#suzanne you are a genius

[thesunpersists]

katniss was insane for saying that she knew better than the tragic story that the Capitol was writing for them because she kept them both alive AND went on to have his babies 🥹

#how is it possible that i find something new in these books at each reread #this is the millionth time i swear #suzanne you are a genius #the hunger games #the hunger games reread #thg reread #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

[medusas-daughter]

Dean Casca Highbottom apologizing to Lucy Gray for what she's been through and spending the rest of his life regretting ever uttering the concept of the hunger games out loud and deeming it his worst mistake and hating Dr Gaul for taking it that far despite him repeatedly asking her not to and hating Crassus Snow for stealing the idea and giving it to Dr Gaul and hating himself for coming up with it even if he was drunk and being defined by it for the rest of his life

Geoffrey Hinton "the godfather of AI" quits Google and regrets his life's work due to risks to humanity and "consoles himself by telling himself that if it hadn't been him it would have been someone else"

J. Robert Oppenheimer "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" spending the rest of his life trying to denounce the use of his life's work and trying and failing to take back control of it and saying he has blood on his hands and being awarded and forever defined by it

#suzanne collins the genius you are #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #casca highbottom #lucy gray baird #dr gaul

[flodaya]

I said this while reading the book years ago, snow’s story isn’t a redemption arc in the slightest but instead his story is supposed to make us realize we are a citizen of the capitol, not a rebel, not a poor starving tribute, not even a random person in district 8, we are privileged people in a society that lets so many others suffer

and something about sitting in a movie theater watching children brutally murder each other made me so uncomfortable because it made that point even more abundantly clear, we were literally the audience enjoying the 10th hunger games for our personal entertainment

#Suzanne collins you genius #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #sorry I watched this yesterday #and now thg is my entire personality again

[apinktrashcan]

Something something Prims baby clothes being kept long after she needed them but getting sold once Mr. Everdeen has died as a sign of lost hope… something something

Of all the things she could have chosen for katniss to desperately try and sell– which makes sense, not being able to sell baby clothes in a world where your children get reaped for a death game– WHY baby clothes. Maybe they couldn’t sell them just as katniss couldn’t, but it’s still fabric that might be utilized for something else. Mr. Everdeen is said to be a good negotiator.

Why keep them when there’s no one to wear them? Because there was a possibility. It doesn’t even have to be taken literally as “we might have another baby” it’s just… an end. To the warm family of her childhood, to safety, to full bellies and hope and being a child herself

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #thg #Mr. Everdeen #it’s a world where you get money where you can and I understand keeping things for sentimental value but… #hmm #suzanne collins you genius #edited a bit because I wrote this while squished in a truck cab

[guiltyonsundays]

just finished reading the ballad of songbirds and snakes having watched the movie first and y'all were not playing about the difference it makes hearing snow's inner monologue. this man is so loathesome and vile from day one it's actually funny. yes i am still a tom blyth apologist

#suzanne collins you are a genius #suzanne collins #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #tom blyth

[s1xseasonsandamov1e]

"if it wasn't for the baby" is such an amazing metaphor for the abortion debate and the prolife movement. the capital didn't care that literal children were forced to fight to the death annually, but as soon as someone mentioned an unborn baby it was no longer okay.

#in this essay i will- #suzanne collins you genius #hunger games

[damnikindadontcare]

When you realize the revolution all started because of love. Because Peeta burnt the bread and threw it to Katniss so she wouldn’t starve to death. Because Katisss was protecting the only person in the world she was sure she loved when she volunteered as tribute. Because Peeta confessed he had been in Love with Katniss for years. Because Katniss honored Rue when she died by singing to her and surrounding her body with flowers. Because Thresh spared Katniss for protecting Rue. Because Katniss saved Peeta even though she didn’t have to. Because the star crossed lovers couldn’t die in that arena. Because Katniss only ever wanted to save Prim and keep Peeta alive. Because loving others so fiercely was seen as an act of defiance against the Capitol.

#rereading THG and the brain rot severe #suzanne collins you genius #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

[voiddaisy]

i am a career defender for life, and that includes the “career pack” from the 10th games (coral, mizzen, treech, and tanner)! i literally just found out mizzen was 13 and the thought of coral, who is seen as the “villain” in the 10th games, keeping him around in her pack just because he was from 4 too, not because he was big and strong or particularly powerful, makes me SICK. i am SICK. i read I’ll Meet You On The Beach by redrasberries and sobbed. they were just kids, man.

#the hunger games #tbosas #the 10th hunger games #the hunger games drabbles #the careers #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #mizzen #coral #district 4 #thinking about them makes my fingers tingle with sadness #suzanne collins you genius

[wierdshenanigans]

Did they ever tell us how Finnick Odair won his Hunger Game or did they just never explain that.

#finnick odair #the hunger games #mockingjay #catching fire #hunger games #thg #thg finnick #How did he win because I bet you he was genius #What happened I JUST realised Suzanne Collins never told us a thing #Finnick my boy how did you emerge as a victor exactly #katniss everdeen #the hunger games trilogy

[kanej-is-superior]

that scene at the end with tigris and coryo KILLED ME bc poor tigris is looking at her cousin, frantically searching for her coryo, the one who was capable of so much good, the one who she gave up everything for, and all she sees is coriolanus snow, the heir of Crassus Snow. Her coryo is dead.

#coriolanus snow #tbsoas #tbosas #hunger games #coryo #tigris #tigris snow #stop it im in my feels #just rewatched tbosas and i can't do this rn #SUZANNE COLLINS YOU GENIUS #omg this is actually really sad

[myname-isnia]

Bitches be having an unhealthy obsession with tragic and codependent and toxic sibling relationships in media and then be surprised when they latch onto Tigris Snow like a lifeline

(It’s me. I’m bitches)

#yes I know she’s coryo’s cousin and not his sister but you know what? I don’t care #it’s close enough + I’m sure they saw each other as siblings anyway #but I’m serious she’s probably my favourite character in tbosas #she’s so kind and caring but also takes no shit #and she loved coryo so much… only for him to turn out like his father #her appearance in mockingjay hits so different after the ballad #suzanne collins is a genius #(​the way that was already a tag lmao) #anyway enough rambling #tigris snow #my beloved <3 #I lowkey want to draw her

[coffeebookslovegt]

¡Esta noche apunten sus armas hacia el Capitolio!

¡Apunten sus armas hacia Snow!

#katniss everdeen #thg katniss #the hunger games katniss #katniss and peeta #the hunger games trilogy #the hunger games peeta #the hunger games rp #the hunger games x reader #hunger games #thg #district 12 #thg series #movies #films #president snow #suzanne collins is a genius #suzanne collins you genius #fantasy #mockingjay #peeta mellark #capitolio #rebelion #science fiction #novels #fiction #film #cinema #cinemetography

[baepsrae]

Thinking about how in the first hunger games Peeta says he wants to show the capitol they don’t own him, that he is more than just a piece of their games, that he doesn’t want them to change him and if he is gonna die he still wants to be himself. Then by Mockingjay his mind has been so fucked by being tortured by the Capitol that he doesn’t even remember that his own favourite colour is sunset orange…

#peeta mellark #thg #blorbo from my shows #suzanne collins you genius the foreshadowing ugh

[dykeseinfeld]

the hunger games simply is that bitch it simply has that complex understanding of the ideas it is discussing and distills them so effectively that people don't even notice how much work is being done even by basic functions of the plot like. the fact that katniss is not the leader of the revolution, coin is. (and while the districts were rebelling independent of coin, it is extremely less likely they would have won a war against the capitol without her esp that quickly) and so! of Course katniss has to kill coin! because you can't trust military leaders of revolutions to be good leaders it's simply a completely different skill set

#tbosas confirmed that for me bc it was just hitting you over the head with THESE BOOKS ARE A POLITICAL ALLEGORY #her basis in theory is SO strong that it's absurd #and she managed to distill it all into a coherent three book thesis that also manages to be entertaining and fun to read like. #suzanne collins genius of our time

[cmonangel]

okay so i finally read a ballad of songbirds and snakes which led to me rereading the hunger games trilogy over the past week (SO GOOD i could make a whole other post) but then i thought it would be a good idea to watch the movies but then literally started sobbing from the beginning and started again every time single time they showed rue before the games even started or anything

#as a standalone book abosas is like ok but i actually thought it was fascinating like just how the games developed #like seeing how the media and sponsors started and then rereading the original books its SO interesting #im really tired but the relationship between the districts and capitol and tributes and audience and everything... suzanne is a genius #also i briefly went into the tags on here and my one thing is why are people not talking about tigris more?? #she could have a whole other book #i wish i could talk to suzanne collins and ask her why she chose tigris of all people to become a stylist and then what happened #did she think she could help the tributes like her cousin and then they had a disagreement of some kind? #no one is doing it like her #and im just blown away like rereading the books bc yeah theyre incredibly violent and there's the stuff with that peacekeeper #and then finnick in the capitol which is real and painful but it's so different from popular ya currently #idk what middle schoolers are reading these days but im just thinking about how acotar is marketed as ya #i just appreciated how katniss loves people and you can tell by her/their actions words etc instead of everything being some crazy #physical attraction all the time #which makes sense with katniss's circumstances and everything and she even says like she doesn't want to get married etc #because of the world they live in and thg isn't a romance obviously while the popular newer books im thinking of are marketed as romance so #maybe im just mad bc i gave in and read fourth wing and it was so garbage #idk i have a lot of thoughts but i dont think these are making sense

[mzcain27]

I’m like 3 chapters into ballad of songbirds and snakes and already ms Suzanne Collins is pulling ZERO punches in fleshing out panem

#it kind of makes me want a hunger games rewrite #like it was already brutal but there was obviously stuff she was either vague about or didn’t say but it was obvious if/when you were older #or it came out as part of the movies or she would confirm theories #and part of that is the YA rating and everything #in ballad shes already shown how intrinsically everything is still linked even though the capitol is thriving #and the hunger games are polished and entertaining #the capitol were cannibalising each other #and still did decades later when people would disappear after doing anything even remotely in favour of the districts #the tributes are carted around like animals in literal stock carts and in chains on the train to the capitol #later tributes get dolled up and paraded around but they are still animals being led to slaughter in the lead up to the games #and the victors don’t escape the cages they’re still used and gawked at just like throwing Lucy’s group into the monkey cage #anyway Suzanne Collins is a genius for the hunger games and I’ll never shut up about it #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #Suzanne Collins #tbosas ramblings