#The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

[fujiblackthorne]

lucy gray: “i don’t know why i even bother telling you no”

[mariiastales]

thoughts on coriolanus snow’s daughter & granddaughter 

I wrote about a clytemnestra & agamemnon au earlier as it’s sort of correlated with my thoughts about coriolanus “sacrificing” his daughter for “the greater good”

firstly, I think that the woman in this photo is snow’s only daughter and that his granddaughter (the only canon descendant that we know of) is her child. 

since I think that snow married livia cardew later in life (when he’s already gained some power), it would make sense for their daughter to be an only child and relatively young at the time when snow himself is in his 80s. I think that she was livia’s darling. since childhood, she was completely under her influence, which didn’t bother snow at first as he didn’t really have much fatherly affection towards her, however when time came and he wanted to use his daughter for his plans, she wasn’t so easily convinced. which is when I think he poisoned livia. either as a revenge, as to get her out of the way or as to frighten his daughter by showing her that nothing would stop him. I don’t think that livia got to see her granddaughter. I think that snow’s daughter married a man he scared her into marrying, a man who had a child of his own already ( the other little girl in the photo that’s never around snow) and gave him a daughter. 

with a depressed and grieving mother, who was trapped in a loveless marriage, and an ambitious politically engaged father, who cared little for her, snow’s granddaughter would spend a lot of time around him. I think it appealed to him that he basically had the main parental authority in her life and therefore could easily influence her. also I once saw a tiktok comparing photos of snow’s granddaughter with livia and it makes so much sense! I can definitely see the resemblance

frankly, I love the thought of livia’s face haunting him. this way every time he looked at that child - the only living creature he had some sort of love and affection for - he saw the face of a girl who had bullied him so long ago and made his childhood miserable, the face of his unloved wife, whose death he was responsible for.

so yeah, “oh I’m gonna marry someone I hate” is all fun and games until it backfires on you! 

[rejewish]

Idk if anyone else has talked about this, but imagine the insane overthinking narcissistic inner monologue competition we could have between Coriolanus Snow, Light Yagami, and Patrick Bateman.

[felixravinstills]

I actually don't even remember the context, but I did kind of pop off with "I hope she kills a baby in front of you, I hope it's yours." She being Livia Cardew to Coriolanus Snow of course.

[lauren-210]

It will always be insane to me!!!

16 year old me would have NEVER seen this coming and becoming obsessed with a relationship between THE president, THE evil dictator and a sweet, kind, passionate boy from District 2 🥲🥲🥲

I already made a similar post but I will never stop talking about how galaxy-brained it was to give President Snow a homoerotic friendship. Like it’s genuinely mind blowing to me.

President Snow? The evil old man from those books/movies that were really popular a while ago? Oh yeah he had a life-altering situationship with a guy he hated when he was a teen. No, the other guy never did anything to him, Snow just envied him and felt he was owed everything the other guy had.

Yes, Snow eventually got him killed and took over the other’s guys life, stealing his place in his family, his house, his fortune. His future.

He would’ve never become the evil dictator he was predestined to be if he didn’t get this other boy killed by the way.

Yes, their stories and entwined tightly like that. President Snow wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for this one boy he was close to for a couple months when he was eighteen years old.

Like I said, mind blowing stuff. They don’t make ships like this anymore.

[thatthingilovewith]

Welcome to the Family Jewels AU characters as textposts!

Cat and Dido originally made by @fairyhagmother

[booksandpaperss]

Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one

[quinnspinkcamera]

when people are like "i didn't come here to make friends" i'm like thats sooooo unrelatable. i am always on the look out for some girl friends. I would be in that hunger games cornucopia like "your ex boyfriend did WHAT."

[super-nova5045]

and just when you think you’re at your absolute lowest a blonde motherfucker comes along and makes everything so much worse

[zorosnavigator]

[agentmilayawithshield]

Her manifestation skills are actually insane

[sweetlucygray]

sadly the only copy of s10 of thg i found is in the spanish dub but the only thing theyre saying is i love you and i know thats not right so can someone hook me up with their panem plus pleasee

[dcvina-claires]

i am a tragedy enjoyer before i am human

[ayo-edebiri]

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + tweets

[timelesslords]

thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.

Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.

Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.

Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.

The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.

Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.