Your Greatest Weakness Can’t Be Conquered

[leighlew3]

[i-am-a-fish]

this cat said gay rights and fuck trump i heard her say it

[indigoneverkills]

God I love this cat

[girlywhirly]

You. Can. Withdraw. Your. Consent. At. Any. Time.

You can withdraw your consent at any time.

At any time.

Any time.

[fairylilies]

i’m so sorry if someone made you think it’s hard to love you

[rhythmmortis]

fuck this keyblade shit

[rhythmmortis]

fuck this keyblade shit friday

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[misaothewitch]

Coriolanus was EVERYTHING for Sejanus. He meant the world to him and Coriolanus didn't even really like him for 80% of the time

[kingdomofballads]

𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺 𝘶𝘴.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬

[mockingjay-sings]

“Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

[jeanmoreaux]

i cannot stop thinking about the reenactment of trauma and "it's the things we love most that destroy us" and how lucy started to see snow as a threat to her safety and how snow had peeta hijacked to see katniss as a threat to his safety and how snow betrayed and killed the person closest to him and how snow is trying to get katniss to betray and kill the person closest to her

[rhaenyrastormborn]

Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you.

[thebootstrap-paradox]

every victor from district 12 won cheating or breaking a rule.

icons.

[princessrhcenyra]

THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES (2023)

[timelesslords]

thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.

Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.

Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.

Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.

The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.

Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.

[stephsycamore]

I think the most radical thing the hunger games does is tell young people that the most revolutionary thing you can do is have unconditional love for humanity. Katniss throughout the entire series is guided by a deep sense of compassion for the people around her. It is what causes her to volunteer, to bury rue, to mercy kill cato, its why she tries to save peeta, why finnick telling her to remember who the real enemy is works, and even though her compassion for the larger world falters when peeta is kidnapped, it comes back when she visits hospitals and asks for mercy for other victors and ultimately, it is love and belief in a better humanity that makes her kill coin. Through it all, she maintains an unfaltering belief in the fundemental goodness of humanity, which is diametrically opposed to dr gaul's and snow's worldview. Peeta is even more unwaveringly compassionate

So the series tells young people that the most revolutionary thing you can be is compassionate. Let compassion drive your politics. Let yourself believe in the fundemental goodness of people. And i think that's deeply important in a world that touts the superiority of pure reason or logic, to allow yourself to be guided by something as emotional as compassion. Katniss everdeen tells us that your politics should be rooted in compassion in a world that thinks detatchment or cynicism is intelligence and i think thats v cool

[rylandsgrace]

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + text posts

[mjlor-chan]