#I love Suzanne Collins so much

[spiderispunk]

Sorry for the long analysis but I gotta get this out:

Snow’s disgust about the mockingjays is so interesting. First that they’re muttations, and secondly that they’re a symbol that the Capitol is not permanent. He thinks the jabberjays are “impressive pieces of engineering” (Collins 445) but “refers to the mockingjays as “genes gone bad” (Collins 504). Jabberjays represent Capitol ingenuity, a lab experiment that was perfect in theory, and perfectly controlled until they went into the wild. Then the rebels found a way to outsmart and snub the Capitol. A slap in the face,m. And then a second one when then the jabberjays mated with wild, district birds. Mockingjays represent corruption. An unforeseen consequence of putting the two species together. Not completely district, but not quite Capitol either. The idea of which is not something that Snow can comprehend because he sees the world in black and white. Order and Chaos. District and Capitol. There is no conceivable middle ground.

The jabberjays were also never meant to be permanent. They’re all male. They would have died out eventually after they served their purpose. But they survived, only by mating with birds outside of the Capitol. Then they’ve mutated into something wholly different and unnatural to Snow. No longer purely Capitol, but not completely district either. In a way they represent what should have been the natural progression of Panem. There’s no way the Capitol could survive forever segregated from the districts— genetically, physically, whatsoever. But Snow and his Capitol counterparts are afraid of that, because what happens to their pure genes, their fictional superiority, if they begin to mix with the districts. The way they treat Sejanus is evidence of that fear, because he challenges their preconceived notions of how district-born people should be. They compare district-born people to beasts and animals, claiming they’d drink blood, or spiral into anarchy without the guiding hand of the Capitol. But Sejanus isn’t like that. Lucy Gray isn’t either. But sympathy for them equals sympathy for everyone in the districts, and that’s a no go. That’s why Snow goes to such lengths to convince himself that Lucy Gray isn’t district— not really, not in the ways that count (literally not having a permanent residence in the districts). But they can’t admit that they need the districts. They can’t survive without the districts, not for long. But they can’t accept that, and their inability to see the districts as people— not second class citizens— and treat them as such, causes the Capitol’s eventual demise.

TLDR: TBOSBAS, and the entire Hunger Game series at large is an allegory for relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, as well as power, control and white supremacy.

#I love Suzanne Collins so much #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird

[monsieurenjlolras]

I think that part of the reason why President Snow is such a well-written villain is because he genuinely never does lie to Katniss. When he says "let's agree to always tell each other the truth," the first time they meet, it not a line, he actually sticks to that. Like a villain who is both incredibly dangerous and and totally trustworthy? Just, openly trying to kill you and being completely upfront with you about it? That's so fucking fascinating to experience

#the hunger games #i love these books so fucking much gang #i just rewatched all the movies for the first time in a long time and now i am definitely lostening to all the audiobooks agains because #FUCK these are just well written books #like the older i get the nore im like FUCK Suzanne Collins you did that

[thekayart]

Happy lazy mornings 🧡💚

#the hunger games #hunger games #everlark #thg fanart #the hunger games fanart #katniss everdeen #mockingjay #catching fire #suzanne collins #digital art #peeta x katniss #peeta mellark #the hunger games renaissance #the hunger games books #i love them so much #my babies #my art #i never thought i would be so obsessed about them again 10 years later #The last one is supossed to be a sheet 😅

[lovebeatriceplz]

Nothing makes me happier than the hunger games bts pictures😭:

They feel like home

#thg #bts #i just love them so much #behind the scenes #katniss everdeen #the hunger games #suzanne collins #everlark #peeta mellark #finnick odair #jennifer lawrence #josh hutcherson #the hunger games trilogy #the hunger games series #catching fire #mockingjay

[licorice-lips]

I get so excited when talking about The Hunger Games to about anyone, but it's especially amazing when I talk to my friends from college and we go into deeper political discussions about anything we can remember about the trilogy and TBOSAS, like the media manipulation and construction of narratives as a weapon for population control, or how deep runs the reflection of the real world in simplest detail of the books (like the tr4fficking of children or the use of drugs in District 6 as a tool for control, like it happens in Cracolândia in Brazil, just for as one example), or even the State of Nature of Humans according to Hobbes or Rosseau or whatever philosopher, or the correlations of the world with modern capitalism, how TBOSAS (even though it wasn't the intention) shows perfectly through Sejanus that the system in itself is the problem and therefore it can only be better if it's completely replaced.

It's amazing, I wish there were more articles and scientific productions about The Hunger Games, I'd 100% read them all

#books #the hunger games #catching fire #mockingjay #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #TBOSAS #Coriolanus snow #lucy gray #katniss everdeen #peeta melark #suzanne collins #president snow #I just love this so much I could talk about it my god #like captain america said: I could do this all day

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

book sejanus is sad and movie sejanus is angry 🙃

#Idk idk how else to explain it it’s just the vibes #Like obviously they’re both both but these were the respective vibes delivered imo #Like Josh andrés rivera just delivered all his lines with so much anger ??? #10/10 choice buddy good job #anyway i love sejanus plinth 💗 #tbosas #the hunger games the ballad of songbirds & snakes #the hunger games #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #sejanus plinth #josh andres rivera #suzanne collins

[myname-isnia]

Bitches be having an unhealthy obsession with tragic and codependent and toxic sibling relationships in media and then be surprised when they latch onto Tigris Snow like a lifeline

(It’s me. I’m bitches)

#yes I know she’s coryo’s cousin and not his sister but you know what? I don’t care #it’s close enough + I’m sure they saw each other as siblings anyway #but I’m serious she’s probably my favourite character in tbosas #she’s so kind and caring but also takes no shit #and she loved coryo so much… only for him to turn out like his father #her appearance in mockingjay hits so different after the ballad #suzanne collins is a genius #(​the way that was already a tag lmao) #anyway enough rambling #tigris snow #my beloved <3 #I lowkey want to draw her

[vajazzly]

ok i am rewatching the hunger games and the fucking scene that gets me every time is the one directly after rues death in district 11 when the district riots. its just like. this expression of pure grief and anger and it really is done beautifully and god. i forget every time how mf good hunger games and catching fire are!!!

#theyre literally perfect film adaptations #took out a lot of stuff but what they added rly fleshed out the world and drove home the message of the whole series #i hate that it was promoted as like a romantic love triangle series both books ans movies SO MUCH #bc both are actually really impactful and thoughtful political stories #one thing i was thinking abt recently is the fact that suzanne collins had district 2 be where peacekeepers come from #like theyre not capitol citizens ! theyre from the districts like everyone else ! #almost! #like! #the! #actual! #cops! #huh! #soso interesting

[stevethehairington]

tbosas was GOOOOOOD oh man, it's making me wanna go reread all the hunger games books again ahhh

#its been a hot second since my last reread so i think it is time #god i just LOVE those books #there is SO MUCH to unpack in them suzanne collins is BRILLIANT #thg #tbosas #i wiiiiiill say tho - for an almost 3 hour runtime it sure did feel like they sped through a lot of the beginning stuff #which when i read the book those beginning parts were what interested me the most #i wouldve loved to see those beats fleshed out a little more and some of the relationships given a little more time to really click #now im gonna go listen to thg score and stare at the ceiling about it

[ruralcat]

this may be because i am just a hater but a ballad of songbirds and snakes sucked

#i listened to the audio book and the narrator was so bad which i think contributed to half of my dislike for the story #he would do this shrill “um actually” voice for Snow's classmates #and an annoying girlish tone for lucy and maude and the singing he did for both characters actually made my ears bleed #but i digress #i just didnt really like that snow's evil backstory is a manic pixie dream girl he killed #i wish it wasnt a love story i wish collins did something different with his character #i really loved his betrayal to sejanus it made so much sense for his character it worked so well applause for that one #and also sick how he stole sejanus' money from behind the photo frame after executing him #sent it to tigress to have money #and then intercepted it before it entered the capitol to use for himself #all that just to become the heir of sejanus' grieving parents lmao #dirty dirty dirty #last point i loved how they didnt include snow's betrayal to Tigress in this novel #i was even thinking in the beginning of the novel that i hope snow does not betray tigress in his youth #just bc ... idk.. so much happens in our lives. and for his evil to all be explained in snow's life only from this age of 17/18 would feel #lazy #so yeah grateful for that slay suzanne collins slay

[penguinpiebooks]

just watched ballad of songbirds and snakes and my siblings were not as obsessed with it as i was so i have no one to talk to about it

#going CRAZY #ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes spoilers #tbosas #going to use the tags to rant #they dont even understand that lucy grey haunted snow for his entire life #she popped up in so much of what katniss did #the revolution was filled with so much of lucy grey #the mockingjays! the songs! #suzanne collins is a genius #i love her so much #snow is such an interesting character #i want to disect him

[bisansastarks]

Snow is fucking crazy

#I love Suzanne Collins so much actually #also naming a character Hilarius …power move

[urjunkdrawer]

This probably means nothing to you guys but I finally have read my first full book since my junior year English class! And I did it in 4 days!

It’s a book that I had tried numerous times to read before since I bought them. But I loved it so much that I’m reading the series I totally haven’t owned the first three books for 10+ years (oops)

But yeah I’m buying the newest book that’s actually a prequel very soon

UPDATE: I’ve bought the newest book and I’m about 1/3 of the way through the second book and I’m still loving it. Why did I hate reading for the last 2 years?

#it was the hunger games #and holy shit I loved it #I’m so going to read the whole series #I liked it so much more than the movie #it’s been like 6 years since I’ve seen the movie #and I recently watched the new movie and was inspired to read the series #the hunger games #suzanne collins #junkdrawer rambles

[thekayart]

First interview and district 13. (I’m not sure if she ever screams at Plutarch in the books… but it just seems to me that she would)

#katniss everdeen #katniss #katniss and peeta #thg katniss #the hunger games #hunger games #the hunger games fanart #katniss fanart #district 12 #the hunger games books #suzanne collins #mockingjay #catching fire #thg fanart #sinsajo #en llamas #everlark #i love her so much

[anxietyfrappuccino]

the ballad of songbirds and snakes

#that's it #that's the post #saw the movie #in fucking love with the hunger games series #it was so much fun #to watch #i totally forget about the first death #holy shit #i'm going to reread the pages off my copy #after the semester ends #hopefully #i have adhd #i don't always do what i say i will #lucy gray baird #lucy gray you are my song goddess #i praise youuuuuuu #i want to be brave like her lol #a ballad of songbirds and snakes #suzanne collins #my post #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #why do i keep thinking it's a ballad and not the ballad #edited

[popgirljpg]

i LOVED the hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes!!!!

SPOILERS (SORT OF)

i just adore the way it’s tied in with the main trilogy perfectly, but also serves a great prequel in its own right.

the way lucy gray is both the making and destruction of snow. it could be argued that she is not the true winner of the 10th games, it was snow, as he both helped her, and came out the victor in regards to power and notoriety; he said it himself.

however, she won in a very different way, almost as if she new that playing the ‘long-game’ would work. she left a permanent mark on snow, instilling a multitude of images of rebellion into his mind. thus, both making him the ruthless leader of the capitol, and coward in the face of katniss everdeen.

she is the personification of the rebel that we saw a glimmer of in lucy gray, and therefore, snow’s greatest anxieties. we see this from katiniss’ name-sake, to the traditional songs she carried into the heart of the rebellion down from her father. she is a mirror image of the girl from snow’s past, despite katniss being a warrior and lucy gray being a bard. it’s like katniss sees into snow’s past, yet only he knows of the girl he met by the hanging tree at dawn. lucy gray once brought snow to great heights for her rebellious attitude and tenacity, yet brought him down through the power of memory.

#this is just my thoughts that i HAD to write down #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #i love the movie so so so so much!! #snow was fine in the movie idc 🤥 #like i NEED him in his buzz cut era lol #tbosbas #tbosas #the hunger games #suzanne collins #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #president snow #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark