The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

bitches will make the ballad of songbirds and snakes into their entire personality. me? i’m bitches.

tbosas (book)

part one

• mayfair’s father is also a little bitch.
• well that’s something you don’t see: they’re holding hands.
• you think about how the districts would fight off the capitol (literally killing peacemakers mentioned) around the 10th games and how you’re forced into complacency by the 75th. crazy
• now you’re district 12? if you say so.
• she’s in district 12? only her pearly white bones.
• why is clemensia such a piece of shit in the movie dude
• i’m so blameless, i’m choking on it. being capitol is gonna kill me.
• lucy has the drawl that therion should have
• arachne deserved that shit 🖕🏽
• arachne is poison with teeth.
• i don’t sing when i’m told: i sing when i have something to say.
• you seem like a good man, coriolanus snow. it sure would’ve been nice to meet you in different circumstances. we could’ve had a drink. maybe a dance or two.
• you’re just lucky your songbird didn’t peck out your eyes, too. trust me: that one hasn’t been a girl in a long time.
• collins is seriously fucking Crazy for making snowbaird parallel each other in every way possible and show how snow was still a little bitch who decided to take the most selfish and ultimately most horrible option each time. even at the beginning snow warps the games into continuing because he needs the money. baird survives for him. god damn
• a rainbow of destruction huh…
• i can’t believe they killed off clemensia like that SHE COULD’VE BEEN A SCALIE ON THE WIDESCREEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• they truncated the hell out of the book for what dude
• lamina serving the sobbing lesbian fit btw
• lucy gray is real for that american idol performance
• zegler also real for the ez lipsyncing job and the false crying she’s so crazy for that one
• we all do things we’re not proud of to survive.
• i think snow is batshit for that weird fucked up love obsession he’s got with baird and i really fw it

part two

• i wish i could also fw the fact that book snow hated the living hell out of sejanus LOL highbottom calling him his friend is a whole ass lie
• definitely adding to the rebellion note from earlier i know it takes longer for first blood in the book… i get why they didn’t go for that in the movie (it’s kind of fucking boring in concept for a movie… and they were already dragging along it’s a three hour movie) but. it would have been poignant and make more sense
• LITERALLY SO FUCKED UP THAT PEOPLE DONATED TO LAMINA FOR MERCY KILLING MARCUS
• really crazy how i think the implication here is that highbottom recognizes snow for having the same behavior and mindset of his father. but they DEFINITELY don’t show that in the movie
• gaul mentions cutting out a peacekeeper’s tongue… i wonder how early avoxes existed into the capitol reign
• ok dude they yaoified the fuck out of tbosas
• THEYRE SO YAOI 😭😭😭😭 HUH…?
• coral hates the fuck out of lucy gray dude they could have tried allying or grabbed her and gotten donation money out of her
• “it was awful to kill a tribute. and it felt powerful” THERAPY! GET THERAPY!
• people can be good :( tigris…
• lucy gray’s mom holding her and watching over her through the entire games the way she tries to for jessup (pained smile) (screaming)
• bro i think it’s fucking crazy how well tbosas shows how early games set the stage for what rules were implemented to circumvent district rebellion. the arena changes and the camera and the fucking everything dude … theres a lot of flaws with the movie still but it does do well basically pinpointing what parts of the games were rewritten to handle rebellion
• oh wovey girl i’m sorry…
• they should really have released ooc covers of lucy gray’s songs bro i kind of can’t understand the old therebefore
• unironically zegler fucking slays as lucy gray she really sells the acting and it’s basically a surprise to no one that lucy gray can convince everyone through her performances. i need to ugly throw up right now
• anyways L snow your buzzcut is fucking ugly L + ratio + downfall but at least your queen survived
• highbottom isn’t really cruel in the movie he’s just kind of pathetic. he’s like the snape of tbosas without a love triangle subplot because you’re never given an inner monologue or actual knowledge about snow’s family to warrant his hatred until the very end. i think it’s a little easier to accept on a second rewatch but it’s still pathetic

part three

• sejanus is definitely more of an everdeen foil than baird when he literally says he wants to become a medic… dude… you guys are trapped in gender roles for Real
• you know when you came in i was contemplating suicide while talking to sejanus is the only time you ever hear anything of snow’s hatred for sejanus LMFAO
• NOTHING YOU CAN TAKE FROM ME SWEEP AJKSKDMDOMEOEKEKKEKD (collapses)
• rip weekend pass morale boosters welcome back one-sided doomed yaoi???
• he told me the strangest thing—he told me he was glad i survived you.
• BOOOOOOOOOO SNOW WE HATE YOUR PUSSY GTFO
• white boy can’t handle gnats and mosquitoes
• white boy has goddamn dogtags
• white boy cannonballs like a loser
• not sure lucy gray was a good choice songwise for this section no one is gonna pick it up in the middle of the montage
• but it’s a mystery, sweetheart. just like me.
• bro said i’ll take good care of it and put the snake in there as a parting gift get fucked snow
• snow is getting war flashbacks about katniss before she was even in the womb
• i can’t trust him anymore. trust is everything. it means everything to me. more important even than love. without trust, you may as well be dead to me. but you can trust me, i promise that; if you can trust anyone in the world, it’s me.
• tigris is so pretty dude… i love women!!!!!!!!!
• coriolanus does things just for his own good and wanting dude… what a bitch he really does only care about himself. doomed yaoi or whatever
• sorry sejanus you deserved better
• snow you literally did not have to do that their plan is literally what lucy gray suggested to you… whore
• i’ve been trying this entire time to think of if pure as the driven snow could be about someone besides snow … it feels like it should be but i dunno who it’d be
• taupe is a stupid two-faced bitch idiot literally why
• also you have bad taste mayfair lipp is a dumbass bitch of fuck
• also poor sejanus.
• LITERALLY NO REASON FOR THEM TO BE BROTHERS NO CONTEXT
• something something love and hunger but this one is so hunger and obsession it hurts
• is this guard saying “we got one” with regard to sejanus british???
• i so badly need to read the book because i intensely desire to know what snow’s actual rationale is for covering up the crime while the jabberjay recording had been sent. did he feel even a shred of remorse. i know his ass remembered he sent that. what is wrong with him. “i just wish there was more i could have done” YOU DID TOO MUCH GIRL
• you know what i won’t miss? people. people aren’t so bad. not really. it’s what the world does to them, like all of us in the arena. i think there’s a natural goodness born into us all. no, really. you can either cross that line into evil or not. it’s our last word to stay on the right side of that line.
• “my old self” you dumb ass bitch ratio this self
• i respect at least the ambiguity in the cabin scene onwards //o_o//
• i’m just gonna go dig up some katniss. there’s a good patch down by the lake. i thought it was too early for that. world changes awful fast. lucy gray. it’s still raining. …well, i’m not made out of sugar.
• girl of course she would take the chance to run from you … What did you expect for lying to the girl who told you nothing is more important to her than the truth
• WHAT DO YOU MEAN I STILL HAVE AN HOUR I’M ALREADY DONE WITH THE MOVIE WHERE IS THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
• “we can talk about it” stupid ass you already did
• wait poison with teeth just means you’re venomous … bro was on the snake metaphor grind
• this scarf sniffing scene really needed the monologue of roses or like snow’s mom or gaul or something… adaptations are so hard
• thinking about how the director’s cut was like ten minutes straight of snow chasing after lucy gray… fucked up. i would’ve watched it
• also it’s a little funny how you can mistake lucy gray’s outfit while running for her victor’s outfit. makes me wonder what happened to that outfit ever since
• this is why they put those mf fences up
• the endless “are you”s while snow drowns the guns is kind of haunting i shan’t lie
• it’s really fucked up but i’d look at more character studies of snow and his studying under gaol. that shit is crazy. tbosas is a genuinely really good prequel even in movie form; i think it gets the core message across that collins got, even if it didn’t capture everything it should have or that i wanted it to have
• and who are you, do you determine? the victor.
• that scathing coriolanus… it’s over. he’s cooked
• you grew a heart in the districts. no, not in the district. in the hunger games. i should be thanking you.
• now the blood of so many generations will be on my hands. because you’ve shown us the price people are willing to pay for a good show.
• tell me… was she sad when you left twelve? your little songbird? i expect it made us both sad. my contacts inform me that she’s disappeared, that the mayor might’ve killed her out there, but there’s no proof. it’s a mystery. and mysteries have a way of driving us mad.
• nice rainbow of destruction you idiot bitch i hope it kills you
• IT’S THE THINGS WE LOVE MOST THAT DESTROY US 🗣️🗣️🗣️
• EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR CAN’T CATCH ME NOW 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔈🔈🔈🔈🔈🔈🔈