#pipesverse

- District Four is as much a Career District as 1 or 2, and doesn't get much of anything from the fishing industry.

- Likewise, 7 and 10 are very rare in getting kids with lumberjack/slaughterhouse skills.

- The books have increasingly fallen into tokenization of Districts - 11 is always strong scary boys, 1 is always spawn of satan girls, 4 is the 'not really a Career' District etc.

- The Covey very much shrink the world - I get they rep the deaths of minority culture under authoritarianism, but 'most everything 'Seam' turns out to actually be Covey - which just makes it feel like the poo people meme.

- The Districts likely have varying levels of development - somewhere like 12 is very different than 1 or 5.

- Likewise, loyalists exist everywhere - and don't just disappear at the 'end' of the war, there's still fighting after the Capitol falls. Looking at you 9.

In more Pipesy news, finally done with a new chapter for the Lady Taffeta Everett, Daughter of Eight and Victor of the 36th Games!

I've got a few people to give a thank you to - firstly to my awesome reviewers, both those who found Chance and those who read it for Holiday Fic Exchange - y'all are the lights in my life! Secondly to whoever submitted Chance to HFE alongside me because I'm genuinely so grateful.

But most of all to @maitaitiu, who I commissioned back in November to draw Taffeta - and it turned out spectacularly! They're open for comms (and you should def go do so)!

So I did promise Aug 1st content, but circumstances necessitated a later exchange. As such, it's my pleasure to introduce the 53rd Hunger Games - Heaven's Gate! Big thanks to CosmicMilk for Lithia, it's been a blast to write her, and I do hope y'all enjoy!

Heya guys! You know what's up - new chapters for None by Chance and To Fish in Murky Waters (which closes in two weeks - still more than happy to take questions/submissions!) None by Chance ch 29 (the 25th Games) - yes, it's the quell

Welp, given I did get pinged by @interstellarvalkyrie, I'll drop a lil snippet of a further future chapter. -------------------------

The woods are full of whispers.

Of course they are. We were on the train for hours, where everything was silent and still, and now? There's noises all around - the rustles of a hundred thousand leaves, small animals, the twitter of birds. It's distracting, but. Well, the walking trail is nice. It's wooden plank boardwalks, the smell of tree sap is hanging in the air. It's well laid out, and the kind of smell that should remind me of the woods around Twelve.

Instead, it reminds me of death. Though, at this point, pretty much the same thing, Twelve and death.

What's so different from Twelve is. Well, this is forest that stretches for miles, and it's flat. There's other walkers - Capitolites, some blondes (probably from One),

Heya gang I'm doing these in order of 'I want to

Pipes Friday? Hell yeah! New chapters, for y'all's tumblr consideration! (Both links AO3 and to the chapter in question)

To Fish in Murky Waters has her first pair of Tributes introduced - Chantilly and Alexander for District Nine - TFIMW Chapter 1