THG fic: "Spin Control" [24/24] (wheeeew!)

[trovia]

Title: Spin Control
Pairings: Finnick/Haymitch, Kat/Peeta
Characters: Finnick, Haymitch, Chaff, Peeta, Gale, Kat; plus appearances by Mags, Johanna, Caesar Flickerman, President Snow, Effie, Claudius Templesmith, Beetee, Prim, Thresh, Rue, District Twelve ensemble and various OC
Rating: adult
Warnings: forced prostitution & non-con; people dealing

Comments

[trovia]

I like Gale rather a lot. I like how smart he is, the way he has a capacity of how the Hunger Games are a part of a bigger scheme of oppression. And honestly, I think most people just dislike him because he gets in the way of Everlark. Also because of the bomb that killed Prim. But you can only blame him for that if you have a really reduced scope, methinks. That said, I like to think that the Games school in this universe has a therapeutic value for him. It gives him a sense of effectiveness and agenda. Once the school grows, he can quit the mines and get actually paid for doing it fulltime. I'm sure that'll give him a really good reputation in the district in the long run, so that he eventually gets a higher social status. It'd be good for him.

Definitely I agree that Gale, and a number of other people in Twelve, should have a mild form of complex PTSD. Sort of, a group variation of it. Thinking of the idea that communities can get traumatized as a whole just as much as individuals can be.

As I said yesterday, I'm going to check with M about that ficlet!

That's what interests me about writing sex to begin with -- the way your life and personality are reflected in the bedroom. I remember reading an essay on slash many, many years ago, when people were still talking about why people in fandom write sex. It proposed that original writing always ends at the bedroom; it doesn't let you, as a reader, follow the characters through the door, as if the sexual experience is a mystical thing completely removed from who you are. Slash (and fandom porn) on the other hand lets you take part in that experience. Slash specifically also allows you to explore how sexuality and personality are connected without having to take into account gender roles. That essay has always stayed with me because I think it's very true.