#fuck gaul

[moreespressoformydepresso]

Lowkey considering starting on writing a TBOSAS horror AU where Gaul experiments on the dead tributes’ bodies and unexpectedly become eldritch monsters who put a stop to the games by brutally slaughtering Gaul after some (read: a shit tone of) psychological and physical torment as retribution for her actions. This gives the mentors a chance to make up for their behavior towards the tributes, but will the now terrifying kids accept it?

The eldritch tributes wreak some havoc and do some horror-movie esque shit to scare their city of tormentors before one of the better mentors figures out that this is their dead tributes’ doing. This happens before Sejanus is hung, so both he and Lucy Gray survive through eldritch interference. Not all the magical abilities the tributes get are horrifying on their own, but the way in which they can be used sure are. It ends by the Capitol’s arm being twisted into making life better for the districts for fear of the torture and death given to those who caused the tributes the most pain. I have some ideas for at least some of the tributes’ otherworldly abilities, so lmk if you want me to share those and/or possible plotlines (I already have a few good ones, hence me wanting to actually write it for once. Aside from it being good practice for my book that I’m writing).

[obscureenthusiast]

-Brutus and as many as 60 co-conspirators, circa March 14th, 44 BC

[mintaikk]

Moments in the Hunger Games that Dr. Gaul would hate

Dr. Gaul says that humans are naturally violent, and to prove her wrong, here are moments in the Hunger Games that show that they aren't.

-Lucy Gray comforting Jessup when he wasn't feeling well

-Lucy Gray crying and mourning when Dill died (Wovey in the book)

-Lucy Gray making sure Jessup ate despite her having the advantage if he didn't eat

-The first thing Lucy Gray doing in the arena was look for Jessup and run away with him so they could both have a chance at surviving, despite all the murder and chaos happening around them

-Lucy Gray comforting Jessup as he was dying

-Lucy Gray in general

-Jessup protecting Lucy Gray from the bats (rabid raccoons in the book)

-Reaper giving Lamina cloth and Lamina giving him food. Then Coral, Mizzen, and Tanner came and she warned him (in the book)

-Reaper collecting the bodies of the fallen tributes and covering them with the flag to give them proper respects

-Reaper warning Wovey when she was walking to the snakes

-Lamina killing Marcus. Ik it was still murder, but it was a mercy kill. She even comforted him before and stared at his body and curled up into the fetal position after

-Lamima has a lot of empathy in general and I love her so much and she's litterally just walking proof of Dr. Gaul's theory being wrong. Her name is litterally animal spelled backwards, which is what Dr. Gaul belived the tributes were. Violent animals

-Bobbin letting Wovey sleep on his shoulder

-In the walk to the cart, Bobbin was holding Wovey's hand

-Lucy Gray letting Wovey hold her hand before the games

-Treech protecting Lamina when Brandy was killed from the bullet

-Reaper going out of his way to protect Dill. I could make an entire post on this alone. But like, in every scene with them together, he's always looking out for Dill. Even when he jumped at his Mentor, he was looking at Dill before to see how she was doing. Dill's death is what made him want to honor the other tributes deaths. I can only imagine how that made their friends and families feel at home, to see the person they loved getting the respect they could in such violent games

-During the bombing, Marcus ran back to go get Lucy Gray despite thst fact that his chances of dying there were very high

-Ik he wasn't part of the games, but Sejanus going to spread bread around Marcus's dead body (I love Sejanus sm and I better not see y'all thirst over Snow anymore)

-In the book, there was no bloodbath scene. Most tributes ran straight for the tunnels, while Coral, Tanner, and Reaper went to get weapons, but even Coral, who was known for being violent, ran. Only Reaper stayed

-Reaper apologizing for having to kill the tributes the night before, and promising to honor them

-In the book, Teslee was running from the snakes and Lucy Gray came out of the tunnels singing so the snakes would be distracted so Teslee would have time to escape

-Screaming and crying and throwing up because Reaper killed Teslee but brought her body over to the other bodies because it's really all he could give her

-In the book, Lucy Gray and Reaper were the last ones left, and they procrastinated on killing each other. Lucy Gray killed him by getting him to drink poisoned water, not by any violence. She even closed his eyes when she realized he had died.

This was just the 10th Hunger Games. Damn. Imma go on to the other ones now

-Instead of of breaking their alliance by killing each other, Maysilee just left Haymitch saying that she didn't want it to come down to the two of them

-Haymitch staying with Maysilee as she died

-When Annie's district partner died, she gained serious PTSD, which should be proof enough that naturally, HUMANS DONT LIKE VIOLENCE

-Katniss volunteering to protect Prim

-Thresh smiling at Rue when she managed to steal the knife from Cato (this is so sweet to me, I love the District 11 kids sm)

-Foxface not killing anyone (that Katniss knows of) and running away, proving thst people are just trying to survive and not be violent

-Foxface and Katniss bumping into each other but then running away. Especially Katniss, because she definitely had the advantage

-Peeta joining the careers to protect Katniss

-Peeta telling Katniss to run when the careers were hunting her

-This wasn't shown to the audience, but Katniss said that if her and Rue were the last 2 left, she'd let Rue win

-Katniss letting Rue cuddle under the sleeping bag so that she could stay warm

-Katniss mourning the death of Rue by leaving flowers over her body and then giving respects to District 11. She even cried and threw her spear when Rue died

-Clove and Cato's entire friendship (also, Clove smiling at Cato while they were on the plane)

-Thresh killing Clove purely because of what he thought she did to Rue, implying that he wanted to protect Rue. (I like to believe that he didn't make an alliance with Rue the dame reason Katniss didn't make an alliance with Peeta in the beginning; he didn't want it to come down to the two of them). Despite that, he was still heartbroken when she died

-Thresh sparing Katniss's life because she was friends with and protected Rue

-Clove calling for Cato when Thresh was threatening her, and Cato coming to help (in the book)

-Cato crying and begging Clove to get up when she was dying

-Katniss mercy killing Cato despite everything (in the movie)

-Katniss and Peeta not wanting to kill each other and deciding to eat the berries together instead

75th Hunger Games

Yes, ik the rebellion. But I'm still counting it.

-Peeta volunteering to avoid having Haymitch go to the games

-Mags volunteering for Annie

-The female morphling (who I headcanoned as her name being Chassis) sacrificing herself to save Peeta

-Peeta staying to comfort Chassis and talking about how pretty the sky was

-Chassis and Autus (male morphling) teaching Katniss how to camouflage, despite her not knowing about the rebellion, and for all they know, she could try and kill them. But they still wanted to save everyone, so they kept Katniss alive

-MAGS. Mags is the best

-Finnick staying with and protecting Mags despite her chances of surviving being very low

-Katniss keeping Finnick alive, despite not knowing about the rebellion

-Peeta staying to comfort Katniss and Finnick during the jabberjay attacks

[doomedclockworkdotmp3]

every year i draw davepeta and get to colors and flip my shit and give up and idk if i ever even post them and im too lazy to look but heres this years davepetasprite^2

[xxsinisterxx]

[sweatyvvords-blog]

coriolanus: Jabberjays>>>>mockingjays

[cutter-kirby]

so um. I’m thinking about tbosas again. and there’s one part after sejanus argues with gaul where coryo thinks to himself that if sejanus isn't too careful then he'll end up as one of her experiments. so. what if that actually happened

[thestarlightforge]

In another episode of “Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence write essays with faces”

And MORE

[felixravinstills]

actually sad that Felix is the mpreg baby (canon) bc that baby should have been called Prometheus. Like Prometheus Ravinstill? Hello………

Prometheus Ravinstill could be a weird stillborn mpreg baby... He could have come either before or after Felix. (Before would give Felix a very funny/fucked up reason for getting named "fortunate." And after could be Max attempting to ensure his family has an heir... you know cuz I murder the rest of them)... also Prometheus Ravinstill is such a good name. Actually shocking that no one is named Prometheus in canon yet.

[moreespressoformydepresso]

So I was thinking what if the mentors save the tributes because one of them snapped at their mentor and told them “you really think you’re gonna get me to victory? Aside from sending me food and water with sponsor money that I have to earn myself, what will you actually do to protect me?!” And some others overhear and it gets all of them thinking.

Because like- that’s actually a good point that they never even considered. The mentors will only get their tributes sponsors during what few interviews they’re involved in and even then they’re not the ones people are sponsoring, their tributes are. Once they’re in the arena, how much influence do the mentors really have? And some of the sympathetic mentors like Lysistrata and Pup verbally point out how unfair it is that they’re getting a reward for something they didn’t do when the person actually doing the hard work might not even survive the affair in the end. They’ve been taught all their life that the Capitol is so much better than the districts, but they’re not really showing that are they? Because in this case the Capitol kids are just taking their tributes’ achievements as their own. Some of them have even complained about being done dirty by getting a “bad” or “hopeless” tribute, so how can they claim their performance in this program as their own?

Once that ball gets rolling it inevitably keeps going until they make it all the way to “if we’re so much better why are we okay with watching kids who didn’t do anything wrong die horrifically while trying to make it entertaining for personal gain?” At which point they get off their asses and do something about it.

And by “something” I mean blow up Gaul’s lab and kick her out of her job/rank with the power of nepotism. Highbottom takes over the job temporarily and stalls expertly while the mentors use Androcles’ mother to broadcast that the logical conclusion to the games is another rebellion because who the fuck wouldn’t take the first opportunity that rears its head to topple over a government that kills 23 of your kids every year and starves or executes you for funsies????

[vanitythevantropist]

My father: you need to start being honest with us

Me: *is honest*

My father:

[kierancaz]

Y’all what the fuck was Coriolanus even doing. Did I miss something or what did he think would happen to Sejanus after sending that jabberjay recording out ??

Maybe I’m missing part of the story bc I am watching this as an upload on an online website and there was a section where there was just like some foreign language happening so idk.

Also the mockingjays repeating Sejanus cry for help and his ma was literally haunting.

[solar-halos]

i know i am so late to the party but someone pointed out that it’s canon that the mayor reads out the names of previous victors before each reaping and i just can’t stop thinking about that. like i really love the idea (in a tragic way) of everyone knowing lucy gray’s name without the story attached, especially since we know her art ended up having such a big impact on the country without a lot of ppl in the original trilogy even knowing it

[nickbutnodick]

dude im nearly two fucking grades ahead of average and my mon was so fucking disappointed and i dont know what she wants from me

[aprikota]

Suzanna Collins never fucking misses. TBOSAS is fantastic but primarily the way she shows an origin story for a villain, making him sympathetic without ever forgiving him. Snow is a product of his circumstances, but he also continues to be awful and continuously makes the choices that make him a bad person. Choice after choice he chooses wrong. He knows he’s making the selfish choice and does it anyway. He didn’t have to be like that - his cousin Tigris turned out completely different because of her choices. Snow is a guy who could’ve been good and choose to be bad, who could have chosen to be a little more selfless and improved so many people’s lives - but he kept choosing to be selfish.

[ravencromwell]

Cannot adequately express how much I am preening like a well-stroked cat over art history prof just ever-so-casually going: btw, you know your paper is grad school symposium level, right? Me inwardly: The Fuck? No dude, I did not! in fact know I was doing that well in my EXTREMELY visual very undergrad! intro to historical art, but I sure as shit do *now* sure make my fucking semester on a Sunday night.

me outwardly trying desperately for a semblance of cool in reply to this e-mail: that's very nice to hear I've had an excellent professor of course.