#thg meta

[peetapiepita]

Peeta isn't weak and doesn't actually need saving/protecting.

Peeta just wanted someone to fight for him his whole life. He didn't, in fact, need protection per se once he was out of the abusive household. But he never had anyone who would fight for him, so he lacked the confidence to fight for himself.

I always believed it was one of the reasons he admired Katniss so much as a teen. Katniss fought for Prim as hard as she could. Peeta wanted someone like that to fight for him.

But when he's actually close to Katniss, he doesn't want her to sacrifice herself for him, he said she wouldn't be doing him any favors by dying for him.

Then we have Katniss, whose instinct is to protect the ones she cares about. Peeta becomes the person she cares about the most except for Prim after the first games. Of course, she isn't going to give up on him just because he says he doesn't need her to.

Katniss protects Peeta because she loves him, because he protects her, not because Peeta is weak and needs protection. I hate it that I have to spell it out for people with no media literacy, but here you go.

#hunger games #the hunger games #thg #everlark #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #thg meta

[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

[vivicendium]

i think something that elevates the hunger games franchise is not just the quality of writing but the integrity of it. tbosas isn’t just a cash-grab by suzanne collins in the age of sequels and reboots (though i won’t pretend that didn’t play a part), it’s a character study of the main antagonist with a different structure than the main trilogy. and importantly, it doesn’t just re-hash the same old themes and beats the main trilogy had, it expands on not just the world of the hunger games but the themes as well, it actually has something new to say about the trilogy’s themes about class, capitalism, power, and control, in a way that couldn’t be explored with the main story because the protagonist of that story simply did not have access to the world that’s being explored in tbosas.

i understand the people who call for books/movies to be made about haymitch, finnick, johanna, different years of the games — we love those characters and want to see more of them! i’d kill for a novella on finnick’s days mentoring tributes, or katniss’s parents falling in love. but at the end of the day we probably wouldn’t be very satisfied with those stories being fleshed out if they had absolutely nothing new to say about the world, they’d be enjoyable, but not as interesting and engaging as tbosas has been.

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #thg #tbosas #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #finnick odair #johanna mason #haymitch abernathy #thg series #thg meta #hunger games prequel #been thinking about this since i read tbosas tbh #rachel zegler #tom blyth #josh andres rivera #movie industry

[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

[catoscloves]

the fact is the 75th hunger games tributes were working hard to keep peeta alive because coin specifically wanted him for her cause/the rebellion. HOWEVER katniss had no way of knowing this and the first assumption that this girl makes is, "oh they must be protecting him/wanting him to get out of here alive because he is the only decent person in this arena and he is goodness and hope personified and has such a bright future and can offer so much to us in this bleak, bleak world, and they know that out of all of us he is the one who deserves to live."

like yeah while a case can be argued that peeta's goodness is pretty obvious to others, these are people who killed so they could keep their lives, and they barely know these random teens that won last year. the only reason katniss would draw that conclusion is because she literally has it so bad for him and is not at all subtle about it.

#the hunger games #thg meta #thg #katniss x peeta #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #anna speaks

[timeturnerz]

The Hunger Games, 2012 (Gary Ross) and The Hunger Games, 2008 (Suzanne Collins)

It's so interesting that, from the very beginning, Gale is established as someone who has a disregard for human life, and who does not truly view those different from him as "people." We see this here, where he dehumanises the children Katniss will have to fight in the Games. We see this in Gale's vocal resentment of Madge Undersee, in how he despises her for the privilege she was born with and grew up with.

This "us vs. them" infighting and mentality that Gale falls for (a mentality that the Capitol propagates, and that the Games act as a metaphor for) is one that eventually leads him to kill innocent children.

This thinking is also something Katniss must learn to break out of -- when she grapples with killing her opponents in the Games, who are truly just children, or when she realises "who the real enemy is" at the end of Catching Fire.

But Gale is unable to grow past this. He's willing to kill children (!) who are innocents, who haven't committed any crime other than being born in the wrong place at the wrong time -- just like Madge, who Gale despised in Book 1.

And Gale obviously DOES feel bad about "killing" Prim. But what's worse is the thought that, if it wasn't Prim who died, if it was just some random faceless people, would Gale still care?

I think Gale is a really interesting character whose development is so tragic yet still makes so much sense. It's a shame to see people write him off so quickly without seeing the analytical, thematic, and political value that we can gain by exploring his story and ideology.

#the hunger games #hunger games #gale hawthrone #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #catching fire #haymitch abernathy #mockingjay #thg #thg meta #the hunger games meta #primrose everdeen #interesting #finnick odair #long post #ballad of songbirds and snakes #president snow #lucy gray baird

[mswyrr]

#everlark #the hunger games #this is so gorgeous and so true!!! #thg meta #katniss everdeen

[starrrbakerrr]

Katniss describing Peeta:

“Medium height, stocky build, ashy blonde hair that falls in waves over his forehead.”

“For the first time, I look at him and realize that ablaze with the fake flames, he is dazzling.”

“He looks so clean and healthy and beautiful.”

“Then Peeta’s there looking handsome in red and white, pulling me off to the side.”

“I like to watch his hands as he works, making a blank page bloom with strokes of ink…”

“I also become a little fixated on his eyelashes, which ordinarily you don’t notice because they’re so blonde. But up close, in the sunlight slanting in from the window, they’re a light golden color and so long I don’t see how they keep from getting all tangled up when he blinks.” (girl you’re obsessed)

“My eyes travel up to where the flames licked across his forehead, singeing away his brows but just missing his eyes. Those same blue eyes that used to meet mine and then flit away at school. Just as they do now.”

Katniss describing Gale:

“Gale does look striking in the uniform, I guess.”

#she really said ‘i guess’ 💀 #katniss is not attracted to him she just knows he’s objectively good-looking #pausing my fixation on rina for a sec because this has been on my mind #the hunger games #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #catching fire #mockingjay #thg #text #thg meta #1000+

[youcantseeus-fan]

One of my favorite things about Katniss’s relationship with Haymitch is that she very unambiguously states that the other victors are Haymitch’s friends in Catching Fire. She is very clear about this. She even muses on how bad it will be for him to have to watch his friends die in the Games.

But even though she knows this and even though she’s very distrustful of the other victors, it never occurs to her to distrust Haymitch. As a mentor, she trusts him absolutely by this point. She just goes around meeting the other victors and never thinks “wow, here’s Haymitch’s drinking buddy that he’s probably known for like twenty years … what if he’d rather this longtime friend win the Games over Peeta?” Instead, her thinking is more like “wow, here’s Haymitch’s drinking buddy that he’s probably known for like twenty years, it sure will suck for Haymitch when I have to start killing all his friends to save Peeta, I feel bad for him.”

Haymitch is quite clear about the fact that the other victors are his friends as well. When Katniss decides on not having allies, he even tells her in frustration that this is a good thing because he doesn’t want to be responsible for her killing any of his friends with her stupidity. Then, he chooses Finnick as Katniss’s ally and even though Katniss is deeply distrustful of Finnick at this point, she initially accepts him because Haymitch chose him. It still doesn’t occur to her that Haymitch could be double-crossing her in some way. She trusts him so much.

This is another reason why it is so devastating for Katniss when she learns how much Haymitch hasn’t told her.

#thg meta #katniss everdeen #haymitch abernathy #thg #hunger games #catching fire

[peetapiepita]

Snow not believing Katniss was in love with Peeta is actually part of his character

Thinking back, Katniss' actions after the first game were as convincing as they can be when you don't see her inner monologue. She was only saying she was acting because she wasn't able to process her own feelings and Haymitch pretty much told her, "You're acting, girl, keep acting if you don't wanna get killed." That again put a strain on her and further complicated her feelings.

But if you think about it, she was banging on the door of the operation room when Peeta was being treated, acting hysterical; she kissed him for 10 minutes straight on stage and she was kind of into it; she was so upset about Peeta losing his leg that she cried on stage and hid her face in his shirt to the point HE had to console her about it; she was pretty much sitting in his lap throughout the whole interview.

That looks like a girl madly in love to me. Like, when did she ever give anyone any hint that it was fake? It was all in her head.

Still, Snow was convinced no one would love another person so much they'd rather die with them. Because he didn't think like that and he can't comprehend why someone would think like that.

I'm also wondering why Snow didn't assume Peeta was lying, too. We as readers know Peeta actually lies more than Katniss does and is good at it. Snow probably thought he was just someone waiting to be saved or something. Everyone underestimates Peeta as per usual. That's a topic for another day.

#the hunger games #hunger games #thg #everlark #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #president snow #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #top post #thg meta

[angrycommiedyke]

Katniss as a canary 

One passage I love so much in CF (p.420-421) is when Katniss explains to Finnick and Johanna what a canary is and its use in the mines. It makes her think of her losses starting with her father’s death in a mine explosion. And each time I read that part, I think of how Katniss stopped singing when he died, just like a canary does. 

But by the end of the war, as she became the mockingjay, lost (almost) everything and is clearly suicidal, she starts to sing again (MJ p.253). Cause “it’s not over until the mockingjay sings”. 

#thg #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #thg series #thg meta #katniss is the mockingjay but she's also a canary #I wish they'd include this scene in the movies

[xplore-the-unknwn]

There’s an ongoing joke that this random man punching Snow is Katniss’ grandfather. It’s so hilarious that I choose to believe it is CANON.

It’s true. It’s all connected. 🤓👆

It’s a joke where the punchline is delivered first and Katniss is the one that ends it.

#Katniss Granddad saw the blonde twink and immediately wanted to punch him #he didnt know why he just felt like it as payback for something #some sort of punchline for the future #coriolanus snow #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #katniss #katniss everdeen #maude Ivory #coryo #president snow #tbosas #thg #suzanne collins #thg meta #they’re always gonna be a thorn on his side #tom blyth

[thegreatmelodrama]

In the movie, they added Snow giving Lucy Gray his mother’s scarf/shawl which Lucy Gray even describes as still smelling like roses (which was her signature scent). And when Snow goes into the woods to chase Lucy Gray, he comes across the scarf on the ground which Lucy Gray presumably planted along with a snake. However, in those moments right as we see him descend into madness, he picks up the scarf and smells it. And it is almost as if he is trying to absorb and hold onto as much of his mother as he can—hold onto the goodness—only to realize that the smell of roses no longer remains. No goodness lingers. Thus, marking his complete embrace of the darkness and of his father which is further confirmed when Tigris tells Snow, “you look just like your father” at the end of the film.

And the reason why I love it so much is that it is a callback to a similar moment in the book. In the book Snow undergoes this rebirth and full transformation of sorts when he dives into the lake with the guns to hide the evidence and when he emerges his mother’s rose powder that he had on him is ruined while his father’s compass remains in tact. Once again, this represents how the goodness no longer remains and is destroyed by his actions as he steps across that line into evil. Snow emerges from the water hardened and planted firmly on the path that leads to control and power.

#the hunger games #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #president snow #thg meta

[thesweetnessofspring]

There's something so poignant about watching Katniss start so adverse to developing love for anyone, only admitting she loves Prim, and watching her open up to others: Peeta, Haymitch, Cinna, Rue, Madge, Finnick. But then having her fears confirmed that, under an unjust system, she can't protect those she loves. Not even those she loves the most. And that they can, in fact, be used against her and put in danger because of her love for them.

But that at the same time, the only way forward, the only way to heal, is through that love. By preserving the memories of those lost, by connecting to those remaining, and by opening herself to love more, even under the risk of their loss. Because in the end, love is how we survive.

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #thg meta #thg analysis #everlark

[mswyrr]

"If you watch the original films, it's almost as if Donald Sutherland knew his backstory so well, because you can just see that he's so angry that Everlark is what Snowbaird could have been… in Tumblrspeak, to use the ship names. But, in all honesty, it's like seeing what could have been for him."

--Rachel Zegler, red carpet interview with IndieWire

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #snowbaird #rachel zegler #thg meta #ballad quotes