The Hunger Games Sometimes Falls Into Stereotypical Portrayals Of Appalachia (especially In The Movies),

The Hunger Games sometimes falls into stereotypical portrayals of Appalachia (especially in the movies), yet the characters never do. The characters are brilliant, tactful, and compassionate at every turn. They are underestimated just like the rest of us from Appalachia. I love that they never let others ideas of who they are and where they come from stop them. I love that the series points out how District 12’s people and land have been used and abused for the gain and purpose of other people with 12 seeing almost none of the benefits. One of the best representations of Appalachia I have seen in modern media. Just because our Appalachia doesn’t look exactly like theirs doesn’t mean that what we deal with here in the mountains is any different.

I love the hunger games series but one thing I adore is how Suzanne Collins so perfectly captures the classist views folks have when it comes to Appalachia. District 12 is seen as poor, uneducated, and rough. The capitol and even the other districts look down on them. But every time the characters absolutely prove them all wrong. They’re brilliant, they’re tactful, they have a rich culture that others see as backwards. In tbosas, we get a better look at the culture and it warmed my heart. This series is so brilliant for so many reasons, but it hits close to home for me.

"it isn't how it should be. eat or be eaten. power and glory and nothing else matters. ares is that way. zeus is that way. my mother is that way. he isn't that way. he's better than that. maybe i was that way once but i don't want to be that way anymore. i won't be like all of you. i just won't."

you are supposed to find coriolanus attractive, they want you to sympathise with him, they want you to root for him and then remember who he is, they want you to be confused and shocked when he does something you did not expect him to do because "is he really that bad?", you are supposed to have twisted feelings about him, the whole point is that you struggle with how you easily you are affected with his charisma and his looks and that you question yourself about WHY you feel so twisted about him. suzanne collins is smart as hell for not making it obvious that he is bad. for not giving you the usual villian origin story where the kind guy gets evil because something happened to him, without physically changing him to look a certain evil way, you are supposed to follow his story and remind yourself who he is. they want you to not really understand why he "turned evil". because there are coriolanus snows in our world. at our work place, in politics, everywhere. They might not (all) kill kids in a brutal battle, but they do things you can consider evil. they all had normal lifes and chances to be a good person but chose to be bad. coriolanus hunger games are his hunger for power.

“You are Poseidon’s son.”

“I am Sally Jackson’s son!”

YEAH YOU TELL EM PERCY FUCK A DEADBEAT DAD

Right right but like what spell do you use to keep them out??? I’ve just never seen anyone write about that detail and I was curious if anyone had a solution :)

IMPORTANT HARRY POTTER QUESTION!!!

For all of us that have read HP fics of whatever era we have inevitably come across a common room party.

My question is how do the older kids keep the younger ones out of the parties??? Like what if one comes in late from the library? Ok sure you send that kiddo up to bed but what about the others up in their rooms? How do you keep them from coming down and partaking in something beyond their age range????

If anyone has any thoughts or ideas please let me know I can’t think of anything logical …