Jun 20, 2025
In the middle of cleaning my dataset and adding tags to be excluded for my research because they're fanfic related (not relevant to my project) or THG prequel related (also not relevant) - and just saw this tag -
"tw: gale hawthorne".
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In the middle of cleaning my dataset and adding tags to be excluded for my research because they're fanfic related (not relevant to my project) or THG prequel related (also not relevant) - and just saw this tag -
"tw: gale hawthorne".
Finally done with my literature review so I can go back to the fun parts of my thesis project - tumblr scrolling while fangirling over THG and re-reading Mockingjay and watching the movies. Fact is, I never watched the fourth movie because I remember hating the first mockingjay movie. In fact, I have erased it from my memory. Can't wait to be disappointed by yet another adaptation.
Literally logged into my old personal tumblr and scrolled through posts from 12 years ago to find that one THG post i remember seeing that stuck in my mind all this time, partly inspiring my current thesis.
6 May 2025 - Update
So I'm about halfway through re-reading mockingjay and have thoughts galore about it and CF, as well as the movies. A lot of stuff I've reblogged addressed them already and I'll be posting more in the next few days as I finish reading and watching MJ.
Had to take a break for about a week because I got sick which has put me behind schedule but I'm back at it again - and by it I mean reading and researching for my thesis.
Tag Index
My Tags: Updates Original Posts THG Analysis Posts with direct THG quotes Reblogs with my additions Talking about characters Posts connecting THG to reality THG Meta Media in THG Character agency in THG Rebellion Use of propaganda in THG Book vs. Movie Memes Posts that made me laugh Incorrect THG quotes Katniss and Peeta are in love THG theories THG headcanons
My Posts about THG: Just the trilogy as a whole Reading Hunger Games Watching Hunger Games Reading Catching Fire Watching Catching Fire Reading Mockingjay Watching Mockingjay
Posts about Characters: Katniss Everdeen Peeta Mellark Haymitch Abernathy Rue Primrose Everdeen Gale Hawthorne Finnick Odair President Snow President Coin
About Specific book/movie: Hunger Games Catching Fire Mockingjay
An Error
So when I'm watching the (THG) movies, I get my thoughts down on my samsung notes app. I was halfway through catching fire and just lost it? It's disappeared into the ether and I want to scream. Guess I have to start all over again.
Just finished reading the Hunger Games again. The last time was well over a decade ago and there are just so many details I completely forgot. I read the book on my tablet so I could annotate it without messing up my physical copy. Oh the danger, the drama, the tears! I'm so glad I read at least part of it at home so I didn't cry in public. I'm going to go over the comments & notes I made that are relevant to my project (but I might slip in some other stuff too). I loved the book just as much as I did when I read it at 14/15.
Introduction
11 April 2025 (Friday)
Hello! I made this tumblr as part of the thesis project for my master's in digital humanities (my personal one would not be suitable for this). I am investigating fan engagement on tumblr with characters and the narrative from the hunger games trilogy.
I'm being upfront about the fact that I'm researching this so it doesn't seem like I'm sneaking around and gathering data like a racoon in a trashcan.
Part of my data collected includes how I and other fans talk about the characters and narrative (including meta-statements) but not about fanfiction/fanart (which is what a lot of fan studies talks about). So my activities here have a couple of steps:
Blogging as I read/watch the books and movies (excluding the prequels)
Spending some time just reblogging and engaging with posts from others.
(Steps 1 & 2 count as digital field work/ethnography)
Updating (for myself, not sure who else is going to see this) the blog with my progress
Large scale data post collection for corpus analysis (I'm not going to look at the actual content at this point) - to do some topic modelling, sentiment analysis, and stuff just to get some statistics about the most popular scenes, characters, subjects, trends, etc. Discourse analysis - looking at the most popular (and/or detailed) posts about specific aspects/characters, etc. and analysing the language use and how the user processed them
Digital (Auto) Ethnography: A self-reflective analysis of my blog and the posts I created and interacted with.
Ethical considerations: I will definitely be anonymising everybody's user names.
Feel free to contact me via the ask box if you have any questions.
Note: Will update this if anything changes.
UPDATE (28 April 2025): Changed the discourse analysis aspect of the project Created a tags index to make navigation easier:
Tags Index