I haven't seen the movie yet but I hope they include my favourite thing from the book, which is Coriolanus Snow doesn't take a single action the entire time that a woman doesn't explicitly tell him to take.
What were some of the wins in the Coriolanus Snow political playbook?
-He was the only mentor that met his tribute early and built an actual relationship with them, which gave him a huge advantage over the other mentors who couldn't even get a name or birthdate out of their tribute.
-He was able to get a reporter to interview his tribute multiple times, gaining screen time and notoriety.
-His stardom rose when he attempted to save the Crane girl and was seen on camera looking heroic, calling for a medic.
-He wrote the proposal on the sponsorship system and basically invented the idea of sponsors, ranking and gambling that sustained the games for 75 years.
And guess what? Not a SINGLE one of those was his idea😭
TIGRESS tells him to go down to the train station that day, says that Lucy Gray is probably scared and vulnerable, his grandmother gives him a rose from her garden to take, and Tigress explicitly tells him to get on Lucy's good side because her trust will be a valuable thing.
LUCY GRAY tells snow to stop freaking out and freezing at the zoo! Because he just stands there, camera shy, terrified about messing up his reputation and she tells him to 'Own it' and act like any mistake he ever makes is a chance for a Performance, it is a chance to gain more power. SHE drags him over to the reporter and banters with the people of the capital, teaching him a lesson about being in front of the press that he will use for his entire Presidency.
Snow prides himself on looking rich even though his family is in in ruin and it is TIGRESS who helps them achieve this. The careful image he maintains, is maintained by HER, working her hands to the bone to make his clothes look new, their reputation stay untarnished.
The sponsors? The idea to bring food to tributes so they don't starve before they can even compete?? It's LUCY GRAY'S idea!! She suggests it on screen, she invents the idea of a Victor as an Idol, she sings and does fan meet and greets and asks for people to bring her a sweet thing if they can. And then Snow goes and repeats that in class and it's credited as a profitable Academy idea and not hers.
There's a thousand moments like this! Of Snow letting all his smarts and tactics fail him, and Lucy Gray hissing the answer in his ear to get him to act. And he's praised as a hero after this, as the only person who did something in an emergency!
And after all this, our unreliable narrator heads home at the end of the day like, ah I really did that. Snow lands on top once again, that was for sure my idea.
Featured the girl? You featured the girl snow? In her own plan that she did while you stood there frozen and anxious😭So generous.
Truly he's an absolute doofus, he's a silly little boy with Light Yagami energy, any mettle he gains as a Political Mastermind later on is due to the strategy and empathy of the women he's surrounded himself with
Remember how it took a Skill bond with Fitz for the Fool to realise that Fitz actually loved him and hadn't just been humouring him all these years out of pity I'm gonna fucking vomit
audio equivalent to being in a washing machine. i watched back the actual slap like four times and i dont think they actually know what theyre fighting about
[Video ID: Everyone is picking our their new egg/child. There's a lot of background noise, but the focus is Quackity, Mariana, and Charlie. It is from Charlie's pov, so Quackity is a bit quiet. Frontflipo is the egg with glasses and is Charlie and Mariana's child, while Tilin is Quackity's child. It is from Charlie's stream on April 3rd, about 46min in.]
transcript:
Charlie: Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!
Mariana: Mijo- [My son-]
[Frontflipo hits Mariana but he thinks it was Tilin]
Mariana: Hey, hey, hey, motherfucker!
Charlie: Discipline your fucking egg, dude! Watch where your son's going! You piece of shit!
Quackity: Hey! My son is just fine! My son is just fine! I saw your son hit my son first!
Charlie: Ours has allergies! Ours has fucking allergies! Step off! Step off!
Mariana: Backflipo! Pégale! [Hit him!]
Quackity: I saw your son hit my son first!
Charlie: Step off!
Quackity: My son didn't do anything!
Mariana: Pégale, Flipo! Pégale! Matolo! [Hit him, Flipo! Hit him! Kill him!]
Quackity: He's an angel! My son is an angel!
Charlie: He's a loose cannon! My son could kick the shit out of your son! My son-I'm going to take your son's nose!
Quackity: He would never do anything at all! He would never do anything at all!
Charlie: I can [unintelligible] and crack your son! He can crack your son!
Mariana: Mi huevo es mejor! [My egg is better!]
Charlie: My son's gonna crack and eat your son!
Quackity: Fuck your egg! I hate your egg! Your egg is stupid as hell!
Charlie: What the fuck did you just say to me?
Mariana: Tu huevo es parace mi testiculo! [Your egg looks like my testicle!]
Charlie: That's right! That's right! Our huevo! Our huevo!
Quackity, laughing and walking away: Tilin, don't trust him, don't trust him, you don't look like a testicle.
Charlie: Frontflipo, kill him! Frontflipo, kill! We need to- We need to teach him to draw blood.
i think a crucial aspect of the codebreakers dynamic that is sometimes overlooked is how likewise enamoured phil is with étoiles . like étoiles is the god of praising and hyping people up so people tend to focus on how much étoiles thinks phil is the coolest guy ever but do not forget that phil also thinks étoiles is the coolest fucking guy to ever guy he will never pass up an opportunity to talk about how cool and strong and funny étoiles is . their relationship is built on their mutual ‘WOW this guy is awesome’ feelings for one another and it is amazing
Au in which the elves, or at least legolas and thranduil and such, don’t treat Gandalf like an old man, and more like an age mate(?).
Listen, we all know that gandalf isn’t actually an old man, that he’s a maia in disguise, but bc he take the form of an old man, people treat him in such a way you would treat an old man.
It really fucks with people’s perception, even the ones who know he’s not an old man in the traditional sense can’t help but treat him like an elderly person.
Except the elves, well, some of them.
Imagine legolas just mindlessly throwing supplies at gandalf during the quest the way he would at a fellow soldier and the rest of the questers feeling like there’s something distinctly not right about treating gandalf in a manner similar to a middle aged adult, but also knowing that gandalf is not actually an old man.
Legolas teasing and ribbing gandalf in such a way that’s not like mentor/mentee / adult/child, etc. But more like a pair of warriors on a scouting mission and it fucks with everyone else’s perception of reality so much because yes, but also no?!??
Just legolas treating gandalf less like the old man he pretends to be (and the minor god he is) and more like a same aged fellow warrior and it’s messing with everyone who has to witness it.
happy three years to @chrysanthemumgames !!!! as always i'm a little biased towards drawing hermes, but i love the entire cast and at least wanted to draw all of them :') and ofc, thank you jess for a game i always love and keep coming back to!!!
my weird ass special education teacher was lecturing about autism today and prefaced the lecture with a disclaimer about how there's no proof that vaccines cause autism which is TRUE but he did it in such a way that was like. weirdly centrist? like, wakefield was a fraud who sold out for money, and his ""experiment"" had the smallest sample size you could possibly imagine. the journal he published the article in has since retracted it. there have been multiple attempts to replicate his results with bigger sample sizes to no success. not to mention, vaccines save lives. every single day, they save lives. my professor mentioned none of that and was like "maybe in 5 years the science will change and i'll tell you something different" like hello? yes science is constantly evolving, but to treat scientific FACTS like a controversial topic is honestly part of the problem!!! he was so spineless about it and it pisses me off so bad like, just say the facts! wakefield was wrong! vaccines don't cause autism! none of that wishy-washy shit, we're in COLLEGE and you're a professor. what are you DOINGGGG
The truth is - until he reads that fateful novel, Kim Dokja is not much of a dreamer.
(Or: Kim Dokja regresses. Physically and mentally, that is - back to the fine, tender age of fifteen, covered in inexplicable injuries and lacking all knowledge of what it means to survive for tomorrow.
At least his tight-lipped sense of secrecy hasn't changed. Which is not a good thing, by the way.)