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Man, reading 70,000 words of extremely true-to-canon Hunger Games fic takes it out of you. Out of me, at least. I may be hitting some sort of upper limit on grim despair. There are about 75,000 words left for me in this series, and it's really good and I'm loving it, but...dang.

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Link? I am fresh out of grim despair in most fandoms right now, and jonesing.

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It's a series of pre- and alongside-canon stories about Finnick (and then also Cinna), and it is full of all the terrible things you would expect. And it's so good. Unfortunately it's not actually filed as a series on AO3 so here are five links:

Achilles' Heel
Scylla and Charybdis
Wisely, I Say, I Am A Bachelor -- this one has a posting date before "Scylla and Charybdis" but it's a different POV and takes place after that story. I think. The whole thing is kind of a blur of trauma and present tense to me now.
A View From the Lists

Piecework is by a different author, and entirely about Cinna, but based on the same fictional universe. Also it's wonderful, and a nice ending to this series which otherwise leaves off at the end of the first book. So, not a cliffhanger per se, but it feels like one.