I have full confidence that Asterid does begin to visit and mend things with Katniss in District 12 after a few years, that she does adore Peeta as a son-in-law (impossible not to), and that she does have a relationship with her grandchildren. The detail of her willing to cry with Katniss over the phone left that door wide open in my opinion, keeping them distant enough to heal separately but close enough to slowly rekindle things. If not this, the Everlark family definitely visits her, as there is no way Katniss’s travel ban lasted any longer than five years. Asterid is obviously far from the pinnacle of mothers, but she has also demonstrated that she has it in her to change for the better before.

The argument that “Gale didn't know the bombs would affect Prim” does NOT make his actions any better btw.

When one of my moots that I've labelled 'famous' in my head interacts with me

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I haven’t posted in a while, but this has to be said. It is totally true that Katniss Everdeen would hate using condoms with Peeta during the growing back together period. Maybe they tried it once, but true thg fans KNOW that she needs to be absolutely as close to him as possible. That’s all, goodnight folks.

Stop acting like Peeta isn't an integral part to The Hunger Games :(

i’m less irritated with there being lucy gray on the poster and more so with two snows and zero peeta. donald is wonderful but old snow was barely even in the books and even with the expansion on his movie character, he doesn’t need to be on the poster. especially not over peeta.

I'm going to reblog this again and be really fucking petty (not to anyone here, but to my own boyfriend lmao)

He has only seen the first four movies. He has not read any of the books. Therefore, his favourite character is Snow because he likes how he was portrayed by Donald Sutherland. Fine, whatever. I have no arguments there, I think he did a great job.

But why does my boyfriend's favourite character get to be on the poster twice when mine (he's tied with Katniss) isn't?! I am the one who showed him the movies. I am the one who was reading The Hunger Games before I even met him. Why does he get Snow twice and I can't even get Peeta once 😂

Stop acting like Peeta isn't an integral part to The Hunger Games :(

i’m less irritated with there being lucy gray on the poster and more so with two snows and zero peeta. donald is wonderful but old snow was barely even in the books and even with the expansion on his movie character, he doesn’t need to be on the poster. especially not over peeta.

(*looks at Lionsgate*) A reminder that Peeta Mellark is a pivotal character to the OG HG trilogy. If it weren't for him, there wouldn't be a story to tell because Katniss would not even live to see her 16th birthday. Not to mention the countless of other times he helped keep Katniss alive (Katniss definitely would not be alive at the end of the trilogy without him). He is not some "weak, love sick sidekick", he freaking overcame hijacking to be there for Katniss and some still pretend he did not matter to the story.

Clearing Up More Misconceptions Over the Nature of Peeta’s Hijacking.

A little over a month ago, I made a post listing each instance of Peeta regaining his real personality and pull towards goodness. In essence, how he came back to himself - contrary to popular, mindlessly regurgitated online talking points - both literally and symbolically. Now, I want to address the actual mechanics of the hijacking that many readers continue to misconstrue and use to lead them to the belief that the “Old Peeta” is dead.

The Capitol never actually took away Peeta’s memories. They inserted competing ones, and the tracker jacker venom temporarily pushed those to the forefront of his mind because of the fear they induced. So, Peeta essentially had two, originally lopsided recollections of the same events, not a total replacement of his memories. He would not even have been able to formulate his “real or not real” questions if the only thing he had was new, fabricated memories. And are people forgetting that he already got to a place where he didn’t need to ask “real or not real” before the war ended sometimes? Just two examples off the top of my head, when he tossed Katniss the can of lamb stew (her absolute favorite Capitol meal) or when he reminded Gale that Katniss’s family “mean more to her than her own life.” If that memory and central truth about Katniss can return - part of the meat of what Snow wanted to flush out of Peeta’s conscience - any memory could come back. And did come back. With time, as described by him in both the book and the film, he gradually learned how to sort them out based on the quality, and the real memories were unburied thanks to continued reinforcement through both extensive rehabilitation and his own accord. He can literally paint his real memories again at the end, damnit!

This is why I always seethe when I see comments like “Peeta learned to love Katniss again, but will never remember how much he loved her the first time.” Because A). He does remember, and B). He loves her more than ever at the end. Because he fought for it. I don’t know what the obsession is with trying to make the ending of already sad books sadder, but when it actively refutes the text and distorts an entire character arc - leaching out one of the only positive and satisfying elements of the ending - I am going to call it out every time.

Ugh, yes.

I am driven up the wall every time someone tries to say Peeta never loved Katniss the same again.

That is so false - how can he spend the rest of his life with her, have a family with her, and still not love her as much as before the hijacking?

I think people just want both Katniss and Peeta to be miserable for the rest of their lives.