Polyamorous Fic Rec

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Sometimes love is so big and exciting that it needs more than one person to exist… welcome to the "Polyamorous Fic Rec". Two series and one fic about this unusual and obscure theme in The Hunger Games fandom.

Unalaska Series – Lbug84, (Mrs. Creative Smut)

Summary: A look at Katniss, Peeta, Gale & Finnick's life in Unalaska. AU, polyandry, mature, lemons, the whole 9.

Warnings: Rated M.

Why is this fic a creature from the night?

The main reason for that doesn't involve the fact that Katniss is the matriarch of a three husbands family. What makes this story something new and fresh is the Inuit/Eskimo/Native Alaskan culture where the it takes place.

Why is it good?

It's also be a history class! I personally love Lug84's style, and she works with plot twists beautifully.

Writing stuff comments:

With short chapters and a flowing plot, the author leads you to a different, intriguing story where at the end of each chapter you just need to read the next!

Heartbreaking line:

"I'm yours."

"Yes. You're mine."

The Glühwein Series – MockingJayFlyingFree (tumblr) and Lbug84, (Mrs. Creative Smut)

Summary: Peeta thinks his wife, Katniss, is too pure to have any dirty sexual fantasies. It turns out he's wrong. Very wrong. When the opportunity arises, will they make her fantasies come true?

Warnings: Rated NC-17.

Why is this fic a creature from the night?

I need to be honest: I squealed when I saw this update on tumblr. Seriously: MockingJayFlyingFree and Lbug84 writing a foursome fic? I NEEDED to read this.

Oh right, the obscure part is the FOURSOME one. But it's also the AWESOME part.

Why is it good?

Whoa, hello? Peeta, Finnick, Annie and Katniss? This should be: why is it AWESOME?

Writing stuff comments:

A long story, but every little word is worth it! They explore each relationship separately and combine them together in a polyamorous relationship that works perfectly in their AU world.

Katniss is the main character, and you go paragraph by paragraph exploring this new idea, concept, love. Not just you, reader, is convinced by this, but you feel like the author was convincing herself that four people in a bed would work.

It did, by the way.

First Person POV, a journey into Katniss' pure (yes, I used this word) mind and insecurities, with a story flow that makes you forget how many words this story has.

Considering the enormous success of the story, those lovely ladies wrote a sequel, "Absinthe". It's a WIP and you should also check it out!

Heartbreaking line:

I'm Katniss with no label.

And that's okay. Liberating, even.

"Does It Hurt You At Night, Or Does It Keep You Alive?" – ygrainette (tumblr)

 

Summary: She doesn’t think Katniss will ever really understand the effect she has. Not on Peeta, not on Johanna, not on the whole goddamn country.                      

Warnings: Rated M, PTSD, abuse, violence.

Why is this fic a creature from the night?

Another polyamorous fic, but this one has a strong focus on Johanna/Katniss, so we enter the colorful path of slash fics.

Why is it good?

The author shows Johanna's POV in part of Mockingjay and Catching Fire. Johanna is very well developed and has original touches, such as her background in District Seven.

Writing stuff comments:

3^rd Person POV. Johanna is the main character and we see what is going on in her mind through her ironic, sad and hopeful eyes. A short one-shot that makes the readers wonder what would happen if Katniss and Peeta had too much love between them that another person was necessary in their relationship.

Heartbreaking line:

Katniss grins as wide as Johanna's ever seen her. There are crinkles at the corners of her eyes and the ghost of a dimple in her left cheek. It might even be genuine.

Don't spread the hate! If this theme doesn't interest you, feel free to ignore this post! I'll be posting different themes, mostly the ones ignored by the fandom… 

Suggestions? I'm on tumblr: ask me!

Femmeslash Fics

That's right, folks! Femmeslash Fics. There's a great bunch of sapphic fics featuring women characters from the Hunger Games falling in love or getting some sexin' in this fandom; some of them in particular are beautiful one-shots. Read on for some lesbian (or bisexual, or pansexual, but hey, most of these fics avoid identifications...) luuuuurve.


Burning Kisses by Tamoline
Summary: You were predisposed to hate her before you ever met. But this is the closest to a kiss you're ever going to get.

'Katniss and Madge' by Nani-Mi @ dA

Ship: Katniss/Johanna
In A Word: Angsty

Like A Sound Caught In My Throat by Little Miss Mionie
Summary: Love and hurt and anger and everything not told. Three not-so-common scenes in Hunger Games fanfiction.
Ship: Katniss/Madge
In A Word: Quick

Sweet Surrender by Fembuck/Janine
Summary: Sometimes one can find comfort and companionship in the strangest of places with the most unlikely of people.
Ship: Katniss/Johanna
In A Word: Best

the beautiful wreckage by pluto-charon/joyfraser
Summary: Johanna only tries to kill herself once.
Ship: Johanna/Annie
In A Word: Lyrical

Stay to the End by Solanaceae
Summary: Clove/Glimmer in a hallucinatory sort of way.
Ship: Clove/Glimmer
In A Word: Psychedelic

Behind Closed Doors by fembuck/Janine
Summary: Johanna and Katniss have some energy to burn after a day of training.
Ship: Katniss/Johanna
In A Word: Dirty

An Anniversary to Remember by glintwarsgreatest
Summary: It's their anniversary, and they like to give each other gifts that will benefit them both. Katniss wants a woman and Peeta wants to watch.
Ships: Katniss/Madge (and Katniss/Madge/Peeta)
In A Word: Hot

For more recs, check out Youcantseeus' awesome slash and femmeslash rec list! Fembuck aka "Janine", whose fics I've rec'd a couple of times here, is also the fandom's most prolific writer of lesbian relationships, so be sure to check out all her fics.

Happy reading,
Little Miss Mionie

September Author of the Month: Miss Scarlet 05

Hey everyone! This is cindella204 with September's Author of the Month. I'm sorry it's late, the odds have not been in my favor lately with school. Anyway, the author of the month is...

...Miss Scarlet 05! *cheers* She's actually gotten a decent amount of attention from us because both Grow Together and Pants have been reviewed on this site (See them here and here). I want to focus on some of her other work though.

Firstly, Kissing Lessons With Finnick. If you haven't read my other AotM posts, I love Finnick. He's so...cheeky, for lack of better words, in this story and it's amazing. It's an alternate take on Katniss' Tour stop in D4, technically A/U I guess since it says in Catching Fire that she had never met Finnick.

"Putting on a show?" he whispers in my ear. "Why would you ever do a thing like that? A ruthless victor like you...Couldn't you have anyone you wanted?" 

He knows very well that I will forever be one half of the star-crossed lovers from District 12 and Snow's threat weighs heavily on me. If Finnick's not convinced, I've failed. My face falls in defeat. It takes me a second to recover the death stare I've been giving this Casanova. 

"Don't worry, kitten. Finnick will help you out." He puts his hands on each side of my head by some magic maneuver my stylists' headache-inducing creation falls out like it was held in place with a sleek ribbon instead of 100 bobby pins. 

He puts his forehead on mine and fluffs my hair over our faces. "Now, people think we're kissing." I almost smile at the trick until he pokes my nose. Is Finnick Odair mentoring me? 

Although Finnick's a bit OOC; he's obnoxious, but not as bad as she has him later in this story, I don't mean that as an insult. It's a tad crack-y in a hilarious, amazing way that make this one of my favorite stories. Also Katniss' weird mix of confusion, panic, disgust, and a little bit of gratitude is really well done.

"One for the road?" he begs. 

I bite at him. 

"Please," he coos. "I do so love a biter." 

"I'll be sure to let Enobaria know," I push at him to get out. 

He turns back toward me and sticks his bottom lip out, staring at me with intent sea green eyes. Finnick Odair is pouting. I'm not sure anyone's ever resisted him before. This makes me practically giddy as I move my mouth towards his, stopping millimeter away and putting my hand over his lips. "I don't think so," I simper. He picks this second to lick my hand with all the moisture in his mouth. 

Disgusted I pull away. I should have never given Finnick that much of a reaction. My penance is a large wet tongue curled sloppily up my cheek. 

If I had my bow, he'd be a dead man. But all I have is a bobby pin so I pitch that at him as hard as I can. He catches it easily, puts it in his mouth like a toothpick. He then playfully pops me with a rubber band. "Wait a few minutes and then come out," Finnick instructs me as he eases out the door.

There's one of the more obnoxious parts. Anyway, the dialogue she creates between them?
Effortless and awesome.

Now to another one, Christmas Behind Closed Doors. First of all, I kind of like the concept of Katniss and Peeta trying to get their alone time each year on Christmas Eve. It seems like a very...normal thing for a couple to do, which is nice for a Post-Mockingjay fic. 

That scowl used to intimidate me, but now I'm not sure it's possible to love it any more than I do. Katniss hums quietly to herself as she watches our oldest daughter dot frosting scruff on his Haymitch's gingerbread chin. Just the sound of her humming makes my heart flutter the same way it did the first time. Two children and over two decades later and I still can't believe that all of this is real. I am such a lucky man. 

Her figure is still as trim as ever and when her braid slips off her shoulder, I catch sight of her ever so subtly scarred neck—one of my favorite spots to kiss. 

Does she know how much I need her? How lost I'd be without her? How much I can't wait to get her alone like I do every Christmas Eve? 

When the children are suitably distracted by all the sugar, she slips out without a sound. I wait a few minutes and go to leave.

Also, her portrayal of their family is really sweet.

She watches as the children decorate holiday cookies. Occasionally she twitches her mouth, offers a hand, but for the most part she lets them decorate pink haired and purple-lipped gingerbread people without a word. 

There's more frosting in our boy's face than on the cookie, but his smile is so big even Katniss couldn't scowl. She just looks on with a bemused twinkle in her eye and winks at me when he isn't looking. 

He bites the leg off a gingerbread man and holds it up for all to see. "Look mama, I made dad!" 

She takes one look at the maimed, yellow-haired, blue-eyed creation and spits out her cocoa and shakes her head. 

"Not funny," I try my sternest voice, but end up laughing anyway. 

Katniss recovers and hands the boy a piece of red and white striped candy. "A cane," she suggests. 

He attaches the candy cane to the cookie. "Like Uncle Haymitch?" he asks.
Katniss nods and gives him a reassuring pat on the shoulder. 

"Ooh, I'm going to make Uncle Haymitch," the girl announces. She immediately picks up a frosting bag and sets to work. She scrunches up her mouth in intense concentration. Her scowl looks like a mini version of her mother's.

Yeah, it's sweet :) This story's a fun little piece like Kissing Lessons With Finnick, but it's extremely well written. Pants and Grow Together are also phenomenal but those have already reviewed here, see the link above.

Again, I apologize that this is late, and please go check out Miss Scarlet 05's work here.

Quick Rec: Pants by Miss Scarlett 05 (Johanna/Gale/Katniss)

Ahh, I still lol at this picture.

Good morning fellow tributes! After watching whitneyleemilam's new Hunger Games parody (featuring guys from Winterspringpro and A Very Potter musical!!), I felt the need to post a humorous recommendation - a break from all the ansgt that comes with THG fics.

Title: Pants

Author: Miss Scarlett 05

Ships: Gale/Johanna, Gale/Katniss, Katniss/Johanna. It was just easier to type it shorter in the post title :)

Summary: Johanna scares the pants off Gale—but that seems to be what she's going for, given the pull on his waistband. Gale, Katniss, Johanna and a missing pair of pants. General trashiness, some stupid humor and LOTS of DIRTY thoughts. A/U

Review: Miss Scarlett 05 is one of my fave authors in the fandom (and friends!), but I have to admit that I was totally blown away that she could write a humorous plot, and great dialogue full of one-liners, given that her hugely popular Grow Together is such a heartfail fest. Miss Scarlet 05's employment of sharp, straightforward or 'simple' sentences as they're called really help communicate Gale's frustrated tone through this one-shot.I really enjoyed Gale's characterisation - gasp! He thinks like a teenage boy! - and Katniss' portrayal is surprising spot-on. Johanna has to be the highlight for me, though; with lines like, "I don't think I've had a coal miner before,", her character really builds sexual tension in this story. What's not to love about sexual frustrated!Gale, sexually naive!Katniss and screw me!Johanna? Pants is a great one-shot that's both funny and pleasurable to read.

Excerpt:

"Katniss?" he strains, not quite knowing how to handle his longtime best friend's roommate. It's not so much an invitation for a third as a plea for intervention.

Is the roommate always this friendly? She's a victor. Maybe she's about to kill him and eat him. There hasn't been much meat in the District lately. Could be a mineral deficiency. No, his media-friendly mug is too important to the rebellion for Plutarch to ever allow that to happen.

He silently pleads to the cross girl. She stands with arms folded defiantly over her chest. Her chest.His eyes linger there for a few seconds. He's always liked that area.

He wonders if she's going to do something.

"Should I leave you two alone?" He remembers to look up at her face when she says this. She appears both uncomfortable and annoyed at the same time. "I could go visit my mother."

"Oh, I think you should stay," Johanna says in a tone that makes the hair on the back of Gale's muscular neck stand up.

Johanna pins him to the wall. "You're going to be a good boy. Aren't you?"

When you're between a terrifying temptress and a wall, what choice do you have? Gale closes his eyes. Hopefully he'll figure out what to do when he reopens them.

Happy reading!

~ Little Miss Mionie

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Marginally Okay by Fembuck (Katniss/Johanna)

This week I thought I’d put the spotlight on a sexuality that is only just beginning to emerge in The Hunger Games fanfiction: lesbian pairings – or to use the fanfic term – femmeslash. There isn’t a lot around at the moment, but that’s understandable for a lot of reasons, including that the fandom is still growing and that people are still pretty much canon shippers. But that’s kind of good, in a way, because the majority of femmeslash that I’ve found has been actually really decent stuff!

It is my pleasure to recommend fembuck (aka, Janine)’s wonderfully sweet and realistic “Marginally Okay”.

Summary: If Johanna won't take a bath, Katniss will have to make her.


The summary sounds a little, well, dirty and PWP…but let me tell you that Marginally Okay is far from the sort. I picked this one because it genuinely shows femmeslash through the transformation of friends to something more. I think what you’ll realise by know that, with me, I enjoy it when certain canon aspects are employed in fanfiction and that everyone isn’t OOC. Marginally Okay portrays Katniss and Johanna in a number of scenes that could have feasibly happened in Mockingjay. Fembuck draws on canon elements to make her simple plot realistic; I believe that this fic being in first person, past tense from Katniss’s point of view also adds a sense of believability of the story world. (I’d like to also add that if you type in Katniss/Johanna, or femmeslash, in conjunction with Hunger Games fanfic, Fembuck’s stories come up straight away.)

Marginally Okay is a one-shot built of a simple yet touching premise that from start to finish is executed brilliantly. The pairing is implied, and more frienship-py than some of Fembuck’s other blatantly femmeslash works, but this one really stole my heart.

What drew me to Fembuck’s fic especially was the pairing: Katniss/Johanna. There is so much tension between Katniss and Johanna in the series that the romantic and sexual undertones are very natural to read. I feel as though the way these undertones are presented are also age appropriate; like, Katniss isn’t suddenly a sexy, sex-driven woman, but a girl, “pure”, as our favourite baker likes to put it. Johanna and Katniss’ romance is very believable.

I can't say how long we lay stiffly beside each other, but Johanna finally bit the bullet and moved to drape her arm over my waist. I resisted the overly familiar touch at first, but it felt good to feel another human body beside mine and eventually I couldn't deny the comfort the warmth of her body offered me. I sighed deeply, but my body relaxed and when it did she pulled me against her. A moment later, in a voice far gentler than I had ever heard from her before, she whispered, "Go to sleep," and despite myself and the reservations about our cozy new arrangement, that's exactly I did.

I love that the setting was to do with water: it prompts such lovely descriptions, imagery, and intertwines nicely with Johanna's fear in Mockingjay. Fembuck does a wonderful job of entrenching Katniss’ personality into the narration of Marginally Okay, as well as moving past the tropes of a typical romantic fic. There’s a great paragraph towards the end that really stands out to me because although she shuns the romantic conventions of silencing communicating with a paramour, she still conveys the deep, heady feelings between the two girls. Using juxtaposing language, Fembuck uses evocatively contrasting imagery to show Katniss’ observations about Johanna: she’s not waxing poetical, but admiring some one like here. This is shown in the following scene with word choice like “her skin was rosy” opposing to “strong, unruffled and abrasive.”

When her skin was rosy and pristine once more and her feet were creating dainty puddles on the stone floor, her hand released mine and the flow of words stopped as she took the regulation towel clasped in my hand from me and began to dry herself off. Out of the water, she was herself again, strong, unruffled and abrasive, and in this state I left her to her own devices and crossed the hall to our room.

She never said thank you when she returned to the room. We didn't stare into each other's eyes meaningfully, communicating without words. We simply settled onto our mattresses. Sometimes we talked about what we had learned in training until the lights were turned off, other times we just sat in silence, but once the dark came we always lay down on our beds and hoped to make it through the hours that followed without being woken by nightmares.

To conclude, Marginally Okay is femmeslash at its best: romantic, real, with undeniable tension between the protagonists. You won’t be disappointed.


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Little Miss Mionie's Recs: Rare Pairings!!

Hai guyz. Sooo....I was thinking, "What type of rec should I post before I go back to university and get swamped by school work and socialising for the next two weeks or so? What type of rec will be memorable?"

And then it clicked.

Rare pairings! Yes, LMM, that's a great idea! I thought it would be a fun idea since I'm such a canon-whore. So, I googled a bunch of pairings (ships) that I thought were pretty out-of-the-blue, blatantly wishful thinking, a little creepy, or pretty much unheard of. Here's a few of the great fanfics I found....

(Please note that the content of some of these fics is mature.)

To The Victor, The Spoil by annakovsky

Pairing: Katniss/Haymitch

No berries, no mockingjay, no rebellion. Katniss killed Peeta in the arena, and now she has to live with herself like every other victor.

Obsession by Princess Alyra

Pairing: Cinna/Peeta

He still loves her, but he loves Cinna more. And that isn't going to change.

Sweet Surrender by Janine

Pairing: Katniss/Johanna

Sometimes one can find comfort and companionship in the strangest of places with the most unlikely of people.

snow white by koalakoala

Pairing: Prim/Peeta

AU. "You look like her, you know," he says dismissively. She sighs, because she wishes she did. For the Starvation forum's monthly oneshot challenge, home.

Have fun sailing these unusual (yet awesome) ships!!

PS. I would like to finally list the ships I tried to find, but unfortunately couldn't: 

President Snow/Katniss, Effie/Peeta, Mrs. Everdeen/Haymitch. 

Get writing, fanfiction aficionados! 

~ Little Miss Mionie