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[agirlnamedhagrid]

December 🐍🧶 Update

My December reading recovered a bit thanks to taking some time off work for the holidays. I started the month with a reread of Nora Roberts's Come Sundown and ended the year with T. J. Klune's Ravensong. I am very impatiently waiting for the rest of the Green Creek series to be re-released so I can pick them up from the library. While I *could* get them on Kindle right now, I am trying to resist in anticipation of picking up hardcover copies of the whole series. We'll see how long I manage to hold out.

I also borrowed Check & Mate from the library. I don't read a ton of YA, but I found this to be really satisfying and delightful. The characters felt true to age without feeling overly juvenile and the emotions were rich and layered. Another great Ali Hazelwood novel 💖

#crochet #i made this #reading log #books #reading snake #calendar craft

[vivicendium]

i think something that elevates the hunger games franchise is not just the quality of writing but the integrity of it. tbosas isn’t just a cash-grab by suzanne collins in the age of sequels and reboots (though i won’t pretend that didn’t play a part), it’s a character study of the main antagonist with a different structure than the main trilogy. and importantly, it doesn’t just re-hash the same old themes and beats the main trilogy had, it expands on not just the world of the hunger games but the themes as well, it actually has something new to say about the trilogy’s themes about class, capitalism, power, and control, in a way that couldn’t be explored with the main story because the protagonist of that story simply did not have access to the world that’s being explored in tbosas.

i understand the people who call for books/movies to be made about haymitch, finnick, johanna, different years of the games — we love those characters and want to see more of them! i’d kill for a novella on finnick’s days mentoring tributes, or katniss’s parents falling in love. but at the end of the day we probably wouldn’t be very satisfied with those stories being fleshed out if they had absolutely nothing new to say about the world, they’d be enjoyable, but not as interesting and engaging as tbosas has been.

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #thg #tbosas #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #finnick odair #johanna mason #haymitch abernathy #thg series #thg meta #hunger games prequel #been thinking about this since i read tbosas tbh #rachel zegler #tom blyth #josh andres rivera #movie industry

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

#seeing some discourse and im not saying lucy grey didnt know #im saying she never dropped the kind of hints that she knew like she did in the movie #or if she did snow isnt worried about them until he very suddenly is consumed by them #snow is not concerned about whether or not she believed him. of course she did! hes snow! #but then shes gone…. for a while…… #and its the sudden immediate drastic unravelling that comes across so clearly in the book #that i knew wouldn’t translate to screen yet still cant help but miss #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #tbosas #lucy gray baird #not a crime or anything just a note that i cannot stop thinking about #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #this is all from memory of reading it quite a while ago. so maybe 3 pages is an exaggeration #but i remember it happening VERY quickly and without much external cause #like we as the reader have no indication as to whether shes nearby or not. #snow has no idea either. he just SUSPECTS. and his suspicion breeds the hatred that has been bubbling inside him all this time #he hates how she undoes him. he hates that he WOULD run away with her if shed let him keep his secrets #and he HATES more than anything that she makes him WANT to tell his secrets #he wants to be vulnerable and reveal the ugly nasty parts about himself and still be loved #but he does not let himself and it is everyone’s downfall #he chooses cruelty bc it is easy and familiar and makes him feel more powerful than the vulnerable give and take that real love requires

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for Guardian Books.

#reading #books #snake

[jjadmanii]

film adaptations are all fun and games until ppl start watching the movie without reading the book,,then it just becomes the 10th circle of dante’s hell

#fandom #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #movie adaptation #good god and when ppl start critizing shit without reading the book skshsjsh SHUT UPPP #shadow and bone #percy jackson #harry potter #marvel

[xplore-the-unknwn]

This also reminded me of how she said that Katniss wasn’t quite ready to harvest yet. Saying like “Katniss will take some time but eventually it’ll have you dealt with.” and it did! Fate sent him a Karma in the form of Katniss Everdeen.

Katniss who was a reminder of Lucy Gray, of his loved ones, of everything Sejanus stood for. Katniss who was a reminder of his PAST SELF- of a time where he could’ve done the right choices (with Lucy Gray, Tigris, correcting his father's sins with Highbottom etc.) of a time where everything could’ve been different.

Snow mentioned Lucy Gray strongly believed in fate when she said “You’re mine and Im yours. It’s written in the stars.” Of course he didn’t believe it. So when she was gone and Coriolanus Snow chose to cross that line of evil never turning back, the stars made sure that he will be haunted of it to his death.

A masterclass of storytelling right there. Suzanne you icon, you legend.

#Guess the odds werent in his favor after all #All I want now is to read Snow’s POV in the trilogy did he think about them in his dying breath #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #lucy gray #katniss everdeen #thg #tbobas #tbobas spoiler #Katniss #lucy gray baird #tom blyth #rachel zegler #suzanne collins #President snow #thg series #snowbaird

[kneel-gayman]

his ass is not reading (he cannot see)

#crowley #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #good omens series 2 #go2 #aziracrow #good omens spoilers #neil gaiman #michael sheen #david tennant #tadfield #his ass is not reading #don’t care didn’t ask plus you’re gay #david tennant in those silly contacts and dark glasses was bumping into walls and people and things almost constantly #snake eyes #snake crowley #good omens bonus content #good omens behind the scenes

[sarahmackattack]

If you do a science event at a library and bring your snake, please be advised that someone might read a book to your snake.

#snake #science communication #literate snakes #read books to your snakes #they like it i guess

[maalidoesart]

„you have to stop rescuing me“

#ok soo ever dince watching this movie i cannot stop thinking about it #currently reading the book and man i wanna punch coryo so so bad #anyways anual leyendecker study fanart #and i thought leyendeckers piece fit them very well! #art #fanart #drawing #hunger games #the hunger games #tbosas #tbosas fanart #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #hunger games ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #sejanus plinth #snowjanus #digital art #leyendecker study #jc leyendecker #leyendecker #thg #thg fanart #illustration

[agirlnamedhagrid]

January 🧶🐍 Update

And now we're officially all caught up on my reading snake!!! January was pretty busy for me - I started the new year with an ear infection, chaperoned a high school trip to England and France, came down with covid, and got another ear infection.

I also finally got around to reading Fourth Wing after the nagging of many friends. And they were right, I loved it. Especially since Violet and I have a lot of health issues in common - it was great to see her be a badass in a magical world without a magical fix erasing her chronic illness.

I also tried a new paranormal author that just didn't do it for me, although I did power through the book in hopes it would get better. It didn't, but I found myself liking the second and third Charming Cove books (by Linsey Hall) even more than the first one! So that's a net win.

My reading has slowed down again in February, but I'm finally feeling well enough to crochet other projects, which means less reading time 🤣

#crochet #reading snake #reading log #i made this #fiber arts #calendar crafts #fourth wing #rebecca yarros #linsey hall #books #books and reading

[hrrystylesbookclub]

i don’t just want a book about each hunger games, i want to know the entire history of panem: the fall of north america and how it became panem, how long they existed as a capitol and thirteen districts, what led to the dark days, how panem changed in the time between the 10th and 74th games, if they have contact with other countries, what happened to the other countries, how far into the future this is

the brilliance of suzanne collins is that she created such a rich world where i’m genuinely interested in any sort of story set within panem, not just in context of the games but their entire history books

#the hunger games #suzanne collins #panem #she could honestly write a full textbook about panem and i would read every word #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

[brbarou]

not arguing with a girl with big brown eyes whatever you say beautiful

#tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #snowbaird #art #fanart #havent read the book but my cousin informed me that they were apparently kissing all the time. #anyways never trust a man in his eminem era

[babaknit]

if you went into the movie called the ballad of songbirds and snakes and got pissed there was too much singing idk what to tell you

#normalize reading #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #thg

[markscherz]

Natural history museums hold innumerable misidentified specimens on their shelves. These specimens make their way into databases like GBIF, and muddy data that is used in global-scale analyses and other research drawing on such records. Careful verification of all specimens in a collection holding tens to hundreds of thousands of specimens would be a Herculean task that could take a dozen experts a decade. So, we often rely on spot checks.

Whilst searching our constrictor collection to see if we have any albino snakes (we don’t seem to), I came across this snake that had been identified as a Boa constrictor. It is in fact Malayopython reticulatus, a reticulated python. A quick new label and an update in our database, and I was able to move it over to the right shelf. Now it won’t muddy the waters further, and is able to be referred to by anyone interested in examining a retic.

How many more such cases are haunting our shelves of over 14 million objects? And that’s just the Natural History Museum of Denmark; there are billions of objects in similar collections globally. This is quite literally an astronomically huge problem.

#snake #animals #museum #natural history museum #natural history #NHMD #ZMUC #So many people on FB have just commented on the picture without reading the caption #it is quite funny #but also I realised this was in the wrong place by a part of the body from several metres away #not exactly sure how this error got made #but ultimately it doesn’t matter anymore

[rookesbane]

Star-crossed lovers meeting their fate. A revenge story turned in on itself.

#hoping this hasn't been done already #but oh well #this quote wouldn't let me rest from the moment i read it so i had to #the thought of snow patterning peeta’s hijacking after the lucy gray/jessup fiasco #while unwittingly patterning it out of his and lucy gray’s falling out is making me unhinged #anyway the ‘rabid boy’ gif out of context is so funny to me lmao #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #mockingjay #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #everlark #snowbaird #thg #tbosas #tbosas edit #thg edit #mine #*mine: edits

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo getting hit with a truth curse but instead of forcing him to admit to super sad or worrying things it’s things like “it was me who broke the remote” “I saw Mikey prank Donnie and helped hide it because it’s way funnier if he didn’t know who it was” “I rip my clothes to look more like Raph’s because he’s really cool” “my stripes aren’t even red they’re pink!”

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #plot twist he COULD be admitting angsty stuff but he’s pushing the less oof truths forward instead on purpose #raph: hey leo what do you want for dinner #leo: *about to bare his soul on all his internal torment but pivots* I’m afraid of snakes #(no but fr Leo’s stripes being technically more pink instead of red is cute ngl) #(a very reddish pink to the point that in certain lighting it looks red but at the base they’re p pink) #(i also am very fond of the idea that Leo doesn’t just have questionable taste in fashion he also just loves Raph a lot and looks up to him) #but yeah I think that something like this would be 99% Leo admitting to unimportant things or admitting to how much he values everyone #like they all KNOW Leo loves them and he’s talked them up enough for them to know but it’s different when he’s like #‘I just wanna read my comics with you guys around - it’s my favorite place to be’ #or again just random bs that doesn’t REALLY have a lot of weight like #‘I like using my portals to prank random people around the world’ #‘I’m worried about being a bad influence on hueso jr’ #‘sometimes I kinda wanna see hypno’s plans succeed’ #‘it’s been way too long since I found this out and honestly it’s embarrassing but I actually don’t have a di-‘ #SORRY COULDNT HELP MYSELF #(<-but did u know that that pink rather than red observation actually ties into this headcanon as well if u know about red eared sliders)