#dr gaul

[rosy-fox-art]

Many, many miscellaneous Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes drawings, mostly emojis lol.

#fanart #doodle #tbosas #shitpost #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #lamina tbosas #coral tbosas #mizzen tbosas #bobbin tbosas #tanner tbosas #treech tbosas #thg #10th hunger games #dr gaul #wovey tbosas #emoji redraws

[safirefire]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was an excellent movie adaptation plot wise. It also solidified to me 2 reasons why Snow knew Katniss was such a threat beyond the basics and they were that

He recognized Haymitch as a mentor rewarding romantic behavior within the arena with sponsored gifts because a) it was his idea and b) before the drone system was perfected he saw how mentors themselves could technically follow rules while influencing the games and

He noticed how much sympathy and connection the Capitol citizens could form with the Tributes from all the nurses crying at Lucy Gray’s “last performance” to his entire class chanting to get her out of the arena which forced someone as influential as Dr. Gaul to listen

Snow’s not an idiot he knows Katniss herself held very little power at least at the beginning. But he instantly recognized how her story could be marketed and used to turn both District and Capitol citizens against him especially by people like Haymitch or Coin who knew what they were doing

#hunger games #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #tbosas movie #katniss everdeen #haymitch abernathy #coriolanus snow #alma coin #dr gaul #volumnia gaul

[capric0rnie]

who is loving tbosas!!!!???!!!!! enjoy these #EXCLUSIVE tbosas tweets lol

#the hunger games #thg #thg incorrect quotes #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #tigris snow #volumnia gaul #dr gaul #sejanus plinth #snowbaird

[paper-bag-boy]

having serious tbosas brainrot so here's a list of things that were in the books that i wish the movie showed: (spoilers below)

how far tigris was willing to go to protect coriolanus. in the books it implied she was willing to sell her body to keep him fed (also i cant even begin to imagine her reaction to seeing Snow selling desirable victors to captiol citizens when she herself as a child wanted to resort to prostitution to put food on the table FOR HIM.)

how insane dr gaul was in the books. iirc she didnt warn clemensia about the snakes and lied that they were harmless

clemensia being gone for weeks and her parents not questioning it bc gaul said it was a flu + clemensia COMING BACK all covered in scars/scales and no one questioning what happened to her (seriously the grip gaul had within the capital was INSANE)

how awful highbottom and gaul were in the books. i absolutely loathed them when i read tbosas whereas they weren't as bad in the movies (though that might be bc i love viola davis and peter dinklage)

how much coriolanus' mother meant to him (they talked about it a bit in the movie but i wish they showed him smelling her compact when he was upset/stressed)

the extent of how coriolanus manipulated both his classmates AND sejanus' parents

also how sejanus' ma always made sure coriolanus was fed when he went over to the plinth's home and how she sent them sweets and pastries when they were sent to 12

sejanus asking coriolanus to switch tributes with him because he thought coriolanus would be able to get through to marcus/better his odds

coriolanus suggesting they use the mockingjays as target practice

in the books sejanus always calls coriolanus by his given name "coriolanus" and he only calls him coryo after his stint in the arena (to which coryo wanted to strangle him for trying the family nickname at that moment)

(edited for the last three bullet points)

#thg #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #tbosas spoilers #tbosas movie #tbosas meta #sejanus plinth #coriolanus snow #tigris snow #dr gaul #lucy gray baird #clemensia dovecote #casca highbottom #dean highbottom

[ayo-cowbelly]

its “you look just like your father, coriolanus.”

its “you can trust me.”

its “can we go home now?”

its “i can’t have killed them all for nothing.”

its “a rainbow of destruction.”

its “too early for katniss.”

its “corio! help! MA!”

its “go sing, pretend nothing is wrong.”

its “no more loose ends.”

its “what happened to lucy gray, in the song? did she survive?”

its “please…”

its “ALL OF YOU!”

its “meet me at the hanging tree.”

its “he’s starving.”

its “what are the hunger games for?”

its “brothers.”

its “he took down the flag.”

its “i still have one foot in the arena.”

its “snow comes out on top.”

its “snow falling.”

its “the show’s not over until the mockingjay sings.”

its “the things we love most that destroy us.”

the ballad of songbirds and snakes.

#I AM NO LONGER NORMAL #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #katniss everdeen #president snow #peeta mellark #tbosas #bosas #songbirds and snakes #tigris #tigris snow #panem #dr gaul #volumnia gaul #lucy gray

[itskeisy]

New character posters 🚨

#thg #the hunger games #hunger games prequel #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #rachel zegler #sejanus plinth #josh andrés rivera #casca highbottom #peter dinklage #coriolanus snow #tom blyth #dr gaul #viola davis #tigris snow #hunter schafer #lucky flickerman #jason schwartzman

[medusas-daughter]

Dean Casca Highbottom apologizing to Lucy Gray for what she's been through and spending the rest of his life regretting ever uttering the concept of the hunger games out loud and deeming it his worst mistake and hating Dr Gaul for taking it that far despite him repeatedly asking her not to and hating Crassus Snow for stealing the idea and giving it to Dr Gaul and hating himself for coming up with it even if he was drunk and being defined by it for the rest of his life

Geoffrey Hinton "the godfather of AI" quits Google and regrets his life's work due to risks to humanity and "consoles himself by telling himself that if it hadn't been him it would have been someone else"

J. Robert Oppenheimer "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" spending the rest of his life trying to denounce the use of his life's work and trying and failing to take back control of it and saying he has blood on his hands and being awarded and forever defined by it

#suzanne collins the genius you are #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #casca highbottom #lucy gray baird #dr gaul

[askclato]

Dr Gaul: Did you take out the girl as I requested?

Coriolanus: Lucy Gray has been taken out, yes.

Dr Gaul: You have my grat-

Coriolanus: It was a great restaurant.

Coriolanus: We had a romantic candlelit dinner.

Coriolanus: I proposed afterwards-we’re filing the wedding papers.

#the hunger games #tbosas incorrect quotes #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #coriolanus x lucy gray #lucy gray baird #dr gaul #snowbaird

[shioriseryu]

you know when you think about it coryo was just a pissy teenager like any of us some of his dialogues are funny as hell. for example is when mrs. plinth starts making a conversation about her first night in capitol and his inner monologue is just like girl i don’t fucking care. or when dr. gaul tended his wound and said that she used to be obstetrician back in the day and he’s like how fucking awful to have you be the first person in the world a baby sees. he’s just like me.

#coryo snow #coriolanus snow #coryolanus snow #thg #thg series #the hunger games #thg memes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #tbosas memes #dr gaul

[therottendrawflies]

The fact that no one has said this yet is shocking to me becuase it’s so rare that I come up with an original thought but it is seriously not talked about enough.

In The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes Lucy Gray is a songbird who’s “weapon” is a snake which she killed no one with except in the games, and she respects them greatly and Coriolanus is a snake who’s weapon who he used to kill one of the only people who loved him is a song bird and he wanted every last one of them dead including Lucy Gray.

Like why have I seen nobody make this connection yet like hello😭

#tbosbas #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #Lucy Gray #the hunger games #rachel zegler #tom blyth #the hunger games the ballad of songbirds & snakes #The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes #lucy gray x coriolanus #sejanus plinth #sejanus deserved better #coriolanus x sejanus #dr gaul #tigress #dean highbottom #thg #thg series

[hrrystylesbookclub]

rereading tbosas and i KNOW that the capitol are demonic people who see the district citizens as less than human, but it’s SO clear with the reaction they have to arachne’s death (a capitol child killed by a girl brought to the capitol for the sole purpose to kill and be killed) vs orchestrating the slaughter of hundreds of innocent children. this privileged girl who died making a cruel joke was a hero, but the 230 children who have died, and the countless more who will die in the upcoming 64 years are necessary causalities for a war they didn’t fight, and on top of everything a pleasure to witness suffer.

and somehow of everybody it’s snow who sees the hypocrisy and how arachne’s death was her own fault for taunting a girl with nothing to lose for a cheap laugh, and yet her cruelty ends up being spun into heroism.

which arguable makes snow so much more demonic than the average capitol citizen- maybe even more evil than dr gaul, he sees the humanity of the district children and acknowledges that the capitol can be wrong, and yet he pushes forward anyways and continues to boost the credibility of the games for his own personal gain.

while dr gaul is cruel and probably clinically a psychopath the way she takes such pleasure in torturing animals and humans alike, snow doesn’t take the same kind of pleasure yet still consciously makes descion that will lead to more torment and spectacle of district suffering as long as it means he gets an ounce of respect from other capitol citizens

#tbosas #coriolanus snow #president snow #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #arachne crane #dr gaul #volumnia gaul #i could go on for hours how evil he is #and i KNOW how cruel the capitol is yet everytime i manage to be surprised and horrified by their actions and hypocrisy

[lovl3igh]

anyone who says after watching tbosas that rachel screwed up / lucy gray is weird, odd, cringe, clown, sings too much, didn't read the book and it shows

and no, it's not necessary to read the book before watching adaptations but that's on you if you didn't get to know it and yet have a problem with a character who was played faithfully to the source material

like what do you mean she was singing too much?? no way, the mc who is an artist sings in the movie the BALLAD of SONGbirds and snakes, just like she did in the book and was shown in the trailer, and for 7 (?) short songs let's call it a musical (as an insult for some reason wtf)

the movie actually toned down lucy gray a bit. she is specific. she speaks with riddles. she sings when she has something to say. she wears colorful clothes. she is charismatic in her own, non elegant way. that's the original lucy gray from the book and that's the lucy gray we got thanks to rachel. she was born to play lucy gray baird and I will die on that hill

also the fact that rachel gets a lot of hate for what she said about snow white (different topic, not commenting on that) is the reason why some of you criticize lucy gray, cause no way you call her weirdo while dr gaul is right there

#tbosas #the movie is so good #rachel zegler #lucy gray baird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #dr gaul #lucy gray #mockingjay #the hunger games

[incorrect-tbosas]

"and if a girl from district twelve, of all places, can defy the capitol and walk away unharmed, what is to stop them from doing the same?"

"what is to prevent, say, an uprising?"

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #tbosas #thg #lucy gray baird #volumnia gaul #dr gaul #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark

[capric0rnie]

another tbosas edition of thg tweets- enjoy!!!!

#the hunger games #thg #thg incorrect quotes #tbosas #tbosbas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #coryo #snowbaird #sejanus plinth #festus creed #arachne crane #pluribus bell #lucky flickerman #volumnia gaul #dr gaul

[if-i-look-straight-look-again]

The thing about Snow in TBOSAS is that he presents himself as a blank slate. Now, we, as the readers, know what he’s thinking, because we’re inside his head—up to a point, of course—, and a lot of us forget that everyone else isn’t.

We know what his first reactions are, we know what his true feelings and thoughts are, and we know the real logic behind his actions. But the people in universe don’t, because he never voices them.

He’s very careful in choosing his wording and the things he says, and he rarely ever speaks his mind, which is why it’s so easy for people to project onto him. While Tigris and Lucy Gray do it as well, up to a point, Sejanus and Dr. Gaul are the clearest examples of this.

Dr. Gaul sees what she wants to see in Snow—a successor, someone who understands and shares her vision, someone to take up the mantle and continue developing the Hunger Games she had in mind. Meanwhile, he thinks she’s crazy half the time, and then ends up doing his own thing with the Games; although they remain a clear ode to violence and the capacity for it.

And Sejanus—dearest, darling, dead—saw what he was missing most; kinship. Someone he could feel close with, someone who shared his hatred and repulsion of the Hunger Games—and while Snow doesn’t rejoice in it, he doesn’t oppose violence—. Personally, I interpret Sejanus as having romantic feelings for Snow, but my point stands whether you interpret him as viewing them as brothers. Snow never once agreed with him, not really, but Sejanus sees what he wants to see, and his need to trust and confide in someone—his father won’t hear him on it anymore—blinds him to the truth.

Very few people see Snow as he is—Casca Highbottom, and Lucy Gray at the very end—until it’s too late, because he intentionally presents himself as ambivalently as possible, and that leads people to project what they want him to be onto him.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #tigris snow #the hunger games #suzanne collins #president snow #dr gaul

[maltmilkshake]

the ballad of songbirds and snakes goodreads updates: the highlights

since y’all were so sweet n funny about my fourth wing updates i figured i’d shared these although unfortunately there are significantly less

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #the hunger games #hunger games #katniss everdeen #katniss and peeta #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #dr gaul #goodreads #ballad of songbirds and snakes