embers setting fire

I honestly don’t know why people think that Katniss would tell us that Effie Trinket has a sister even if we assume that she knows this information. Katniss barely told us that Peeta has brothers. As in, we never learn the names of Peeta’s brothers. Katniss isn’t telling us a damn thing about Effie’s family members unless it is directly relevant to the plot.

I love maysilee donner bc she knew she was probably gonna die so she just bitched at everyone that deserved bitching, had a picnic, and punched the capitol in the face. Literally. No one has ever done it like her

Plutarch sure does like asking children to risk it all meanwhile he risks almost nothing every time.

Always remember that Maysilee Donner, who loved being beautiful and beautiful things such as dresses, velvet bows, birds and jewelry, was also a person who always hoped to look like her grandmother one day because her grandmother was so beautiful to her and was sad that she'd never see herself grow old. Beauty and aging are not mutually exclusive. And it's refreshing to see a person (Suzanne Collins) who writes extremely popular books say that

What i love about the hunger games is that even though most of the covey died out and hell they bombed district 12 to the ground. And yet the covey traditions are still alive. That’s truly the last word to snow no matter how hard he tried to erase the covey their songs and their culture is still alive.

just having the stark realization that the failed act of rebellion was 24 years before katniss volunteered. that begs the question of whether or not there were more attempts. did johanna suffer the same fate as haymitch? did the capitol lie and say she was hidden the entirety of her games because she was given a similar (failed) assignment from beetee? did they have to erase countless hours of footage? edit things to make it seem like she was never where she actually was, simply hidden away from the chaos? how many mockingjay figures did they cycle through before landing on katniss? how many did they cycle through before the revolution actually began?

do you know how miserable and tragic your life has to be to say that katniss everdeen is luckier than you and be correct

The way that Haymitch talks about food in Sunrise on the Reaping vs the way that Katniss talks about it in The Hunger Games leads me to believe that District 12 got even more starved out after Haymitch’s games. His family is obviously poor, but they still do things like make a cake once a year and buy cheap candy on occasions. Katniss talks about never being able to afford sweets and getting an orange as a special present one time. And her family was better off than most in the Seam. That difference definitely feels like an implication that money and food got even tighter in 12 after Haymitch came home from the Quarter Quell.

maysilee "I'll be your sister" donner and wyatt "whoever she is guess she's ours now" callow

can’t believe suzanne collins called north america “a land full of Capitols” in tbosas and set the reaping on the fourth of july and people still don’t get that the hunger games is a critique of american capitalism. how much more direct is she gonna be in sunrise on the reaping.