#snake thoughts

[fourwingedwriter]

Gotta love when writing whump ends up possibly saving your life by giving you ways to recognize when to sit down and rest so you dont faint on your stairs

[thissnakecanbake]

I used to chew on glow sticks whenever I was little so I could use them to draw on the walls whenever they broke open, and I wouldn't get in trouble for drawing on the walls because no one would know in the morning.

Peter Parker the type of guy to chew on pens and when it explodes in his mouth he just pouts and sticks his tongue out to show people sadly that he has, in fact, been poisoned

Peter, trudging in the lab pouting:

Tony: Kid? What’s up?

Peter, shifting on his feet:

Tony, cautious: …Peter?

Peter, sticking his tongue out that is literally neon green:

Tony: PETER BENJAMIN PARKER.

[thissnakecanbake]

I found a spider eggsack under my bed and tried to move it away from my bed and now there spiders in my bed.

I think I will sleep in the kitchen for the foreseeable future.

Don't get me wrong I love spiders, just not when they are in my bed.

[snaike-freake]

Who else up trying to materialize a giant snake to act as an all-body pillow while you depression nap?

[limewashedup]

happy year of the snake! 🐍❤

[you-askedforthis]

In Catching Fire Katniss mentions that Victors are meant to have a “special talent” and that hers was fashion design.

She says she refuses to sing for the Capitol, implying it is her choice.

Which just seems improbable to me, the Capitol is not above forcing Victors to perform.

In reality Snow was probably the one to refuse to let her sing. He was not going to let a Covey girl from District 12 sing in the Capitol ever again.

[snake-thoughtsssss]

gonna eat this weird smelling rat :3

[ghostinwinterfell]

so you’re telling me that lucy gray’s reaping was rigged, haymitch’s reaping was illegal, and katniss volunteered to save her sister? that they’re only tributes because the capitol forced the covey to remain in district twelve, punished haymitch for trying to protect his girl, and tried to send a little girl to her death? only for it to backfire when the capitol suddenly found themselves with three kids who refused to play by their rules? the three mockingjays of district twelve? you’re telling me that the systems of violence cannot sustain themselves and will always breed rebellion? huh.

[dingledraw]

Well, that went down like a lead balloon.

[fourwingedwriter]

Just curious about this because I've noticed some people do it differently

Reblog for larger sample size!

[hinamie]

subject, specimen, spectacle;

should i say that you're dead?

[thissnakecanbake]

Last night I had a dream where I got in a car crash and my boobs needed to but off then I woke up and was very disappointed to find they were still on my chest.

Waking up to my girlfriend sleeping on me helped my early morning dysphoria (kinda hard to breathe but I love my pillow goddess)

[delicourse]

Snake Year

[livingfandomly]

This is something I’ve seen a lot and I’ve also joked about a lot but after SotR I just need to clarify my actual thoughts on this topic: Snow’s “twink death” and his inability to let go of, what was essentially, a month long relationship.

The thing is, it’s not Lucy Gray that he’s holding a grudge against… it’s her lifestyle. He got to experience first hand, the freedom and self-assurance that groups like the Covey generated for themselves. He saw Lucy Gray run off into the woods, swim in a lake, sing and dance with her peers, all after a game that should’ve destroyed her spirits - because that is the point of the Games. To have a sole surviving reminder of why the Capitol is in control. To send back one “victor” who every district hates because the person standing in front of them is taking their friend/child/sibling/cousin/partner’s spot. To completely dismantle that person’s ability to cope with the world the way they used to and to have them beholden to the Capitol for “awarding” them with riches. They’re supposed to serve only as a reminder, a threat, a shell of a person who is visibly hollow and tarnished, hated by many, feared by some and pitied by few.

Lucy Gray is not that shell. Lucy Gray, therefore, serves as a constant reminder to Snow of what should not be happening to those who get to leave the arena. The more he takes command of the Capitol and the Games, the more the “mistakes” of the Games stand out to him because his benchmark for measuring them is Lucy Gray.

Keep in mind that the 10th Games were also the first time he got to see from the inside out. He saw what pissed off the tributes. He saw how they were transported. He also saw how the public reacted at the home district. Lucy Gray had nightmares, sure, but her ability to re-mingle with her friends was a failure of the Capitol. He saw the need to maintain a constant difference between “victor” and “friend”. He saw the need to put them on tours so that the divide and distance grows. He saw the need to be able to broadcast every aspect of the Games without having to constantly be frantically cutting the feed or very obviously fixing the narrative, because that was yet another failure of the system the Capitol was trying to enforce.

This becomes so clear in SotR when he has his talk with Haymitch and realises that the Lucy Gray spirit he has been trying to squash is still alive. Not only that, it’s infectious. It can take someone like Haymitch, someone who is very well pressed under the Capitol thumb, and spark a fire inside him. The colours of the Covey, the singing, it doesn’t just represent Lucy Gray, it represents aspects of freedom that shouldn’t exist. Even him saying:

“You love her. And oh, how she seems to love you. Except sometimes you wonder because her plans don’t seem to include you at all.”

Is so telling because he can’t fathom that a person in the districts could have the independence of thought to do whatever they want. To him, she should be desperate to go back to the Capitol with Snow to get a chance to live the dream that they’re trying so hard to sell, but obviously failing.

So no, Lucy Gray isn’t just the girl he couldn’t get over. She’s the girl that serves as a warning, as an abomination of the purpose of the Capitol. As his personal blueprint of what should not be repeated ever again.

[tired-all-the-time22]

Noo Daniel don’t mess with your high school bully by flirting with him as his celebrity crush‼️‼️ Noo Daniel it’s morally and ethically dubious and you’re going to catch feelings‼️‼️ Daniel‼️‼️

[you-askedforthis]

Just thinking about how in Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Lucy Gray says, “the show’s not over until the mockingjay sings”

And how at the end of Mockingjay Katniss is mute until she talks to Snow and votes yes for another hunger games.

But it’s only after she kills Coin and is imprisoned in her old room in the training center that she starts to sing…