#fascination ballad

[jakeperalta]

THE HUNGER GAMES APPRECATION WEEK → day 7: free choice

The Tributes maintaining their compassion and humanity (or, being more than just a piece in the Capitol's games)

[invisible-pink-toast]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 19, p.285

[farosdaughter]

There's no rule that says Coriolanus Snow can't be a romantic and a gentleman to his girlfriend while at the same time as being an evil dictator villian with the blood of millions of teens and children on his hands. He can be both. It makes him more intriguing that he can be both. That he has empathy for a certain number of people, but can't spare more than that(I headcanon that he was a good grandfather to his grandchildren)

PREACH!

If things had gone slightly different in canon, I’m convinced Snow would’ve had a loving marriage while still becoming the villain we know in THG. After all, his decision to forsake romantic love after the events of TBOSAS is in itself a testament to the depth of his feelings for Lucy Gray.

Love doesn’t equal redemption or goodness, and the fact that he’s a fundamentally selfish person in a position of power doesn’t mean Snow isn’t also capable of human emotions and attachment. Especially when the prequel makes the opposite argument. I agree with you that in canon he seemed like a loving grandfather even as he reached unheard of levels of cruelty as President.

His innate possessiveness would on the contrary make him a very doting and protective husband (to the right woman, sorry Livia). Whether the relationship would have stood the test of time (and of his thirst for power) is another matter entirely. Most AUs where Coryo and Lucy Gray go back to the Capitol and he goes into government have her betraying him in the end, and I also think that would the most likely outcome. Theirs is a monstrous love, etc etc

[ozzieinspacetime]

Yet again I'm thinking about the eradication of culture within the THG universe,, I have very complex opinions on culture wars within Panem and if they would exist at all in certain cases but like. Do you think they still speak Spanish in Ten? Do you think trans people can still change their names and wear what they please as long as they meet their daily quotas? Do families with religious ancestors remember to observe their holy days, even if it's in private, or was the eradication of religion in Panem so concrete that they don't remember anything at all? Much to think about

[enobariasdistrict2]

the reason district two got so much special treatment from snow can be implicitly connected to sejanus. snow obviously had no fondness for his supposed best friend and used him for his personal gain, so he wasn't treating d2 well out of sentiment/as tribute to his "best friend" - district two was the sector for military weaponry and produced the strongest, most trained individuals. like d13, their industry gave them the abilities and potential to overthrow the capitol's tyranny. more so, district two produced someone like sejanus, a rebel who believed in human rights and was uncompromising when it came to his moral principles. if more people like sejanus existed in a district that could actually orchestrate an effective uprising with their resources, then the capitol and their system of tyranny was in danger.

snow had to make sure someone like sejanus was never produced from the strongest district with the most advanced military - and he clearly succeeded, since cato and clove and enobaria and brutus fell far from the apple tree and were bloodthirsty and content to never rebel. clearly, district two culture obviously changed a lot since the tenth hunger games, and snow's special attention made d2 raise their children under the belief that winning the games and submitting to the capitol was a great honor. violent people like cato and clove were unlikely to rebel, not when they were treated so well by capitol and raised to believe their actions were honorable and that their district was superior.

snow's strategy worked really well, since with the exception of lyme and her army, no one in district two ever followed in sejanus's footsteps, and d2 was the last one to declare open rebellion against the capitol.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I think we need more stories about how even if you are genuinally a bad person or did something truly atrocious that does not justify the suffering of the mordern Prison Industrial Complex and how prison more than punishment should be about making sure if not all at least most people can go back to society and never do crimes again.

I mean it. Most stories about how bad prison is either follows a thief that did it out of necessity or an innocent man wrongfully arrested and we should think of those people ofc. But we should also think about how prison is not supposed to be karma is supposed to help society (plus we need more assistencial programs to suport victims of violence as well asap).

[seaglassdinosaur]

It’s funny because every awful thing Coriolanus does I’m not even shocked by; his character has been so well established as someone so driven and mistrusting that I can’t get mad I just sigh and go, ‘yeah, that’s what I thought you’d do you piece of shit.’

[agir1ukn0w]

hey suzanne, you probably aren’t reading this, but if you are I just wanted to ask if you could write a book about every victor of the hunger games, with descriptions of their lives, how they won, and what happened to them after that, because I am actually frothing at the mouth wanting to know more about mags flanagan and finnick odair and johanna mason and beetee latier and wiress and the morphlings and enobaria and chaff and even cashmere and gloss. I want to know everything about these people and how they survived such brutal circumstances, please pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseprettyplease can you write something like this for us suzanne???

[wandalives]

Why was Lucy Gray eating a rose petal so attractive

[brionysea]

this man is pissing me off

[doctorwhoisadhd]

so wait, since i was just reminded of the recorder thing donna talked about in the giggle, i now have a question for uk ppl: do yall learn the recorder in school? like in a music class? and like how much do yall have music class over there?

[longeyelashedtragedy]

gonna annoy you all! read the tag and click keep reading at ur peril

guess what i CAN'T get out of my head franko saying "there’s my girl" to an almost 39 year old lady ghjfkdlsfhjdkhfjhhhfjd

[sirnica]

I finally watched The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and I will never emotionally recover from Coryo's little Panem printed pajamas.

[chiropteracupola]

for interested parties, Here is the song about which I was rambling in the previous post.

[mackmp3]

still thinking about that post where it's like 'came back wrong except you came back totally fine, but the process of bringing you back destroyed the person doing it and now they are the one who's different than before'

the potential for tragedy in that is so strong i want to write a story with that in ittttttttt