The Hunger Games Chapter 10

Testing the colour settings on my computer so things don't come out washed out and desaturated anymore.

It’s loving Peeta hours!!

You run a Bakery, just a normal bakery, the only problem is that your customers at midnight to 6AM are mythical creatures who pay with gemstones and ancient gold and silver coins

So was Suzanne Collins trying to be deliberately cruel by having Peeta say a lot of things during the Quell that could be contrasted with what hijacked Peeta says about Katniss.

i redrew my peeta mellark drawing back in 2020 where i headcanon that he paints his prosthetic leg :)

It strikes me how quickly and automatically Peeta tries to ice his wound after getting punched. To me, this is more evidence that getting hit is a regular occurrence for him and he habitually tries to hide the marks of his mother's abuse. It makes me wonder what his school life was like. Obviously his teachers and classmates must have noticed what was going on in his home, but clearly there's no kind of child protection services in Panem (other than Katniss's fear that they'll be taken to the community home if people find out they're starving to death).

Also, I'm just realizing that Peeta is constantly getting injured in the first book - the first time Katniss sees him he gets a black eye, then punched by Haymitch, then his hands are cut up, and then all of his many injuries in the Games. This poor boy!

"...the baker, Peeta Mellark's father...he knows Prim even better. When she sells her goat cheeses at the Hob, she puts two of them aside for him and he gives her a generous amount of bread in return. We always wait to trade with him when his witch of a wife isn't around because he's so much nicer."

A few things I noticed for the first time on this reread:

-Prim trades in the Hob?? For some reason I never imagined Prim herself frequenting the black market. Probably because of the way Katniss describes her as too soft for hunting in the woods. Just a little hint at the toughness we see in Prim in the next two books.

-This is one of two times in this chapter the baker is described as a generous trader. I think he is concerned about many hungry people in the Seam, and trading with them generously is the way he tries to help them. This is especially remarkable considering his own family can't afford to eat their own bread unless it's gone stale.

-Prim's goat cheese is mentioned later in the book by Peeta, when he talks about the goat cheese and apple tart they make in the bakery. Also interesting that it comes up after Katniss tells him the story of how she bought the goat - it shows just how interconnected their lives are in this small town, even though they never speak to one another.

Katniss and Peeta after meeting 2.0 seconds ago, being reaped to kill each other:

Side note: I think it’s the fact that Katniss hears Peeta laugh that eases her to make a joke. She literally just met this boy, and he can loosen her up. The effect HE has on her is something I can talk for dayss.

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It's interesting how the fandom and fanfics have such a consistently positive portrayal of Mr. Mellark

I think some of it comes from Katniss’s description of Mr. Mellark (and lack thereof). She doesn’t necessarily have anything bad to say about him and defends him to an extent:

There are a couple one liners from Into the Woods that get stuck in my head: Nice is different than good is one of them.

Nice is about appearance and Mr Mellark is the Nice Baker, not the Kindly Baker.

Kind is word Katniss reserves for Peeta (and Madge)

Hijacked Peeta has been on the mind lately so I have to inflict this on all of you

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i am a firm believer that the most significant difference between the 74th games and the ones before is the berry scene. it is the concept that two people would risk their own survival, their own life, in order to save the person they love.

because it is not like all of the children that came before katniss and peeta were coldhearted killers. they weren't. in fact, many of them actively memorialized their dead peers. they saw the other tributes as people. people that deserved respect and reverence in their pitiful funeral.

however, for all of the tributes, their survival came first. even reaper, who offered a proper funeral for his fellow tributes, was very clear about his intentions to kill the others. and yes, he was sorry about it. but at the end of the day. he would kill them (tbosas, 191).

but for katniss and peeta, they just... couldn't. they couldn't let the other person die in front of them. let alone, kill them.

because although katniss's memorial for rue was powerful, it was not new. but the fact that they would rather die than live in a world without the other? that was the radical thing.

Decided to do a redraw of Peeta showing Katniss his paintings in CF

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