“goodbye, lucy gray. we barely knew you.”

astraeus | he/they/she | certified katniss and rachel zegler lover

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OH MY GOD.

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i need suzanne collins to confirm katniss is autistic so that when i say “the best depiction of afab autism i have witnessed is book!katniss everdeen” people understand me

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meanest girl in town

[livingfandomly]

SotR is a realisation. A realisation that the rebellion didn’t start with Katniss. That all the people we see supporting her or helping her have all been wanting to fight but they’ve been failing. That there weren’t merely “rumours” of a revolution but there were many active plans playing out and failing.

It’s a reminder that the perfect Hunger Games we saw in the first hg book was an illusion because we had Katniss as our narrator. We didn’t have Haymitch, hell, we didn’t even have someone like Peeta because these people played the games. Katniss didn’t.

Katniss was introduced to us as a mad, simple, naive girl who literally only survived because of others. She didn’t know how much her taking Prim’s place mattered because she didn’t realise what it meant to everyone who came before her. To everyone who had heard rumours of how the last District 12 victor actually fought his games. No, Katniss had just kept her head down, hunting and providing for her family.

See, she grew up way before the Games got to her. She’d already lived through her dad’s death and watched it destroy her once lively mom. Haymitch didn’t have to go through that. Lucy Gray didn’t have to go through that. They were both angry, yes, but at the Capitol. Katniss? She was first and foremost angry at her mom. At her dad. She knew who was to blame but she had too much to do and deal with to think about that. She was already jaded in a way that the Games couldn’t touch.

Peeta? He was Haymitch. He knew what he was getting into and realised he was just on a chess board with no control. So, he adapted. He played the knight, the rook, the king, the pawn. Katniss? She just… did. Changing directions, not playing the piece she was assigned because she didn’t realise that’s what was going on. Remember her surprise at the crown twisting into two after the Games?? She was so oblivious. Until Catching Fire where everything caught up to her. Where everything so many other people had been waiting and working for caught up to her.

SotR is a history book. Rewritten and edited and published as a piece of fact. SotR is a mirror and it’s a reflection of what actually happens vs what ends up being shown. SotR is the playbook of those in control of any and every kind of media that we come in touch with. SotR is a wake up call and I truly don’t know how many will see it as such.

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SOTR SPOILERS BELOW‼️

said this to my fiancée already but i love suzanne collins for having maysilee Flourish by being “girly” and what some would call a “stereotypical woman”. she’s not portrayed as a weak link or a useless asshole; her incredible knowledge of fashion and makeup and braiding and jewelry saves lives

[liseenle]

Just finished re-reading the Hunger Games after like ten years.

I don’t think I’ve ever cried this much for a book in my whole life.

And it’s not because Katniss and Peeta end up together, or because the war is over and 12 is born again. It’s because the cat goes back home and Prim is not there to love him. And it’s because Katniss writes a book about the people she loved and lost. And Peeta draws their faces, so that Finnick can still smile up at them. And Annie sends them a photo, of her with his child.

And this is on books being salvation and frustration at the same time. A message for hope and forgiveness, but also warnings about humanity. And no, there is no way that life goes on the same after having finished this story.

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big big haymitch and katniss energy here

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SCREAMING over rachel’s “ROMEO AND JULIET ME” i’m tweaking out in my state/local politics lecture SHES SO🤤

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okay yes katniss is sejanus’ revenge just as much as lucy gray’s but yk who else is?

johanna

and yk who i think is lucy gray’s revenge just as much as peeta is?

annie cresta