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No hot takes, just the same old shit warmed up Pea - late 20s - she/her - peaonfire on ao3 fuck AI - TERFs DNI pfp by @anotherunderpaidartist

[peaonfire]

During ceremonies, we are solemn and respectful but always linked together, by our hands, our arms. At dinners, we are borderline delirious in our love for each other. We kiss, we dance, we get caught trying to sneak away to be alone.

Happy (very late🫢) Birthday dear @dandelionsunset1210!!! It's such an honour to call you my friend and to get to experience your wit and your humour! You truly are such a delight to talk to <3

(Obviously they're holding hands under the table)

[peaonfire]

Imagine the dirty looks and whispers Asterid had to endure once people realised she was pregnant

[polartss]

the mockingjay

[whenyoureplayings0litaire]

Not to be that old person who’s like “back in my day” but the friend-making to harassment ratio in contemporary fandom just feels so off

[avatrashh]

It’d be a missed opportunity if I ignored the date

[avatrashh]

It’s back

I have had this queued for a year

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

omfg

[mandrake-mistakes]

I’m a certified Gale hater because that boy was genuinely such a terrible friend to Katniss in Catching Fire and Mockingjay but I will give him ONE thing: the emotional awareness during those kiss scenes.

Like Gale realizing that Katniss tends to reach for physical closeness when she’s scared, overwhelmed, grieving, or trying to comfort him was actually such a refreshing moment for him. But if he did not stop Katniss, do you think things would have been physical between them? Will Katniss actually go through with it?

You’re giving him more credit than I will anon. I do not think Gale realizes she’s scared/overwhelmed/grieving. I can’t think of any time she feels that way and he noticed or reacts with anything resembling comfort for her. He knows that she only kisses him when he’s in pain and there is that one time in 2 when he realizes she’s disoriented but I don’t think even then he’s comprehending what she’s feeling. He just notices that she isn’t focused on HIM. He asks her to look at him and then kiss him again, to focus her attention on himself and when that doesn’t work he gives up. She’s disassociating, suicidal, and miserable and all he says is she seems drunk.

I do not think Katniss would’ve slept with Gale. She’s never done that before or even come close. It’s a very vulnerable thing and I don’t think she felt safe or comfortable enough in that situation or with that boy. She was giving him those “drunk” kisses because she felt like she owed him (“to make up for all the kisses I withheld”) and to try and feel something. She’s planning her own death in her head while they make out. If clothes started coming off I think the disoriented numbness would’ve turned to panic real quick.

Also. Ew.

[peaonfire]

I’m a certified Gale hater because that boy was genuinely such a terrible friend to Katniss in Catching Fire and Mockingjay but I will give him ONE thing: the emotional awareness during those kiss scenes.

Like Gale realizing that Katniss tends to reach for physical closeness when she’s scared, overwhelmed, grieving, or trying to comfort him was actually such a refreshing moment for him. But if he did not stop Katniss, do you think things would have been physical between them? Will Katniss actually go through with it?

There's only one pair of strong arms Katniss yearns for, two if you count her dead daddy. Three books worth, and it's only ever Peeta.

And yes, she gets lonely and sad, and yes she kisses Gale, just to feel something. Because she's "so desperately lonely [she] can’t stand it."

But not once is she comforted by Gale's presence the way Peeta can.

And I honestly don't think that recognizing her dissociation is something worth giving credit for. I think the bar for men is set entirely too low, this should be bare minimum behaviour.

Grief does things to people, and he doesn't deserve a medal for recognizing that Katniss is not in the right headspace after going in for another kiss. I also think him telling her "it's like kissing someone who's drunk. It doesn't count" is rude.

I firmly believe that if Katniss had tried to push herself to do any more than kiss Gale, or just kiss him any longer, she would have started fucking sobbing.

Because she would have realised how terrible hollow she feels without the boy with the bread. And Katniss is not the kind of girl who can do physical without the emotion.

[peaonfire]

Hi. Do you think Peeta is confident?

I don't, actually. At least not in the beginning.

I think Peeta is a 'fake it till you make it' kinda guy. He's charming, which is obvious by how well he does in both his interviews, but he's full of self doubt.

“What’s Peeta’s approach? Or am I not allowed to ask?” I say. “Likable. He has a sort of self-deprecating humor naturally,” says Haymitch.

The Hunger Games, Chapter 9

“Yes. I don’t expect you to understand it. You’ve always had enough. But if you’d lived in the Seam, I wouldn’t have to explain,” I say. “And don’t try. Obviously I’m too dim to get it.”

The Hunger Games, Chapter 22

However, throughout the books he grows surer of himself. And by the end of Mockingjay, not only does he gain confidence in himself, but in his relationship with Katniss.

That's how we get this:

So after, when he whispers, “You love me. Real or not real?” I tell him, “Real.”

Mockingjay, Chapter 27

[virgo-writer]

Haymitch Abernathy within about 20 pages of being introduced in The Hunger Games:

Tries to hug his colleague on live television

Falls off stage

Vomits on himself

Punches a teenage boy in the face

Says something so offensive it makes his colleague mutter obscenities (and previously mentioned boy blush)

Some person on the internet: there’s no evidence that Haymitch was a messy drunk

[mandrake-mistakes]

Some of ya'll still think Peeta was never himself again because Mockingjay Katniss said he would never return to her but Mockingjay Katniss is wrong.

Katniss is ROMEO

They are the star crossed lovers of fair Verona and when Romeo finds Juliet, who has taken a potion to appear in a deathlike sleep, he believes she's dead so much so that he decides to kill himself in his grief. Katniss sees Peeta, poisoned to appear forever lost and believes he is dead. So much so that she decides to kill herself in her grief. But Suzanne is kinder than Shakespeare and Peeta is luckier than Juliet because he wakes up from his death like sleep in time to stop his lover from ending her life. He blocks her mouth from taking the nightlock pill.

Katniss being wrong about the "old Peeta" being gone forever is part of the parallel. She's WRONG. He's traumatized more than he was before the hijacking but so is she. She doesn't come back to life at the end for mutt Peeta, or have two children with mutt Peeta. That's her boy with the bread. Same man he always was

[peaonfire]

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[honey-kyun]

... I was lying in bed not falling asleep, that I heard the door creak open. Peeta stood there in his pajamas, looking sheepish, one hand tugging at his hair in lieu of the question. "Well come on then," I said, pulling back the covers. "But you have to open the window yourself, I'm not getting back out of bed." - method acting like you love me; Ch. 3 by @whenyoureplayings0litaire

I have been obsessed with the imagery of my eepy shy Peeta tugging his hair in his jammies since I read it as a snippet months ago so I just had to draw him. This was supposed to be for a birthday present but it came together so quickly and I accidentally developed a crush on him so I want to post it now 👉👈 (I also got a better idea for bday present anyway 😈) so I hope you like it as a regular old thanks for being a pal on a regular day present 😘

closeup of his cutie face under the cut cause i love hims 🥰

[peaonfire]

everlark :>

[obscurenothings]

FINALLY UGH THE UPLOADING AND CROPPING PROCESS FOR THIS WAS A NIGHTMARE

but anyway here's some regency!everlark loosely inspired by @firehelpmeforget's fic enchanted to meet you

also because I'm chronically indecisive there's three versions 🙌🏼

holy crap the quality was murdered

[peaonfire]

do I hate my writing or is it just 2am?

[peaonfire]

🫂 katniss/gale

Thanks for the question!

[peaonfire]

🔎 What detail(s) in the story are you particularly captivated with? Is there any behind the scenes info or backstory?

Hey, thanks for the question!

🔎 What detail(s) in the story are you particularly captivated with? Is there any behind the scenes info or backstory?

There are a few details in Fire in the Sky, but most of them haven't had their pay off yet, which is why I won't reveal them. (Although my dms are always open if anyone wants to ask, I love to yap about my fic!)

There's the whole graffiti subplot, but if you've read the fic, you know that one has already been revealed. I hinted at who the culprit was veeery subtly, but nobody truly guessed it.

Another one that I felt very strongly about is this one, set in Katniss' old house in the Seam:

But there's an essence of home to this place that the new house will never have. The notches in the door frame where my father tracked our growth. I kept them going for Prim as she grew, after he died. [...] “Katniss”, he says, the tone in his voice a bit exasperated, but there’s a hint of amusement in it. He is inspecting the door frame, his fingertip brushes the top notch. I can’t see it from here, but I know what I wrote next to it. Prim, age 12. “I like it.”

It's kind of in the text, but I still confirmed it later on, when I posted Peeta's POV of that chapter:

I look around the room, now that I can see better, and notice the notches in the door frame. The highest one reads Prim, Age 12. I can tell it’s her handwriting. We spent so many hours over that plant book, I would recognise it anywhere. But there are no notches with her name above the age of 11. So she kept them going for Prim, but there was nobody there to make new ones for her.

I have quite a few more of these little pieces of foreshadowing planted, andone of them will finally come to fruition next chapter!

Thanks so much for playing!