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fictionaltrvlr · 6 months

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I’m obsessed with all the repeating themes in the Hunger Games, but one I’m absolutely in love with is how Snow can never escape Lucy Gray.

[This post contains spoilers!]

We know this almost immediately simply from the title, Songbirds and Snakes, as we remember Katniss and her mockingjay and singing in the arena. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Snow hates Katniss for the rebellion, of course. But perhaps more than that is what a call she is to his lost love, not in personality so much as spirit.

Lucy Gray is Truly Inescapable

Lucy Gray is named for the Ballad of Lucy Gray, and immediately when we learn this, there is the sinking knowledge that she will not survive this story.

But after the disappearance of the ballad’s Lucy Gray, they follow her footprints, the impressions she’s left behind. And later is one of my favourite lines from the ballad:

Yet some maintain that to this day She is a living Child, That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome Wild.

To all the knowledge that the girls family has, she has died. But they still see her.

And also pulling in the newly released Can’t Catch Me Now:

But I'm in the trees, I'm in the breeze My footsteps on the ground You'll see my face in every place But you can't catch me now

(I’m so in love with how well this song ties the franchise together, it’s so perfect)

From the second he lands in Twelve, Snow hates the mockingjays and does his best to eradicate them. He sees them as unnatural creatures who survived not only without the Capitol, but inspite of them. And yet he fails to get rid of them, the mockingjays survive despite his best efforts.

And even years later, their sheer existence haunts him, eventually proving to be one of his greatest failures.

And all of the messes you made Yeah, you think that you got away

This is a great line to me because, since this being told from the perspective of Lucy Gray, it turns the story on its head. We and Snow are never really sure if she survived, so you could think that she got away. But it’s in fact Snow who has deluded himself into getting away from her. She will follow him, everywhere, for the rest of his miserable life.

At the end of TBOSAS, he says there would be a vague memory of a girl who had once sung in the arena, and that Lucy Gray and her mockingjays could never hurt him again.

Then gloriously, devastatingly, 65 years later Snow sees another girl with braided hair from Distinct Twelve in the games, adorned with a mockingjay, who sings Rue to sleep, who escapes the arena by cheating with something the Capitol themselves has provided (Katniss with the berries, Lucy Gray with the snakes).

Katniss, who then goes on to spark rebellion with that same symbol of mockingjays, with the song that Lucy Gray penned.

Snow is seeing Lucy Gray everywhere, in the mockingjays, in Peeta’s personality, in Katniss’ appearance, in the song about that tree that changed his life. But he cannot catch her.

He tried, and never knew if he succeeded. But she is everywhere, the symbol of his weakness, the one thing that maybe could have made him give up his future. The person who made him come to detest the very idea of love, who made him swear that if he ever married it will be to someone he hates so they could never manipulate him.

Her spirit chokes him. He is drowning in her and her mockingjays, and they finally are his downfall.

And that is beautiful.

#I am beyond excited #can’t catch me now just embodies the whole franchise so perfectly and I can’t handle it #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #tbosas spoilers #the ballad of songbirds and snakes spoilers #the hunger games #president snow #can’t catch me now #olivia rodrigo #tbosas #thg #thoughts on things

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wexpyke · 1 year

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What was it like exploring the second season?

Patrick Gibson confirms that he will be playing Sturmhond as well as Nikolai Lantsov in season 2 of “Shadow and Bone”.

#patrickgibsonedit #shadowandboneedit #sabedit #shadowandbonesource #shadowandbonecentral #patrick gibson #nikolai lantsov #shadow and bone cast #paddy gibson #STURMHOND CONFIRMED!!!!!#i am BEYOND excited #mine: nikolai #this counts shhh #mine: gif

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silvergreenseraphim · 3 months

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Okay everyone, I am here! Forgive my absence once again but for the events that we have been overpowered with, I was determined to stay quiet and watch everything from a distance until all releases were complete.

I will begin translating what I can at once! The Rebirth demo was breathtaking and there is so much to translate into English properly. The new First Soldier chapter was also such a blessing and I am relieved that it finally arrived.

There are hidden nuances in the text that I need to investigate so please give me some time and I will make a post for them 😊

#what an amazing chapter!#i am beyond excited #and the demo shook me up 😰#final fantasy 7 #sephiroth #ever crisis #ffvii #ff7 #ffvii first soldier #fvii rebirth

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notpaulsguitar · 6 months

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SEEING KISS LIVE IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL

#i can’t believe i get to see them #i am beyond excited #those are my boys #my babies if you will #i love them so much #i am gonna be screaming my head off when they come on stage i swear #i will cry and it will be slightly embarrassing but i don’t care

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alice-dyers-spouse · 3 months

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please tell me i'm not the only one already hyperfixating on the magnus protocol but there is barely any content and it hasn't even released yet so i just sit here like