♡ Hi and welcome to my blog! So happy to have y'all here! ♡
First and foremost, I'm a fic writer on ao3 and y'all can find my profile link here!
This started out as a TBOSAS blog, but has devolved into a general Hunger Games related blog. My interests are Sejanus Plinth (and the rest of the Plinth family), Sejanus/Marcus, and District Thirteen!
Occasionally I do have intelligent things to say about TBOSAS, so feel free to check out my analysis posts on Sejanus here (pt 1), here (pt 2), here (pt 3), here (pt 4), and here (Wealth vs Status is TBOSAS).
I got into the TBOSAS fandom because of the NEED of content for the Sejanus/Marcus ship (Sejarcus my beloveds). Feel free to check out my canon divergent (fix-it) Sejarcus fic Just As It Was (86k words) and it's oneshot accompaniment He Who Holds the Sun Within Him (3k words). I also have some moodboards to go along with these fics (Sejanus here and Marcus here)
I have also written a modern AU Sejarcus fic, Medical and Other Various Debts (25k words) and three oneshots to accompany it:
God Will, But I Won't (2k words): Sejanus's relationship with his mother and Coriolanus Snow and the damage it caused him. Modern AU. POV Sejanus's mother.
Super Rich Kids (With Nothing but Fake Friends) (6k words): Sejanus Plinth's friendship with Lysistrata Vickers throughout the years. Modern High School AU. POV Lysistrata Vickers.
Like Chanel (6k words): Marcus and Reaper's friendship in college. Modern College/University AU. POV Reaper Ash.
I also have a ton of visuals to go along with this modern AU. Sejanus and Marcus moodboards here. Reaper Ash moodboard here. Lysistrata and Jessup moodboard here and here. Marcus fancast here. Sejanus and Marcus fashion hcs here.
My most recent obsession is District 13 and the Coin family! I have a fic in progress called Blue Blooded, a multi-generational tale of District Thirteen, told through the eyes of the Coin family, from the beginnings of the First Rebellion to the fall of President Snow.
Also, I have some analysis posts on D13: District 13's District Deep Dive and the District 13 Population Data Archives.
Also I have a BUNCH of OCs from Blue Blooded and Just As It Was, if you're interested, I'd love if you checked out my 1st generation moodboards (Arvada Coin, Brielle Dorval) and 2nd generation moodboards (Kira, Cara, Jena, Becquerel, Callahan, AJ, and Levee).
Some miscellaneous posts I'm proud of that I'd love y'all to see: District Song Association, THG and TBOSAS Character Song Association, and District 11: A Cultural Snapshot
♡ Sorry for the LONG introduction! I am always happy to chat about THG/TBOSAS and my DMs and ask box are always open! ♡
It’s really weird (but not shocking) that continuous consensus in the thg fandom is reckless = stupid and evil and thats its typically a label slapped onto poc characters, most commonly sejanus and lenore dove. Did the two of them do things that i could see labelled as “reckless” yeah!!! Is it really weird that they’re the ones who are commonly hated on for it considering they’re explicitly poc while other white characters/characters people like to INTERPRET as white get entirely different treatment? yeah!!!
idk was thinking about lenore dove recently….and i think of sejanus always
“…I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.” — The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Photography by J. Moysa
Dress by Huckleberry Clothing Company
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No more stolen relatives. Bring them home.
Now that I have your attention…
Let’s discuss why this month is important: May is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Awareness Month which brings the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirited People (MMIWG2S+) to the forefront of conversation; and as I and many others see Katniss and the rest of the Seam residents as Indigenous, I feel I can’t let this month pass without making a statement.
I am not going to be silent about political issues. If I can combine my art form (cosplay and costume design) and my activism to help spread awareness and to help support issues close to my heart and which affect me and my loved ones personally, I absolutely will.
Indigenous people make up less than 2-5% of the Canadian and US American population but represent approximately a quarter of all homicide victims. They are 10-12 times more likely to be murdered or come to physical harm. Over 60% of Indigenous women experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.
In the United States, Indigenous women are more than twice as likely to experience violence than any other demographic. One in three Indigenous women is sexually assaulted during her life, and 67% of these assaults are perpetrated by non-Native perpetrators.
Why I chose this method of highlighting this issue with an image of Katniss Everdeen is because if we view her and the residents of the Seam through an Indigenous lens, it becomes incredibly clear how the books — either directly or inadvertently (however you interpret SC’s intentions while writing these characters) — highlight so many issues faced by our communities.
These issues, such as the direct impact of living in impoverished communities and how this often leads to harsher and more dangerous consequences by simply existing in a society which sees you as an other.
If we use this lens to view Katniss, Haymitch, Prim, Gale, Louella and the other Seam residents, one can start to understand how simply existing becomes dangerous and how survival becomes resistance.
As is the case in many Indigenous communities (and so many other communities of colour), those who struggle with poor mental and physical health, poverty, addictions and discrimination; those undervalued by society are often subjected to their worst consequences.
Such issues with examples directly from the books include:
The unnatural amount of deaths of Indigenous women and girls in police custody which correlates with Louella’s death at the Capitol’s hands even before the Games; for her to then be replaced by a nameless girl from D11; which we’ve been shown to be predominantly Black. This also highlights how often little girls of colour — be they Indigenous, Brown or Black — are seen as interchangeable and expendable and often dehumanized from a young age.
The failure of society to protect Indigenous women from exploitation and trafficking which Katniss makes note of and directly states that Seam girls are often forced to turn to the sex trade and are noted to have slept with the Head Peacekeeper to make ends meet.
Taking Indigenous children and placing them in foster care at high rates which plays into Katniss’ fear that her and Prim would be placed in a community home if their mother was to be deemed unfit, so she kept her mother’s depression and their subsequent starvation a secret to keep her family together.
Purposeful chronic underfunding of essential human services like food, water, health, housing in so many Indigenous communities — with this being in clear correlation to how the Seam is described by both Katniss and Haymitch being othered and living in higher poverty than the town. This in turn directly correlates with how many slips each of the Seam residents have in the Reaping bowl as compared to the townsfolk (who are explicitly described as being White), as they simply are not able to make ends meet in the same way and must either accept deprivation and subsequent starvation or the danger of providing for their family by accepting help in the form of Tesserae and the higher chance of being Reaped for the Games.
With the casting of these characters as White on screen, it removes all of the nuance that the text of the books created and created a new one, that of white saviourism. They are now White folks leading the poor and oppressed tributes and then later on, districts into a Rebellion.
We have seen this narrative in so many other forms of media and hearing so many people say that we are wrong for interpreting those from the Seam as indigenous, and that the only default is white unless explicitly stated, is exhausting and incredibly tone deaf to a large part of the fandom who has been here for over 15 years since the first book was released.
How non-Indigenous people can show support and be an ally to the Indigenous community, especially during this month:
Read and share the MMIWG2S+ Final Report and the calls for justice.
Hang a red dress or shirt outside your door or establishment.
Support any vigils, events or discussions that your communities may be holding.
Attend discussions, vigils, and any space where families and advocates are taking the time to organize and educate.
Look out for one another and listen to Indigenous people; too often our voices are drowned out by those who are sometimes well meaning but choose to speak above us on issues and in spaces that belong to us.
Thank you for taking the time to read if you’ve gotten this far.
I know we as a community can come together and make spaces safer for everyone if we all share our knowledge and experiences and watch out for our neighbours.
I am LOVING the French in the d13 population archives however this reminded me that coin in French is quack. as in the sound a duck makes. we love u quack
Teehee this is an actual conversation Arvada had with the recruiting officer in my fic.
“Name?”
“Coin.” [2]
The man looked at him, the corner of his lip tugging upwards in an insincere smile. “Spell that for me.”
“C-o-i-n.”
“Oh.” The man tapped his pen twice before scribbling his name in the top right corner of the page. “There’s an ‘N’ in there. I never would have guessed. First name?”
on principle i'm completely with the tumblr users who wanna mock folks who don't listen to rap/hip-hop/jazz/country/etc but some of the discourse on the subject on here seems to indicate that people think merely consuming media is like an act of social justice or some shit and thinking about it like that is just as fucked. you're not like, doing a favor to Black people by putting on jazz records you know
I took my free time to do a corny edit of pliny harrington sr featuring in the navy bc that song have been all over my fyp and everytime it comes up I can only remember him ❤️🩹
I’ve been thinking about the Coin misogyny thing, and while I still maintain that ‘Coin is as bad as Snow’ is the correct reading of the text, I do think there might be something there in the perception of Coin vs Plutarch Heavensbee.
Plutarch is regarded as a morally grey character by most of the fandom while Coin is unquestionably a bad guy (its degrees of badness that are in question but we know she’s bad). But Plutarch has his hand in almost every bad thing that Coin has done. Most importantly, his fingerprints are all over both the Hummingbird attack and the final Hunger Games.
Snow (who does not lie to Katniss) tells us so:
And then when Coin proposes a new Hunger Games, Haymitch - who has known Plutarch for 25 years - asks if he’s involved
Coin denies that it was Plutarch’s idea, but i still think this speaks to character at the very least. Personally i think Coin was probably playing down Plutarch’s contribution because she doesn’t want to share power/glory.
So the only real difference between Coin and Plutarch is that he wasn’t trying to kill Prim (where Coin definitely was), which is obviously enough to make Coin evil incarnate in Katniss’ eyes, but it’s still weird that Plutarch is people’s ’favourite morally grey character’ when his actions are very much on a level comparable to Coin and Snow. You could even argue he is worse than Coin (if you ignore the child soldiers, the 451 certain death mission, and Two) because he was a Gamemaker and good enough at his job to be picked for Head Gamemaker, meaning he was definitely responsible for the deaths of multiple tributes.
(Also the fact that he seems to have had countless opportunities to kill/not provide life saving care to Snow and didn’t do anything is kinda fucked up - like how dare you lecture a teenage boy who will literally be shot or beaten for his resistance about implicit submission when you are giving poison remedies to fantasy!Hitler every time her murders someone)
gale and katniss should have both been non-white in the movie but can you imagine how much more horrible the 2010s discourse would have been if gale already derided by fans as a cruel idiot brute was visibly native. ash-blond blue eyed peeta represents peace btw
