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I love you like all-fire.

I was tagged by a lot of people the last two weeks when I didn’t have anything so here’s a very late preview of the chapter coming out this Sunday from my amnesia fic!

The Main Storyline It only hurts this much right now: Growing back together (Chapter 15 extended scene: And now you're mine) I just need this love spiral: So after through everlark's wedding (Chapter 12 Peeta POV: "Dance with Me") Five, Ten, Fifteen: Fifteen years of Katniss and Peeta deciding to have children Deep in the Meadow: Toastbaby girl pregnancy The Dancing Girl (in progress): Everlark parenting toastbaby girl

Drabbles, one-shots, and collections In the Kitchen: Peeta POV one-shot collection Moments in Between: Drabbles & Tumblr prompts Give it Different Meaning: Based on Honey by Taylor Swift Rest: Bedtime in the Mellark household

The Sunset Castle by thesweetnessofspring

i wake you with your memory over me by mage_chocolate

Enchanted to meet you + the Victor, Mentor, Mockingjay series by firehelpmeforget

not a lot, just forever by rabbit_soup (+ the first fic of the series, The Rockrose and the Thistle)

to be known the way you should by whenyoureplayingsolitaire

Sunsetter by liberalkitch

A Hero on a History Book Page by electrictouchfob

Keeper by Likelav48

The Dancing Girl (+ the previous parts!!) by dandelionsunset_1210

Uncross Our Stars by Mandrake_Mistakes

Off the Record by PrincessPuffles

EDIT: One For The Money, Two For The Show by Cow_In_The_Sunset (can't believe I forgot!)

but anyway here's some regency!everlark loosely inspired by @firehelpmeforget's fic enchanted to meet you

also because I'm chronically indecisive there's three versions 🙌🏼

in first book, peeta was scared of the woods. in the second book, he was unhappy with katniss risking her safety by going into the woods. in the third book, peeta was so messed up that we really don't revisit the whole 'woods' conversation...

this boy was not a fan of the woods.

but he went there. stayed in the woods for enough time to search for a specific type of plant.

Rules: Share a fic/art/meta/anything rec, then tag others to join.

The first fic I’m going to reccomend is the one that got me into reading fanfics, I think it’s popular but anyways I love, it’s It only hurts this much right now by @dandelionsunset1210. I first read it when I finished the trilogy and I was looking for a fluffy everlark growing back together fic, and it was genuinely my favorite of the ones I found. Everything felt so realistic and in character and I love it so much. Her Post-Mockingjay Stories is my favorite fic series ever.

One fic I really loved, like when it wasn’t finished yet I opened it on ao3 everyday to see if it was updated, is P. Mellark by ravenpuff1956. I’m obsessed with not reaped AUs and this one is soooo cute. In this, peeta’s brother kinda sets them up and it’s so fun.

Then she said yes by @reiamellark is one of my favorites because I love burdock so much and she wrote him exactly how I imagine him. This is an AU where everlark are not reaped and burdock is alive, and you can see their relationship from burdock’s pov.

Another one I loved was Away From Prying Eyes by @evax3, I literally read it all at once. It’s an AU where everlark get together a bit after their first games, so they go through everything in catching fire and mockingjay as a real couple.

I also love Morning Wood, which is a one-shot AU where everlark have a lot of fun the morning after the rooftop picnic, written by Sam1icker81.

I adore a non-hijacked peeta fic, and the first one I ever read was Say That Again by FreshlyCutGrass. I’ve re-read it many many times.

And lately I’ve been obsessed with Portrait of Mrs. Hawthorne by @thesweetnessofspring. Its a regency everlark fic where katniss is married to gale but doesn’t love him and peeta is hired to paint a portrait of her and things happen between them. I enjoyed reading this sooo much and I’m so excited for the update!

About fanart, my favorite fan artist is obviously @little-lynx because her drawings are EXACTLY how I pictured the character while reading the book. This poor queen has received a lot of hate on instagram lately, which she doesn’t deserve, that drawing was beautiful and followed book canon.

And my favorite fanart EVER I would say is this one by @whenthewallfell like I love it so much I literally come back and see it like at least once a week. The toastboy is my favorite, because all it takes for me to like you is being a baby with blond curly hair (not coriolanus tho), and he is so cute in this.

I also love love love this one by @fictionaltrvlr and this one by @motherhenna

I wanted to add so many more fics but this was getting too long and they are quite popular.

I fear that the whitewashing in the first film doomed the rest of the visual media in the THG universe. How so? Well, one example is THG on Stage in London, where they could have cast a Katniss with olive skin and instead chose a white actress...again. Also, the illustrated editions are also somewhat ambiguous because the illustrations are black and white.

And you know, it's something that personally bothers me. Because out there, as a poc latina born and raised in LATAM, white people really do look down on you.

There's a lot of racism, and few female protagonists have a HUGE IMPACT on popular culture like Katniss. Instead of making her a poc on the movies, they had to choose a white actress (I love you, JLaw, but that's beside the point) to make her more relatable to white female consumers and once again, they marginalized women of color.

Also, what do you think olive skin is? It’s an undertone, not a metric of how dark your skin is. Im white as a sheet of paper and yet I’m olive skinned. It just means your undertone is green. Katniss is tanned from the sun. If you wanted to talk about miscasting I’d go for that instead of the olive skin.

Do you live in Appalachia? Because I don’t think you have a grasp on what the population there looks like. My grandparents are from the area and currently I live less than an hour outside of it. The line is a lot blurrier than you think it is. There’s a lot of different diasporas all mixed together there. There is also a lot more white people there than you think. Theres no clear divide between white and poc like you seem to think. And that’s also ignoring the fact that racism looks different in the books than it does in real life. There is absolutely racism, don’t get me wrong but we never hear katniss refer to rue’s skin color as anything but deep or dark. We can extrapolate not only by looking at the history of the area and the populations there in that rue is black and the Deep South (where district 11 is located) has a particular history of brutalizing black and brown people.

I love Suzanne, but let"s be honest, her ambiguity doesn't stem from being "faithful" to the geographical representation on which the story is based. It is not until TBOSAS in which she include more folk culture and music. Sometimes people forget that she started out doing projects for television and she knows what people in USA care or not care about, because she probably did a lot research as a writer and scripter. She's a businesswoman, like anyone who positions themselves to sell a product. So she probably decided that she would sell more if white women in the US, Europe, and Australia visually identified with another white woman. It's a sales strategy; she knows her consumers and did incredibly well for 2011.

Now, about olive skin. According to Wikipedia, olive skin is a human skin tone that roughly corresponds to types III, IV, and V on the Fitzpatrick skin pigmentation scale.

Type III pigmentation is common among populations in the Mediterranean region and Western Asia, as well as in East Asia, Central Asia, and parts of the Americas. It can also be found sporadically in Northern Europe, giving groups like the Black Irish their distinctive coloring. And in the Americas (the continent, not the nameless country, in case you want to talk geography), the darkest shade, aka type V, is mostly found among Native American groups.

The problem is that their ambiguity in the books and their choices for audiovisual works only continue to marginalize and replicate an ancient violence on this continent, where whiteness continues to erase the brown skin of Indigenous people.

Yes, Katniss's skin color is only described as olive, which could easily be type III and still not be white. The choice of whiteness, above all Aboriginal, Native, and Indigenous skin color it's a choice. And YES I KNOW through out the continent it is also true that there are people whose ancestors are indigenous and whose skin is type II due to mestizaje. But this people will always choose to identify themselves as white and not indiginous. And TALKING ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE IN MY COUNTRY most of them are not in touch with the native's culture.

Appalachian culture isn’t just native culture. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Acknowledging that the reason for it is racism and violence doesn’t change the fact that it’s there now. It exists and there’s nothing any of us can do about it. None of us have a Time Machine. Nobody is saying that it’s a good thing that non natives are there now, nevertheless it happened. There is far more nuance there than you want to explore. Stripping down a slice of any land down to black and white thinking serves absolutely fucking no one. This is not a discussion, I’m telling you that you don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to Appalachia and the people therein. You can always, i don’t know, TALK OR LISTEN to someone from the area. Someone who lives there now whose family has been there for a while instead of assuming and speaking for people that you do not know.

Yeah she could not look white- doesn’t change the fact that her mother (for all intents and purposes) is white. This further adds to the dichotomy between katniss and prim in Katniss’ head. Suzanne made that decision- headcanon all you want but don’t put words in her mouth and then act like you know her characters better than her. Again, you sound fucking arrogant.

When it comes to the illustrations, again, Suzanne signed off on them. There is absolutely no evidence that anyone told her she had to make her characters more white or white passing. That sounds like an issue to take up with her, not with the rest of the fandom.

Also the thing about olive skin isn’t up for debate. I have it. Other white people have it. POC can also have it. It’s an undertone just like someone else’s could be warm or neutral and their race doesn’t have any bearing on that.