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Fellas…

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Things I didn't know I needed to know

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Coriolanus Snow: “Oh my god I literally hate Sejanus so much. WHY does he think we’re friends? I barley tolerate him!”

Meanwhile, also Coriolanus Snow:

“Sejanus pls pls pls come to the hob with me.”

“Hey Sejanus want to spend your one day off with me and my girlfriends family?”

“Oh thank GOD you’re here Sejanus I’ve never been happier to see anyone in my entire life.”

“Sejanus if you don’t come out of this arena I am going to press my face SO close to yours I swear.”

“I’ll keep you safe, Sejanus, I promise.”

You’re not slick, Mr. Snow.

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oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

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snowjanus; coriolanus' perspective

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snowjanus dynamic in my head… just walk with me yall.

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is it gay to rest your forehead against a man's as you convince him to leave the child murder arena with you but also you kind of hate him?

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snowjanus; sejanus' perspective.

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There’s something about doomed romances that’s so special and dear to me. The ones that clearly won’t work, or are clearly set up for failure down the road. The one’s where even the depths of their love can’t save them, because the world has set them up to fall. There’s something about those ships in particular that I go absolutely feral for.

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what i truly need now from suzanne collins now is tbosas from sejanus’s pov (preferable if it started from back in childhood so we know what the hell sejanus was on when he started this diehard loyalty parade for coriolanus snow) and it just be the most heart wrenching one-sided pining we have ever seen on this planet earth. and then have it end with a brother-zone and a monumental betrayal

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put a finger down if you were forced to leave your home and move to a city where everyone hates you and all of your new classmates bully you except for one boy and he becomes your only friend and you slowly develop feelings for him and he risks his life to get you out of the arena and you join the military just to be with him and you think you may actually start a good life here and then he kills you

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Be into toxic yaoi shit about President Snow is something I never thought I will be into but here we are

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I hate when I say coryo did love sejaus, people reply with “well he was really mean to sejaus in his head” which, yes, yes he was, but he was genuinely mean to everyone in his head, but also, the only time he is kind to someone without immediately getting something back from it is sejaus. Prime example, in the book when sejaus is arguing with Gaul and she tells him to sit down, sejaus has no where to sit, and coryo says. “Hey I have an open seat” and immediately in his head he’s like “I don’t know why I did that”. There was nothing to gain from help sejaus in that moment but he did it. And that’s what makes coryos betrayal of sejanus so much worst.

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im going crazy with how people are starting to agree with snow that sejanus was really stupid and deserved what was coming to him. reading the books first should be a pre requisite to the movie idcccc if that takes away the wider audience, the wider audience all have smooth brains anyway.

“why was he colluding with rebels when he could’ve just thought about it pragmatically 🙄” i’m in your fucking walls. sejanus was never dumb, snow just kept pushing that perception of him through the book to deflect the fact that sejanus was an actual good person. snow thought himself the personification of good and benevolence, which was why everything he did had to have some half-assed excuse as to why he was justified in doing it. it was why he was actually tweaking in the woods when lucy gray left him, because he wanted to rid himself of her but he didn’t have an actual reason so he convinced himself of the most random scenario ever to justify trying to shoot at her. so we can establish that snow was an evil broke boy who clearly wasn’t good— then sejanus was a direct confrontation of snow’s own shortcomings towards that (i don’t think i have to detail how sejanus was genuine, it was obvious). coriolanus and sejanus are like the direct opposite characters of each other, and snow knew and took pride in this to an extent. which is why snow couldn’t admit that sejanus was good to himself, thus sejanus was deemed ‘stupid’ to protect his own deluded self actualisation (but this also includes other aspects like how the war made the plinths rich and the snows poor, leading to resentment and jealousy from snow).

“but that still didn’t mean he wasn’t doing dumb things throughout the book” was it really that dumb? a rebellion will always include some level of risk but i don’t hear anyone calling heavensbee stupid because it actually worked out for him. plus sejanus is district, so if we use our common sense of who he is as a character and emotional intelligence of his situation, it’s pretty easy to see why he would get in touch with rebels. he’s literally always yearned for the districts, he never once cared about his money or safety, which isn’t stupid, it’s sad. this was his way of dealing with the guilt of profiting from his people’s suffering— again, not stupid. you could argue he was reckless, especially when he went into the arena, but most people who simply cast him as a ‘dumb character’ ignore how troubled he is and fall into the very filtered lens of snow who was just concentrating on his stupidity.

sejanus’ growing radical actions had nothing to do with stupidity and everything to do with feeling helpless and like nothing was changing. he tried minor/low-risk things such as attempting to change the perception of the districts in the capitol, advocating against the hunger games etc etc. of course it didn’t work, so his options grew limited to more radical courses of action. its a natural line of thought— activists literally do it in real life when they feel as if their cause isn’t getting enough attention (eg. setting themselves on fire). sejanus is a desperate character who is so selfless in light of snow’s constant self-preservation. snow will always put himself first and be paranoid that he will be betrayed like he’s betrayed others, so he never understands sejanus’ disposition to help and trust people, so he labels him dumb. omg. like. sejanus is so not-stupid i’m actually gonna start freaking out!! this is defamatory leave my boo alone!! plz go read a book and work on media literacy i am begging!!!

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if i had an insanely loyal best friend who followed me to the worst part of the world and had big sad brown eyes and a guilt complex i simply would not betray him. rip to coriolanus snow but i’m different

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“gorgeous. trust me, that lip’s working for you soldier” being cut from the movie was the worst gay erasure I’ve ever seen

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we need to toxic yaoi it up in the snowjanus tag.

i want to see us talk about how snow's possessiveness would extend to sejanus. i want to see us talk about the rabbit sejanus x serpent snow imagery & dynamic. i want to see us talk about snow getting drunk on sejanus's loyalty, his devotion, his endless gratitude of which snow is entirely undeserving.

i want us to talk about how dislike is not the opposite of love. i want to see us talk about snow battling with his feelings for sejanus, whatever they may be, and turning them into something more palatable, something he can actually parse: disdain, jealousy, and competition. does he want to be sejanus or does he want to be with him? a quintessential queer question. he doesn't know; he never knows, not even once he's stolen the sweet boy's entire life.

desire turns to aggression; the intricate rituals, anything that allows him to appropriately and discreetly touch sejanus, allows him to rationalize this desire to begin with. meanwhile, in the quiet of the night, when it's just him in his room, he thinks of sejanus's warm embrace and doesn't dare question why he can only allow himself to relish the memory when no one is looking.

i want us to talk about sejanus accepting snow's friendship because he thinks that's all he'll ever have. he pushes him toward lucy gray, all too content to just be his friend, his brother, his broken token from the past. tells himself this is more than enough, and it is. the boy he loves has saved his life. how many people can say that? he's lucky. he tells himself that over and over until he believes it, until it smothers that lonesome ache in his chest.

bisexual snow x gay sejanus. snow has more experience but sejanus has to guide him through a "relationship" anyway. they keep it hush-hush; too much of a secret for sejanus's tastes. snow x lucy + other woman sejanus. maybe sejanus finally falls for someone else, but snow isn't keen on sharing, so he inserts himself into sejanus's life again, knowing just how important he's always been to his sweet, sensitive little fool.

let's talk about snow always being so touchy with sejanus, always getting so close that sejanus can feel his breath on his lips, and the one time that sejanus finally snaps and closes the distance. he's always been the braver one, anyway. always acts without thinking, leaving snow to pick up the mess. this is no different.

please, i beg. GIVE ME THAT TOXIC YAOI 🗣