December 2022 VS December 2023

Some people: The love story isn't the point of The Hunger Games series! The love story distracts people from the important messages about war and oppression!

Me: Actually, the love story is vital to the series because it sits at the heart of all the major themes.

Other people: Yeah! You're right! This series isn't a love story! It's a metaphor for those themes!

Me: 🤦‍♀️

Me: YOU DON'T GET IT EITHER!

These things are not mutually exclusive! The love story can be thematically relevant and a metaphor for philosophical concepts and still be a love story! Romance is not a dirty word! It's okay for a story to be about characters in love!

The moment Tigris tells Snow he looks like his father, my heart broke.

That's her Prim.

That's the child she took care of while being a child herself, stuck with an adult who couldn't care for them all that well. She tried so hard and sacrificed so much for the boy that despite all her love still turns into a monster.

Katniss's Prim dies, but Tigris' Prim destroys every part of the boy she raised, to the point she wants him dead and has nothing in her heart for him except absolute loathing.

@rosegardeninwinter

Yes! I feel like there's a lot of tension with everything that happened, but they're still family and need to be there for each other To get more specific- Katniss is on the chair with him because they always had an understanding and saw themselves in each other and Peeta's on the floor facing away because he felt alienated from them by that bond they had

They're berry stains! It's what lead them to being next to Haymitch rather than behind him so I wanted to add it!

Family Portrait

The only family he has.

Bonus: Annie reassuring him about it post reunion

I was looking at my drawing I did of Finnick from a few days ago and thought the random stray hair highlights I added actually looked more like gray hairs. And then I couldn't shake the idea of (handsome, darling of The Capitol) Finnick going gray at 24 from all the stess, bad diet, lack of light, etc that he went through at the beginning of Mockingjay

The amount of comfort Finnick and Annie must have had to bring each other over the years makes me weepy

Happy birthday! 🥳🎂

THANK YOU!!!! 😭😭❤️❤️

For all the heartbreak in Act 2 I am forever grateful that it clarified over and over that Jinx is Vander’s daughter

I’ve been a Vander Stan from day 1 and the amount of “Vi was Vander’s daughter, Jinx was Silco’s” posts implying that he didn’t care about her like he did Vi drove me crazy

Chapter 26, The Hunger Games

being asexual and having your favorite characters always be hot men is wild sometimes because i go on a character tag just wanting to see posts blorbo-ifying finnick and talking about what a good character he is and stuff but instead it’s just. entirely smut.