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[jily4lyfe]

I lowkey understand the Game makers giving Haymitch a 1 he literally walked in there, showed no skills, ran his mouth and left LMAO

[menkhubones]

There was this horrible moment I had while reading SotR today where I realized Haymitch looked at Katniss and saw the dead little girl with dark braided hair he had to carry to Snow’s doorstep, his best friend he had to push away for his own good, and the Covey girl he couldn’t save all rolled into one more tribute he had to lead to her death wearing the meanest girl in town’s pin. I need to be sedated

[livingfandomly]

You’re telling me they had the fucking AUDACITY to include THESE. GODDAMN. SCENES. In the FUCKING TRAILER?!? whAT The aCTUAL FUCK!?

i’m so scared.

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

Lenore Dove is named for a dead girl and a shade of gray, which I’m pretty sure is just Covey-speak for “doomed by the narrative”

[winter-wise]

Snow's influence in the gradual erasure of the Covey from District 12's culture. In TBOSAS, they're well-known as performers. In Sunrise on the Reaping, they no longer sing in public. Lenore has to cut a deal just to be able to play the piano. In Hunger Games, Katniss, a singer herself, doesn't mention the Covey once.

[uncommon-etc]

This combined with the fact tributes from district 12 are expected to wear black makes it even more tragic. I wonder how quickly they went from her showing up in the Capitol (which, 10 years after the rebellion was a lot more drab and colourless) in her rainbow ruffle dress to mandating that any tribute from 12 has to be head to toe funeral colours?

[stopiwanttotalkaboutcheese]

The reveal of how Effie got involved with Haymitch, and by extension, District Twelve, is actually so funny. Like this poor woman helped her baby sister with her schoolwork ONE TIME and it spiraled into Effie literally getting accused of helping to start a revolution that eventually killed the president.

[burningfudge]

this is so funny to me for some reason 😭

[feelingthedisaster]

his introduction in the first book being falling down the stage and "yeah, he is known for that"

[softestaries]

it would have been devastating if Haymitch just hid throughout his entire game. it would have been devastating if he cheated. it would have been devastating if he killed everyone in that arena with his bare hands. it would have been devastating if everyone sacrificed themselves for him.

it was always going to be devastating

but the fact he tried to destroy it? that he stood up to snow? that everything we knew about him was from capitol propaganda? that his poster never saw the light of day?

there isn't words.

[justafewberries]

suzanne said you are NOT getting another love triangle you missed the point the first time and now you must LISTEN TO ME

[belovedsamber]

[thepigeonsart]

Whenever Haymitch insulted Effie's outfits during the main triology, it wasn't his fault, he was being possesed by Maysilee's ghost

[takingontheworldtogether]

snow's characterization is so interesting because like. he's the president of a fascist government. in theory he has better things to do. but he's obsessed with poisoning teenagers and their loved ones. and this would make absolutely no sense if it weren't for tbosas, when we learn that (1) he has a past to get hung up on and (2) he's absolutely the kind of guy who laser focuses on ruining one person's life even when it doesn't matter all that much

[uncommon-etc]

and the fact that with the exception of Haymitch (who eventually gets a tiny bit of context from seeing a clip from the 10th Hunger Games entirely by accident and piecing the rest together) none of said teenagers ever get any insight into why gives what could be an incredibly dark story of pure misery and unexpectedly hilarious set of scenes.

[kaybaeisgay]

the longer i sit with it, the more i think that the saddest (not without some tough fucking competition, obviously) realization about sotr to me is that almost all the tributes really, truly, did not treat the games like they had a chance.

in the original trilogy—and even in The Ballad—the tributes felt like they were genuinely scheming and training and vying to win. with every other games, it seemed like the kids held onto this hope that they would be The One to make it, the one to become victor, even if they didn’t always say it aloud. despite the odds, they clawed as close as they could to victory, even if it meant playing into the capitol’s game and sacrificing their honor or morality.

but in this one? they come into the training rooms expecting to die. even the careers, though they swagger about and act like hot shit, feel younger than the careers have ever felt to me before. they collectively seem more resigned and bitter than in past/future tributes. their motives were all so unified against the capitol in a way that was reminiscent of the 75th games—where half the tributes were already a part of an organized rebellion to begin with.

while the theme of ‘i want to choose how i die, i don’t want the capitol to use me’ is prevalent in every book, this quell felt especially grim and determined. i kept expecting suzanne collins to undermine the camaraderie she gave the Newcomers. i kept expecting someone to decide ‘fuck it, i’m going for it on my own and i’ll backstab whoever i need to to do it.’ i kept expecting betrayal and desperation and a true competition.

but no—like wyatt, knowing his odds and choosing to protect the weaker—like ampert, knowing he’s charming and smart enough to make a decent bid for victor, yet rebelling anyways—like maysilee, knowing she’s near powerless, but spitting in the capitol’s face anytime she can—like all the newcomers, knowing they hardly have a shot, but absolutely refusing to betray one another—

they remained steadfast in their hope to die dignified and honorable, to die fighting against the true enemy, and that makes it so much more heartbreaking.

[olyaroo]

ITS BEEN 60 YEARS MAN

COME ON

[uncommon-etc]

*65 years

[paperlit]

We as a fandom moved way too fast past this:

And this:

[trolliworms]

I think the most depressing thing about sunrise on the reaping is how it shifts everything we know so far. We spent so long feeling bad for Katniss and Peeta just to find out they didn’t even have the worst of it. The original hunger games trilogy was just the tip of the goddamn ice berg.

I rewatched the first movie and I cried so much harder than usual because I know this was not the first Prim. Not the first Rue. Not by a long shot. And we have no clue the depths of the cruelty.

[uncommon-etc]

Comparing tbosas and sotr to the original trilogy is so devastating because just when you think the Capitol has reached new levels of depravity, you go back 24 then 40 years and they're publicly beating kids, or keeping them in a cage at the zoo (bringing to mind those racist 'ethnological expositions' in the Victorian era).

I felt so bad for all the tributes in both the 50th and 74th Hunger Games, then I read tbosas and my immediate thought was 'well at least they're feeding, washing and clothing them, and not exposing them to rabid racoons, so this seems like a big step up'. The Capitol is quite happy to allow its own civilians to go hungry in the immediate post-war years, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they treat the tributes worse than animals, but damn...