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sure! here’s just a little snippet ;)

“Why can’t you just let me go?! Why can’t you just let things happen? Why do you… Why do you have to fight everything?” she bursts.

Gale’s shoulders sink as he huffs out a sigh. His eyes follow his own fingers as he idly traces the outlines of his pants pockets. “I… I’ve never been very good at doing what’s expected of me,” he says quietly. His gaze shifts to meet hers, his chin still tucked down and his dark eyes electric against the glow of the sunlit blood splattered across his face. “And you know I can’t just let you go.”

“Stop lying,” Madge snaps reflexively. “No more lying.”

Anger flits across Gale’s face, those storm cloud eyes lighting up with rage, and Madge never thought it’d feel so welcome, so familiar. This, this she can understand.

My current favourite headcanon is that Astoria liked to paint, so she'd paint pretty things on Draco's dark mark to make him feel better about it

Im freaking deaddd. I need to pay more attention to tags bc “Gale was kinda valid for tweaking through half of the books” has me crying. Like I agreeee. Thank you for making me laugh. You guys are so funny.

district 12 is appalachia. appalachia has a long history of snake handling, particularly within the pentecostal faith. snake handling is a sign of power, of communion with god. if you watch the way that she handles the snakes in the arena, it bears some resemblance to old photos and films of snake handlers back when it was a more popular practice.

(plus, snake handling was an often illegal act done in defiance of governments afraid of atypical religious practices, which is just a fun note.)

sure, lucy gray might not be originally from district 12, but i think that it’s hard to look at her with her bluegrass music and her with her snakes and not think of snake handlers and the bluegrass/folk hymnals of a pentecostal service.

to think of snakes as “evil” is just too lacking in nuance. snakes were docile and gentle to those who deserved it. when they struck out, it was an act of god. she handles snakes, coriolanus does not. she handles them as a sign of power, as a sign of transgression, as a sign of righteousness.