Letters to Krypton

A Damn Dirty Fandom blog! Old as fuck, proper old school fandom here. I remember the Doctor Who Wilderness years when the BBC showed Buffy and Roswell to fill the void in our baby hearts! British, I look at things in British-y ways. Anglophiles are beloved here. #Ancientandforever

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Boudica by Cassius Dio

"...a terrible disaster occurred in Britain. Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island was lost to Rome. Moreover, all this ruin was brought upon the Romans by a woman, a fact which in itself caused them the greatest shame....But the person who was chiefly instrumental in rousing the natives and persuading them to fight the Romans, the person who was thought worthy to be their leader and who directed the conduct of the entire war, was Buduica, a Briton woman of the royal family and possessed of greater intelligence than often belongs to women....In stature she was very tall, in appearance most terrifying, in the glance of her eye most fierce, and her voice was harsh; a great mass of the tawniest hair fell to her hips; around her neck was a large golden necklace; and she wore a tunic of diverse colours over which a thick mantle was fastened with a brooch. This was her invariable attire."

Boudica is Bythronic for Victorious Woman. The Classical Goddess of Victory is Nike who carries a lyre to celebrate victory and is often depicted as 'winged Victory'. Like a bird.

One wonders if Suzanne Collins put this stuff in the Lucy Gray Baird Character cauldron

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Do you ever think about how Katniss kept that memory book of everyone she lost.

And Snow eradicated the memory of Lucy Gray from the world.

Two very different coping mechanisms

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I keep thinking of the parallel between Jessup and Coriolanus. Both went out of their own way to protect Lucy Gray, and end up turning on her violently and one might say uncharacteristically considering what was happening before. Then I'm led to the end of the film where the soundtrack of Snow looking at the statue with the rainbow skirt is the same as when Katniss watches Peeta go nuts at the end of Mockingjay. I feel like we are being told that despite his ultra-controlled outward appearance Coriolanus is just as out of control as Jessup and Peeta. I rewatched Mockingjay after Ballad and they explain how Peeta is hijacked by associating his fears with Katniss. And it ties perfectly into Ballad. Corio is AFRAID of ending up strung up in the woods. Grandmaam puts that fear in him. The war made him AFRAID of the district folk, seemingly validated by the murder of Arachne. And Gaul stokes that fear. Convincing him that when push comes to shove people are violent. Grandmaam tells him Lucy Gray will claw his eyes out. Just like Peeta has been made to believe Katniss can't be trusted.

I'd love an edit that compared the hijacked Peeta dialogue with the 'Are you trying to kill me Lucy Gray' meltdown.

[1anonyymous1]

do u ever miss your own energy. like damn what happened to me

[fullofwhoa]

The older I get the more I understand early Sailor Moon villains. How do youth have so much energy?? Can’t I have some?

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Nothing says perfection like white

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Snow uses the drones in the games as a weapon in Songbirds and Snakes. Coin did the same thing in Mockingjay to make people believe he bombed those kids.

hmm... the thought of the rebellion having access to the master tapes of the 10th games is very interesting.

It's like they are using it as a blueprint.

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A Snowbaird Take

Corolainus represents the Capitol

Lucy Gray represents the Districts

Its the Capitol's job to take care of the districts but ultimately it fails and harms them. The Capitol is completely unaware of how its own actions cause the district to rebel and ultimately ends up blaming the districts for hurting them. 'This was the uprising that rocked our land. Thirteen districts rebeled against the country that fed them, loved them, protected them.'

In the 10th Hunger Games Snow and Lucy Gray prove that by working together toward their common goal they will achieve success. This was NOT the lesson the Capitol wanted to teach and so it had to be erased. Lucy Gray had to be erased and Snow needed 're-educating'. Panem is traumatised by war. The suspicion is in their psyche, as Grandmaam says, 'She'll peck your eyes out'. The next generation of the Capitol needs to be indoctrinated into seeing the districts as animals and themselves as superior. And that ultimately is what tears them apart.

Snow and Lucy Gray could have shown a new future, post-war, where districts and Capitol had a cooperative relationship but the elders were never going to allow that. Thus the second rebellion becomes an inevitability.

In the end, Snow believes, he fed Lucy Gray, he loved Lucy Gray and he protected Lucy Gray and she rebelled. Panem will suffer for the next 64 years because of it.

'Those who choose this destructive path, your actions are based on a misunderstanding of how we have survived. Together. It is a contract. Each district supplies the Capitol. Like blood to a heart. In return, the Capitol provides order and security. To refuse work is to put the entire system in danger. The Capitol is the beating heart of Panem. Nothing can survive without a heart.'

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The cascading ruffles, the corset. Snow. Go to a therapist.

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Skywalkers and Brown Eyes

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Ben had his father’s pronounced nose and lopsided smile, and his mother’s piercing brown eyes. At least that feature, Leia was sure, was inherited from her own birth mother, Padmé Amidala.

Skywalkers: Family at War

#Canon!

[moroccanmanga]

None of you actually know what these late 90's-Goth promo photos of Buffy season 2 do to my soul

I've been compromised since 1998.

[whatcrabsmeantome-deactivated20]

Wow found out Jenny Nicholson is a reylo and is bullshitting on Twitter about jb making a misogynistic comment and then bashing reylo to cover up its a shame I loved her vids but I’m not giving her anymore viewership damn I thought she was better than that

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She’s right though. He was being gross on Instagram and then when called out went on to Twitter and started bashing Reylo and going after fans. Most of whom had no idea what he said on Instagram. They just thought the mean Reylos were jumping on him for not liking their ship when in fact he was making comments on Instagram about how Rey was competition won by whatever character fucked her.

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Consider me a big fan of the Supreme Leader’s throne concept. I hope they use it later. Like Vader’s Castle was a concept from the OT that appeared in Rogue One

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Spoiler- TROS

Headcanon: When Palpatine yeeted Ben just to be petty Anakin heard it loud clear. It was in that moment he was like ‘Me and my crew about to end this crinkley fucker’s career, again’. 

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Other people are saying ‘Its like painting’ while I was just ‘He’s Batman!’

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Star Wars finally remembered women before Rey were Jedi

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From the ‘Palpatine is Anakin’s Daddy’ issue

Its all pyschological. Its all about what is in Vader’s head. His deepest fears. Look at this page ‘I am your father’, does this mean Obi Wan is his father? Of course not. Its about two conflicting father figures. There are no facts in this issue

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Realising your 2 year old video was spot on