a man or a fish? dead or alive?

speedy. he/she/they. i occasionally have thoughts.

[speedytherandom]

My alias is Speedy. My pronouns are they/she/he (no preference). My pfp is a self-portrait I drew. This is a link to my AO3. Those are the basics.

If you are here for fandom reasons, I do not have spoiler tags so be wary if you don’t wish to be spoiled.

Posts about my life and thoughts are usually under #shenanigans. I do film sometimes and then vague-post about it, so you can find that under #in my hands i hold 10000 short films.

[saluteofthejugger]

i would destroy a pizza

[amazoogle]

i would run a pizza over with my car. id beat the shit out of it with hammers

[saluteofthejugger]

i hate pizza so much i want to bake it in a big oven

[kald-dal-art]

TBOSAS art because the book had it's 6th year anniversary recently. so felt inspired

[lionydoorin]

two peas in a pod

bonus :)

[kookooka2]

[kald-dal-art]

Everdeen sister doodles

[foxdoodles]

odesta come home pls

[foxdoodles]

some everlark + haymitch + buttercup silliness i drew for a friend's bday!

[denndrawings]

“A sister is someone you fight with and fight for.”

Hello hi twelve years old me would be so happy to know I’m twenty five and back into The Hunger Games. SOTR devoured me whole, I blacked out after finishing it and just woke up from it bon appetit.

[mechanical-idiot]

Some tributes and their tokens

rest in peace kids of the quarter quell you would have loved summer camp :(

[owlssin]

you held me the whole way through

when i couldn’t say the words like you

i was scared, indigo, but i wanted to

i was scared, indigo, but i wanted to

[everdeensmellark]

sunrise on the reaping raises an incredibly important ethical question: how many generations does it take to erase history, to the point of blind, unquestioning acceptance?

i fear the answer is far fewer than any of us are comfortable with.

[thefishywizard]

Victors

[camrlart]

i love you like all-fire

[batcavescolony]

the difference between Haymitch and Katniss's narration is so funny. Haymitch would give us everyone's social security number if he knew them, while Katniss wouldn't even tell us her mom's name.

[hereforhappystucky]

So we all know the 75th Quell wasn’t just for Katniss now, right??

It was - get rid of Finnick, people tell him too much and like him too much

It was - get rid of Mags (she’ll volunteer to save anyone), she’s always been too much of a rebel and cares more about the tributes than the games (i.e. hiding Finnick from cameras)

It was - get rid of Beetee, we’re finally done with him (I want to know why he’s suddenly disposable though). But let’s make it as awful as possible and remind him every day what his son was feeling in his own last days

It was - get rid of Wiress (and also show the world what she’s become) because she never should have won (and we’ll show people what happens when you think you’re smarter than the Capitol)

It was - get rid of Johanna Mason, we killed everyone she loved and it didn’t break her enough so now we can’t control her

And of course, it was - get rid of those rebels from 12

But it wasn’t just punishment for Katniss. She had no idea how influential and volatile of a group they were.

Honestly, I feel like the 3rd Quell might have actually worked if the Capitol hadn’t decided to just send all the most rebellious and threatening victors into them. You can’t put 10+ people who rebelled in their own games back into an arena (and this time they’re all together) and expect it to go well for you???

[petalsonparchment]

I like to think that Suzanne Collins also fell a little in love with Elizabeth Banks’s portrayal of Effie Trinket, and that it influenced how she wrote Effie and Haymitch’s relationship from Haymitch’s perspective. Seeing Effie through his eyes allows her to have far more depth and complexity as a Capitol citizen than Katniss, as a narrator, was ever really able to give her.

You have to imagine that Effie cared for him in some fashion or form. Their relationship was undoubtedly complicated to start with, but by the time Katniss meets her, Effie has been working with District 12 tributes for years. That kind of dedication to one single district (the poorest district!!) doesn’t happen without leaving a mark—or having a reason behind it.

Whether she wanted to or not, Effie clearly developed a soft spot for the children of District 12. Otherwise, why would she have stayed? She had been successful early in her career, and her work styling Haymitch and other tributes should have opened doors to more prestigious districts and opportunities within the Capitol—but she remained in District 12.

She also knew Cinna and genuinely cared about him. She’s not robotic in any way, just a product of her capital culture. That’s part of what makes Effie such a compelling character. She’s not inherently cruel or malicious; she helps people because she genuinely wants to. Like Katniss, she gets involved in the games to help her sister. She doesn’t come from a lot of money—I mean she styles Haymitch, Maysilee, Lou-Lou, and Wyatt with clothes from the back of a closet.

At the same time, she’s far from perfect. She’s still complicit in the Hunger Games system—first as a stylist and later as an escort. She still somehow shows up every July fourth and happily draws names from a bowl to go fight in the name of patriotism.

Her overall passion for helping people line up to die and finding peace with saying goodbye to people she cares for over and over again is what makes her so interesting. I just love her as a character. She’s flawed, compassionate, frustrating, and deeply human all at once.