The disappointment in the election results.

Hello Reddit. I need your help and ideas. Christmas is coming up and I'd like to make myself a present. I'm planning to have a Hunger Games themed shirt made for my five-a-side games. I'd like it to look like a training shirt that a soldier in the District 13 army might wear, without removing the name and number on the back of the shirt. Only problem is, I've only got the website to make custom jerseys and no idea. I'd like anyone who's more or less familiar with The Hunger Games to be able to directly recognize the reference(s) to this universe, without triggering hardcore fans. It would have to be lore-accurate. So I'd like your ideas/opinions. What colors should be used? Which logos and their potential placement on the jersey? The typography of the name and numbers? (And everything else) Everything is customizable on the website, so don't worry. Thank you in advance for your help. I'll even send you a photo of the jersey on this Reddit after Christmas, if the project comes to fruition. (My friends, with whom I do my five-a-side games, will make one for them if they think mine looks good).

That we are getting a new hunger games book in January after electing Trump again.

ive been thinking about the sunrise on the reaping sypnosis and how it might tell us some things abt the story and haymitch as a character.

personally, my biggest question with sotr is the timeline. how much of the book is going to be before the games, during the games, and after the games.

i imagine the book in a similar format to the first hg book, but it would make sense for sotr to take a different path to have its own identity. buttt the where my questions with that comes up is the sypnosis.

something thats super interesting to me about the sotr sypnosis is that it takes the time to tell us something specific about each tribute haymitch is entering the games with. it doesnt just say "with three other district 12 tributes" it says something that defines their characters and gives the readers something of a picture of them in our minds.

the first hg book doesnt even mention or allude to peeta, and tbosas says the female district 12 tribute, the lowest of the low. something about that addition makes me think that we're going to spend a good amount of time with all of the tributes from 12 and get to know them, not just maysilee donner.

this is interesting 2 me because how much time do we have to do that? we can infer that haymitch only really knows the girl he sees as a sister before the games because compulsive oddsmaker and most stuck up girl in town shows some emotional distance compared to someone who's nearly a sister to him.

so, from the morning of, to the reaping, to the train, to the training, to the actual games themselves, im guessing haymitch grows someone close to these guys and we get to know them more. we know haymitch stuck to himself until he teamed up with maysilee but propaganda is a major theme in the books and we dont know what the capital couldve and couldve not erased in the final recording. and just the overall knowledge of how the second quarter quell went down.

where im going with this is that i think community and friendship may be a major theme in sotr. what couldve made haymitch suddenly want to make an impact in the games? i think the answer is maybe in the possible bond the district 12 tributes may share in the story.

the power of love has always been a major theme in thg franchise, and its not crazy to think that it'll carry over in the new installment. maybe its seeing and finding the spirit in his neighbors and wanting to do something to fight back the capital thats taken away that spirit and the spirit of countless other innocent kids.

i know im probably reading too far into this but from what we're given thats the only thing i can think of. going back to my question of the timeline, if im right i wonder how that'll fit into the book. how long will we get with the tributes before they separate in the games?

i cant imagine having them being pointed out in the description only to barely get any page time or development. its such a tight timeline that you cant help but wonder and its kinda stressing me out lol.

and again, you assume that sotr will have its own twist on the formatting to give the book its own identity. i think a major part of the book will be just the morning of the reaping but i cant piece together in my mind what the other half will be !!

im curious to see how the book is going to tie in the political aspect and how much of that we're going to see. if we get a good amount, its safe to say a hefty chunk of the book will take place after the games, since haymitch will be a victor and will get more of a foot into the capitol.

in conclusion i think haymitch will form a super awesome cool friend group and together they'll use the power of love to fight back against the evil president snow and most of them will die but its okay because most revolutions do not come without sacrifice and even though haymitch will be trauamtized foreva its okay cuz in like 20 years he'll see rebirth in the form of katniss. what are your thoughts because i’m genuinely so curious.

I wonder why they refused when he begged them to kill him. Jackson instantly refuses after he sees the replay of his episode and says they should kill him. When he has these episodes the threat is evident. I think it is partly for Katniss. They know she cares about Peeta. Secondly I think they also feel bad for Peeta. Everyone knows he has been hijacked to be a threat and that he is fundamentally a good person with none of this being his fault.

my boyfriend and I are reading the illustrated hunger games together, him reading it for the first time, and he loves it.

he’s excited to go straight onto catching fire when we’re finished but I know he really enjoys the illustrations from the novel.

I’ve decided, before we started reading catching fire, I’d draw some of the key moments from the book to show him as we read on.

I was wondering if there is any specific moments in the books that you feel deserve an illustration?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I hate this hobby so much (I'll continue to do it for the rest of time)

If Katniss or Peeta had been separate victors, or if there had been no uprisings, how long do you think it would have taken to bring another victor to the district?

I think Katniss would have done everything she could to train the children of the District, along with Gale, to give them a chance to win.

In Peeta's case, I think he would have tried, helping them become a little stronger physically, and he definitely would have had an easy time finding sponsors.

I was just reading the songbirds and snakes and I saw the name Arachne Crane and then I remembered Seneca Crane and since it's too big of a coincidence for them not to be I think that they are related (sorry If this is already known but I thought it was cool and I wanted to share it)

All the time we see theories that Lucy Gray was so and so’s parent, or became a leader in 13, or was the old woman who gave Katniss the pin in the movie.

The most compelling answer to me is that she simply disappeared in the forest never to be seen again. We know that Suzanne uses characters in a highly symbolic manner. Gale represents power, Peeta represents Diplomacy. Lucy represents freedom, nature, free spirits.

The Lucy Gray poem by William Wordsworth is referenced throughout the book. Suzanne Collins painstakingly explains to us that Lucy in the poem disappears.

“Yet some maintain that to this day She is a living child; That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome wild.

O’er rough and smooth she trips along, And never looks behind; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.”

It is far more powerful and symbolic to believe that Lucy Gray Baird meets the same fate as her namesake than to imagine she returns to 12 or shows up in 13 to have a bunch of babies. Her solitary song that whistles in the wind is her only surviving legacy.

She doesn’t come back. She haunts. Poem Lucy disappears in the Snow, haunting the wilds. Lucy Gray Baird disappears in Coriolanus Snow, haunting HIM.

…and I can’t stop crying. These movies just eviscerate me emotionally. It’s interesting because I first read the books right when they came out starting in 2008, at which point I was only 14, and the difference in my reaction to them is significant. I remember thoroughly enjoying the books as a child but they never hit me this hard, and neither did the movies. I think the reason why is partly an inability to fully grasp the permanence of death and to understand all the political and thematic nuances in these stories at such a young age—but also because reading the books/viewing the movies as a child positions you as a peer to Katniss, which is markedly different to being a 30 year old adult and seeing her as a fragile child. I’m closer in age now to Katniss’s mother, and looking at it from that perspective is such an intense gut punch.

Do you folks also feel like this? How many other people are revisiting these movies/books as adults and feeling differently about them?

I've been a fan of The Hunger Games for a long time and I'm new to this sub. I was wondering what people's thoughts are on the theory that Lucy Gray is President Coins mom? I was one of the few people who at the beginning thought that Lucy was Katniss and Prims grandmother(totally think it's Maude Ivory by the way), but then I stumbled across the theory about Lucy and President Coins and wasn't sure what to think of it. Does that theory make sense to anyone?

So I was thinking today and I asked myself the question: if the war between the 13 and the Capitol had lasted longer, would Katniss have had a right-hand man or a bodyguard, something like that. Although Gale more or less already does, would Coin and the 13's army have provided her with a soldier to be entirely at her disposal?

I know Katniss knows how to fight on her own (she won the Hunger Games, so obviously...), but a soldier who isn't familiar or friendly with Katniss could help her manage her emotions on the battlefield without restricting her. And he/she could help her from a purely tactical point of view, carrying equipment for her (like arrows) or covering her back. He/she could take care of the "dirty work" that Katniss refuses to do. He/she could also heal her temporarily on the battlefield before transporting her to hospital.

Anyway, give me your opinion because the question is so wtf and complex that I can't answer it alone.

I may be imagining this, but I'm certain there is at least one scene in the first two movies where Katniss shoots a fish with an arrow (or maybe she stabs it with an arrow instead of using a bow). I am desperately trying to track down an image of that to use for a joke in a random discord server, and any tips (or the image/scene itself) would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Edit: I do in fact seem to have imagined it. Welp. Thanks for the help anyways.

got it for my 16th on holiday in croatia a few weeks ago

My friend is throwing a “quarterquell” party for her 25th bday and I want to play some party/edm remixes of hunger games songs! Any SoundCloud recommendations?? Sorry if this is too niche! Also I’m dressing up as peeta disguised as the rock lol

(I dont have the first book rn because I already returned it to the school library but whatever)

Those is the best books ive ever read. No doubt. I finished them in about a month, which is very fast for me since I dont really read much, and all thanks to how masterfully its written and how it hooks you up to the story.

One thing that I believe made the Hunger Games series really stand out is the character developments, specially Katniss'. In my viewpoint, the books could truly master the balance between all the bad stuff that happens with the characters and they response to it (like not making people overreactive to small issues, while not being like "this is fine" after their entire world collapses, if you know what I mean).

You can clearly see Katniss' character developments throughout the books, how she gradually becomes a shell of what she used to be as the Trauma piles upon her, something that could only be partially fixed in the epilogue, when she marries with Peeta and returns to herself after a couple years. But it was not only Katniss who suffered from the war and the Games. Basically everyone, like Peeta, Gale, Haymitch and literally every single alive victor has been dealing with trauma, with the grief and terror of their worlds falling apart. In a book designing (does this term even exist? Anyway) standpoint this is really good, the Idea that it will not end with the "and then they lived happily forever" but rather in a way that the scars are still and will continue there, and you will have to live with them.

Out of the 3 books of the main trilogy, I think Hunger Games (the 1st book) was the best, with Mockingjay coming as a close second. I really enjoyed reading it, the pacing of which stuff happened was nearly perfect. Overall it felt really down to Earth and it was one of the main factors that kept me so hooked into the series. My favourite characters from The Hunger Games are definitely Rue (she remained as my fav character up for a long time until Peeta's awesomeness started to catch up) and, in a more impopular opinion, Cato. He was portrayed as some kind of villain because the book is narrated from Katniss' perspective, but in the end he was just another victim of the games who wanted to stay alive, and to stay alive he had to kill the other tributes. No one understood It better than Cato. His death was so so brutal btw

Out of all the main trilogy books, Catching Fire was the least good to me tbh. It is still an amazing book, but in many aspects it falls short compared to the others from the trilogy. The first half of it is pretty slow, it mainly was "just" the victory tour doing hints of an upcoming rebellion, while the Capitol became to act harsher with the districts. The second half of the book, when the little goofy twist of the third quarter quell is announced, is then the story Goes from 0 to 100. I legit finished the entire quarter quell saga in like 4 days, and some of the most memorable moments of it for me were Wiress' discovery of the clock arena and Beetee's explosive that blew the entire thing up. Also, its worth mentioning the amazing and downright cruel cliffhanger at the end, when Gale just straight up said that district 12 was no more, and the book just ended like that. I didnt have Mockingjay with me yet, and the school would just open the next day, so it was a very painful evening waiting for the next day, to finally put my hands on Mockingjay and finally resume my reading.

Now finally, time to talk about the third and final book of the main trilogy: The Mockingjay. This is by far the most frightening and important book of the series, a true bloodbath. As expected, it starts by explaining wtf happened on Panem while Katniss was on the Quarter Quell and confirming that district 13 does, in fact, exist, with this being the book in which Katniss really falls into insanity, with her being very mentally ill during the entire thing. I feel like this book can be divided into 2 big sectons: Before and after Peeta is bought back from the capitol, being a completely different, traumatized and hijacked version of himself, and it kinda switched Katniss' attitude from someone who was just doing propos and being a simbol from the rebels to someone that really wanted to participate in the war, eventually getting to join the rebel forces and going to the capitol in the final stages of the war. After that, the real bloodbath began. With so many people dead, including imporant people like Finnick and Prim (I was in class reading when Prim died and I almost cried right there), but at the end, the rebels finally won and put an end to the capitols reign, and Katniss would have her dream of killing Snow fulfilled if only she didnt fall to his manipulation and ended up shooting Coin (I felt so angry at Katniss in this moment). After all that, its so surprise that she would become extremely scarred, spending months lying motionless, doing nothing and thinking nothing due to all the depression and trauma, which is the same state that her mother was in the first book and that Katniss criticized so much. And just like her mother, she was able to recover.

Although I really love the series, it is not perfect. Im going to list some stuff that I didnt like, or I feel that could be improved imo:

1- Peeta and Gale fighting over Katniss was something kinda annoying, like how they would always be orbiting her. 2- How during the rebellion The Mockingjay turned into such a huge symbol for the rebels, I really dont know what Katniss did that Peeta didnt to receive all that status. 3- The whole berries trick thing in the first Hunger Games, and why the capitol cared that much about it. Like it is clearly not a sign of rebellion, if anything its just entretainment for the crowd. Why yall mad?

On the other hand, there is A LOT of stuff I really loved about this series, and im going to list them off here:

1- I already mentioned it, but the way trauma and loss are portrayed in the series is amazing. These mental unwellness are the reason that many people did dumb things, and Speaking of them... 2- the dumb stuff that people, specially Katniss, made, like killing Coin, being mad at Peeta for being torture and basically disobeying everyone. Although these stuff made me very mad, for a book designing standpoint it is great because it adds depth to the character and more personality 3- How the books are not afraid of killing important characters. I really made me feel like no one had any plot armor (maybe a bit on Katniss but thats expected) and that anyone could drop dead at any moment, which is why I geniunely thought that Gale died at least 3 times. 4- Lack of filler. Every single page, every single moment feels very important to the story and it really is. This makes it much easier to actually be immersed in the story

So that was my summary of the trilogy books!! I know theres a prequel of it, and im still going to get it, but for now thats all ive read. The Hunger Games was the first book series ive ever read in english and not in my native language, so it was very nice!! Oh and btw I still didnt watch the movies and its dont even know how the characters are portrayed in them, so im yet to see how well the match with how I imagined the characters, maybe ill make a post with my reaction idk. Great job Suzanne Collins!!!

they don't have a happy ending either.

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Another example of the actors in anothe projects? iirc the actors of Snow and Johanna are in another movie together

PD: The show is Cold Case, the actor are guests in the episode 18 season 4

Hi!

I'm new to the fandom, but I've been a fan of the books for over 10 years now, so I'm binging the content here.

What I didn't see anyone talking about so far is: Katniss learned how to use the bow and arrow with Mr Everdeen, but what about him? WHO taught him?

Theories, anyone? I would love to know more about this in the new book.

Just as the box says. I’ll start. Prim. I will never never never never never never never forgive Suzanne Collins for that. I finished the original trilogy 10 years ago and I’m still fighting mad over that. That served no purpose.

President Snow was ALWAYS evil and i will die on this hill. I think Snow was just a sociopath at first and this is very clear from even the beginning of the book 'As she led Coriolanus into the kitchen, he reminded himself that self-control was an essential skill, and he should be grateful his grandmother provided daily opportunities to practice it.' because his Grand 'mam' poked him with roses...? He had a very narrow way of thinking and wasn't a villain of circumstance nor a villain of birth because he has countless people around him who went through the same things and turned out completely different- Lucy Gray, Tigris, Sejanus. They all went through the dark days, Tigris was RIGHT next to him during the dark days. Lucy Gray went through the hunger games, Sejanus was of district. They all went through personal traumas some worse some similar some better than him yet they all turn out WAY better than him. Another thing I want to point out is how easily he agreed to Dr. Gaul's way of thinking. To sum it up, Dr. Gaul believed that what happens in the arena is humanity undressed- all the fighting, killing etc.. is how humans truly are. The funny thing is how many times she's been proven wrong by people doing kind acts in the games like : Lamina mercifully killing Marcus, Reaper lining up the bodies and covering them, Lucy Gray running to find Jessup and STILL not killing him knowing he had rabies. There's so many more yet Dr. Gaul still believes in the killer ape theory i think it's called. THE WORST PART IS SNOW ALSO BELIEVES IT. Him believing it also says alot about him because he has also seen how people still do kind acts in the games yet indulges in Dr. Gaul's theory. This shows that Snow chooses to believe the worst of humanity, reinforcing his justification for using fear and violence to maintain control. He dismisses or overlooks the kindness he’s seen, aligning himself with the belief that cruelty is natural and necessary for survival. Just like when he kills Bobbin and in the books spends his time telling himself it was JUST self defense after beating that boy to death when he was already down. Snow doesn't want to accept his actions because he wants to rationalize and mantain his self image. In short I don't know what type of villain Snow is. He is a complex villain, a mixture of circumstance- (dark days, Dr. Gaul) and his own mental issues. But after all the positive impacts and people in his life like Tigris, Lucy Gray and Sejanus he still does bad things so anyways long story short, Snow's insane!! n idk hope u enjoyed!

Hi there! I was thinking about giving my gf a Hunger Games themed gift (maybe like a card or something handmade) and I was wondering if you could give me some ideas.

I watched the movies with her and I really liked them but I am not as deep in the lore as she is and I was wondering if you guys coud give me some ideas for a romantic hunger games gift, I was thinking about giving her something like the pearl Peeta gives to Katniss but I am not convinced since that would be like, really small.

Thank you in advance.

Since Sunrise on the Reaping was announced, there has been a lot of speculation that Suzanne Collins may be doing a three book run. I was skeptical at first about her doing anything at all after A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes because she is a unique author in the sense that she doesn’t cater to her audience. She tells the story for the plot, not for her fan base. She’s well respected due to this.

That’s why I was a little surprised. Not disappointed, of course. I’d eat up anything she puts out. Even just a book on general lore.

I do think she is trying to lead up to the events of Katniss’s games and how the tyrannical government got to such a vulnerable position.

If there is a third book, I know the most popular choice is Finnick, and that is fair. But if it isn’t him, if there is another story to be told, who else would you like to see? Many are saying Joanna, but I think her story mirrors Haymitch’s too closely to be effective.

I think I’d like to see an anti-hero. We are kind of getting that with Snow and Haymitch, right? I mean it’s easy to see with hindsight bias that Snow is evil and Haymitch is good. But this universe has never been about speaking in those black and white terms.

I think an interesting one would be Cashmere or Gloss. It’s obvious they were Career tributes. But that sibling dynamic coupled with what is seemingly their unwillingness to reenter the games is so intriguing. And we’d get to see what life is like in a District other than 12.

Just my ramblings. What do you think? Who would you like to see be the protagonist of a third book if it exists?

(If you saw the OG where I accidentally combined Suzanne Collins and Stephanie Myers, no you didn’t)

I know Hunger Games video games ideas have been discussed here before, but I wanted to share some ideas that I think would be really cool for a video game:

Story mode: there could be a narrative single player story with a character creator, and instead of choosing your "class" you chose which district you were from. Which district you are from would determine what kind of skills you start out with, for instance if you chose district 4, you'd start out with a higher probability of catching fish for food. Of course the game could have various skill trees that allow you to learn skills in exchange for some kind of skill points, but your district would determine which types of skills you have a higher level in at the start. The game could start out with your character waking up the morning of the reaping day and interacting with NPCs before making your way to the reaping ceremony. And like the books, there could be training in the capitol, and this would be where the game goes through its combat tutorials. Some of the skills you learn could be camouflage related, and the higher that skill is the more difficult it would be for NPC tributes in the game to detect you.

Multiplayer: there could be an online multiplayer mode where it's your custom character vs 23 other players as their custom characters. And since you'd choose which district you're from in your character creator, the game could group up 2 players from each district. It'd be a battle royale, and like Call of Duty there'd be various maps (arenas) to play in. Maybe there could even be a "gamemakers" mode where you can create your own arena and play in it with other people. And like the actual games, the environment could be trying to kill you as well as other players.

Additionally I think Soulsborne mechanics would work really well in both combat and terrain traversal. Maybe a hybrid of game mechanics like Jedi Fallen Order does, combining Souls mechanics with Uncharted mechanics, with the climbing and wall running.

These are just some thoughts I had recently, I'd love to know what you all think!

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So this one girl in my school just generally loves booktok and romance and she's the kindof person who will ignore the entire plot of a book and start talking abt the romance subplot of it. Nothig wrong w this ofc i love romance as much as the next person but im just saying the hunger games might not be for her but she was talking to me abt the new book she's reading, this not very popular book called the hunger games (i had to try not to laugh) i told her i love that book (understatement) and she went on to tell me how cute gale and katniss would be (she was in like the first two chapters lmao) and i had nothing against her so far i dont ship gale and katniss but i figured she'd change her mind or not i dont really care but then she proceeded to tell me how cute it was that katniss volunteered for prim. I needed to vent abt this bc it was not 'cute' it was TRAGIC. katniss was 16 going off to DIE for the one person in the world she truly loves which is prim. Idk what to she just was being really annoying abt this lol. I want to see what she'l say when >!gale blows up katniss's sister.!<

EDIT: ok her opinion to the books doesnt affect me that much. at the end of the day i couldn't care less about her opinion on the books