#the ballad if songbirds and snakes

[mintaikk]

Ik this was probably already realized, but you ever think about how Snow probably got rid of the student mentors because he realized that they would get attached to their tributes, or try to cheat like he did? And that having District Mentors would separate them from the Capitol so people wouldn't care about them, but also having District mentors would separate them from their District bcuz they get rich houses and can be blamed for a kid not surviving?

Pup cheered whenever Lamina managed to do something good. He cried when she died and slammed his chair down.

Sejanus is a wonderful soul who still cared for Two and Marcus, and was absolutely heartbroken when Marcus was chosen for the games. He tried to become friends with him and even covered his body in bread when he died. And when Lamina killed Marcus, he slammed his chair down and called everyone there, "monsters."

Festus seemed harsh (telling Coral that they're not gonna be friends in a really snarky tone) but apparently, he choked up when talking about the tributes death in the arena bombing. He thought it was heartless that Clemensia didn't feed Reaper. He was sad when Coral died, despite them still being very high up, and snow even hugged him to comfort him.

It's hard to say what Domitia felt, but I have to say that she cared for Tanner a bit. She said that he was good-natured and taken advantage of. She even says that she'd always cherish her experience with the games and Tanner. She was also shown to have a lot of empathy, so I feel like she was emotional during Tanner's death, but knew how to seem professional and like a "good sport."

I haven't read the book (yet), but ik that the movie cut out a lot of Clemensia's character. She was sickened by the idea of betting on tributes and said it was gruesome. She cried the entire night over Arachne's death, and ik she was a Capitol citzen so she was seen as more human, but it still shows that Clemensia had a lot of empathy.

And then we have Lysistrata. I love Lysistrata. She became close to Jessup and said that no one in their right mind would watch the Hunger Games because of how gruesome they were. She told the reporters about Jessuo after the bombing so he'd get more publicity. She says that she was neither a loser or a victor, and she really didn't like the assignment. I think she's the most vocal about hating the games, and I love her for that. She cried when Jessup died, and felt guilty for giving him water. Look, ik the entire point is that the games are bad, but imagine if Jessup didn't get rabies and he won. I believe Lysistrata would try to stop the games from ever happening again. That would be amazing.

And then Coriolanus Snow, who yeah, je cared for Lucy Gray, but it was mostly about the prize. But I believe he did love her on a twisted way and realized that in the future, if anyone felt the same way about their tribute as he did, that could start another uprising.

[booksandpaperss]

Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one

[quinnspinkcamera]

when people are like "i didn't come here to make friends" i'm like thats sooooo unrelatable. i am always on the look out for some girl friends. I would be in that hunger games cornucopia like "your ex boyfriend did WHAT."

[zorosnavigator]

[super-nova5045]

and just when you think you’re at your absolute lowest a blonde motherfucker comes along and makes everything so much worse

[agentmilayawithshield]

Her manifestation skills are actually insane

[sweetlucygray]

sadly the only copy of s10 of thg i found is in the spanish dub but the only thing theyre saying is i love you and i know thats not right so can someone hook me up with their panem plus pleasee

[dcvina-claires]

i am a tragedy enjoyer before i am human

[janeaustensgf123]

The Percy Jackson renaissance and The Hunger Games renaissance happening in the same year is something so special to me

[percabething]

when the fandom is so small that everybody knows everybody

[logicalbrina]

what makes Snow such a formidable villain within THG universe is that nothing he does was set in stone. there was no sense of inevitability about his actions and his brutality. Snow had enough perspective of poverty, capital cruelty, district hunger and not to mention his own arena experience’ and yet he actively chose at every moment to stray from natural goodness. its even more terrifying in the sense that he had the ability to care. Snow is not a mindless sociopath, he displays feelings to others such as sejanus, lucy grey and tigris but ultimately he will always choose himself. his ability to betray those he cared about in order yo advance himself makes him so much more than the stereotypical villain who is forced into his actions.

[ayo-edebiri]

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + tweets

[bluemoonscape]

Big fan of characters who “kill” their younger selves. Characters who resent the past version of themselves for letting them get hurt, who look at that kid and feel revolted by the foreignness of it. Characters who feel they have to cut the child out of them like a tumor because it’s hurting them too much and if I don’t kill you you’ll kill me. Nearly nothing remaining of that past self but for the little connections and mannerisms they can’t kick, and when it shines through, it’s a terrible, tragic thing, because the child is still in there. It’s in there and it’s grotesque in its suffocation. But it’s there.

[danyllura]

Snow always comes across as cold and unbothered when he’s dealing with Katniss and the rebellion- but knowing how actually delusional and unhinged that man’s inner monologue is and with all the Katniss/Lucy Gray parallels I know when he was alone that man was probably ripping his hair out and screaming trying to figure out how the two are connected and assuming all of Katniss’ actions had ulterior motives that were directed at him. Just raving in his room alone like:

[cant-find-anyone-elseeee]

there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too

suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.

all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.

[agentmilayawithshield]

The moment Tigris tells Snow he looks like his father, my heart broke.

That's her Prim.

That's the child she took care of while being a child herself, stuck with an adult who couldn't care for them all that well. She tried so hard and sacrificed so much for the boy that despite all her love still turns into a monster.

Katniss's Prim dies, but Tigris' Prim destroys every part of the boy she raised, to the point she wants him dead and has nothing in her heart for him except absolute loathing.