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snow's interaction with haymitch during sotr is so funny. almost like this fool has rehearsed this script. to any poor soul that would hear. but also because it just wouldn't work if he said the same lines to peeta.
like snow would be over here talking about a whisper of a person. fluttering away. dancing in colorful dresses. enchanting a boy with her manic pixie dream girl fantasy.
meanwhile, peeta:
#peeta: are we talking about the same katniss? you have met her... right?#like katniss may look like lgb and lenore dove and covey... but girly pop is too beaten down down the *horrors*#but peeta loves her anyway... and perhaps that is the even more perplexing thing for snow.#that he could try to smoke out the covey from his country... but that won't stop a poor soul falling in love with the mockingbird's tune#the hunger games#everlark#thg#peeta mellark#katniss everdeen#katniss#peeta#the hunger games katniss#the hunger games peeta#thg katniss#hunger games
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thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.
Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.
Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.
Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.
The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.
Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.
#tbosas#the hunger games#im sure someone has already said this much more eloquently than this#but i cant stop thinking about it#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#ballad of songbirds and snakes#hunger games#tbosas spoilers#catching fire#i could write a thesis on this#thg#suzanne collins the woman you are
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Drusilla telling Maysilee that she hopes she'll win because she (Drusilla) knows what will happen with a pretty victor like her is vile
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It's the smallest thing maybe but it's funny to me Sunrise on the Reaping has given me another reason to dislike Gale.
Thinking of Madge on reaping day, wearing her nice dress and Gale giving her shit for it. Like she has a choice. Like she has say. Like it's her fault who she was born to. It's such an interesting example of class vs culture wars. This idea that the people up the road who have a nice house are the enemy and not the faceless people thousands of miles away who profit on their poverty.
Thinking of Maysilee who was very conscious of the way she dressed. Who liked looking nice and dressing up. Who is Madge's aunt that she never met. Who Madge heard stories of growing up about her moms twin sister who always loved fashion and knew the importance of masking and the power of how you present to people. Don't let them treat us like animals.
And when Madge lifts her head and says "I want to look my best if I go to the Capitol" and Gale has the audacity to scoff at her.
It also speaks to how quickly history is lost. He probably doesn't even know her aunt died in the games. Doesn't care. You never ever ever know what hurt people are carrying. What their history is. What their familial struggle has been. Don't punch down. Don't punch sideways. Don't even punch up. Break the chain and destroy the person holding the reins.
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Maysilee would bully young Snow so bad
the girls are fightinggggg

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Thinking about Maysilee Donner. A girl who refused to let the Capitol dehumanize her. A girl who wanted to die with dignity, without begging for her life, because that mattered to her. Who set up a place setting with napkins and forks in the middle of the arena because she is a human being. Who loved jewelry and fashion and believed that her appearance sends a message about who she is, and who wanted that message to be respectable, dignified, worth something.
Thinking about Maysilee Donner who was unafraid to slap the woman who pulled her name in the reaping and who threw clever insults towards anyone who provoked her, no matter who they were. Maysilee Donner who believed human dignity is inherent but respect is earned and who refused to give respect to those who did not deserve it.
Maysilee Donner whose father threw money at the reaping stage as if that could save her, and the money floated to the ground just like the confetti, meaningless paper that signified nothing when placed against the power of the Capitol. Whose privilege could not save her. Who recognized that reality and faced it with more fortitude than any person should ever have to display. Maysilee Donner.
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"likes mean nothing on tumblr" you're sending me a little heart. that's not nothing it's your heart. look here's one for you <3
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last night i dreamt tumblr added like a billion buttons to the mobile app so instead of this

we got this

and everyone just rolled with it but sometimes the wide naruto got too wide and blocked off all the other buttons and people would just post "got naruto'd again :/" and the only way to reset him was to log out and log back in
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Apollo and Artemis :D This is part of a drawing I'm working on, but I like their designs, especially Artemis'
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I adore toxic relationship stories. Stories where the love is there, and it's absolute poison to everyone involved.
Stories about people who love one another completely and desperately, yet are so deeply flawed as people that they each drag one another down, and make one another into their worst selves.
Stories where the characters are full of romance, and love and joy, and that love somehow turns everything around them into an emotional blasted wasteland.
#gothic romance#toxic romance#romance writing#villain f/o#enemies to lovers#lovers to enemies#dark romance#villain posting#dark romantasy#💪🔫
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Everyone romantizing young Snow while I just see him sing Hellfire
#lucy grey baird#esmeralda#anti coriolanus snow#the hunchback of notre dame#ballad of songbirds and snakes#the fact the covey is kinda the gypsies of panen#i LOVE THEIR RELATIONSHIPS#but not as romantic or cute#lucy grey HAUNTS this man until his end#the villains kills the hero he had a obssesive love with#and she still here as a ghost#singing in his mind
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Why my favorite female characters that haunt the narrative, are the predecessor hero to their female descendants (or relatives), are dark-haired and eerie, all start with 'L'?
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I don't ship it, but I fucking love how this girl absolute terrorized this man, haunted his dreams and invaded his head for years
This is something I’ve seen a lot and I’ve also joked about a lot but after SotR I just need to clarify my actual thoughts on this topic: Snow’s “twink death” and his inability to let go of, what was essentially, a month long relationship.
The thing is, it’s not Lucy Gray that he’s holding a grudge against… it’s her lifestyle. He got to experience first hand, the freedom and self-assurance that groups like the Covey generated for themselves. He saw Lucy Gray run off into the woods, swim in a lake, sing and dance with her peers, all after a game that should’ve destroyed her spirits - because that is the point of the Games. To have a sole surviving reminder of why the Capitol is in control. To send back one “victor” who every district hates because the person standing in front of them is taking their friend/child/sibling/cousin/partner’s spot. To completely dismantle that person’s ability to cope with the world the way they used to and to have them beholden to the Capitol for “awarding” them with riches. They’re supposed to serve only as a reminder, a threat, a shell of a person who is visibly hollow and tarnished, hated by many, feared by some and pitied by few.
Lucy Gray is not that shell. Lucy Gray, therefore, serves as a constant reminder to Snow of what should not be happening to those who get to leave the arena. The more he takes command of the Capitol and the Games, the more the “mistakes” of the Games stand out to him because his benchmark for measuring them is Lucy Gray.
Keep in mind that the 10th Games were also the first time he got to see from the inside out. He saw what pissed off the tributes. He saw how they were transported. He also saw how the public reacted at the home district. Lucy Gray had nightmares, sure, but her ability to re-mingle with her friends was a failure of the Capitol. He saw the need to maintain a constant difference between “victor” and “friend”. He saw the need to put them on tours so that the divide and distance grows. He saw the need to be able to broadcast every aspect of the Games without having to constantly be frantically cutting the feed or very obviously fixing the narrative, because that was yet another failure of the system the Capitol was trying to enforce.
This becomes so clear in SotR when he has his talk with Haymitch and realises that the Lucy Gray spirit he has been trying to squash is still alive. Not only that, it’s infectious. It can take someone like Haymitch, someone who is very well pressed under the Capitol thumb, and spark a fire inside him. The colours of the Covey, the singing, it doesn’t just represent Lucy Gray, it represents aspects of freedom that shouldn’t exist. Even him saying:
“You love her. And oh, how she seems to love you. Except sometimes you wonder because her plans don’t seem to include you at all.”
Is so telling because he can’t fathom that a person in the districts could have the independence of thought to do whatever they want. To him, she should be desperate to go back to the Capitol with Snow to get a chance to live the dream that they’re trying so hard to sell, but obviously failing.
So no, Lucy Gray isn’t just the girl he couldn’t get over. She’s the girl that serves as a warning, as an abomination of the purpose of the Capitol. As his personal blueprint of what should not be repeated ever again.
#had some thoughts because sotr has me obsessed#like obviously snow is soooo psycho already#but… it makes sense#sotr got me feverishly rocking back and forth#sotr#sotr spoilers#thg sotr#thg prequel#tbosas#thg#the hunger games#the hunger games spoilers#sunrise on the reaping#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#coriolanus snow#lucy gray baird#lucy gray x coriolanus#lenore dove#the covey#haymitch abernathy#katniss everdeen#peeta mellark#suzanne collins
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"They're going to bury you three feet deep, because you've only ever been half a man" sounds like a raw ass line from Shakespeare or something buts actually from me yelling at my cat for stealing my sandwich while I was getting a drink.
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I walked the eternal sands
print available in my shop!
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Byakuya nearly executing Rukia vs Oswald sending Lacie to the Abyss
I am not fine
The Soul King reminds me of The Will of the Abyss in a poorly done way
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