#i love suzanne collins so much

[spiderispunk]

Sorry for the long analysis but I gotta get this out:

Snow’s disgust about the mockingjays is so interesting. First that they’re muttations, and secondly that they’re a symbol that the Capitol is not permanent. He thinks the jabberjays are “impressive pieces of engineering” (Collins 445) but “refers to the mockingjays as “genes gone bad” (Collins 504). Jabberjays represent Capitol ingenuity, a lab experiment that was perfect in theory, and perfectly controlled until they went into the wild. Then the rebels found a way to outsmart and snub the Capitol. A slap in the face,m. And then a second one when then the jabberjays mated with wild, district birds. Mockingjays represent corruption. An unforeseen consequence of putting the two species together. Not completely district, but not quite Capitol either. The idea of which is not something that Snow can comprehend because he sees the world in black and white. Order and Chaos. District and Capitol. There is no conceivable middle ground.

The jabberjays were also never meant to be permanent. They’re all male. They would have died out eventually after they served their purpose. But they survived, only by mating with birds outside of the Capitol. Then they’ve mutated into something wholly different and unnatural to Snow. No longer purely Capitol, but not completely district either. In a way they represent what should have been the natural progression of Panem. There’s no way the Capitol could survive forever segregated from the districts— genetically, physically, whatsoever. But Snow and his Capitol counterparts are afraid of that, because what happens to their pure genes, their fictional superiority, if they begin to mix with the districts. The way they treat Sejanus is evidence of that fear, because he challenges their preconceived notions of how district-born people should be. They compare district-born people to beasts and animals, claiming they’d drink blood, or spiral into anarchy without the guiding hand of the Capitol. But Sejanus isn’t like that. Lucy Gray isn’t either. But sympathy for them equals sympathy for everyone in the districts, and that’s a no go. That’s why Snow goes to such lengths to convince himself that Lucy Gray isn’t district— not really, not in the ways that count (literally not having a permanent residence in the districts). But they can’t admit that they need the districts. They can’t survive without the districts, not for long. But they can’t accept that, and their inability to see the districts as people— not second class citizens— and treat them as such, causes the Capitol’s eventual demise.

TLDR: TBOSBAS, and the entire Hunger Game series at large is an allegory for relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, as well as power, control and white supremacy.

[monsieurenjlolras]

I think that part of the reason why President Snow is such a well-written villain is because he genuinely never does lie to Katniss. When he says "let's agree to always tell each other the truth," the first time they meet, it not a line, he actually sticks to that. Like a villain who is both incredibly dangerous and and totally trustworthy? Just, openly trying to kill you and being completely upfront with you about it? That's so fucking fascinating to experience

[thekayart]

Happy lazy mornings 🧡💚

[lovebeatriceplz]

Nothing makes me happier than the hunger games bts pictures😭:

They feel like home

[effieotto]

I don’t cope well with the fact that Everlark was the only couple (or supposed couple) who had a happy ending in all the THG universe. Like, how unfair????

Finnick and Annie (he is dead)

Beetee and Wiress (she is dead)

Gale and Madge (she is dead)

Haymitch and his girl (she is dead)

Haymitch and Effie (he left)

Cato and Clove (both dead)

Caeser and Claudius -cause why not- (both dead)

Cinna and Portia (both dead)

Snow and Lucy Gray (both dead)

and we can go on and on and on and on….

-don’t even start with the crazy Haymitch ships, cause all of them are doomed as well. Hazel is in two; Katniss’s mother is in four, Maysilee IS DEAD-

[sejanusarchive]

Happy birthday to the incredibly talented woman who gave us the Underland Chronicles and the Hunger Games saga!!! Thank you Suzanne

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

book sejanus is sad and movie sejanus is angry 🙃

[evansbby]

girlie new hunger games book AND movie !!!!!!!!!!

YESSS OMGG I AM SO EXCITED!!

although i was kinda sceptical at first bc unlike the rest of the population, i never wanted hatmitch’s games story. only bc we already got a detailed account of what happened in his games when katniss and peeta watch the old tapes in catching fire! so we already know…

but then i realised that suzanne collins is really smart and she’s probably using haymitch’s games as a backdrop for a larger story she wants to tell. and we all know she only writes when she has a story to tell. and i trust her bc i genuinely think she is such an incredible author who’s books surpass the YA genre and yeah she’s just incredible! so i’m super excited!

[malachitezmeyka]

Bitches be having an unhealthy obsession with tragic and codependent and toxic sibling relationships in media and then be surprised when they latch onto Tigris Snow like a lifeline

(It’s me. I’m bitches)

[vajazzly]

ok i am rewatching the hunger games and the fucking scene that gets me every time is the one directly after rues death in district 11 when the district riots. its just like. this expression of pure grief and anger and it really is done beautifully and god. i forget every time how mf good hunger games and catching fire are!!!

[anniecrestalover]

so what if I cry when I think about Annie’s life post-MJ??

[nariko-senpai]

OMG THIS IS NOT A DRILL, HAYMITCH IS GETTING HIS OWN BOOK AND MOVIE RAHHHHHH 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[thekayart]

First interview and district 13. (I’m not sure if she ever screams at Plutarch in the books… but it just seems to me that she would)

[stevethehairington]

tbosas was GOOOOOOD oh man, it's making me wanna go reread all the hunger games books again ahhh

[ruralcat]

this may be because i am just a hater but a ballad of songbirds and snakes sucked

[penguinpiebooks]

just watched ballad of songbirds and snakes and my siblings were not as obsessed with it as i was so i have no one to talk to about it