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moonstone-blues · 3 months

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Okay so the three most FOUL moments in The Ballad Of Songs And Snakes:

Dill's death.

Wovey asking "Can we go home now? Please?" As she starts sobbing.

The Jabberjays repeating Sejanus calling out for his Ma. (Literally wrote this after pausing the scene to take a moment and when I resume they're also repeated him screaming "Help" I CAN'T-)

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ayo-edebiri · 5 months

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + tweets

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timelesslords · 5 months

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thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.

Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.

Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.

Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.

The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.

Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.

#tbosas #the hunger games #im sure someone has already said this much more eloquently than this #but i cant stop thinking about it #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #hunger games #tbosas spoilers #thg #catching fire #i could write a thesis on this #suzanne collins the woman you are

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xplore-the-unknwn · 5 months

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Coriolanus Snow in TBOSAS a summary:

#the hunger games #Cause you’re just a mann its just what you dooo #Coriolanus Snow #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #Tom Blyth #Snow #Thg #Tbosas spoilers #Lucy Gray #lucy gray baird

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edelwoodsouls · 5 months

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thinking about the fact that they made a point to tell us that there are no cameras in the vents. like- lucy gray is a performer, she is always performing, it is her calling and her survival mechanism and when we meet her she literally cannot stop performing because she is always on camera or being perceived- by coriolanus, by the capital, by her fellow tributes and the folks back at 12. but for that one, awful moment, in the vents, watching dill drink the poisoned water she laid as a trap- for that one moment in the whole entire movie, lucy gray isn’t being observed. that is the only moment in the entire movie she isn’t performing for someone else, and she uses it to grieve

#im having THOUGHTS and FEELINGS #the tbosas brainrot is so real #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #tbosas #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #tbosas spoilers #the ballad of songbirds and snakes spoilers #5k

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mockingjaysongbird · 5 months

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years later

#the hunger games #thgedit #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #snowbaird #katniss everdeen #thg spoilers #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas spoilers #tbosbas

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danyllura · 5 months

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The capitol callously watching and commentating on the hunger games as defenceless children are subjected to horror and death but standing up and gasping in horror at Reaper ripping down the flag. Reaper laying the bodies of the murdered children to rest and looking to the camera asking for acknowledgment of their suffering only to be cut off and for the only reaction of horror mustered from the capitol citizens coming from the news of the death of one of their own. The Hunger Games will never not successfully act as a horrifying mirror to the atrocities in our world.

#that moment you can feel the crowd shifting at Reapers actions and Dr Gaul jumping in to prevent it #Suzanne collins the woman that you are #tbosbas spoilers #tbosbas #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #reaper ash

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tending-the-hearth · 5 months

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coriolanus saying "is this real" to lucy gray about their feelings for each other because he needs to know that he's doing this for something and won't be wasting his time aka doing it for selfish reasons to make sure he's benefitting vs. peeta saying "real or not real" to katniss about their feelings because they're both equally traumatized and need the reassurance but their love isn't transactional and he's not asking for himself he's asking for both of them, so that they're both grounded in each other

#not a snowbaird shipper but the PARALLELS #everlark supremacy forever <333333 #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas spoilers #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #everlark

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aqukana · 5 months

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the part where they cut off the games to broadcast the president's son died with "an important life was taken today" SECONDS AFTER watching a pile of dead district children was chilling

#hunger games #tbosas spoilers #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #the hunger games #shit is happening right now and it's so scary to think about

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maxanor · 4 months

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THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES + book differences

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imriel · 4 months

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CORIOLANUS & TIGRIS SNOW THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES (2023)

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ayo-edebiri · 5 months

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + text posts

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agir1ukn0w · 5 months

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I’m sorry but if this paragraph doesn’t fuck you up Idk what will:

“Coriolanus felt his anxieties melt away. Full of fresh food, shaded by the trees, Lucy Gray singing softly beside him, he began to appreciate nature. It really was beautiful out here. The crystal clean air. The lush colors. He felt so relaxed and free. What if this was his life: rising whenever, catching his food for the day, and hanging out with Lucy Gray by the lake? Who needed wealth and success and power when they had love? Didn’t it conquer all?

- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (pg. 438)

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #thg series #thg #tbosas spoilers #coriolanus snow #snow #president snow #snowbaird #coriolanus x lucy gray #lucy gray baird #lucy gray x coriolanus #lucy gray #suzanne collins

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falllpoutboy · 5 months

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knowing that mags wins the 11th hunger games a year after lucy did while dr gaul and snow were working together hits SOOO different now

#tbosas #tbosas spoilers #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #who knows what horrors gaul and snow cooked up in the next games #the capitol probably lied too and said mags was the first female winner #ALSO SHE MIGHT HAVE KNOWN CORAL AND MIZZEN!!!#mags flanagan

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if-i-look-straight-look-again · 6 months

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Love love love the implication that Lucy Gray came back to haunt Coriolanus Snow in his last years of life, through her mockingjays, her songs, and her District, particularly Peeta.

I also can’t get out of my head the idea of an 80 something year old Snow absolutely haunted by the fact that every time Katniss Everdeen opens her mouth, Sejanus’ voice comes out.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #the hunger games #tbosas spoilers

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xplore-the-unknwn · 5 months

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This also reminded me of how she said that Katniss wasn’t quite ready to harvest yet. Saying like “Katniss will take some time but eventually it’ll have you dealt with.” and it did! Fate sent him a Karma in the form of Katniss Everdeen.

Katniss who was a reminder of Lucy Gray, of his loved ones, of everything Sejanus stood for. Katniss who was a reminder of his PAST SELF- of a time where he could’ve done the right choices (with Lucy Gray, Tigris, correcting his father's sins with Highbottom etc.) of a time where everything could’ve been different.

Snow mentioned Lucy Gray strongly believed in fate when she said “You’re mine and Im yours. It’s written in the stars.” Of course he didn’t believe it. So when she was gone and Coriolanus Snow chose to cross that line of evil never turning back, the stars made sure that he will be haunted of it to his death.

A masterclass of storytelling right there. Suzanne you icon, you legend.

#Guess the odds werent in his favor after all #All I want now is to read Snow’s POV in the trilogy did he think about them in his dying breath #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #lucy gray #katniss everdeen #thg #tbobas #tbobas spoiler #Katniss #lucy gray baird #tom blyth #rachel zegler #suzanne collins #President snow #thg series #snowbaird

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