Be prepared to get comments like "Your hair is so pretty. You wrote her hair so pretty. Why is she so pretty?" And "Your writing is so good. I can really tell what he's saying and oh he smells so nice. That's a cool looking bag. Your beta has awesome shoes I bet. What's her name?"

My work for the @very-sincerely-yours-zine !

What an incredible honor to be surrounded by such talented creatives in a celebration of queer life, love, and perseverance 🩵🩵🩵

When a fandom has a character who is canonically widowed, and is part of a main pairing, but the fandom treats the first love with equal respect and importance to the second.

Not "He never loved anyone this much, not even his late wife."

Before to read: This is a repost of an old reply I made to a post that said that Effie would never wish Haymitch a happy birthday and that Hayffie wouldn't work, while using passages from the book to twist their narrative. So, in response, I made an OBJECTIVE compilation of all the interactions without expressing an opinion on their relationship. I'm posting this because I'd like people to stop believing the propaganda that Effie and Haymitch hate each other in the books.

We don't know anything except what Katniss thinks and observes, all we can do is infer.

These are Haymitch and Effie's interactions throughout the saga, as Katniss knows (or lets us know):

Hunger Games:

July, 4th.: Haymitch is drunk and tries to hug Effie at reaping, she barely manages to fend off. After dinner, when Katniss, Peeta, and Effie watch the transmition of the reaping, Effie is irritated by Haymitch's behavior on television (because they're now a laughing stock and he ruined her wig, and reputation is very important to sponsors). But when the tributes start laughing at Haymitch, she stops them and explains his importance as a mentor in the games.

July, 5th.: At morning, Katniss goes to breakfast and meets Effie who's muttering obscenities, Haymitch is chuckling and Peeta looks embarrassed. (We don't know what happened there) After parade, Effie says Haymitch has not told her about the strategy but she has tried to sweet talk the sponsors and will do everything to get Haymitch to sign the sponsorships. She takes them to dinner with Haymitch, Cinna and Portia joining them. (Katniss thinks a meal presided over by just Effie and Haymitch is bound to be a disaster, but we didn't see them eating together: in reaping day, Haymitch was too drunk to eat, and this day Effie was not at breakfast or did not interact with Haymitch; Katniss had lunch with Cinna. Dinner is the first time where the team are together in a meal, and they're polite as each other)

During the three days of training, Effie and Haymitch spend their time giving advice and asking about everything they've done. Katniss mentions that they don't fight anymore and seem to be of one mind. (We didn't see them "fight")

After the evaluation Effie and Haymitch try to talk to Katniss but she doesn't allow it and prefers to stay in her room. The rest of the book they don't fight and are a team preparing Katniss and Peeta for the games.

Catching Fire:

At the beginning of the tour, when Effie gets upset that the train breakdown will ruin the schedule, Katniss gets angry and yells at her. Katniss is baffled that Haymitch doesn't support her. Then she expects Haymitch to scold her for it.

After the party at the Capitol, the attendants bring in a drunken Haymitch. Effie says "There you are!," but the tone in which she says it is not mentioned.

Haymitch mentions that Effie fixed his phone and that they talked about the wedding and that he would be the one to give Katniss away. (We don't know how or when the conversation was)

After the reaping, Effie talks about her plan to look as a team, Haymitch agrees is clearly affected by the desire to drink. Effie asks for her wine to be taken away. When they watch the replay of the reaping, Haymitch is silent while Effie laments and sighs.

After parade, Katniss and Peeta meet up with Haymitch and Effie who come out of the elevator looking pleased about something (we don't know why)

We finally see Haymitch with the bracelet that Effie talked about (we don't know if she gave it to him or sent it to someone to give it to him or if he chose it or anything)

Effie shows up a bit early to take Katniss and Peeta down, but Haymitch tells her he doesn't want her taking them down because it's important to look self-reliant. So she takes them to the elevator fussing over their hair and pushing the button for them.

After hearing what Peeta did, Effie says that thinking like that is forbidden and dangerous. Haymitch says he agrees with her on this one.

Effie sends a note to Katniss saying that she and Haymitch have decided to cancel coaching sessions.

Mockingjay

No interaction between Haymitch and Effie in this book 😃 All we know is that Effie disappeared during the war. We later learn that she was imprisoned and Plutarch and Haymitch had a hard time keeping her alive. She still wears her golden wig and has a vacant look in her eyes.

Something that has always amused me is that we never get to know Effie and Haymitch's relationship outside of the games, all we know is that they don't argue often and they treat each other politely when Katniss is around.

Hayffie may or may not work, that's your prerogative, but manipulating parts of the book to make it seem like they're always arguing doesn't seem very nice to me.

It bothers me when everyone assumes they don't like each other because Katniss makes a few comments about effie drives haymitch nuts or a meal with just the two of them is bound to be a disaster, but it's masterful show don't tell, because what we SEE is them getting along, agreeing on most things, functioning as a unit when it comes to their tributes , and having at least a few pleasant interactions outside of what Katniss sees (Effie got his phone fixed and asked him to give Katniss away.) they actually SEEM to like each other, and I think they'd both be surprised that Katniss thinks they don't, as they've given her no indication of that.

I think it's largely KATNISS who doesn't like Effie, or at least, what Effie represents (I think by Mockingjay she finds Effie hard not to like.) so she assumes everyone else--especially a former tribute-- must hate her as well.

So did a lot of the readers tbh.

Disability benefits: "I mean, sure, there are probably some sad sacks who are gaming the system, there always are, but hell, with the amount of taxes we pay, the government can afford a few freeloaders, right? I'd rather pay for a couple people who don't really need it than not have the system at all for if I need it, or my kids do, or whatever. I mean shit happens. What if some asshole drunk driver puts me in the hospital and it takes me a year to get back on my feet? Or Heaven forbid something permanent happens. I'll sure be glad that I can get disability then, won't I?"

UBI: "I dunno, the kind of guy who'll just sit on the couch playing Call of Duty all day if he doesn't have to work, I kinda don't want him on my job site anyway. That type is just taking up a place that you could fill with someone who'll actually get the job done, you know? You end up short-handed even though you technically have enough people because everyone else has to pick up his slack. And it'd mean that if your boss is a dick you can tell him to shove it and not worry your kids are gonna go hungry while you find a better place. We can sure as hell afford it."

He calls himself "Jeff the Accountant." That's the alter ego he picks for himself.

You do have to wonder how anyone ever missed the fact that Ed is a ginormous nerd who wants to dress up. How any of his old shipmates or his own first mate could fail to understand that this is a dude who wants to play pretend so badly.

LOOK AT HIM WITH HIS TEENY TINY SHIP!

they first find him in the jungle, where an armadillo has no business being

they find the entrance to the city, while being followed by him

he is present when the volcano starts to erupt (previous concept art also showed him in the background actually stopping the eruption)

miguel and tulio sucked ass at the ball game, so they used Bibo as a ball. He ricocheted himself all over the place and defied physics to get into the hoop every time