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Madge: *thinking about the Mockingjay pin* I'm gonna give this to a girl, then MAYBE she'll like me and realize how fucking gay I am for her. also haha screw you Gale she didn't wear anything you gave her

Katniss *thinking about the Mockingjay pin*: Wow this was Madge’s aunt’s, what a precious and valuable family heirloom, it must have been special to her, I’ll treasure it forever.

Maysilee *thinking about the Mockingjay pin*: this bird is ugly and stupid I’m literally never going to wear this.

Haymitch being all "I'm an ally" and Clerk Carmine being all "you're a loser" lol

Sardonic, snarky, arrogant, rascal, bad boy Haymitch (that it turns out was mostly a product of propaganda), you will be missed.

But lover boy, older brother, guilt ridden, failed rebellion igniter Haymitch, you will be loved.

my fav thing about sunrise on the reaping was when haymitch was like yeah caeser i'm a lone wolf 😏 i'm with the newcomers but i'm not WITH the newcomers, yknow? they call me a rascal. a rebel against the gamemasters. I scored a ONE and that is a THREAT. you do not want to mess with me 🙅

cut to him with like 20 kids following him around like ducklings, him hiding in his t-shirt, him letting a bunny guide him to safety because it reminded him of his girlfriend, and him making nightlights out of potatoes.

growing up is realizing Haymitch was so committed to the revolution because he wanted to win it for Lenore, the rebel

so... i started working on my series of drabbles i wanted to write for SOTR!! (so excited for it btw)

I wanted to write at least a few teensy little drabbles about the 50th hunger games, yk?

This one is about Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen and was finished in approximately 30 minutes, but I'm pretty proud of it, especially the later scenes.

If you're interested, here's the link below :) thank you so much

snippet:

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“Sing to me.”

“What?” Jack stirs. Will’s smile is teasing, lilting almost as she looks up at him from his lap, her eyes half closed. It’s a special peace she gives him, where he feels like nothing could ruin these moments. He’s never really felt that way with anyone else.

“Sing to me, Jackie.”

OR: A collection of scenes, scattered throughout Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen's life.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/63807841

Kenneth Branagh has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible

Spoiler Free Review of Sunrise on the Reaping from someone who just stayed up all night to read it and is now broken emotionally

Suzanne is not fucking around anymore. This book is about so many things but the thing that stuck out most to me was the rage I think dominates this prequel more than any other book in the series.

When the news came out a book about Haymitch was coming after years of fan requests (and a film to be developed in tandem) I’ll admit, I had my doubts.

But what Collins delivers is more brutal a gut punch than I think even the most hard core fans of this series were anticipating. In the wake of political unrest across the US and world wide, in an era of disinformation, she tells the reader clearly to look and think for themselves, and shows the atrocities that can come when we do not.

This book is about anger and injustice and it does not try to convince its reader otherwise. At times you can feel Collins shaking the reader by the shoulders: ‘See?! See what happens when you blindly accept what they tell you? See what you let them take?’.

Fans familiar with Haymitch will not be surprised by a lot of the major beats of this story but the focus on propaganda still leads to some interesting reveals. This is the goriest of Collins series and in many ways I think will be the hardest to adapt, perhaps her own rebellion against the industry that continues to profit off her work and contort her message

my girl lenore dove who nothing bad ever happened to...

I think we need to talk about how the Hunger Games series' has no religion in it.

No one prays, no one goes to a church, hell, no one even believes in a higher power! To them, death is just death. It's even more depressing that way, I think.

Because no matter what's going on, at any point in history there was/is always a God or Gods, a "life" after death or something similar, but Panem is so far gone they don't even have that comfort.

my kitchen pipes are fucked and so I have to clean all my dishes and clothes in the bathtub and I honestly feel like either a miner's widow in D12 tryna earn some income or a very poor sentient who's in the rebellion and showing everyone how to make do without electricity

katniss describes people as if she was asked by police to describe the person she saw

haymitch describes them as if he has a language speaking exam and he really wants you to know he's good at another language

i say we just call them geese

Snow - all covey girls do is lie and sing songs about their ex, you should be thankful you're going to die instead of being with lucy gre- i mean Lenore dove

Haymitch - L + ratio + fuck you I'm drinking your milk

thinking about how some things remained in panem and some didn't.

They burned books in the dark days to stay warm. How much knowledge is lost? Do they know the sun is a star?? Do they know about quarks? do they know about dinosaurs???? did they rediscover all of this???

GODDAMN IT SUZANNE I NEED TO KNOW

yknow if snow wasn't dead already, I'd cut his cock off and choke him with it

effie once a year to haymitch on reaping day -

I desperately needed a visual for the opening chapter of SOTR before reading it.

First chapter in, we're told about haymitch's shorts. In my mind, they are booty shorts that have COURTESY OF THE CAPTIOL right over the ass ✨️

rip miss donnor you would've loved wearing pink on Wednesdays and giving backhanded compliments in Instagram comments

Oops I just binged 4 books in a week, guess I'm in a new fandom now.

sunrise on the reaping was so devastating and i ALREADY KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. doesn’t help that finnick did not get his happy ending!!! haymitch survived but i was STILL miserable. i am NOT surviving a finnick book.

You guys want Finnicks book so bad but personally Suzanne can keep it bro I don’t want to read what happens after his games I don’t think I could handle it. Sunrise on the Reaping destroyed me and I haven’t even finished it yet 😀

SUNRISE ON THE REAPING SPOILERS

“I first saw the girl at the Hob when she was just a baby. Burdock was so proud of her, he toted her around everywhere. After he died in that mine explosion, she started coming alone, trading the odd squirrel or rabbit. Tough and smart, her hair in two braids then, reminding me for all the world of Louella McCoy, my sweetheart of old. And after she volunteered for the Games, that nickname couldn’t help but slip out. I didn’t want to let them in, her and Peeta, but the walls of a person’s heart are not impregnable, not if they have ever known love. That’s what Lenore Dove says, anyway.”

When we first meet Haymitch, we can instantly tell that he has made a habit of distancing himself from tributes. That he has nobody left he loves, so he pushes away anybody else that tries to come into his life. But now we know how full of love Haymitch was. How deeply he loved Lenore Dove, how deeply he loved his mother and Sid, his friends, even Hattie. Everything Haymitch did was out of love. He was reaped because he tried to protect the girl he loved. As he was reaped, he did his best to protect his sweetheart, 13-year-old Louella McCoy he grew up with. He tried to distance himself from the other tributes, but eventually he couldn’t help but love them too.

He couldn’t help but call Ampert “Buddy.” He couldn’t help but call all of the district 6 tributes his doves, and mourn all of their deaths, no matter how little he actually knew them. How Louella was replaced, and how he wanted to hate her replacement, but gave her the name Lou Lou and protected her like their own. Haymitch was the one who initiated the hug of all four tributes from 12. He was distrustful of Wyatt, and grew to mourn him like a brother. He carried Lou Lou like his life depended on holding onto her. How he hated Maysilee Donner, and thought of her as the most stuck-up girl in 12. He called her Sis. He grew to love her like the sister he never had. She died as his sister.

All of the love that Haymitch didn’t need to give, and yet he loved so endlessly and so whole-heartedly. And with every person he loved, he lost them, and lost a part of himself. No wonder he didn’t want to let Katniss and Peeta into his heart. He had already tried so hard to push away Burdock, who relentlessly tried to care for him in his despair.

Then, in comes Katniss Everdeen. She carried with her a piece of every person Haymitch tried to push away. She was Asterid, Burdock, the Seam children he grew up with, all in one person. He didn’t want to let her in. He couldn’t have.

And yet, Haymitch couldn’t help but call her sweetheart.

Because Katniss was a woven tapestry of every person he had ever loved. She was his best friend’s daughter. She carried Lenore Dove’s songs. Louella’s skin and hair. Wyatt’s protectiveness. Maysilee’s fight, Maysilee’s resistance, Maysilee’s pride, Maysilee’s pin. And in the arena, she painted the best poster Haymitch and Maysilee could’ve ever hoped for- Rue, surrounded by flowers, her passing in dignity and not as another number in the games. And refusing the Capitol their winner by eating the berries with Peeta.

It’s no surprise that Katniss and Peeta broke down Haymitch’s walls. Haymitch had the flint striker, the spark. And Katniss was the fire that caught 25 years later.

My theory for the next Hunger Games book is that it’ll follow a spy from INSIDE the capitol (who’s actually organizing and failing to start a revolution), and/or a tribute from district 12, who died in the games.

The spy (Plutarch Heavensbee?) sees how the world is build, sees their own position in society and decides to rebel against it since it’s completely wrong. Sure, it may take a while, but in the end they actually do something!

And maybe, the spy tries to make a winner, or a revolutionary, of the district 12 tribute (or any other tribute), but it doesn’t work. They die, and maybe they try another tribute, and that person dies, and it continues until finally they hatch a plan?

SOTR Spoilers!!!

Okay, I'm not sure if this is just me and I'm overthinking it, but I feel like even in the book, no one acknowledges that we don't know for sure that Louella McCoy was really the one to make it home in that coffin. Hell, when Lou Lou dies, Haymitch even takes a moment to think about what will happen to her body, if it will be sent back to District 11 or left in the Capitol, or even if she would be cremated. Now of course we know that at the end of the book, "Louella McCoy" is sent back in a coffin on the train with Haymitch, but for all we know, it could still be Lou Lou. Think about it from the Capitol's perspective: they want no loose ends, no one will ever know about this, and those who do can never do anything. If they want to keep this so secret, wouldn't it make more sense to send Lou Lou back since her body would have the correct wounds from her death in the arena, so if anyone ever opened the coffin, they would assume it was Louella. Of course, they could assume that no one would ever open the coffin, and they would most likely be right, but if someone did, even years down the road, it should be pretty obvious whether this person died from blunt force trauma or poison since those are two wildly different deaths.

Besides all that, I think that it also adds another layer of tragedy to the whole situation. Lou Lou was kidnapped from her home, stripped of her identity, and murdered by the Capitol while brainwashed to be someone else. It feels even more cruel to send her to a District she's never been to, into the home of a dead girl she was forced to replace, and to be buried under a false name, where her body can be visited by people she never knew, all while everyone who loved her (presumably) rest elsewhere. Meanwhile, Louella was kidnapped from her home, died and had her identity stolen, and no one evens knows what happened to her, but we know she never made it back.

i’d love to see someone write this, i’d do it myself if i had the skills to hhhh

SOTR/THG Fanfiction Idea:

Haymitch succeeded in pushing everyone away after the incident with his family, worried he'd put his friend's lives in danger. Not even able to tell them why he's pushing them away, and watching everyone slowly leave his side. Finally content (and so very lonely) about how they can't be hurt because of him. He thinks he made the right decision.

A year passes, and he goes on with life begrudgingly, learning how to be a mentor, so he can at least try to give these kids (most of which are around HIS age if not his age) a fighting chance. Working sponsorships, galas, etc. Crumbling at his first lost tributes. Knowing he'll be doing this every year unless he gets a victor and trying to cope with it.

Then another year later, it's his birthday again. But someone must truly hate him. For it's Burdock Everdeen's name that gets picked for the games while he's 18 (his last chance of even being able to be picked) alongside a girl, and Haymitch is now forced to mentor his ex-best friend and get him through the arena, working under the Capitol's gaze. All the while still learning how to be a mentor period. (and feel the everlasting guilt that he didn't push Burdock far enough and he got picked because of Haymitch - Whether or not this is true).

A friendship reunion except it's in a way literally no one asked for.

Ampert's death RUINED me oh my fucking gosh. What the fuck Suzanne.

bro no way suzanne actually used this for inspiration 😭

that moment in catching fire when haymitch jumps in front of peacekeepers for someone he loves, leading him to get reaped again…

My friend made a new book cover for Sunrise on the Reaping. Your Welcome.

Hunger Games Headcanon (plus some minor SOTR spoilers)

I like to imagine in a somewhat better scenario that posts the 74th Hunger Games, when Katniss and Peeta come home, that Haymitch was forced to sober up significantly (at least for him, still drunk but not as often) because he realized these two kids in victors village did not know how to take care of themselves and he was forced to be somewhat of a guardian more often. Especially since any issues the two have, they just show up at Haymitch's house and it's gotten to a point where he just expects it. It's like post rebellion except it happens way earlier.

It's just come to his attention that Peeta lives alone because his family sucks so Haymitch just often finds Peeta in his kitchen baking and while he questioned it at first (Kid, what the fuck are you doing in my house?!?! Peeta: cookies :) ), eventually was like fuck it, and didn't bother trying to kick the kid out (and he got fresh pastries so sue him it's nice). He used to grunt or snort when Peeta would just start talking but it just came to a point where Haymitch was genuinely giving him advice and kicking him to sleep on the couch or go to bed (whether that be Haymitch guest room or Peeta's own house was determined purely on chance and it was usually Haymitch's guest room).

So great, now he has a kid to look after who's semi-moved in. It's somewhat easy, with Peeta, who is much more willing to share and talk. This doesn't stop the bad days when he sees Peeta shut down and barely talk, and Haymitch has to try and give his own talks and random quips about nothing to try and get Peeta out of his head. Haymitch hasn't held long conversations in such a long time. It's difficult, but it's progress, and seeing the kid function again takes some stress off of Haymitch's shoulders that he didn't know he had.

At least Katniss has her mom, or at least Haymitch thinks so. Because not a month later this feral, hissy teenager who reminds Haymitch of Johanna (and himself but he doesn't want to admit it) comes along and starts giving Haymitch some dead animals. (Haymitch: what are you, a fucking cat? Katniss: Take the damn rabbit Haymitch you drunk bastard).

And the same shit starts all over again except Katniss is way more closed off and guarded and moody in Haymitch's opinion but she's also hurting and Haymitch understands that. She has a tendency to walk around and find herself in the woods, sometimes sleeping in the trees, and Haymitch won't know until Peeta mentions that he hasn't seen Katniss go home yet and so now Haymitch is walking in the woods he hasn't been to since Burdock last took him, looking for Katniss and finding her curled to the side of a nice maple tree (that Burdock once showed him how to get syrup from in late winter, the both of them enjoying some fruit with it and selling it off). Haymitch doesn't say this of course, but he comes and picks her up and takes her back home, drops her in his guest bed, and goes to drink more because facing his childhood memories is tough and this girl several rooms down from him encompasses everything he ever cherished.

So now his days are spent playing reluctant babysitter (not that he calls himself this). Talking down nightmares and dragging (his) kids to go to bed and making sure they eat. He has to start locking his alcohol now so Katniss doesn't touch it. He finds his house much cleaner than it was before, mostly due to Peeta, but Haymitch stops leaving his shit around because it's depressing to see a kid take care of his clothes like a maid. He can often find Katniss or Peeta or both somewhere in his house doing random shit, or leaving notes.

Having the kids around him helps him fix himself up reluctantly, he eats better, and takes a bit more care of himself or else he gets nagged on. It's whatever, better to just take the damn shower instead of listening to Katniss yell at him for 10 minutes straight (He only knew one girl in this district before who could nag so much).

There are a lot of bad days, days filled with screaming, drunken messes, and knives being held. Some days they'll go a whole week without speaking to another. But they migrate back because it's just what happens when you only have two other people who understand you. But he will ask Peeta about what he's baking and his drawing. And eventually, Katniss will force Haymitch to go along with her on hikes in the forest and Haymitch will point at plants and feign ignorance, asking about them until Katniss gives him looks but starts talking about every one of them with a faraway look in her eye and the same excited tone Haymitch knew she got from Burdock when he pulled Haymitch into following him. Haymitch thinks he's got Katniss and Peeta figured out enough.

Everything is working out, not great, but they're living, and isn't that great for them?

Until the 75th games are called, and Haymitch sees what's happening. He thought it would be over, that Snow would be done. Of course not, and Haymitch shouldn't have left his fucking guard down for one minute.

He has both (his) kids asking that he protect the other (and it pains him that he can't, he fucking can't and Snow knows this, the fucking bastard). Haymitch can only do the one thing he knows best, and takes a swing from the bottle.