fanmix: atomic (thg; katniss/johanna)

The last movie left me shipping Katniss/Johanna with such a mad intensity that I am frankly appalled I never realized the shipping potential while reading the books. For some reason all of their similarities had not occurred to me, maybe because their reactions to those similarities is so deliciously antagonistic. I think that's really what did it for me tbh – that their first instinct is to claw and fight and dislike each other intensely, because god forbid either of them have actual feelings or make allowances for anyone. There is a gorgeous line in a jada_jasmine fic that goes: "Seven is full of forests too. Johanna thinks Katniss forgets that." AND IT PUT EVERYTHING INTO SUCH PERSPECTIVE FOR ME. Seven is full of forests too! Katniss and Johanna come from the same stock in many ways, both sort of naturally brittle and tough women who don't want to let people in, though it manifests in such totally different personalities. Johanna is sly and manipulative and exhibitionistic and viscerally angry whereas Katniss is much more self-contained, swallowing all of her emotions instead of spitting them furiously at people like Johanna does. Which is why neither of them can deal with each other, and also why they can ultimately understand each other. And why they should make out.







01. dance or die.janelle monáe.
keep on running for your life cause only one will survive
war is in the street and it's an eye for an eye
run on for your life or you can dance you can die

telling lies and telling lies will put your face on fire
run and tell your friends to never dream, never win


02. credit in the straight world. hole.
you take away my time, my peace, my empathy
no babies sleep on atrophy


03. black tongue. yeah yeah yeahs.
let's do this like a prison break, I wanna see you squeal and shake



07. amazon. m.i.a.
it's all this for revolution

can I call home
please can I go home


08. television.natalia kills.
the silence, the violence
we don't need to be forgiven
your business, go mind it
cause this ain't fucking jerry springer
we say our lines, we do the time
we're just like on the television

where I'm from it all goes wrong
it's not like on the television
the darkest days don't fade away
can't turn it off like television
they laugh and they wave
behind the glass they're there to stay
but our script, it don't fit
you know the bad guy always pays


09. sink. iwan rheon.
you are, you are, you are on my side
in the war, in the war, in the war in your mind
and you try and you try and you try to be free
that's something, that's something, that's something to be