#gadge

[little-lynx]

lovers

Can I go where you go? Can we always be this close? Forever and ever, ah *

*Lover by Taylor Swift

p.s. Gadge is the love of my life and despite the fact that it’s not canon ship (but who knows really) I will always include them in this kind of posts ♥️

#the hunger games #hunger games art #hunger games fanart #everlark #everlark fanart #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #madge undersee #gale hawthorne #finnick odair #annie cresta #gadge #odesta #lynx hunger games #thg fanart #lynx gadge #lynx grow back together

[littlerosette]

everlark/thg fic recs!

i just wanted to share some love with the fics that i find myself continuously going back to and enjoying <3

on the threshold by ghtlovesthg: by far my one of favorite “i know this would have happened anyway” fics. katniss and peeta’s relationship is adorable, and i really enjoy this author’s portrayal of smitten!katniss. it’s exactly how i imagine her and it’s adorable. they just like each other so much.

the heartrender by juniebugg: helnik!everlark au. i have a weakness for enemies to lovers and this more than hits the spot. the ending is gorgeous. stunning piece of writing.

the unrecorded hours by hollycomb: this fic has been praised to death but i am deeply obsessed with it. katniss and peeta felt very appropriately prickly and messy with each other, which i think fit considering where they’re at mentally post-mj. the ending was also so quintessentially Them.

which of your lives is this? by writingforhugs: this fic has way too few kudos for what a masterpiece it is. it’s katniss traveling through italy with peeta, and it’s pure, unadulterated escapism. the detail is so rich that it actually feels like you’re on the journey with them, and the chemistry is impeccable and so sexy. i adore this story.

hero of the story by atetheresmind: first of all, i love everything from this author. second of all, this story is amazing. “no games” fics are probably my favorite everlark fic subgenre and this one is written to perfection. katniss and peeta have an affair on their spouses and have to deal with the consequences when their relationship is discovered. the characterization is amazing and i love how the author handled the fallout. gorgeous story.

blowout by annieoakley1: age gap everlark fic and probably my favorite one. this story is so sexy and i love love love peeta and katniss’s relationship in it. katniss is so predictably Herself that it’s fun to watch her navigate a relationship she knows she’s gonna get shit for being in.

our little fires by brimay: a new fic and stunningly gorgeous. katniss and peeta fall in love before the reaping and their entire experience in the games is changed because of this. i adored the recurring theme where their love was the real rebellious act, their “little fire,” which i think struck so true to the heart of the actual trilogy. this story is amazing.

the project by ronja: unfinished but stellar. katniss and peeta’s bond is so sweet and their chemistry is amazing. it also helps that katniss is in a relationship with gale for a majority of the story, which lets you see how much she truly likes peeta compared to him. it was adorable to see them in a fake marriage scenario and they both relish in every bit of it. this story is “ivy” by taylor swift personified.

the hanging tree series by sparebitofparchment: this a peeta’s pov retelling. right now it’s on catching fire, but the writing is so so stellar. it’s perfectly angsty and beautiful, and flowery enough compared to katniss’s pov that it feels like you’re seeing everything through peeta’s eyes. gorgeous series.

and many graces by encroix: this is kind of exactly what i’m talking about when i say messy!everlark post mj. peeta and katniss are so desperate for each other but also so flawed and uncommunicative in their expectations that they end up hurting each other repeatedly. it’s beautiful and i love it. i cried multiple times reading it.

my heart is yours, and yours is mine by songbirdheart: the most enchanting, folksy, almost fairytale adjacent series ever. it truly is written with so much magic that it feels like a collection of short stories that you’d find in an old folktale book. every story is wonderful but i also have a particular fondness for the gadge one shot. it’s adorable and i love the way all the characters are written.

thg fic/non-everlark

where soul meets body by ellizablue: annie x finnick love story from her games to the aftermath of his death. wretchedly beautiful story. the writing is amazing and i cried several times reading this. it’s one of my absolute favorite fan fictions of all time and i reread it very frequently.

i’m yours to keep and i’m yours to lose by fkevin073: a modern snowbaird au where lucy gray and coryo are toxic exes who can’t leave each other the fuck alone. their mutual obsession and dysfunction was so fun to read and the pure, twisted soulmatery between them honestly was like a drug to me. i Love unhinged romantic leads.

the end of the world by fernwithy: this whole series is amazing but i was especially in love with this first installment. it’s a retelling of haymitch’s games and it’s amazingly done. haymitch feels appropriately brilliant, and watching him navigate the arena was gripping. i was unexpectedly touched by the relationship he develops with maysilee during this story. beautiful, gut-wrenching story.

#the hunger games #fic rec #everlark #odesta #gadge #snowbaird #among others

[askclato]

Madge: You know, Peeta gives Katniss flowers everyday. I wish you’d do that too.

Gale: Okay.

*the next day*

Gale: *gives Katniss flowers*

Katniss: ???

Gale: I don’t know, I’m confused as well.

#the hunger games #thg #thg incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #everlark #madge undersee #gale hawthorne #gadge

[imasradiantasthesun]

as a christmas gift my lovely boyfriend @dscodarkness commissioned the amazing @kald-dal-art to draw Gale and Madge in their interview outfits from my fic holding bright and i'm absolutely in love with it!!!!!

#feel free to reblog!! #the hunger games #peep the pfp as well lol #fics #gale hawthorne #madge undersee #kald-dal-art #gadge #holding bright #thg #my post.

[googleincognitomode]

can’t help but think that that katniss n madge don’t talk about boys, cuz if they do, katniss would end up talking abt peeta arms and eyelashes- worshiping the ground. n madge would end up talking abt how she wants to slap gale in the face… w her lips more precisely… yh

#hungergames #everlark #gale hawthorne #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #madge undersee #incorrect quotes #i’m so funny #gadge

[thesweetnessofspring]

Why do you think so many people ship Gale and Madge?

AHHHHH I am so excited you asked me this!! Forgive me but now I get to nerd out about writing!!

Ok, to understand exactly what I'm going to be talking about, I highly recommend this video about good romantic plots (it's about 20 minutes long). The video essayist uses Beauty and the Beast 1991 in comparison to the 2017 remake to as an example, showing why the original works and the remake fails despite using so much of the same storyline/dialogue. But tldw; good romance is a dance, where the characters go back and forth with one another, challenging each other and then coming together before pulling away and coming together again.

Katniss and Gale lack the push-and-pull that gets talked about in this video. Gale pushes, Katniss pushes back, and they end up further away from each other than before. It's this way through the trilogy until they're irreparably separated. Take this part of their first scene together (I'm taking just the dialogue for brevity):

"We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly. "What?" I ask. "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale. "If we didn't have so many kids," he adds quickly. "I never want to have kids," I say. "I might, if I didn't live here," says Gale. "But you do," I say, irritated. "Forget it," he snaps back.

Here, Gale makes a proposal: what if we ran away to the woods? Katniss is quiet, he feels her drifting away so he tries to correct it and brings up how difficult it would be with their families. This prompts Katniss to make a definitive statement about not wanting kids, which pushes Gale away since it interferes with his desire to partner with her. Gale offers his perspective as another little push, that he would want kids, and Katniss pushes him back again by reminding him he does live in Panem with the Games and he's irritated and pushes her away. Occasionally one of them might pull the other toward them (Gale's whipping and Katniss's prep teams, for example) but that's not enough to make up for all of the times they're pushing away from each other.

We only get one scene of Gale and Madge together, but there's more of that push-and-pull dance here:

"Pretty dress," says Gale. Madge shoots him a look, trying to see if it's a genuine compliment or if he's just being ironic. It is a pretty dress, but she would never be wearing it ordinarily. She presses her lips together and then smiles. "Well, if I end up going to the Capitol, I want to look nice, don't I?" Now it's Gale's turn to be confused. Does she mean it? Or is she just messing with him? I'm guessing the second. "You won't be going to the Capitol," says Gale coolly. His eyes land on a small, circular pin that adorns her dress. Real gold. Beautifully crafted. It could keep a family in bread for months. "What can you have? Five entries? I had six when I was just twelve years old." "That's not her fault," I say. "No, it's no one's fault. Just the way it is," says Gale. Madge's face has become closed off. She puts the money for the berries in my hand. "Good luck, Katniss."

We have Gale starting off with the first push. Rather than pushing back by snapping at him, she pulls him in with a challenge: looking nice when everyone (including potential sponsors) is important, so if it's a dig at her, she counter him. And Katniss notes Gale is confused. Madge has thrown him off! He engages in the dance by pushing again, noting how unlikely it is that she'll go to the Capitol. This has shut Madge down as Katniss notes, but this is their first interaction we see in the story, so it's only the starting point. It would be a good opportunity for Madge to get to pull him back in, especially after Prim was reaped with only one entry. We do see from this exchange that Madge can do the pull of the romantic dance with Gale while Katniss doesn't.

Adding in that Madge becoming interested in the woods and shooting after Katniss returns from the Games and then her going to give morphling to Gale after his whipping are the other hints that maybe Madge has feelings for Gale.

Gadge wouldn't happen in canon because it doesn't serve the theme of the just war theory, or Katniss's story. Gale had to maintain his romantic pursuit of Katniss as part of Katniss navigating her feelings about how to engage in war. Madge had to die to show that even a mayor and his family weren't safe from the government that they'd received some benefit from.

But in fanfiction? Their dynamic is RIFE with this potential for the romantic dance. Gale is never really able to engage in the humanity of those who had an advantage from him. Philosophically, he can see it's the Capitol pitting them against each other, but he resents Madge that she didn't have to put additional entries in the reaping ball. He doesn't appear to form bonds with anyone who has been given advantages by the Capitol, and he even grows more distant from Katniss as she can start affording nice clothes and more food (though obviously Peeta is part of this resentment, too). Gale never really understands why Katniss cares about her prep team, even though he tries to engage with them as a peace offering to her.

Pairing him with Madge makes him have to confront this and grow. If Gadge were to form a relationship, Gale would have to really put aside that resentment that holds him back. He would have to see Madge as a whole, not just the advantages she'd been given. And from the pin she gives Katniss to her family backstory to the morphling, you get the sense that Madge wants to rebel. Gale would make her confront the privilege she does have in this system and fight to change it. She would move from subtle acts of rebellion to fully participating in the fight. And seeing this play out with them challenging one another's viewpoints, sharing their life experiences, coming together to work as a team, has potential for really great character growth and exploration for both of them.

#gadge #gale hawthorne #madge undersee #the hunger games

[madlymadeleine]

ladies and gentlemen… THEM ‼️

i can’t believe i haven’t drawn gadge until now omg. also it’s supposed to be madge holding flowers behind her back, but it kinda looks like they’re just sprouting randomly hehe

#gadge #thg #fanart #not meant to be wedding day gadge #madge is just in her white reaping dress #also i couldn’t tell which one i liked more - madge holding flowers to GIVE gale or madge holding flowers that gale gave her #… #i like both #maddiedraws #gale hawthorne #madge undersee

[punkxcalibur]

hunger games thingies because i'm rereading

+ bonus gadge bc they should have been together

fun fact, i pulled out my old drawing tablet for this and used firealpaca for the first time in a millenium. i love procreate, but i wish it had FA's stabilisation, it's just soo smooth.

#i love gale hawthorne btw #i do not tolerate gale slander #seriously #gale is a human being with flaws and a product of his time #and *breaking news* so are the majority of the other characters #you guys hating on him are just unoriginal and miss the essence of his character #i dont ship him with katniss #he should've been with madge but she died unfortunately #i 100% believe they had a thing while katniss was in the games #CF strongly implied it #the hunger games #thg #hunger games fanart #thg fanart #gadge #gale hawthorne #madge undersee #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #finnick odair

[broken-everlark]

IM STILL AN EVERLARK DAMMIT. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE MY BABIES AND MY LOVE FOR THEMMMMM!!!

Yes, recently I've been in wyler, but everlark still holds most of my heart. I will always love everlark. Just now, that love is shared with wyler.

#everlark #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #gadge #odesta #clato #my love for everlark & other thg ships will never waver #one of my og ships #fucking love them #stay away from my peeta #katniss x peeta #peeta x katniss #everlark fanfic #everlark loves💚🧡

[starrrbakerrr]

I’ve been thinking about this moment a lot and how to interpret it, so I want to see what Tumblr thinks. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comment section or reblogs if you would like to elaborate!

Text for reference:

#the hunger games #catching fire #katniss everdeen #haymitch abernathy #madge undersee #gale hawthorne #gadge #everthorne #katniss x madge #katniss x gale #THG #hunger games #gale x madge #katniss #I’m mixed but leaning towards the second option #because that’s what Katniss states #but then she’s not a reliable narrator

[fictionfanaticspod]

Chanel’s @literaturelove Favorite Hunger Games Couple:

Gadge🌿🍓🎼🪙

[gale hawthorne & madge undersee]

#fanfic #fanfiction #fanficfanaticspodcast #ff #thg #thg fandom #hunger games #gale hawthorne #Gale #madge undersee #Gale x Madge #Gadge #Madge x Gale #underthorne #podcast #podcastersofinstagram

[little-lynx]

To Kiss a Girl

I’m in such a bad mood so here are some Gadge haha

I know there are a lot of people here who don’t like this ship, but I honestly don’t care right now

Sorry for the whining, my mood is such a rollercoaster 😫

I just wanted to do something related to my old illustration of them 😅 I love them ❤️

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Related to this one:

#the hunger games #hunger games fanart #thg fanart #gale hawthorne #madge undersee #gale x madge #gadge fanart #gadge #lynx gadge

[littlerosette]

something i think about too much is katniss singing “margaret” at madge’s (and gale’s 😁) wedding and making eye contact with peeta the whole time

#he met margaret on a roof top she was wearing white #HELLO??? #everlark #gadge #i love thinking of folksy little twelve weddings gosh its just the cutest

[katnissmellarkkk]

Virginia Gardner as Madge Undersee (1/2)

#madge undersee #thg #hunger games #fancast #virginia gardner #kadge #gadge #ya lit edit #aesthetic #edit #the hunger games #catching fire #Katniss everdeen #fce #myaesthetics

[imasradiantasthesun]

The Kids of District Twelve – part 2

Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Gale Hawthorne, and Madge Undersee

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #madge undersee #kiawentiio #walker scobell #character aesthetics #booboo stewart #marissa long #fc #my thg aesthetics v2 #holding bright #my post. #everlark #gadge #ez's thg aesthetics

[trulygreatfanfiction]

[HUNGER GAMES]

Saturday Night in the Seam

Gale feels safe and risky at the same time, like he'll protect Madge from whatever threats the darkness is concealing, but at any moment he might purposefully make her feel bad for being unforgivably richer than him.

And even that volatility is thrilling because he's such a contrast to the calm of her life. He's the chaos of the Seam dances contrasted against her carefully composed intermission music.

A very unlikely, different explanation for Gale's hostility toward Madge on reaping day.

by Solaryllis

Teen

Here

#madge underdee #gale hawthorne #solaryllis #gale/madge #gadge #hunger games #prequel #dancing #hg