#backtopanem

✺THG Series Exploration: Mockingjay✺

1: We've reached Mockingjay and Katniss is discovering what living in this District 13 is all about. We often feel like D13, its residents and President Coin are the Saviors and the Allies. Let's explore the truth and reality behind this new group of people. Tag me in your District 13 thoughts and meta.

Catching Fire.

It starts at midnight. 

Future of Forestry’s “Someone (Acoustic Version)” popped up on my ipod yesterday, and the lyrics, the sound, and the fact that it’s a duet seemed perfect for Everlark and the cave scene! So I had to post if for Back to Panem. Lyrics below (with repetitions removed):

(male singer) Turn my head Break my heart with mercy Just move my feet Move my hands, grow so gently

(female & male singer) Mmm for love we’re still in need We’ll hunger and we’ll bleed The rising from the dust We’ve seen how this is ours

He grew up working in a bakery, plastering on a smile and an act to everyone who walked in the door. Putting up the front of a happy perfect merchant family when behind closed doors his mom was awful. How genuine and REAL Katniss's scowls were, and how rare and valuable her smiles were.

He had a lifetime of acting under his belt before he stepped on Ceaser's stage.

The confusion of real or not real was a confusion that haunted him long before his hijacking.

So beautifully understated when he's trying to clear the fog and make sense of what's real and not real. Many who have struggled with mental health can attest to this unraveling and sorting through of these feelings.