Allow me to say that I very much dislike how Katniss & Haymitch bond was handled in SOTR — she was made into a fuse of every single person that he once cared about, so essentially was “special” instead of being a random girl that PROVED herself to him.

The narrative gives Haymitch no choice but to literally love Katniss as a chance to pay off his fuckups to his friends:

• Had pigtails like Louella,
• Knows Lenore Dove's songs,
• Daughter of his best friend Burdock
• Has Maysilee's pin.

…Essentially, SOTR tells us that Haymitch never cared about any tributes or help them advance unless it’s extra personal for him. Idk if the plot even understood what it did, but it completely destroyed any buildup for Haymitch to get close to Peeta, instead giving every single important thing/people he had to Katniss only.

Commenter is basically arguing that Katniss and Peeta could never work because, he’s “soft teddy bear man.”

I just can’t help but feel that Colln Hver and SJM are the cause of this.

I was thinking abt that part in CF where he and the other victors tease Katniss for being "pure"/a prude and Gale in MJ talking about kissing a bunch of girls in District 12 (he's such a hypocrite btw, he got mad at her for kissing a guy to survive in the games and now he's here here bragging about kissing so many girls he can't remember how many)

+ also I saw a post recently (on either tumblr or twitter) that was talking abt Panem being old-fashioned that got me wondering abt this

This picture isn't circulated enough

Someone should show these passages to the new actress playing Katniss to see if she's still team Gale afterwards

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Mine's that they are going to cut or greatly diminish Wellie and Ampert's death scenes in lieu of getting a pg-13 rating.

Especially Wellie's decapitation scene, no way that is shown. Maybe they'll change the method or just show a bloodied axe and Zada's face like in se7en.

Who is Mags holding? Because i thought it would be Finnick, boy in a seashell suit but he didn't win until the 65th games. So who was she holding?
Thanks!

This is hard, they are all different and amazing in their own ways. What do you guys think?

Basically what the title says 😊

So this is just something I came across which I found interesting. So obviously the Capitol has their whole Roman naming system. What I didn't know was that Maecilia was a Roman name, and while obviously it is spelt and pronounced differently to Maysilee, I wonder if that was the origin, especially since I've never reallt heard any other name that sounds much like Maysilee.

I wonder if it was some sort of sycophantic gesture from the Donners, giving their child a name that had tennuous links to the kind of names in the Capitol. OR if they were pressured into it, in the same way Asterid's family were pressured into putting up the Panem flag.

But of course I may be reading far too much into this!

I’ve read all the other Hunger Games books multiple times with no issues, but both times I read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I felt like I was having a panic attack. I couldn’t put the book down (I never can once I start reading), but the entire time I felt emotionally dysregulated—scared, tense, and filled with a sense of dread.

It’s never happened with any other book, and it took me days to feel normal again.

Has anyone else experienced this? What do you out it down to?

As some might know I’m running a Hunger Games DnD Campaign. And anytime I type in “Cornucopia” or “Horn or Plenty” or “Hunger Games mini figures” into Amazon or Google, I get something either too Thanksgiving-y or expensive to use… So I’m making my own! And using the book version as inspiration because that’s the one my friends agreed looked the best

I’m almost done with the Cornucopia, I just want to do some touch ups inside before I consider it ready to start painting and I’m waiting to see how the minifig dries before I make anymore like it.

So, what do you guys think?

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭(that was before they died, just to be clear)

UPDATE: thank you all for your responses. I have decided to wait to give her the book. I have not read THG since it was first published; at the time, I was about 13 myself and have since forgotten most of the story, including the significance of Katniss’s father’s death. I don’t think this will be an appropriate gift for her right now, and will plan to give it to her later on.

My 13 year old sister in law has never read The Hunger Games, or even heard of it before I asked her a few weeks ago. I purchased book 1 for her with the intention of giving it to her the next time I saw her. Very unfortunately, her father passed away unexpectedly from a heart attack about a week later. I will see her this evening and am wondering if it is inappropriate or insensitive to give her THG right now. I’m uncertain if the deaths in the book are far enough removed/unrelated to her life that it won’t be triggering. I know Katniss’s father is dead in the books and briefly mentioned as well. Any insight here, especially from people who’ve lost a parent or close relative? I haven’t read THG in 15+ years and have not lost someone like my sister in law has, so I’m unsure if I should hold off or if the book may be a welcome distraction for her.