#dean casca highbottom

[katnissandpeetamellark]

Incorrect Quotes<3

[mockingjaysnakes]

behind the scenes!

[hrrystylesbookclub]

we all know the snows’ infamous catchphrase “snow lands on top”

i’m currently rereading catching fire and i came across this part where katniss is making up a lie about hearing a forcefield, and one of the examples she uses of enhanced hearing since the capitol reconstructed her ear:

when i came back across this part i almost SCREAMED, this right here is so symbolic because it is the first instance within the 75th hunger games where katniss is taking a real instance in using the capitol, thereby also snow, against itself. she turns a skill she learned from fellow tributes into a conspiracy that can be used to turn suspicions on capitol doctors. and this THIS!!!! is the start of the sound of snow falling for the first time since dean highbottom 65 years ago. after years of a torturous reign of snow landing on top, katniss is able to plant that seed of snow hitting the ground

[noonemonitorsmyscreentime]

What I think is kind of interesting is that if Dean Casca Highbottom, seeing exactly how good of a student Young Coriolanus Snow was, had taken the boy under his wing instead of despising him and trying to get revenge on a boy that never knew his father (and who only had of his father the words of others about the great man that he was), he might have had a good helping hand in stopping the games he so deeply despised.

It would have been, at the same time, quite a revenge on Crassus Snow to use his son to dismantle the Games the man helped implement. Not only that, but it would have offered young Coryo a person to depend on during his most formative years where he had to grow up under the immense pressure of keeping up appearances, taking care of an ailing grandmother and fighting everyday to keep himself and his family fed.

What Casca failed to realise during the 10th Games was that there weren't 24 tributes, but 25. Snow was fighting for survival just as much as the rest; of course, with the caveat that Snow was never in danger of losing his life. But, for a boy who had for all his life to survive instead of to live, those two might have been the same thing. In saving himself, Coryo would also save Tigris and his grandmother, while all the other tributes were saving mosty themselves since they would be going home with nothing to show for winning the games other than their lives and some (crippling in some cases) trauma.

Maybe things would have played out differently, maybe not, but we have seen time and time again through all four of the Hunger Games books, the power of a kind gesture: Peeta with the bread, Rue healing Katniss, Katniss singing to Rue, Mags sacrificing herself, Boggs treating Katniss like a young traumatised girl when no one else did. Who knows if Snow (and, in turn, the rest of Panem) wouldn't have benefited from it?

[geobeed]

[icemankazansky86]

[thatsoanjie]

Dean Highbottom to Snow at any given moment of A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes : Have I ever mentioned how much of a broke little bitch you are??

[clemensiadovecotes]

10th Annual Reaping ceremony

[topperscumslut]

TBOSAS as quotes from myself pt 2

[i-know-the-endss]

just watched tbosas.

holy fuck????

that is all. good night.

[katnissandpeetamellark]

HERES THE DEAL

Lucy gray’s fate is meant to be a mystery

Like Highbottom said… mystery’s drive people crazy like that’s THE WHOLE DEAL. She haunts Snow because he doesn’t know WHAT happened exactly

Sitting there and telling people they’re stupid for believing either she’s alive or dead ??? Wack move. It’s literally not confirmed for either and I really doubt it ever will be as its supposed to haunt us as well.

[mockingjaysnakes]

📍THE FILMING LOCATIONS OF THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES (part one).

[itskeisy]

New Character Posters for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 🐦‍⬛🐍

[the-yennefer]

"Dean Casca Highbottom, the man credited with the creation of the Hunger Games, was overseeing the mentor program personally. He presented himself to the students with all the verve of a sleepwalker, dreamy-eyed and, as usual, doped up on morphling."

[mostofthingsmostofthetime]

I've started reading The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes so have some memes.

Kids dying

Lucky Flickerman:

These spot the difference games are getting difficult:

Dean Highbottom in the afterlife, finally vindicated in his hate for the Snow boy:

Lucy Gray returning to 12 after the games:

Grandma Snow:

Snow walking into his presidential office for the first time:

[nautical-language]

I saw the movie and now I’m reading TBOSAS and it occurs to me that Gaul’s treatment of Snow is probably directly related to Highbottom’s history with his father.

Highbottom believes Snow should be punished for the sins of his father (inventing the games/sharing his idea to create the games). Highbottom goes out of his way to make Snow vulnerable, driving him to act desperately and take any advantage he can get, even if that means playing right into Gaul’s hands.

Gaul knows this. She’s sadistic, and she enjoys corrupting Snow. By pumping Snow for ways to keep the games fresh, she also gets to twist the knife for Highbottom, using Snow to reenact his father’s betrayal of Highbottom and Highbottom’s own greatest regret (having the idea of the games/“improving” upon them). Highbottom stays doped up to escape from the guilt, making him a less effective opponent of the games and, by extension, Gaul’s position in power.

After all, without the games, there’s no need for a gamemaker and eventually people will move on from the war and they might not need a war science division, either.

I think the introduction of the capitol students as mentors was probably Highbottom’s idea. And it’s a good one, if you want to get rid of the games once and for all. As Coriolanus observes at the first zoo appearance, people prioritize the things that make their children comfortable/happy. The games couldn’t continue if the children of capitol elite became traumatized by them.

It’s also just important to remember that, while Snow isn’t a good person at the start of the book, he’s not evil. He’s traumatized, petty, and obsessed with survival but he doesn’t go out of his way to torment people and he doesn’t relish others’ pain.

But his obsessive nature (and his need for praise and attention) blinds him to Gaul’s manipulation as she leads him down the wrong path. The writing is on the wall, too: At the start of the book, Snow acknowledges his single-mindedness as his greatest weakness.

It’s so frustrating because there are moments where we can see his potential as an agent of change. When he visits Lucy Gray the first time, when he eats with her—that could have been the beginning of a revolution. But Gaul sees that, disarms Snow before he can become a threat to her status quo, and turns him into her tool instead.

And it only works because Coriolanus feels he has no where else to turn partly thanks to Highbottom.

I’m not excusing Snow, because ultimately he made every single one of those choices on his own, but FUCK, no wonder he loses his mind in the end.