u/inside_a_mind

I've just finished writing the argument and subsequent kiss scene that's been floating around mind since coming up with the rough draft of my fic.

It's a plotty fic so it's long about 250k words are already posted, but especially the latter half is dominated by the most horrid cycle of getting close and pulling away again and just ungodly pining for 50k words.

Hell I've probably cracked the 300k mark at this point, and I was so invested in finally getting to that point that I didn't sleep at all and spent the time writing instead.

And even now, for me, as the one who's actually writing this, it's been soo fucking rewarding to finally have them properly make out.

I literally wriggled my legs, and went "Oh my god" after writing "and then he kissed him" like I hadn't fucking known before.

It was such a glorious feeling to finally *finally* close that deal. Like I feel like I sloughed through this slowburn and suffered with it, and I've been writing nothing but pining lately which dragged and dragged — and it needed to for plot reasons — but now I'm thinking about posting all my chapters at once until up to that moment to spare my readers the suffering.

I'm just happy right now. It was so much fun. And now I get to write the smut as a payoff, I guess.

**TLDR:**

Some 250k words and endless chapters of slowburn and pining, I finally got to write about my idiots kissing with everything out in the open and I couldn't be more elated.

Hey just generally asking for recs of Hungergames fics, mainly m/m.

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I'm a sucker for everything Haymitch but everything is fine. Doesn't have to be Haymitch centric. Can be Oc's, SI's, Canon characters, WIPs or complete works.

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I just want to know your favs or good reads that come to mind :)

Literally my current issue. I've been writing a longfic and my MC has been spiraling and had such a bad time of it these last couple of chapters, I literally have to reread my own chapters in the beginning to have a handle of how I wrote them in the beginning to be able to get them back on track.

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I have no idea how my characterization holds up now some 230k words into the fic.

I've been wondering lately how restricted life in the Districts is in terms of jobs and whatnot.

Like are people in District 12 allowed to farm?

It seems to me that on a grander self-sustaining scale this is not something the Capitol would allow since that would lead to some more independence where it comes to relying on the Capitol.

Then again at the beginning of the second book it's mentioned that there's a Harvest Festival.

We know Katniss hunts beyond the fence and that people forage. The mines seem to be the only real employer there given that nearly every (male) adult goes to work in the mines some women included. For example Ripper, the one-amed woman who sells the moonshine on the Hob is said to have lost her arms in a mining accident. I presume there's some coal processing done manually as well or so and we know that overall the merchants do have different jobs, aka the Mellarks being bakers, Katniss' mother having been from an Apothecary family.

I would assume that means there are shoemakers, maybe butchers and a grocer or so. But are there farmers? And where would they fall in the grand scheme?

There is a distinct class division in District 12 between Merchants and ppl from the Seam and that seems to be something that would be deliberately allowed by the Capitol given that division among the people would lead to more inter-district tensions and distract somewhat from united 'hate' against their overlords.

But if, say someone tried to build a self-sustaining farm or so, do you think that'd be tolerated? Or are they simply taxed super heavily?

In career Districts children/teens are said to train and I wonder if the 'stronger' indoctrination allows for more variety when it comes to jobs. I would also assume they'd live comparatively more luxuriously/wealthy than other districts with less laborious jobs. Thus there has to be more Capitol loyalty to foster the kind of dynamic that would be preferable to the Capitol to foster amicable relationships.

The farming/grain Districts like 11, I'd assume would be heavily monitored. Basically similar to slave labour or a medieval feudal dynamics where they take over the role of serfs. Working the fields that 'belong' to the Capitol and getting granted only minimal cuts of the annual harvest.

What are your thoughts on that?