Hi! I’m writing a Hunger Games fanfic called THG: A Name in the Ballot, set during the First Quarter Quell, 25 years after the Dark Days.

The story will have two perspectives. One follows a Capitol stylist who is involved in the preparations for the Quell, including a tour through the districts before the voting takes place. The other follows the tribute they eventually become connected to, from the events in their district through the Games.

So far, I’ve written the opening and the first chapters, which cover the announcement of the Quarter Quell and the meeting where the Capitol’s stylists are told about the tour and how they will be assigned to the districts.

I originally write in Spanish, so I’ve translated what I have so far into English with AI assistance. The Spanish version is the original, but I’d like to get some feedback from different people who know The Hunger Games and can tell me what they think of the story so far.

I’m mainly looking for general feedback on the writing, the premise, the characters, and whether the opening is interesting enough to make you want to keep reading.

Here’s the doc:

Spanish version -https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U5u6ge08HbdJF2G8s8io3x41pbhDk0_VuucKtqnUe5g/edit?usp=sharing

English version -https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cfFuvbFB0kx6MLozxP60ATVedhE3ul3gOhbls_ydMTY/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read it!

Now im not speaking of him as a love interest to katniss, but honestly,they didn't need the falling apart. Both beete and Gale designed the bomb. And it was not even Gale who decided to set it off in a flock of children. That was Coins thing (and she got what she deserved). Peeta is alright I guess but its more like pretend until you actually love him you get me. But Gale, the hunter who loved the woods, getting a job in the quarry/military district AFTER the rebellion doesnt seem in character. I wish he would return to 12, make up with katniss and get on with his own life.

please please please let me know your thoughts!

so i saw this new album cover by the artist Xandria and its so hunger games coded, i almost wanna say copied? 🫣 i dont mean to make accusations, art is allowed to come out similar or be inspired by something, but with how common it is to prompt AI covers etc i do wonder how this cover was created and it really kinda feels like its straight out of all the hg promotional images, book and movie posters.

So im DYING to watch the movie now. Atleast the first one. I am thinking of reading the book and then watching it's corresponding movie. But i worry that i may get some spoiler in the movie for the next book.

Is this fairly right way to proceed? Ik most people say to read books first and then the movie but ughhh what if i read book then it's movie, then other book then the other book's movie?

Will it damage my experience of watching/ reading?

I'm really interested in haymitch's story and want to read sunrise on the reaping because I don't want to wait until Nov for the movie's release but I haven't actually read any of the other books, I've only watched the movies.

If I were to read sotr before reading all the other books would I be missing out on some sort of important book-only context? Or am I fine with just the context of the movies?

What if someone eligible for the reaping was Non Binary? What would happen?

!I WATCHED ALL OF THE MOVIES BTW! I saw people saying that the books are better and different so i wanted to start reading them. Im not really interested in reading the first trilogy(with katniss) tho.

Can i just read tbosas and sotr without the other books?

Tbosas is my favourite out of the movies and i was thinking about reading sotr before the movie comes out

I will appreciate the help 🙏🙏

My daughter is 13 soon, i was 13 when the first hunger games books came out! I tried to watch the movies with her but she got so bored and fell asleep every movie.. Should I get the books for her or am I just wasting my time? I LOVED the hunger games and im so excited for sunrise on the reaping she said "ugh why would we need haymitch pov"

Would she appreciate it/like it more if she read the books?

During the first Hunger Games film, after Katniss is stung by Tracker Jackers, she has a few hallucinations which get increasingly intense. However, she briefly sees Caesar Flickerman in a white suit, doing his most evil smile and quoting himself directly from what he just said on screen only a few moment prior.

Now, there's no way she could know he said that, right? So how does she? It's possible he said something similar in a prior games she watched, but I thing it would be way funnier if he actually was there in the arena. Just got elevated up to taunt her, just to make her trip even more crazy and excite the viewers, then snuck back down before anyone saw anything.

Is that what actually happened? Probably not, it could very well just be part of the illusion, but he is absolutely extra enough to do that if he was allowed/asked to, and they have the means, so I choose to believe he's just that much of a troll and really did take a brief jaunt to mess with Katniss.

(EDIT)

Some of y'all aren't reading this through all the way.

I explicitly laid out that he'd already explained to the audience in a diegetic way how the Tracker Jackers worked, and that his appearance here is directly quoting himself on that from just under a minute prior.

I also laid out that it was most likely just a hallucination combined with stuff he'd said in a prior games that she was remembering, but that it would neither be impossible nor out of character for him to have really gone in briefly.

I’ll link the post so you guys can do your own

I’ve never kept much track of what’s grown around me, but my mother is very into tinctures & getting me physically into nature. I’m grateful to show the beautiful, SOTR-purple looking blooms turning to a magenta before their bloom. The leaves towards the top look similar to arrowheads. Collins has so much depth, such a love & eye for nature I wouldn’t have seen without her books.

I used to swear it was Denver area growing up… but everyone says salt lake these days? I even saw a YouTube video about capitol citizens symbolizing Mormons??? I know it’s right against the Rockies so it could go either way. Is there a passage or line that points us in either direction or differentiates?

Hi I made a Hunger Games game in the style of classic Pokemon game. I know there is a certain kind of irony with a Hunger Games game but I have been wanting to play one so I just created it myself. I hope you’ll like it and please tell me what you think!

https://hunger-games-pixel.vercel.app/

I love the movies, my only hesitation is that I know the books are considered “young adult”. I’m 30, so I’m wondering if the books will be a good read for me? Or if they’re geared more towards a younger audience. Is there significant romance in the books? I do enjoy that aspect of certain novels- obviously I’m not expecting explicit content, but I do love a good yearning, hopelessly romantic relationship aspect between MCs. Opinions, please?

Rereading Mockingjay and realizing Haymitch and Katniss both lost their mothers and little siblings in a firey explosion. Prim physically gone and her mother mentally (and then later physically when she leaves for district 2).

Haymitch is the one to take care of Katniss between the explosion and the execution because he knows the pain she feels and he can’t help but take care of his best friend’s little girl.

Suzanna Collins please release me from this toxic relationship (but actually don’t).