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Hi, I am rereading the hungergames (4 chapters per week). Which is a good excuse to give you random quotes that I think (vaguely) support my interpretation/ headcanon of Katniss being aroace-spec. I will probably not provide explanations or context at this point, nor will the arguments necessarily be good. As this is a work in progress. (And my initial theories all stem from the movies and that one time I read the books as a 12-year-old.)
The general idea is to view the games as an analogy for heteronormativity (forcing Katniss to pretend to love a boy in order to survive).
This is not a question for counter arguments or for you to argue your ship. It’s cool if you do ship things, this is just my take on it.
Also, I still am spiritually a boomer (while physically a 21-year-old), who has no idea how this app works. So I have no idea if this will work (structurally). Excuse the chaos. (Help!)
Page numbers are from the hardcover edition.
“Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we will ever come to love.” (Page 4.) it’s just to the cat but still.
“I watch Gale as (…) He could be my brother. (…) But we’re not related, at least not closely.” (Page 8.) this is the first description of Gale we get. Are you telling me we are supposed to ship them?
“There’s never been anything romantic between Gale and me. (…) He’s good looking, (…). You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.” (Page 18.)
“Medium height, sticky build, ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead.” (Page 25). This is the first description of Peeta we get. And I just find it to be very factual. She has no feelings or opinions about his looks. She just observes them.
“…Peeta and me to shake hands.His are as solid and warm as those loaves of bread. Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it’s just a nervous spasm.” (Page 33.) Lol to this quote specifically. We learn about Peeta and Katniss’s previous interaction in childhood and Katniss talks about how she frequently caught him staring at her. She does not acknowledge this as him being interested in her, she only mentions that she feels like she owes him something.
“Finally, Gale is here and maybe there is nothing romantic between us, but when he opens his arms I don’t hesitate to go into them.” (Page 38.)
Okay those are just some quotes from the first four chapters. Idk if anyone finds this interesting. Let me know please. Should I continue posting as I read??
#the hunger games books#katniss everdeen#Katniss aroace#AroAce Katniss#aroace representation#Hunger games reread#thg katniss#arrow aro#may the odds be ever in your favor#hunger games queer reading
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Johanna: I dare you-
Peeta: Katniss isn't allowed to take dares.
Johanna: Why not?
Katniss, head bowed: I have no regards for my personal safety.
#hi yes i still post fandom stuff sometimes#also there is a huger game renaissance?#right before my super important exam?#like how is this fair?#ive read the books m u l t i p l e times and made my family watch the movies#anywayyyyyyyyyyyy#gotta tag this shit so people can see it#go away tags are embarrassing#hunger games#incorrect hunger games quote#katniss everdeen#katniss#peeta#peeta mellark#johanna#did she have a surname?#idk?? maybe#she was one of my queer awakenings#women filled with rage?#so fucking hot#queue cuz im embarrassed cuz i feel like im posting too much#everlark
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YA fantasy novel
In a world ruled by a pantheon of gods who must keep the darkness at bay through a sacrifice every ten years, Teo, a teenage demigod enters a decennial competition to determine a losing competitor to be sacrificed by the winner
As the son of a minor bird goddess, Teo never expected to be selected to compete and finds himself up against powerful and battle-ready fighters, forced to compete for his survival
Mexican-inspired, queernormative fantasy world with modern-day technology
High stakes, enjoyable cast of characters, and unique world-building
Transmasc, gay, Latino main character
#i really enjoyed this!#the hunger games x percy jackson comp is very accurate#teo is such a little shit (affectionate)#loved how queer the world-building was#should have been more of teo's bird friends though hot take#the sunbearer trials#the sunbearer duology#aiden thomas#books#lulu speaks#lulu reads the sunbearer trials#lulu reads the sunbearer duology#2023 reads
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Just finished The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas and I diDNT KNOW IT ENDED IN A CLIFFHANGER IM FUCKING DYING
#it’s so fucking good#go read it#seriously#fuck the cliffhanger. read the book#also while you’re at it read Cemetery Boys#that one’s also getting a sequel but the book doesn’t end on a cliffhanger#I can’t get over this book#it’s like. pjo meets the hunger games with bonus queer rep#so much beautiful casual queer rep#I cry#the sunbearer trials#aiden thomas
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To probably no one's surprise, I haven't read The Sunbearer Trials yet. I have this bad habit of buying books knowing they're going to be in a series and either reading them quickly, getting mad there's a cliffhanger, or buying it and waiting for the rest of the series to come out before reading. Rarely is there an in-between.
Book two hasn't even been announced yet, and I don't want to run the risk of the former happening, so it's been sitting on my shelf with my other two Aiden Thomas books. I'll get to it eventually. 🤷🏻♀️
Which one are you? Waiting until the whole series is completed or reading as they're published despite possible cliffhangers?
#TheSunbearerTrials #AidenThomas #TransBooks #TransRep #Duologies #HungerGamesMeetsPercyJackson #LGBTQReads #LGBTQIA #QueerBookRecs #ReadWithPride #ReadQueerAllYear #StardustAndRockets
#the sunbearer trials#aiden thomas#trans books#trans representation#duologies#the hunger games meets percy jackson#lgbtq reads#lgbtqia#queer book recs#read with pride#read queer all year#stardustandrockets#july 9
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Books I read in 2023
Confessions of Frannie Langton
Girls Like Girls
Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
The Wicked and the Willing
Lessons in Chemistry
Frontier
Even Though I Knew The End
Outrun the Wind
#books#booklr#hunger games#lessons in chemistry#2023#wlw books#what i read#queer books#girls like girls#frontier#even though i knew the end#books i read#fiction i read#fiction#sapphic books#wlw
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the amount of books that the great war by taylor swift reminds me of is insane
#reading#lgbt books#queer books#bookstagram#fantasy books#romance books#taylorstans#taylor swift#taylornation#the great war#midnights#the poppy war#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#the hunger games#the marauders#jegulus
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trying to get more into reading this yr (so far so good) drop every single book u would recommend either on this post or message me bc I need More Recs. so far I've read for an hour or more at end of each night instead of phone. I'll beat these algorithms making me desire phone some day
#text#started a goodreads even for the first time to keep track. i like fantasy and fiction and contemporary. short books long books#send me anything. books to read before bed or anything. have read gideon the nineth#a winters promise and the first hunger games again lmao because i wish to#have been told to read fhe court of thorns and roses- priority of the orange tree- six of crows - and other thjbgs#please......rec anything but soecifically if u have queer lit or bipoc stories or like fantasy and fiction things. ill reas a memoir too#im glad my mom died is on the list as well#q slur in the tagz
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Book Recs Wanted!! (where the protagonist chooses family over the love interest)
Okay so I’ve had these thoughts swirling around in my head recently and I’m hoping the collective Tumblr consciousness will be able to help me find what I’m looking for (if it even exists).
So I read this book a couple months ago where the main character goes to the underworld on behalf of her brother, spends the whole book missing her family and trying to get back to them, eventually gets back, spends 2 years with her family, and then leaves again to go back to the underworld for the rest of her life. And like that ending really bothered me because of that decision, of choosing her new love that she knew for 3 months over her family.
And I also just finished rereading the hunger games series and I was thinking about how I really enjoy and relate to Katniss, especially because of her relationship with Prim, because it reminds me of me and my sister, and I was thinking about how she does everything in those books for Prim, and if she had a choice between Gale or Peeta or Prim, she would pick Prim 100% of the time. And that’s why I like her so much.
And maybe it’s just cause I’m ace and have never been in love, or because I’m really close with my family, but like…I just don’t get it when characters choose someone they’ve known for like a month at the expense of ever seeing their beloved family again! I couldn’t even imagine making that decision - I would pick my family every time.
But this type of decision is underrepresented in literature - in fact, I’m not sure if I can think of an example that fits it. So I am looking to see if anyone knows of any books where the protagonist is given a choice between a new love interest and their family, and they choose their family. (And their family doesn’t have to be biological - found family is good too! I’m just looking for something where familial bonds are more important than romantic bonds). I don’t know if books like this even exist, but I hope they do, so hit me up with your recs!
#books#book rec#book recs#the hunger games#ace#asexual#asexuality#queer#lgbtqia#queer books#queer book recs#reading#family
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The Sunbearer Trials, Aiden Thomas [thoughts]
#book review#book look#the sunbearer trials#aiden thomas#queer lit#trans rep#lgbtq#pride month#mini review#bookstagram#bookblr#booklr#fantasy#ya fantasy#hunger games#mythology#ootd#vintage#cozy read
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"Seven letters," she whispered to Alistair. "To endure."
"Survive," she heard him rasp. "Hello, rival," he whispered.
#books#books and reading#queer books#romance books#fantasy books#ya books#all of us villains#blood before all#hunger games inspired#dark fantasy books
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So I did not in fact give you weekly updates on my Hunger Games reread. But after finishing the first book, here’s my favourite quote from it:
Image description: a page from the hunger games book with the underlined sentence “oh right, the whole romance thing.”
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College student in the west: I am immune to propaganda because I read the Hunger Games. I can see right through the American psyop and know the real truth about how Bin Laden was a queer environment activist who wanted to promote socialism and walkable cities,
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i want to start reading more f1 rpf other than lestappen but idk where to start is there any way you could recommend some fics pretty please?????????????? 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
sure thing anon! below is just a selection of my favourite fics that aren't straight forward Charles/Max:
melepathic. or something. by Anonymous – Lando/Oscar, 8k, snappy and funny FWB, rated M
somebody else by piastrism - Charles/Max/Oscar, 31k, FWB and addictive on and off again situationships, rated E
ode to a conversation stuck in your throat by prettyrotten – George/Alex, 40k, pining exes to pining FWB, rated E
icarus falls by tiredgayloser - Charles/Carlos (main) and Charles/Max (endgame), 24k, complicated relationships and character study, situationships vs. relationships, rated E
on the faultline by limabima – Lewis/Nico, 47k, dual timeline, FWB and Internalised Homophobia vs. healing and facing your past, rated E
win or lose (it's how you play the game) by chiliconcarlos – Charles/Carlos, 18k, ridiculous bets and consequences thereof, gay chicken, rated E
matchstick people by ecorone – Lewis/Max, 60k, magical realism and folk horror, rated E
translation theory by linearity - Charles/Carlos, 9k, rancid vibes, a hunger to hold an upper hand and wanting what you're denying you'll lose anyway, rated E
the heartbeat is a hunger by withfeathers - Lewis/Seb and Lewis/Nico, 40k, soulmates and trope inversion, falling in love after losing the love of your life, rated E
even a Mouse by ficster28 - No Romatic Relationships (Charles and Max centered though), 20k, Dæmon AU exploring the concept of sacrifice in motorsport, rated T
Hide All Our Sins From the Daylight by kolyarostov - Carlos/Lando, 60k, secret relationship and the implications of being implied queer in the public spotlight, rated E
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Hey there, Happy New Year! Sorry if this ask seems confusing.
I've really come to enjoy your blog as someone who is kind of new to navigating the world of comics and how to read them and you seem to be one of the people that's more vocal about all the fanon and canon differences and how that damages people's perception of characters. I'm just a bit confused in what you consider to be the difference of headcanons and fanon, I know fanon is a more of something that a big number of people believe, but if someone headcanons something that isn't covered in canon, would that be "bad" or fall on the fandom category?
Hope this doesn't sound mean or anything, I'm just a bit confused
hello!! welcome to batburger!!!!
wrt fanon vs canon my issue is this — parts of comic fandom are very vocal about not engaging with the source material. deciding what fanon is “good” vs “bad” isn’t the point because im not interested in policing peoples fandom experience. however there is a point where i don’t understand what exactly some people are fans of, because what they talk about is so disconnected from the original text.
imagine meeting a hunger games fan, and when u ask about their favourite movie or book, they instead tell u that they’ve never read or seen any part of the series, exclusively read fanfiction, and then inform u that they believe president snow is peeta’s grandfather and that actually haymitch was the authoritarian mastermind behind the hunger games. that doesn’t make any sense, and has no basis in canon. it’s a very extreme hypothetical, but i wouldn’t really take what they say about the hunger games seriously. it also reminds me a bit of the hp marauders fanworks that exist almost autonomously to the books (while still containing the same issues as said books).
most fanon enjoyers (and this is particularly pervasive with batfam fans) enjoy characters and relationships that simply do not exist. that alone isn’t a problem (crackships and headcanons have existed since ye olde star trek zine days) but the issue is that these fanon interpretations are loudly asserted as being the correct way to engage with the characters. i do not believe it should be controversial to prefer characters in their canonical text, or to ask why some fanon content is taken as gospel, especially when so much of it is racialised.
this lends into a wider trend where these headcanons are respected more than canon despite often being actively reductive, accidentally demeaning, or just plain bad faith interpretations. it’s much harder to combat the racism present in conversations about damian wayne when the people in question aren’t grant morrison or judd winick or scott snyder, but instead a nebulous group of people on twitter.
flatly, i encourage people to read the source material. there are a lot of comics, but googling ‘[literally any character] reading list’ has literally never been easier. start by consuming the movies or cartoons or films or shows or the one volume graphic novels, then pinpoint what u like and start from there. people are discouraged from reading comics — and they shouldn’t be!! especially for popular characters there are very accessible starting points!! u will find characters to love with rich history and lore!!!! support queer artists and artists of colour who are actively changing the industry!!! i guarantee that the fanon version of that male character u love is actually originally from a female character with a great miniseries written by greg rucka!!!!
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