#tbosas

[loveridden1999]

[snowbairdandbread]

[evermarch]

the fact that the covey, who lucy gray staunchly defines as “not from 12” and as independent in the war, becomes unabashedly rebellious after her games is absolutely, devastatingly beautiful. she truly does haunt the narrative of those she left behind, just like her namesake

[sippingdaisies]

although katniss is our protagonist and main character i think there's actually a much more fitting throughline when it comes to the presence of covey girls and their acts of rebellion.

lucy gray

lenore dove

primrose

i don't often see prim mentioned when it comes to covey lineage (most likely because her character is so aligned with their merchant mother in the original trilogy) but all three of these girls actively haunt the narrative.

lucy gray is the ghost whose songs of resistance endure in district 12 long after her name is forgotten. lenore dove paints her posters across the district and its haymitch's promise to her that forces him to keep going, keep fighting back until someone 'just like him but luckier' comes along to do what he couldn't. primrose is reason that katniss volunteers, she inspires a love so great that it defies the odds and brings her sister home.

they all have an immense strength but also an inherent gentleness - their love of animals whether this is lucy gray's snakes or lenore dove's geese or prim's refusal to hunt animals (not to mention lady and buttercup) - they are all drawn to creatures that are not widely seen as valuable or lovable.

they share a deep sense of optimism, each believe in the power of hope to transform one's circumstances. they each believe that a better world is not only possible but they are willing to take action to make it so. lucy gray uses her songs and performances, lenore dove engages in acts of sabotage and vandalises property. prim learns how to heal and chooses to enter a warzone in order to help people - in a world governed by violence, prim is first and foremost a healer.

and ultimately they are all taken from those who love them - they are girls frozen in time, forever filled with colour and light. three generations of covey girls, each doomed by their connection to the games.

[fallenrocket]

This is what I love about the title. It’s like Pride and Prejudice, where you can’t neatly assign one half of the title to each of the leads. On a surface read, it’s easy to make those divisions, but the more you get into it, the more you see that Lizzy and Darcy both have pride, and they both have prejudice. It’s the same with Lucy Gray and Coriolanus. “Who’s the songbird and who’s the snake?” is the wrong question. The title is songbirds plural, snakes plural. It’s both. The question is, “How is each of them the songbird, and how is each of them the snake?”

Watching the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is realizing that despite the obvious implication that Lucy Gray is the songbird and Snow is the Snake…it’s likely the opposite.

Lucy gray controlled the snakes and used them as her weapon of choice, the snake biting him was Lucy’s kiss goodbye. She is the snake.

Snow sold Sejanus out through the jabberjay’s, they were his tool to fly back home and back into power. He is the songbird.

But at the same time…as in her Ballad, Lucy Gray flys away with the mockingjays after she sings the Hanging Tree one final time while fleeing Snow. She is physically a songbird. And Snow chose to work with Dr. Gaul, who created and controlled those snakes. He was the snake who betrayed his friend.

Who is the songbird and who is the snake? It’s unclear, but isn’t that the mystery?

[faggotboyfreak]

TBOSAS if it was from his pov

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Suzanne Collins gripping my face with her hands: listen listen the first step to evil is dehumanisation, always, the second you start to see people as less than people no matter what they've done to you that's when you start heading down a path of selfish destruction and violence

[derangedchameleon]

I think Snow saw some of Reaper in Haymitch. Both of them, from Snow‘s point of view, do confusing things with the bodies of their fellow tributes.

With Reaper creating a makeshift funeral for the tributes that he killed and covering them with the flag of Panem. It never even crosses Snow‘s mind that this boy, while yes, „playing the game“ and killing tributes, has a level of cognitive dissonance here. This is a boy that wants to survive. He wants to go home. And he knows that he can. But in order to do that he has to kill people that are not really his enemy.

By making the graveyard and covering them in the flag of Panem he is saying „These were people. They are not animals. We are not animals. I may have killed them. But only because YOU turned me into a weapon. Because YOU gave me no choice. These deaths are on YOU.���

But Snow, as intelligent as he is, doesn‘t get that message.

Running around with Louella‘s body. That‘s the funeral. Applauding Snow. That‘s covering the bodies with the flag of Panem. Snow smiles when observing Haymitch‘s behaviour.

Just like with Reaper, the only explanation Snow can think up for this situation is „He has lost his mind. Poor thing.“

Yes he can recognise the rebellion in the action. But he doesn‘t understand it. Not really.

[agentmilayawithshield]

The moment Tigris tells Snow he looks like his father, my heart broke.

That's her Prim.

That's the child she took care of while being a child herself, stuck with an adult who couldn't care for them all that well. She tried so hard and sacrificed so much for the boy that despite all her love still turns into a monster.

Katniss's Prim dies, but Tigris' Prim destroys every part of the boy she raised, to the point she wants him dead and has nothing in her heart for him except absolute loathing.

[justafewberries]

the lake is “two to three” hours from the covey’s house according to lucy gray. The average person walks 3-4mph. They’re in the woods, so let’s assume it’s 3 mph to account for roots/obstacles. This means, minimum, the lake is about six miles from the fence. It’s likely farther.

The covey graveyard is still past the lake.

That’s insanely far to walk with a coffin. Also, the walk when Burdock led Haymitch to the graves, the 6 MILE walk, there’s no way they were chit chatting.

[schrodingersjigsaw]

No bc I see that argument a lot (her not loving him) and I just don’t buy it! This is a woman who BIT HER EX!!! She would’ve never in a million years agreed to run away with him, or be as consistently happy as she was to see him, or bring him around her family if she didn’t love him.

Hate when ppl are like 'we dont know if Lucy Gray really loved Snow, she was a mysterious character and we dont know her thoughts'

Like our homegirl wrote 'Pure as the driven Snow' about him AFTER seeing him kill a man, she was in love with him

[blytharchives]

TOM BLYTH via Instagram.

[hellomadamebutterfly]

My thoughts from last night:

Me: well, time for bed!

My brain: Capitol teens and young adults definitely cosplayed as their favorite tribute/victor

[tryingssss]

hey everyone so i made which hg character are you quiz and you can take it!

[justafewberries]

the song existed before any of the three graves in the burial area. Lucy Gray sings it to Maude Ivory in tbosas, when she and Maude Ivory are still alive, and Lenore Dove is yet to be born. So it can’t be an intentional map by the Covey, unless it’s one retroactively.

all i fucking do is cry on tiktok. just saw ANOTHER video talking abt how the meadow song is actually the covey’s map to their graves.

Deep in the meadow, under the willow A bed of grass, a soft green pillow Lay down your head, and close your eyes And when they open, the sun will rise Here it’s safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm Here your dreams are sweet, and tomorrow brings them true Here is the place where I love you

a safe place away from the capitol GOODBYE SUZANNE HOW COULD YOU?!