the glamour, the terror

the hunger games OC/character blog. (21 - he/him)

[shhh-secret-time]

Fuck it, OC brain rot won. Get ready for the Secret Ask List

1) Does your OC have a voice claim, if so who?

2) Who's your OCs best friend? How did they become best friends?

3) What song describes your OC?

4) What song describes your OC and their partner/love interest?

5) Do you ship your OC with a Canon character? If so who?

6) If your OC is in a fantasy setting, what profession would they be in the modern day?

7) Vice-Versa! If your OC is in the modern day, what fantasy class would they be? Would they be a different race?

8) What hobbies does your OC have? What do they do to unwind?

9) How does your OC handle their physical health? Do they take care of themselves?

10) How does your OC handle their mental health? Do they take care of themselves?

11) What was your inspiration for your OC?

12) Does your OC interact with other people's OC? If so, who's their best OC friend?

13) Does your OC have a rival? How did it start?

14) Who's a character your OC cannot stand! It's on sight when they see them!

15) Will your OC ever retire? Do you see them making it?

16) How's their relationship with their parents? Are they alive?

17) If your OC has kids, are they a good parent? Do they ever feel guilty if they have to leave them?

18) What are their pronouns? What would they like to be called?

19) What's their sexuality? What's their love language both giving and receiving?

20) If they fight, what's their weapon of choice?

21) What song best describes their relationship with their enemy?

22) Fight or Flight? Are they a lover or a fighter?

23) Is your OC reliable? Can I call them up at two in the morning if I have a flat tire?

24) Can they play any instruments? If so, what do they play?

25) Are they the kind of person who can't resist a good song? Can I catch your OC singing to themselves while they do the dishes?

26) What flower do you associate your OC with?

27) What's their spirit tamagotchi? Or an animal you associate them with?

28) What clique would they be in? (Draw them in the clothes of said group!)

29) Imagine a mood board for your OC! What's on it? (Make it if you want!)

30) My OC and your OC are friends. This isn't a question. I'm not asking. (How do they respond?)

[theglamour-theterror]

Hohoo

[theglamour-theterror]

All I can say about SoTR is that it's simple enough to understand as an introduction 101 thing. Its main point were that we never know what happened behind the scenes because they can all be twisted by the media. There are scenes where Plutarch asked Haymitch questions that could have been interesting too but it weren't fleshed out as well enough as I hoped it would be. The book itself wasn't as relevant as I hoped it'd be either

[direwolfrules]

I get that this is kinda over shadowed by the, well, everything going on in the book, but why is no one talking about how District 12 was a fucking Company Town. The miners were paid in scrip. Scrip was only supposed to be redeemable in the Capitol Store, but luckily some of the merchants in town would accept it as an alternative form of payment.

Keep in mind I’m American so my knowledge of the subject is very USA history centered, if anyone with knowledge of similar systems in other nations wants to jump in I encourage it.

For those who aren’t aware, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, companies would build entire communities, Company Towns, to house their workers. In the United States this often happened in remote areas where resource extraction jobs such as mining and logging/lumber milling were occurring. These towns would often be the only place to live for miles near these work sites, so even in the locations where it wasn’t required by the company that owned the site for their employees to live in the company town, many had no choice but to do so.

Most company towns were exploitative. You HAD to live in the company town most times, and in many cases the company would charge you rent. Then comes the Company Stores and scrip. The company owned and ran the store in town. So you needed to buy your groceries and toiletries and basic articles for living from the company. Thing was, they’d charge an excessive mark up for these products. So your pay would never quite be enough to afford everything you were buying, leaving you forced to put in on credit. Leaving you in debt to the company. But say you were in a company town just close enough to another community that you’d be able to make the trek to buy stuff from their shops. Surely, in that case, you’d be able to avoid the debt to the company that employs you? This is where scrip comes in. Scrip was an alternative type of currency that was only really good in the company town that issued it. Miners and loggers would be paid in scrip instead of actual money, and the exchange rate was practically worthless. Even if that neighboring community existed, the likelihood it would have a shop that would accept pieces of paper that were only useful as tinder outside of a company town were slim to none.

Company towns were designed to keep workers in debt to the company, and therefore trapped in their employment with the company. They were often lacking in what we would today consider to be basic municipal services, were full of poverty and lacking conditions, and the general awfulness of the practice and environment was one of the factors that lead to the unionization of mine workers.

Which leads me to a bit of Appalachian Coal Mining specific history and another few things I don’t see people talking about in the books. For around a decade in the 1910s-1920s the West Virginia coal wars, also known as the mine wars, raged as part of the dispute between unionizing miners and the mining companies/their union busting mercenaries/the U.S. government. The history is too long for this post, but I encourage everyone to at least read the Wikipedia article. Anyway, the Coal Wars culminated in the Battle of Blair Mountain. During the Battle of Blair Mountain, which was the largest labor uprising in US history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War, about 10,000 miners rose up against the companies and corrupt sheriff’s department that were literally murdering murdering them on courthouse steps for unionizing. The companies and the US Army had bomber planes drop gas and explosive bombs left over from WWI on them.

Anyway, I find it incredibly interesting with this historical context that one of Haymitch’s friends is named Blair. Whether or not Blair Mountain is still known as Blair Mountain during the series is unknown, the only in universe reference we have to what placed used to be named is when Katniss mentions District 12 is in what used to be known as Appalachia. It’s just interesting to me, that a name so tied to Appalachian coal miners rebelling against exploitative companies and corrupt law enforcement, lived on.

I also want to point out that while the miners were bombed and routed at Blair Mountain, though it was technically a win for the companies-government coalition, even though it led to lower numbers of UMW members for the next few years, the fight continued on. And in the 1930s the union won most of what the miners had been fighting for. Something something, District 12 parallel.

Anyway, I leave you with some music to listen to:

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[eeriethacus]

Haymitch Abernathy..my shayla..weeps

[cogentranting]

Wild to look back at the Hunger Games trilogy now and know that at any given moment there's like a 70% chance that Haymitch is reciting "The Raven" in his head.

[theglamour-theterror]

Favorite thing about sotr is that we get a peek into his mind and his inner monologues like how the latter bit reads like a fever dream with the increasing intensity of the poem so it's probably worst in the main triology

[theglamour-theterror]

Whew I finally finished Sunrise on Reaping Day and I have thoughts

[lynxindisguise]

find out what the tumblr girlies are saying about you

[aprillikesthings]

loling at this question specifically:

[ml-nolan]

Jesus christ, I’m not even tall.

[every-captain]

D:

[theglamour-theterror]

[theglamour-theterror]

What does it mean when I cant see some reblogs and likes

[olyaroo]

Drew my take on the 3rd Victor of District 8 - Kathryn Maroy before her interview, 23rd Hunger Games

The "Oh no, not Cecelia" phrase made me think there was a second female Victor in D8, so here is my interpretation of that Victor.

And to me, the Victor pool in District 8 looked like this:

Woof Reed - 16th Hunger Games

Kathryn Maroy - 23rd Hunger Games

Cecelia Polly - 58th Hunger Games

[theglamour-theterror]

can i humor you guys with another thing from my capitol oc guy ok thanks. his whole thing is reason is and ought to be the slave of the passion basically

accompanying pieces:

[theglamour-theterror]

(sketchdump) poor boy let him grieve in private

[theglamour-theterror]

"Thế mày viết Alex làm gì" tại tao nứng l. Khỏi hỏi

[theglamour-theterror]

Short answer (funny haha) but also long serious earnest answer is that I wanted to question and challenge myself and I find with my limited perspective his will be most fitting. But also the overindulgence might turn him into something a bit more than his original purpose. Still he represents a lot of awful thoughts that plague my mind. It's important to have a reasonable conclusion for him if I can't let him go because it helps me too.

It's a bit obvious in the way he leeches on ppl memories and all

[theglamour-theterror]

"Thế mày viết Alex làm gì" tại tao nứng l. Khỏi hỏi

[theglamour-theterror]

It's possible to write a story about propaganda and media control using Haymitch's perspective though. Despite some parallels Haymitch isn't like Katniss or Peeta, he wasn't a Capitol darling, his victory and subsequent public presence led to constant misery and sorrow and tragedy, and he was alone. Thus the campaign will be all about him. The Capitol can and will spin fantasies about him that paint him as someone he isn't. Haymitch was the one to fell victim to it all, so who else would be more fitting to tell this kind of story than him? Let the audiences (read: capitol citizen) mock and berate him while also making room for you to sympathize with him. Let all his words be twisted and turned back against him. Let the reader question what they already know, possibly to a point where his own self hatred blinded and closed his heart as he too fell into this facade, this role he had to play, only for us to realize that this had been a tragedy all along. To say his voice adds nothing to the story means we don't understand him yet and making it even more important to let him talk

[theglamour-theterror]

mấy thằng chê bình minh lấy pov của haymitch nhàm chắc chưa bao giờ đọc số đỏ của nguyễn trọng phụng