#The Mellarks

[little-lynx]

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If shame had a face, I think it would kind of look like mine If it had a home, would it be my eyes? Would you believe me if I said I'm tired of this? Well, here we go now, one more time

I never thought I'd end up here Never thought I'd be standing where I am I guess I kind of thought it would be easier than this I guess I was wrong now, one more time (c) Lifehouse

#the hunger games #hunger games fanart #peeta mellark #mrs mellark #the mellarks #lynx second quarter quell generation #kinda? #someone asked me to draw lil Peeta with his mom #it was loooooong ago #but I’m here for this #lynx hunger games

[periwinckles]

The Mellarks - part two

I’m so lost in all the reblogs I’m making a new one.

once again there’s a lot of good points being made. I agree, Mrs Mellark is definitely a bitch and more than likely an abusive mother. But…

Peeta getting ice to put on his face when Haymitch hits him does not mean he’s being hit by his mother on a regular basis. He’s a WREsTLER! Of course he knows he’s supposed to put ice in it.

Peeta being good at camouflage does not mean he used to cover his marks. He had no access to regular food, you think he had access to make up? He was good because he’s a natural artist.

Peeta taking care of Haymitch does not mean Mr Mellark was drunk. It means they (K and P) had a hard job to do and Peeta chose to do it by himself. We don’t know if he knew what he was doing, other than putting him in the shower. Which, again, could just be because one of his brothers came home drunk and he saw his mother/father doing it for them. Ocasional drunk twenty year olds is far more common than drunk father, especially when we have no indication whatsoever that Mr Mellark was a drunk.

#I just think most people take reading between the lines way too far #And take their headcanon as canon #And it’s not #the hunger games #everlark #peeta mellark #the mellarks

[peetapatgoesmyheart]

The cuteness..I can’t.

#katniss and peeta #katniss everdeen #Happy birthday Katniss #birthday girl #the mellarks

[jlalafics]

you prev. said you would write haymitch/katniss father-daughter. how about a drabble where he begrudgingly tells her he loves her?

Hi! This is totally unedited...so excuse the mistakes. I hope you like this angsty little bit.

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Trigger Warning: Late-term miscarriage

It's unnervingly quiet when he steps into the Mellark home.

Haymitch closes the door softly, heading into the living room where Willow is trying to get six-year-old Rye to eat his lunch. He muses over the siblings, thinking how much they are like their parents. His sweet Willow, only ten, but already trying to run the house and take care of everyone. She is Peeta’s girl, through and through, and is often seen about the town making bread deliveries with her father.

Then there is Rye, stubborn like his mother, but fierce and loyal to a fault. Just like Katniss.

Haymitch has run out of fingers counting the number of times that Peeta and Katniss have been called to the local school. Often, the boy is in trouble for using several simple items as non-lethal weaponry. However, most of the time, Rye is defending someone who cannot defend themselves.

He lets out a soft whistle and the Mellark children jump from their seats to join him.

“Rye won’t eat his sandwich,” Willow immediately informs him.

“I want a cookie,” Rye states firmly.

“Rye, you get what you get, and you don’t get upset.”

Haymitch grimaces at his words. He never thought that he’d be lecturing children about sandwiches. His forte was trying to keep them from dying in an arena, and he was no expert on that.

However, for these kids, he will be firm but gentle. Haymitch will let them sit on his lap and give him kisses.

He will let them call him Grandpa, knowing his blood runs through neither of their parents’ veins.

What is blood anyway?

There’s a small shuffle upstairs and each pair of eyes looks to the ceiling above them. Willow and Rye each press against him, sandwiching him between their tiny bodies, and instinctively his arms wrap around each of them.

“Momma was crying,” Willow explains, her blue eyes shining. “It’s been like that since this morning.”

Haymitch struggles to find the words, not sure how to explain what happened. Instead, he nods and gives Willow a gentle squeeze.

“Don’t you worry, sweetheart,” he assures her. “We’ll figure it out. That’s what families do.”

He leads them into the dining room, sitting Rye down with his sandwich and Willow with her schoolwork. It’s better that they stay away from the sitting room where their parents’ room sits above. With a kiss on each of their heads, Haymitch heads upstairs.

Reaching the top of the stairs, the bedroom door opens and Peeta steps out. His usual easy expression is absent as he meets Haymitch’s eyes.

They meet in the middle of the hallway, and he gives Peeta’s shoulder a gentle squeeze. “How is she?”

“It happened this morning,” Peeta explains quietly. “Mrs. Everdeen helped her through and gave her something for the pain.” His mouth shakes, his chin trembling as he tries to hold back his tears. “There was so much blood, Haymitch—” His fist presses to mouth, and Peeta’s eyes squeeze shut as to keep himself from breaking. “—and I couldn’t do anything but watch—"

Haymitch pulls the man to him; lets him struggle to try to keep afloat in his pain. There are no words or gestures that will make this moment better.

For years, Katniss never wanted children. Before it had been because she could never submit a child to a Reaping Day and eventually to war. Then, Prim was killed, and she had mourned her sister’s death, unable to even look lest think of children with gold locks.

Years later, after much discussion and arguing, Willow was born on a summer night. It had been love at first sight for Katniss, and Haymitch saw the change happen before his eyes as he watched her snuggle the buddled baby to her chest.

When Rye came, he held his breath seeing the blond locks on the wailing baby’s head. However, Katniss had reached out, claiming Rye immediately from her mother and rocking him to a peaceful sleep.

They had settled in a somewhat peaceful life. There were chaotic moments—flashbacks and nightmares, reminders of the Games in the form of visits from former victors, and even an occasional phone call from Effie to say hello to the children.

All in all, their lives were peaceful and full of quiet pockets of happiness that he clung to whenever the need for the bottle called to him.

When Katniss and Peeta announced her pregnancy, unexpected to say the least, he gave them a congratulatory nod while brainstorming what wood to use for the crib.

By now, the couple was experts on child-rearing.

Then two nights ago, Katniss’ water broke. She was only in her fifth month.

And despite the rushed train ride from District 4, there was nothing Katniss’ mother could do.

This morning, Katniss delivered her baby, almost losing her life in the process.

“Will you sit with her?” His thoughts are interrupted by Peeta’s request. “She probably won’t say much but I know it would help to have you there.”

“Where are you going?”

“I have to make arrangements…for the baby—” Peeta lets out an anguished sob, quickly stifling it for his wife’s sake. “I don’t know where to start.”

“Go to the midwife,” he advises calmly. “She probably knows how to deal with something like this. Katniss’ mom isn’t familiar with District 12 anymore, so she won’t know anything about the proper procedures. Also—talk to Willow and Rye, they’re kids but they’re not stupid.”

Peeta gains some of his old smile back. “No, our children are far from dumb.”

The man descends the stairs and Haymitch girds himself as he steps toward the door. He isn’t sure which version of Katniss he’ll get—angry and volatile or weepy and despondent.

Knocking softly, he presses his mouth to the door. “Katniss, I’m comin’ in.”

Turning the doorknob, Haymitch enters the room swiftly, closing the door, and preparing himself for the hurricane that is Katniss Mellark, the Mockingjay herself.

However, she isn’t angry or volatile nor weepy or despondent.

Katniss is simply broken.

She looks at him, eyes red and swimming with sadness. “H-Haymitch…”

The quiver in her voice is enough to break him and he sits by her side on the mattress. The bed has long been cleaned and Katniss is in a fresh gown, but the room hangs heavy with death. It’s all there in the form of Katniss, barely holding on and blubbering into her pillow.

“What did I do wrong?” she sobs.

“Nothing—” He coughs, catching that bit of a quiver in his voice. “—these things happen, Katniss, and there isn’t any reason for it. They just do.”

Katniss wipes her eyes against the sleeve of her nightgown.

“I don’t know why I’m crying about this,” she snorts. “I was worried about this last one, not even sure that I had wanted it. When we found out, Peeta and I fought over what to do. I wasn’t sure I could handle one more. I had already drawn the line at two.” Katniss’ gaze goes to him. “Did I do this? Did I make this baby go away?”

“No.” His hand goes to her hair, smoothing down the bit of frizz. He used to do this whenever his little brother had a hard time sleeping. In minutes, Luca would be asleep. Haymitch has high doubts this will have the same effect on Katniss. “Of course not, sweetheart. You were happy. I saw it—that same light that you have in your eyes whenever you look at those babies downstairs. I saw it whenever you talked about this little one.”

“How can I face them, Haymitch?” Katniss buries her face in her hands before dropping them to look at him. “How can I tell them that the baby is gone? I don’t know if I could stand to show them how death looks. I thought that with the war being over, I had time to come up with reasons and explanations. I have nothing because I barely understand myself.”

“Come here.” Slowly, Katniss sits up and he puts an arm around her. “Whatever you say will be enough. They may not have grown up in a war but they sure as hell know who their parents are.”

“Half the fights Rye gets into are due to something said about us,” Katniss informs him. “I wanted to keep them pure, Haymitch. I hardly had a chance to be a child before I was thrown into an arena. I never wanted the same for them.”

“And it won’t be,” he assures her. “Because you love them, and you’d do anything to make sure that they are happy. And you’d make them understand that for every bad, there is a good.”

“There are worst games to play,” she says, almost to herself. Their eyes meet. “We will never get off this train, will we?”

“Maybe not,” he muses. “But the difference now is you’re the conductor. You can move in any direction you choose.” His eyes look around the room, at the photos of the children and the finger paintings placed reverently on their walls. Katniss and Peeta have a full life. It’s just hard to see right now. “Keep moving forward. There’s nothing left for you in the past.”

Haymitch can see the exhaustion taking over. Katniss is sagging against him, and he gently coaxes her to lay down before tucking her into her comforter.

She looks up at him, brows raised. “You’re being so nice. It’s weird.”

Haymitch stands. “It’s just what people do.”

“What do you mean?”

He was never one for sharing or feeling even though Effie tried to shove that shit right down his throat every train ride.

However, seeing how small and grey Katniss looks as she lies in bed scares him. They could have lost her. Peeta would’ve been without a wife and the kids with no mother.

And him?

She’s the only daughter he’s got.

“I-I love you,” he shoves out gruffly. “Of course, I’m going to take care of you. All of you.”

Katniss smiles, already half asleep. “Thank you, Haymitch.”

Haymitch turns, ready to leave, to let her rest.

“He was a boy.” His hand freezes at the doorknob. “Before all of this…we were thinking of naming him after you.”

He doesn’t reply, his throat too choked to respond.

Instead, Haymitch nods before stepping out the door and closing it with a resounding click.

One minute, he tells himself.

One minute to mourn.

Haymitch waits, letting the swell of tears spill onto his cheeks.

Thirty seconds to go.

He tells himself that they will heal and grow. One day, Katniss and Peeta will smile again. The memory of what once was will grow less and less painful as time goes by.

Twenty seconds…

Ten seconds…

Haymitch sees their future, bright and full of hope. He imagines what Willow will become, the smart girl she is. He thinks of the person that will see Rye for all that he is, full of loyalty and love.

He hopes that, much later, Katniss and Peeta might try again.

He sees himself, watching this family grow.

His family grow.

5…4…3…2…1

Haymitch gathers himself, feeling lighter now that he’s let himself imagine what could be.

Like Katniss said—there are worst games to play.

Taking a breath, he walks downstairs to make sure Rye and Willow are okay.

FIN.

#anon #request #tw: miscarriage #Post-Mockingjay #toastbabies #Everlark #Haymitch Abernathy #father-daughter relationships #District 12 #The Mellarks

[sabsgames]

what makes Snow such a formidable villain within THG universe is that nothing he does was set in stone. there was no sense of inevitability about his actions and his brutality. Snow had enough perspective of poverty, capital cruelty, district hunger and not to mention his own arena experience’ and yet he actively chose at every moment to stray from natural goodness. its even more terrifying in the sense that he had the ability to care. Snow is not a mindless sociopath, he displays feelings to others such as sejanus, lucy grey and tigris but ultimately he will always choose himself. his ability to betray those he cared about in order yo advance himself makes him so much more than the stereotypical villain who is forced into his actions.

#everlark #haymitch abernathy #katniss x peeta #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #mockingjay #catching fire #the hunger games #josh hutcherson #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #snowbaird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #district 12 #sejanus plinth

[agoddamnrayofsunshine]

I’m sure someone has talked about this before but one thing I absolutely love about tbosas is how Snow’s descent into villainy is never once presented as something that was inevitable

So many villain origin stories portray this idea of a person who tries incredibly hard to be a good person, who takes every opportunity to be kind and to better themselves, but are ultimately doomed to fail by the narrative. Their environment and their circumstances make it impossible for them to be a good person, and while this is effective from a storytelling point of view it’s not exactly accurate to real life

In real life there is always a point where a bad person makes the decision to do something bad, they make the decision to prioritise themselves, their own power, money or desires over someone else. That’s how real life dictators are made, they are presented with every opportunity to be good, and they purposefully choose to not take it

This makes Snow’s storyline so effective because he is given so many opportunities to do the right thing and yet, at every single turn, he chooses to serve himself instead, exactly like how real dictators are made

Snow, unlike most people we see in the capitol, is in a unique position where he could genuinely have the chance to understand and relate to the people from the districts. He, unlike his classmates, is poor and spends most nights going hungry, he witnessed firsthand the cruelty of the capitol when Clemensia was bitten by the snakes for nothing more than lying about doing her homework, when his sister was forced to sell herself on the streets in order to feed the both of them

Throughout his book, the three people he is closest to are Tigris (who dislikes the hunger games, is a rebel, and a victim of the capitol forced to turn to prostitution), Sejanus (who is originally from district 2, dislikes the capitol and knows he will never be accepted there, and also a rebel) and Lucy Gray (who is a victim of the hunger games, from district 12, and is also treated horribly by the capitol). These are all people who gave him an opportunity to realise the cruelty of the system he was in, a chance to directly confront his prejudices and see that people from the districts are just the same as him, and yet he still refuses to take the chance to change

He is given every opportunity, he’s sent away from the capitol to be a peacekeeper in the districts, he forms personal connections with people from the districts, he helps Sejanus perform funeral rites, and yet at every moral crossroads he comes to he makes the wrong decision. He didn’t have to become a villain, and yet he made the choice to do so anyway, despite every chance he was given

I think it’s a really effective portrayal of Snow as a character, and it’s a very effective villain origin story for the type of villain that Snow is. It never once excuses him from his actions because it highlights just how accountable he was for his actions

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #tigris snow #tbosas #thg #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

[nunyabznsbabes]

Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes fine that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.

Think about it: they both grew up poor and deeply vulnerable, losing parents at a very young age, with a matriarchal adult (Katniss' mother and Coriolanus' Grandma'am) who fails to provide for them emotionally and physically. They intimately understand the threat of starvation, even developing with stunted growth because of it, and their narrations in the books share a fixation on food. Throughout their childhoods, both experienced constant fear and suffered a fundamental lack of control over their circumstances. Because of this, they're inherently suspicious of the people around them. They resent feeling indebted to others, especially those who have saved their lives. They're motivated almost entirely by family and deeply connected to their communities. Both are used and manipulated by the Capitol, both are forced to perform to survive and despise every inch of it, both are thrown into the Arena and made to kill. Both have a self-sacrificial, genuinely sweet sister figure acting as their conscience. Peeta and Lucy Gray - performers and love interests with a fundamental kindness and sense of hope about them - fulfill markedly similar roles in their narrative. Both contribute to the development of the future Hunger Games, Snow throughout tbosas and Katniss towards the end of Mockingjay.

It's easy to ignore these similarities because, as mirrors of each other, they are exact opposites. Katniss is from District 12, viewed and treated as less than human; Snow is the cream of the Capitol crop, given the privilege of a name with social weight, an ancestral home, and the opportunity of the Academy despite having no more money than a miner from 12. Katniss has no agency over her life, and responds by being kind whenever she's able, while Snow justifies horrendous evils in order to continue his quest for complete control. Katniss does everything she can to protect her family; Snow does everything he can to protect his family's image as an extension of his own ego. Katniss loves her District and connects with its inhabitants on a meaningful level, but Snow is indifferent at best to his peers - the apparent "superior people" - and only engages with his community for personal gain. Katniss emerges from the Arena horrified at herself and the system, but Snow takes his trauma and turns it into an excuse to perpetuate the violence with himself at the top. Katniss cares for Prim until her death and then snaps at the loss of her little sister, while Snow survives on Tigris' blood, sweat, and tears and then torments and abandons her, presumably because she calls him out on his insanity. Snow actively adds to and popularizes the Hunger Games because of his vendetta against the Districts following his childhood wartime trauma - Katniss briefly agrees to a new Hunger Games in the pursuit of vengeance, but later stops them from happening by killing Coin and choosing a life of peace and privacy. Snow is obsessed with revenge, but Katniss empathizes with the Capitolites and does what she can to keep them from suffering. He exists in a cruel system and selfishly upholds it; she exists in a cruel system and works to dismantle it for the good of her family and community, at great personal cost. And Peeta and Lucy Gray are incredibly similar, but Katniss and Peeta forge a relationship of genuine love and understanding that shines in comparison to Coriolanus' obsessive projection onto Lucy Gray.

So, yeah, Katniss is Lucy Gray haunting Coriolanus. But I bet you anything that eighty-something year old President Snow looks at her, the girl on fire, bright and young and brilliant, emerging from a childhood of starvation with a relentless hunger for success, a talented and charming performer helping her win the Games, and he sees the ghost of his own past. And that's why he's so afraid of her! Because if he sees himself in her, then he's up against his own cunning, his own talent for manipulation, his own charisma, his own genius. He's up against the version of himself that he once wished to be, with the nightmare army of his childhood at her back and her star-crossed lover at her side, spewing Sejanus' truths in his own voice. This isn't to say that Katniss ever achieved the level of power and agency that Coriolanus did during her time with the rebellion, but it is to say that Snow was taken down by what truly terrified him - his own morality, come to finish the job.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #president snow #lucy gray baird #peeta mellark #everlark #tbosas meta #the hunger games #thg #snowbaird

[ivysos2001]

I think it’s kind of funny how coin (who obviously wanted peeta rescued from the arena instead of katniss) doesn’t see what an absolute nightmare he would be for her to deal with if she left katniss in that arena

Like she thinks katniss was hard to deal with/manipulate/control after she left peeta behind? Peeta would’ve had her whole district eating out to the palm of his hand before she even realized who she was dealing with. She thought katniss was too single minded/stubborn about her focus on saving peeta over the revolution itself? He would have been her absolute nightmare (and I adore him for it)

#the hunger games #peeta mellark #everlark #katniss everdeen #mockingjay

[whogirl42]

Grover being all sweet innocent cinnamon roll reasurring Percy and Annabeth that he'll be okay staying behind with Ares like he isn't planning 5D chess psychological warfare on the god of war be like

#My little boy legit pulled a Peeta on the God of War I'm so proud🥹 #Mine #percy jackson #grover underwood #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson series #pjo tv show #pjo series #Pjo #pjo spoilers #percy jackson spoilers #peeta mellark #Thg

[stephsycamore]

I think the most radical thing the hunger games does is tell young people that the most revolutionary thing you can do is have unconditional love for humanity. Katniss throughout the entire series is guided by a deep sense of compassion for the people around her. It is what causes her to volunteer, to bury rue, to mercy kill cato, its why she tries to save peeta, why finnick telling her to remember who the real enemy is works, and even though her compassion for the larger world falters when peeta is kidnapped, it comes back when she visits hospitals and asks for mercy for other victors and ultimately, it is love and belief in a better humanity that makes her kill coin. Through it all, she maintains an unfaltering belief in the fundemental goodness of humanity, which is diametrically opposed to dr gaul's and snow's worldview. Peeta is even more unwaveringly compassionate

So the series tells young people that the most revolutionary thing you can be is compassionate. Let compassion drive your politics. Let yourself believe in the fundemental goodness of people. And i think that's deeply important in a world that touts the superiority of pure reason or logic, to allow yourself to be guided by something as emotional as compassion. Katniss everdeen tells us that your politics should be rooted in compassion in a world that thinks detatchment or cynicism is intelligence and i think thats v cool

#the hunger games #thg #hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #tbosas #alma coin #coriolanus snow #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #finnick odair #primrose everdeen

[moonxnite]

y’all ever fantasize about a fictional character a little too hard to the point you’re convinced you should be admitted to a mental hospital?

#daryl dixon x reader #rick grimes x reader #roman roy x reader #coriolanus x reader #steve rogers x reader #peter parker x reader #peeta mellark x reader #leon kennedy x reader #joel miller x reader #bucky x reader #eddie munson x reader #negan smith x reader #din djarin x reader #javier pena x reader #ari levison x reader #andy barber x reader #steve harrington x reader #carmen berzatto x reader #lalo salamanca x reader #nacho varga x reader #finnick x reader #mike schimdt x reader #william afton x reader #johnny lawrence x reader

[little-lynx]

FAMILY TIME

Hey! The Mellarks wish you a nice weekend! ❤️

#the hunger games #hunger games fanart #thg fanart #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #everlark #katniss x peeta #katniss and peeta #everlark fanart #the hunger games fanart #everlark post mockingjay #post mockingjay #hunger games epilogue #dancing girl #boy with blond curls #the mellarks #toastbabies #lynx hunger games #lynx toastbabies

[chappellrroan]

#the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds & snakes #lucy gray baird #peeta mellark #the hunger games #thg #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

[peetapatgoesmyheart]

Happy Mother’s Day Katniss 🩷💙

#katniss everdeen #toast babies #katniss mellark #the mellarks #dancing girl #the boy with blonde curls

[jlalafics]

George Stults: Wheaton Mellark

Bo Burnham: Rye Mellark

Dennis Quaid: Mr. Mellark

Michelle Pfeiffer: Mrs. Mellark

@mega-aulover

#thgfancast #the mellarks

[ringtoned]

suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomenon of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008

#thg #the hunger games #hunger games #suzanne collins #catching fire #mockingjay #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #everlark #katniss #peeta #katniss x peeta #gale hawthorne #haymitch abernathy #hunger games renaissance! #thg meta