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Bring Me a Love that can Sweeten the Sword by MaryMaryContrary
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
08 Feb 2024
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“And one more thing,” Dean Highbottom cuts through Coriolanus’s thoughts. “This year we will be implementing a new monitoring system that will ensure the mentors are able to more closely follow their tributes’ progress in the arena.” His gaze cuts sideways and Coriolanus feels a chill as it settles unerringly on him. “Something a little more personal.”
What? A nervous buzz travels through the students. What on earth could that mean?
“Dr. Gaul and I have…collaborated…on a neural networking device that will allow the mentors to be physically aware of their tribute’s wellbeing as you prepare them for the arena. And after.” Highbottom tips his head speculatively. “Tests indicate that this should only be minimally painful.”
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Coryo gets saddled with a psychic link to his tribute, proving once and for all that if you can't produce your own understanding of the inherent worth of other human beings, store bought is fine.
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15 Jul 2025
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Bring Me a Love that can Sweeten the Sword by ~MaryMaryContrary (Lucy Gray/Sejanus/Coriolanus, 50k, T)
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Enjoy The Show! by lautdalam
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
21 Feb 2025
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"I thought 12 doesn't have a mentor." Haymitch said, suspicion filling his tone.
He hated how her smile remained, if not a little strained. "Well it's a nice surprise, then, is it not?"
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13 Jul 2025
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Enjoy The Show! by ~lautdalam (Haymitch & Lucy Gray, WiP, 81k, M)
Last read: chapter 10.
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“You’re buying those jeans, right?”
Stede’s lips make a shy little almost-smile. “I’m… considering it. Do you think they look all right?”
Fuck it, Ed decides. Time to go for broke. “Look, mate, what I think is that anyone who sees you in those jeans is immediately gonna start wondering how fast they can get you out of ’em.”Bookmarked by castalyst
27 May 2025
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The Era of Tightness by ~dance_across (Edward/Stede, 7.8k, E)
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“You’ll be fine,” Steve says. He discreetly pats at his pockets. Feels the handle of the switchblade. Touches Dustin one last time, a palm across his brow. “Look after him.”
“Hey, I—I don’t like your tone, man,” Eddie says. “We’re looking after him, together. Together, all right? Fucking promise me, Harrington.”
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- Part 1 of if I say
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26 May 2025
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bled out without a trace (Steve/Eddie, 4.5k, T)
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The Rebel and The Performer (an echo of the past) by Sapphic_terror
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
05 Apr 2024
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Peeta is seven the first time he sees the Girl. He’s reeling from a backhand, blood filling his mouth and the sky is a darkening gray. For a moment he’s alone and the world is so empty. Then suddenly nothing is simple.
There’s a flash of color, a rainbow of faded cloth against the gray background. A girl, the Girl is watching him and when he meets her eyes she smiles. Maybe it’s the Universe or Fate, or maybe Peeta somehow knows how his own story will end, but he doesn’t turn away.
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Katniss is eight the first time she finds a Ghost. Her father is off digging through the earth, looking for her namesake, when a feeling of wrongness catches her off guard.
For a moment there’s nothing. Then she sees a boy, who has no place in the forest, standing by a tree, bruises around his neck, peeking out from beneath his collar.
(Or Katniss and Peeta can see ghosts, some things change for the better, some things don’t)
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- Part 5 of no one ever really wins
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13 Jul 2025
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The Rebel and The Performer (an echo of the past) by ~Sapphic_terror (Katniss/Peeta, Lucy Gray/Sejanus, WiP, 102k, M)
Last read: chapter 9.