#thg Everlark

[applebutterbabie]

Forget everlark call them peeniss

#Thg #The hunger games #Everlark #Thg everlark #Mine #Babies first words

[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

[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

[allovesthings]

Katniss, during almost the entirety of the trilogy: I don't want kids but I want Peeta to have children so much. He is so dad-shaped it hurts, Imagining his kids running in the meadow in 12 brings me so much joy..

Peeta: has never, not once,expressed any desire to have kids before the epilogue

#she is projecting a lot and it's very funny #the hunger games #thg #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #everlark

[sweetlucygray]

katniss' thoughts: this boy is manipulating me. he is pretending to be kind so i will find difficulty in killing him later. but i see through his lies and deceptions. as to show that i am aware of his mind games and manipulations and will not tolerate it, i will further aggravate his bruise. but i will do so in a manner which hides my intentions from the views of others so that this battle only remains visible to us. this is a masterful move on my part as it shows that i am aware of the poisoned honey that has filled his words all throughout our journey and am willing and ready to respond in kind

peeta's thoughts: omg katniss gave me a kiss on the cheek.

#katniss was playing 5d chess with herself and losing #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #the hunger games #hunger games #thg #everlark #catching fire #mockingjay #books #literature

[theswampghost]

sometimes i’m normal about the hunger games and then i remember that in district 12 there’s a wedding ceremony where the couple toasts a piece of bread together in order to signify the beginning of their shared new life and then the main character and her love interest are the girl on fire and the boy with the bread and their first fucking interaction is when he burns a loaf of bread to give to her

#SUZANNE. IM NOT FEELING WELL #lu.txt #the hunger games #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #thg

[jakeperalta]

I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs. [insp]

#the hunger games #thg #thgedit #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #everlark #everlarkedit #creations* #otp: real or not real #500* #1k* #2k* #3k* #4k*

[jjadmanii]

i genuinely love that the hunger games is in katniss’s pov bc shes the one character that has no clue about whats going on, clearly does not want to be there, and shes just walking through life in a permanent state of utter confusion. and idk i really relate to that.

#katniss’s diary entry 11: ‘so turns out once again everyone knew the plan BUT ME’ #the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #i ​dont think anyone else would have been gagged as many times as she has. #peeta mellark #everlark

[foxdoodles]

the lives of victors

#my art #fanart #the hunger games #hunger games #thg #thg fanart #the hunger games fanart #hunger games fanart #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #everlark #everlark fanart #forgot to tag buttercup everyone please forgive me #buttercup

[fantasybuff96]

I will never get over Gale’s stupid ass thinking that Finnick wanted Katniss at the beginning of Mockingjay, when the entire time that man was breaking down and longing for Annie. Like the whole reason Katniss and Finnick became close friends was their joined love and longing for Peeta and Annie who were both imprisoned in the capital together.

#stupid Gale #finnick odair #annie cresta #peeta x katniss #everlark #odesta #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #Gale is the worst #gale hawthorne #finnick x annie #peeta supremacy #finnick should have lived #friendship #love #bonds #mockingjay #THG

[chappellrroan]

#guys i just realised something about myself #satosugu #soukoku #everlark #snowbaird #jurdan #yutamaki #oh i just had the enlightenment moment HELP #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #stsg #skk #bsd #bungou stray dogs #the hunger games #thg #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the folk of the air #the cruel prince #the wicked king #the queen of nothing

[xplore-the-unknwn]

"Who needed wealth and success and power when they had love? Didn't it conquer all?" -Coriolanus Snow

Yup. That's it. That's the end of their story. No need to turn the other pages that's the end of the book. Coriolanus Snow finally learned all the right lessons. They lived happily ever after. (in denial)

After watching this franchise and reading the books- I just love that Katniss and Peeta at the last scene of the series are in the meadow living their lives peacefully, the very SAME meadow where Snow once considered "Didn't Love conquer all?".

It did.

#the hunger games #Coriolanus Snow #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #Lucy Gray Baird #tbosas #Lucy Gray #thg #Katniss Everdeen #Peeta Mellark #Everlark #Snowbaird #suzanne collins #mockingjay #thg meta

[nainz7]

Reading TBoSaS was an eye opening experience for me because for a minute I was like Katniss and Peeta had it so much better than Lucy and these other children who were treated like literal animals- transporting them like livestock and putting them in cages not to mention the very public, dehumanizing parades. But then I was horrified at myself because I couldn’t believe myself. It wasn’t better at all, Katniss and Peeta were brought there for the same exact purpose and putting them in fancy dresses and providing them with expensive amenities doesn’t take it away. It’s still the same horrible, wretched, gruesome tradition, I just thought it was better because it was also wrapped up nicely with a pretty bow which I guess was the whole point.

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

[smallpapers]

"Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you."

“Without success.”

“Without success. So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck.”

#the hunger games #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #katniss and peeta #thg fanart #thg katniss #thg peeta #thg #katniss x peeta #myart #rolls around on the floor why are they soooooo #i really hope this doesnt get buried under all the xmas posts haha

[deanlenzart]

do i smell like roses to you? id in alt.

#the hunger games #the hunger games fanart #thg #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #everlark #katniss fanart #katniss and peeta #thg katniss #peeta fanart #the hunger games peeta #queer artist #art #myart #digital art #character design

[sillymonsterman]

Gale: i have no chance with katniss if peeta is hurt she literally only cares about fixing people it's like she doesn't even love me

Peeta: do i like breathing i think i do

Katniss: i need to kill the president

#their mockingjay dynamic is so tragic but also so fucking funny #gale hawthorne #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #thg #everlark #legally had to