#Old ballads

[lepetitdragonvert]

A Book of Old English Ballads by George Wharton Edwards

1910

Artist : Hamilton Wright Mable

Phillida and Corydon

#damselles #damsel #ballad #english ballads #Old ballads #1910 #george wharton edwards #phillida and corydon #hamilton wright mable #wood #phillida #old ballad #song #old song

[insignificant457]

The scene was powerful in the book, but there was just something about watching reaper collect the bodies of the dead tributes in the arena. The way he removes the weapons from their hands, lays them out nicely, giving them the smallest bit of dignity in death. The contrast to the capitol gasping in shock as he pulls down the flag, not in rebellion, but in mourning. The way mourning in the hunger games IS an act of rebellion. “How are you going to punish me now?” The feed then immediately cutting to the news of the death of one capitol boy, whose death will be avenged upon those who had nothing to do with it. Only certain deaths are allowed to mean anything. God. Suzanne Collins knows what she’s doing.

#the hunger games #ballad of songbirds and snakes #it feels like Suzanne realized that so many people missed the point of the original story so she stripped it of all its polish #and shoved it all in our faces like ‘do you get it now?’ #and maybe it’s just being an adult this time instead of a 13 year old but yeah. I think I do get it now

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #etching engraving #gothic #illustration #book illustration #english literature #english ballads #the fairies farewell lament lament old abbies #old english ballads #birket foster #1864 #architecture #gothic ruins #abbey ruins #carus #caspar david friedrich

[atomic-chronoscaph]

art by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1910s)

#eleanor fortescue-brickdale #arthurian legend #medieval art #book illustrations #20th century paintings #merlin the enchanter #queen guinevere #idylls of the king #kate barlass #golden book of famous women #the book of old english songs and ballads #1910s

[buriedknight]

Herr Mannelig

#fantasy #fantasy art #medieval #herr mannelig #folklore #i love this ballad so much #and i've listened to so many covers #but haggard's one is still my very fav #yeah it is in italian not in swedish but it slaps #also another old art of mine i haven't shown here #my art

[incorrect-tbosas]

#tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #incorrect tbosas #incorrect tbosas quotes #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #the old therebefore #this song rewired my brain #this movie altered my brain chemistry

[diioonysus]

memento mori

#the ballad of lenora by horace vernet #the reaper by stevan aleksic #self portrait with love and death by hans thoma #death and the woodcutter by jean francois millet #self portrait in a tavern by steven aleksic #self-portrait with death playing the fiddle by arnold bocklin #death playing the violin by frans fracken #death and conflagration by albert chmielowski #death and life by gustav klimt #death on the pale horse by gustave dore #death by janis rozentals #power of death by william holbrook beard #death as a general rides a horse on a battlefield by edgar bundy #death vistor by adolph menzel #the old man and death by joseph wright derby #the old man and death by sobeslav pinkas #old man's death by laszlo mednyanszky #smierc by jacek malczewski #death and the miser by hieronymus bosch #death comes to the table of the miser by giovanni martinelli #konec vsech veci by maximilian pirner #a sickly female overlooking a beautiful view by richard tennant cooper #death and the masks by james ensor #the human paraody by felicien rops #the drinker by e plontke #death and the soldier by hans larwin #ahasuerus at the end of the world by adolf hiremy-hirschl #the last friend by zgymunt andrychiewicz smiierc #angel kills firstborn by ilya repin #garden of death by hugo simberg

[katnissandpeetamellark]

yes ❌

no ❌

I'm not sure ✅

#Coriolanus Snow #Sejanus Plinth #Snowjanus #Snowplinth #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #thg #hunger games #bosas #president snow #Old president snow #coriolanus x sejanus #President Coriolanus Snow #text post #funny #text posts #incorrect quotes #shit posting

[fictionaltrvlr]

#“I killed the old me so I could come with you” #✨​🤭🫶💕 #me: 😐 #tbosas #coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #lucy gray baird #thg #tbosas spoilers #tbosas memes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #hunger games memes #songbirds and snakes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes spoilers #my incorrect quotes :)

[maxiemumdamage]

You know what AU I’d like to see (read: will possibly con myself into writing)?

The 75th Hunger Games, the Third Quarter Quell, is announced. Haymitch and Katniss are desperately trying to get Peeta out alive, having already accepted that Katniss herself will be killed by Snow’s arena and Mutts if the other tributes don’t manage it.

The reaping begins. Effie Trinket struggles and finally manages to draw the one name in the ladies’ bowl. Katniss Everdeen is reaped for the first time, a tribute for the second.

“I volunteer as tribute,” sings an old lady in the audience.

District 12’s only other female Victor. Lucy Gray Baird, winner of the 10th Hunger Games. She survived Coriolanus’s fit in the woods, dodged the gunfire and made her escape. Barely, she managed to survive on her own. And when the Quell was announced, well….

Somehow, let’s say the news of it made its way to her wherever she was living. And Lucy is in her eighties, now. She’s lived a long, good life even though her love wasn’t as Pure as the Driven Snow after all. She avoided the suffering in 12, lived happily, and dodged the fate of the many victors who followed her. She’s ready. Besides, she’s got some unfinished business in the Capitol.

Most people would argue against it. But Effie Trinket has two kids she would like to see live, thank you very much, and she is the escort for the district, hm? Thread may argue, but with the cameras rolling what can he do? What right does the Head Peacekeeper have to intervene in the reaping when the Mayor and Escort both sign off on it? Effie offers to instead redo the drawing with Lucy and Katniss’s names both in the bowl…but what would that accomplish when it’s clear one will volunteer even if her name isn’t called? This, of course, means that when Haymitch is still called, Peeta has no reason to volunteer. No, it’s Lucy and Haymitch who will go to the arena.

Maybe the 75th Hunger Games still go on. Or maybe they’re rather delayed when President Coriolanus Snow drops dead of a heart attack after the reapings are broadcasted.

#Coin meanwhile is having a small stroke in 13 #which could never hope to rival the MASSIVE heart attack Coryo suffers seeing his old flame back in the Games and back in the Capitol #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #a ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #lucy gray baird #the hunger games #hunger games #catching fire #imagine Lucy getting her interview with Caesar Flickerman #effie trinket #katniss everdeen #haymitch abernathy #max.txt

[mismatchedstars]

right here, in the old therebefore...

#made by me #my edit #thg #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games edit #thgedit #the hunger games #tbosas edit #lucy gray baird #lucy gray #lucy gray edit #the old therebefore #lucy gray baird edit

[mmelolabelle]

who has an accurate perception of what’s going on in the hg universe at any given time? not coriolanus snow or katniss everdeen i’ll tell you that much

the living embodiments of “don’t jump to conclusions!”/“too late! I’m jumping! i’ve jumped!”

#they both have (1) standard response to any stimulus: THREAT? THIS PERSON DECIEVES? IMMINENT BETRAYAL? #(katniss makes exceptions for the occasional cute kid or adorable old person but otherwise) #we love an unhinged unreliable narrator #coriolanus snow #katniss everdeen #president snow #the hunger games #a ballad of songbirds and snakes #abosas #thg series

[kheprriverse]

A somewhat older piece that I cleaned up for today.

Dusk is a smart boy who takes full advantage of being a cute littol guy while he can.

#legend of zelda #zelda au #link #wolf link #Ballad (Kheprriverse) #Dusk (Kheprriverse) #Kheprriverse #Kheprriart #based off one of my own dogs tbh #He's stuck as a wolf and taking full advantage of it #i stopped working on this a while back coz i just didnt like it #but im forcing myself to post it anyways #*Quite a few pieces like this are old enough to not be posted because of Ballad’s recent design update… #… this one can go up tho because it doesnt actually show that much of Ballad’s design and his outfit is his usual casual one

[laniidae-passerine]

I made my post about Dean Highbottom and then as I was writing my tags realised that his Hunger Games counterpart is Haymitch. and now my head is in my hands and I don’t think I’ll ever recover

#IM GOING TO CRY. I am part of the system I never wanted anything to do with it #I killed so many people without laying a hand on them. I never ever asked for this. I tried to say no. my hands are still bloody. #both turned to drugs to cope. both had a mentee who reminded them of someone they hated so much #(snow reminded the dean of his old friend. katniss reminded haymitch of himself) #both knew exactly how the games worked and all of its consequences because one made it and the other lived it #both lived in the shadows of the past and never really got out from it #but in the end one of them chose to be cruel to the children who they were asked to mentor #and the other loved even when it was killing him #god. twenty three years and they never managed to drown the fire out of him. his heart broke again and again #but he held onto those shards even as they made his hands bleed. and then one day two children appeared and pieced it back together #and some of it was missing and always would be. you can’t undo twenty three years of alcoholism and pain and grief and self loathing #but a lot of it was still there. far more than he ever even believed could have survived #Haymitch I love youuuuuuuuu I will always love you #and Dean Highbottom you were kinda cringe and lame. guynobody ass bitch. do better #haymitch abernathy #dean highbottom #thg #the hunger games #a ballad of songbirds and snakes #abosas

[lifeinpoetry]

How sorely I wanted to be sane. What a life we are given! Sudden, and cold, with blood on it.

— Sharon Olds, from "Paper Doll Ballad, for Fats," Balladz

#quote #sharon olds #poetry #balladz #out of my collection #Paper Doll Ballad for Fats

[deconstructthesoup]

Baron from the Baronies is Jane Doe but Evil

#the doll face? the cracks that look like tears? the blank eyes? the old-fashioned clothes? #turn the ballad of jane doe into a villain song and baby you've got baron #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #baron from the baronies