Molly Mon, October 5, 2015 ;)
According to Digital Spy, the Mockingjay Part 2 premiere at London's Odeon Leicester Square on November 5th is set to be attended by the film's stars Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Sam Claflin, Natalie Dormer, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.
Director Francis Lawrence and producers Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik will also be in attendance.
Molly Fri, October 2, 2015 ;)
A new batch of Mockingjay Part 2 stills popped up online today thanks to an online European giveaway from Kellogs Krave. Our follower Jay Clayton kindly sent them to us after winning the digital versions in the giveaway. Thanks, Jay!
It looks like Peeta is in the room of what we've been guessing is the victor's vote like the previously released stills of Coin, Beetee and behind the scenes picture of Woody Harrelson.
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Effie so sad.
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Molly Thu, October 1, 2015 New interview! Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson & Liam Hemsworth confirm and contradict some rumors about what happened behind the scenes of The Hunger Games movies with Fandango's Dave Karger.
Molly Fri, September 25, 2015 Katniss and Peeta in Mockingjay were the subject of a question on episode 10 of the Syfy show Geeks Who Drink. **SPOILERS** DO NOT WATCH if you haven't read the book! But we had to share because it's EVERLARK, people! And we're talking about shipping this week. Could not be more perfect.
Molly Fri, September 25, 2015 ;)
The Hunger Games is on Dubsmash! Select your favorite Hunger Games sounds & share yours with #THGDubsmash across social media for the chance to win a Mockingjay Part 2 poster!
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UK tributes, there's something special for you. This is the chance you've been waiting for... Head to Dubsmash to record your Hunger Games dub and share it with The Hunger Games UK in the comment box of this post to WIN tickets to the Mockingjay Part 2 premiere, as well as some other incredible prizes! May the odds be ever in your favour. Be sure to read the T&Cs: The contest is open to UK residents 15 and older.
Molly Wed, September 23, 2015 ;)
“Those are huge numbers,” said Joshua Lynn, president of Piedmont Media Research. “Every demographic is showing up for this.”
Variety noted that the people surveyed were selected to be demographically representative of the movie-going public in terms of age, gender, ticket-buying behavior and ethnicity. Piedmont also tries to quantify the impact that a film’s cast has on audiences. It polls people to find out if their interest rises or falls when a particular concept is matched to an actor and filmmaking team.
We'll see if those 3000 people were truly representative of the population come November!
Molly Wed, September 23, 2015 ;)
The toys are coming!! It's like Christmas today in The Hunger Games fandom. TheDollGenie posted a great sneak peek of the Mockingjay Part 2 Katniss and Peeta Barbies today. The Katniss doll is now IN STOCK at DollGenie.com.
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Our follower @TechnaDeschanel shared a photo of a new President Snow Funko Pop doll with us , matching a listing of Hunger Games Pops we got earlier (Below). The toy store Kokomo Toys says they'll be selling President Snow in their ebay store starting on Monday, Sept 28th.
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Image via Funko Pop HuntersIt looks like we'll be getting an Effie, a Peeta, and 4 different Katniss pops as well. Word is there may be an exclusive Katniss pop released at New York Comic Con October 8-11. Funko has released wave 1 and 2 of their NYCC exclusives as of today, with new waves releasing daily so stay tuned!
Special thanks to Funko Pop Hunters, @TechnaDeschanel and DollGenie.com.
Molly Wed, September 23, 2015 ;)
Guest Post by Amy (aka MuttPeeta on Tumblr)
It’s normally considered pretty pedestrian to begin an essay with a dictionary definition, but in the world of fandom, the word shipping has gotten quite a boost in credibility thanks to its recent induction into reputable sources like the Oxford English Dictionary. (Which, incidentally, now defines ship as to “support or have a particular interest in a romantic pairing between two characters in a fictional series”—sorry, couldn’t resist.)
Of course, shipping these days isn’t limited to fictional characters, and it also encompasses relationships between two people that aren’t even canon (for the uninitiated, canon is what’s deemed official according to the original source material.) And there’s probably no more prevalent exploration of ships than in fanfiction.
Fanfiction and shipping go hand-in-hand. It’s kind of impossible to talk about one without the other. While fanfiction is a sort of homage to a work–a book or TV show or movie–and a way to explore that fictional universes you’ve fallen in love with, it’s also a way to delve into the fictional relationships you cherish from that fandom. More often than not, you’re writing about your OTP, or One True Pair, which is, simply put, the ship to end all ships.
I will go down with this ship
In Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series, there’s no more important ship than Everlark (or, if you’re a heathen, Peeniss), which denotes the pairing of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. (Sorry, Galeniss shippers.) The majority of fics, and a good chunk of fanart, center on Everlark. They’re endgame, as our blessed queen Suzanne Collins has decreed in Mockingjay.
As an Everlark shipper and peddler of Everlark fics, I’m probably a wee bit biased, but I can’t think of a more perfect ship than these two. Suzanne Collins wrote two wonderfully complex characters who complement each other beautifully, in their convictions and beliefs, in their humor and compassion, and in their vulnerabilities and flaws.
Galeniss, or Everthorne, (Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne) is a less popular ship, but it’s the second most talked about ship of the series’ love triangle, at least if you buy into what the media is selling. Then there’s Odesta (Finnick Odair and Annie Cresta), Hayffie (Haymitch Abernathy and Effie Trinket), Hayhanna (Johanna Mason and Haymitch), Jonnick (Johanna and Finnick)–and I think anything beyond that is slipping into the territory of crack ships, or a pairing that is highly unlikely to occur–no insult intended to these other shippers, of course.
All’s fair in love and war
Fandom is generally a fun, welcoming space for fans, but you can always count on a level of discord between the ship factions. It’s inevitable. In The Hunger Games fandom, it’s usually, always, the Everlark shippers and the Galeniss shippers waging war on each other.
What’s canon doesn’t necessarily have any bearing on who someone ships in a fandom, and likewise, it’s often irrelevant and ineffective in diffusing fandom tensions when shippers are defending their OTPs. And shippers can getheated when it comes to their OTPs. You’ll probably never find a more passionate discussion than when fans are defending their favorite characters and ships.
Fanfiction 101
Fanfiction has never been more widely accepted than it is today. The general population probably still regards fanfiction with a certain level of derision–as even some authors and creators of fandoms do–but many writers are now using their fanfics as launching pads for their own professional writing careers (as reviled as “Fifty Shades of Grey” is, I suppose we owe a begrudging tip of the hat to E.L. James for that one).
So, what goes into writing fanfiction, aside from our probably literal blood, sweat and tears? How do we categorize it? On a basic level, we divide fanfiction into canon and AU (alternate universe): fics that fall into the canon timeline, or fics that reject that timeline and set themselves in different universes entirely. These can be modern (a very popular favorite of fic writers), crossovers (where you take the characters of one fandom and set them in the universe of another work), and even canon-divergent (which walks the line between AU and canon, where your story takes place in canon but explores something that hasn’t actually happened).
There’s a world of AUs to explore, the sky’s the limit, really, but we’ll stop there before going too far down that rabbit hole. That doesn’t even touch on the plethora of fanfiction genres: angst, fluff (which are stories with light, cutesy situations or moments, sometimes without any real plot, usually between your ship of choice), dark (fics where the story or characters are “darker” or more evil than canon), slash (contains, often non-canonical, homosexual pairings) and, the holy grail of fics–if you ask me–smut, stories with graphic sex scenes. Regrettably, The Powers That Be often deny us fans sex between our OTPs, so turning to fanfiction to either read or write about your OTP doing it is often our only recourse.
Somewhere only we know
Honestly, I don’t think there’s a bigger cornerstone of fandom than fanfiction. Before social media, fanfiction forums like Fanfiction.net were the meeting places for fans of a series or work. It’s where you found common ground with other fans, who wanted to see more from their OTPs or who couldn’t let the universe and the characters go, who dreamed up headcanons (personal beliefs not necessarily stated in canon but in some way supported by the original work) and needed to share them with like-minded fans.
Fanfiction creates community, a place you can belong. Today, it continues to do that on places like tumblr, where we not only share stories, but fanart, fan edits and gifsets (images and gifs taken from movies or TV shows), and even our personal lives.
Fandom isn’t always enjoyable. The anonymity of the internet combined with the intensity of our passion for our favorite characters and ships, can create a rather inhospitable environment sometimes. (A lot of times, if you’ve been around long enough.)
But despite that, fanfiction brings an immeasurable enjoyment to readers and writers alike, inspires valuable works of art, bonds us together, and ties binds that, if we’re lucky, will endure long after our place in fandom has faded.
Be sure to visit Amy on tumblr where she goes by MuttPeeta and check out her incredible fan fic on A03 where she goes by atetheredmind.
Enter this week's giveaway for a Mockingjay graffiti hoodie and black mockingjay pin HERE.
Read "A Celebration of Everlark Fan Fiction" HERE.
