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Everlark endgame hater takes are consistently crazy. What do you mean Katniss “only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame my lifelong fear of pregnancy” Everdeen felt no special love for her children with Peeta? What do you mean Katniss, who made out with a pearl and dreamed of a recently hijacked Peeta coming to cuddle with her after getting shot, settled for him? These takes are almost as delusional as Katniss when she tried to convince herself Peeta wanted to kill her in THG
“oh my gosh, i haven’t read since i was five!” yeah we can tell, don’t worry.
ELLE FANNING IS EFFIE TRINKET 🙏😩
am i the only one who gets seriously grossed out when i see a post on here that’s romanticizing lolita? like i don’t get it, its not cute nor is it something to romanticize. maybe im wrong but idk man.
i don’t particularly like plutarch but i don’t hate him either.
i’ll never get over the fact that madge wasn’t included in the movies.
sejanus screaming for his ma to help him before he dies is what did it for me.
“FINNICK IS HAPPILY LIVING WITH ANNIE AND HIS BABY IN DISTRICT 4!!” i scream as they drag me into a white padded room.
Let’s talk about Katniss’s mother, shall we?
She’s grown up living in fear of being reaped for so long, gets married, has kids, then loses the one thing that brought her joy: her husband. How long had she gone without losing anyone to the Games? But it doesn’t matter, because life is cruel and her loved one was still taken from her.
Katniss is so much like her father that even looking at her brings Katniss’s mother to a different time, a different place. Prim is so much like herself—it’s easier to be with her—but Katniss? She sings and works just like her late husband and Katniss’s mother can’t stand that. She can’t stand the songs, she can’t stand the reality of her world. So she dissociates.
She doesn’t try to repair their bond, doesn’t try to reach out. She barely asks where Katniss goes in Mockingjay and she only does that because it reminds her of her husband—leaving and then never coming back. 12 took so much from her, and she can’t go back.
Then Prim dies and the last of Katniss’s mother does too.
Prim is her hope, her new life. If Prim can keep going, then so can she. But with Prim gone, she has nothing but the constant reminder of her husband, Katniss. And she can’t stand to look at her anymore.
She can’t go back to 12. She can’t look at Katniss. So she doesn’t. She gives into the monotony of life and fades from the story.
This is why Haymitch is so important to Katniss and her story. If Katniss is her dad, then she needed someone like him to come alongside her and show her things. He has the same mindset as her father: be present and aware of what reality is. Katniss’s mother couldn’t do that.
And yet, Katniss is her mother. She dissociates just the same, but she had one difference—she had Peeta.
I have finally read and watched through the Hunger Games (and am currently reading Ballad) so here are some of my thoughts because this series has me in a chokehold:
had never heard how detailed the PTSD is in this series??? the amount of description and panic written into not only what Katniss is feeling but also what Peeta and other background characters are feeling is incredible. we need more PTSD representation in literature, but this was a perfect way to do it
Finnick. like hands down one of the best characters in the series and then him just dying I am unwell
on the same topic of favorite characters, Haymitch. no, I haven't read Sunrise yet (and I'm terrified) but man. I love how the books have Katniss's snarky opinion of him at first, but the movies show how genuinely concerned he was for both her and Peeta. Best man, I will never turn down a father/daughter duo
Katniss's mother. I will go on a whole rant about her because she's so fascinating to me.
Katniss not being the actual rebel leader, rather just a girl being dragged along in something she can't control
the similarities between the Capital and 12 - they are the same in a way: both using Katniss to achieve their political goals
the amount of despair in Prim's death, knowing from the very beginning it didn't matter. she was always going to die, and Katniss wasn't able to save her. The reality of war is heavy
the worldbuilding: from the districts to the mutts, I love how subtle and yet how crucial everything is. just enough detail to satisfy, but just enough room to expound upon
Katniss.
Peeta.
the fact that, just like the actual Hunger Games, the Hunger Games series was simplified to a love triangle and not the political commentary that it was meant to be. the fact that the Hunger Games are happening now, in our own country, and only we can decide how we will face it
Collins knows what she's doing and I wish I could be half the author she is