#gale slander

[peetapiepita]

Suzanne Collins, the queen of symbolism.

Here's just another example:

Gale is good with snares. It's how he survived and kept his family alive.

But it's also a symbolism for his biggest flaw: he's unnecessarily manipulative in his relationship with Katniss and he's too comfortable with the strategy of trapping people.

He's essentially trying to trap Katniss the whole time he's forcing a romantic relationship with her. He sees people as his preys. That's just so cold-hearted and clashes with Katniss' morals too hard.

Peeta is good at controlling fire. He's a baker, he occasionally gets burnt. Katniss said that he had some burn scars before the Capitol got rid of them after the first games.

It's a symbolism for his relationship with Katniss. He can control her fire and initiate fire in her (cue the beach scene,) but he's not exempt from the burns. He gets burnt by her, not intentional on her part, but it happens.

But Peeta is built to endure the physical and emotional burns, he's strong inside and out. An average person would probably give up after certain events between them, but Peeta never shied away from the fire, he faces it.

The best part? She even uses the same word to describe these two skills they have. I think these are also some of the only times she used this word. Genius move.

#hunger games #the hunger games #thg #thg meta #everlark #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #gale slander #suzanne collins

[bodega-catto]

Pros of reading the hunger games books: Katniss and Peeta. Their development. Their overcoming of doom and fear, their everlasting hope and love and desire for each other’s presence. Katniss’ finally finding happiness and fulfilling her beautiful nurturing nature. Peeta’s easygoing personality, his struggle after being tortured and changed. His eternal love and choosing of Katniss.

Cons: Gale Hawthorne.

#the hunger games #hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #everlark #Gale slander #i literally hate him so much #i picked the books again bc I saw (1) edit on TikTok and the love rekindled #but Gale……. #the biggest pick me in the entire world

[hungryhungrygames]

in cf when katniss is planning on running away from distrct 12, when she tells gale, he is fully ready to run away with her, until she mentions that peeta would also be coming. and then he decides that he wouldn’t want to if he was coming

when katniss tells peeta, even when he knows that gale would also come, he is still COMPLETELY FINE WITH IT BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT GALE IS IN DANGER AND THAT KATNISS CARES ABOUT HIM

#the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #everlark #peeta mallark #mine #peeniss #gale hawthorne #gale slander

[loungemermaid]

Sorry yeah, I had to take your boyfriend away to further the plot. Unfortunately he is going to go through hell while he’s gone, yeah. No, sorry, he’s never going to be exactly the same. Oh it will permanently damage a piece of him and he’ll never get it back. Oh but hey, you know that annoying best friend that keeps trying to force you into a relationship? You can still have him around! Yeah! You’ll like that, won’t you?

#mer.txt #thg #Gale slander #peeta mellark #suzanne collins #everlark #katniss everdeen

[thesweetnessofspring]

I struggle to see the appeal of Katniss and Gale as a couple and it's not just because I ship Everlark deep to my core. I am capable of loving a ship and seeing why someone ships one of those characters with someone else, even if I hate that other ship.

It's because, frankly, Katniss and Gale are boring together. There doesn't seem to be any of the classic romance tropes going on between them. And this, probably more than anything else, is why Everthorne shippers are so few and far between these days because people will ship just about anything as long as it's not boring. Toxic, illegal, annoying, problematic--this will not sway shippers. But boredom will.

Katniss and Gale fight with each other but it's not even "sexy" fighting/bickering. It's boring fighting where you just feel mad at Gale after, but not that great push-and-pull those good antagonistic romantic couples have. It's just push-push-push-push.

They're supposed to be friends, but I can only think of one instance where they share a joke with each other. Their friendship is dull and based solely on "we both need food for our families." That's built a lot of knowledge about one another, but reading the series it's hard to find even genuine moments of friendship between them. Not where one is looking out for or helping the other (I'll never deny they do that), but where it's like, yeah, I can see that they like hanging out with each other because they like the other's company. At least from Katniss's perspective, Gale's company is familiar and known, which is its appeal. But if they were meeting for the first time at 16 and 18 without all the history between them, I cannot for the life of me see them wanting to hang out.

They have no physical chemistry. Katniss's descriptions of her physical contact with Gale are flat at best and uncomfortable at worst. So it's not even like, wow, but their make-out scenes are so hot!

They have no cute or romantic or sexy exchanges with each other. Maybe the one they have after his whipping could be construed as romantic? But Katniss drops that so fast and over three books they have one line each that's just sorta cute. I have seen rarepairs built on more.

Idk, ship and let ship, I just find this one so entirely lacking anything to make it shippable.

#anti everthorne #anti-everthorne #gale slander #anti gale hawthorne #anti-gale hawthorne #i have many thoughts on “platonic everthorne” as well #more than i shared here #i also don't get that from the books at all #i love a friends to lovers story but they never actually seemed like good friends or lovers

[fantasybuff96]

Gale stans confuse me so much. Like out of every single character in The Hunger Games books and movies you pick to stan…. Gale is your choice?

#the hunger games #gale hawthorne #everlark #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #finnick odair #annie cresta #johanna mason #everyone character but Gale #odesta #anti gale hawthorne #peeta supremacy #gale slander

[lanadel-heyyy]

pt 6

#the hunger games #thg #peeta mellark #cato #gale slander #letterboxd #katniss everdeen

[starrrbakerrr]

I’m trying to treat and think about Gale with more nuance but he’s just so irritating, in general, but especially when it comes to Katniss. I’m rereading the “it’s like kissing someone who’s drunk” part and it’s like his default setting is whiny (“something selfish” ... “I don’t stand a chance if he doesn’t get better” bffr you don’t stand a chance if he does).

And it really bothers me when he tells Katniss that the moment he realized he liked her romantically was when Darius was flirting with her at the Hob. He said he “minded” when what should have minded was that a 20 something year old was trying to kiss your 15 year old friend. 😑

And the way Katniss was just… not into the kiss. At least I think in this moment Gale realized that she’ll never love him in the way he wants.

#gale slander #gale hawthorne #the hunger games #Gale appears when you search man child #text

[waywardangel-wilds]

*Gale watching the reaping of the 74th Annual Hunger Games*

Gale: Hmm, how do I make this all about me?

#incorrect hunger games quotes #the hunger games #gale hawthorne #thg #lol #gale slander

[peetapiepita]

I need to get this off my chest because some people got it SO WRONG.

Some people are saying "Both boys pressured Katniss to choose them," as if you can put Peeta in one category with Gayle and call it a day.

Peeta devoted his life to Katniss before she even knew him. He decided to sacrifice himself for her before he thought she could EVER return his romantic feelings. His whole plan was to die for her without getting to know her, let alone being with her. He never expected her to return his feeling or guilt-trip her about it.

He only got mad at her for lying to him because she told him IT WAS ALL A LIE. If she discreetly told him she was pretending when she found him by the stream, I don't think he would've gotten mad at her one bit. (I know it's not plausible, that's why it's an "if".)

Like when did he ever pressure her about choosing him???? When????? When excatly?

Ask yourself, if you're a teenager who's attracted to girls and the girl you're attracted to invites you to sleep in her bed every night, would you ask her if your relationship is more than platonic? I mean, normal people would say yes, right? Peeta didn't even pressure her in this bizarre situation. He just accepted they were platonic bed buddies and said nothing to put her in a difficult situation. For a teenage boy, he was practically a Saint, okay?

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

[capric0rnie]

gale defenders need to take into consideration the fact that i don’t dislike gale bc i blame him entirely for prim’s death or bc he’s the loser of the “love triangle.” i dislike gale bc he is really fucking annoying

#thg books #the hunger games #gale hawthorne #gale slander #it is ok to be a hater for no other reason than the fact that someone is annoying

[hungryhungrygames]

i think the funniest part in the entirety of the hunger games trilogy is during cf when katniss convinces herself she likes gale romantically cause she feels like she is the reason why he got whipped

and then like a page later she says like “i wish peeta was in my bed because i cant sleep without the comfort of his arms” and she has to literally REMIND HERSELF SHE ISNT SUPPOSE TO THINK LIKE THAT CAUSE SHE CHOSE GALE 

#like i get that she is traumatized and confused and she doesn't know what she wants #but it is so painfully obvious that she loves peeta #and everytime she chooses gale it is just because she feels she owes him in some way #mine #thg #the hunger games #gale hawthorne #peeta mallark #katniss everdeen #everlark #peeniss #catching fire #cf #gale slander

[bodega-catto]

I know this has been said already but I really admire how Suzanne Collins had the opportunity to milk the hunger games to the very end by making books about all the PoVs and even movies about other games but she knew that would cheapen the message she was trying to convey and she respected her characters and own writing enough to stick to it till the very end. You are an amazing woman miss Collins. It should have been Gale not Finnick but you are such an inspo.

#thg #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #finnick odair #gale slander #I DONT LIKE GALE IF YOU DO THIS IS NOT FOR YOU TO TRY AND CHANGE MY MIND #don’t like don’t interact Gale lovers (I know you have to be told a few times bc you have like no reading comprehension :( ) #suzanne collins

[railmerosalie]

Rereading Mockingjay

#thg #gale hawthorne #gale slander #prim reaper #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #primrose everdeen #mockingjay #thg mockingjay

[nick-nacker]

“I don’t have high standards”

Peeta Mellark risked his life to make sure Katniss was okay. He would kill himself if it meant Katniss was okay. He knew the whole love thing was fake and he still held on for hope. He volunteered to go back into the area just to make sure Katniss made it out, it didn’t matter if he never would. He burnt the bread on purpose to give it to her, despite knowing he would get hit by his mother. He was brainwashed by the government into thinking Katniss was a monster. Despite all of the thoughts in his head, he still changed and fell in love with Katniss all over again. He married her and had kids despite all of this.

Grrrr i want Peeta

#peeta mellark #team peeta #thg #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #gale slander

[sapphicisland]

I'm a Gale hater simply because of the way he treated Katniss throughout the books not because he was the "prim reaper", but because he was an asshole that felt entitled to her affection. You can make arguments about his trauma all you want I've read the books and I still hate him.

#the hunger games #katniss #gale #gale slander