Those of you who know me know that I love the Hunger Games books and that my favorite characters are all the female tributes. (Yes, all of them. Yes, even her. Yes, I've heard that before, and I'd like to see your evidence that you or any male person would behave better-- whatever your definition of better might be--in her situation.) And you ( Read more... )

Y'all, the concerns expressed in this post summarize a lot of the reasons why I'm having mixed feelings about the casting issues for Catching Fire. When the people in charge of casting The Hunger Games decided to make Katniss white, they opened the floodgates for a lot more skeezy racial issues than just the most obvious one-- issues that they ( Read more... )

I have fan bracelets finished for Annie and Katniss. I started one for Rue, but my eyes decided they'd had enough for the day, so I'm planning to finish that one this coming week. That's the good news ( Read more... )

I got paid last weekend, so I splurged on beads. Today I made two bracelets, Clove and Hama. This is my first finished ATLA bracelet! I was looking for beads for a different character and I found these glass beads with a wavy pattern in aqua and just a tiny smudge of red like a drop of blood in each bead-- perfect! So if you should need a ( Read more... )

I watched the Hunger Games movie today. It was kind of a weird experience because the casting for all the leads was off (some of them were too white, all of them were too clean and polished, and some them didn't quite sell it), but all the side characters were absolutely perfect. I loved how they worked Clove's viciousness, Glimmer's flirtiness, ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everyone ( Read more... )