as much charm as a dead slug

I knew that intellectually but it never truly clicked until I opened an old favorite last night to get lost in for the thousandth time. But if you’re a fanfiction author, someone out there is reading and rereading your stories. Someone out there is loving your world and words not just once but over and over and over again.

That’s amazing.

So here’s a shoutout to the readers and rereaders. The commenters and kudosers and lurkers and everyone and anyone who has ever picked a fic up and loved it.

And here’s a shoutout to the writers, in case you need a pick me up or a slight bit of love. Somewhere, out there on a screen under a sky you’ve never seen, your story is coming to life.

""You know why she can't come back." Yes. I know why. Because between my father and Prim and the ashes, the place is too painful to bear. But apparently not for me." Mockingjay, pg. 380

im genuinely curious to know what her life was like in 4 after the war (fic idea? 👀) but personally if I was a parent no matter how traumatized I am (and like she said asterid now has medicines for her depression) I can't imagine leaving my freshly burnt to a crisp, morphling addicted, psychologically irreparably traumatized teenage daughter entirely alone with a man who is at best a functioning alcoholic and at worst 100% neglectful. I feel like the bare minimum would be going with her to 12 and helping her stabilize and prepare her life before leaving for 4. not just cutting her loose as soon as her trial is over without so much as coming to see her. and I'm not saying asterid didn't care. katniss mentions the fact that she would sleep in the chair by her hospital bed, but after katniss recovers and after she shoots coin, it's never mentioned that her mother comes to visit her or speak to her. she just gets the letter with her new number.