Could You Explain This One: "friendly Reminder Peeta Most Probably Suffered From Abuse From His Mother

Could you explain this one: "friendly reminder peeta most probably suffered from abuse from his mother throughout the majority of his childhood"? How?

Ohhh... Katniss is not a real superhero???? No, she is not.

Did people really forgot that Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are 17 years old???

17.

17.

17.

What were some of you doing at 17? Smoked pod? Went to dances… Lived the drama of high school?

This characters are NOT a reminder of what teenagers living in normal circunstances are; but what teenagers and kids living under the arms of war ARE.

People with paranoia, sickness, fear. People trying to survive the ultimate price of the powerful against the innocent.

Admirable people. Broken people.

People who struggle with an interrupted childhood… so much, that is a sin to try and hope happiness from them; people who mature so fast… faster than any of us, lucky bastards, who have never been in the middle of a tiny little fight.

We shouldn’t expect for them to be heroes or heroines.

But they are, in their not perfect… “superpowery” way. They need to be value as the bravest people in this world because, excuse me, but I don’t think I could be that strong. I, myself, have fainted at the sight of a little piece of blood.

So, people expecting to see superheroes in this movie… why don’t you better go and watch something marvel?

This movies and characters are not just fiction for teenagers *As some of you call them*

They are a reflection of the reality we are living in.

Innocent people being killed or tortured. Normal human beings living under awful cincunstances. Inexperienced people who react and give everything they can to survive.

Think about the children. Think about the future of this world. Not your idea that all heroes should be Superman. 

Let’s talk about Annie Cresta.

Honestly, we don’t know much about her.She is a minor character who Katniss knows mostly through Finnick. She grew up in District 4, so she was either a Career or had some form of combat training, otherwise there’s no way her District would let her into the Games. She saw her District partner die and it caused her to have a permanent emotional break down. She won the 70th Hunger Games by default (her kill count, if it exists, is unknown). She loved Finnick Odair. And she survives.

Because Katniss is an ableist character (look at the way she treats people with mental health and/or addiction problems, including her own mother), the word used to describe Annie in Catching Fire before we even learn her name is ‘hysterical’, which is personally one of my least favourite words. Later, Katniss bumps it up to “poor, mad girl” which is just as dismissive but ultimately more sympathetic.

There’s a trend of victimizing Annie’s character that I really fail to comprehend. Especially in such a way that Finnick becomes her emotional crutch, when it is canonically the other way around. Finnick virtually fails to function when the Capitol has Annie in Mockingjay. When she arrives in District 13, he can’t bring himself to let go of her hand. People seem to forget that Annie was with Peeta and Johanna. Because Katniss cares more for the latter two, we don’t know what kind of torture she received, just that it didn’t break her like it did to Johanna and Peeta (which is in no way a measure of “strength” between the three characters, just a fact). When Finnick dies, Annie handles it. I can’t even begin to imagine how fucking hard that would be, but she manages. When the Victors vote on a final Games, Annie has every reason to be in favour of throwing Capitol children into the Arena. But she votes against the slaughter, how bad ass is that? Haymitch recognizes her value in a way that Katniss doesn’t, saying that she’s one of the saner Victors, but her PTSD manifests itself in a more obvious way.

I’ve seen people exaggerate her symptoms to the point where she is unable to function without Finnick. Let me tell you, Annie is not there to make Finnick’s story even more heartbreaking. She’s her own person with her own story, and presumably it continues long after Finnick’s gone. Annie’s mental illness is part of her, but to think that it encompasses her whole being or makes her “weak” is an extremely problematic view. 

She’s a Victor not a victim. She’s a civilian trying to adapt in war time. She’s been to hell and back twice, and she emerged. She is so much more than Finnick’s poor, mad girl back home.

friendly reminder that if peeta hadn’t thrown katniss the bread, she and her family would have starved to death  

can we give it up for Suzanne Collins for fucking off into oblivion with her money after hunger games fucking destroyed the YA market for like 6 years. everything YA was dystopian “EVERYONES IN A DIFFERENT QUADRANT” shit from 2010 to 2016 and we didnt hear a peep from her. true fucking power.