#thg cf

[teddywidogast]

hey guys btw haymitch sent katniss and finnick bread from district 4 when they were grieving mags in catching fire just like mags sent haymitch and maysilee ham hock soup from district 12 when they were grieving.

[kito-oh-kito]

My baby 🥹

Without boarder

[inlovewithatvshow]

Rereading The Hunger Games books has made me realize something. A good piece of media makes me think about what it would be like to be a character in that story, in that world. I pictured myself at Hogwarts and in Resident Evil’s Raccoon City and as a Warrior Sister and as a Runner in The Glade, and as various other people in various other fictional places, fighting monsters and dragons and the evils of the world in many forms of media for as long as I can remember.

The one thing I never pictured myself in was The Hunger Games. I never wrote one shots about Panem, in fact it’s probably the only piece of media I have never consumed a single fanfic about. Not only did it feel wrong but I plain didn’t want to.

Katniss told us what it was like in a way that left very little to the imagination. Yes, she’s kinda obtuse in some instances but she’s also a literal teenage girl and as a prior literal teenage girl, sometimes you overthink the things that don’t matter and underthink the things that do.

The point is: Suzanne Collins did a really good job writing a piece of media that forces you to experience the story in a way that I’m not sure many others do. Yes, you experience the story but I feel like Collins was very effective in making you feel it too. She told the story and made you feel it, made you understand it. You witnessed all of the brutal and unholy horrors that the Capitol subjected each of the districts to. She didn’t allow for a single word to be wasted over-explaining to the point of boredom and she certainly didn’t allow you to look away from the monstrosity.

I’ll admit, I fell victim to the “the new books are a cash grab” mindset when Ballad was released, although I did borrow it from a friend a few weeks after release and ate my words for it. Granted, the narrator was the most unlikable character in the entire series so it’s not one I can really say I enjoyed. But the story was consistent with the original trilogy and the change from first person to third person was masterfully executed and a very interesting (in a good way) stylistic choice. Perhaps I brushed it off and didn’t give myself as much time to digest it as I did the original three, and maybe one day I will and I’ll decide I like it more.

However, Sunrise on the Reaping really sealed it for me. I think it is easily the best book in the entire series. And even then. Even laying beside Maysilee and Hamitch in the bed of katniss in the arena, even then I never thought, “I wonder what that would be like.”

Because Suzanne told us, and Katniss told us, and Haymitch told us, and, hell, even in his own twisted and distorted way, Coriolanus Snow told us:

“This is not what you want.”

And I never did.

Or maybe I’m just overthinking things again.

[skinnycaats]

while we're at it, heres my revamped annie cresta (70th hg interviews) design!

[shyjusticewarrior]

In the 11th games, Mags wanted to protect her district partner. In the 75th games, she finally got to.

[winter-wise]

At the end of Sunrise on the Reaping, Beetee's wife is pregnant -> if the child survived, they would have been 23 at the time of Katniss' games, and 24 at the time of the third Quarter Quell -> the child would only be eight years older than Katniss herself -> if Beetee's kid was reaped, Katniss would plausibly have been old enough to remember it -> in the trilogy, there is no mention of Beetee having any children, but Katniss does mention that the children of Victors tend to end up in the arena, so she likely witnessed this in at least one Hunger Games -> that kid definitely died in the Hunger Games as further punishment for Beetee

[dropping-out]

haymitch putting himself between a girl and a peacekeeper in catching fire when gale is on the whipping post knowing the exact consequences of those actions from the morning of his 16th birthday will fucking haunt me

[imauselessartist]

Mockingjay: book Peeta (pre-highjack)