#snowbaird a little

[mr-nauseam]

I liked that about Coriolanus leaving halfway through the Pure as driven Snow song in the movie because drama but sometimes I'm kind of sad that we didn't get the snowjanus song:

I'll Sell You For a Song 🤧

I always found it telling how the song talks about your partner cheating on you and stop loving you like before (or I understood it that way) and causing you so much pain that to some extent it makes your love turn into hate and contempt enough for you to want and be able to sell them for a song.

Because from this perspective of the ship it is so revealing how Sejanus in Snow's eyes is someone who only brings him heartache and trouble and to some extent he could put up with that because of the love he had for him but everything changes when Sejanus starts lying to his face.

Coryo himself tells us that he never doubted Sejanus' sincerity, he trusted blindly in that trait of his personality until he no longer does and radically changes his attitude towards him.

I think it also says a lot that this happens a little before the conversation about trust with Lucy Gray and I think for Snow himself trust is very important, more than love (they agree on this trait) and it is distrust that condemns his two great loves.

And is that I would not be surprised a part of why Snow betrays Sejanus is not only his desire for self-preservation and paranoia, I think that although he refuses for a long time to admit that it was obvious to send the jabbarjey would condemn Sejanus and he did it expressly with that intention, that's what happen.

Coriolanus always had a desire to condemn / punish Sejanus in some way, for the many crimes that in Snow's delusional head the poor boy had committed, (stealing his life, not making good use of his position, etc). I think highlights the big crime of Sejanus in Coryo eyes is that he become a traitor and he must pay for it.

Sejanus betrayed Coriolanus first from his perspective when he didn't choose him over the rebels or the people of the district every chance he got and he stuck the dagger in symbolically when he started to be dishonest with Coriolanus.

And I think that feeling pushes Coryo to do what he did bc is resentful and like Lucy Gray sadly would show us later, if Snow think u are not worthy anymore of his trust and you put him in danger / do something he didn't like, he is going to fucking kill you 😭 (yeah we didnt't know Lucy Gray fate but I think we can agree that Coriolanus did not want to have a civilized conversation with her lmao).

Thanks for coming to my ted talk about how twisted is the little brain of Snow

[xthecaptainssaviorx]

“Just not inspired, I guess,” said Lucy Gray. Turning from Dill, she gave Coriolanus a wink.

The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

[chrissymunsons]

PART III: THE PEACEKEEPER ; a summary 🪖

[maysrinn]

Goosey Gray & Coriolanus Duck 🪿✨

The marvelous summer romance of a pampered little running duck who falls head over first for a wild spicy water cobra~

Goosey Gray trademark name by @spoomed \òwó_

[katnissandpeetamellark]

There's something so interesting about these shots to me.

I was just looking through google images - finding inspo whatever- and I came across a few images like this.

What I find interesting is that when they're in the Capitol (and also when Snow gets to 12 in the very beginning) Lucy Gray is almost always "looking up" at Coriolanus.

I guess I would translate that as her "trusting him" because she can look to him for safety or to feel safe.

BUT the moment she catches him in the "three person" lie-- she's suddenly put on "his level" (aka the picture on the right). She is aware to an extent who he is-- what he'll do for power/success/to save himself. She suddenly has this new knowledge of who Coriolanus Snow is-- and she's no longer "looking to him"... she no longer trusts him.

What do you think? Do you see what I mean?

[boarwinds]

Pre-professor au

Pre-professor au

I’m too lazy to type out the au so here’s the edited version from my rambling to a friend

[burntblueberrywaffles]

Me opening ao3 every night before bed:

[talkshowboyluvr]

[shippersonfire]

lucy gray and coriolanus would both be the princess diana of panem and that’s why they’d be the most salient political power couple in north american history

[mitsuki91]

Characters analysis about Coriolanus Snow and Lucy Gray Baird.

(This is copy-pasted from a chat so forgive me if it's kind of messy).

Premise: Lucy is well aware of where the weapons are and makes Coryo find them on purpose.

Analysis: In my opinion Lucy recognises that Coryo still wears a mask in front of the world. She frames it immediately because she, in her own way, does too. She loves him, because she has seriously fallen in love with him (trauma bonding lol), but she also knows deep down that Coryo will always want to go back to the capital and make a political career, because it's the only way he can feel in control (and in a way she even understands this). She is worried that he will force her to follow him and put her in a cage and she is torn anyway because she loves him and would like to be with him but does not want to become a canary in a gilded cage... So she is slowly trying to make him understand that there is an alternative, that Capitol City and politics are not everything, that there is a life beyond power and beyond hunger. Only it all comes crashing down in 0.2 seconds. Coryo shoots the mayor's daughter and Lucy thus has 1) confirmation that Coryo would do anything for her anyway 2) sees how his paranoia starts, especially when Sejanus is hanged. She knows, because she knows him, that he sold him out to try to save his own skin. But she also knows that he is terrified and see himself already dead. She would like to reassure him and tell him about the weapons etc. but she knows that it is only prolonging the agony, because if Coryo could feel 'free' and return to the capital he would, and she is not up for it. So she finds a way to make him find the weapons - she first has confirmation that, even at the moment when Coryo loses everything, he still chooses her, because he loves her - and she watches him to see what he intends to do, but as she suspects he is not yet ready. She sees, in his eyes, that for him that discovery means 'freedom', a freedom greater than the truly free life he could have had with her. So she decides to take the first step and stop him from really choosing.... Because Coryo might choose her in that moment, but in one, two, five years etc. it would blow up in her face (between recriminations and various things because, basically, they want two different things out of life). Their love is not enough, Lucy knows that. So she does not give him the power to torture himself into a slow descent and chooses for him, leaving him. And he goes mad because he loses control, possession, over what he considered to be his by right because of the love he feels (his view of love and life: he sees possession as the highest form of love, because he grew up in a world where he had nothing and now only values the things he possesses).

Basically Lucy Gray values her freedom above love and Coryo values power/wealth/control above love.

Love exists between them, it is true.... But they have two different visions of life.

They have both betrayed each other in the worst way for each other.

Trust and loyalty.

But it wasn't a selfish spite, at least not on Lucy Gray's part.

He was still in full paranoia about the trust issue so he wasn't clear-headed, but she wasn't loyal thinking she was doing him a favour in the end by leaving him 'free'.

In the end, they 'gave' each other the most important thing they consider to themself: Coryo was giving her himself - "I am yours, Lucy, and I will follow you to the ends of the word" - i.e. possession. She gave him freedom instead.

[zorosnavigator]

So I made this snowbaird folder (in which i put all fics i loved from ao3)

They are sorted by WIP or COMPLETED work,

i try to udapte the WIPs gradually (as they are udapted on ao3)

And im still in the process of categorizing and sorting them out by themes, canon divergence, AU...etc...so, sorry it takes a bit more time than planned😅.

additional note/disclaimer: ik that as a snowbaird shipper youre aware of what youre in for with them but (in case you are a minor) a lot if not most of these works contains explicit sexual content, sometimes dubious consent, depict toxic dynamics (such as power imbalance, manipulation from both side, dom/sub dynamics, well. Snowbaird.)

That being said i just want to add, these amazing writers are on ao3, tumblr, working hard to entertain and please us, readers so if you can and have the time, go on ao3 and drop some comments, love or kudos to these incredible artist!!!

[itsoxyymoronn]

listening to the song lucy gray sings in interviews after watching the whole movie

[xthecaptainssaviorx]

Her fingers began combing through her curls, untangling the knots and picking out bits of straw. Coriolanus’s attention turned for a moment to the Peacekeepers, who were hollering threats into the train car. When he gazed back, Lucy Gray was staring directly at him. He started a bit but then remembered that he was the only one on the platform besides the Peacekeepers. The soldiers were cursing now as they hoisted one of their number into the train car to retrieve the reluctant tributes. It was now or never.

Snowbaird's first meeting in The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

[julietasgf]

hear me out: a comedy college au where lucy gray started having this situationship with this guy, coriolanus, during summer, and yk, he was handsome, charming. she had very bad experiences regarding men in the past, so she thought this was the one. until she decides to give him a surprise and visit him unexpectedly, and who opens the door of his dorm is a guy. a man called sejanus who claims to actually be dating coriolanus. coriolanus was seeing both of them without each other knowing and now they team up together to make coriolanus' life a living hell (coriolanus doesn't know about this ofc 🫶)

[maysrinn]

The little ✨OPSIE DAISY✨

Meet ✨Lucia Honey Snow✨

Lucy Gray was 45 years old when she had Lucia. The arrival of Lucia, the little surprise bundle of joy, was not planned. However, Coriolanus was overjoyed upon hearing the news, despite having had a conversation with his wife five years ago where she rejected his proposal of having another fledgling. He took the news in stride, although he was a bit salty about it for a week.

No, Coriolanus didn’t „help“ after not getting his way, there was another banquet at the mansion and it ended with the two of them drunk after having to endure Livia for the whole night.

Lucia is the spitting Image of Coriolanus, leaving Lucy Gray no choice making the first few hours with her newborn daughter a joke session.

____________

Lucy Gray: 9 months; 16 hours at the age of 45 and this is what I get…look at her

Coriolanus: I think she looks beautiful

Lucy Gray: She looks like the result after I tell you to go ✨Fuck yourself✨

Coriolanus: Lucy Gray…

Lucy Gray: let me guess also some sky blue little… OHOOO! Called it

Coriolanus: Lucy Gray-

Lucy Gray: Yes, yes I got it… she's a sweet little bird

Coriolanus: Indeed

Lucy Gray: …Coriolanus

Coriolanus: Yes?

Lucy Gray: congratulations YOU are the mother!

_____________

SHE LOVES HER DAUGHTER and gives her a second name the color Honey because of how sweet the little girl was and also because she didn’t know the color was called Gamboge

Coriolanus was indeed the one who named his daughter Lucia which sounded similar to Lucy

She's the only kid who's called full-time by both of her names, honey sounds like an affectionate nickname

…Unfortunately she doesn’t have any friends beside her sister, but that’s a story for another time

[maysileeewrites]

at this point I’m convinced that Taylor writes a lot of her songs with The Hunger Games / The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in mind

(I know she doesn’t, but like, The Albatross is sooo Snowbaird coded for me. And don’t even get me started on Who’s Afraid of Little old Me?)