We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

Gale by *Agatha-Macpie

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:32:22 -0400

Gale by *Agatha-Macpie

Katniss by *Agatha-Macpie

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:31:20 -0400

Katniss by *Agatha-Macpie

tuimitchams: gale/ enjolras (for kanyejolras) rebellion sits...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:23:24 -0400

tuimitchams:

gale/ enjolras (for kanyejolras)

rebellion sits well
on you; like a red coat
or the gilt gold burnish of youth

some crossover shipping for you all!

Odeya Rush is my perfect katniss. Plus she’s the right...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:37:12 -0400

Odeya Rush is my perfect katniss. Plus she’s the right age.

Submitted by chocolatebuttons (havefaithinme13@yahoo.com)

Thanks for the suggestion! She’s not how I picture Katniss, but I can see how she could fit someone’s headcanon.

I’m a mixed WoC, so I think the discussion about the ethnicity of the Seam has always been...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:35:25 -0400

I’m a mixed WoC, so I think the discussion about the ethnicity of the Seam has always been extremely interesting. Now I couldn’t totally bring myself to be as pissed about this as I was with the Last Airbender for reasons that I’d need a whole term paper to discuss (I don’t have a tumblr), but the affects that this racist exclusion had on the Hunger Games should always be discussed, until the end of freaking time, because so many of the “fans” are superficial, bigoted assholes who need a hearty fuck-you.

I wish I’d known about this contest earlier because I’d have people on Tumblr & devianArt spamming the crap out of it with drawings of brown!Katniss. >:-D Trolling these people one picture at a time.

https://www.facebook.com/TheHungerGamesMovie/posts/700534036629917

Submitted by email. Thanks for the link!

kanyejolras: raptorific: Also, I still occasionally see posts that are like “The Hunger Games...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:32:28 -0400

kanyejolras:

raptorific:

Also, I still occasionally see posts that are like “The Hunger Games fandom makes Gale out to be a monster but then acts like Cato is a-okay”

Don’t get me wrong, they’re both terrible human beings who willingly both attempted and succeeded in committing murder

Except Cato was manipulated, lied to, coerced, and brainwashed from birth into committing his crimes

Whereas Gale’s crimes were all committed of his own free will and under no outside duress

Like, I get where his anger comes from, and his emotions are totally valid and justified, but the way he acted on those emotions in a situation where he was not being manipulated and was free to react as he chose can only be described as “monsterly.”

It’s incredibly difficult for me to address Gale hate posts made in such a vein because I usually go into a boiling rage over them. But I’m going to address this anyway because it’s fucking disgusting and deserves to be called out.

First of all, who the fuck compares Gale to Cato and comes out deciding that Cato is the morally superior one in this situation? Cato had immense privilege in comparison to Gale. Cato grew up in a Career district and benefited from both white and class privilege. He was doubtlessly a victim of manipulation as a minor coerced into the Hunger Games, but he has tremendous privilege over Gale, a man of color from one of the poorest districts in Panem.

And then there’s this bullshit statement

Whereas Gale’s crimes were all committed of his own free will and under no outside duress

Oh, I’m sorry. Is the bombing of your home and district not outside duress? Is the premature death of your father in a system that kills and oppresses the men of the Seam not outside duress? Is starving and living in crippling poverty not outside duress? Is having to support your siblings and entire family as a minor not outside duress? Is suffering racism and constant dehumanization at the hands of the merchants not outside duress? Is acting on the belief that you never want to go through that ever fucking again not outside duress? because I sure as fuck think it is.

And I think that Gale’s position as a revolutionary of color coming from an impoverished background is more relevant to the oppression narrative than any shit Cato’s dealt with, particularly when Cato is an individual of privilege whose weaponization was designed to victimize underprivileged participants of the Games and uphold their function. Gale, meanwhile? Gale’s the polar opposite, a man of color from a poor district taking agency into his hands and liberating his people.

Thing is, THG fandom is scared of Gale. Collins herself was scared of Gale and that’s why he received the bullshit treatment and explicit vilification in the narrative. Why are they scared of Gale? Why are you scared of Gale? It’s because he’s an angry man of color. He’s a revolutionary who claims agency and doesn’t balk at making the decision of bombing the Nut, a weapons syndicate that bombed his home and is capable of bombing other anti-Capitol districts, whose destruction will prove essential to the war that liberates him. Did you ever think of that? That this isn’t Gale indulging his petty revenge, but actively contributing to his liberation? Making decisions that ensure never again?

He’s an angry man of color who fights against the Capitol. Indeed, he fights against the Capitol. I’m sorry (not sorry), he doesn’t engage in nonviolent dissent. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi aren’t the only freedom fighters out there whose method of protest is valid. Violent protest in a state suffering from colonization or dictatorship is entirely valid. Frantz Fanon, David Walker, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Iqbal were all theorists of color who advocated violence for self-liberation. Are they fucking monsters for wanting to be free? Are they monsters for wanting colonized, enslaved and/or oppressed peoples to attain agency and freedom through violence?

What’s sad is that this isn’t applicable only to individual scholars. Let’s consider your bullshit in regards to larger organizations and rebellions. Were the sepoys in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 monsters for killing their white oppressors? Are people of the Syrian opposition in favor of violence monsters? Are Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser and participants of the Stono Rebellion monsters for leading a slave rebellion and slaughtering whites?

The conclusion I’ve reached? You as a white man are threatened by Gale, an angry man of color willing to dismantle oppressive government via violence.

As a woman of color from a postcolonial nation who has been to Pakistan many times while it was under dictatorship, I’m frankly sickened by your assessment of Gale and the people who unconditionally support it. Your privilege throughout your posts is not only apparent, but blatant. It’s apparent that you’ve never had to live under dictatorship and thus aren’t familiar with the necessities demanded in claiming freedom. I say all this without even touching on the blatant dehumanization of terming a man of color a monster, thus insinuating that he is subhuman for being who he is.

Tanaya Beatty as Katniss

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:27:33 -0400

Tanaya Beatty as Katniss

Katniss Everdeen by *DanArcane

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:38:46 -0400

Katniss Everdeen by *DanArcane

Photo

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:52:38 -0400

I don’t know if you guys have already posted something...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:18:01 -0400

I don’t know if you guys have already posted something like this, but here’s something I made. :P

Submitted by ezra-loves-you

a list of women of color who have been suggested as fancasts for Katniss.

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:02:00 -0400

Actresses:

Hafsia Herzi
Summer Bishil
Q’Orianka Kilcher
Tanaya Beatty
Shay Mitchell
Paulina Gaitán
Malese Jow
Amrita Acharia
Raquel Castro
Amber Rose Revah
Naomi Scott
Seychelle Gabrielle
Odeya Rush
Golshifteh Farahani

People who (as far as I know) do not act:

Adrianne Ho
Jhené Aiko
Ashika Pratt
Grace Mahary
Mariana Santana
Kelly Gale
Shanina Shaik

Tanaya Beatty as Katniss Everdeen

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:45:00 -0400

Tanaya Beatty as Katniss Everdeen

Badass Brunette Book Heroines by *may12324 Bitterblue, Elspeth,...

Sun, 26 May 2013 21:15:00 -0400

Badass Brunette Book Heroines by *may12324

Bitterblue, Elspeth, Katniss, Rose, Katsa and Isabelle

"Effie literally represents everything Haymitch has been drinking away for twenty-four years. I don’t..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:50:31 -0400

“Effie literally represents everything Haymitch has been drinking away for twenty-four years. I don’t understand Tumblr.”

- Tumblr user misterandry dropping truth bombs about Hayffie. (via formerlybarbreyryswells)

Do you find this distracting? by ~WataDrag

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:48:55 -0400

Do you find this distracting? by ~WataDrag

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:34:39 -0400

The face of the revolution by *walkingnorth

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:12:15 -0400

The face of the revolution by *walkingnorth

Katniss Everdeen (by ~red—ro-se)

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:41:00 -0400

Katniss Everdeen (by ~red—ro-se)

'Hunger Games': 9 Actresses Who Were Almost Katniss

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:35:00 -0400

'Hunger Games': 9 Actresses Who Were Almost Katniss:

Submitted by alicebourque:

I can’t help but notice that none of these actresses have black hair.

Yeah seriously. Hailee’s hair is the closest to black, obviously not in the included picture in the article where her hair is dyed but in some pictures her hair looks really dark: http://fashiongonerogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FASHION-March-Feature-Hailee-Steinfeld-1.jpg

Also, unsurprisingly given the white-only casting call, most of the people who had a chance to possibly be Katniss were white. All are light-skinned.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 19:59:09 -0400

phanhelpers:

Crackship Gifs for Oona Chaplin and Jesse Williams
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