#thesweetnessofspring

I’m so tickled. I hadn’t thought of it before but I love it!

So my first thought was how little would have to change to make it work as is… But then I was thinking about a more AU approach in which it’s (a very small) part Emma and part Jane Eyre (admittedly not regency but walk with me here)

Picture Valancy in a Jane Fairfax style siuatation but without the benefit of a Colonel Cambell

Her family (Amelia and Cousin Stickles) is poor but they’ve decided that Valancy is too sickly to work. (Uncle Benjamin and Olive’s family would be like the Kohls? Wealthy enough through trade but not gentry?)

Barney has let a local estate(cottage?) There’s a lot of mystery and speculation around who he is or where his money came from: Is he a gentleman, an upstart, an escaped criminal? He also has a young ward who everyone assumes is his illegitimate child (either Cissy’s son or an aged down Cissy?) He puts out a listing for governess (do boys have male tutors?)

Valancy learns she doesn’t have long to live and convinces Barney to hire her…

Potato count: 7/67 From California, USA Shared by @thesweetnessofspring

Made on Pinterest collage. Inspired by my feelings toward the ever versatile and delicious potato. Beige never looked so good.

Beige never looked so good, indeed. We're currently working on getting this made into a t-shirt. Thank you, @thesweetnessofspring, for your talent and for using it for the greater good, which is potato.

Rules: share a fic rec (recent read or otherwise), then tag others to join in!

I was tagged by the brilliant @mollywog who started this game <3 Thank you!

This week I binged The Huntress and the Beast by @thesweetnessofspring, and while I am very late to that party I can honestly say that it is one of the most moving pieces of literature I have ever read! I simply couldn't put it down. I was crying and laughing and pining. It is so well written and thought out, with wonderful minute details and a relationship that blossoms slowly over the course of a year.

I am also re-reading A Spark At Dawn by @hopeandwhiteliquor. A Catching Fire What If AU, in which Haymitch takes Peeta's place in the Quarter Quell. A wonderful insight into Haymitch and his devotion to his former mentees, as they also tentatively get closer to one another. One of those works that made me drop everything I was doing to read the new chapter as soon as it was out. <3

And, last but not least, @honey-kyun posted the first chapter of Can I Keep You? this week! A post-Mockingjay story about dealing with an unexpected pregnancy, love, and loss. I can't wait to see where this story is headed!

Hunger Games Valentine's Podfic Exchange 2025

Prim really wants to get her face painted at the school Harvest Festival, and Katniss can't deny her even with the family finances being tight. And the boy doing the face painting has a few surprises for the sisters.

Listen to the podfic on ao3! [Length: 10:33 mins] Read the original work here!

I enjoy a modern AU more than anything and I was completely in love with this wonderful story by @thesweetnessofspring. I hope you'll enjoy listening to my contribution to the podfic exchange!

That "insisting I acknowledge its progress" is all at once our stubborn Katniss being met with Peeta's own stubbornness, and the fact that he's pointing out a piece of hope in such a long, drawn-out horror they have to witness? Peak Everlark to me.

OH the way that this is a microcosm of their relationship, and a sort of glimpse into what their lives may be like after the war … this is “Peeta says it will be okay” … this, please note, is one instance we see of Peeta making a metaphorical fire or light of hope flicker inside Katniss … he has fire too … AND okay this is a reach but the fact that it’s the moon he keeps pointing out, the moon so often associated with the feminine, and with, specifically, a female archer … the time shifts by the moon as hope and despair shift within Katniss … but anyway this scene is unbelievably powerful, gut-wrenching, and so underrated (and so criminally left out of the movie) … I think you could almost do a theological analysis on this chapter, right down to the interesting use of the word “heavens” instead of “sky” … the Garden of Gethsemane of it all … *jots that down for my next reread* I’ve never seen an illustration of this moment and I’m sort of hoping for one in the illustrated special edition (or maybe one of our lovely artists could take it on? 🥺🫶🏻🥹) … the berries are the quintessential Katniss and Peeta defiance moment but them clinging to each other atop the Cornucopia is … something else …

hi @thesweetnessofspring! thanks for your ask!

here's a snippet from the peeta mall santa/katniss elf AU i've been working on (inspired by you!)

A few days later, Katniss was running late for her first shift, dressed in the itchy polyester costume Haymitch loaned her. Though she didn’t have to wear fake ears, the bells jingling on the ends of her shoe covers while she ran through the mall to her station didn’t help her intense feelings of humiliation.

A line of eager families had already formed at the entrance of the Christmas display, and Katniss jogged past them to set herself on the scene.

“You’re late,” Haymitch grumbled as he swiped the first family’s card, hardly picking up his head to glance her way.

“Sorry I had to brush up on my contortionist skills to get myself into this thing,” she retorted as she made her way into the North Pole.

I was tagged by @mega-aulover and @katnissdoesnotfollowback to play this game. (Thank you!😘)

How many letters of the alphabet have you used for a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score of 26 at the end along with your total fic count.

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C: Carols on Campus

D: Degrees of Separation

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L: The Long Way Round

M:

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S: Saying Yes

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W: Waiting for Midnight

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Score: 5/26

So, this is a very sparse list, and that's okay too! I have never been a prolific writer or should I say, a prolific publisher of what I do write. There are more scribblings stuck in folders on my hard drive (or lost) than you can imagine that will never see the light of AO3! There are also a couple of drabbles that I don't even know where to look for them .... (Can I add the fics I've beta'd?!?) lol

💡But you know what?💡

I've read quite a few of these posts now from various authors and this could be a great feature to include on @Everlarkficquestions - a masterlist of "featured authors" with a link to these posts.

Let me think about that, and get back to you! 😉

Hello hello! The launch for the collection is fast approaching so lets late a quick look at the contributors for the Hurricane Helene Collection!!

So to start of us off with thank you @thesweetnessofspring for contributing to the cause!

Please check out their other works or follow them for a taste of what's in store in the collection!

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Katniss Wants Kisses | Roses and Pearls