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sheisalivingchild · 13 days

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Are you, are you coming to the tree? Where a dead man called out for his love to flee

#fanart #coriolanus snow

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sheisalivingchild · 2 months

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trans activist, model, and actress hunter schafer was amongst the 50 people arrested yesterday at an action held in new york city to disrupt president joe biden’s appearance on late night with seth meyer.

she was there in coalition with the organization jewish voices for peace.

#based #free palestine

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sheisalivingchild · 2 months

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Snowbaird is so powerful for me, in part, because the narrative could have easily been a coming-of-age romance instead of a tragedy. That narrative shape is contained within and thwarted by the tragedy that happens. But it had all the components: a corrupt society that loves comes into and shakes up, the lovers having a real chance at making something "new [and] vital."

Context on what I mean here:

The writers of Greek New Comedy, a form that emerged three hundred years before Christ, established the pattern of comedy, which the romance novel would modify some twenty-one centuries later. For most of this time comedy’s protagonists have been male. “What normally happens,” Frye tells us, “is that a young man wants a young woman, that his desire is resisted by some opposition, usually paternal, and that near the end of the play some twist in the plot enables the hero to have his will.” The context of comedy, its setting, is society. Comedy’s “movement . . . is usually . . . from one kind of society to another” (Anatomy 163). This, then, is the usual sequence that the reader encounters—an old society (which is often corrupt, decadent, weak, or superannuated), a hero, his intended, paternal opposition to his intended becoming his wife, a removal of that opposition, the hero’s triumphal betrothal, and a wedding symbolizing a new, vital society. ... The typical conflict in comedy between the hero and his father, in which the father as senex iratus (angry old man) blocks his son’s attachment to the heroine, and, in some instances, pursues the heroine himself loses its psychological force. ...Male comedic protagonists, who typically enjoy full freedom outside of their families, must overcome their fathers. --Regis, Pamela. A Natural History of the Romance Novel (pp. 28-30). University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

At the end, Coriolanus leaves everything behind in the forest--including his mother's scarf that he gave to Lucy Gray--everything except for his father's compass. Instead of overcoming the corrupt father, Coriolanus kills his own heart to make himself the death mask of his father, to *become* his father rather than overcome him.

I'd say Dr Gaul is another corrupt authority figure who represents a barrier to the better life that could have been and, with both Daddy and Mommy, at the end Coriolanus retreats to a child role instead of actualizing as an adult and creating something new and better with the person he loves:

The movie only line where Tigris says "you look just like your father" after he comes back from District 12 really drives this theme home. That and the blank/dead expression he has as he stares up at the statue (representing the past/authority/history) with a "rainbow" at her skirt instead of looking up at the living Lucy Gray. He has made himself something dead and he looks up at the dead past--that he is going to sustain for another 60 years until Katniss comes to burn it all down-- instead of at a living, better future.

#meta #coriolanus snow #it literally has the shape of a romance and then just implodes it in spectacular fashion

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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Chapters: 3/? Fandom: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lucy Gray Baird/Coriolanus Snow, Coriolanus Snow & Tigris, Lucy Gray Baird & Tigris Characters: Coriolanus Snow, Lucy Gray Baird, Tigris (Hunger Games) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, slowburn, content warning for everything in the book plus, Hijacking, all kinds of gothic romance vibes in here, redemption arc, though he’s never going to be a choir boy, and a hopeful ending Summary:

Lucy Gray is drawn back into Capitol intrigue, changing the course of Panem’s history.

I’ve posted Chapter 3 💖 This one features a visit to the penthouse rose garden and a lot of screen time for Lucy Gray.

#YAYYYYYY #fanfic

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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you don’t like country/folk/americana? you don’t like the soulful lamenting and colorful storytelling of poor workers and immigrants of the past? banjo banjo🪕?

#meeeee when ppl complain about the music in tbosas #you don't want to hear rachel zegler jam with a bluegrass band??

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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I was going to post all my bookverse tbosas wips before I saw the movie but forgot so here they are lmao (circa Julyish to like 3 weeks ago)

L-R- both of my Tigris designs hehe I love she-Lucy Gray-Clemensia-Mayfair reaping fit (maybe its a little too camp but in my headcanon she’s like the Blanche Ingram of D12 iykwim also the neckline needs to be low for optimal snake depositing)-Adult Maude Ivory from this silly fic I’ve been agonizing over since the summer anyway yeah that’s all that I am avoiding Baby Island atm bc the movie hype is starting to drive me nuts but read my silly fic hehehe

#so cool!#fanart #tbosas

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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Rachel Zegler is hilarious

#slay!

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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oh so when the reader knows something i don’t it’s “dramatic irony” but when i know something the reader doesn’t suddenly i’m an “unreliable narrator” 🙄

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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finished the Snowbaird editttttt

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I'm actually happy with it everyone come look at it (and do reblog if you like it please 🥺🥺)

+ if you like the ship and want to join the Snowbaird and Bread discord server, send a DM to @burntblueberrywaffles or @zorosnavigator for an invite! 💕

#fanvid #this is great!#I haven't seen one with this version of the song

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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this is a joke post but it made me curious about the origin of the word "holler" meaning a place ("I fell down in the holler"); I couldn't find it in a dictionary search

it turns out it's a super specific Appalachian term - I found the definition in this article from a local newspaper for Whitesburg, Kentucky. according to this writer's (quite poetic) description, a 'holler' is a valley between two mountains but more specifically with a small neighborhood/line of houses along a dirt road where the buildings are close enough that you can 'holler' across the street to your neighbor. so another example of Suzanne Collins bringing in world-building details from Appalachian coal mining town culture for District 12

Lucy Gray really said in a song that she fell in a hole one time and we all just accepted it.

#ballad of songbirds and snakes #suzanne collins #tbosas #hope you don't mind OP I just thought this was interesting to share #meta

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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coriolanus snow & katniss everdeen | humanity undressed |

I think there’s natural goodness born into us all. You can either cross that line into evil, or not.

#aahhh really good!!!!!!#fanvid #tbosas #thg

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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losing my mind at how the opening line “when i wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. my fingers stretch out, seeking prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress” immediately sets up the hunger games story to be pyrrhic if not outright tragic. (SPOILERS!!) line one establishes katniss’s only goal is to protect prim and in line one she’s already too late. she puts herself in harm’s way over and over, kills people, goes to war and brings down the entire world government all for her love for prim, who was doomed from the start. the love didnt save anyone but it was there etc the shire has been saved but not for me etc etc

#thg #I think about this post whenever ppl talk about great opening lines #she's already too late!!

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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wanted to share my favorite art pieces from the google drive collection of 300 free-to-use palestine-related posters by Artists Against Apartheid

poster numbers: 10, 102, 128 226, 20 34, 204, 127 158, 176, 26

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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Hey, are you aware of the fact that many people in Gaza have resorted to cutting pieces of their tents for scraps for pads? Which as you can imagine isn't the safest option but their only option in most cases. This also applies to those going through postpartum bleeding from giving birth. If you want to or can help:

The Pious Projects - they distribute feminine hygiene kits for people in Gaza! I suggest checking it out yourself but there's various amounts you can give from $5-$1,000 to help make and distribute these kits! They cost around $25 for each kit, but every bit helps. Make sure to share the link even if you can't currently help donate today!

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sheisalivingchild · 3 months

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Links

PALESTINE

Help the Palestinian People with a Click | arab.org

https://www.justiceforall.org/ HEY THE ICJ IS ASKING FOR EVIDENCE OF ISRAELS CRIMES AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS VIDEO AND PHOTO SUBMISSIONS ARE ALLOWED

Palestine 101 — the palestine academy Palestinian history to educate your self

Defund Israel (defund-israel.com)

PCRF

Yemanya (p.19) • Salty Licorice (spotify.com) every time u stream this song all funds go to Palestine

CONGO