#<-that's now the tigris and coryo tag on this blog

[too-early-for-katniss]

I just recently read the Kite Runner and I can't tell you how much I need a fic where Tigris says "There is a way to be good again" to Coriolanus.

[kpchrs]

Hii! I hope you are doing fine. I just wanna say that I love your Tumblr, the snowbaird reblogs, art, and analysis are great. I spent a lot of time here. So, if it isn't too much to ask, could you share some of your favorite snowbaird fics? Thankss

Hi, Anon! I'm doing fine, I hope you too!

Thank you lol I'm happy to be a reblogging service. I do dig the tags a lot (aka being obsessive). You should go to the tag #thg meta on my friend's blog @mswyrr for more great meta!

Surprisingly, I haven't read too many Snowbaird fics. My friends are like "hEy HaVe YoU rEaD tHe NeWeSt ChApTeR?" and they will shout at each other excitedly while I can just sit cus no I haven't I'm overwhelmed 👁️👄👁️ And they go "rEaD iT!!!" OKAY OMAGAH but I still haven't read more. You know, how to read fics when it grows from 80 something to above 350 in just a few weeks?

So this recommendation will be based on what I have read and what my friends are always yapping about:

right here in the old therebefore by @californiannostalgia (This is the first fic Snowbaird I read and I love it. I love Ghost!Coryo and Ghost!Lucy Gray. Everlark-focused tho.)

Surveillance Shadow by @southslates (Some love for my beloved, Tigris Snow.)

my smoking gun, my eclipsed sun by opheliac (I linked this to all they have written on Snowbaird, short but great.)

send me straight to heaven by shirbertsholmesburys (Where he doesn't even have to lift a finger to get a better Panem and thus he is free to scream at birds in his oldie days :) Dumb Coryo. A rare HEA fic.)

Snow Dove by @spoomed (A post-canon fic where Lucy Gray is alive. Help me to push her to use Tumblr again lol)

Anything by @framboise-fics (Something of a legend maybe.)

Anything by @fkevin073 (Something of a legend maybe (2))

This is Not A Love Song by FrostedGemstones22 (This is one the fics my friends have been screaming about 👁️👄👁️)

The Sweet Spot by thedaughterofdeath (Modern AU, Singer!Lucy Gray and Manager!Coryo)

Enjoy the Show! by lautdalam (One of the First Lady/Mentor!Lucy Gray AU and I think a story with a doomed ending told by Haymitch's eyes :))

Reflections of the Garden by madzdolin (This is also one of the fics my friends have been screaming about and I'm still reading 👁️👄👁️)

And, uh, now I got overwhelmed LOL I'll try to add some more later.

Thank you for the ask! I've been keeping my eyes and ears open and, well, there are more fics to be published by talented people. So stay tuned in the tags, both Tumblr and AO3.

Kris

[diamantdog]

tbosas thoughts that no one asked #1

i've been blogging about my reading the ballad of songbirds and snakes and now that i've finished it, you will hear me talking about it online, lol!

first of all, let me just say that i think it's amazing that the "love triangle" theme in the og series continues here, but it's between a boy, a girl, and an authoritarian government lol.

secondly, i came across these tags under one of my posts about the book:

and i want to say that i disagree. the president snow we know in thg has always been in the 18-year-old coryo. you know how the catholic church says pride is the biggest sin because it leads to the other 6? well, i think coryo's pride as a snow is also his biggest sin, which leads him to his obsession with control. controlling his facial expressions, emotions, reactions, clothes, etc is the only thing that keeps the people of capitol from figuring out how poor he actually is. i also think his pride leads him to paranoia, because he thinks people are out to get him. he believes that if he makes just one wrong move, he will be exposed.

HOWEVER, i also disagree with takes saying that he's always been bad.

to say this is to admit that dr. gaul is right, and that humans are inherently evil. i think suzanne collins' decision to make coryo 18 is brilliant, because he's somewhere between innocence and adulthood, and the time has come for him to make a decision about his path. and coryo is wrong, he tells himself that he doesn't have a choice, but he always does. he is surrounded by people like sejanus and lucy gray, and even in capitol there's lysistrata and tigris and perhaps even clemensia who have shown empathy toward the tributes. he can always choose to side with them, and we can see there are moments when he’s, like, huh maybe the games is bad? but in the end, he chooses dr. gaul and capitol then tries to convince himself that he has no choice.

in conclusion, i think coryo is the snake in this story. like what lucy gray says about the animal, he can’t be trusted but there’s always a chance that he’ll be harmless like the one that bites him in the end. which is why she loves him, because imo she chooses to see the good in him and believes there’s a chance for him. alas.

anyways, this is getting long lol and i will probably continue my thoughts on another post.