#thg reread

[rithmeres]

bait / hook / line / sinker

#the hunger games #finnick odair #thg #the hunger games fanart #this was a very very weird painting for me. #like i have painted decapitated heads and severed arms and shattered ribs and guts falling out and gallons of blood #and not once have i ever looked up from my work and been disgusted or disturbed by what i’ve painted #but the first day i was working on this one i looked at it and just felt so sick i had to get up and take a shower to get away from it #HE WAS 14 WTF WTF WTF WTF #that is a baby. that is a little kid. turned into a killer and paraded around like a novelty and used like a toy. #but on the whole i am very satisfied with this propaganda piece it's just as beautiful and unsettling as i wanted it to be #ugh my mind. nothing in the composition is overt but all the implications are there #not just the capitol's sexualization and brutalization of children but the fetishization of the districts' labor as well #as my good friend and mutual theworldiswhispering said. #'the hard labor you do is not safe from being romanticized by the people who benefit from it at your expense' #and i think about that every day #wherefore art thou #thg reread #why he so smooth.. just like a shark #[katniss voice] mfs took all my body hair cant have shit in the capitol #i just know tumblr's gonna crunch the quality of these images but i worked on a canvas 4 times larger than the usual size #so a lot of the detail gets lost when i post it. oh well. click for quality i guess #his expression changes when you're far away #far away he looks kind of vacant #close up he's smiling. like the photographer wanted a specific cocky emotion from him and it was there #but when you zoom out there's just a thousand yard stare #i did think about turning these into prints or actual posters but um. i don't think i should do that

[hrpayo01]

Katniss' love for Peeta has taught her to understand and forgive her mother for emotionally abandoning them when her father died.

Katniss has always resented her mother for disappearing, leaving them to starve in her grief. And she has all the right to think, and feel that. She was eleven and selling baby clothes in the rain, about die of starvation. She was signing up for tessarae the minute she was qualified. She was hunting in the woods as a child. She was pushed into immense responsibility because her mother no longer had the will to live--despite her and Prim still being alive. She believed that relationship was severed and she saw her mom as weak, incompetent, and unloving.

But she became her mother when she was separated from Peeta. She, point blank, said she lost the will to live. Even if Prim was still there, and her mother, and Gale, and the country was relying on her to get them through a revolution.

She talked about how she never understood why people stay and watch their loved ones die on the table instead of going away...she did that with Peeta at the end of the first games.

She said that if she know for sure that Peeta was dead, she would just disappear in the woods and never look back. She was also willing to abandon them.

It's slowly sinking in but it was such and important detail how, after she saw Peeta return to district 12 in the last chapter, one of the first things she did was call her mother. Process her grief with someone else, made sure she wasn't alone. Because that's probably when it all clicked for her: Peeta came back, her father could not. She suffered like her mother, but not cometely like her mother.

She said the reason why she hasn't taken her own life back at 12 was because she was waiting for something. Peeta, like he always has, was giving her hope. Her mother did not have that. Nor did she have anyone to share that grief with. No family, no friends, and her children were too young.

When Peeta came back, Katniss realized that she just went through what her mom went through but with a better ending. She understood and felt what it was like to paralyzed with grief despite people relying on you... When Peeta came back, Katniss was ready to heal. Katniss was ready to forgive, not just her mother, but also herself.

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #meta #hunger games meta #grief #damn these are good thoughts I'm having #thg reread #everlark #katniss and peeta #katniss and her mom

[heavensbeehall]

"I don’t have a stick, so I take my remaining arrow and insert it in the knot, twisting it as tightly as I dare. It’s risky business — Peeta may end up losing his leg — but when I weigh this against him losing his life, what alternative do I have?" -- Chapter 25, "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

I like the symbolism here. That she would rather use the arrow to help mend Peeta than fight the mutts or Cato. Both are still threats at this point. But Peeta dying is the biggest one in her mind.

#chapter 25 #everlark #suzanne collins #thg reread

[thekayart]

Its always been funny to me how Katniss gets interested in Peeta’s interview only when asked about a girlfriend 🙃

#the hunger games #thg fanart #hunger games #everlark #suzanne collins #katniss fanart #katniss and peeta #katniss everdeen #peeta fanart #peeta mellark #the hunger games books #mockingjay #catching fire #digital art #artists on tumblr #caesar flickerman #the hunger games fanart #los juegos del hambre #thg renaissance #thg reread #She is so funny #she made me laugh all the time #thekayart

[thesunpersists]

katniss was insane for saying that she knew better than the tragic story that the Capitol was writing for them because she kept them both alive AND went on to have his babies 🥹

#how is it possible that i find something new in these books at each reread #this is the millionth time i swear #suzanne you are a genius #the hunger games #the hunger games reread #thg reread #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

reread the hunger games in the most fucked up order this year

may: mockingjay

november: the hunger games

november: tbosas

december: catching fire

#listen there’s a little bit of logic I swear #I read mockingjay in May bc I’d just rewatched all the movies and I was like hmm I haven’t read mockingjay in such a long time #and it was so good 10/10 #then in November I had to read thg for my lit for adolescents class #(yes thg was required reading for my college class I’m living in the best timeline) #then I saw tbosas movie and had to reread the book bc I forgot so much of it and the movie was so good #then I was like I might as well read cf bc it’s literally the best #the hunger games the ballad of songbirds & snakes #tbosas #thg #the hunger games #thg series #thg reread #suzanne collins

[agentem]

The Hunger Games, Chapter 2

After subverting reader expectations at the very end of Chapter 1 (Prim being picked, not Katniss), she does it again by Gale not being picked, which I think would be the obvious choice.

Katniss is immediately worried she will be marked as a "weakling" by the other tributes. She is a hunter, and is used to being both predator and prey, making oneself look more intimidating or less so depending on the situation.

When Haymitch steps in right as she is about to cry, I see that as the first instance of their link. Throughout the novels they will silently communicate with one another, because they are so alike. (Which is probably why he doesn't like her, because he doesn't seem to like himself very much.)

Then we meet Peeta who--from the very beginning--is not someone Katniss wants to kill. His eyes are even described like "prey"-like.

One thing I don't like about the movies is the flashback to the bread scene. It's not terrible but they use the same actors, and they are too old. Peeta and Katniss are 11 here. There is something more aching that an 11-year-old girl begging isn't an odd sight in District 12. It's so frequent that it's become annoying to Peeta's mother.

Peeta doesn't just give Katniss bread, he gives her hope. She was about to give up. Even on stage, he is trying to give her a "reassuring" hand squeeze, when she is the one who volunteered, not him.

Any Everlark shippers have more to say on the flashback? @heavensbeehall

#the hunger games #thg reread #everlark #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #haymitch abernathy

[chucklepea-hotpot]

mockingjay by suzanne collins / funeral by phoebe bridgers

#johanna x katniss #katniss everdeen #johanna mason #thg reread #thg #mockingjay #phoebe bridgers #listen i am a peeta girl through and through but johanna has my heart and my soul

[redshoes-blues]

I’m finally rereading The Hunger Games and I’m on chapter ten and have already cried so much. I really didn’t expect to be so emotional this early in the book (let alone this early in the series), but it really hits different reading this book as an adult and realizing just how young Katniss and the other tributes are. One of my brothers is a year younger than Katniss. Another is the same age as Rue. I don’t think it hit me the same way when I read it as the same age as Katniss, that those are kids in the arena. Which is really obvious in hindsight. I knew this when I read the series as a kid, but as an adult, there’s just a whole extra layer of fucked-up that I’m recognizing.

And the amount of foreshadowing early on in the book is just insane. Katniss’s comments about how, yeah, she thinks the Capitol and Games are fucked up, but she mostly cares about survival and not starving and keeping Prim safe. And how she’s willing to do literally anything it takes to save her sister’s life—to make sure her childhood is just a bit easier than Katniss’s has been.

That’s not even getting into the depth of the world building that is laid out brilliantly. The way that even in an impoverished district like District 12, there are still class and labour divisions. The nuance and subtleties and the ways that race and gender and class commentary are all woven into Panem. There’s so much depth and realism built into this world that is just so brilliant, and absolutely the reason why this YA dystopian has broken past the bounds of the genre, reaching the modern classic status that it has today.

#I’m also realizing how autistic katniss is. which could be a whole other post #but makes a whole lot of sense why I related so heavily to her reactions and character traits when I first read these books (and still do) #the hunger games #thg reread #em rambles

[katnisssscowl]

Katniss is really out here like “this vicious killer who i absolutely do not like at all is trying to manipulate my feelings I’m gonna kiss him on the cheek to show him who’s boss” like ok girl you do that

#thg renaissance #thg reread #she’s so cringe I love her so much

[rithmeres]

it's quicker & easier to eat your young

#the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #finnick odair #annie cresta #johanna mason #gale hawthorne #FINALLY got a grip on drawing katniss. girl you would not believe the amount of failed sketches that went into this #but i'm happy with them now. peeta & gale r looking a little rough because they're the last ones i drew #and i got tired of cleaning up the lines by the end #wherefore art thou #thg reread #i wish i could go back in time and show these to my 12 year old self i bet little kid me would go crazy #like dude. i drew that. and they all look EXACTLY how i picture them i love drawing portraits i am so good at it

[cozycoffeewriter]

Katniss: Peeta is plotting to kill me. I just know it. How cunning. Why does Haymitch insist we train together? Two can play at that game! I'll just ignore him.

Peeta: ...so these are the different kinds of bread in each district.

#the hunger games #everlark #katniss and peeta dynamic #thg reread #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

[heavensbeehall]

Here's something I didn't know I had a strong opinion about but apparently I do: Peeta and Katniss's kids.

I saw some suggestions that there are more than two, possibly three. I think the Epilogue specifically takes place when there are two. Because "the boy" and "the girl" represent the tributes of District 12. The future. Haymitch always calls Peeta "the boy" (which I assumed was something he alwasy did to keep distance between the kids and himself). When Dean Highbottom assigns mentors he shouts "district 12 boy!" and "District 12 girl!"

That is why they are "the boy" and "the girl." Katniss and Peeta are the mentors now.

There might be three down the road but there are two in the epilogue in my headcanon. The next generation of tributes. Except they don't have to go to the Hunger Games, because their parents rebelled. They most assuredly would have had to go (Katniss says victor's children are often Reaped) if the Rebellion never happened.

#thg reread #epilogue #mockingjay #everlark #stuff #toast babies

[mswyrr]

I freaking love this romance 💖

BTW the auduobooks read by Tatiana Maslany are good (1st book is on sale on audible for $3.30 rn)

#thg reread #tagging all of this that way if you need to filter #everlark #the hunger games #I'm appreciating Collins' sense of humor more this time

[joysmercer]

do we think the other tributes knew about the QQ before the card drawing. because otherwise the rebel ringleaders (plutarch etc) had maybe 2 weeks after the reaping (doing anything between the card drawing and reaping would just be a bad idea) to identify those who wouldn’t snitch, get them up to speed, and convince them to protect K&P at whatever cost. seems riskier than telling all eligible, sympathetic tributes and then waiting for the reaping to work out the kinks

#thg reread #the hunger games

[agentem]

Chapter 3

So far all the chapters have ended on a bit of a cliff hanger (Prim being called, Katniss thinking she will have to kill Peeta and here Effie telling them that drunk ol' Haymitch will be their mentor).

Compared to the other two "problems" presented, Haymitch will turn out to be surprisingly able to keep his alcoholism at bay. Instead, Haymitch seems to more of a "functional alcoholic" who is pretending to be a fall-down drunk to avoid getting close to people.

The revelation in Catching Fire that Haymitch's family and girlfriend were killed because of how he won the Hunger Games probably explains this behavior. He sees himself as someone who is dangerous to be around and he wants other people to be disgusted by him--as Effie, who is obsessed with manners often is.

But it actually doesn't take much for Peeta and Katniss to convince him to help them. They simply have to ask pretty much. And maybe that is why he abandons his act for them--they are children whose lives are in his hands. But the full motivations for his actions (his connection to Maysilee Donner and her pin, his interest in making the two present themselves as allies, or even the surface level explanation that previous tributes were not "fighters", which seems improbable given that he'd have been mentoring for 23 years or 46 tributes) are never fully explored. That can be frustrating.

@heavensbeehall

#thg reread #heavensbeehall #haymitch abernathy #the hunger games #suzanne collins