she didn't have kids at the end too. women don't need to have kids to be find value(obvi).

HOWEVER THIS was ending was important for her characterization and the new panem post-snow. katniss felt safe bringing children, innocents, into a world safe from the hunger games. she was safe from poverty and tyranny and war. she could live gently and having kids was important because she was healing, and the country was healing. they would be protected. for 74 years children were exploited and abused and katniss knew this firsthand, but she knew there was not threat of that for her kids. they were safe. she was safe.

[ringtoned]

suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomena of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008

[azaleasdaylight]

Suzanne collins is a certified GENIUS because by making most of the book about the PUBLICITY of the rebellion and not the fight itself, she was telling us that wars are won by who persuades more- who controls the narrative .

[emiko-matsui]

Lou Wilson being SO angry at alphonse that he stops using his character voice that he's been compulsively doing for 16 episodes and in his normal full grown man voice yells GET THAT MOTHERFUCKER GOOSE YOU GO FUCKING SCOOP THAT FUCKER GOOSE HE'S NOT GETTING AWAY

[emiko-matsui]

Alphonse infuriated Pinocchio so much he speedran 10 years worth of puberty in two seconds

[greatpistachiopie]

if i don't come back, it's cause rapunzel got me

[natmadethis]

i’ve had this scene looping in my brain for the past few days so i had to draw it out. live love gorgug thistlespring.

[herefortayloronly]

Spiraling over this post! Reminds me why I love peeta so much and makes me wanna reread mockingjay asap!

[little-lynx]

KATNISS AND PEETA’S OUTFITS: BOOK ONE

I started this series with “interview before the games” and finished book one’s outfits with “interview after the games” (let’s say that was intentional). When I started (that was September 2020) I was sure I would finish this series very quickly. Lol. I still nowhere near the end. But at least “Hunger Games” is done! That was painful to look at my first illustrations (some of them I had to redraw completely) and I needed to make it look like a series so I fixed some things. I tried to do this “fixing” not very dramatic at some cases (like the first interview one, which I still kinda like, but I completely changed the way I draw Peeta since then so I didn’t know what to do with him lol) but hell, sometimes I thought it was easier to redraw everything. And I think I would have done if I wasn’t so lazy and always tired and I actually really want to draw new stuff. So here it is, all at once. All the (described at least in one word) Everlark Outfits from the first book!

THE REAPING

To my surprise, my mother has laid out one of her own lovely dresses for me. A soft blue thing with matching shoes. <...> “Of course. Let’s put your hair up, too,” she says. I let her towel-dry it and braid it up on my head. <...> the elaborate braided hair my mother did for the reaping <...> silky braids. / chapter 1 /// We know nothing about Peeta’s clothes. But I assume it should be something like this. Casual. Classic. Light brown/beige.

THE TRAIN

I peel off my mother’s blue dress and take a hot shower. I’ve never had a shower before. It’s like being in a summer rain, only warmer. I dress in a dark green shirt and pants. At the last minute, I remember Madge’s little gold pin. For the first time, I get a good look at it. It’s as if someone fashioned a small golden bird and then attached a ring around it. The bird is connected to the ring only by its wing tips. I suddenly recognize it. A mocking jay. <…> I fasten the pin onto my shirt, and with the dark green fabric as a background, I can almost imagine the mockingjay flying through the trees. <…> I put the green outfit back on since it’s not really dirty, just slightly crumpled from spending the night on the floor. <…> I slept in the elaborate braided hair my mother did for the reaping and it doesn’t look too bad, so I just leave it up. / chapter 3 /// Again we know nothing about Peeta’s outfit, but. But ok, it must be something casual and comfortable soooo… sweatpants?

THE OPENING CEREMONY

I am dressed in what will either be the most sensational or the deadliest costume in the opening ceremonies. I’m in a simple black unitard that covers me from ankle to neck. Shiny leather boots lace up to my knees. But it’s the fluttering cape made of streams of orange, yellow, and red and the matching headpiece that define this costume. Cinna plans to light them on fire just before our chariot rolls into the streets. <…> My face is relatively clear of makeup, just a bit of highlighting here and there. My hair has been brushed out and then braided down my back in my usual style. <…> Despite this morning’s revelation about Peeta’s character, I’m actually relieved when he shows up, dressed in an identical costume. / chapter 5

TRAINING

When I’m dried and moisturized with lotion, I find an outfit has been left for me at the front of the closet. Tight black pants, a long-sleeved burgundy tunic, and leather shoes. I put my hair in the single braid down my back. This is the first time since the morning of the reaping that I resemble myself. No fancy hair and clothes, no flaming capes. Just me. Looking like I could be headed for the woods. It calms me. <...> Haymitch and Peeta come in, bid me good morning, fill their plates. It makes me irritated that Peeta is wearing exactly the same outfit I am. I need to say something to Cinna. This twins act is going to blow up in out faces once the Games begin. <...> “One last thing. In public, I want you by each other’s side every minute,” says Haymitch. We both start to object, but Haymitch slams his hand on the table. “Every minute! It’s not open for discussion! You agreed to do as I said! You will be together, you will appear amiable to each other. Now get out. Meet Effie at the elevator at ten for training.” <...> The other tributes are gathered in a tense circle. They each have a cloth square with their district number on it pinned to their shirts. While someone pins the number 12 on my back, I do a quick assessment. Peeta and I are the only two dressed alike. / chapter 7 /// To be honest the previous version was a lot closer to book description (more tight pants and shoes obviously made from leather and here there are just leather sneakers), but hell, Cinna, Portia, what was wrong with you when you’ve created training outfits? Tight pants? For sword training?! Long sleeve? It’s damn July!

INTERVIEW BEFORE THE GAMES

The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin, stenciling patterns on my arms, painting flame designs on my twenty perfect nails. Then Venia goes to work on my hair, weaving strands of red into a pattern that begins at my left ear, wraps around my head, and then falls in one braid down my right shoulder. They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out. Huge dark eyes, full red lips, lashes that throw off bits of light when I blink. Finally, they cover my entire body in a powder that makes me shimmer in gold dust. <...> I can feel the silken inside as they slip it down over my naked body, then the weight. It must be forty pounds. I clutch Octavia’s hand as I blindly step into my shoes, glad to find they are at least two inches lower than the pair Effie had me practice in. <...> My dress is entirely covered in reflective precious gems, red and yellow and white with bits of blue that accent the tips of the flame design. The slightest movement gives the impression I am engulfed in tongues of fire. <...> The dress hangs in such a way that I don’t have to lift the skirt when I walk, leaving me with one less thing to worry about. <...> Peeta looks striking in a black suit with flame accents. While we look well together, it’s a relief not to be dressed identically. / chapter 9

ARENA

Cinna does my hair in my simple trademark braid down my back. Then the clothes arrive, the same for every tribute. Cinna has had no say in my outfit, does not even know what will be in the package, but he helps me dress in the undergarments, simple tawny pants, light green blouse, sturdy brown belt, and thin, hooded black jacket that falls to my thighs. “The material in the jacket’s designed to reflect body heat. Expect some cool nights,” he says. The boots, worn over skintight socks, are better than I could have hoped for. Soft leather not unlike my ones at home. These have a narrow flexible rubber sole with treads though. Good for running. I think I’m finished when Cinna pulls the gold mockingjay pin from his pocket. I had completely forgotten about it. [Katniss] + a bright orange backpack. + silver sheath of arrows and a bow, already strung [Peeta] + I agently unzip his jacket, unbutton his shirt and ease them off him. + I hand Peeta my knife, since whatever weapons he once had are long gone, and he slips it into his belt. / chapter 10 thank goodness this one was already redone lol

VICTORY CEREMONY

Cinna comes in with what appears to be an unassuming yellow dress across his arms. <…> slips it over my head. I immediately notice the padding over my breasts, adding curves that hunger has stolen from my body. <…> Venia helps me into a pair of flat leather sandals and I turn to the mirror. I am still the “girl on fire.” The sheer fabric softly glows. Even the slight movement in the air sends a ripple up my body. By comparison, the chariot costume seems garish, the interview dress too contrived. In this dress, I give the illusion of wearing candlelight. <…> My hair’s loose, held back by a simple hairband. The makeup rounds and fills out the sharp angles of my face. A clear polish coats my nails. The sleeveless dress is gathered at my ribs, not my waist, largely eliminating any help the padding would have given my figure. The hem falls just to my knees. <…> He looks so clean and healthy and beautiful, I can hardly recognize him. But his smile is the same whether in mud or in the Capitol and when I see it, I take about three steps and fling myself into his arms. He staggers back, almost losing his balance, and that’s when I realize the slim, metal contraption in his hand is some kind of cane. <…> His shirt is made of the same yellow material as my dress, but Portia’s put him in long black pants. No sandals, either, but a pair of sturdy black boots he keeps solidly planted on the stage. / chapter 27

INTERVIEW AFTER THE GAMES

When Cinna comes in, he shoos them [prep team] out and dresses me in a white, gauzy dress and pink shoes. Then he personally adjusts my makeup until I seem to radiate a soft, rosy glow. <…> Then Peeta’s there looking handsome in red and white, pulling me off to the side. / chapter 27

[sakuhai]

[skydreamt]

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