#prep team

[sparklebear11]

It's portia in a Porsche

[districtfourmermaid]

Yeah, the Prep Team comes with their weird beauty standard crap about her eyebrows and body hair. But I'm laughing at Flavius for making sure no one has cut Katniss's hair in the past 5-ish months.

Only a Capitol person would think someone with long hair like Katniss would even think of haircuts more than annually.

[katnissisautistic]

“They sweep me unto the dining room and I get a real meal - roast beef and peas and soft rolls - although my portions are still being strictly controlled. Because when I ask for seconds, I’m refused. “No, no, no. They dont want it all coming back up on the stage” says Octavia, but she secretly slips me an extra roll under the table to let me know shes on my side.”

The foreshadowing to when the prep team steals the loaf of bread in District 13 . . .

[heavensbeehall]

"Catching Fire", Chapter 4

Part 1: The Spark

Chapter 4: Katniss worries the Capitol will force her to have children that go into the Hunger Games. She realizes this is why Haymitch has never married and (I assume) driven people away. The next day, Katniss has to be prepped more and it annoys her that Peeta doesn't (the patriarchy!). Her bad mood causes her to snap at Effie at lunch. Peeta comes to talk to her. She is surprised when Peeta apologies to her for the way he acted at the end of the previous book, saying he was jealous of Gale. But now he wants them to be friends. She asks to see his paintings. They discuss their PTSD nightmares. Then they arrive in District 11 and shit hits the fan.

Thoughts:

-- Katniss's first ideas about having to have a child go into the games is to a) commit suicide and b) run away. I understand the impulse to o flee. To be free. But I'd probably consider some kind of birth control (I don't know what's avail in Panem) or just never having intercourse. I am asexual so that wouldn't be much of a problem for me. Some people have said Katniss reads as asexual to them, and I sort of disagree. It might be just splitting hairs but to me she reads as someone who has not matured into a sexual being yet--probably because all her focus is on simply surviving. But she does seem to have some vague idea of having a life married to Gale possibly in the future, and then when it's presented to her that she will have to marry Peeta, her mind immediately goes to having kids. Also there's the "hunger" scene on the beach but we'll get there.

-- The "fight" with Effie kind of reminds me of siblings or cousins. Where you get fed up and just lash out, but know the person won't hate you later. (They're a team, aren't they?)

Quotes:

I try to enjoy the food like Hazelle said. The kitchen staff clearly wants to please me. They've prepared my favorite, lamb stew with dried plums, among other delicacies. Orange juice and a pot of steaming hot chocolate wait at my place at the table. So I eat a lot, and the meal is beyond reproach, but I can't say I'm enjoying it. I'm also annoyed that no one but Effie and I has shown up.

Aww I hope the kitchen staff didn't get blowed up in the rebellion.

As far as I can tell, they never get up before noon unless there's some sort of national emergency, like my leg hair.

I don't know why this is a line that I never forgot, but it is. Some things just stick with you. Like leg hair.

It's good to feel his fingers entwined with mine again, not for show but in actual friendship. We walk back to the train hand in hand.

This is the cutest thing I ever did read.

Some you wouldn't get right away, if you hadn't been with him in the arena yourself. Water dripping through the cracks in our cave. The dry pond bed. A pair of hands, his own, digging for roots. Others any viewer would recognize. The golden horn called the Cornucopia. Clove arranging the knives inside her jacket. One of the mutts, unmistakably the blond, green-eyed one meant to be Glimmer, snarling as it makes its way toward us. And me. I am everywhere. High up in a tree. Beating a shirt against the stones in the stream. Lying unconscious in a pool of blood. And one I can't place--perhaps this is how I looked when his fever was high--emerging from a silver gray mist that matches my eyes exactly.

When I went to a mental hospital for PTSD, we did art therapy. I was not as good as Peeta. Mine was a lot of heavy black lines.

[heavensbeehall]

"... my portions are still being strictly controlled. Because when I ask for seconds, I’m refused. “No, no, no. They don’t want it all coming back up on the stage,” says Octavia, but she secretly slips me an extra roll under the table to let me know she’s on my side." -- Chapter 26, "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Guys I kind of want to cry. She is tortured for this same kind of thing in District 13. But here it is a sweet gesture.

[marpita1605]

So, I did this

Katniss’ prep team (Octavia, Flavius and Venia)

I had a lot of fun and I hope I made justice to their extravagance.

The name is poicon maker in picrew I think

[lovely-tothe-bone]

Prep Team by LaurasMuse

[panoramaofpanem]

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“Who knows who I would be or what I would talk about if I’d been raised in the Capitol? Maybe my biggest regret would be having feathered costumes at my birthday party too.”

- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins