thechelstard:

C O A L   I N T O   P E A R L S // an effie trinket fanmix

a mix for growing up in decadence; for living in palaces made of rhinestones, for wearing diamonds since your birth. a mix for clutching pearls in your teeth and hiding your tears in satin; for uncovering the blood-caked streets they buried in gold, for playing bubbly-dumb to keep from screaming. a mix for falling, falling, falling for someone broken; someone made of coal dust and whiskey breath, someone who knows the same horrors you know. a mix for breaking a mask of makeup and glitter; for chipping away porcelain to find stone. a mix for empty eyes and sleepless nights filled with smoke and tracker jacker venom. a mix for a woman who was never on fire but stood close enough to feel the flames.

(in chronological order from hunger games to catching fire to mockingjay. includes not-so-subtle hints of haymitch/effie and copious amounts of marina diamandis.)

i. PRIMADONNA | MARINA & THE DIAMONDS

beauty queen on a silver screen/living life like i’m in a dream/i know i’ve got a big ego/i really don’t know why it’s such a big deal, though

ii. FASHIONISTA | JIMMY JAMES

fashion is the art, designers are the gods/models play the part of angels in the dark/which one of you would ever dare to go against/that beauty is a trade and everyone is paid

iii. THE FAME | LADY GAGA

all we care about is/runway models, cadillacs, and liquor bottles/give me something i wanna be/retro glamour, hollywood yes we live for the fame

iv. JE VEUX TE VOIR | YELLE

superstar d’un soir ta vie redevient normale après/pas besoin de lunettes noires pour te cacher personne te reconnait (superstar for a night, your life’ll return to normal/no need for sunglasses to hide yourself)

v. BEAUTIFUL, DIRTY, RICH | LADY GAGA

we do the dance right, we have got it made/ like ice cream topped with honey/but we got no money/daddy i’m so sorry, i’m so sorry yeah/ we just like to party, like to party yeah

vi. THIS IS WHAT MAKES US GIRLS | LANA DEL REY

this is what makes us girls/we all look for heaven and we put our love first/somethin’ that we’d die for, it’s our curse/don’t cry about it, don’t cry about it

vii. ARE YOU SATISFIED? | MARINA & THE DIAMONDS

high achiever don’t you see/baby, nothing comes for free/they say i’m a control freak/driven by a greed to succeed/nobody can stop me

viii. SUMMERTIME SADNESS | LANA DEL REY

i got my red dress on tonight/dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight/done my hair up real big beauty queen style/high heels off, i’m feeling alive

ix. DO NOT PUSH (MAYBE GOTYE) | POMPLAMOOSE

but you didn’t have to cut me off/make out like it never happened and that we were nothing/and i don’t even need your love/but you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough

x. LIES | MARINA & THE DIAMONDS

you only ever touch me in the dark/only if we’re drinking can you see my spark/and only in the evening could you give yourself to me/’cause the night is your woman, and she’ll set you free

xi. DON’T CRY OUT | SHINY TOY GUNS

ten nine eight and i’m breaking away/i’m all dressed up and i’m ready to play/seven six five four and i’m all over you/counting three two one and i’m having fun

xii. MOUTHWASH | KATE NASH

this is my face/covered in freckles/with the occasional spot and some veins/this is my body/covered in skin/and not all of it you can see

xiii. GLITTER IN THE AIR | P!NK

have you ever fed a lover with just your hands?/closed your eyes and trusted, just trusted?/have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?/have you ever looked fear in the face and said, “i just don’t care”?

xiv. HOMETOWN GLORY | ADELE

i’ve been walking in the same way as i did/missing out the cracks in the pavement/and tutting my heel and strutting my feet/”is there anything I can do for you, dear? is there anyone i could call?”/”no and thank you, please, madam. i ain’t lost, just wandering

LISTEN @ 8TRACKS

“She got used to run away, to get afraid even when she wasn’t in the dark. She got used to feel the wind hitting her face. The air itself recognized that she was Katniss Everdeen.”

screencap meme

the hunger games + faceless

It starts at midnight.