#Buttercup and prim

[wierdshenanigans]

Call me stupid for just realizing but do you think the reason Prim adored Buttercup so much was because despite it's scraggly torn up mean appearance, it was protective and loving of her the same way Katniss was?

Do you think that's why Katniss hated Buttercup and the feeling was mutual? Because they were alot alike?

#Buttercup #katniss everdeen #primrose everdeen #Thg #the hunger games trilogy #the hunger games katniss #the hunger games #thg series #hunger games #the hunger games prim #catching fire #mockingjay #katniss and prim #Buttercup and prim #Buttercup and Katniss

[kvtnisseverdeen]

Buttercup begins to wail as well. No matter what I do, he won’t go. He circles me, just out of reach, as wave after wave of sobs racks my body, until eventually I fall unconscious. But he must understand. He must know that the unthinkable has happened and to survive will require previously unthinkable acts. Because hours later, when I come to in my bed, he’s there in the moonlight. Crouched beside me, yellow eyes alert, guarding me from the night. In the morning, he sits stoically as I clean the cuts, but digging the thorn from his paw brings on a round of those kitten mews. We both end up crying again, only this time we comfort each other.

#this chapter is too difficult to read #i personally feel prim's death and katniss' immediate reaction wasn't well done #but the scene with buttercup was amazing #but just wish they showed how much this meant to katniss #because buttercup being there gave her the strength to come back to life #it was the beginning of her healing process #anyway im crying #katniss everdeen #buttercup #primrose everdeen #mockingjay #thg #mine* #gifs* #mockingjayedit #thgedit #dailyflicks #nessa007 #userbbelcher #cinemapix #cinematv #userstream

[l3irdl3rain]

top 4 names have been decided. your voting won’t really make me choose that one, but just curious about you guys think.

#Marston bc then he’d match Arthur #buttercup bc it’s cute and I could call him Butters but also bc of prim’s cat in the hunger games #uncle deadly bc someone recommended Uncle and I have to be extra #I actually named one of the kittens I bottle fed in the muppet litter Uncle Deadly #but it ended up passing away #and last but not least is Aslan. bc I’m rereading the narnia series and the nostalgia is real #my post #john

[endlessnightlock]

Share a bed 41

Fifty Reasons To Share A Bed

Thanks for the prompt @jroseley <3 <3

41) Because your cat sleeps on my chest. (I’m not here for you… of course.) 

Set between the first and second THG books.

Canon-Divergent.

"Bad night?" Prim asked as Katniss stopped to pull her boots on before heading out to do whatever she filled her days with while their mother worked and Prim went to school. Katniss had been so different since she'd come home. She worried about her sister.

“Yeah, it was; sorry I woke you up,” Katniss admitted.

That wasn't why Prim had mentioned it. But now that the door was open---"I don't know if you're aware, but you were calling for Peeta in your sleep again," she said.

Katniss visibly stiffened.

“I wish you would at least talk to him,” Prim said, picking Buttercup up and scratching the big baby behind his ears.

Katniss stared out the window and across the road where Peeta’s house sat, silent as the grave. No one but Haymitch ever visited there. If it weren’t for the tail of smoke coming from the chimney, it would be easy to think the house was empty. “He's avoiding me too. It’s complicated,” she said before leaving.

Prim sighed. Ignoring each other wasn't going to reconcile anything.

Buttercup began purring in Prim's arms, a low rumble that vibrated through her fingertips. She studied her big orange tomcat, and an idea took root in her mind.

"Hey boy, we have some work to do," she explained, carrying him into the living room and sitting with him. As she brushed out his fur, Prim explained the details to him. Buttercup's gold eyes glowed with extraordinary intelligence. He blinked at her, occasionally capturing her wrist with his paws and licking her hand.

KPKPKPKPKPKP

Prim watched out the window as Peeta crossed Victor's Village with Buttercup in his arms. He navigated the walkway and the front steps, balancing the cat before disappearing beneath the porch roof. Stealthily, she snuck out of her bedroom and hid in the back stairwell where she could eavesdrop on his and her sister's conversation.

"I don't know why Buttercup keeps coming over," she hears Peeta say.

"Me neither. He's obsessed with Prim," Katniss said. "But, uh, thanks for bringing him home. I'll make sure to shut him in tonight."

"He's fine. He doesn't really bother me, just sleeps on my chest," Peeta admits.

"It's a nice place to sleep," Katniss says, shocking Prim so much she has to stifle her laughter to keep them from hearing her.

Her sister was an idiot when it came to her feelings, plain and simple. She knows Katniss better than everyone else, but still, Prim thought her crush on Peeta was pretty obvious to everyone watching from home. Why else would Gale be so jealous of Peeta?

Peeta and Katniss both laugh quietly. "Yeah, I like knowing someone else is there at night," he said.

"Probably gets lonely at your house with your family all in town," Katniss said, voice soft.

"Yeah. Too far for them to walk to work, so my mother says."

"Still feels like I'm alone a lot of the time, even when everyone is home," Katniss admitted.

"No one else understands what it was like," Peeta supplied the answer they both had to be thinking.

"No. No, they don't."

Prim left after that, allowing Katniss and Peeta some privacy to talk now that they were beginning to patch things up. Her work was done, and Buttercup's as well.

"Tonight, you need to stay with me," she whispered to the cat when he nosed the door open and strolled into her room. Buttercup sat down and regarded her seriously. Prim had no idea how he understood her, but she knew he did. Later that night, when Buttercup was curled up at her side, she heard the back door open, followed by heavy footsteps to Katniss's room.

Prim just knew her sister would sleep better tonight.

#endlessnightlock writes #everlark #canon-divergent #everlark fanfiction #katniss everdeen/peeta mellark #scheming Prim and Buttercup the diabolical duo #lol

[floworence]

For me Buttercup is a metaphor for Katniss. From the begining odds were against him, being born in such a cruel world, especially in District 12. Then Prim took him in, cared for him, showed unconditional love. He hunted for mice, knowing he will starve if he doesn't take care of it himself. And when separated from Prim, he came back time and time again, never giving up on her. In the end he ends up in District 12 again, injured and weak but still looking for Prim. Only thing he finds is Katniss. From then on he had to live in world with no Prim in it, only Katniss, showing that Katniss for first time in forever had to live only for herself.

#hunger games #buttercup #katniss everdeen #thg #primrose #primrose everdeen #prim #prim everdeen #the hunger games katniss

[paperconsumption]

i have yet again been emotionally devastated by the ending of mockingjay

#cried when i was 8. cried when i was 13. crying again now #prim was fine okay #lightwork #when buttercup showed up at the very end. i died

[oakfarmer]

primrose & buttercup !!

& Lady!

#thank you for the prompt! #smol prim #primrose everdeen #lady #and buttercup along for the ride #thg fanart

[jhsgf82]

Death Is Not the End

Edit by @mrspeetamellark​ Thank you!

Finally posted the prologue of this! I may change the title as I’m not thrilled with it. For those who haven’t read, I hope you’re intrigued. And for those who have, I hope you’ll fancy a quickie re-read. More to come! Happy Halloween! 

Synopsis: Paranormal AU. Katniss, an immortal countess, travels to America for the funeral of her beloved sister, Primrose. However, Katniss is not simply there to pay her respects; she plans to steal Prim’s body in hopes of later resurrecting her. While there, she meets a nosy reporter, Peeta Mellark, who seeks an exclusive interview with her. When he won’t take no for an answer, she decides to give him the inside scoop-at her castle. Loosely based on Netflix’s Dracula (2020). ~"It doesn’t matter how much you learn about me, Peeta Mellark; it’ll do you no good. You may be clever and articulate, but you haven’t even realized that you’re never leaving this place"~

Read on AO3 HERE 

#Death Is Not the End #vampiress!Katniss #journalist!Peeta #human-vampire relationship #Everlark #undead Prim #undead Buttercup #supernatural/paranormal romance #AU

[dykesbat]

the only reason katniss gets a happy ending is that she's able to break that cycle btw. if you even care.

#the meadow being her safe space + the epilogue scene where she has kids. #peeta being a baker and her birthday being in spring. #spring being a season of rebirth. her being named after a plant that i believe is used medicinally? #OH MY GOD EVERYONE SHUT UP SNAKES AND CATS I CANT DO THIS AGAIN NO #<- thinknig abt how snow is snake-like (poison. tbsos. etc.) and how buttercup is representative of katniss #(their relationship and only true bonding moment being them protecting prim. katniss hating him until they have no one else but each other. #the way she tries to drown him and that being her 'save the cat moment' + her being suicidal after she loses prim........) #suicide ment #thg

[gradienty]

Buttercup Pale Prim (#f7ae1b to #fdf7be)

#Gradient #Buttercup #Pale Prim #Light #f7ae1b #fdf7be #f7ae1bfdf7be #AI

[praesaepe]

reading the hunger games series as an adult is far, far worse holy shit

#i havent read it in years but i just read through it in a week #didnt cry during mockingjay until buttercup showed up looking for prim #rk.txt

[shadowglens]

i just finished reading the hunger games trilogy for the first time and ough

#txt #i didn’t cry at all in mockingjay until the bit near the end #where katniss yells at buttercup that prim’s not coming back #and then i was a sobbing mess for the rest of the book 😭😭😭 #anyway what a phenomenal book trilogy oh my fucking god

[senadimell]

Okay, the Hunger Games is hardly a bastion of accurate subsistence anything, but there is something particularly jarring about hearing plants that I know to be very poisonous unless prepared properly and also used in medicinal amounts/purposes described as being harvested for food rather than medicine and hearing “evening primrose” described as a “scraggly bush” that can be dug up from the woods and transplanted to the front of a house.

Because below are the evening primroses I know:

[ID: a picture of primroses in a field near a fence. This variety is pink, with five petals that grow in a bowl-like shape and grows on a single stem. Other flowers are shown in the background. End ID]

(The purple-magenta background flowers are known to me as winecups).

[ID: a close-up of a primrose that hasn’t yet fully bloomed with a closed bud nearby. The bloom is a more intense pink than the light pink of unfurled flowers. It is shorter than the long grass it is growing in. /End ID]

(it’s hard to find photos online that aren’t a closeup of the flower with the rest of them cropped out, so these are taken by yours truly.)

So why are primroses jarring when Suzanne Collins mentions them?

a) they are not bushes, but rather single wildflowers with the flower at the top of the stem

b) they are flowers that grow in what is currently known as the southern midwest (what a mouthful), not appalachia

c) they prefer full sun and tend to grow by roadsides and in fields because of it, not “the woods”

d) in my experience they are very very fragile when handled. they wilt within hours after picking, and the same is true if you uproot them and put them in water.

So yes, I know this is post-apocalyptic and most things have funky names and aren’t supposed to match up with recognizable 21st century things, so “primrose” could easily be a translation or “hey our names for things shifted and changed”

but also the name “prim” and “evening primrose” was likely kept specifically because it’s evocative of an actual, real-world flower that’s pretty and delicate-sounding, and it works as an allusion all the way until the end because primroses are pretty hardy growers that survive in rough conditions without cultivation BUT are pretty fragile when subjected to the violence necessary to display them (e.g. cutting them and putting them in a vase). That’s a great analogy for the character!

but then at the literal last chapter of the book you have a whole healing plot point about digging them up and planting them in Prim’s memory and now it’s clear that whatever these flowers are, they’re not actually primroses because primroses do not work like that.

and pokeweed!

[ID: a picture of pokeweed berry clusters hanging from the plant. The stems are a bright fuchsia color, the unripe berries are a pale green, and the ripe berries are a deep blackish color. End ID]

[ID: a close-up of ripe pokeweed berries. This variety is smooth and round, like a blueberry, but grows in a long cluster arranged more similarly to grapes. End ID]

[ID: People crushing pokeweed berries for dye. Someone holds out their hands palm-up, which are stained bright fuchsia by the berries. There is an unattended bowl of gathered berries, and another person crushes a bowl of berries by pressing a smaller bowl into it. End ID]

Okay, so in fairness, pokeweed is a traditional food in appalachia, but it’s described in the book as a “plant for eating, not healing,” and I feel like I should point out that all parts of the plant are poisonous.

I repeat. all parts of the pokeweed plant are poisonous. Some sites even say it’s also called american nightshade but I’m pretty sure that’s a separate but similar-looking plant that is also poisonous.

That said, proper preparation cooking practices can render the young spring leaves and shoots edible, but I am an internet rando who has never done said preparation/cooking so don’t go poisoning yourself without doing more research because I said so. I have no expertise.

It is absolutely a medicinal plant, maybe even more so than an edible plant going off of availability, since some sources suggest it’s only a spring edible (though others just say you need to boil it 3-4 times, so maybe it’s edible year-round). But it has been used in folk medicine quite a bit, so it just feels weird hearing it described as being added to the medicine book as “a plant for eating, not healing,” specifically, because that implies it wasn’t in there before, rather than saying its edibility was added to an entry on its medicinal uses.

so yeah, the Hunger Games is an odd mish-mash of stuff.

#the hunger games #plants #shoutout to that one book where henna was repeatedly described as if it's a paint or dye and not a very thick staining paste #it's bumpy! it cracks as it dries! it is not applied like paint or powder! it's more like piping frosting! #the irony is that until today i also referred to yellow evening primroses as buttercups because they are yellow cup flowers #unlike actual buttercups which are flat #but i am actually right about primroses #(look winecups are also the same shape as pink primroses and thinking that primroses were a pink variety of yellow buttercups made sense #but what i thought were buttercups were not actually that and apparently winecups are unrelated) #anyways i thought it was a nice touch that buttercup and prim actually had the same name but that was just projecting apparently

[smallpapers]

The Owl House + Lumity + Hunger Games AU??? Idk LMAO I’m still on a THG kick after rereading/watching the whole trilogy!!

Some thoughts on the AU under the cut

Okay so this is a stupid idea but I’m just having fun with it. Obviously it won’t follow the hunger games directly because the situation and characters are different, but some stuff kinda connects!!

Katniss and Peeta= Luz and Amity

Prim & Ms Everdeen & buttercup = Vee and Camilla and King

The Mellarks = Odalia (fitting!), Alador, and Ed + Em (fits since both Peet and Ami have two older siblings). I don’t think they’d run a bakery though, but something abomination related that fits here.

Haymitch = Eda

Madge = Gus??

Gale = I’m afraid there’s no Gale equivalent here because it doesn’t make sense in this AU, and I’m not a fan of love triangles anyway.

Effie = Hooty. This is funny to me. the peak of my fanart career

Cinna and Portia = Darius and Eberwolf

Senecca Crane = Kiki

Snow = Belos obviously

Ceasar = Adrian

Plutarch = Raine

Finnick = Hunter

Annie or Johanna ish situation = Willow??

Coin = ummm either Lilith or Collector hm

Anyways I kept the human and witch ears because I thought that could be an interesting tie with the Merchants vs Seam. And Amity’s hair is fully green in the interview scene because she got her grown roots dyed during the makeover! In this scenario I imagine Odalia would make her children dye funky hair colours in hopes of getting into the ‘capitol’ equivalent, which I guess is the Emperors Coven.

Also instead of girl on fire, Luz would have some ‘light’ related title.

#the owl house #the hunger games #lumity #luz noceda #amity blight #vee noceda #eda clawthorne #edalyn clawthorne #adrian graye #Toh au #Toh fanart #Toh luz #Toh amity #Toh eda #Toh Vee #myart #Toh hooty #luz x amity #I’ve literally gone insane you guys #anyways if anyone has good canon au ever lark fics please recommend them to me!

[debushit]

i’ve finally finished mockingjay and the last chapter wrecked me as much as every time i read it, you always hear about which death was the saddest for people but for me the moment that always breaks me the most is when buttercup finally makes it to district 12 just to find out prim is dead, i always have to take a moment and let myself cry before continuing

#word cannot describe the pain those lines inflict on me ok #the first time i couldn’t process prim was dead until that part so i was mourning prim and crying for the poor cat at the same time #the second time i got to read prim’s death being aware that this was it she’s death #but i was mostly like in awe of how genius her death was and how much sense it made #and now i’m mostly numb to it #every death hurts don’t get me wrong #but after all these re-reads buttercup still hurts as much (or actually more) than the first time

[artist-issues]

THE END of the Hunger Games is flawless.

The ending paragraph of "The Hunger Games" is so perfect. It so totally wraps up the whole point and takeaway of the books, and every character's journey, and nails it.

First off, the paragraph's context is about what you teach your children. Children, who are seen as the most precious treasure any person can handle in the book--treasures that can be turned into weapons and used against the treasurers. Children, who can bring down corrupt authority or keep it in place. So first off, a paragraph that addresses how important teaching children is is the best context for this perfect paragraph.

Second, Katniss is specifically teaching them what? "how I survive," which is her entire being. She makes every decision based on survival. She volunteers for Prim and doesn't kill Peeta in the first Games and chooses not to be with Gale and chooses to play her part against Snow all because she can't survive in a world where the alternative outcomes happen. Plus, survival is what other characters base their decisions on, too. 13 doesn't nuke the Capitol because it might ruin humanity's chances at survival. Hunger is the central plot device used to give Katniss all her skills, because without food, you don't what? Survive. Even "love" in these books is only another tool for survival; it makes suffering worthwhile, and purpose visible, and loss surmountable, and nightmares endurable, for every character. Finnick, Peeta, Katniss, Katniss' mother, even Buttercup the cat. The point of the book's lesson is "how to survive."

Third, the thing that could ruin love and pleasure's usefulness as a tool for survival is fear. But specific fear--"I'm afraid it could be taken away." It's fear that something you love, which makes survival worthwhile, could be taken away, and with it goes survival itself. The whole Hunger Games demonstrate that--"you rebelled against us? Then we're showing you that we can take away your children, the things that make survival worthwhile." And you know what? That's the dividing line between Katniss and Snow. Both Katniss and Coryo have survival as their ultimate goal, and have fear of the things they love being taken from them. For Katniss, it's the good opinion of the people of 12, it's her life with her sister and mom, it's the freedom from owing anyone anything, it's food and the ability to feed herself. For Coryo? It's his family name and reputation, his cousin and grandmother, his legacy, and his ability to never return to the cannibalism of the war. The fear of losing those things that they love is what could drive them to take no pleasure in them. To be afraid forever--and with fear comes the never-enough desire for control. To hang on to those things long after you've forgotten to take pleasure in them. Katniss almost does this with marrying Peeta or running from 12 or even becoming the Mockingjay. She's so afraid of losing what she loves that she jumps through hoops to control hanging onto them: does what Snow says, then does what Gale says, then does what Coin says. Plays a part in each of their games, to try and control the outcome. Coryo actually does do this, and for a while, has enough power to make that control almost universal. All because of fear of the things that he used to take pleasure in being taken from him.

Fourth, the alternative to focusing on the fear and the very-real danger of losing everything--is "focusing on every act of goodness I've seen someone do." This is just faith. Because it's true that the world of Panem (and the world in general) is full of people who are so afraid of losing control over what they love that they kill children and mutate nature to keep up the game, the illusion that they're in control. What you love could be taken from you. The world's full of that. But. The world also has unconditional love in it. People like Peeta, who saw that Katniss would kill him for her own survival in the first Hunger Games, but still chose to sacrifice for her anyway. People like Finnick, who loses everything including his mind, his body, and the things he loves most, but still gives Katniss the only rope he's got that's holding him together, just because he sees she needs it. Focus on that truth, instead of the simultaneous-truth that the it could all be taken away, and you'll have faith, not fear. You'll give up control and just enjoy what goodness you can. And when you do that, nobody can take it from you--not in spirit. Just like nobody could take Peeta's love for Katniss from him.

Finally, "it's like a game." To make a set of rules for yourself, a set of responses to the darkness of the world like making a list of things to focus on exclusively, is a game. It is a type of control--but it's just control of your own thoughts. Carefully using the game so that, in the arena of your brain, the love-shaped tribute is victor over the fear-shaped tribute. So that that battle stays in your head, instead of breaking out into a war that destroys what made your life worth surviving in the first place. Controlling what is your responsibility to control, instead of playing God and trying to control what's not yours. Drawing a line between what's good and what's bad, and staying firmly on one side of it without justification for crossing it.

That's why The Hunger Games is so good. Not because it has interesting dystopian settings, or because Gale and Peeta are hot and the romantic tension of the love triangle lets us self-insert ourselves. (Like other, worse YA fiction.)

No, The Hunger Games is so good because every part of it, from the characters to the setting to the symbolism to the names to the pacing to the development to the mood to the twists in the narrative, is used to uphold that main point. The main point that's so succinctly, cleanly, beautifully made in the last paragraph of the book.

#The hunger games #The Hunger Games #THG #Suzanne Collin's #mockingjay #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #bosas #lucy gray baird #coryo #Coriolanus snow #Tom Blyth #jennifer lawrence #josh hutcherson #liam hensworth #Catching Fire #Katniss Everdeen #Katniss #Snow #Finnick Odair #Peeta Mellark #Effie Trinket #story #writing #writing tips #YA novels #dystopian literature #literature #lit