Obviously there is no mercy in The Hunger Games, but whenever I think about it, the fact that she was killed is a mercy to her. Because she killed a Gamemaker on live TV she knew she killed the Gamemaker, she was marked for death-but if she somehow managed to win, she would have been immediately... Trafficked. She would have been passed around the Capitol as a 16-year-old child. She would have been brought to parties. She would have been made a constant piece of propaganda. But she would have faced a fate far worse than death. If she survived, her soul would be broken over and over and over again. It would be broken every week.

I honestly think it is a mercy she was killed by the Gamemakers instead of having to live that waking nightmare. Because although Haymitch got a fate worse than death, it... it is still more merciful. Which goes to show you how fucked up Snow is. The man is a fucking monster.

I am so glad Suzanne Collins didn't pull any punches with this book. In the original trilogy, you could tell she was actively trying to make it so it wasn't so intense or soul-shattering. This one, it's like she was sipping coffee with the devil. God damn, I'm not going to survive the movie.

I'm not going to survive this movie I'm going to be leaving that movie theater with bloodshot eyes and going to go home and cry myself to sleep.

i know about the poison tactic, but HOW did he become president. like was there an election in the capital, was he chosen by someone ?? do we know this

I read Far from the Madding Crowd about a year a half ago, but never made the connection until I watched the movie adaptation this weekend. (Highly recommend by the way!!)

I googled it and sure enough, Collins states in her interview with EW in 2010 that Katniss owe’s her name to Bathsheba Everdene. She said they are widely opposite characters, but both struggle with knowing their heart. It got me thinking about Bathsheba and Gabriel’s relationship in the book, and if Suzanne ever drew inspiration from Gabriel when she was writing Peeta's personality. It’s no secret that Katniss struggled with understanding her emotions/feelings when it came to her attachment with Peeta. Much like Bathsheba struggled with understanding her heart and her affection toward Gabriel. Both Gabriel Oak and Peeta are unwavering in their affection despite rejection without being wounded or manipulating their counterparts into romance.

I also think it’s revealing that both Katniss and Bathsheba do not realize the depth of their affection until the source is unexpectedly plucked from their lives.

All of this could be a reach…However, Katniss and Peeta will always live rent free in my head, so I've been sitting on this one for a while and wanted to discuss in the hopes others have read FRTMC and saw any correlation!

i have only read/watched hunger games 1, so forgive me if im wrong or if this was a fairly obvious question

but the hunger games is reliant on the fact that the tributes fight, right? if theres no fight, theres no game, we already saw something similar at the end of the first hunger games; peeta and katniss both refuse to fight each other, and the capitol declares it as both win. so why don't the tributes just collectively don't fight?

why do drusilla and magno genuinely give toxic lavender marriage vibes 😭 like i’m sorry there is no way they are actually romantically interested in each other, like yeah they have the energy of two people who got married because it made sense socially (?) but they spent years lowkey hating each other, and maybe it’s SC way of showing that even Capitol citizens have limited freedom re divorce etc (and we already know that Panem is homophobic so there must be other rules written or unwritten about who/how you shld love) and also the attitudes of them both make me understand why they got together in the first place but also it almost seems like an arranged marriage lmao.

i wanna know what is actually going on there because every interaction between them is so weird ??

Hi!
About a year ago I rebind the trilogy and the Ballad, which I made as a fan of the series, trying to put into it the meanings that matter to me. The Sunrise on the Reaping paperback finally came out recently, so I was able to complete the collection and make them all the same height. I'm curious whether the visuals match the story and whether the references come across. I know the books so well that everything feels obvious to me, so I'd love to hear whether anything is unclear to someone looking at it fresh. I'd like to make a set like this as a gift, so there's still time to change things. I tried to borrow from the film adaptations as little as possible, so what do you think?

I was not expecting it to be as hopeful, but I suppose it will make sense if it starts playing after the epilogue. I do find the lenore dove story one of the least compelling parts of the book, so a bit upsetting to not get a spookier ‘Safe & Sound’ style tune from him but maybe it will grow on me

Right in the middle of the first film, Katniss has just run into the woods. I was just wondering, what’s the significance of the mockingjay pin?

Edit - holy they can create fires remotely????

Edit 2 - can someone please explain to me how they can create fires and animals at will remotely?

but also Burdock Everdeen, since Burdock is a thistle plant. Throughout the first of the trilogy, book Katniss is plagued with nightmares of her father blowing up in the mines… we all know what happened to Prim. Perhaps birth was a different explosion for her, instead of death, life— and she wished to remember her father and Prim that way (alive).

sorry-i couldn't upload all the pictures separately *cries*

hope u like it ig

I want to go through all five of the books and draw the important scenes. For example, when Rue dies, when Katniss shoots the arrow, when Lucy Gray sings to the mutt snakes, and so on. I want to know what scenes people think should be drawn, or just things from the books in general. I got a bit ambitious and I’m aiming for about one drawing per chapter.

My interest for the series started off as a bet.. when the movie came out on DVD in 2012, my aunt and I “watched” the first movie. By watching, we fast forwarded the movie and joked about what was going on.

I got the book as a gag gift in early November. By Christmas, I told her I hadn’t read it, and she made a bet that if I could finish by New Years, I’d get a dollar. I finished it like a day later… And actually thinking about it, I never did get the dollar! 😂 but that sparked my interest! It must have been some weird brain thing to where I was so focused, my brain had no other choice and I’m (fortunately) still in that betting mode! 😂

I reread the Sunrise on the Reaping, and currently watching Catching Fire while bawling my eyes out thinking of Beetee, Mags, Wiress, Haymitch… ugh.. it’s hard to see them now knowing the trauma they had to go through.

The movies are good, but I know I wouldn’t have picked the book to read on my own. So just to think I could have been spared the torture of being a fan of the series today! Ugh. My heart hurts reading the Sunrise on the Reaping.

Although I am not technically an OG fan, I became a fan late 2012. I went to the midnight premieres, and have taken time off work to now read the books the day they release and to watch the movies.

I remember one of the first hints we got about this book was the purple cover and everyone thought it was about plutarch.
What do you think about this, do you think it wouldve been better or more interesting if it was about plutarch?
Personally i want a book about finnicks or johanas time in the hunger games and after the hunger games because they both went through really traumatic experiences especially finnick.
I wanna end this by saying i really like how sotr is about haymitch and i really love it.

hi all! i’m working on a project where i’ll be attempting to redesign the Capitol in different visual styles. i need to pull together as much existing description as I can to present a reference point, so if any of you know any relevant quotes, that would be super helpful! i already have some from the first book.

Scenario:

You are stuck in some random arena from the Hunger Games and the gamemakers present you with a choice of mutts (movies only). You can select any 2 set(s) of mutts that will PROTECT you, the remaining 5 sets would actively try to KILL you.

If you survive, you get to leave the arena:

\- 10 Wolf mutts from the first movie

\- 35 Vicious monkey mutts from Catching Fire

\- 20 Lizard mutts from the sewers of Mockingjay

\- 2 Tracker Jacker nests which spawn and fall near you either to protect you or attack you

\- About 100 poison snakes from TBOSAS

\- 50 Flamingo/Candy pink bird mutts from SOTR

\- 60 Squirrel mutts from SOTR

What do you choose?

Thoughts on the First Quell:

I originally assumed the rebellious districts would vote in the mayor's kids or something, but then I remembered a throwaway line in one of the books about Peacekeepers having kids with district women. I wonder if many of those Quell spots were filled by children with Capitol blood as a statement. Can you imagine being a Capitol citizen and watching your grandson die in the arena? Maybe that's the moment Plutarch's family became rebels. Maybe the ensuing chaos and anger got Gaul assassinated and created the power vacuum Snow needed to rise.