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"R-i-i-i-p! I grit my teeth as Venia, a woman with aqua hair and gold tattoos above her eyebrows, yanks a strip of fabric from my leg, tearing out the hair beneath it. "Sorry!" she pipes in her silly Capitol accent, "You're just so hairy!"

...

"You're doing very well," says some guy named Flavius. He gives his orange corckscrew locks a shake and applies a fresh coat of purple lipstick to his mouth. "If there's one thing we can't stand, it's a whiner. Grease her down!"

Venia and Octavia, a plump woman whose entire body has been dyed a pale shade of pea green, rub me down with a lotion that first stings but then soothes my raw skin."

"I know i should be embarrassed, but they're so unlike people that I'm no more self-consious than if a trio of oddly coloured birds were pecking around my feet."

"Finnick and I try to station ourselves in Command , where surely first word of the rescue will come, but we are barred because serious war business is being carried out. We refuse to leave Special Defence and end up waiting in the hummingbird room for news.

Making knots. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots. We do not want dinner. Fingers raw and bleeding. Finnick finally gives up and assumes the hunched position he took in the arena when the jabberjays attacked. I perfect my miniature noose. The words of "The Hanging Tree" replay in my head. Gale and Peeta. Peeta and Gale."

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Like it actually restated the commentary of how media treats children (and adults but especially children) and tricks you for a minute into thinking that kat and Pete had it better and then you go wait a minute no this is atrocious treatment, all of it. It doesn't matter if you have all the food you can eat because you're still going to die tomorrow.

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.

"Look up at the sky, look at all those colors" lies, Peeta. Bull. That was the boringest sunrise. It's all gray. The woman was dying and you lied??

Like I'm joking but like. It's CGI. They could do better than that.

Watching HG Catching Fire: maybe it's just me, but it feels so rushed and forced.

And why is the convo between Peeta, Katniss, and Haymitch (after the victory stop in district 11) so so rushed? Like there is so much content in the book, and if I hadn't read it I would have no idea what was going on.

Am I maybe watching an edited version of the movie or smth?? It doesn't mention the food deliveries??

Not Gale sitting by her side, watching her sleep I hate that and that dreadful nickname

Watching HG Catching Fire: maybe it's just me, but it feels so rushed and forced.

And why is the convo between Peeta, Katniss, and Haymitch (after the victory stop in district 11) so so rushed? Like there is so much content in the book, and if I hadn't read it I would have no idea what was going on.

Watching THG: The Mockingjay pt. 1

Finnick breaks my heart.

Why are the buildings in D12 still smoldering?? It was bombed when Kat ended the games, and then she's asleep for days and has time to get more or less settled at D13, enough that they know they have to cart her back to bed most nights, so why is the district still smoldering??

If someone could remind me what the deal is with the white roses, that'd be great. I know they're Snow's signature, but the powdery stuff??

I don't think prim realizes this, but if you can't sleep that does not mean you want your little sister to sleep in your bed. Also I'm not a fan of her Aged By The War Wisdom TM.

I also hate the nickname Little Duck.

It's fascinating to see the capitol's side as they plan to bomb the injured. The fact that they would sink so low as to kill the dying. Like, that's not gonna win the war, it just makes a statement.

Gale comes into her room saying he's got good news, and you know Kat is hoping for Peeta to come back, but Gale's like We can go hunting now 👍👍

Gale makin moves is so icky. Make him stop. Not him being lowkey manipulative with his "I knew you'd do that, cause I'm in pain. But don't worry it'll pass." Shut up

Love Peeta

Aww Finnick

How is Kat's hair so clean??

Why is her hair always in her mouth?

Maybe this is just my memory, but in the books, finnick's propo is for information purposes, in the movies its to jam signals and break Annie, Johanna, and Peeta out.

The way Coin manipulates everything in her speech.

If I were watching as the movies came out, I would freak out at the end.

Just finished The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. What blows me away is how Coryo has all the influences for him to become worse and to become better.

Here's what I mean, he's a mentor, so he has a close view of the games, which could make him more sympathetic with the districts or more cruel to them.

He writes the papers for Dr Gaul and talks with her a lot, their interactions could have made him more pro or more anti Capitol.

Dean Highbottom resents the Snows, which makes coryo anti-whatever-highbottom-believes, but hearing about the origin of the games could have changed his mind.

Sejanus, Tigris, and Lucy are all anti-capitol and they are the greatest influences in his personal life.

Spending time in D12 could have made him sympathize with the people that are the same as Capitol people, but instead he becomes more pro-capitol.

But as the first chapter makes very clear, he's out for personal success. It foreshadows everything. At the beginning he has some sympathy for the tributes but sees them as pawns for his own success. At any point, he had the catalysts in place for him to become anti-capitol. The conversations and family and friends. He could have been.

OH MY GOD

One of my favorite things about fandoms, is how people use their own areas of interest and knowledge to analyze and expound on media. Especially with children's or family media.

Like when people break down themes in Tangled and talk about the gaslighting or the way Mother Gothel tilts Rapunzel's head down to kiss her hair and pulled her hair out from behind her ear, whereas Flynn/Eugene tucks in behind her ear and tilts her head up to kiss her. Or point out details in The Hunger Games, like the bottles of whatever in Catching Fire that people in the Capitol drink so they vomit and can eat more and how that relates to the real world and how the wealthy 1% treats the needs of the lower class. Or the stereotypes and misrepresentations in Harry Potter.

And a different side of this same idea that I love, is how fandoms also grow the media. Not in fanart or fics or whatever (although i am a huge fan of that,) I'm thinking more about how people interact with characters. Adding to how characters think or feel or interact with each other. Like incorrect quotes, but also breaking down relationships and discussing how two characters depend on each other, things like that.

#1 made me think of Coraline by @neil-gaiman and some stuff I read a while ago, so idk if Neil Gaiman said it, or an article, or a tumblr post, I just remember the concept that adults see a child in danger, but children see themselves fighting something evil and winning. And i think that's part of why THG is very entertaining to kids/teens/young adults, and then as one gets older, we start to see the horror of it.

And #3, peeta is absolutely epic, takes Haymitch's advice and RUNS with it.

So I read the hunger games as a teenager and don’t remember much, and I’m watching the movies for the first time. (In short spurts bc I don’t have time to sit down and watch a whole movie in one go)

First thoughts from the first 1/2 hr..

1. This is horrific. (The plot, the movie is well done). I remember as a teen I was like “this is a fun book! Danger, fighting the govt!” Now I’m watching it and I’m like this is extremely disturbing…. The reaping was so hard to watch. The way the town was just silent. How Effie was waiting for applause that never came. Because why would you applaud watching your children be murdered. But also no crying, no yelling (except from Katniss) because they are just so beaten down and used to this.

2. On a lighter note, I am LIVING for the 1920-1930 aesthetic. The poor coal mining town as a 1930s American shanty town, and then the Capitol in Art Deco. My little art and fashion nerd brain is so happy.

3. I don’t remember a whole lot about peeta besides that he and katniss end up together. But in the first 30 min I’ve seen that he is so smart. Immediately starts asking haymitch how to get sponsors. His response: get people to like you. So what does peeta do? Goes ti the window and starts waving at the crowd. At first I was feeling like katniss like “what are you doing? Pandering to the people who want you to die??” But then I realized, he’s following advice. Become a show- become entertainment and you might get a chance to win. And that’s what he does the whole story as I remember: admit he loves katniss. Say she’s pregnant. Make a sympathy story and make yourself indispensable.

i feel like it's kind of the opposite of the learning curve.

What i mean is that i think they slowly rebuild trust because peeta has been through a lot of psychological trauma and manipulation to make him not trust her, and he can't just intellectually tell himself that he can trust her because his memories + his gut instinct + his fear of katniss are too much. so there's no way he could just go back to trusting her.

and Kat was attacked by him and has the trauma from both hunger games, and her sister's death, and peeta attacking her, not to mention the trauma and ptsd from the war. so her issues run pretty deep too, she can't just bounce back from all that and fall head over heels for him.

so all that said, i feel like when he gets back from the capitol at the end of bk 3 they both are intellectually aware they can trust each other and will be safe, but they can't quite believe it. so what ends up happening is that they slowly spend more and more time with each other, kind of creating safe spaces. maybe not much physical contact, or not spending more than a couple hours with each other at once, and they don't do anything with sharp objects (like maybe they walk in the woods together, but she won't take her bow and arrows. maybe they cook together, but they chop vegetables beforehand, not with the other present.) But once they start trusting each other, then they trust more and more rapidly. So it's kinda slow burn for a while and then things escalate quickly.

i am interested in seeing what everyone's timeline is for everlark in the growing together stage. i have been putting together some thoughts for a post about it for a while, but i was wondering what everyone else thought before i finalize it.

Like, do you think it is a slow burn? if it is a slow burn, do they become friends quickly? or is that a slow burn? or, instead of a slow burn, do they just fit back together now that peeta has returned? after the therapy in the capitol, was peeta's temperament more like his pre-hijacked temperament and that made katniss feel like he was back? and if he was back, they could maybe more quickly lean into their friendship/relationship?

what do you all think? ^o^

Plz explain in comments or tags

I'd be really interested to see a list of parallels between the hunger games and the ballad of songbirds and snakes, and I'm not talking "when coryo says the things we love most" No. I'm saying katniss and Lucy both have mentors who don't expect then to win but still take actions that aid in their successes, but coryo ditches Lucy and haymitch becomes katniss's friend. If no one else makes a list, I might

If there is a list comparing the uses of "corio" vs "coriolanus" I'd really like a copy

The way both lucky and caeser flickerman have charisma and are funny but like

about children dying and stuff

Coriolanus Snow is the one who creates the concept of betting on and being invested in The Hunger Games, which is ultimately his downfall because katniss everdeen and Peeta mellark use the attention and interest to manipulate and ultimately break the system, which brings about snow's downfall.

And ultimately it's because snow is trying to be the best and promote himself that he loses power in the end. If he hadn't tried to impress Doctor gaul, then the games probably would have ended years before katniss was even born and certainly she wouldn't be able to use donations and attention to bring about the end of his presidency.

Sejanus is such a tragic character because he’s a revolutionary born decades before the revolution. He wants to be Katniss, he has the same heart and courage as her and if he could be The Mockingjay he would be, but the opportunity for Sejanus to do something isn’t there as much as he tries and tries again and again. Things just happened to fall in place for Katniss to have the opportunity she did. Sometimes you can be a good person, you can try your best, you can scream and fight for goodness, and you’re still powerless to stop evil. Sometimes the world just isn’t ready to listen yet. That’s a heartbreaking reality, but the silver lining is that even if you can’t be the hero - someone somewhere sometime will be. Evil isn’t truly immortal as much as the villains insist it is.

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.

My favorite part of the Hunger Games books was when Peeta and Gale were having a chat about who will Katniss choose and she was there listening like the audacity, I don't need either one of you bitchess