there is absolutely gorgeous dandelion/everlark discourse happening on my dash right now (and always) and I feel like I must make a shameful confession...
I fucking HATE dandelions 😖😖😩
They are just so evil on the weed evilness scale. The leaves are so goddamn sharp and they get SO big and choke and kill everything around them. Didn't catch one before it gets 2 ft around? Enjoy digging a friggin hole halfway to hell to pull that horror out. (sorry you didn't actually get it. it'll be back in 2 days) And they smell so yucckkyyyyyy
I understand their unkillable nature is probably THE POINT but I can't be romantic about them because of gardener trauma.
What if Coin banned Katniss from training for the battle of the capitol, she is stuck in 13 with hijacked Peeta, how do you see this scenario playing out
Based on the movies (since I haven’t finished the final book), I think at first Katniss would try to avoid Peeta as much as possible, not out of hatred, but out of fear. She would be terrified of what he might do because of the hijacking, and the emotional distance between them would only grow as she struggles to reconcile the Peeta she knew with the person who now seems so broken and unpredictable. At first, she might keep her distance, torn between wanting to protect herself and wanting to help him.
However, over time, I believe Katniss would begin to engage with him more. She might bring him food or find herself asking the nurses about his progress, even if she doesn’t fully understand what’s happening to him. She’d start looking for small, quiet moments to connect, sitting with him without saying much—just offering her presence, something familiar to him, even if she’s unsure whether it helps.
As she spends more time with him, I think her natural instinct to protect would kick in. She’d feel an overwhelming need to try to help him heal, even if it feels like an impossible task. She might even try talking to him, not expecting him to recognize her immediately, but hoping that somehow her voice, her touch, could reach him. Over time, her fear would start to give way to a deeper understanding of what Peeta is going through, and she would see the small signs of the Peeta she loves underneath the trauma.
Whether or not Katniss is allowed to go on missions, I think their relationship would slowly begin to rebuild. The trauma and distance would still be there, but so would the unspoken bond they’ve shared from the beginning. Their connection might start small—shared moments, fleeting glances, the quiet understanding that they’ve both endured so much—but slowly, they’d find their way back to each other, even if it’s not the same as before. The journey would be long and painful, but their relationship would heal, one small step at a time.
The thing I have most in common with Katniss is sharing a bed with a man who has night terrors for 15 years. But it’s actually the thing I relate to her the least on.
Because we all know Katniss and Peeta are big time snugglers. But I cannot be anywhere NEAR my husband if he’s sleeping because the slightest tap of a knee and he wakes up swinging. And when he has a night terror instead of holding him and singing songs and doing all the beautiful things people in fics write, I wake up just enough to sling an arm across him and go “YOU'RE FINE.” Then he falls back asleep in 4 seconds and doesn’t even remember it in the morning.
