#tbosas connections

[districtfourmermaid]

So it's implied that they avalanched Titus from District 6 because he was eating the other Tributes, and they did start promptly removing the bodies because of him. And Katniss says the Capitol audience finds cannibalism distasteful. But now it's like, how many elderly Capitolites remember turning to it in the Dark Days? How many old Persephone Prices felt extra sick during his Games?

[safirefire]

District 12 being one of the poorest, underfed Districts showing how ripe a revolution really was and they were also coal miners and associated the most with music and singing and mockingjays and songbirds they were literally the canary in a coal mine

[myfairkatiecat]

I feel like Lucy Gray’s fashion sense had an influence on the Capitol. It’s mentioned in the book that she’s wearing makeup, which is notable to Coriolanus and he wonders where she got it from since it was barely becoming accessible again in the Capitol. In the movie one of his classmates mocks what she is wearing, asking if she thinks she’s a clown. It isn’t common to dress like her, but she owns her own style and the Capitol LOVES her. Coriolanus, as he tries to get sponsors for her, makes the case that since she is Covey perhaps she isn’t really district at all, in fact she’s really more Capitol than anything… and perhaps it rubbed off. Perhaps her sense of extra-ness, her fun makeup even at the reaping, her colorful dress at a dark occasion….perhaps that’s one part of her legacy that never truly goes away, even when the name of Lucy Gray Baird is erased from the memories of the people of Panem.

[i-know-the-endss]

i think the most frustrating part about tbosas is the fact that you want to root for coryo. you want him to be a better man for lucy gray. you want him and sejanus to become closer, to become the best friends sejanus believes them to be. you want him to run away and find a way to relearn all the oppressive and tyrannical ideals the capitol instilled in him.

but that’s not what happens.

coriolanus isn’t necessarily a good person. he’s not a bad person either, not yet, but he’s no where near good. and rather than try to be good, he gives up, he lets himself “go bad”, he rats out sejanus, he lets his anger get the best of him and loses lucy gray.

the idea that coryo could be a good person but chooses not to be is exactly the reason this book and this character are brilliant.

[super-nova5045]

maybe we shouldn’t ban tiktok

[katnissandpeetamellark]

There's something so interesting about these shots to me.

I was just looking through google images - finding inspo whatever- and I came across a few images like this.

What I find interesting is that when they're in the Capitol (and also when Snow gets to 12 in the very beginning) Lucy Gray is almost always "looking up" at Coriolanus.

I guess I would translate that as her "trusting him" because she can look to him for safety or to feel safe.

BUT the moment she catches him in the "three person" lie-- she's suddenly put on "his level" (aka the picture on the right). She is aware to an extent who he is-- what he'll do for power/success/to save himself. She suddenly has this new knowledge of who Coriolanus Snow is-- and she's no longer "looking to him"... she no longer trusts him.

What do you think? Do you see what I mean?

[cealchylle]

Also, just the fact that Suzanne Collins sat down to write President Snow's backstory like "let me tell you about the time he FELL IN LOVE WITH A DISTRICT 12 GIRL IN THE HUNGER GAMES" I mean good lord. HER MIND.

[peppydynamicpigeon143]

I see what you did there Suzanne Collins, i see you

[mitsuki91]

Okay expanding on the take "Haymitch's girlfriend was the daughter of Maude Ivory": with other headcanons she was a Everdeen, sister of Katniss's dad, and so...

What if Haymitch choose Katniss not because she was a great hunter but because it was personal? I mean Peeta is strong. And likeable. A male with strong arms and charisma. It would had be the right choice, right? Investing on his survival. Hell, he was part of the pack, he seems to have more chance then Katniss anyway at first.

Instead.

Instead there was this tiny angry sulking girl. Yeah great hunter, but unlikeable. Almost unlovable until Peeta makes her desirable.

But she has the same eyes as his late girlfriend. Color, and shape, even the eyebrows. Everdeen eyes, Haymich thought - even if, in reality, they were Baird eyes.

And he can not stand it. He can not stand to watch again while Coriolanus Snow kills her. He have to save her. He have to save her with a force that he did not feel with any other Tribute ever.

Because she is her.

Katniss is her. Connected. Bonded.

He looks in her eyes and he sees his loved one, memories buried in alchool resurfacing, all the happy times and he knew, he knew that winning is somehow worst then die, because it's train you can not left behind, because Capitol City will suck her life out of her, and yet...

He looks at her and sees her eyes and he knew, he could not let her die.

[spideyhexx]

feel like some people don’t comprehend that partially the point of tbosas is that you can sympathize with Coryo. It never excuses his actions nor does it try to, but it’s way more complicated than Coryo just being ‘psycho’

[districtfourmermaid]

When Katniss remembers the arid arena with no wood, she says there was just some shrubbery, and some tributes were bitten by venomous snakes and "went insane with thirst." It reminded me of the Tenth with its stark arena, snakes, and rabid Jessup, insane and thirsty.

I wonder if there was some Games in Katniss's lifetime that tried a throwback Thursday.

[sejarcus-archive]

All the most important mentor-tribute duos are a boy and a girl, except for Marcus and Sejanus… gay

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

wait is the man who they say murdered 3 in the hanging tree song coriolanus snow??

something something the last bit of corio died with sejanus at the tree

something something he told her to run so they could both be free

something something strange things have happened here

[sadalmostlesbian]

Mormons saw this shit and said “let me put coffee creamer in Diet Coke.”

[katnissandpeetamellark]

“There is a point to everything. Or nothing at all. Depending on your world view.”

OK FUCK ME UP SUZANNE

[meekmedea]

Ravinstill gossip(?)

Ravinstill A: You know...Uncle and Cleopatra were acting strange back then. Do you think they might have...

Ravinstill B: It's Cleopatra Dovecote, who wouldn't?

Ravinstill C: Not me, thanks. I rather not die when she got tired of me.

Ravinstill B: Suit yourself.

Ravinstill D: Ugh, are you on about her again? She talked to you once when you were 6 and you literally made her your whole personality.