#annoying snake

[nova2cosmos]

THANK YOU FOR THE +500 FOLLOWERS!!!!

OMG I'm so happy!! 503 is a big number oml you can't know how happy i am thank you all

and hope that we can continue on this launch and that you can continue to like the content of this blog I will do my best to improve myself every day ✨(❁´◡`❁)

In any case here is the 500(503) followers event

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[meruz]

kid au i guess? idk

[hyaesia]

fun fact i actuallt hate metal gear. don’t let any of my posts fool u

[mossuaries]

Hope, Faith, Love, and Luck.

[catastrxblues]

so, we got an official teaser trailer for percy jackson, four of the 1989 vault tracks titles, and the second trailer for the ballad of songbirds and snakes all within a span of 24 hours??? i don’t care what sort of day i had today, this is EVERYTHING to me. big win for annoying people oh my god.

[raayllum]

The fact that Callum is the character in the trio most consistently down with murder, given that one its members is an assassin. will never not be funny to me. A snake boi older brother to the most pacifist little brother ever is both hilarious as a contrast, and makes total and utter sense.

Additionally: love that while Rayla has an extra incentive to go for the Novablade (doing so would also mean making progress with freeing her parents in one fell swoop) Rayla sides with Ezran's viewpoint, once again emphasizing their similarities and setting Callum apart in his decisions and inclinations.

[xthecaptainssaviorx]

He could see a Peacekeeper force her to her stomach and jam the barrel of a gun into her neck, yelling a string of profanities at her. “Lucy Gray!” Coriolanus cried out. No one paid any attention to him.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

[genericpuff]

i played flute for 6 years from middle school until the end of high school

it means fuck all now because i haven't played a single tune in a decade LOL

[klaxonsynth]

when the snake is solid‼️

[maculategiraffe]

speaking of pet snakes. want y'all to know that I have achieved such harmonic resonance with hildegard that I dreamed last night she had shed and then got up this morning to check on her and there was a brand new still damp shed skin just outside her hide. she was literally shedding while I was dreaming about it

[fellowshipofthenoodles]

btw I will not be answering any dense af asks saying “um your snake is female if she’s laying eggs” yes. I know. point to me on the post where I said that Tolkien is laying eggs. go on.

[mswyrr]

lucy gray baird's philosophy

I want to "yes, and" this great meta post by @burst-of-iridescent​. Specifically this part:

by the end of the book, coriolanus gives in fully to dr gaul’s way of thinking simply because it excuses him from accepting blame for his actions. if he killed sejanus, it’s because he had no choice. if he betrayed lucy gray, it’s because she would’ve betrayed him first. coriolanus refuses to believe in the goodness of humanity because that would have meant accepting the goodness that existed within him, and with that came the potential for making a different, better choice - potential that he knew, deep down, he had wasted. attributing his crimes to an innate evil that no one can overcome means that he can’t be held accountable, because it’s out of his control.

This got me thinking about how much Lucy Gray's worldview rejects of this way of thinking (and of a Calvinist*/ableist "some people are just born evil" pov people try to impose on the text, which people think is condemning him but actually... accidentally agrees with him that he was born evil and therefore can't help it??????). The book begins with several quotes chosen by the author, but I believe the one that represents Lucy Gray's worldview is Rousseau, who believed people were born with fundamental goodness.

Here's a source on him:

(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

And here's the quote Collins opens with:

“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

That's Lucy Gray's pov she's come to through living and reflecting as an artist; someone can disagree with it (of course, all of these questions are open for endless debate; they have been debated endlessly!) however, it's important to respect that is where she's coming from, not being foolish or naive. It is a worthy pov that should be respected, even if you disagree. And that she came to this pov through a hard life and from much thinking and she expresses it beautifully in her art.

Here's the key exchange from the book, after Coriolanus has taken on the idea that people are just awful and her articulating her philosophy in response:

(Ballad, 495)

She's not naive. She recognizes the nuance that Rousseau does, that society shapes us. And Panem is pretty clearly a society led by people applying all the pressures they can think of on people toward evil. (And, after his heel turn, Coriolanus' is going to innovate some new pressures...) Clearly there are situations and circumstances that form us before we have much say in it, but that's not the same as being born evil.

The difference between inherent goodness and a corrupt society is, for Lucy Gray, a lot of hard work. It's a struggle. This repudiates both the version of "born evil" Coriolanus himself takes on, which relieves him of responsibility, and the self-righteous, Calvinist and/or ableist pov people keep arguing for, which makes "normal" people feel like they can be sure they're good (and ignore how we are all complicit in evil to some degree or another) because they have a "good" normal brain or they were just born so pure as a soul predestined for heaven. No, for her, everyone has to do the work. To her it's everyone's "life's challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line."

Even more pointedly, the love song she wrote him before his betrayal, "Pure as the Driven Snow," articulates her philosophy in the opening lines:

(Ballad, 481)

Again, we have her personal focus on the work of "staying on the right side" of good and evil after being born good into evil circumstances. She knows it hurts; she's led a hard life herself. "It's rough as a bair" to do that work, it's "like walkin' through fire." But it is doable.

Lucy Gray meant it as a love song but IMO "Pure as the Driven Snow" ends up a lament for the boy Coriolanus was and her love that he betrayed when he betrayed himself. And it is a direct rejection of his excuses, it is inadvertently reading him for filth for the lies he tells himself that all the world is the Games arena, all people are selfish and bad, and he isn't to blame for what he's done because he just wants to come out on top/be the victor of this "natural" "war of all against all" that is Gaul's philosophy (related to the Hobbes quote Collins begins with; I wrote a meta on that here) that he adopts.

I see her demeaned as a foolish girl who just "like bad boys" and I get so frustrated. I also get frustrated by the view that she must not have ever been sincere in loving or trusting him because IF SHE WAS then she would be a fool and his betrayal would somehow be her fault. And she'd reject the idea that she's "good" just because she's so pure or that anyone can claim we're good without doing a lot of hard work.

(Ballad, 482)

She is so thoughtful and interesting as a character. And she didn't just "like bad boys" - Coriolanus showed only his good side to her until the very end, once he'd decided to kill that part of himself. She had no way of knowing. Sometimes you trust someone and they betray you, it doesn't make you wrong, the shame is all theirs.

*Strict Calvinist predestination is some people are just predetermined to be bound for heaven and some for hell, some people are just born good and others are born bad. A lot of people in fandom seem to love Calvinism idk why. The ableism bit of this should be self-evident: there is no such thing as a "bad" brain type completely incapable of morality or a "good" brain and neurodivergence is not the source of all evil!

[carlyraejepsans]

dorkssss

[slavonicrhapsody]

Rykard getting the second fewest votes in a best sibling poll???? you have GOT to be JOKING they did him so DIRTY!!!!! putting aside the fact that Malenia is obviously the best answer, Rykard is canonically a GREAT brother… he made sure both siblings (and mom!!) had at least one of his abductor virgins protecting them (and he even sent Radahn a whole army of them probably to aid his war effort), he supported Ranni in her plan to shed her empyrean flesh and plotted with her to overthrow the golden order (even if he has to challenge Maliketh himself!), and he has a portrait of Radahn hanging in his sitting room just because he loves and respects him… yeah he’s a nasty guy but there’s more evidence of his love for his siblings than there is for any other demigod barring Malenia and Miquella like come on!!!!!

[autisticvampireclub]

The thrilling sequel: snwally finally gets his kissy

[crazycriter]

You guys ever notice that people who criticise Lumberhouse (about it being a crackship that was Not treated as such) and Slaugherjack (about it being a pair the spare that is only placed in the background of mlm ships) have genuine points about how the ships have serious issues rooted in misogyny and fetishisation.

While treemina antis just say, "TREEMINA MID TREEMINA MID." And despite them being different races & looking nothing each other, people say that they're "COUSINS," to attempt make an already tragic pair even more tragic but instead just make treech a dickhead.