Peeta: *tells Katniss his favorite color*

Katniss, 5 seconds later:

Underrated everlark moments 3 / 2 / 1

my favorite thing about everlark is that peeta is metaphorical food katniss metaphorically wants to eat

Katniss and Peeta each willing to die so the other can have a future with someone else.

Katniss and Peeta each wanting the other to make a family even though they won't be a part of it.

Katniss and Peeta each finding happiness in the idea of the other being happy even if they won't be alive to see it.

Their love is so selfless.

Personally, it's always a bit wild to me to see commentators interact with the Hunger Games franchise as if Collins were writing science fiction stories instead of essays with faces. She's just not that interested in fleshing out side characters or digging into the details of the worldbuilding. These characters are concepts and symbols before they're people. There's an almost mathematical precision to who and what she explores and how deeply she does it. This is a step or two away from pure allegory. If she were writing a couple of centuries ago, she'd have named her characters things like Innocence and Anger and Watch-Carefully-Your-Soul-Lest-Ye-Be-Damned, but since she's writing for modern audiences, she has to settle for puns and allusions. If she has another essay to write, she'll assign some faces to it; she's not going to look into backstories or other eras just for the sake of storytelling, and it's not a failing as a writer that she doesn't.

15 favorite quotes that didn’t make it into the movies

okay, y'all... i am a very very very strong believer that postwar peeta is not physically threatening/abusive towards katniss. mentally, peeta and katniss are obviously wrecked and have significant ptsd.

but physically, peeta's hijacking only goes as far as him clutching the back of chairs. i don't think he attacks katniss or starts threatening her.

it just makes me too sad to think that would be the case.

it is just too sad of a fate for these two precious characters.

a fate where the boy morphs into the abusive family member he feared growing up. and a fate where a songbird is forced to keep running and running and running, desperate to stay alive.

it is almost like the train nightmare that katniss has. the one where they are stuck on the capitol train without any destination. only now, they are both stuck. stuck in an abusive relationship.

an abusive relationship that doesn't seem to nod to the healing that dr. aurelius must have seen to give peeta the go-ahead to move back home alone.

one that doesn't seem fair to give them in the end, after everything they have gone through.

because they deserve a break. they deserve a chance to love. they deserve a chance to heal.

Of all the unknowns in the story, the one that really plagues me is Peeta's eyebrow situation. Do they grow back? Are the follicles permanently damaged?

Why couldn't Suzanne include a line confirming it. Just one little tidbit. Something like

"Peeta and I grow back together (and so do his eyebrows)."

or

"The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes and eyebrows that look just like his father's do right now, currently, because they grew back,"

or

"Peeta says it will be okay. We have each other. And the book. And fully grown eyebrows."

Instead I will be intermittently assaulted with intrusive thoughts/images of an eyebrowless Peeta for the rest of my life. I hope Suzanne knows what she's done

This is why Suzanne made Peeta give Katniss the silent treatment for months. He would've charmed the pants right off her and ended the "love triangle" before it even started.

Another underrated everlark moment

It makes me giggle when people claim Katniss isn't attracted to Peeta as if he doesn't make her shiver and blush and feel warm all over from the very first book

Underrated everlark moments 3 / 2 / 1

Dandelion in the spring🌼

words cannot express how grateful i am that suzanne collins gave katniss and peeta a good ending. she had the power to ruin my entire life

This passage exists and some people still came away from the book believing Katniss might've chosen Gale if Prim hadn't died and only settles for Peeta in the end

“you’re my whole life” “I need you (I will be broken beyond repair if you die)”

but “I love you” is a bridge too far evidently

someone help them

The more I think about it the more unhinged it is that Peeta's arms were better than sleeping pills for Katniss

Every once in a while I'm randomly filled with rage over how the thg movie writers portrayed Peeta giving Katniss the bread.

First they made him look like a bit of a dick when he threw her the bread, making it unclear that she was starving to death and that he took a beating to help her. Then they doubled down on that by having him profusely apologize for not handing the bread to her, again diminishing the significance of what he did and why it meant so much to her.

Like who decided it'd be a good idea to depict it that way? I just wanna talk.

Mr. Everdeen, both in the fandom and in the narrative, has a similar situation to Jack Pearson from This is Us. They were both great husbands and fathers, which due to their tragic and early deaths, have created a sort of halo around the memory of them. This is Us is a family drama and so it takes time to unpack Jack's flaws and how his family idealized him after his death and the audience can analyze his faults for themselves. However, given that THG is a war story and Katniss is our narrator, the information we get about Mr. Everdeen is incredibly biased. He was a hunter and a singer, he wooed a merchant girl so good she followed him to the Seam, and spent his adult life working in the mines. We know he sang at least one rebellious song and taught it to his young daughter, which is perhaps the only indication of a flaw we see and people don't really bring up how much he was putting Katniss in danger as a result. People love to vilify Mrs. Everdeen, Mr. Mellark, and especially Mrs. Mellark (she deserves it) and yet as a result of being dead from the start of the narrative and having our nearly all of the information about him shared through his adoring daughter, we don't see Mr. Everdeen's faults. We don't know how he would have responded to any of the events that happened in the series or what he would have done in a similar situation to Mrs. Everdeen after losing the love of his life and becoming a single parent and then losing his youngest daughter.

I'm not saying Mr. Everdeen was a bad man. I just think that the fandom views him from Katniss's perspective, but he must have had his own faults and weaknesses just like everyone else does, and I'm very interested to think of the flawed man behind the rose-colored memories.

no disrespect to people who ship it but i have a visceral reaction to romantic/sexual katniss x finnick in fics. those are the broiest bros of all time wdym she lovingly stares into his green eyes as he enters her??