#ballad of songbirds and snakes movie

[thief-of-eggs]

I thought Sejanus was gonna kiss Coriolanus at least 3 different times in the movie.

And I thought Coriolanus was gonna kiss him back at least once.

#ballad of songbirds and snakes movie #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coriolanus #coriolanus snow #coriolanus x sejanus #sejanus #sejanus plinth #coriolanus/sejanus #snowjanus

[trolliworms]

So I just listened to Can’t Catch Me Now and oh my god I love it so much 😭😭😭

🚨Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes spoilers 🚨

It’s so perfect, the way it’s kind of folksy, like I imagine it’s something the Covey would sing, while also being in Olivia’s style. The way it goes from kind of melancholy to being almost angry.

The way it so perfectly reflects how Lucy Gray and Snow’s “relationship” ended, with him never knowing what actually happened to her, but she continues to haunt him for the rest of his life and it’s just so good I can’t.

The lyrics?!?? I need to show how amazing they are

“There’s snow falling over the city, you thought that it would wash away, the bitter taste of my fury, and all of the mess that you made.” Snow thought that winning the games (reinstating the Snow name) would solve his problems, but it didn’t and omg just this one lyric has so many layers to unpack I can’t right now

“I bet you figured I’d pass with the winter, I’d be something easy to forget.” Snow thought that Lucy Gray would die in the woods on her way to what he thought was a non-existent thirteen, but we know that thirteen did exist and that he later figured this out when he became president, meaning that he probably knows that she survived and it haunts him.

“Yeah sometimes the fire you founded, don’t burn the way you’d expect, yeah you thought that this was the end.” This one’s pretty obviously about Katniss (fire), she was brought to fame by the games (which are Snow’s doing) but she fueled the rebellion against him. The rebel attitudes he saw during his time at 12 didn’t end when he lost Lucy Gray, and they led to his demise.

Guys I didn’t even touch the chorus or the bridge I could talk about this for hours 😭😭😭 thank you for reading if you did <333

#ballad of songbirds and snakes #can’t catch me now #olivia rodrigo #hunger games #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #ballad of songbirds and snakes movie

[bubblegumbarbie33]

Listen I'm all for thirsting over Coriolanus Snow but can we not write Snow x Readers where Lucy Gray is the villain?? Something about excusing an entitled monster for his beauty and dismissing a female victim of violence because she's getting in the way of your 'wondrous love' just feels off to me-especially in the context of the Hunger Games universe being a dystopic society faintly resembling our own

#idk maybe I'm wrong #ballad of songbirds and snakes movie #ballad of songbirds and snakes #hunger games #coriolanus snow #lucy gray x coriolanus #lucy gray baird

[sorryiwasasleep]

Wait now that I have a tumblr cause I didn’t when I read the book and it’s trending: we’re all in agreement Seajanus was DEEPLY in love with Snow right? Like that’s the vibe we all got?

#the hunger games #president snow #seajanus #Seajanus plinth #coriolanus snow #i ONLY READ THE BOOK ONCE #SO PLEASE DONT THINK IM DUMB IF THIS IS WRONG #but i remember thinking the whole time ‘this man wants to kiss you.’ while snow manipulated him #the betrayal still GUTTED me even though i knew it had to be coming #and i MUST know if I’m misremembering because I don’t think I’ll reread it before the movie #ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes movie #tbosas #bosas

[victoriartdrawings]

#Anidala #paul x chani #Snowbaird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #Coriolanus Snow #Anakin skywalker #Padme amidala #Lucy gray baird #Chani kynes #Dune #Dune part 2 #Dune spoiler #Timothee chalamet #Zendaya #Dune movie #Star wars #Rots #Tbosas

[bumble-b1]

Ok who was going to tell me that the soundtrack from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was full of bangers?

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #country music #rachel zegler #susan collins #ballad of songbirds and snakes movie

[vincentsleftear]

I watched the ballad of songbirds and snakes last night! Because I already knew the plot from reading the book I was able to just enjoy the movie for what it was and it was actually quite good! I had a better experience watching than reading the book - not that that is much of an achievement 😭💀

#miss hunter schafer SLAYED as tigress #love her character so much 💌 #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #that books plot was a DUMPSTERFIRE I’m so sorry #and I was a HUGE fan of the hunger games when I was younger #but imma just have to view that book as like a peice of fanfiction or something 😭 #I won’t give out spoilers but….wth #ballad of songbirds and snakes movie #ballad of songbirds and snakes book

[vivicendium]

i think something that elevates the hunger games franchise is not just the quality of writing but the integrity of it. tbosas isn’t just a cash-grab by suzanne collins in the age of sequels and reboots (though i won’t pretend that didn’t play a part), it’s a character study of the main antagonist with a different structure than the main trilogy. and importantly, it doesn’t just re-hash the same old themes and beats the main trilogy had, it expands on not just the world of the hunger games but the themes as well, it actually has something new to say about the trilogy’s themes about class, capitalism, power, and control, in a way that couldn’t be explored with the main story because the protagonist of that story simply did not have access to the world that’s being explored in tbosas.

i understand the people who call for books/movies to be made about haymitch, finnick, johanna, different years of the games — we love those characters and want to see more of them! i’d kill for a novella on finnick’s days mentoring tributes, or katniss’s parents falling in love. but at the end of the day we probably wouldn’t be very satisfied with those stories being fleshed out if they had absolutely nothing new to say about the world, they’d be enjoyable, but not as interesting and engaging as tbosas has been.

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #thg #tbosas #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #finnick odair #johanna mason #haymitch abernathy #thg series #thg meta #hunger games prequel #been thinking about this since i read tbosas tbh #rachel zegler #tom blyth #josh andres rivera #movie industry

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

#seeing some discourse and im not saying lucy grey didnt know #im saying she never dropped the kind of hints that she knew like she did in the movie #or if she did snow isnt worried about them until he very suddenly is consumed by them #snow is not concerned about whether or not she believed him. of course she did! hes snow! #but then shes gone…. for a while…… #and its the sudden immediate drastic unravelling that comes across so clearly in the book #that i knew wouldn’t translate to screen yet still cant help but miss #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #tbosas #lucy gray baird #not a crime or anything just a note that i cannot stop thinking about #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #this is all from memory of reading it quite a while ago. so maybe 3 pages is an exaggeration #but i remember it happening VERY quickly and without much external cause #like we as the reader have no indication as to whether shes nearby or not. #snow has no idea either. he just SUSPECTS. and his suspicion breeds the hatred that has been bubbling inside him all this time #he hates how she undoes him. he hates that he WOULD run away with her if shed let him keep his secrets #and he HATES more than anything that she makes him WANT to tell his secrets #he wants to be vulnerable and reveal the ugly nasty parts about himself and still be loved #but he does not let himself and it is everyone’s downfall #he chooses cruelty bc it is easy and familiar and makes him feel more powerful than the vulnerable give and take that real love requires

[odairfilm]

In the epilogue of Mockingjay, Katniss only refers to her children as 'the boy' and 'the girl'. We never learn their real names. Throughout her life, Katniss has never really been allowed privacy or the ability to make many of her own decisions. Whether this was caused by the living conditions of the Seam and having to constantly provide for Prim and their mother, or by the fact that she was forced into the scrutiny of the public eye when she was reaped/volunteered and became the face of the rebellion- The Mockingjay.

So then all of this passes, she and Peeta are living together in District 12 in the Victor's Village, and they are finally allowed to choose how they want to live. After 15 years, she decides that she's ready to have kids. They can be raised in a safe environment with no Games, no threats. So the one choice she makes at the end is to keep their names from us, the audience. The one thing that gives us our identity before anything else. The one thing that, essentially, makes us who we are (also Suzanne is so meticulous with picking names throughout the series, so it would be special to Katniss and Peeta). She decides that that's only for her and her family to know.

We, who have literally seen every inch of her life from the reaping up until now, are being told that no, we don't get to see parts of her life without her permission anymore. And it always makes me so emotional. Like yes! Take back your life! Rest. Live. Love. But on YOUR terms and no one elses.

(I posted this on my TikTok acc @narniachrons as well. It wasn't stolen, I swear!)

#katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #hunger games #thg #thg katniss #thg peeta #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #coryo snow #finnick odair #johanna mason #jennifer lawrence #josh hutcherson #sam claflin #mockingjay #catching fire #movie #film #suzanne collins #author #book adaptation #bookblr #dystopian

[mockingjay-sings]

“Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

#the quote in the gifset is by Emily Bronte! #the hunger games #a ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #katniss everdeen #lucy gray baird #thg #thg edit #the hunger games edit #hunger games #hunger games edit #ABOSAS #TBOSAS #president snow #moviegifs #filmgifs #movie edit #mockingjaygifs #tbosas movie #ballad of songbirds and snakes #thgedit #abosas #gifhungergames

[thief-of-eggs]

I think the point of The Ballad of Songbirds and snakes is- which do you lean into in a moment of crisis? Your moral compass? Or your instincts of survival?

The Capital and the Games brought a challenge to each mentor’s survival instincts, as well as their moral compass. Sejanus leaned heavily into his moral compass and pushed aside his survival instincts, while Coriolanus did the opposite- he leaned into his survival instincts and pushed his moral compass aside.

Same with the tributes. Lucy Gray leaned into her moral compass, while Coral leaned into her survival instincts. Lucy Gray found herself struggling to kill others to save herself, while Coral turned that part of her brain off to survive.

At the end of the day, each mentor was equally in that arena as the tributes. And how they reacted shaped their futures entirely.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #boss #suzanne collins #the hunger games #thg #thg series #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes movie #tbosas

[trolliworms]

Alright y’all I’ve seen Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes twice now, and I just have to tell how amazing it is (spoiler warning)

I honestly think I like this adaptation more than the other hunger games movies. It was so fucking good. The music, the cast, the costumes, the sets, everything. They did such a good job keeping the key scenes from the novel. I was so scared they were going to change too much, but mostly they just condensed.

Now there’s definitely changes, but I liked all of them, and the changes never compromised the themes. And watching the movie I was able to pick up on so much symbolism that I didn’t pick up on in the books, and having the visual aspect allowed them to add more symbolism that was done so well. I could write a whole essay on the symbolism istg 😭

So I highly recommend going to see it if you haven’t, and I definitely recommend reading the book, it adds a lot of insight.

#ballad of songbirds and snakes movie #bosas #lol #suzzane collins #hunger games #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #tom blyth #rachel zegler

[bubblegumbarbie33]

My friends really watched The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and said, "I could not tell you what that movie was about. There was no story. I wish I could get those two hours back. I really only liked it when they referenced the original movie. Why was she singing?"

And the only defence I could muster was, "It's better if you have the context of the book. 😭"

#hunger games #ballad of songbirds and snakes #bosas movie #ballad of songbirds and snakes movie #hunger games movie

[jjadmanii]

film adaptations are all fun and games until ppl start watching the movie without reading the book,,then it just becomes the 10th circle of dante’s hell

#fandom #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #movie adaptation #good god and when ppl start critizing shit without reading the book skshsjsh SHUT UPPP #shadow and bone #percy jackson #harry potter #marvel

[etfrin]

⤷❝The Study | Coriolanus Snow❞ˎˊ-

⇢☾Warning: NSFW | riding, toxic relationship, arranged marriage, mentions of cheating (no actual cheating occurs), riding, dom sub undertones, degradation (he calls you a slut once), hair pulling, edging if you squint, crying, pinv sex, unprotected sex (wrap it dumbfucks), creampie, dry humping, clothed sex (you were still wearing a dress) | lmk if I forgot anything!

⇢☾Pairing: young president! Coriolanus Snow x fem! Reader

⇢☾Summary: A video of you flirting with an elitist goes viral and Snow calls you to his study to confront you about it and it ends up in sexy times ;)

⇢☾A/N: btw for those who doesn't get why Snow asked reader to mark him, it's to show the Capitol that despite rumors, they are actually very close. And uhmm I hope you guys like this!

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The marriage was a facade, a show for the Capitol that the president didn't stand alone. The people in the manor were the only people who knew how fake the marriage was. Some of the elite of the Capitol could also tell. People can fake everything but not love, never love.

You learned early on Snow wasn't capable of love. A lover wouldn't do half of the atrocities Snow committed as he got to power but he had never done anything to you. You didn't exist for him in the manor and he was always respectful when you were by his side.

It was manageable, the life you had, nobody could mistreat you, not as the First Lady of Panem. However mistreatment and flirting are very different things, and the people of Capitol aren't a stranger to wandering hands and lustful eyes.

You didn't think Coriolanus would mind that you sometimes let the hands linger. That you would bask in the attention you were so deprived of from your husband. You were proven wrong as a video of you and an elitist was going viral all over the Capitol.

You didn't cheat on Snow, but you were too close to the stranger. His hand on your waist and your smile too wide. Cheating or not, it wasn't any less inappropriate.

A remainder by your servant made you walk to the study in which Snow spent most of his time. You were wearing a knee-length white dress, something that clings to your curves. It was a desperate, pathetic attempt to distract Snow. A part of you knew it wouldn't work and would make your mistake more obvious but it was an attempt better than none.

You knocked at the door and you could hear him say come in. So you did. Your hands are behind your back, and your eyes look at the floor like it's the most interesting thing in the world.

“Do you know what you have done?” He asked, you still couldn't look up to meet his gaze. Your fingers fumble behind your back as you bite your inner cheek. You give him a nod.

“And what have you done?” He questioned, his voice like the calm before the storm. “I created unnecessary gossip that isn't good for your reputation,” you mummer.

“What else?” He said, his tone suspicious and waiting for the confirmation. That's when you look up at the most beautiful demon you have ever seen. He looked all glorious with his suit and hair slicked back. “I didn't cheat,” you said, firmly, your eyes fierce and reflecting the truth of your words.

When Snow didn't reply, you insisted again, “I. Didn't. Cheat. It's a line I will never cross, Coriolanus.” Again, he didn't say anything, instead, his gaze went up and down your body, his expression unreadable. You flushed from his stare, not sure if wearing this dress was the right move after all. The man had always surrounded himself with those stupid white roses and this was the symbol that you had noticed.

“Come and sit.” You begin to walk towards the chair only to be interrupted by his words, “No, not there, in my lap.” You freeze from his words, but your brain tells you to obey his every word.

You make your way to him, your heels clicking against the marble floor. Your hands are sweaty and your heart is in your throat. You reach him before you straddle him without a word being uttered. Your dress hitching up to your thighs. Your hands around his shoulders as you wait for further instructions from your husband.

“What do you think we should do to make the rumors go away?” He asked, his voice deep and so seductive. You weren't even sure he realized the effect his voice had on you. You let out a small gasp when his hands held your hips, cementing your place in his lap.

His hands were warm and perhaps maybe it was biased but you thought they would be ice cold. Instead, his palm laminated heat against the thin fiber of your dress making your skin warm. Your former flush turns into a deeper shade of red.

“We could…” you couldn't focus, how could you when he was touching you like this? When he was so close. He was never this close to you before. Ever. His touch reminded you of the fact that despite everything he is a man and your husband at that. A demon in human flesh.

“We could do more PR,” you mumbled. He raised an eyebrow at the suggestion. “I mean if we do it right, I am sure it will work,” you fumbled. He gives you a nod.

“Take off my shirt,” he demanded. Your eyes widen and you hesitate. “Do it or I’ll make you.” he threatened and you know not to take his words lightly. With shaky fingers, you unbutton his shirt. The process was slow, meticulously slow. His toned physique comes into complete view, making your breath hitch. Fuck, he was a Greek God of tragedy and sin.

“Mark me up,” he said, his tone emotionless. “What?” you questioned, surprised. “You think you’re acting innocent?” he sneered, “You heard what I said, my wife. It's because of your suggestion. Mark. Me. Up.”

You swallow down your nervousness and bring your lips forward to his cheek. You pressed a soft kiss there and felt him tense underneath you. You drag your lips to his jaw and nip the skin, the tip of your tongue soothing the small teeth mark as he lets out a grunt. It was music to you. A masterpiece of symphony and you needed more, so much more. Snow had you deprived for months and it's time to take.

Your lips continue to nip at his jaw, placing sloppy wet kisses as his breaths get heavy. You moved down to his neck, a moan leaving your lips as you attacked his skin with your teeth. Sucking onto his pulse point and moaning when the salty taste of his skin hits your taste buds. Your hand goes to his neck, tilting his head to give you more access. All the while he lets out quite controlled sounds. You licked his Adam's apple before wrapping your mouth around it to suck a purple bruise. Marking him up just as he wanted.

His hand on your waist gave you a firm squeeze which made you bite harder and made him hiss. You lean back panting, as you admire your artwork of teeth marks and red love bites. You pressed down into him and moaned as his hard bulge pressed right against your clothed cunt. Your panties were soaked by now. “Snow,” you whimper.

“Corio, call me Corio” he whispered. His eyes briefly turned to a white bouquet of roses before he met your gaze. You didn't think much of it and whispered, “Corio.”

“Corio,” you tried the name again on your tongue and watched his eyes darken. You leaned in, your lips brushing against his. “Let me kiss you. Let me make you my husband, please,” you whispered.

You waited for a verbal answer but all you got was another squeeze on your waist. You were desperate enough to take what you could get. You started by grinding against his bulge. The juices that made your panties soaked are now ruining his pants.

You let out a breathless moan as you gained delicious friction against your pussy but it wasn't enough. There's no hell and heaven for which this would be enough. You crashed your lips to his. The kiss was all carnage and desire. Uncoordinated, something so unlike Snow Corio that it made you moan into his mouth. Your hands are in his hair, pulling him closer. Your lips glide against each other perfectly. His tongue took over your mouth, not leaving any place unexplored, untouched by him.

You break the kiss with a gasp. Your hand going towards his pants to unzip. The motion stopped as Corio held your wrist and you looked up at him. “You’re my wife, you're my right,” he said, “but do you deserve it?”

It was more than a question, it was a promise waiting to be made, a bond waiting to be sealed. “I…” you begin to speak, you meet his eyes, sea blue you wanted to drown in, “Never again, Sn- Corio. Never again.” “Please,” you added for extra measure. You had his taste already, no one else could ever compare. He had to know that too because he gave you a sharp nod.

You get up from his lap, taking off your panties first, not bothering with the dress. You knew he liked it now, more than you thought so he would. You find your rightful place in his lap again, his pants and boxers past his knees.

His cock was hard and twitching, the length had an angry tip with its slit profusely leaking pre-cum. It looked painful and it was because of you. You. You wondered if you had power over him now for a brief second but you shake your head clear of these thoughts.

Instead, you catch his lips again, the kiss slower this time. You raise yourself a bit so his cock can align itself to your entrance. Your dress is raised to help you. Even if his cock was on the girthy side with veins on the underside of his cock. You knew your pussy would stretch around him, that your walls would be a splendid fit around his length. You were too impatient for any sort of foreplay, you wanted the stretch, you wanted him to make you dizzy with his cock splitting you apart.

You let out a whimper as you began to sink onto his cock, your eyes flicked to him and his eyes were zeroed down to the place you both were connected now. His hands are on either side of your hip, guiding you down on his length. It was after his cock was fully stuffed in you, that his self-control allowed him to let out a groan.

“I respected you like a lady but sluts don't deserve respect,” he said, his lips parted as he let out a heavy pant. You let out a whimper, your mind hazy as your cunt tries to get used to his length. “I.. am sorry,” you whine, how many times do you need to repeat? When will he be satisfied with your apology?

“Prove it,” he said with a smirk, “Prove that you deserve to be my wife and the First Lady of Panem.”

You follow Corios’ command. Your hands are on his shoulders to support yourself. Your fingers fist his shirt as you begin to ride him. Raising yourself a few inches before slamming down on his cock with a loud moan escaping your lips. He reached the deepest spot inside of you like this. His cockhead grazing your spongy spot as you fucking yourself on his cock. Your arousal and his pre-cum being smeared all over your thighs.

The sight made his breath hitch, something you didn't notice as you were too busy with your eyes closed and taking his cock like a good wife. You looked completely debauched like this, your hair wild, your lips red and swollen, your hands digging into his shoulder. Your nipples are hard and obvious through the white dress.

He wasn't supposed to lose control, this was happening for a reason. No matter how many deem him God or devil in the end he was a man. And no man is perfect. He pulled you closer to him. One of his hands is on your back, pressing you to him. Another of his hands in your hair, tugging the strands without a care about how rough he is being. It makes you moan, your head on his chest now. His hips raise upwards to fuck you as he now lets out more vocal sounds of enjoyment.

His pace was slower than yours. Each thrust of his was made for his indulgence in your velvet walls. The drag of his cock was perfect, his speed however was making you feel insane. You needed him, faster, harder. Used would be a much more correct term. You wanted to be used by your husband. And right now, you were but it wasn't enough.

You let out mewls and whines to make him break his languid pace but Corio gives you no mind. His fingers interlanged in your locks, his hand still pressing you in and his strength made it so you couldn't take control. He was drunk in the pleasure your pussy gave, his head resting on his headrest, his lips parted to let out a grunt with every thrust.

You weren't a person for him, not right now, a fleshlight perhaps. It didn't matter what you felt, it mattered what Snow felt. Snow felt amazing, he felt stupid for denying himself this for months on end. He would never make the same mistake again.

Time passes and you don't know how long Corio has you like this, your nerves raw as your pussy impossibly sensitive. Tears were falling from your eyes and staining his shirt but moans slipped your lips every time he pushed in again.

“Corio, please,” you try to plead, raising your head to look at him. “Please, please can't anymore.” He turns his head to you, his fingers that you seemed to have forgotten were in your hair tugging your strands roughly.

That was it. You gasp out as the pain becomes a trigger to make you cum on his cock, your pussy tightening around his cock like a vice as the orgasm washes over your body. It was intense and you had snapped. “Sorry! Sorry!” You begin to sob, “I won't ever look at a man that's not you! Sn- Corio please!”

His languid thrust had sped up, his arms caging you to his chest. The last thing you heard before he spilled his seed inside of you was, “Snow lands on top.”

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