#suzzane collins

[i-know-the-endss]

i think the most frustrating part about tbosas is the fact that you want to root for coryo. you want him to be a better man for lucy gray. you want him and sejanus to become closer, to become the best friends sejanus believes them to be. you want him to run away and find a way to relearn all the oppressive and tyrannical ideals the capitol instilled in him.

but that’s not what happens.

coriolanus isn’t necessarily a good person. he’s not a bad person either, not yet, but he’s no where near good. and rather than try to be good, he gives up, he lets himself “go bad”, he rats out sejanus, he lets his anger get the best of him and loses lucy gray.

the idea that coryo could be a good person but chooses not to be is exactly the reason this book and this character are brilliant.

#idk if this comes across the way i wanted it to #i am in no way excusing his actions at all please do not think i am #he has done unimaginable things and damage and has caused so much horror #but the idea isn’t that he’s evil because there’s nothing else to be #he CHOOSES it #that’s what makes him even worse #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coriolanus snow #suzzane collins #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #i’m pretty sure people have made this connection but #i just wanted to add my two cents #suzanne collins is a genius

[margojacksonpotter]

Suzanne Collins really took a small detail from the first Hunger Games book and ran with it.

#ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #president snow #the hunger games #suzzane collins

[i-am-mldy]

This has all been said before but I just need to put it in my own words.

Snow truly believe he had Peeta after the hijacking, right on the palm of his hand, to be wielded like a knife that would always strike true into Katniss's heart. Because that's humanity for Snow — animals whose hunger can be twisted and corrupted, and would kill to sate it. To him, this boy from 12 was just a smoothtalker who trailed after his childhood crush like a lovesick puppy, had his feelings manipulated by this stubborn brunette from 12 who could sing, just like how Snow was.

So he sought to twist that adoration into something ugly, feeding the mistrust and indignance that he thought was in Peeta, thinking them powerful enough to overshadow any affection. Because that was what happened to Snow. Lucy Gray is wrong once again. Snow lands on top.

But no. Despite it all, Peeta's heart, who he is at his core, survived because Snow never really understood him.

Though Katniss had Lucy Gray's songs and heritage, Peeta had her heart. The pair of them combined was the true threat. Two halves of a Lucy Gray.

Lucy Gray and Peeta didn't hunger.

They fed.

Him with his burnt bread, and her with her haunting songs.

#tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #suzzane collins

[miserablebl00d]

Seeing Sam claflin as finnick odair in 2013 was the most life changing thing that happened that year, then it was my younger sister being born 😁

#finnick odair angst #finnick odair fluff #finnick odair imagine #finnick odair smut #finnick odair x reader #finnick odair #hunger games #the hunger games #suzzane collins #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

[yourmothersinnerthoughts]

The way everything makes sense now. District 12 going from a district that enjoyed music and concerts on the regular to people almost never singing. The hanging tree being banned because of how much jealousy it brought in snow when he first heard it.

How the mockingjay symbol must have really killed snow because this man hated them from the get go.

How the hunger games developed over the years. How in the beginning they were kept in cages and then the tributes saw how lucy performed and it got her fed and so they started entertaining the crowd to get people to give them food as well. Later on its the same concept. They please the crowd (they dress up and ride on chariots waving to the crowds) in order to stay alive (get sponsors) and adopt personalities for interviews. The crux of it is the same entertain the rich spoiled capitol people to stay alive.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #hunger games #hunger games tribute #hunger games trilogy #suzzane collins #katniss everdeen #coriolanus snow #president snow #lucy gray baird #peeta mellark #haymitch abernathy

[mags-writes]

me, 14 and reading the end of mockingjay:

me, 24 and reading the end of the ballad of songbirds and snakes:

#the hunger games #the hunger games: mockingjay #mockingjay #the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #suzzane collins #no amount of poverty or tragedy could possibly make coriolanus snow into a decent person #i went into the book knowing that it would make him out to be sympathetic and then he would just be The Worst™ #but he really really really REALLY is just The Fucking Worst™ #spoiler! the man just up and stole his friends parents! the friend that he got KILLED! #also the way that she was always referred to at lucy gray/lucy gray baird was very telling #he never called her lucy. just lucy. it was always lucy gray #even in their last scene together he was calling out for lucy gray not lucy #idk something something he doesnt see her as herself he sees her as an idea a tribute on a pedestal she has to think the same way as him #and when she doesnt he gets angry she has to love him only and when she admits to having a lover before him he gets angry #he gets angry and she has to apologise he gets angry and its always her fault she's the backwards thinker and he's far above her #idk his superiority complex was so intriguing especially since i think lucy was playing him and the capital like a fucking fiddle #nearly everything she said was too perfect for her to actually think like that #and when she said something wrong she would sooth him over #both manipulators in their own way and for completely different reasons #his was for superiority and her's was for survival

[expectopatronum81]

For me, the psychology of how the games work is even creepier than sending 23 kids to be murdered on television each year. Because not only are these 12 - 18yr old kids being forced to engage in a bloody fight for their survival, or commit atrocities that'll haunt them for the rest of their lives; they are also forced to do so on the terms of the Capitol audience. The hunger games weren't just created as a punishment to the districts. One of the main aspects of it was to provide entertainment to the people of the Capitol.

So during the games, not only do they have to cope with the fact that they could be murdered any second, they should also be cautious of how their actions affect the mood of their audience. In terms of it being a reality show, showing their expertise is enough to gain them some recognition, but what really gains them audience sponsors is behaving in the exact way that is desirable of them, and playing it accordingly.

Throughout the 1st games, Katniss is constantly aware of how the games are being perceived. Instead of focusing on her emotions about peeta joining the careers, she thinks of how ecstatic the audience vil be knowing she was there the whole time, and smirks to increase their curiosity on what was going on. She thinks of how the wall of fire was to shake up the tributes and how the 'real fun' was watching them dodge the fireballs. She plays a cool and arrogant persona when she's stuck up in a tree with the careers around her despite seeing no hope of escape, knowing the audience will be having a laugh (she most likely receives the burn medicine for the promise of dropping the tracker jacker nest). She gives them enough of a promise by destroying the career pack. Then there's the whole thing with Peeta, where she constantly ponders as to how she's going to believably sell the romance on her part to ensure them food. She passes casual comments on how there hasn't been enough bloodshed or 'excitement' that day, hence fearing game maker intervention. She does her best not to show her remorse for the other dead tributes or her longing to escape from this horror because 'no one wants a victor who snivels over the deaths of her opponents'. How she couldn't end Cato's life sooner out of pity, because that was the 'climax of the hunger games, the last word in entertainment as the Capitol audience wouldn't look away from their screens for even a minute', even though that took a severe toll on her sanity( not that she needed it after surviving the whole games). Then the whole 2 victor rule change solely to ensure 'the most dramatic showdown in hunger games history'. To continue their popularity( as a distraction), they are required to act as lovers in front of the cameras at all times, and would be expected to get married and have children who could take part in the games, just for the 'extra drama'. Even smaller things like how they're required to have a hobby after the games to show off to the audience. This applies to the 3rd quater quell too, but I think I've made my point.

In perspective, the Capitol ppl dictate the terms of their lives. Their likes, dislikes, personal relationships, mannerisms, attitudes are all carefully designed to see what gains them the most popularity. Behaving in a certain, expected way ensures that they r'nt cancelled killed. The constant need to know every single detail of their personal lives ensures they r'nt forgotten. Which is why they go desperate lengths to gain that popularity( Glimmer's see through dress being her angle for the interviews....).

Yeah yeah, ofc its just a rant, totally not about a literary master piece dedicated to commentary on our worsening culture, who'd waste time on that when u have twitter anyways?

#hunger games #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #just ranting #haymitch abernathy #finnick odair #johanna mason #74th hunger games #quater quell #suzzane collins

[shyjusticewarrior]

Thinking about Snow's curls and the "duck tail" at the back of Prim's shirt. Both have connotations of youthful innocence, but Snow lost his curls and Prim had her duck tail til the very end.

#the hunger games trilogy #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #hunger games #suzzane collins #president snow #coriolanus snow #prim everdeen #primrose everdeen #parallels #symbolism #character parallels #media analysis #media commentary #book analysis #literary analysis #writing #dystopian books #mockingjay #character design

[mikereadz]

just finished mockingjay

i might actually go feral

i love this

how does she make every plot point seem like something that was planned (and foreshadowed) from the start 😵‍💫

#possibly my favourite dystopian series #mockingjay #peeta mellark #everlark #katniss and peeta #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #suzzane collins

[noonemonitorsmyscreentime]

I honestly can't believe that the Hunger Games Renaissance made me a Gale apologist.

I will fight each and every one of you who says that Gale killed Prim. Coin (and Plutarch) did it.

Blaming Gale is subscribing to the propaganda seth forth by the Capitol to explain the Hunger Games. It's the District's fault for the uprising- it's Gale's fault for coming up with the idea. Not of those who manufacured and gave the order for the bombs to be dropped. No, it's the fault of the 19 year old traumatized kid who saw his home go up in flame, killing most of his district, the kid who had to become a husband and a father at 14 and risk his life every day to keep his family alive, the kid who lost his best friend, the one person who truly understood his burden to the Capitol, to a Revolution.

Gale loved Prim like a sister. Gale saved her life when the Capitol destroyed 12. He wasn't the one who let Prim go on a misson despite the fact that she was too young. At the time she was killed, he'd been taken as a prisoner.

Gale did not kill Prim.

#the hunger games gale #hunger games #the hunger games #suzzane collins #gale hawthorne #gale apologist #I barely have any critical thinking skills and I can see this #the hunger games take #hot take #hunger games hot take

[i-am-mldy]

Just watchs TBOSAS. I have no words.

How does one OUTDO their magnum opus???

idk just ask Suzanne fucking Collins who did just that

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #suzzane collins #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird

[scrapbookingonadrenaline]

Y'all the streaming of the three hours hunger games in the books is so goddamn similar to our movies. In the book, Katniss, Peeta and Ceasar watch the three hours version of the hunger games in an interview and Katniss says that it's the first time the Capitol is showing a different version of the hunger games... A love story. The Capitol audience ooh and ah at them curling up together. Even Haymitch only sends them food when they act romantic. In the movies, it's the exact same thing, we made teams ffs! Team Gale or Team Peeta, take your pick! So many people forgot about the actual brutality of the games and for years, the first thing they asked hunger games fans was who they would pick for Katniss' love interest.

We saw them kissing in the arena and forgot they were in a cave, fighting infections and starving, all the while hiding from a person that wants to kill them both.

I love Suzzane Collins for this!!!

#the hunger games #suzzane collins #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #haymitch abernathy #the capitol

[daisytrails]

ok im all for gale slander. i think he’s the worst

but i think people need to remember that he is also a child being oppressed by the capital and taken advantage of by district 13

he was a starving powerless young person who’s been close to single handedly supporting his whole family from a young age under a tyrannical government and suddenly he’s been given access to everything he needs to take down the government that’s been oppressing his people. of course he jumped on the opportunity to do so

his bombs, which he designed with beetee as everyone conveniently forgets, were not meant for children. they were meant for full grown peacekeepers and the full grown capital medics who would go in after them. it was never meant for capital children or the rebel medics

on top of that, gale would never have hurt prim on purpose. he cared about her, saved her on multiple occasions when it would have been easier and safer if he didn’t. prim is to gale what gale’s younger siblings are to katniss and we see many times through the trilogy how much the whole hawthorne family means to her. gale swore an oath to protect prim and he wouldn’t have broken it.

don’t get me wrong, i dislike gale for many reasons mostly because he doesn’t see the inherent value of human life, he thought he had some weird claim of katniss’ heart, and he got pissy with peeta for how he saved her. i’m not a gale girlie by any means but he’s never been as bad as people make him out to be

you can say what you will about him but he didn’t kill those children and he didn’t kill prim. president coin did. that’s why katniss killed her and not gale or beetee. that’s the point.

#thg #the hunger games #suzzane collins #mockingjay spoilers

[i-know-the-endss]

ok, we better not sleep on can’t catch me now because the way it is PERFECT for tbosas.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #olivia rodrigo #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #suzzane collins #the hunger games #i have to do an analysis soon cause what the actual f

[therealkaidertrash21]

I'm the number 1 Coriolanus Snow hater. of Coriolanus Snow has a million haters, I'm one of them. if Coriolanus Snow has 100 haters, I'm one of them. if Coriolanus Snow has one hater, it's me. if Coriolanus Snow has no haters, I'm no longer alive. if the world is with Coriolanus Snow, I'm against the world. i hate Coriolanus Snow until my last breath

#if you like hil just because te actor is hot you literally didnt understand the book #*him #if you like him as a villain or as a character its fine but as a person ??? as a boyfriend???? #tbosas #thg #thg series #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #suzzane collins #coriolanus snow #president snow

[indigoreed1]

Writers, if you ever need proof that internal monologues are valuable, look no further than A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, cuz movie Snow was just some guy who snapped in the woods after a situationship, but I’m reading the book rn and he’s a psychopath from page one😭

#a ballad of songbirds and snakes #writing advice #author #writer #suzzane collins #the hunger games #coriolanus snow