I got a primrose and katniss flower wrapped in a pink bow for lady the goat and I love it sm 💕

East of Eden is really good guys, Joseph Zada acts his heart off in it!!

Sorry for the poor quality.

I’m about on chapter six rn its good and I like it (just wanted to share as I’m pretty excited about it)

Buttercup was Prim’s and later Katniss’s cat when she returns to District 12 after the war.

He is last seen and mentioned after Katniss makes peace with him realising he is all she has left of Prim, and Buttercup decides to begin sleeping to protect her.

It is implied Katniss took good care of him for however long the cat still had left of his lifespan.

Do you think he might still be alive by the time of the epilogue, or that he was almost certainly gone by that time?

Hunger Games has been on my TBR since forever. It’s been a cultural phenomenon for a while so I won’t say I’m totally unspoiled but my spoilers definitely lack context. I’m a guy is my late 20s who loves dystopian classical literature and it’ll be my first time reading Hunger Games. My only concern is the YA-ness of it all. I’ve read points both for and against calling it YA, let’s see how I feel. Keeping fingers crossed!

Edit: I have a question, should I go for publication order or the chronological order!? Publication order is better right?

Obviously there would be the whole thing of the rebellion possibly not happening when it does, but what would happen to Katniss? She says she’ll go completely insane if he dies, and I imagine she’d never be able to get over him dying for the rest of her life. Thoughts?

I liked him when I was younger and saw the movies because of how nice he was during the interviews. but now I just see superficial charisma. I believe he tries to make every tribute shine just to help them become entertainment and keep the capitol invested in the games, not because he feels any emotional attachment to them. But it’s hard to say when the games are so normalized in that society.

At least in the movies. Still cracks me up!

I’m sure this has been asked before but I’m planning out a fic right now so I’m curious for new perspectives.

District 4 is defined throughout the novels clearly as being a Career district. The movies are ofc vague but that is distinctly a point in the books. That said, we know District 4 is unlike the other two Career districts for their much closer-knit communities and disdain for the Capitol. They are of the first to rebel. It’s up to interpretation but I feel like this set-up implies that District 4 wants to train their kids to “protect” one another. If two kids are gonna have to go anyway, why not they be the strongest and best equipped for an arena? Also it seems like D4’s a way more labor-intensive district for everybody than 1 or 2 by nature of fishing and everything the Capitol would likely require of their coast.

But like in D1/D2 I’m also sure there’s a class divide in 4. Kids who are richer and able to work less for or with their families are the ones training the most. I imagine it’s less hateful than some of the other class divides, but also, District 4 is reasonably a much larger district than 12 and others.

SO with all of that said, back to Annie and Finnick. Canon says nothing either way to whether or not either of them were Reaped or volunteered. But what makes a Career district “Career”? Do we think volunteers are less common in 4 but everybody is trained? It just doesn’t make sense. IMO, Annie was probably a rich girl who was made to work sometimes but mainly train. Maybe encouraged by her family because she did well in the training institute, she volunteers. Or maybe in the place of a weaker kid, following the theme of D4’s close district dynamic. I feel like it cheapens her character a bit if she didn’t volunteer. Again, what makes the Careers “career”?

And I know this even more unpopular but I also think Finnick did too. It just doesn’t make sense as to why nobody would take his place in D4 if the concept of him winning seemed so wild. It seems likelier he was a cocky kid, D4 maybe hadn’t won in some years, parental figures were encouraging, and he wanted to be the youngest victor, so he knew he had to do it at 14. You could argue how immature and stupid of a decision this was, but that’s sort of the point. Even if one has noble intent (he also volunteered for a less trained kid than him whose name was drawn) the games allow a kid’s stupid decision to ruin the rest of his life.

I think the Career complexity stands out if we maintain D4 as a volunteer district, but what do y’all think? In your mind, was Annie another girl just unfortunately reaped and nobody wanted to that year? And Finnick?

the only one i have an explaination for is haymitch since i read the books right after the minecraft movie trailer was released