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The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

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Will you stay with Nancy? Yeah. Definitely.

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i just don’t understand emerald fennell’s thought process. like you cast shazad latif and alison oliver in your wuthering heights movie but they are not playing heathcliff and cathy?? you chose jacob elordi and margot robbie instead?? why??

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THE ARTUL DODGER WAS RENEWED!?!?!

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003) S02E02 ♱ Some Assembly Required

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Couldn’t find any good romance shows so I started X-Files instead

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Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers in BTVS S4 Ep20 "The Yoko Factor"

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Something is off. Your clothes never wear as well the next day. Your hair never falls in quite the same way. Even your coffee tastes…. wrong. Our institutions are crumbling. Nobody trusts their neighbor anymore. And you stay up at night wondering to yourself– “How can we get back?”

SUCCESSION 04.01, “THE MUNSTERS” / “IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE” (2000) / “EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE” (2022) in reference to “ABSOLUTELY (STORY OF A GIRL)” by NINE DAYS / “BLACK ORPHEUS” (1959) / “TWO SLOW DANCERS” by MITSKI

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HAYMITCH

I wish I had more time (and energy) to draw Second Quarter Quell gen characters before the book release. I’m ready for my headcanons to be smashed and burn but I want to enjoy them as long as possible haha.

How are you guys?

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In Part III of TBOSAS, Coriolanus tells Sejanus that they are like brothers and that Sejanus can trust him, and this has always stuck out to me for many reasons. However, the one that I want to address right now is the parallel it creates between Snow and Sejanus and Romulus and Remus. Namely, Romulus’s fratricide of Remus which led to Romulus founding the city of Rome, its institutions, government, military, etc. and how it mirrors Snow’s betrayal and killing of Sejanus. Snow’s betrayal is what ultimately led to Gaul allowing Snow to return home and taking him under her wing as a mentor of sorts, as well as him becoming heir to the Plinth fortune. Thus Sejanus’s death resulting from Snow’s actions played a major part (along with Lucy Gray) in setting Snow down the path of evil and to becoming the dictator we see see in the trilogy—the man who instilled new life into the Hunger Games and ensured their survival for the next 65 years.

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In the movie, they added Snow giving Lucy Gray his mother’s scarf/shawl which Lucy Gray even describes as still smelling like roses (which was her signature scent). And when Snow goes into the woods to chase Lucy Gray, he comes across the scarf on the ground which Lucy Gray presumably planted along with a snake. However, in those moments right as we see him descend into madness, he picks up the scarf and smells it. And it is almost as if he is trying to absorb and hold onto as much of his mother as he can—hold onto the goodness—only to realize that the smell of roses no longer remains. No goodness lingers. Thus, marking his complete embrace of the darkness and of his father which is further confirmed when Tigris tells Snow, “you look just like your father” at the end of the film.

And the reason why I love it so much is that it is a callback to a similar moment in the book. In the book Snow undergoes this rebirth and full transformation of sorts when he dives into the lake with the guns to hide the evidence and when he emerges his mother’s rose powder that he had on him is ruined while his father’s compass remains in tact. Once again, this represents how the goodness no longer remains and is destroyed by his actions as he steps across that line into evil. Snow emerges from the water hardened and planted firmly on the path that leads to control and power.

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ONE YEAR OF TBOSAS The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes November 17, 2023

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PIPER HALLIWELL CHARMED 1x05 "Dream Sorcerer"

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How many times is too many times to reblog a post so that more people can see it????

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R.I.P. Fox Mulder you would have loved Horseshoe Bay

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THIS. IS. JUST. EPISODE. 1 😩

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Reputation? I have a reputation?

THE X-FILES — 1.03: Squeeze