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timestamp roulette: BLACK SAILS EPISODE XII ↳ fire.

#urge to rewatch #black sails

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THE NORTHMAN ↪ ‘‘I will avenge you, Father! I will save you, Mother! I will kill you, Fjölnir!’’ Dir: Robert Eggers, DoP: Jarin Blaschke.

#movies ive just watched

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ANYA TAYLOR-JOY as Olga of the Birch Forest THE NORTHMAN (2022) dir. Robert Eggers

#movies ive just watched #loved this and her

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023) dir. Francis Lawrence

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes

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watched the ballad of songbirds and snakes today with two of my friends and their reactions to the ending made me realise just how genius the entire concept is. here you have the main antagonist of one of the most popular franchises of all time - the audience knows he’s a villain, and does despicable things - yet you’re seeing him young and, initially, with the same framing as katniss had in thg. and it just reinforces everything about the original trilogy in the most heart wrenching way possible.

one of my friends said she felt ‘manipulated’ by the movie because of its ending, and honestly, I felt the same way while both reading the book and watching the film. but it’s an intentional manipulation, and it’s very similar structurally and thematically to a greek tragedy - the protagonist, full of potential, makes a series of choices that ultimately lead to his moral downfall. my friends kept saying ‘if he’d just—!’ if he’d just stayed with lucy gray. if he’d just been content with the love he had. if he’d just not let his ambition rule him. but we all knew how it would end, and we watched it anyway.

collins is weaponising the reach that her previous novels (and their adaptations) had to make a point about human nature and our tendency to hope for good even when the odds are completely stacked against us. when lucy gray says, ‘i think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings’, she’s putting into words what we as the audience are hoping for the entire way through.

and that’s what makes it so powerful. you know how it ends, but for a time, you believe in snow’s potential to be a good person. hope is the only thing stronger than fear. thematically, it’s full circle. you’ve been played by collins, and by your own expectations for a happy ending. it’s orpheus and eurydice. it’s a tragedy, with a fatal flaw. you’re a spectator of a pair of star-crossed lovers in the brutal arena of a dystopian world, where the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. everything about it is doomed from the start, but it’s human to hope, so there’s hope anyway. what the fuck.

#tbosas #the hunger games

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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.

#ugh #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

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watching the movie has really brought to my attention that what katniss did with rue was not new.

like watching reaper make a mass grave of the children, covering them with the symbol of a government whose job it was to protect them. or lamina giving a mercy blow to marcus, putting him out of his misery.

and then thinking about haymitch and maysilee. the way he ran when he heard her screaming. and stayed with her until she died.

memorializing the other children in the games might have been less common, but it was not new. because, as it turns out, children do not like to see their friends, their peers die in front of them.

and so, it makes me feel a little more dubious when people say that katniss's memorialization of rue in the first book was *the* catalyst for the revolution. and that is not to say that it was not part of the reason, but it just wasn't the most revolutionary thing that happened.

because while the movie directly connects that incident with the first protest in district eleven, that is not what we get in the book. in the book, all we get is a little gift of gratitude from district eleven to the girl who protected a child.

so, what was so revolutionary?

i think it all revolves around katniss's actions that put aside her will to survive to protect the people she loves. because when push comes to shove, she will not become the monster that is set solely on self-preservation. one that is only focused on her survival.

and for some reason, in my head, katniss's actions with peeta are a little more important than her volunteering for prim.

because while she did volunteer to enter an arena that almost guaranteed her death, it was for her sister. a perfectly healthy girl with a future ahead of her.

but when peeta was dying, it was a little different. she didn't need to do anything and she would be guaranteed safety. he would just die and she would be crowned victor.

even if she could save him, who knows if he would even survive when the capitol picked him up. (i mean... he almost didn't). so, it literally does not make any practical sense why she would sacrifice her life for a dying boy.

but she couldn't let him die. so if that meant that if she had to gamble her life to possibly get him to safety, she would do it. because she had no choice. because she loved him, she gambled her life to call the capitol's bluff.

and that was revolutionary.

#the hunger games

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New hunger games is soooo good guys

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damn lucy gray won the hunger games in high heels

#thg #tbosas #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray

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“shadow and bone is cancelled and there isn’t going to be a six of crows spinoff”

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shadow and bone cancelled? gonna kms

#shadow and bone #youre saying im not getting the ice court heist? #youre saying im never gonna see nikolai again?

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favorite platonic relationships: john murphy and raven reyes “Everyone was so surprised when I stayed behind, most of all me. I thought maybe I was doing it to impress Emori, but the more I think about it… I mean, why do you always have to be the one to sacrifice?”

#stop it i miss them so much #the 100

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I’ve been waiting a year to post this

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Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in THE HUNGER GAMES: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

#tbosas #thg

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THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES (2023) Snow lands on top.

#im so excited u guys #thg #tbosas

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The Hunger Games Renaissance. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023), dir. Francis Lawrence.

Witness the rise of power. November 17th, 2023.

#LOSING MY MIND AT THE TRAILER #thg #tbosas

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I'm so behind on TV shows at the min

Wot season 2, dead city AND daryl dixon show that just started yesterday, uhhh still haven't watched the new season of the bear or reservation dogs, ohh and still haven't watched past season 1 of the expanse even though I watched that so many months ago