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This picture from the gallery on the THG featurettes disc…

#I watched on DVD yesterday cause my gf was doing a marathon at her cinema and lol it’s an ldr so I couldn’t be there and all I have #is the one dvd I have so #the dvd has a whole special features disc with interviews and stuff so that was fun #the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #primrose everdeen

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Haymitch Abernathy

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what if katniss spends months post-mockingjay just pining for peeta in the most chaotic and tragic ways possible, bringing him her catches from the woods as tokens of her love and giving him begrudging affection for taking care of her. and then eventually cuddling him all the time and getting in his way to prevent him from doing literally anything else except cuddle with her. like she’s a huge cat. and eventually it works. and buttercup watches the whole thing approvingly, glad that she’s finally learned how to behave. what then

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Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #REAL #and the people buying snow merch noooooo #queue

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The Hunger Games (2012) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

bonus:

#no one is doing it like him! #thg #the hunger games #catching fire #peeta mellark #gifset

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I think the saddest character in the Hunger Games franchise is Mags Flanagan. She is as almost as old as the Games themselves. She won the 11th Hunger Games. Then, for the entirety of her life, for over 60 years, she was forced to relieve that same trauma year after year, trying to train kids, save kids, just like herself. Over time Mags watched the Games get more brutal, more “entertaining”. She watched her community sacrifice two children over and over again. There is nothing Mags can do but bare it. She desensitizes herself. She reaches her 80s. She is old and almost free of the pain; the trauma has formed a callous. But Mags will continue to work until she dies. This is all she has ever known. 

Then, the 75th Quarter Quell is announced and Mags is back on the stage for the first time in 60 years. A reaping outfit. Her name in a glass bowl. The tension, the dread, the silence before the reading of the name – Annie Cresta. But to Mags, it never mattered the name that was picked. She knew her hand was going up. And for the first time since she was a child, she is back in the Games. 

During her the 11th Hunger Games, Mags was caged in the zoo with the other tributes. This time, she is presented with a gorgeous suite, the best food the Capitol has to offer, and the finest clothes. The 11th Hunger Games were televised on a blurry screen; now, all of Panem is going to watch her every move. Mags knows she isn’t going to win. But, as she spends the last weeks of her life walking in the shoes of every child she couldn’t save, as the trauma of her own Games is as alive and present as it has ever been, she knows that, for the first time in her long life, she was able to truly save at least one person from this fate. 

Hope is a funny thing. Mags picked apart the Capitol’s logic and the heart of the Games long ago. She knows why they allow one victor, and how every tribute goes into the arena hoping its them. She knows this is unrealistic; all of Panem knows that only one will come out alive. But even as she rises into the ticking clock of the arena, that stubborn feeling flutters in her chest. Maybe she will get out of there with the rest of the rebels. But if not –

Mags looks to Johanna. To Katniss and Peeta. To Finnick. Her hope for them is stronger, steadier, than the hope for her own self-preservation. She looks into the cornucopia of weapons, the familiar ring of twenty-four tributes, and allows herself to dream that maybe, maybe, this is it. This will be the last one. 

For the first time in over half a century, Mags won’t be watching the Games from the comfort and safety of a faraway room. This time, she has the chance to help directly. To be able to protect others with more than just a parachute full of supplies. To have the ability to save another life. To save multiple lives. To save all the future children of Panem. 

The gong sounds.

Mags smiles. 

She dives into the water. 

#the hunger games #catching fire #mags thg #thg #analysis

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thinking about how Katniss finds Buttercup guarding Prim on the day of the reaping, and then the scene in Mockingjay when Katniss goes back to her house to find Buttercup crying for Prim, who has died. Both of them tried to protect her that reaping day, but in the end, they couldn’t save her from her fate.

#thg #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #primrose everdeen #buttercup the cat

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as snow observes lucy gray run from a crazed jessup, he notes how they create a strange tableau. one of a rabid boy, a trapped girl, and a bombed-out building (tbosas, 260). a tale that could only end in tragedy. star-crossed lovers meeting their fate. a war saga that took no prisoners (tbosas, 261). 

and what perfect foreshadowing this is for snow's relationship with lucy gray. one of a boy whose thirst for power made him rabid with paranoia against those who could threaten his standing (tbosas, 505). and a trapped girl whose only vice was seeing through her lover's charismatic facade too early (tbosas, 500). and a relationship between two star-crossed lovers that could have never really worked out, right (tbosas, 518)? 

yet, it could've worked out. 

because, huddled in the bombed-out tunnels under a war-torn capitol, was a boy who was failing to resist slipping back into insanity (mj, 267). and there was his lover, making a decision (mj, 267). one that she believes could be considered suicide. because she is gambling her safety and survival for her lover's life (mj, 268). because she can't let him die. and she would rather die herself than live in a world without him.

and it was the same predicament that snow found himself in. what do you choose? self-preservation, or self-less love? 

and snow always chose himself. every single time. and was convinced that was what everyone else would choose too. it was only the natural conclusion.

until the berries. until the quell. and up until his final moments. when he saw them both. his perfectly curated rabid boy. and a girl trapped as a figurehead of a rebellion. still standing. still protecting. still loving.

and, to me, that is probably the biggest reason why snow was haunted by katniss and peeta. it is less likely that he saw peeta and katniss as carbon copies of lucy gray and sejanus.

but more so, that he saw them as the antithesis to his life experiences. becuase coriolanus snow has spent a lifetime cutting people out of his life (through death or other means) in order to maintain control and power. and protect himself. because he thought that was the only natural conclusion to such a war saga.

and here were two children. demonstrating over and over again that the miserable life that snow created for himself was not the only path. that it didn't have to end that way. that he could have been happy.

and that was what snow was running from the entire trilogy. 

#tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #peeta mellark #thg #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #Jessup thg

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thinking about how Katniss finds Buttercup guarding Prim on the day of the reaping, and then the scene in Mockingjay when Katniss goes back to her house to find Buttercup crying for Prim, who has died. Both of them tried to protect her that reaping day, but in the end, they couldn’t save her from her fate.

#thg #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #primrose everdeen #buttercup the cat #my posts #analysis

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something about how Coriolanus was so appalled at receiving a female tribute and how he wrote off one’s chance at winning. had one ever won before at that point? in 75 years of the games, what might the ratio of winners have been?

#the hunger games #tbosas #thg #coriolanus snow #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #analysis #my posts

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Something else I came across on the reread that I feel really foreshadows how the epilogue will play out is this:

“I know I’ll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there’s one thing being a Victor doesn’t guarantee, it’s your children’s safety. My kids’ names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else’s. And I swear I’ll never let that happen.”

Following this quote, Katniss’ entire concept of romantic companionship and the creation of a family in her future is built around the existence of the games. When the games are abolished, nevers become possible.

Trust me, I’m the first person to look at an ending where the leading lady ends up with The Man and they have kids and it’s happily ever after with suspicion, but this time, it’s different. After a lifetime of fear, Katniss allows herself hope, because she can finally afford it. And I think that’s worth a lot.

#thg #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #analysis #my posts

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my gf said this was peeta

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I’ll be along 🙍🏼‍♂️DR. GAUL SHE WON 🙍🏼‍♂️ when I’ve finished my song when I’ve shut 🐍 ITS OVER LET HER OUT 🐍 down the band 🎶 played out my hand 🎶 😡 WHY ARENT THEY ATTACKING HER 😡 paid all my debt, have no 💁🏼‍♂️ must be the singing… 💁🏼‍♂️ regrets, right here 😗 it’s calming them 😗 in the old 🙄 she can’t sing forever 🙄 therebefore ✨ I’ll catch you up ✨

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Today, my class (The Hunger Games and Social Reality) went on an excursion with a professional forager! We learned all about the plants around us and their different uses. I already knew one use from my childhood, and that's the fact that pokeweed berries make great paint. So I collected a vine of them while we were out, and painted a small Katniss! I like to imagine Peeta doing something like this, being an artist with things around him just like I did.

It's very similar to watercolor, and I still have some left! Should I do a matching Peeta?

#katniss everdeen #the hunger games #thg #art

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I think it’s very clear that TBOSAS has a different purpose than The Hunger Games trilogy from the first word: future President Snow’s name. This is not a first person novel like the trilogy. Our relationship to the character of Coriolanus Snow should not resemble the way we mentally interact with Katniss. This is established straight from the start.

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hunger games eve for districts 12 and 11 aka ila got a little crazy with the crosshatching 

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Alliance

Rue and Katniss

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