#collins series

[strawlessandbraless]

I feel destiel in this chilis tonight

[livingfandomly]

SotR is a realisation. A realisation that the rebellion didn’t start with Katniss. That all the people we see supporting her or helping her have all been wanting to fight but they’ve been failing. That there weren’t merely “rumours” of a revolution but there were many active plans playing out and failing.

It’s a reminder that the perfect Hunger Games we saw in the first hg book was an illusion because we had Katniss as our narrator. We didn’t have Haymitch, hell, we didn’t even have someone like Peeta because these people played the games. Katniss didn’t.

Katniss was introduced to us as a mad, simple, naive girl who literally only survived because of others. She didn’t know how much her taking Prim’s place mattered because she didn’t realise what it meant to everyone who came before her. To everyone who had heard rumours of how the last District 12 victor actually fought his games. No, Katniss had just kept her head down, hunting and providing for her family.

See, she grew up way before the Games got to her. She’d already lived through her dad’s death and watched it destroy her once lively mom. Haymitch didn’t have to go through that. Lucy Gray didn’t have to go through that. They were both angry, yes, but at the Capitol. Katniss? She was first and foremost angry at her mom. At her dad. She knew who was to blame but she had too much to do and deal with to think about that. She was already jaded in a way that the Games couldn’t touch.

Peeta? He was Haymitch. He knew what he was getting into and realised he was just on a chess board with no control. So, he adapted. He played the knight, the rook, the king, the pawn. Katniss? She just… did. Changing directions, not playing the piece she was assigned because she didn’t realise that’s what was going on. Remember her surprise at the crown twisting into two after the Games?? She was so oblivious. Until Catching Fire where everything caught up to her. Where everything so many other people had been waiting and working for caught up to her.

SotR is a history book. Rewritten and edited and published as a piece of fact. SotR is a mirror and it’s a reflection of what actually happens vs what ends up being shown. SotR is the playbook of those in control of any and every kind of media that we come in touch with. SotR is a wake up call and I truly don’t know how many will see it as such.

[acefusti138]

best use i’ve ever seen of this meme

[thequietesthing]

Suzanne Collins was really pissed when she saw all those edits of Snow as ‘daddy’ and whatever other bullshit after the TBOSAS movie, sat down at her laptop again and started typing “let’s see if you get the message now when HE KILLS 47 CHILDREN”

[bragginball-z]

All I’m saying is, if Kripke doesn’t want to give us a 4K HD oiled up Jensen and Misha scene then we should AT LEAST get a scene where Misha’s character slams Soldier boy up against a wall like Cas did to Dean in season 5… JUST SAYING!

[mishaesque]

Spn season 1: hot guys in sexy car kill monsters

Spn season 13: Satan is driving the rescue bus to the world portal because his son got stuck in the wrong universe

[lovebeatriceplz]

[araybiaa]

[itsajollyjester]

Family Portrait

The only family he has.

[the-bi-fangirl-biatch]

the flint striker. the picturesque landscape. the sweet, disorienting spring smell. the ripe berries and apples. the glittering stream. the berms of flowers concealing hatches. the volcano that didn't actually spew lava. the tokens that concealed bomb components.

the heavily ommited footage. the card stacking. the reaction shots. the 5 minute delay. the early cut-off. louella's body double. the editing to make it seamless. the propos they shot.

“Well, you know I like my pretty with a purpose,” - Lenore Dove

[strawlessandbraless]

From my dash alone I wouldn’t know that Jared is even a part of this announcement

[agir1ukn0w]

I’m sorry but if this paragraph doesn’t fuck you up Idk what will:

“Coriolanus felt his anxieties melt away. Full of fresh food, shaded by the trees, Lucy Gray singing softly beside him, he began to appreciate nature. It really was beautiful out here. The crystal clean air. The lush colors. He felt so relaxed and free. What if this was his life: rising whenever, catching his food for the day, and hanging out with Lucy Gray by the lake? Who needed wealth and success and power when they had love? Didn’t it conquer all?

- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (pg. 438)

[xplore-the-unknwn]

This also reminded me of how she said that Katniss wasn’t quite ready to harvest yet. Saying like “Katniss will take some time but eventually it’ll have you dealt with.” and it did! Fate sent him a Karma in the form of Katniss Everdeen.

Katniss who was a reminder of Lucy Gray, of his loved ones, of everything Sejanus stood for. Katniss who was a reminder of his PAST SELF- of a time where he could’ve done the right choices (with Lucy Gray, Tigris, correcting his father's sins with Highbottom etc.) of a time where everything could’ve been different.

Snow mentioned Lucy Gray strongly believed in fate when she said “You’re mine and Im yours. It’s written in the stars.” Of course he didn’t believe it. So when she was gone and Coriolanus Snow chose to cross that line of evil never turning back, the stars made sure that he will be haunted of it to his death.

A masterclass of storytelling right there. Suzanne you icon, you legend.

[suzieloveships]

Suzanne Collins mind fascinates me because what do you mean the woman that wrote Ampert's death scene also worked for Nickelodeon and also was a head writer for Clifford's Puppy Days

[kald-dal-art]

Rereading Hunger Games so have book Everlark, but before they’re Everlark ig haha

[defenderoftomorrow]

My favorite part of SOTR is when either Haymitch or Maysilee would randomly break out into song or chants to help them through something in the arena and the other would join in without question

They were so goofy I miss them