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Emily is re-reading Suzanne Collins' Panem novelsAbout a chapter a day. Read along if you like.
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Another random headcanon I have is that Beetee is mostly vegetarian because the smell and sound of cooking meat gives him flashbacks to the Games. (Especially barbeque.)
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Somthing about the way Snow always despised chaos above all else and was killed not in a clean, controlled execution but in the very definition of chaos: a wild, violent rush of an unnamed crowd. Poetic justice.
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I kind of want one of Peeta's brothers to be named Miche'l.
... I'll show myself out.
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Do we think there is any significance to the fact that Beetee is said to have electrocuted six tributes in his first games. And then six tributes were rescued from his second arena?
Like he's at some kind of net zero?
#although you have to include him in the last six#so the math doesn't quite math#idk#beetee latier#the hunger games#catching fire
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it's like when katniss wants to ride the elevator again.
one of my favourite scenes from tbosas book was when Reaper had ripped the capitol flag off of the wall, and after he had made his little memorial he wrapped the flag around him like a cape and started running around ☹️ i really wish this was in the film because again it just shows how he, like the rest of them, were still kids, and no mask that they were forced to wear could hide that 💔
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my elaborate mags headcanon
eta: lol i have edited this like five times to add details that I forgot.
Sixteen-year-old Mags Flanagan lives with her elderly grandmother who suffers from dementia, one-armed uncle (he lost it in the war but made the mistake of telling Peacekeepers a shark bit him) and cousin and is Reaped for the 11th Annual Hunger Games. She strongly suspects the Capitol-loyal Mayor of choosing children from Rebel families on purpose (he is naive in thinking eventually the Capitol will be appeased). Her Uncle feels incredibly guilty about her predicament. Her lobsterman cousin must race back from waters near District 13 (aka Maine) to look after the grandmother who should not be left alone. We learn the people of District 4 have always known District 13 was not destroyed (they can see it from their boats).
The small, redheaded girl has little hope of winning, especially compared to her tall, athletic District Partner, Tack, who is surprisingly easy to talk to and willing to team-up with Mags. She had thought him a bit of a jock. Tack's family were also Rebels and he has A Lot of Opinions on how the Capitol uses terror to keep the districts down. He would prefer to die at Mags' hands, or any other tribute than the muttations like the snakes that got Coral the year previous. He knows several District 4 kids who had nightmares about the snakes. He is very high minded, so obviously he will die. (Tack is blonde and has a polisci major vibe.)
Mags is more like Katniss in that she just wants to get back to her grandma. (She's old and might wander off a cliff!) But she does see his points.
Locked in cages, the tributes are interviewed by "the Gamemaker boy" (Snow), and Mags watches him very carefully as he charms some of the other tributes, particularly the female ones. Mags is, for once, grateful to be a lesbian because she forms a bond with Tigris, who is hired to make the tributes look presentable for the interviews, instead--both queer, both raised by their grandmothers and close to a cousin. She comes to realize Snow and Gaul never intend to stop the Hunger Games. She sees darkness in him and thinks he distrusts women (reader will know this is baggage from tbosas), thinking they are manipulative.
The Tributes are thrown into the ampitheater arena (same as 10 and prior) but it has been gutted and circus-themed, then filled with freakish muttations. There are different "rings" where different mutts are located. Mags and her partner work together and survive the lions, bears and--finally--an electric eel (as seen at the end of TBOSAS movie) which Mags evades mainly due to her ability to hold her breath for several minutes thanks to years of freediving in District 4. She is greatly affected by Tack's death.
When she emerges from the arena, she finds Snow made himself (the Ringmaster)--not the tributes--the star of the show, for political advantage. Mags is rarely allowed to speak in public--though her image is widely used for publicity purposes (see Capitol Couture) though Mags thinks it is Tigris who really made her striking. But she has a falling out with Tigris because she takes a dim view of Coriolanus, whom Tigris still thinks will stop the Games once he has more power.
Mags returns to 4 determined to spend as many good moments as she can with her grandmother (who no longer recognizes her, but that is okay because they are together) and hopes to prepare the children of 4 for the ongoing "forever war." She speaks out about her experience in the Capitol at events in 4 and eventually over the shipboard radios (mags basically goes on a podcast). Most people in 4 don't have TVs. Snow has her silenced with a poison that immobilizes much of her face. She helps her cousin run for Mayor in the hopes of finding a "better way" to chose kids for the Hunger Games--though she does not think any child should go only knows that it's not going to stop.
Slight Mags/Tigris but it doesn't work out. Epilogue set after the 70th Games, where Annie's disorientation reminds her of her grandmother. Annie very much wanted to be like the Mags of the posters the Capitol produced when she volunteered. But Mags knows that version of Mags was just an illusion. And Mags understands why the death of Annie's district partner nearly destroyed her. Themes about perception and reality, dementia, psychotic breaks etc.
Even though Mags' grandmother didn't know who she was at the end, it didn't matter so long as she felt safe and happy. Annie and Finnick give her a sense of family that she thought she had lost when her wife (who was not Tigris but that is okay) was killed by Snow. She is happy in this moment.
#mags flanagan#district 4#i started writing this as a fic#but sigh#i know i will never finish#odesta#finnick odair#annie cresta#tigris snow
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Do you think Snow eventually got rid of (poisoned?) Dr. Gaul? He will eventually out grow her, right? Or do we thinks he is her chosen successor?
#maybe she is excited he finally offs her#like yay#he's ready#and I can get out of here#because she has such a dim view of humanity
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TBOSAS is a cautionary tale about an Art student and a Humanities student falling in love and getting their life fucked over by a white guy with a Business major
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Do you think Snow eventually got rid of (poisoned?) Dr. Gaul? He will eventually out grow her, right? Or do we thinks he is her chosen successor?
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Lucy gray: *sings the most gorgeous, beautiful, poetic, heart wrenching song*
Coriolanus: Wow… I didn’t realize she was a WHORE
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THE HUNGER GAMES APPRECIATION WEEK
day 2 → quotes/lyrics [insp]
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The interview song. Lyrics are very close to those printed in the books--only two minor alterations that I noticed.
Coriolanus is "jealous" (media literacy low?).
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"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," Chapter 11
Part 2: The Prize
Chapter 11: ... and we enter a new part! Lucy Gray having saved Coryo gives her a bit more leverage in making him listen to her. She says "we" will come up with a strategy not him, for example. And I am like, "yes, girl." Coryo has to find a guitar and the thought of singing cheers Lucy Gray up. Then the mentors have to endure more crazy from Dr. Gaul. She wants them to write papers about what they liked about the war. Coriolanus goes to Pluribus Bell to get a guitar. Pluribus mentions that Highbottom and Snow's father were friends, which is news to Coriolanus. Interviews happen. Lucy Gray sings. Coriolanus is jealous.
Thoughts:
-- Okay if we were doing Capitol Draft Kings, who would you bet on at this stage? Several tributes are out. I think Reaper or Jessup would be strong picks at this juncture.
-- I was thinking. Gaul was an area in Europe that was eventually conquered by Julius Caesar, right? Does that imply that Coriolanus--who becomes the dictator later--defeats her in some way? Or does that analogy fall apart because the first Emperor was Augustus? I don't know that much Roman history.
Quotes:
“Enduring horrible things is one of my talents.”
*whispers* she is alive. enduring is her talent.
Coriolanus couldn’t help admiring his pluck. Of course, Sejanus didn’t know how dangerous Dr. Gaul could be. He might end up in a cage with a pair of parakeet wings and an elephant’s trunk if he wasn’t careful.
Early on in this book, Coriolanus often uses terms like "admire" to describe Sejanus' outbursts. Sejanus, of course, doesn't think much before saying or doing--like Katniss in the future. Even though he was never Sejanus' friend, I feel like he respects him less as we get further along?
Coriolanus wished he’d kept quiet. He noticed Dean Highbottom giving him a quizzical look and busied himself by opening his notebook and uncapping his pen.
Highbottom thinks Snow is just like his father. Occasionally he does things that aren't in line with Crassus, but he usually regrets them immediately.
“Let’s consider for a moment that the war is a constant. The conflict may ebb and flow, but it will never really cease. Then what should be our goal?”
Gaul is talkinga bout a perpetual war. She does work in the War Department, yes? So having a forever war is good for her business. Coriolanus says they control it. While the Quarter Quell envelopes Katniss sees in Catching Fire are almost certainly fake. It does seem true that Gaul wants the Hunger Games to go on forever.
Tigris had provided an old dress of hers, saying that if Lucy Gray was willing to trust her, she could wash and iron her rainbow ruffles for the broadcast. Lucy Gray hesitated, but when he gave her Tigris’s
other gift, a small cake of soap shaped like a flower and smelling of lavender, she had him turn his back while she changed.
Tigris is the first stylist in the Hunger Games! It's not much but it's more than the other tributes have to make them stand out in the interviews. (There is also makeup given later.)
... said Coriolanus, adjusting a hot pink rosebud in her hair. It matched the one on his lapel, just in case anyone needed a reminder of who Lucy Gray belonged to.
I hate this "belonged to" crap.
#tbosas#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#thg reread#thg reread tb#thg reread tbosas#lucy gray baird#casca highbottom#volumnia#volumnia gaul
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Would love to know what kind of show Lucy Gray and Peeta would've put on together if they both volunteered for the Quell.
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Deep thought: Odesta is Everlark gender swapped.
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What is the best section of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes?
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Why did no one tell me Sting did a cover of "Deep in the Meadow"?
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