The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins CHAPTER 26 / CHAPTER 27 / EPILOGUE

in light of the thgposting i need to know ur opinions on gale

its been a minute since ive watched these movies and im barely on CF and i've nevr read the books and i'm on my second cranberry vodka with double shots in it so take all that into consideration!!!

i dont mind gale too much i think he really uhm he's very much shaped by and hardened by the circumstances around him like he's in the rebellion and stuff and he wants their side to win he's tired of living the way he does he's tired of the conditions of his district!! i think he and katniss are very alike in ways that she both appreciates and doesnt and thats why like mayhaps thats why she drifts towards peeta at the end bc he's showed/showing her a way of life that isn't quite what she expected and sort of balances her out so yeah i dont hate gale just bc its like well damn how else was he supposed to turn out after living a life like that

kinda fucked up that he helped make thta bomb stuff tho!!!!!

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also like why am i so ahead of the curve like why is everyone talking about this “hunger games resurgence” now. like ive been in the trenches with my thgposting for 2 years now and y’all are just catching up with me?? i’ve BEEN here!!!!

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HUNGER GAMES VERSE.

tributes:

d1- pollie & centian. (psycho barbie & ken). - after clarke killed finn, centian threw a fit. him, pollie & clarke were the last three. he brawled out with clarke & she ended up shocklashing him with the baton her mother had gifted her && then stabbed him in the neck. he bled out in pollie’s arms. d2- lexa & gustus. (angry war bbies). - lexa mercy killed gustus who had been attacked by gorboons. she was then shot by centian. d3- clarke & wells. (sad baes). - alive. & killed by charlotte. d4- aquadette & torrent. - both exsanguinated by centian & pollie. they died right before finn. d5- charlotte & tanks. - charlotte killed herself. tanks, one of the few with maps in their pack, was always first to checkpoints because he knew the lighting mechanics of the program & worked in the dark often due to power outages in his district all the time. clarke was typically always second to checkpoints because she was familiar with the programming her father did. due to this, her & tanks had a working alliance. when clarke was being mauled by centian, he distracted/sacrified himself by attacking pollie. d6- rudie & finn. - rudie was knifed by lexa to beat her to a checkpoint. finn was killed by clarke. d7- bethany & feldin. - both hacked in half by gustus. d8- penafis & dax. - pen was gutted by roma in the bloodbath. wells chucked an axe at dax’s chest because he was trying to attack clarke. d9- flexx & arn. - mbege mercy killed flexx because she was dying from the poisoned saliva of the gorboons. arn was crushed by a moving maze wall. d10- canery & lotem. - canery was hacked in half by lexa in the bloodbath. clarke choked out lotem to get to checkpoint in time. d11-  roma & mbege. - acid rain killed them both. they didn’t make it to the checkpoint in time. d12- myxie & boyd. - drowned by aqua & tor who are skilled swimmers && had scuba gear in their packs. all four hadn’t made the check point & the maze filled with water.

more ahead.

- so jake wasn’t a game maker or anything, but he definitely designed a lot of the games programs & what not. because of this, clarke had a lot of knowledge on how everything worked. that was her advantage. 

-jake was killed due to sabotaging some of the programs used. it was abby that told jaha, who is hella tight with snow. like jaha is probably some sort of council person in d3, along with abby. abby is a medic, and jaha was a victor.

- kane is deffo like.. head of the peacekeepers department & works in the capitol but was born in d2. he travels a lot tho.

- as part of jake's punishment, clarke’s name was put in the bowl 50 more times. wells volunteered when clarke got called. he wasn’t going to let her go into it alone.

- charlotte is from d5 & gets reaped at the age of 13. clarke reaches out to her as an ally because she’s young but she betrays her by killing wells. apparently jaha inadvertently charlotte’s dad by sanctioning a mission to create a new powerplant in an area where the electromagnetic currents are very unstable & volatile. he doesnt immediately die but he gets electrocution burns that are horrific & ends up dying from the trauma. she was six. & it resulted in charlotte’s mom killing herself. charlotte is raised by an old lady named doxia. she loses it after killing wells though & kills herself. especially after clarke yells at her for betraying her. clarke wakes up to charlotte having slit her throat.

- she does kiss finn on air. they fall fast for each other. maybe even bone??? AND RAVEN SEES. CUZ SHE ALSO FROM D6. 

- she kills finn (he’s probably from d6, transportation, mostly a router) because she’s backed into a corner. the careers have him tied up. i’m thinking there’s a tribute from d1 named pollie who is definitely like a barbie sociopath. she enjoys torturing. & exsanguinates people in their sleep. so instead of letting her torture him, clarke just shanks him like in the show.

- lexa & gustus are the d2 peeps. lexa killed gustus because he was dying from a poisonous bite from a screeching gormoon (gorilla & baboon). lexa is shot by centian.

- her terrain was essentially a grungy, cement gameboard/maze. it was created by her father. a maze that was constantly changing depending on what your deepest fear is in that moment. and you were in the dark. it was your job to get night vision somehow. or a flashlight. but there were objectives to fulfill. if you weren’t by a certain block cell by a certain hour, then you could possibly get killed by the beasts that they’d release into the maze for an hour. there were also only a certain amount of spots available per each checkpoint. but there were two paths able to be taken to get to the end. there were also illumination periods that you could win if you found the large purple button in the wall. it’d open up a compartment. but it would only light up that sector. green lights meant food. if you grabbed a pack from the cornucopia, you’d get a map that told you where restock pitstops were. golden buttons were gifts from the outside. red lights meant you had to pay with a deep-seated fear to get supplies. there are also riddles you can answer at a white call box. if you answer correctly, the gamemaker allows one of the system workers to materialize a slide or latter that transports you directly to the checkpoint.

- clarke battles pollie in the end, which results in her getting a massive lash to her femur. she attempts race to the last checkpoint, but realizes she can’t. clarke then drags herself around, donned in night vision goggles, to find tanks’ map. finally when she does, she presses a systems management button on the program that should NOT be there. it’s the code tampering that her father got killed for. she types in her father’s manual override key & it forces the system to create quicksand at clarke's request. before pollie can reach the checkpoint, she gets sucked down into the quicksand & drowns.

- due to clarke’s little stunt, abby is shocklashed & tortured directly by kane (because they’re in love). clarke was forced to watch her be tortured. abby was mildly tortured with tracker jacker venom but not to the point that it overrode memories. abby is forced to work as a doctor in the concentration camp that peeta is in. she is the one that administers his venom each time. she also is forced to shockwhip him, or else kane will die & clarke will be shot on sight.

- ever since jake saw haymitch use the games against itself in his games, he’s been obsessed with replicating that.

- clarke is not allowed to leave the capitol after her games. she’s currently 22 & has been there since 16. 

- during game seasons, she’s a mentor. but during the off seasons, she works for cinna at his salon. she is a stylist & you can schedule appointments for her to come over && do you up.

- clarke’s mentors were beetee & wiress. during the quarter quell, though, she then becomes their “mentor.” she is the one that gets beetee the string of wire during catching fire.

- clarke is picked up by d13 with haymitch, has been part of the plan the whole time. in retaliation, snow keeps abby sequestered away in his mansion.

Is it still too early to ask for more promos for part 2?

THE HUNGER GAMES, CHAPTER 25

it’s probably been said before but there’s a poetic balance that the victor of the second quarter quell, where there were twice as many tributes, got to bring home two victors instead of one

CATCHING FIRE, CHAPTER 14

i’m in such immense amounts of agony . if peeta wasn’t hijacked, katniss would’ve literally lunged herself into his arms and kissed him stupid 🖐️😞

i need to fucking die thinking about mockingjay everlark before peeta was rescued . he is literally being tortured and hijacked out of his mind and still he manages to get one warning out to katniss, to save her as he's always done. and then u have katniss who's every other thought and spoken word is to ask about peeta. everyone in district 13 thinks of him as a traitor and she is begging for someone to save him because she knows he's forced, or worse

thinking about those two minuscule moments in the movie when lucy gray leans in for a kiss it's coriolanus that pulls away and when coriolanus leans in for a kiss it's lucy gray that pulls away. like in each other's homes they would never be comfortable with one another, not fully and instinctually their bodies know this. it just takes their minds to catch up

seems like everybody’s talking abt the parallels btwn lucy gray & katniss or even katniss & sejanus or peeta & lucy gray or gale & coriolanus but EYE am interested in the fact that coriolanus and peeta are opposite ends of the same spectrum 🙏 you’ve got 2 blond men who have lived in poverty & impending death looming over their shoulders, who are so so so charismatic and charming (performers!) to where it’s just manipulation at times, who love a tribute girl from district 12 and risked so much for her … but they couldn’t be any more different. coriolanus charms his way through the capitol to keep the snow image pristine, to keep control over everything. peeta charms his way through the capitol for KATNISS. coriolanus’ love is rooted in possession while peeta’s is rooted in freedom ‼️

idk if it's been talked about before but suzanne collins never misses a BEAT when it came to names, specifically coriolanus snow and dr volumnia gaul. just from their first names alone you can already guess what type of role might play between them (well... if you've read shakespeare's coriolanus that is. i do recommend it btw).

a lot of bits were taken from shakespeare's play for tbosas like the motif with scars / wounds / the body as being a microcosm of the nation, the common people fighting up against the government, coriolanus' hatred of the common people wanting to be "equal" to him, the rebel arc etc etc but i'm soooo so so interested in the fact that dr gaul was named volumnia and coriolanus is coriolanus because in the play, coriolanus' mother's name is volumnia!

volumnia is arguably the only female character in the play that has any depth (i am so sorry virgilia). his mother shapes her son into the warrior he is. she reminds him at every turn that he is nothing more than a weapon to be wielded. in fact, she's the one who gets her son to come back from his "revolt" against rome which ultimately lead to his demise. this parallels tbosas in the same way because dr gaul took coriolanus and molded him into the villain you would see in thg trilogy. she brought him back from d12 and then brought about the end of his humanity (a death, so to speak—at the end of the book he said something similar to this to try to save himself from lucy gray's suspicions but he was right because he did kill a part of himself to be where he is)! coriolanus snow's mother is present but off-page. her ghost haunts him, comforts him, but the 'mother' figure is the ever-present, all-knowing dr gaul.

UGH! like with just their names you could map out where they end up at the end of the story and that's literally insane. like the caliber of writing is literally next to none fr

actively going insane rereading thg. the way katniss has unintentionally kept track of peeta after the bread incident… miss girl had a crush and didn’t even know 😭 she’s out here calling him dazzling and steady and thinking about him all the time i’m going CRAZYYYYYY but it’s also so funny that she’s like ugh. what is he THINKING he is an enigma!!!! (peeta: is thinking about Her)