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i saw a theory on tiktok that basically posited that because we already know what happens in haymitch's games from the original trilogy and one of the big themes of this book is propaganda we're either going to see that haymitch's games were actually completely different to what we think we know or the book will be a multi pov look at his games with some capitol citizen povs in it
either way i am SAT
“Oh my god we’re getting Haymitch’s games” “oh my god I can’t wait to see this from Haymitch’s pov”
Suzanne Collins doesn’t write unless she has something to say. With the current political climate, I can’t wait to hear what she has to say. It’s supposed to be about the power of propaganda and implicit submission? Consider me sat, oh my god this is going to be great.
Mecore ♡
Pretty much
IM GOING TO FUCKING KMSSSSSSSS
IM REWATCHING THE HUNGER GAMES MOCKINGJAY PART TWO AND FINNICKKKKKKK
FINNICK DESERVED TO LIVEEEEE OUTTA EVERYONE HE DESERED TO LIVEEEE. MY FUCKING SICK MY STOMACH HURTS SEDATED MEEEEEE
“you better not be drinking and getting pregnant behind my back”
ma’am, I read fanfics on tumblr to fall asleep
okay but here me out, FINNICK ODAIR WITH ONE OF THE GIRL INSPIRATION
an : i got this inspiration when i listened to the song and heard the hook part, and this plot just popped up in my head, so this is just smut and bad grammar. i know my grammar was bad. i'm gonna use the grammar corrector before posting this, but just so you know, english is not my first language.
we don't gotta be in love, no i don't gotta be the one, no i just wanna be one of your girls tonight
imagine, you, the daughter of a millionaire in a capitol, were invited to a party where, of course, Finnick was there since he's getting paid (or invited?) to be here, and of course he's a star, a shining star, stealing everyone's attention the first moment he steps in.
your eyes can't even leave his figure—his tall, muscular figure and you know damn well you want him, just like any girl does. i mean who wouldn't? but you also know that this is not love. it's a want, a desire. you just need him, his body, his service. it's clear that you did not want him as your lover or groom, to you, you only need him to be in your bed just tonight. a simple one-night stand thing.
so you did get what you wanted. his hand on your hips, his back against yours, while he whispers praise into your ear. "you're such a good girl" "you did it so well" "you feel so good" that goddamn thing you know he probably said that to others since it was to make his customer feel good and you did not care at all. it makes you feel good, and that's enough. you don't care who got to hear that from him too, this moment is just you and him.
his cock was inside you, making you feel like heaven, his thrust made you see stars. now you understand why he gets called 'Capitol Sweetheart' because he really knows how to make his customers satisfied.
you moan—the loudest moan that ever made it way out of your throat—no one has ever made you feel as good as Finnick did. just from the way he gave you an oral in the beginning, it was enough to make you know this night would be replaying in your head for a long time.
his hand found its way to your clit, making you feel like you were going to explode in any minute. his hot breath against your skin and how he said "cum for me, darling" were just so perfect. his thrust fastened as if he knew you're so close to climax, and he's right, just having his hard cock inside you was almost enough to make you cum right there, and Finnick knew that too, but of course, since it was his service, he's continued fucking you even though he knows you won't last long.
and when this night ended, he let you hold him until the sunrise (another customer service for sure), and when you did say goodbye to him, he just walked out with that fucking smirk on his face. getting to know your secret was probably his favorite way to get paid from his customer, after all.
( another an : i feel so guilty writing this, but i hope you can understand what i'm trying to write lol. my first smut in english and it's already so fucked up lmao )
It feels so dystopian — that the Met Gala is happening right now and a genocide. 
Someone get Taylor Swift’s music away from marauders, harry potter, hunger games, marvel, percy jackson, star wars and more away from editors rn!!
We talk so much about why finnick, Johanna, Katniss, mags, beete , wiress, were in the 75th arena, but cashmere and gloss were there for punishment too. I mean it's never stated that they volunteered and they even make statements about their discontent of being there, therefore I do not think neither of them volunteered. I think gloss is there to punish cashmere, a last goodbye from snow to her. Cashmere and gloss come from a career District, so the pool of victors was probably not small, so it would be a very insane coincidence that both siblings were ripped. And if we think about it in every possible scenario one of them would have to see the other die or at least know about the other's death and grieve it (this is if they didn't need to kill each other). And to me this was a punishment from snow, because either she knew to much and had to be dealt with or she refused snow of something and as punishment he sent her and her brother there to hunt her with the fact that would of them would have to die in other for the other to survive, and it wasn't even guaranteed that the surviving sibling being her or gloss would win because of the other tributes.
There is a possibility that Annie volunteered for her games. I saw someone talk about this on tik tok and I thought it was interesting. Annie is from 4, a career District, so there is the possibility of her training her entire life, her volunteering, her going into the games, and her idea of glory quickly shattering once she saw her district colleague be horribly death. she went mad because that's a very traumatic thing to witness, but one thing that might have played into her madness was having this idea of glory being stripped away revealing the reality of the games. After seeing the games in such a romanticised way her entire life, just to realise how ruthless they actually are, destroying her perception of reality. (Since she would have trained her entire life for the games)
Finnick s character is so sad, I saw someone talking about and they where so right, because finnick won his games by having lots and lots of sponsorships right? But sponsors know what happen to tributes after the games, so finnick only won his games because enough people wanted to prostitute him at 14. And now I add this, sponsors where very difficult to come that year for other tributes, so we can either assume that no one was sponsoring other tributes or that sponsorships where very expensive that year, if it was the latest, sponsors wanted to prostitute finnick so bad at the age of 14 they gave him one of the most if not the most expensive "gift" in hunger games history (plus plenty of other things) in a year that the price of sponsorships was all time high. The amount of money and desperation this people where putting on this 14 year old just because in the future they knew what was going to happen to him.
I feel like we are losing the plot to katniss everdeen, I understand the state the word is in right now and that the people want someone to look up to, and katniss everdeen is a good character for that. But we can't forget that katniss everdeen never wanted to fight she wanted to survive and make sure the people that she loved survived with her. That's why she volunteered for prim, that's why she became the mockingjay, to make sure that peeta was safe in case the rebels found him, that they wouldn't kill him, that's why she did what she did with the nigthlock, not because she wanted to defy the capitol, but because she wanted to survive, and to make sure peeta survived with her. There is even a point in mocking jay where people are discussing what actions katniss made that touched them and made them like her. And none of those actions where made with the principle of defying the capitol or make people see her as a martyr of revolution, it was just katniss being herself and caring for others, it was just katniss showing raw emotions, like when she covered rue with flowers, she did that of course to show that rue wasn't just an other tribute she was a person that was cared for, loved, that didn't deserve the fate she got, to show that rue wasn't just an ally that she would quickly move on from, but a person she would truly remember forever, that rue wasn't just a tribute for the entertainment of the capitol but a real person. Yes in that case she did defy the capitol but not because she wanted to be a revolutionary but because she wanted to pay tribute to someone she cared for. When she drugged peeta to try and save him knowing fully well she might not come back, but that the wish of him surviving was big enough for her to do it. Katniss everdeen never wanted to be the simbol of revolution, she wanted to survive and to make sure the people she loved survived with her, and we know this for the very first page when she tried to drown buttercup, only stopping because of Prim, Katniss wants to survive, and she doesn't want her loved ones to suffer. Of course she is more layered then this but I think people keep forgetting this aspect of her pretty often.
RELEASING FANFIC!! Hello! I'm doing a Hunger Games fic. It is being written in my native language, Brazilian Portuguese. But I will post it on AO3 so it can be translated by Google for you! It will be available on Wattpad and AO3
Maze’s Victory outfit from Chapter 16 of Unto the Labyrinth!!! Commissioned from @maitaitiu ❤️
Unto the Labyrinth: Chapter 16 (Victory: Part 2) is now up!
“So, Maze,” Caesar began once everyone was situated, “How does it feel, being back in the Capitol and knowing you’re the Victor of the 57th Hunger Games?”
“I…” Maze began. Everyone was silent, clinging on to her every word. “It…it doesn’t quite feel real. Like a dream.”
It was the truth. Nothing quite felt real anymore.
“You’re living the dreams of many people, Miss Donahue,” Caesar replied. “I hope you realize that.”
“It’s more of a nightmare, really.”
https://archiveofourown.org/works/56468086/chapters/166874686
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC, Beetee Latier & Wiress
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”
Unto the Labyrinth: Chapter 15 is posted!!!
The world in front of her was so blurry that she couldn't see Beetee's facial expression. “I'm sorry, Maze.”
“I can't do it.” Her voice broke. “I don't want to—I can't—be the Victor!”
There. She said it. The V word, in reference to herself.
Beetee's words softened even more. “I'm so sorry.”
https://archiveofourown.org/works/56468086/chapters/166324528
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC, Beetee Latier & Wiress
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”
NOTE: Read the author’s note at the beginning of this chapter!!! I’ll post it on here as well
Tales From The Labyrinth [Tributember 2024]
https://archiveofourown.org/works/60251710/chapters/153753643
Introducing Tales From the Labyrinth — a series of one-shots involving characters from my other fic Unto the Labyrinth! I did these last November and didn’t get around to posting them here until now <3 I hope you enjoy!
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Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Teen and up
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Charactee Death
Relationships: Original Character(s) & Original Character(s), Haymitch Abernathy & Original Character(s)
Summary: “Side POVs and story tidbits from the world of "Unto the Labyrinth" and the 57th Hunger Games, up through Chapter 11. Previous reading encouraged but not required.
[Tributember 2024, credit goes to @sunnyjustice for the prompts!]”
Numbers Tag Game
rules: give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words (feel free to interpret however you would like; if not on AO3, can be on Tumblr or FFNET!).
Tagged by @rivalhughs !!!
Most hits: The Town of Anywhere, with 3493 hits!!! I’m surprised it has that many, honestly. I always thought of it as kind of a niche thing but ig people read it? (Also, I swear I haven’t abandoned it!!! The next chapter is in the works and I’ll get around to it eventually)
Second most kudos: A Burning Question, with 184 kudos! My Encanto/Disney Hercules crack crossover one-shot that I wrote in one sitting while heavily caffeinated one night.
Third most comments: Ties of Blood and Water, with 57 comments! My offering to the Hetalia fandom that I’m also surprised got as much attention as it did (also my personal favorite to reread……ngl I kinda cooked with this one)
Fourth most bookmarks: Falling, with 27 bookmarks! Another one of my one-shots, this time a ship one with AE-3803/U-1146 from Cells At Work! I’ve noticed that this fic got a resurgence in popularity recently, possibly because of the Cells At Work fandom becoming active again? (Speaking of, I really hope the live action movie comes to the U.S. eventually bc I wanna watch it so bad)
Fifth most words: Tales from the Labyrinth, with 19,336 words! A one-shot collection based in the world of my other fic Unto the Labyrinth — and a world thats canon status has been absolutely decimated by the release of Sunrise On The Reaping! Yay for me! /s
Least words: Midnight Snack, with only 228 words! A little Legend of Korra one-shot fic I wrote for a challenge.
I tag @toxic-luck, @elephant-in-the-pride-parade, @chibidashie, and @yumiribbon, as well as whoever else wants to do this!
NEVER MIND I MANAGED TO WORK THE NEW LORE INTO UNTO THE LABYRINTH
WE ARE SAVED
So, upon reading Sunrise on the Reaping, I’d like to congratulate Unto the Labyrinth for officially now being canon-divergent and an AU.
I’m a little pissed that SotR messed up UtL’s story trajectory so bad, especially with Beetee, but whatever.
I’ll release an official statement when I post the next chapter of Unto the Labyrinth
So, upon reading Sunrise on the Reaping, I’d like to congratulate Unto the Labyrinth for officially now being canon-divergent and an AU.
I’m a little pissed that SotR messed up UtL’s story trajectory so bad, especially with Beetee, but whatever.
I’ll release an official statement when I post the next chapter of Unto the Labyrinth
⚡️Unto the labryinth from the WIP Game
Here, you get a brief excerpt of next chapter!
As they turned a corner, another familiar voice rang out.
“Here she is! Our shining star herself!”
Philomena stood at the end of the corridor, a giddy grin on her face, next to Harmonia, Troy, and the members of Maze’s prep team. Philomena was unchanged, donning her usual skintight bodysuit and pink pigtails, as was Harmonia.
Philomena rushed forward and engulfed Maze in a hug. “Maze! Oh, I can’t believe it! Victor of the 57th Hunger Games!” It might have been the lighting, but Maze swore she saw tears in Philomena’s made-up eyes. “Congratulations, dear.”
I am doing these for the month of November featuring side POVs from Unto the Labyrinth! I’ll post them when they’re up!
Tributember 2024
Tributember for Hunger Games! (2024 prompt list)
Tag: #tributember or #tributember 2024
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Tributember2024
Underneath the "read more" is the plain text version of it.
Plain Text Version
Title: Tributember Prompts
Instructions: If you choose to participate, write something tribute related based on the day's prompt. Actually posting what you wrote is optional.
Prompt List (30 total, with bonus number 31):
Onstage
Don't look back
Hesitation
Truce
Impossible battle
Shaking hands
Treacherous
In another time
Mentor
Forgiveness
Behind you
Warmth
Consequences
Alone
Too much to bear
Run
Can't sleep
Defiance
Anywhere but here
A rare kindness
By any means necessary
Exhaustion
Don't you dare
Thinking of home
Uneasy
A distant cannon
Regret
Worth protecting
Cornered animal
Fatal flaw
(Bonus) Hope
Quiz: Which “Unto the Labyrinth” Character Are You?
I created a fun little personality quiz based on the characters from my fic Unto the Labyrinth!
No need to have read it to take it! Let me know who you all get :)
Unto the Labyrinth: Chapter 7
Soon, the plate beneath Maze’s feet began rising, taking her with it. The tunnel plunged Maze into darkness, and she gulped, nausea clenching her stomach.
This was it.
Thirty seconds later — which felt like an eternity to Maze; the launch room must have been deep underground— she emerged into bright light. She blinked a few times, before taking in the sight of the arena before her.
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”
Unto the Labyrinth Chapter 6 is up!
Anxiety overtook Maze. She thumbed her ring, fingers trembling.
She was up.
Finally, the applause for the District 2 boy began dying down, and someone wearing all black at the side of the stage motioned to Maze, indicating she was next.
She sat up straight and prepared to stand up, moving her thumb over her ring one last time. Her heart pounded in her chest.
“And now, for someone who we’ve been curious about since her Reaping, and even more curious about since the tribute parade,” Caesar announced. “The one and only, Maze Donahue, from District 3!”
Maze took a deep breath, stood up, and walked out onto the stage to thunderous applause.
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”
Unto the Labyrinth Chapter 5 is now up!
Beetee’s hollow, despaired eyes at his final interview would not leave her mind. The eyes of a man — no, a boy — who had just witnessed an entire week full of horrors. The eyes of a boy who knew that out of the twenty-four sent into the arena, he was the sole survivor. The eyes of a boy who had to live with the fact that he had murdered six other teenagers.
Now, across the table, a calm, collected man sat and ate his dinner. There was no trace of the despair he once had anywhere on him.
Maze wondered just how Beetee had learned to live with it all. How he managed to compartmentalize his negative emotions and memories from the Games. Or if he hadn’t and just learned to mask it well.
She wanted to know what made him tick.
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won’t ever be alone again.”
Unto the Labyrinth Chapter 4 is now up!
Her head was still in her hands when she stepped out of the elevator, causing her to nearly run into Beetee. He had been waiting for her at the elevator.
“How did it go?”
“I followed the plan,” Maze replied, not even trying to mask the despair in her voice. “But then I messed it all up.”
“Oh? What happened?”
Maze bit her lip. “I gave the dummy a stupid voice.”
Beetee raised an eyebrow.
“You gave the dummy a…stupid voice?” He couldn’t hide the astonishment in his own voice.
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won't ever be alone again.”
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Here, have a snippet from Unto the Labyrinth, my Hunger Games OC fic
The cameras cut to Maze posing and acting cute, as well as some of the crowd’s reactions to her. They seemed enthralled by Maze’s actions.
Caesar chortled. “Ho ho, the crowd is just eating Miss Donahue up! And she’s eating them up, it seems. Adorable! I cannot believe this is the same girl who was yelling and cursing at her Reaping. She did a complete one-eighty!”
“I don’t know, Caesar,” Melia replied, clicking her tongue. “She’s posing and acting like you’d expect from someone from a Career district. District 3 tributes are not nearly prestigious enough to show off like that. Like, come on, you’re District 3. They’ve only had like what, four Victors in fifty-seven years? It’s cringeworthy, in my opinion. This girl obviously thinks she’s much hotter shit than she actually is, excuse my language.”
Maze, biting into a giant fried animal leg, let out an indignant noise.
That bitch!
Troy laughed. “Ha! Told you so!”
Caesar looked taken aback. He gave his co-host a side-eyed glance. “Well, that’s certainly an opinion.”
The two commentators moved on as District 4’s chariot appeared on-screen.
“I never liked Melia Ferrero,” Philomena commented, cutting up her meat with her knife and fork. “She always has something negative to say about everybody and everything. People like her are absolutely exhausting.”
She glanced pointedly at Troy as she said that. He didn’t seem to notice, jovially continuing to scarf down his food.
Happy birthday to Maze Donahue from Unto the Labyrinth!
Unto the Labyrinth: Chapter 3 is up!
Fandom: The Hunger Games - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: OC & OC, Beetee Latier & OC
Summary: “Maze Donahue always thought she would be lonely forever. No one wanted to be friends with a troublesome orphan with a penchant for pranks. But when the unthinkable happens and she is Reaped for the 57th Hunger Games, she is shocked to find people taking an interest in her for the first time ever - the Capitol, her mentor Beetee, and even other tributes. She must deal with the impermanence of this social support, including the deaths of her allies, and try to survive the horrors of the Hunger Games and all that comes afterwards.
But no matter what, she won't ever be alone again.”