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-The series should have ended after TBOSAS, leave the rest to fic writers please, Collins!

-Everlark has their sweet moments but tbh I’ve never been crazy about them like most of the fandom is, and people definitely act like he was a perfect angel when he was quite pushy towards Katniss too at times

-Suzanne Collins is a straight white woman and that impacts how she writes her work, it’s ok to point that out. I don’t think she has ill intentions when writing, I think she means well ultimately she will still have bias and the fandom acts like she handles race and sexuality much better than she does. I agree with what @kald-dal-write said about LGBTQ representation in the series fr

-D12 is given too much importance in the rebellion at times by the fandom when districts like 8, 11, 3, and 4 seemed to play much more of a role and I wish we would have gotten more worldbuilding about other districts in general

-We should have gotten more Katniss and Prim time in Mockingjay instead Peeta and Gale got more centered over her

-Commander Paylor doesn’t get enough appreciation in this fandom for leading in one of the very first districts to rebel at a notably young age

-I don’t love how Gale acted toward Katniss, he’s not my favorite for that, BUT his attitudes about the rebellion make sense considering his situation and he’s an interesting character for that. And like I said Peeta could be pushy toward her too and people act like he wasn’t and only Gale ever was.

-I literally hate how none of the careers are allowed to be sympathetic or human in the canon. Like they’re all portrayed as monsters and it’s so annoying. Best example I can think of is Silka. Like she gets one moment of humanity, then SC is like “oh you thought you might be having a smidgen of sympathy for this girl? Well here she is murdering an innocent young child in the most needlessly brutal and violent way possible, you still think she’s redeemable?” (Yes, I do, but that’s besides the point). Tbh I’ve kind of given up on the writing of the careers in the books at this point

-Might not be my place to say this, as a white girl, but I personally thought that Covey culture was super underdeveloped. We don’t actually get much on their traditions and, like, if they have a different religion, a different way of doing work, maybe different celebrations. We just know they like music and they have this one naming custom, and they used to travel. Obviously this probably couldn’t be explored much through Ballad, because Snow doesn’t exactly make much effort to understand Lucy Gray (and probably her culture, by extension). But I do think we could’ve explored it more via Lenore Dove, because I feel like (if she was well written) she’d probably want to connect with her culture a whole lot, even if only to separate herself further from the Capitol. Also you’re telling me SOTR Haymitch ‘I’m-obsessed-with-my-girlfriend’ Abernathy wouldn’t try to figure out her culture and stuff to be closer to her? Idk just feel like it could’ve been interesting.

-I like Lenore Dove, but not the version we see through Haymitch’s eyes, how she’s written beyond that. I like the idea of a girl who, in attempting to be a “rebel” just ends up causing a billion problems and putting people around her in danger in a misguided effort to do the right thing. I think it would’ve been cool to see that, and how it affects her and her family and friends more. I like her with more flaws than redeeming qualities, I like that she’s kind of pig headed and a little obstinate. I like my girls problematic and that’s basically it.

-If you want to write about propaganda, District 12 is objectively the worst place to write it. 12 has a lot of good themes (class divide, oppression, etc) but propaganda is not one of them. Nobody in 12 is falling for that. If you want propaganda, you want Districts 1,2,4 or the Capitol. I feel like TBOSAS was more about propaganda than SOTR was in the end. (I have my own ideas for how a story about propaganda set in the Capitol might work, but to write that fic like how I want I’d need a lot more knowledge on ao3 workskins so yeah :( ) also I very much agree with @district8workitearnit about 12 in the rebellion

-We really don’t need any more books. There’s so many good fics out there so nobody’s starved for content, and any more books would probably be even more retconned and made for screen (I enjoyed some aspects of SOTR, but it very clearly was made for money). Also for those people saying we ‘need a Finnick book’, that’s probably one of the ones I’d like to see least. Exactly who wants to read however many pages of softened career (I said I wanted them humanised, not totally defanged and not vicious) and then yet more chapters of SA? It wouldn’t be an enjoyable read, it would just be uncomfy, we don’t need it. And if we do get another book, I wouldn’t want it centred around the games at all. Probably pre dark days or the effects on the families of dead tributes or something.

-The casting for SOTR was terrible. We had like one or two wins with Effie and Maysilee and then…. Whatever the rest was. Obviously most of it wasn’t…. Not book accurate? Because there were practically no actual descriptions, but there were certain things that should’ve just…. Been thought about a bit more. If I find time, I’ll edit this post to have the links to some posts about it I found pretty interesting and informative.

-Again similar to @district8workitearnit, y’all villainise Gale way too much. Yes, he did bad things, but so did everyone in this series. He wasn’t the right fit for Katniss, sure, but he was ultimately a teenage boy with a crush. Again, he was a TEENAGE BOY. And he got dragged into a rebellion, where he was surrounded by brutal people, doing brutal things. Also how come he gets all the blame for the bombs while Beetee gets away Scot free??? Huh??? None of the people are perfect angels, so how come Gale’s the one who gets the worst of it? (I suspect it may have something to do with Everlark)

-Plutarch is kind of a horrible person. He’s interesting and pretty fun, but he’s not a good person. He’s the definition of ‘this guy’s awful, but he’s awful in our favour’. My man was literally willing to sacrifice however many tributes and victors’ lives (some of whom may not have even known about the rebel plot, so they were just dying for nothing?) to dismantle a system, not because it was objectively wrong, because it was ‘inefficient’. He’s very interesting as a character, and I do like what he adds to the story, but let’s not pretend he’s a good guy.

-@district8workitearnit and @kald-dal-write were very much correct about the themes of race and sexuality.

-Everlark was treated as the One True Love thing when it should have been shown more as the two chose each other rather than 'this would have happened anyway'

-I haven't read SOTR yet (waiting for the paperback) but I don't think we need every book for every character ever. Like, my Finnick book is the one I wrote, I don't really need a canon one

-I wish there was more acknowledgment of the racial overtones in the story. Like, I'm a white person so I can't judge her that much but still, you can tell it was written by a white woman at some points

-Katniss should have been given more interaction with Prim in book 3. Her death barely leaves an impact to me bc I feel like we barely saw Prim

-I wish we got at least hints at whether the rest of the world still existed or anything instead of it just being a shrug. Like, what's going on in China?

You only have to look at how many footballers who have rape accusations against them that happily represent their countries in huge tournaments like the World Cup without anyone really giving a shit to see what bollocks that is.

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Achraf Hakimi (Morocco), Thomas Partey (Ghana), Gonzalo Montiel (Argentina), Thiago Almada (Argentina), Junya Ito (Japan), Kaishu Sano (Japan), Ryan Mendes (Cabo Verde).

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

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