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5 Things I Like Writing About

Thanks for the mention @moreespressoformydepresso

Fix it fics

2. Found family/friendship

3. AU's inspired by whatever tv show/episode/movie/book I'm also currently interested in

4. Leaving small breadcrumbs in the early chapters of long fics/works in a series that either become relevant later on in the fics events or observant readers notice later on their own

5. Basically anything with a happy ending

@crazycriter @starsofatlantis @ylvisruinedmylife (I don't know who else to tag)

#fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #ao3 fanfic

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I love all of your AU ideas, like I have no idea how you come up with all of those amazing things, but honesty, when I first read this, I read Felix as Festus at first and I was very interested on where that was going to go, because, Festus and Coral. What would have happened between them to get Festus to the point where he's advocating for the tributes because he definitely didn't see Coral as human really at first and Coral in return was just trying to keep her self control intact so that she didn't actually break his wrist. I was imagining so much there before I re-read your post and was like: yeah, Felix makes more sense than Festus does.

The weirdest kind of crack fix it AU’s just popped into my head. Imagine if Snow was knocked into a coma by the arena bombings and the events of TBOSAS and all the works in this franchise are just his fever dream while his body fights to keep him alive.

While he’s out, the mentors all grow close to their tributes and Felix manages to convince his dad that the games are bad actually. That Gaul is not all there mentally and will be a bigger danger to the people of the capitol than any of the tributes could ever hope to be and that the bombings could’ve been caused by anyone so which should they weigh heavier? The hypothetical rebels that may or may not have done this, or the woman everyone can clearly tell is some kind of unhinged. Not the fun kind either. The president agrees and while Snow is in the hospital all the tributes get rich friends to help out their families and on some level their districts so their lives are a lot less difficult.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coral #coral tbosas #festus creed

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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Would be cool to see a scene of Wovey and Lucy Gray. I feel like since Wovey comes from the textile District, she would be interested in Lucy Gray's dress.

Other than her interactions with Coryo, I think Lucy Gray hasn't really made a connection with anyone, and Wovey would be a good starting point.

Wovey did reach out and take her hand when they entered the Arena in the film.

Hi! Sorry for the late reply, I was very busy with school, but that's finished for now.

And yeah! I love Wovey and Lucy Gray's relationship and we will get more moments between them as the fic progresses. Wovey really loves Lucy Gray and Lucy Gray is very fond of Wovey too, especially as Wovey reminds her of Maude Ivory, although sometimes that's more of pain than a balm to Lucy Gray.

But yeah, so far in the fic, Lucy Gray's closest companions out of all the tributes are Jessup, Wovey and Bobbin, although it's really more Jessup and Wovey, while Bobbin she's near because they're both looking out for Wovey.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #lucy gray baird #wovey #wovey tbosas #can't catch us now

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“Is it okay if I draw fanart of your fanfic?👉🏼👈🏼”

My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding

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my dream as a fanfic writer is to write a story which people want to talk to me about and send asks about afterwards and discuss things the characters did and the symbolism and meanings behind certain lines and I'll be all "hehe thanks" but irl I'll be in literal tears because I wrote something that means something to someone

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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

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inside you there are two wolves:

i should wait and write more chapters so that it will have extra material when i start posting this multichapter

post that chapter NOW for the INSTANT GRATIFICATION (!!!)

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Hello. I have been loving your fanfic it's so good I am using it as a coping mechanism after getting my heart broken 🥲 . Small question i might be reading too much into this but is facet younger than velvreene and sabyn in your fic or is it like a one year age gap ? Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question

(kid velvreene looking after kid Facet is so cute 🥺)

(Love how you made velvreene be one of the responsible ones with her being in the last group to go up and her volunteering to go helping treech getting supplies then her saving sabyn when they were being watched and how she comforted both her and facet in chapter 8 as a velvreene fan this makes me so happy)

Aw, thank you so much! I'm glad that my fic can help with healing broken hearts. :) And don't be sorry, there's no dumb questions! And I'm happy to answer any questions you have!

And in regards to your question now, in my fic when I was planning everything out and going by the appearances of the tributes who don't have their ages confirmed, I saw Velvereen as being about 17 years old and in my mind, she's the oldest female tribute along with Sol. And both Facet and Sabyn are younger than her. Facet is 16, while Sabyn is 15-16 as well.

I'm glad that you're liking what I'm doing with Velvereen too! Out of all the Career District tributes, especially with the backstory I've made for her, I always saw her as perhaps the most responsible of those four, while Facet and Sabyn in particular due to the fact that they're younger looking, I've tried to show their youth/vulnerability more, especially as the Capitol hasn't gotten the chance to breed the 'Career' mindset into some of the Districts yet that would make them appear tougher and more ruthless like the Career tributes that Katniss faces in her Games.

(And yes, kiddie Velvereen and Facet are adorable in my mind too! <3)

It's always good to know that people like what I'm doing with the tributes.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #velvereen #velvereen tbosas #facet #facet tbosas #sabyn #sabyn tbosas #can't catch us now

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Yeah, well, I think that if any Mentors or other Capitol citizens had thought about messing with the tributes by taunting them with food, Arachne's death had very quickly warned them of the potential consequences that could befall them for doing so. Like, I don't want to check right now, but I'm pretty sure that Arachne met, and was killed by her tribute on the same day, which was the tributes first full day in the Capitol too, so we don't see the food taunting happening to the other tributes because the dangers were shown to the Capitol very fast.

But I think that it was possible and I'm working on a little fic about it, but Arachne wasn't the only person at first to taunt the tributes with food the way she did when they first arrived at the zoo, but Brandy had been the only one able to physically attack. After all, not only had Arachne been stupid enough to taunt a starving girl, who she already considered to be like a vicious animal, she also forgot that this girl knew how to kill and that the knife was closer to Brandy than the food was. So even if Gaius had thought about doing something like that to Panlo to get some laughs or had already done so before Brandy demonstrated what would befall him, he very quickly learned that it was a 'proceed at your own risk' kind of way.

But regardless of whether the taunting had happened to the others or not, the fact that the tributes had had to perform of beg for their food at all, is sickening, especially when you consider that by the time that they had arrived at the zoo, some if not all of them, likely hadn't been fed since before their Reaping if that (depending on whether they got anything to eat while waiting for the train to collect them, which is unlikely). So by the time that they arrive at the zoo, they probably had been desperate enough to do anything just to get enough to tide them over for another little while.

So yeah, I don't think that Gaius or Androcles were good Mentors and unlike some of the others who might have been able to change their initial opinions on the tributes and develop some trust, they would not.

Then with Reaper's opinions on Clemensia, the guy is so conflicted on her right now. Because initially he's dislikes her simply because she's Capitol. He assumes that everything she's doing for him and by extension Dill with the medication is only out of self-serving interest, which is fair for him to assume so, judging by the way that the Capitol has treated the Districts. He might be willing to slightly co-operate with her because doing so would likely better Dill's chances in the Arena, but he doesn't like or trust her.

And then she commits treason.

Because that's what she does as I had Dill remind him of in Chapter 7 when she was talking about the Mentors to him. By knocking the Peacekeeper out so the tributes could escape, Clemensia committed treason and if caught, she's basically as good as dead. And Reaper knows this, as much as he wonders whether the Capitol would seriously punish one of their own. It's what's makes him so conflicted as he wonders just where Clemensia's loyalties lie and whether she might have actually been against the Games and possibly a decent person and for obvious reasons, it's very unlikely he'll ever know now.

Yeah, and as for the med team, I kind of have a headcanon, that one of Circ's parents in particular was like a healer during and after the Rebellion and people brought themselves/family members to their house like how people in the Seam did for Katniss' mum. And they passed those lessons onto Circ, especially as injuries are rife in the factories like you said. District 3 is the electronic District, and what's a common consequence if something happens due to a faulty electronic? Fire.

In chapter 11 are panlo and sheaf still injured and need someone supporting them as they walk or have their wounds fully healed?

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Yes, Panlo and Sheaf are still injured. Now they're both feeling a hell of a lot better than they did two and half days ago at that point (the length of time from when they had arrived at the house to the end of chap 11), but they are still recovering. I do believe that while the duo were badly hurt in the explosion (not as bad as Gaius was obviously, but more severely injured that the other tributes) they still could have survived their injuries if they had been treated by a professional (aka trained to treat humans), had gotten proper medication/supplies meant for humans and were in a location that allowed for proper healing (now the basement wasn't much better, but at least there was no dirt or hay there and they had mattresses/clean sheets).

To sum it up, I think that it was their wounds becoming infected that killed them in the book, and not the injuries themselves.

But now, in this AU, they actually received Capitol medicine to kill any developing infections and their wounds have been cared for by the other tributes, so while the duo are still recovering, they are able to walk some short distances by themselves before they need help.

(The others are aware of this despite the two trying not to make a big deal of it and so neither have heavy bags to carry right now, the stronger tributes are shouldering their load while their injuries heal.)

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #sheaf tbosas #sheaf #panlo tbosas #panlo #circ tbosas #circ #teslee tbosas #teslee #brandy #brandy tbosas #arachne crane #gaius breen #reaper ash #clemensia dovecote #can't catch us now

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Yeah, you've actually summed up most of my opinions on Panlo and Sheaf's view/relationship with their Mentors to be honest. But the explanation is still long.

For Gaius, it's like, the guy is described by Snow as having no enemies at all in the Capitol, which is a very cut-throat, dog-eat-dog, 'morals aren't necessarily a priority to teach kids', kind of environment so at first glance you almost think, 'oh, maybe this guy would have been one of the decent Mentors', but then you remember that this guy's sense of humour is telling prejudiced jokes about the Districts and you realise then that he's more like Festus: he's nice to his own kind (the Capitol kids) because he views them as human beings, which he really doesn't think towards the Districts. So him as a Mentor, I kind of thought that while he probably would bring food and work on a strategy, it's more so motivated towards helping Gaius win and not caring about Panlo's input or thoughts. He likely viewed Panlo at the worst, the same way that Livia or Festus did to Facet or Coral, like an object or a possession really, or at the very best, sort of sub-human. Second class at the very best and even that might be a stretch. And he wouldn't exactly hide it either, so Panlo, who isn't stupid, picked up on that right away and is naturally resentful.

As for Androcles, we know even less about the guy as a character and like you said, the only information that we have that might show any light on his Mentoring is that Sheaf is performing while she's in the zoo. And that doesn't paint a good light on him. Because there is no way that the tributes like Sheaf or Treech are performing to the Capitol while in the Zoo because they genuinely want to. They're doing it to get food and therefore they need to perform so they don't starve.

It's like I had Sabyn mention back in Chap 7, she hated having to be a 'performing monkey' to the Capitol citizens while in the Zoo in order to get food, it was humiliating, yet she did it because the need to eat and survive had out-weighed her pride, which I reckon was the same for Treech and Sheaf and the other tributes who did so.

So if Sheaf needed to do gymnastics to get food, that pointed to either a) Androcles was not coming around to see her at all or if he did, he wasn't bringing food - which I think is the most likely choice. Or b) he was bringing food aka doing the bare minimum, but not bringing enough to last between his visits so Sheaf needed to supplement her supply. The latter is more unlikely though as what the Capitol kids possibly view as a small amount could probably last the District kids for far longer, but maybe if Sheaf was sharing the food, then that might make sense. But I go more for option one there. It seems more likely.

But yeah, for the tributes reactions, right now they would be divided into three groups if they had heard that their Mentor was seriously injured/died. Those who are more so: 'good riddance' (Panlo, Sheaf, Coral, Facet), who are basically numb/don't know what to feel [the smallest group] (Treech, Sabyn) and those who would be varying degrees of upset (Lamina, Lucy Gray, Reaper, Marcus - the latter two are very conflicted about feeling like that though and possibly wish that they were in one of the other groups)

In chapter 11 are panlo and sheaf still injured and need someone supporting them as they walk or have their wounds fully healed?

Hi!

Yes, Panlo and Sheaf are still injured. Now they're both feeling a hell of a lot better than they did two and half days ago at that point (the length of time from when they had arrived at the house to the end of chap 11), but they are still recovering. I do believe that while the duo were badly hurt in the explosion (not as bad as Gaius was obviously, but more severely injured that the other tributes) they still could have survived their injuries if they had been treated by a professional (aka trained to treat humans), had gotten proper medication/supplies meant for humans and were in a location that allowed for proper healing (now the basement wasn't much better, but at least there was no dirt or hay there and they had mattresses/clean sheets).

To sum it up, I think that it was their wounds becoming infected that killed them in the book, and not the injuries themselves.

But now, in this AU, they actually received Capitol medicine to kill any developing infections and their wounds have been cared for by the other tributes, so while the duo are still recovering, they are able to walk some short distances by themselves before they need help.

(The others are aware of this despite the two trying not to make a big deal of it and so neither have heavy bags to carry right now, the stronger tributes are shouldering their load while their injuries heal.)

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #sheaf tbosas #panlo tbosas #sheaf #panlo #gaius breen #androcles anderson #can't catch us now

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Yeah, I do see Panlo as being a nice and polite gentleman, I think it's because of the clothes he was wearing in the film, but he gives me that vibe you know, so of course he'd be nice and extremely grateful to his fellow tributes who had spent hours, first with what limited supplies they could find and then with the Capitol supplies, doing everything that they could to save him and Sheaf.

Now, yeah, I definitely agree with you there as to what option the Peacekeepers picked when it came to in bringing the tributes back to the zoo. Dragging the tributes rather than picking them up would be easier for them, so they'd certainly do that never mind that these are just injured kids who are getting more hurt because of that and being dragged on a dirty and rubble like surface before being thrown into a zoo enclosure where the ground was dirt and their beds were hay basically after the bombing would have absolutely aggravated Panlo and Sheaf's injuries, making them worse and letting the infection gain a foothold in them.

But luckily here Panlo and Sheaf have been cared for with proper supplies and will make recoveries, unlike certain people back in the Capitol.

And yes, Panlo and Sheaf do know about their Mentors conditions. Back in chapter five, when Treech was in the hospital and reading the paper, it's mentioned that two of the three Mentors in hospital were seriously injured. I didn't mention the names of the two seriously injured ones then, but they were Gaius and Androcles. Treech brought the paper back with him so the others could read it and Panlo and Sheaf of course know their Mentor's names, so they know that they're in bad conditions although they won't learn of Gaius' death as he won't be dying for another few days at this point as his death occurs a few days into the Games and the tributes are miles away from the Capitol at that point. But as to Panlo and Sheaf's thoughts about that? They don't care about them. I can go into more detail if you want as to their thoughts there, but I'll leave this post here for now in case you don't.

In chapter 11 are panlo and sheaf still injured and need someone supporting them as they walk or have their wounds fully healed?

Hi!

Yes, Panlo and Sheaf are still injured. Now they're both feeling a hell of a lot better than they did two and half days ago at that point (the length of time from when they had arrived at the house to the end of chap 11), but they are still recovering. I do believe that while the duo were badly hurt in the explosion (not as bad as Gaius was obviously, but more severely injured that the other tributes) they still could have survived their injuries if they had been treated by a professional (aka trained to treat humans), had gotten proper medication/supplies meant for humans and were in a location that allowed for proper healing (now the basement wasn't much better, but at least there was no dirt or hay there and they had mattresses/clean sheets).

To sum it up, I think that it was their wounds becoming infected that killed them in the book, and not the injuries themselves.

But now, in this AU, they actually received Capitol medicine to kill any developing infections and their wounds have been cared for by the other tributes, so while the duo are still recovering, they are able to walk some short distances by themselves before they need help.

(The others are aware of this despite the two trying not to make a big deal of it and so neither have heavy bags to carry right now, the stronger tributes are shouldering their load while their injuries heal.)

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #sheaf tbosas #panlo tbosas #sheaf #panlo #gaius breen #androcles anderson #can't catch us now

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In chapter 11 are panlo and sheaf still injured and need someone supporting them as they walk or have their wounds fully healed?

Hi!

Yes, Panlo and Sheaf are still injured. Now they're both feeling a hell of a lot better than they did two and half days ago at that point (the length of time from when they had arrived at the house to the end of chap 11), but they are still recovering. I do believe that while the duo were badly hurt in the explosion (not as bad as Gaius was obviously, but more severely injured that the other tributes) they still could have survived their injuries if they had been treated by a professional (aka trained to treat humans), had gotten proper medication/supplies meant for humans and were in a location that allowed for proper healing (now the basement wasn't much better, but at least there was no dirt or hay there and they had mattresses/clean sheets).

To sum it up, I think that it was their wounds becoming infected that killed them in the book, and not the injuries themselves.

But now, in this AU, they actually received Capitol medicine to kill any developing infections and their wounds have been cared for by the other tributes, so while the duo are still recovering, they are able to walk some short distances by themselves before they need help.

(The others are aware of this despite the two trying not to make a big deal of it and so neither have heavy bags to carry right now, the stronger tributes are shouldering their load while their injuries heal.)

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #panlo #panlo tbosas #sheaf #sheaf tbosas #can't catch us now

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Last Line Challenge

Tagged by @moreespressoformydepresso

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

“Never mind your bloody car, are you trying to kill my brother?!”

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(I don't know who to tag to be honest)

#tbosas #fic #tag game #there might be some confusion about that

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I find it interesting that you're giving a lot of the tributes pre-Games connections.

For me, it just gives the theory that lots of early Hunger Games tributes were rigged like Lucy Gray merit.

Snow probably brought in the escort role to remove the rigging possibility since he knew it could happen from Lucy Gray.

Yeah, I have had quite a few of the tributes have connections here prior to their Reapings. Mostly because I find it's more interesting to future plots to have District pairings who knew each other to varying degrees back home. Now when I was planning it out in my head, I think that it had ended up split about 50/50. Half of the tribute pairings had known each other back home and had some sort of relationship with one another, while the other half didn't know each other or might possibly know of one (e.g. Jessup had possibly heard of Lucy Gray due to the Covey's performances, but he had never actually met her prior to the Reaping).

And yeah, it does make sense that there was possibly rigging going on in other past Reapings as well. Whether that's for other Districts or just in 12 itself. After all, if Mayfair was able to get her dad to call out Lucy Gray's name instead of whoever was actually picked for the 10th Games, then it's plausible to assume that that hadn't been the first time that he had done something like that.

I'm not too sure about lots of tributes for the Games being Reaped that way though. There's a certain amount of risk to pulling stunts like that after all. Like you might get away with doing that once or twice, but if some of the Mayors were only calling out the names of children who families that they might have had beef with or other similar reasons, then people in that District might notice the pattern there and stir up some trouble.

But I totally agree with Snow bringing in the role of the escort to remove that rigging possibility from the District side. He had wanted to erase Lucy Gray from history and he wouldn't have wanted anything hanging around to remind him of her. Plus, the escorts job ensures that the Districts lose whatever small amount of control that they might have over the Reapings, keeping them powerless and ensuring that if a rigged Reaping does happen, it's because the Capitol is the one doing the rigging.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #reapings #the hunger games #can't catch us now

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okay, i saw you had linked ur tumblr last chapter (but i already followed you lmao) for asks so !!!!

basically, i'm wondering if the way you've written treech and lamina is to set them up romantically. idk if this will come off as too much of a spoiler invoking question, but reading treech's pov has always given me the vibe he has an innocent little crush on lamina.

i feel like the comments are very split up on it — some saying they assume it's romantic and some referring to them as cousins — and i'm really interested, so i wanted to ask!

love your fic, it rotates in my mind daily <3

Hi, thanks so much! I'm really glad to hear that you love my fic so much, practically all of yours are in my mind during the day as well too!

Now, yeah, it is entirely possible that Treech does have a little crush on Lamina, I use 'possibly' there because as with where we are with Treech at the current moment, he wouldn't know if he does or not due to everything that happened recently between them (trying to minimise his and Lamina's friendship due to the Games, the betrayal). It's possible that he'll later come to that realisation, but whether that would be good or bad for him would depend on the state of his and Lamina's relationship at that moment if he does realise that he has a crush, that could just be setting himself up for more angst depending. But you would blame him for having a crush if he did? I mean, it's Lamina, who wouldn't have a crush on her?

Now in regards to pairings, I will say that there is only one pairing that I knew for definite when I started writing this that would be ending the story together and happy. I have one or two potential other pairings, but all of that is still up in the air. I don't want to spoil too much about what'll happen in the future with Treech and Lamina yet as I have some pretty big stuff planned for them and their relationship, but their bond (whether that's platonic or romantic) is going to be an important part of this story.

I will say this though: I absolutely LOVE Treemina

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #treech #treech tbosas #lamina #lamina tbosas #treech x lamina #lamina x treech #treemina #can't catch us now