#but what brilliant casting

[messengerhermes]

Do you know a Coriolanus Snow?

So, let me preface this by saying I have not read any of the Hunger Games books (it's just not my preferred genre). Instead, recently I went to see the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie with my roomie, who loves the books and recently read the prequel and described the whole plot to me before we went. Watching the film and listening to her description of the books I was struck by something: Suzanne Collins has done a wonderful job portraying everyday evil's perfectly pleasant face. Coriolanus has friends. He's smart, driven, charming, but also stilted and awkward. He loves his family. He feels shame about the poverty he and his family has fallen into. He is also, an utter douchebag who knows how to play both sides and seem like a good person. Sejanus believes Coriolanus is on his side the entire time. He gets frustrated with him, but still believes Coriolanus can be reached. Lucy Grey believes in Coriolanus because she sees him make efforts to help her (I understand in the book she's portrayed as more canny than the movies and less overall trusting of Coriolanus. In the films she comes off as hesitant but overall, like Sejanus, convinced that Coriolanus will be swayed.). Coriolanus is careful to always hide his intentions or frame them in a "helping you helps me" way. But, his bottom line actions are always about saving his own skin. The film is brutal. It serves as a brilliant metaphor for a lot of the racist, classist violence within the United States and the ways in which imperialism comes home to roost by feeding on vulnerable communities. Coriolanus serves as a perfect metaphor for the countless every day people who, believing that they are temporarily disadvantaged and superior, not only reject invitations to resist, they sabotage them. Coriolanus moves through the world with a deep sense of entitlement that keeps him from empathizing with others who share the same plights as him. The people from the districts are meant to live in the country backwoods, eating katniss and dancing to bluegrass. He is meant to rise in the ranks and return to the capitol. Because he is educated and they are not. Because he is from an Old Family and they are not. A life with the covey on the edge of district twelve, surrounded by beautiful greenery with the chance to catch and forage for your own food would mean not wanting for anything, but it would not have status. No one would be kissing his ass and singing his praises. Coriolanus before all the gunfights, could have found a way to move Tigris and Gram out to the district and build a life there. But it never even occurred to him. Living a quiet life with Lucy Grey would never satisfy Coriolanus because he doesn't just want to never be hungry again. He wants to have power over others. Which is why he betrays Sejanus when he could have kept his mouth shut. He did it to save his own skin. He did it to regain access to the capitol by getting Dr. Gaul's attention. Every turn Coriolanus takes is for the worst. Until he is staggering through the woods with an automatic rifle, looking all the world like a wet skin head as he bellows Lucy Grey's name into the dim. I can see why some fans were angry with this book. I think there is a desire to believe that every asshole has a reason for winding up cruel. That something drove them over the edge. But Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes breaks that concept apart, brick by brick. Coriolanus is not special, in his hunger, in his desperation, in his poverty, in his loss. He's not special in being exposed to the capitol's brutal propaganda. Everywhere around him in the story, are people resisting their fates without stepping on someone else's neck. But Coriolanus, with all his good looks and fumbling charm, will ultimately step on a throat if it helps him up. I've met a lot of Coriolanuses. Lovely snakes. How many times have you met Coriolanus? When did he take the chance to bite you instead of smile?

[epiphainie]

i know why but genuinely insane that toby stephens didn't get a single acting award for black sails

[mikimeiko]

L'amica geniale | Season 1 (2018), Saverio Costanzo

[jdorian]

well the tumblr gays have enjoyed it very much

[takeiteasyonmeimstilllearning]

"An unexpected party" prompt 2 for @nalesnik-z-morela @purrlockholmesbooks inktober challenge! Completion time 1.5 hours

Thank you for the prompt lol : D)

Ignore that an unexpected journey happens loooong before frodo lmao it's 2:30 am and I'm tired I'm going to bed goodnight peeps

And yes flaming evil eye is crying.

[ennaih]

Not Every Film I Watch In 2024

7. The Last Of Sheila (1973)

[pocketgalaxies]

simone kessell will say things that make me go crazy

[musicalgifs]

i love women and i love musical theatre 💜

[aenslem]

I was thinking about the entire new new who season and the final to understand what Im feeling about it, but the conclusion is I felt nothing, and it's disappointing, not the show, I mean I watched it and it was fine, but the fact that it did not make me feel things it supposed to make me feel, like you're killing kate stewart

and Im thinking about what I should make myself for a dinner, Im supposed to hold onto chair and stop breathing the moment she dies, I love her, and yet... Im making myself mac and cheese

[attractthecrows]

my specialty in my digital photography/stop-motion class in college was to make pieces very skillfully executed that you could not look at directly lest they give you a migraine. one time the assignment was just a simple stop motion walkthrough of someplace on campus with a filter & transition effect to show that we understood how to use the video software. i inflicted upon the class an abomination in the rainbow chroma filter that RIPPLED with every single frame change and the professor made me stop it after 5 seconds and gave me a 100. then asked me for a copy to show future students what NOT TO DO.

my logic(correct) was that if you could not look at it you could not give me a bad grade on it.

[maddaddist]

Strumpet (2001)

[tawus]

opla final thoughts: i want each and every one of them to ride my face

[anchoredbravery]

Zoro & Nami | Break Me And I'm scared as hell Because there's no way to know how this goes But I can't help but say I promise to give you my all But it might break me

[whumpypepsigal]

i haven’t read the books but a show about a trio who have great natural chemistry, found family vibes, great dialogue, amazing plot, fighting ghosts/supernatural elements, each of them have special powers and skills, each character have a proper development and story, awesome dynamic… is so so so good. their dynamic reminds me of the one between the beloved trio - harry, ron and hermione. i love lockwood, lucy and george. also the whump is great (lockwood is angsty, reserved emotionally detached individual who has a traumatic past and THAT cliffhanger was brutal). the way lucy protects lockwood and george and vice versa is EVERYTHING! THEY ARE MY FAMILY. here i am, yet again, deeply invested and in love with a new netflix show that might or might not get renewed asdfghjkll WHY DO I TORTURE MYSELF LIKE THIS? KNOWING FULL WELL THAT NETFLIX GIVETH AND NETFLIX TAKETH AWAY FML

look at them! the boys comforting lucy. lockwood holding lucy’s hand ahhhh… every time lockwood and lucy hold hands… i melt THE CHEMISTRY IS CHEMISTRYING

[mariocki]

Shadows of Fear: Sugar and Spice (1.2, Thames, 1971)

"You might have known that children can't keep promises."

"Promises, what promises?"

"You shouldn't have told her if you didn't want me to know."

"Know what?"

"She said that you'd taken him to -"

"Where?"

[canadachronicles]

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Ten days ago Schitt's Creek celebrated its first day on set. And like Kim's Convenience, I haven't finished watching its last season! I've perhaps watched a couple of episodes a year since the pandemic. For two reasons: first, because I can't watch without my sister and we don't live together anymore, and also because the Roses are family too, and I'm not ready to say goodbye!

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