#mrs mellark

[heyheycaitalin]

Peeta's mom probably died thinking Peeta's story about eloping with Katniss and getting her pregnant was real. Who would've told her otherwise? They couldn't call home. She doesn't know Gale. She doesnt talk to Katniss' family. She probably died thinking her son married that "Seam brat" and her grandchild was gonna be raised by other Seam trash. Her son married the daughter of the girl her husband loved and never really got over. I think that's beautiful. Die mad, Mrs. Mellark you evil witch.

#everlark #hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #mrs mellark

[little-lynx]

Sick Cycle Carousel

If shame had a face, I think it would kind of look like mine If it had a home, would it be my eyes? Would you believe me if I said I'm tired of this? Well, here we go now, one more time

I never thought I'd end up here Never thought I'd be standing where I am I guess I kind of thought it would be easier than this I guess I was wrong now, one more time (c) Lifehouse

#the hunger games #hunger games fanart #peeta mellark #mrs mellark #the mellarks #lynx second quarter quell generation #kinda? #someone asked me to draw lil Peeta with his mom #it was loooooong ago #but I’m here for this #lynx hunger games

[triassictriserratops]

Mr. Mellark: Parental Failures in a Totalitarian Structure

I was talking with @vasilissadragomir last night about my opinions on Mr. Mellark. (Basically saying that while I would absolutely throw hands with Mrs. Mellark I still need to have some WORDS with Mr. Mellark because I have some SHIT to say to him.)

Consequently, someone on Reddit said something similar about Mr. Mellark so I took the opportunity to really dive into my thoughts about him.

I can understand and empathize with a man stuck in an unideal marriage in a district where, very likely, divorce wasn't possible. I can understand the situations that would have led to him feeling stuck, incapable of confrontation, incapable of changing his circumstances.

But, at the end of the day, we are beholden to the safety of the children brought into this world that have even less of a choice in their circumstances. Peeta (and likely his brothers) all deserved better. That is a point that cannot be refuted. And, in some ways, Mr. Mellark absolutely shares responsibility with his wife in the abuse that his children suffered. Silence is the strongest tool given to an oppressor.

And that's really a HUGE takeaway from the series. In the face of total oppression, the most vulnerable, our children, CANNOT be adequately protected.

Parents of the districts love their children, and yet are forced to watch them march off, year after year to be selected for slaughter, they are forced to watch their children starve, forced to offer up their children's names for slightly more food, forced to watch their children grow to break their bodies in dangerous work conditions, forced to watch them have more children and perpetuate the cycle. There is no such thing as familial protection in this world.

It's why Prim, arguably the most protected person in the COUNTRY died alongside the other most protected children of the country. The Capitol's children. There is no protecting the vulnerable in a state of war and violent oppression.

And here we have Mr. Mellark. Clearly a kind, gentle man. I can't imagine he is content to watch his children suffer. I can't imagine that he is okay with the abuse his wife puts on them. But he CANNOT AND WILL NOT protect them. And, in the world of the Hunger Games, that is BY DESIGN. Even the most loving and devoted parents cannot truly fight their own oppression.

He, and all of his circumstances, failed his sons.

Mr. Mellark failed his children. But I'd go one step further and say that he was specifically designed to fail his children.

#peeta mellark #mr mellark #Mrs Mellark #thg #the hunger games #thg series #hunger games meta #thg meta

[winters-rose-daughterofcain]

I make the joke that Katniss and Peeta both have insane mommy issues a lot.... because it's true. But like genuinely the relationship with your parents plays such an important role in how you form relationships and how you view love and it's so obvious the ways it's affected them and their relationship and how they interact like I can actually talk for hours and one day when it's not 2 AM I will lol

Edit: I did it lol part one with Katniss here if you're interested and part two with Peeta here.

#katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #everlark #katniss and peeta #the hunger games #thg #mrs everdeen #mrs mellark #mr everdeen #mr mellark

[fireelementalessence]

I hate when people try to retcon Mrs Mellark into not being abusive or try to justify her abuse. Lightly spanking your kid is one thing, but striking him so hard in the face that he have to go to school the next day with a welted eye and letting the last thing you say him before gets set off to fight for his life basically tell him that you have zero confidence in him will forever have her on my shit list. Toastbaby boy is truly blessed because he’ll never have a mother like that.

#thg #everlark #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #mrs mellark #toastbaby #toastbaby boy

[oakfarmer]

I’m so excited to share these!! I commissioned @andretries for this big project inspired by Paperwork. These are the three paintings Gale sees above Katniss and Peeta’s mantle in Chapter 3. It was so much fun discussing head canons and watching Andrea develop her version of each of the families. Thank you so much!!

#peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #everlark #thg fanart #the hunger games fanfiction #post mockingjay #prim #rye mellark #mr mellark #Mrs Mellark #Mrs Everdeen #mr Everdeen

[buggiebite]

What do you think about Mother's role in characters' life of The Hunger Games series?

Do you think there is correlation of their situation with their action?

Thank you :)

@curiousthg

What a great ask. I’m a firm believer in this too. What a mother/maternal figure does greatly affects the child, and the lack thereof. In the series, three mothers come to my mind: Mrs. Everdeen, Mrs. Mellark, and Hazelle Hawthorne. Thankfully, their children are big characters in the series so I can correlate actions and emotions to their mothers.

Starting with the obvious, Mrs. Everdeen and Katniss:

We do not know much about Mrs. Everdeen from before Mr. Everdeen died, but we can infer that she was a decent mother then. Happy even. Leaving her merchant life for love rather than status. When, Mr. Everdeen dies tragically, she is almost lifeless. Severely depressed and mentally withdrawn from the world around her. It’s this that drives Katniss to be the provider of family. Without the knowledge and skill of survival she would have never of made it as far as she did. Mrs. Everdeen is emotionally driven and so is Katniss. Volunteering for Prim. Singing for Rue. The nightlock berries. While Katniss has built a brick wall to hide her feelings from everyone, so has her mother. They just go about it differently. Then in Mockingjay, Katniss mirrors her mother regarding Peeta’s capture. I think a lot of people see Mrs Everdeen and Katniss as opposites, but really they’re just two sides of the same coin.

Mrs. Mellark and Peeta: While we really don’t have a lot of information on Mrs. Mellark, we know enough to infer that she was abusive. Unfortunately, we don’t know the reasons why she is the way and many chalk it to an unhappy marriage/life—and I agree. But, I want to focus on how much of opposites Peeta and his mother are. Peeta is this optimistic, self-sacrificing, charismatic, character. I think he learns this from his mother too, but in a backwards way. He learns what not to be. He does not want to be brutal. Does he have his outbursts of anger? Yes. Because he’s human. So he learns what not to be from others, while also seeing the good things in everyone.

Hazelle and Gale Hawthorne: This my least thought out, just because I never looked too much into it. Hazelle is a strong woman. A widow raising four children in poverty. She had to be strong. I feel like Gale saw this strength and made by it to help out his family. It’s altruism. Gale is a sacrificing character. Putting himself in harms way to save others. I trait he undeniably had learned somewhere, I just want to believe it’s Hazelle.

Thank you so much for the ask!

#the hunger games #ask #Katniss #Peeta #Gale #buggiebite #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #thg #district 12 #hazelle hawthorne #mrs everdeen #Mrs Mellark

[adsosfraser]

dandelions

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Peeta beamed through the back doorway, rocking back and forth on his heels. Six bright yellow flowers sat crushed between his chubby hands. He wore his Daddy’s big fancy shoes and the fancy blue shirt tucked into his tan trousers that he wore on the first day of school.

“Mama, will you go to the harvest festival with me?”

Daddy said she’d been grumpy lately but it wasn’t her fault. Peeta didn’t want any of them sad and he knew how Mommies in town brightened when Daddies gave them flowers. So he slipped out the back door in his finest clothes and surprised her with a knock at the door.

“Peeta, I don’t have time for this nonsense. Go throw out those weeds.” Mrs. Mellark looked down her nose at him.

His chest stung, like his knee did when he fell and scraped it with Rye’s old ratty rollerblades that were ten sizes too big. Where was it coming from? He didn’t fall.

The yellow flowers drooped in his hands.

“Sorry Mama I meant to add please, I really did. I won’t forget next time.”

His voice wobbled and he held in the sniffle inching its way up his nose. Mommy didn’t like it when people cried.

Mrs. Mellark hitched the laundry basket up further on her hip, readjusting her grip.

“Go bother your father, I’m busy.”

Her back turned and she marched back inside to the heat of the ovens. Peeta followed up the steps, but tripped on the last one, his shoelace untied. He stumbled onto the top of the landing and his nose smacked into the door with a sting as it slammed shut behind his Mommy.

Peeta rocked back onto his bum, finally letting the wail of pain free. His nose hurt along with his chest. But he didn’t know which one to focus on.

Katniss watched everything unfold from her perch on her Daddy’s shoulders. They had come to hopefully trade three big fat squirrels for some bread or flour. She clung to his ears as he rushed forward towards the injured boy. He gently set her down off to the side as he slowly approached the howling boy. Peeta leaned into Mr. Everdeen immediately and crawled into his lap. Wrapping his arms around the shaking child, Sage would have liked nothing more than to throw verbal blows at that woman. But now he had to hold the baby she hurt in his arms.

“Shh, shh. Where does it hurt Peeta?”

Peeta pointed to his chest with a whimper. Only after a minute of rocking in Sage’s arms did he remember his other pain. He pointed to his nose.

“Daddy, kiss him all better.” Katniss observed, hovering right over Peeta.

She addressed Peeta directly with a solemn nod. “Daddy’s kisses are magical. They heal everything. Just like Mommy’s hands.”

Katniss leaned closer and smacked the sunshine boy’s nose with a sloppy and overexaggerated “mwah” with her lips.

Peeta blushed crimson red. His pain completely forgotten.

“Like that Daddy!”

“So I see little sparrow.” Mr. Everdeen chuckled and ruffled the top of her hair. She preened under his attention and offered her hand to the boy, lifting him up to his feet.

“You should ask Daddy to go to the harvest festival with you. Or Mommy, she’d love to go!”

***

Peeta beams through the back doorway, rocking back and forth on his heels. Six bright yellow flowers sit gently between his large hands. He wears his father’s old hand-me-down shoes that a lifetime ago would be considered fancy and a green shirt tucked into his tan trousers that he wore on the first day of high school.

“Katniss, will you go to the harvest festival with me?”

His face slides open with a lopsided grin as Katniss accepts the bouquet with a blush and a timid smile.

“Please?”

#peeta mellark #thg #the hunger games #baby!everlark #katniss everdeen #mr everdeen #mrs mellark #adsofraser writing #everlark #ficlet #the hunger games fanfiction

[adlerorzel-blog]

What do you think about Mother's role in characters' life of The Hunger Games series?

Do you think there is correlation of their situation with their action?

Thank you :)

@curiousthg

Hi, I'm sorry it took me so long to answer 😅

One of my favorite things about the saga is that the role of the mother is not sanctified. Suzanne writes mothers with flaws, virtues, and making mistakes but without forgetting that they are also victims of the system and how it affects them. (Mrs. Everdeen by being a healer who has seen the consequences of violence from authority figures, her depression, and her ability to teach Prim. And Mrs. Mellark with her closed-minded and cruel way of looking at the world).

I think Peeta and Katniss' childhood and their relationships with their moms is a very sad topic but so real that it hurts. They both actively try not to be like them. They despise or try to eliminate the "core" characteristics of their moms that they find in themselves. Katniss by repressing her feelings because she thinks they make her weak, and Peeta with his need to keep an iron grip on his reactions. The tragedy is that when they are at their lowest and most helpless moment, they become mirrors of their mothers. But I think, in some ways, it is because of their mothers that they survive everything the story throws at them.

Katniss survives the district thanks to the knowledge she inherited from her father, but she survives the games and the war because of her ability to do what it takes to protect/save others, which she inherited from her mother. It's something all three Everdeen women share. Peeta often tells her "You're the healer" and Katniss always contradicts him, but the truth is that Katniss also shares that gift. She just doesn't see it because, for her, the image of healing is Prim.

Peeta survives the capitol (in all its forms) due to what he learned from his mother, from reacting under pressure to smiling when he's choking with fear. Something little talked about is that one of the reasons Peeta makes it back from the hijacking is because of his mother: She gave him the experience of what it is like to love someone who causes him fear.

Perhaps my point of view is cliché or simple when analyzing Katniss and Peeta's mothers but I think their depth and humanity lie precisely in how they influenced their children and how "simple" it is for us to understand and empathize with the children early on and then understand and empathize (or not) with their mothers as we grow up.

[When translating this answer I feel I rambled a bit so I apologize for that hehe].

It was a wonderful question! Thank you for sending it 😊

#thg ask #the hunger games #hunger games discussion #mrs mellark #mrs everdeen

[enixamyram]

What's your thought about Peeta's home life?

Do you think his parents are abusive toward him?

In the novels, we know that his mother hit him. How about his father?

Why do you think their family doesn't live with him in the Victors' Village? Thoughts?

Thank you so much.

@curiousnonny

I think for the most part, Peeta's family were products of their enviroment. They were District 12, the poorest, least cared for District, but they were also from the shop area, the nicer part of the least cared for District. I think these things combined gave some of them a sense of self preservation and desire for superiority which is why Peeta's mother had the cold attitude she did towards Seam kids, and why Peeta's older brother didn't volunteer for him when his name was picked for the games.

However we're not JUST products of our enviroment, as proven by Peeta's father. I think his crush on Katniss' mother and seeing her run off to be with a man from the Seam gave him a hint of clarity. It showed him that they were not better just because they were from a nicer area. I think that allowed him to unlearn some of his more selfish thoughts, which I think also influenced Peeta growing up.

Peeta's brothers are pretty open to interpretation. We only know one could have volunteered but didn't and the other was too old to but even Katniss acknowledges this as a pretty standard thing where the reaping is concerned.

Unfortunately I think it's clear the baker's wife rules the house. The baker was always described as kind, and I can't see him letting his wife beat their children if he had any real say in the matter. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if his wife was abusive to him as well as their children.

As for why they didn't live with Peeta. I imagine a rift had formed between them when Peeta came back. His mother herself had written him off almost as soon as his name was picked and that's not something you just brush off. That, added with the abuse, probably meant Peeta preferred to be away from them. His father wouldn't (or couldn't) leave his wife, they had a house of their own and a shop to run. If they actually needed it I imagine Peeta would have taken them in but in general I think it was just a case of a child moving away from home when they were ready and able to.

#The Hunger Games #Peeta Mellark #Mrs Mellark #The Baker #Peeta's Brothers

[little-lynx]

I live for your Mr. & Mrs. Mellark art and thoughts 😊

Awwwww! My SQQ generation heart melts!

Here is a sketch I did some tome ago but never posted ;)

#the hunger games #hunger games fanart #mr mellark #mrs mellark #mr and mrs mellark #lynx second quarter quell generation

[triassictriserratops]

I just saw your posts about Mr. Mellark, and how the sub-Reddit was talking about. I just checked it out, and omg everyone sharing their own personal experiences about how they have their own Mr. Mellark as a parent. And your post is spot on. We can understand Mr. Mellark and his circumstances, but it doesn’t meant we have to stay silent and not about his failure as a parent.

People often forget Peeta is a victim of child abuse, with an aggressive parent and a complicit father. Crying. I feel so bad for his character :(

Thank you for your message and sharing your thoughts, Anon! 💚🧡

I have so much compassion and understanding for Mr. Mellark. He is clearly a very kind man caught in an extremely unkind world. Katniss views him as incredibly kind and this is something the reader is supposed to understand about him as well.

He is someone who will bring Katniss cookies before she is sent to her death and who promises to keep her sister from going hungry. Someone who will look at a boy with 42 slips of paper in a reaping bowl and accept an unfavorable trade so that boy can have good, fresh bread that morning. HE HAS A GOOD SOUL.

The tragedy here is that he IS kind. He IS caring. But the framework of his life, his country, his marriage, his socioeconomic status all work to create this scenario that leaves him incapable of defending his sons in his own home. And this is unbelievably sad.

Good people can do bad things or make bad choices. And good people can sometimes choose silence, which is still an action. Silence is still a choice.

Mr. Mellark deserved better in his own life, but he also OWED better for his children's lives. Both of these are true.

#peeta mellark #the hunger games #thg #thg series #mr mellark #Mrs Mellark #thg meta #hunger games meta #The hunger games meta #thg analysis #hunger games analysis #generational trauma #parenting

[winters-rose-daughterofcain]

Part 2 of Everlark and their parents lets go Peeta your turn now.

Now this one is harder. We know very little explicit information about Peeta's family so a lot of this will be inference and my own personal interpretation of the family and their dynamic based on what we do see, what we don't see, and the way Peeta acts, so if you disagree with me that's all good lol.

So first, Peeta grew up in an absuive household. That's not a debate that's explicitly canon. Him mother not only hits him, implied to be with something, but also calls him a worthless creature when he burns the bread for Katniss. No matter that circumstance that is not how you treat your eleven year old child, that is not how you treat any child period, and this clearly isn't a one off or first time. Even though we personally see very little of the abuse on page, I at least think its impact of Peeta is very clear.

This boy has abysmal self esteem, when he discovers Katniss and Haymich have hidden things from him again he feels as if they view him as weak and stupid and too dumb to get it, that's the automatic assumption even though we know that's so far from the truth it's laughable. But for a child that grew up being consistently insulted and belittled it's not that far of a jump to make.

His ability to lie, also I think is relevant here. That kind of ability with words doesn't come from nowhere, that doesn't just happen that's something practiced. A theme with Katniss and Peeta's talents throughout the trilogy is that even the things they are good at and that help them were born from necessity. Katniss is so good with a bow and practical survival skills because she had to be, because even though she grew to love hunting, she and her family would have died without it. Peeta's skill with art comes from working at the bakery it comes from years worth or practise and labor he put in as a child, and I think his ability to lie, manipulate, mask his true feelings and talk his way though things stems from a similar place. His mother is called 'the witch' colloquially, we see she clearly has a temper and resorts to violence and insults quickly. A lot of children who grow up in abuse grow to be very charming, they learn how to lie and manipulate the situation to get themselves out of trouble and to keep themselves and potentially their siblings safe. At least to me Peeta's unmatched ability to impact and morph a situation with just his words could very easily be linked back to his childhood. We all love that Peeta is such a good manipulator but only ever uses it for good, and I think this is partially why, because he doesn't even want to be necessarily, it was a skill born for survival. His mothers cruelty is also shown very much to not be reserved purely for him, she chases starving children away from their empty bins, speaks awfully about the seam and the people from it.

His father is a complicated man. he clearly dose have love for Peeta and is shown many times to be a kind man at his core. But he is passive. He may bring Katniss cookies and make generous trades, he may have been the one to impart that inherent kindness we see in him onto Peeta, and may have been the only safe adult in the house, but he is passive. We don't know the extent of how much he steps in when his wife starts acting out, but from what we can see of her effect of Peeta clearly not enough. He also doesn't come to live with him after the games, none of them do. And while I understand practically that might not be the most reasonable situation, a newly disabled, traumatised sixteen year old boy was still left to live alone. His family may have visited often, they still talk we see him going to dinner with them, but I think their lack of mention speaks more than anything else here.

The relationship between his parents was also not exactly the best model to grow up observing. When he is five years old his dad tells Peeta is was in love with another woman, he points out her child to him, explains how he lost her. There is no addendum of how much he loves his mother now, how it was in the past. Peeta grew up with parents he was acutely aware did not love each other and from what we see and here, don't even pretend to act like it.

Now how dose this relate to Katniss. This first part is more my own speculation so ignore me if you disagree, but Katniss in the first games mentions Peeta doing certain things with her she remembers her parents doing, and wondering where he learnt it from, thinking surely not his own parents. And I think she's right, I think he learnt it from hers. Peeta is observant, I think after his father pointed out Katniss and her mother he payed attention, not just to Katniss but to her parents as well. I think he was a little fascinated by this family, these parents who clearly adore each other these children with skin clear of bruises who have never been made to feel like nothing from there parents who clearly think the world of them. There was six years from when Peeta noticed her to Mr Everdeens death, that's six years for him to observe this family and their love. Not obsessively, not even knowingly, but I think it happened. I think the Everdeens weren't just Katniss's reference for a relationship but Peeta's as well. I don't think she was the only one drawing comparisons, even if he didn't completely realise what he was doing.

(Additional evidence for this pointed out by @intellectual-punk in Mockingjay Haymitch tells Katniss the doctors showed Peeta the propo of her singing The Hanging Tree and he recognized the song and Katniss says she doesn’t know how he could as he never heard her sing it. Haymitch says he remembers her father singing it as their fathers traded. Peeta hasn't heard this song since he was 11, he’s 17 at the time of remembering it. So for him to remembering it after so long after last hearing it and clearly not hearing it around the house we can imagine that her father must have sang it near every time the two men traded and that Peeta was either specifically listening to his singing as he knows from his father that that is how Mr Everdeen won over Mrs Everdeen or he was just generally paying attention to the man either on his own or in relation to Katniss.)*Found in notes {Thank you so much for this}

I also think, going back to people seeking out the familiar, that Katniss reminded him in certain ways of his father. They're both quiet, both people associated with providing food in one way or another. I think he see's her in the way that while they both clearly love him, they both struggle to show him, leaving him to question it for a long time. But where his father fails to protect him, Katniss doesn't. Katniss doesn't have his fathers passivity, far from it, Katniss Everdeen is anything but passive. She actively works to protect him and others, she speaks out loudly when she finds something wrong, she still has that kindness, but it never gets in the way of what's necessary.

This is also where I see his mother come in, I think he dose see some similarities there. In their tempter, in the sharp way they can use their words, in the way she underestimates him in the beginning and even hurts him on occasion, shoving him into the vase (I think?) and cutting his hands after the first interview. But in so many ways Katniss is the opposite. Peeta may have developed a crush because of her voice, but he falls in love because of the way she helps people, because he knows her intrinsically and intrinsically Katniss is someone who cares. He always comments on her healing ability, even if she finds it lacking it's clearly something he loves about her, hands that heal instead of hurt. His mother was cruel to everyone especially those less fortunate, meanwhile Katniss would give everything on her to those who need it more. He see's the similarities yes, and unconsciously that familiarity might be a small drive towards her, but ultimately he loves Katniss for the ways in which she is different from his mother, the ways in which his mother failed, for the ways in which she stepped in where his father fell short. As well as for a lot of other reasons of course, but I think his parents impact is definitely something to consider.

#peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #everlark #mr mellark #mrs mellark #the hunger games #thg #katniss and peeta #tw: abuse #part 2 #i love him so much #my love I'm sorry you didn't deserve that #they deserved so much better #character analysis

[thisismetryingatleastimtrying]

Thinking about how President Snow said not everyone in the districts fell for Katniss’s love for Peeta in the arena. And this has me thinking if Peeta’s family, particularly Mrs, Mellark, suspected this as well.

#maybe Peeta’s friends too #hell probably everyone in D12 #I need a list but I have my suspicions #they literally did not hang out after they came home from the games lol #Katniss Everdeen #Peeta Mellark #Mrs mellark #district 13 #THG #catching fire #president snow

[mariesstudying]

What's your thought about Peeta's home life?

Do you think his parents are abusive toward him?

In the novels, we know that his mother hit him. How about his father?

Why do you think their family doesn't live with him in the Victors' Village? Thoughts?

Thank you so much.

@curiousnonny

I think Peeta's mother was abusive, which is something I think everyone in the fandom can agree on. We know his mother was definitely physically abusive, but emotional abuse likely happened too. His father was not abusive to Peeta but was probably also a target of Mrs Mellark and therefore probably did his best to protect Peeta but was limited in his options. By this I mean he either tried to direct Peeta's mother's anger at himself and not Peeta.

These are the same reasons I think the Mellarks don't live with Peeta in the Victors Village. Since we know that Mr Mellark wanted to marry Mrs Everdeen, I can imagine that Mrs Mellark did not want Mr Mellark to live right next door/across the street from Katniss' family because her mother lived with her. Peeta probably invited his father to live with him but Mr Mellark either didn't want to leave Peeta's brother to Mrs Mellark's mercy (because she definitely would have been PISSED that Mr Mellark went to live with Peeta). We don't really know anything about Peeta's brothers so I can't think about anything for them

#thg #the hunger games #peeta mellark #mrs mellark #mr mellark

[endlessnightlock]

do you enjoy positive mrs mellark content?

Sometimes I do because Peeta deserved a better mother than he had. I tend to eviscerate her and write her as a giant hag, though. Lmao.

The beauty of fandom is that people can do what they want with fictional characters <3 <3 <3 And choose to ignore what they don't like.

#mrs mellark #thg