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Andrew interview with Parade

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Star-crossed lovers meeting their fate. A revenge story turned in on itself.

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lucy gray’s silence was LOUD

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Laura!

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I really fucking love how district twelve is labelled as the most hopeless district, the district that has only had three winners, the district with the filthy coal miners, the animals

But yet, Lucy Gray gave the capital a show. She bowed at her reaping. She sang a song when the snakes were circling around her. She was a performer.

Haymitch carried Louella's lifeless body to Snow after she died. Maislee refused to me treated like an animal, she was going to go out human. They refused to let the capital use their pain for entertainment.

Katniss put on a show of volunteering herself. She spun in what seemed to be a normal dress, but ended up engulfing herself in fire. She became the mockingjay.

Peeta painted a picture of Rue for the gamemakers. Even though they tortured him and stripped him of his identity, he still fought back.

District Twelve has always been seen as the underdogs but they always, always gave a show with their victors and that's fucking amazing.

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Man after sotr I have realized I reallyyyyy don’t like how the hunger games fandom discusses the topic of grief. The topic of haymitch and Lenore dove is leaving a very bad taste in my mouth, honestly.

It’s not a bad thing that he’s “hung up on” his first love- certainly not the term I would use but like. Grief is a never ending struggle . When someone you love dearly dies- you will grieve them until you die. It’s the last translation of love- the very last act of loving someone is to grieve them and you get to do that until you yourself pass. It’s not abnormal to hold on to the love you have for someone who left you too soon, it really does not matter that they were teenagers, he will always have love and grief for her. He will always be mourning her- even if he finds new love or not he will always be mourning her. And that is… an extremely accurate depiction of grief imo!

It’s not like. Grief is not a bad and ugly word that means you are feeling badly all the time that you grieve. Some times people don’t WANT to finish grieving,, some people hold their grief very close to their heart.

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"I sang a song so beautiful, the stones wept and they let me in...

...and I can sing us home again."

-Dónal Finn as Orpheus

📹: @callmelasagna

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Finally getting around to reading The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and I'm so struck by how differently Snow could have turned out if not for just a few different choices. The tragedy of it is, Snow *is* a genuinely kind person. Yes, he is selfish and disdainful, but he's not yet cruel and, above all, he's still a child. I'm especially struck by the end of ch. 21. He's been stripped of the last vestiges of Capital honor. He's despairing and alone. This - this could be his turning point. He could find Lucy Gray. He could learn to love her as a human and not an object. He could live out the rest of his days with her in 12 in relative peace and happiness. He could truly bond with Sejanus. He could become a rebel rather than an embodiment of the evil of the Capital. He has that potential in him - I truly believe it.

Yet, of course, he chooses differently.

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TOM BLYTH as CORIOLANUS SNOW The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) | dir. Francis Lawrence

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People aren't so bad. It's what the world does to them. Like what they do in the arena. I think there is a natural goodness born into us all. No, really. You can either cross that line into evil, or not. And it's our life's work to stay on the right side of that line.

THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES (2023) dir. Francis Lawrence

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pretty with a purpose!

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AYO EDEBIRI 2023 / ph. by Daria Kobayashi Ritch for Rodarte Spring/Summer 2024

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RACHEL ZEGLER as LUCY GRAY BAIRD The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) | dir. Francis Lawrence

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why the fuck is an old ass man projecting onto a 16 year old?

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call him bubonic the way he plagues me

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I'm not a hater but so much shit is stupid