Lazy-Bones

× latet anguis in herba × biology student ×

[ongoing-catastrophe]

yall. the difference between Haymitch and Katniss narrating is about priorities in observation

Katniss observes like a hunter. anything that isnt a threat or a potential meal isnt important. she watches for movements, strengths and weaknesses, recognizeable physical details so she can spot her target again later.

Haymitch observes like a village kid. who is whos father or brother or ex boyfriend, who picked a fight with whom, who has which niche skill that he might need later. he keeps track of everyone the way you can only learn from regularly gossiping in a place where there isn't much else to do

They both tell you what they think is important. for Katniss its survival. for Haymitch its community.

[spaceprincessleia]

That's what annoys me. That's what gets to me. ↪ Faye Marsay as Misha Frank in Adolescence (2025)

[charlunday]

Thinking about how Snow poisoning both himself and his target is the only thing that makes sense for his character, because with every evil act he does, he justifies it by victimizing himself

[findmewheretheseameetsthesky]

What do you mean wiress came out of the arena without a scratch on her? What do you mean she didn't get into a single fight? What do you mean she sat in that blindspot for an hour letting the hovercraft try to find her? My girl single handedly dealt out one of the biggest 'fuck you's to the games and the Capitol and im too scared to imagine how she was punished for it.

[cryingmyeyesviolet]

Lucy Gray should be proud to know she haunted that evil man every damn day of his fucking miserable life

[everdeensmellark]

snow really convinced himself lucy gray didn't love him (after she wrote a whole song about him and tried to run away with him) and then forty years later told sixteen year old haymitch abernathy that dying in the arena would be dodging a bullet compared to loving a covey girl. top 10 situationships gone horribly wrong

[eaglerayys]

Suzanne Collin’s just said fuck you to everyone who’s ever critiqued the Hunger Games as being a “teen girl saves the day” story. She said oh, Mockingjay didn’t make it clear enough? Here’s a book about how people have been rebelling for decades only to have their efforts suppressed and propagandized. Rebellion takes time and it takes failure and Katniss may have been the spark that ignited the wildfire but she did so standing atop the doused flames of everyone who came before her.

[buscandoelparaiso]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[hi-itis-mr-a]

They really went there

[comingoutofthecauldron]

stop telling your teenage daughters who say they don't want kids that they'll change their mind

[weirdqueeraltkid-deactivated202]

reblog the shit outta this

[morriganwarrior]

I haven't been a teenager in over a decade. Mind has yet to change on the subject.

At 14, I told my guidance counselor that I didn't want kids. He chuckled, patted me on the back, and informed me that when I got a little older, and I was with a guy, I would change my mind.

At 16, my grandmother nearly had a heart attack because of her three granddaughters, myself and the youngest agreed we didn't want to uave babies. Ever.

At 17, my father asked about my life plan. I told him: graduate high school, get my college degree, do some traveling and writing, go for this particular job I wanted, retired around X age, take month-long vacations to places I wanted to spend time in, etc. He asked, "What about a husband? Children? Normal things a girl is supposed to think about?" My response- a husband if a man came along that could share an adventure with me, kids were a No Go. He assured me I would 'grow up' qnd change my mind.

At 19, I shocked my former babysitter who had known me since I was a toddler, when I confirmed the rumour she'd heard that I didn't want kids. She patted my mom's arm and reassured her in a sweet voice that, "Don't worry, girls say a lot of silly things before they meet the right fella, and wise up. She'll give you grand babies"

At 22, I was talking to a college professor who chuckled at my making a comment about how, "thank goodness I'm never going to have to worry about juggling child rearing eith marriage, work, and life", then she realized I was serious. She asked if I was alright, thinking I could-not (not didn't-want) kids. I told her the truth, could have but didn't want to. She was aghast, then told me that I'd change my mind when my husband wanted some kids.

Well, I'm over 30, still have absolutely no desire to give birth, adopt, raise, or have much of anything to do with children. I don't hate children, I don't think people who have them are crazy (more power to you, to create and/or care for another person), and I don't think it's impossible to have a life AND have children. I recognized at an early age that I don't have that biological imperative to procreate, I don't have the patience to deal with children (something that has shown very little improvement as I've gotten older, in fact it might be getting worse), and I don't feel my life is incomplete without creating another life- I am good with living my own and doing my best to enrich the lives of those I care about (I try my best to be a good friend, to be a good sister, good daughter, good pet-owner, and a good person in general).

So please, please stop telling girls (or really kids at all, but especially girls) that they will change their minds. Please don't tell them that meeting 'the right guy' will make them suddenly feel broody, that their potential future husband's desire to have children will make her reconsider and see things his way. For one, a couple should have had that conversation and decided if it was a deal breaker, LONG before they got hitched. For another, it's her body that gets to grow and birth another human being- her husband's desire to be a father doesn't supercede her autonomy.

Please, let girls make their own choices? Girls are forced to mature too fast as it is and are bombarded from all sides with SHOULD (you SHOULD be a size 2, you SHOULD wear this dress, you SHOULD have a boyfriend to be a normal teen, you SHOULD always smile), they don't need another judgement from someone who hasn't walked a mile in their particular shoes. Respect teenage girls and their ability to look at the world, themselves, their situation, and their future, and make an important choice.

*gets off soap box, slides it back under the sofa, lets out a sigh*

Thanks for attending my TED talk. G'night.

[diarythebookwyrm]

Also, normalize your children saying they want kids and then changing their mind about it.

I was raised Mormon, so I was told that I wanted kids. Not I said I wanted them, I was told from the time I was eight that I wanted them. For a long time, I believed that I did want them.

Then my sister started having kids.

That was when I realized that, no, actually, I did not want them. I had been told for over twenty years of my life that I wanted kids. I saw my sister go through pregnancy and birth and realized that nope, I loved my niblings, but being a mom wasn't for me.

And that is totally valid!

[alexaloraetheris]

One of the things I was always told (if my desire for no kids was taken seriously) was "But what if your husband wants children?"

At first I said 'If he wants kids that badly he sure as hell wouldn't be marrying ME' but one day I blurted out 'then he can carry them himself' and my dad choked on his beer.

[princessjaqulinechess1031]

The beautiful part of my The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is that Snow wants us to have sympathy for him. He wants us to look at his situation and go ‘oh poor baby’, but the fact of the matter is that the reader can not forgive Snow for all that he does.

Snow wants us so bad to like him, to sympathize with him. But when you read his worldview — how he views the districts as less than human, and by exstension his “girlfriend” as less than human; how he sees his suffering above all others and that only he is allowed to complain; how he so easily turns on those he “loves” when he doesn’t get what he wants — you can’t. The reader can not forgive him because he is so despicable that the fact that he had a rough childhood does not erase all that he does in the novel, all that he will do in the future.

And that’s the best part. The main character is not the hero and we were not meant to read him as such. I was worried that before reading that Suzanne Collins would turn Snow into an anti-hero, but she’s too smart for that. Snow is still as despicable as he was before the book was read, because we know that he is willing to hurt even those he is closest too.

He is despicable and a villain, and the fact that we know now he lived in poverty and was an orphan doesn’t erase it. His character is evil and beyond pity because we know what he is capable of.

[hi-itis-mr-a]

My thoughts on ballad of songbirds and snakes.

After almost 10 years Suzanne Collins writes again about the Hunger Games universe.

The author chose to explore one important year in the life of the main series villain Coriolanus Snow, and in doing so added depth and character to an otherwise plain dictator.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

This book is written by the perspective of Snow himself and while he as the protagonist tries to justify his wrongdoings the reader can't help but dislike him, he had no reason for being evil he just wanted power and status. This book shows that even when he was young Snow was ready to sacrifice what he thought he loved in order to obtain power, friendship or love mattered little to him in the end.

Lucy Gray is an interesting character strong willed and manipulative. The book shows how easily she became the capitol's favourite tribute, with her songs and exuberant personality. Her cleverness is evident in the arena, in the way the uses poison and snakes to kill the other tributes and at the end, when the sees the rifles and understands that Snow is about to betray her. I think she really cared about him, she was young and he helped her survive against all odds but she also quickly understood what kind of person there was behind his mask, first with his talks about the capitol and mockinjays, finally the last straw was when she understood who betrayed Sejanus.

Sejanus, is the positive character of the story, he fights for what is good. He's privileged but still remembers where he came from, he could have been a tribute if not for his father's wealth. He doesn't go to the monkey cage in order to gain trust or sponsors but because he's emphatic and really wants to help the tributes. His end is bitter, this young man ready to finally escape and search for freedom betrayed by the one person he really trusted.

It was interesting learning how the Hunger Games came to be, this is why you don't let drunk college students make decisions, and how different the first games where from the ones we saw in the main saga. Overall is was extremely sad to see just how much unjustified cruelty had to endure the tributes, they already had to go in the area, which is inhumane and before that they where mistreated just to satisfy the sadistic tendencies of Dr. Gaul, not even of the capital, nobody wanted that. It's also interesting how Snow went on to make the changes in the games, not to make them humane, that can never happen, just to make them more interesting to make people watch.

My two main complaints are that the end is maybe a bit too rushed, I would have liked for part 3 to explore more the duality in Snow's thoughts. The other things are the songs, some are essential, and is great to see how many songs from district 12 came to be but others aren't really necessary and could have been cut, in my opinion it would have made it a more free-flowing read.

[lacoscienzadiemme]

I have a urge to tell as many people as possible what is happening right now in Italy

TW: mysogyny/blood/violence/homicide/kidnap

Last week a 22-year-old named Giulia Cecchettin disappeared from her town in north-eastern Italy together with her ex boyfriend, a guy we will refer to as F.T. .

During the last seven days, authorities found out a video (shot by one of those security cameras factories usually have installed outside) where she was stalked, hit and forced into a car by F.T., then blood stains and single hair(s) on the pavement in front of said building. Moreover, people claimed to have seen F.T.'s car in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and later in Austria (they were not very far from the border); a man, the night of the kidnap, revealed he had heard people having a fight in the street and the scream of a woman but did nothing until police came to look for witnesses.

On Friday, firefighters sadly found out Giulia's corpse down in Barcis lake – near a campsite F.T.'s uncle had assumed his nephew could have brought her (...) for a "romantic escape".

According to authorities, after preliminary examinations, F.T. hit Giulia, stabbed her literally from head down (mostly head, neck, hands...), kidnapped her. He took her corpse and let it roll down a hill to hide it into the lake, then he rode away by car until this morning German police has found and arrested him. They were able to find him because he had used blood-stained cash to pay for gas for his car.

Giulia Cecchettin is the 105th victim of male violence in Italy since January. For seven days her sister Elena, an amazing, strong, intelligent young woman, has been facing media and journalist to fight for her and reject their old, stupid, patriarchal rethoric and narrative about what we in Italian call femminicidio.

While many men (and pick me girls with a ridiculous amount of internal mysogyny) cry because they feel marginalised by the fact that there is a proper and specific word to describe a crime commited exclusively by men towards women because they are women, we cry because this is the umpteenth time a woman dies in the same circumstances the previous victims did. This is the umpteenth time a man didn't accept a very clear no by a woman and decided to kill her.

We are tired, angry, exhausted, full of rage and if you think this story is a tragedy, let me add that 1) I skipped a lot of details 2) this is not even the worst of the list. We are tired of knowing we are never safe, not even at home, that nobody does nothing to prevent this tragedy that keeps happening again and again and again every single day. We are tired of knowing we are lucky because nobody has tried to kill us yet.

I just wanted to tell Giulia Cecchettin's story with my international followers, as people everywhere need to know her and dedicate even a little thought to her. She had to graduate on Wednesday as a Biomedical Engineer and we all hoped she could make it, but her dream was to become an illustrator for children's books.

May her soul rest in peace now, we will never forget her.

[emostudent]

i don't think there are words in this world to express how angry and disgusted i am in this moment.

i'm disgusted by news outlets, journalists, media, that keep calling a murderer, a tormenter, a coward, a "nice guy", worse, a "good guy", that just had a "raptus". as if being a "good guy" were some kind of armour against murder accusations, because if you are a nice, a good guy that loves his girlfriend so much than how can you kill her, you're a good guy, you love her, you've just had a raptus, you didn't mean to actually do it.

and so a woman dies.

and another.

and another.

105 in a year.

because good guys kill good girls. they rape them. they hit them. they get away with it because in the end that good girl wasn't that good, was she? she was a whore, she was asking for it, look at how she was dressed, she dares to go out and night and drink, she broke up with her boyfriend, and now look at him, look at how sad and depressed he is, it's all her fault, that bitch.

but not all men are like this, right?

"not all men", by christ, you guys love this rhetoric so much! it's almost like the only thing that you manage to say in front of a woman's corpse is "oh, but i'll never do this."

congrats on not being a murderer mate! do you want a cookie? do you want someone to scratch you head and call you a good boy?

but where were you when your friends catcalled a girl who was walking around in a miniskirt? when they called her a whore? when your mates molested a girl in a club? when your little friends thought that "no" actually meant "yes"?

where were you when your mate kidnapped AND killed a woman? "oh, poor guy, he was so depressed, he didn't want to hang out anymore"

where were you?

were you laughing with them?

or were you ashamed?

we don't need your shame, we need our anger to become your anger, our indignation to become your indignation, our voice to become your voice.

we need to scream together.

for me, for you, for my friends, for my cousins, for my sisters, for my mum, for my nan, for my aunts, for giulia, for the other 104 women that died this year in italy, for every woman everywhere.

i don't want anyone of us to be next.

[rose-bookblood]

Between the 11th and 12th of this month, Giulia Cecchettin, a 22-year-old Italian girl, disappeared alongside her ex boyfriend, Filippo Turetta. Today, 18th November, her body was found in a lake 140km from where I live.

For six days, we were told that they ran away together, despite the fact Giulia was supposed to graduate from university on the 16th. That we shouldn't jump to conclusions, that there wasn't any proof he had killed her, that we were crazy for even thinking it. When a video of him beating Giulia up until she was bleeding came out, newspapers were filled with declarations from his family saying he loved her, he would never do anything to hurt her, he was just a little possessive and jealous.

We all knew. We all fucking knew since we read the words "ex boyfriend".

Giulia is the 103rd woman victim of feminicide in Italy in 2023. 103.

Meanwhile, Giulia's sister Elena, who has had to spend the last week making as much noise as possible because that was her only hope of finding her sister, was asked if the family was ready to forgive him. Newspapers talk about how good of a guy he was, they carefully avoid saying he murdered her, they refer to them as a couple. I've lost track of how many men have taken time to comment "not all men" under posts about Giulia.

Not all men, but all women.

If you live outside of Italy, you probably won't hear of this news. You probably don't know how pervasive victim blaming is in Italian news stations, how bad the statistics of feminicide are. So, please, reblog this post. Demand justice. Say Giulia Cecchettin's name.

Se domani non torno, distruggi tutto.

[agoddamnrayofsunshine]

I’m sure someone has talked about this before but one thing I absolutely love about tbosas is how Snow’s descent into villainy is never once presented as something that was inevitable

So many villain origin stories portray this idea of a person who tries incredibly hard to be a good person, who takes every opportunity to be kind and to better themselves, but are ultimately doomed to fail by the narrative. Their environment and their circumstances make it impossible for them to be a good person, and while this is effective from a storytelling point of view it’s not exactly accurate to real life

In real life there is always a point where a bad person makes the decision to do something bad, they make the decision to prioritise themselves, their own power, money or desires over someone else. That’s how real life dictators are made, they are presented with every opportunity to be good, and they purposefully choose to not take it

This makes Snow’s storyline so effective because he is given so many opportunities to do the right thing and yet, at every single turn, he chooses to serve himself instead, exactly like how real dictators are made

Snow, unlike most people we see in the capitol, is in a unique position where he could genuinely have the chance to understand and relate to the people from the districts. He, unlike his classmates, is poor and spends most nights going hungry, he witnessed firsthand the cruelty of the capitol when Clemensia was bitten by the snakes for nothing more than lying about doing her homework, when his sister was forced to sell herself on the streets in order to feed the both of them

Throughout his book, the three people he is closest to are Tigris (who dislikes the hunger games, is a rebel, and a victim of the capitol forced to turn to prostitution), Sejanus (who is originally from district 2, dislikes the capitol and knows he will never be accepted there, and also a rebel) and Lucy Gray (who is a victim of the hunger games, from district 12, and is also treated horribly by the capitol). These are all people who gave him an opportunity to realise the cruelty of the system he was in, a chance to directly confront his prejudices and see that people from the districts are just the same as him, and yet he still refuses to take the chance to change

He is given every opportunity, he’s sent away from the capitol to be a peacekeeper in the districts, he forms personal connections with people from the districts, he helps Sejanus perform funeral rites, and yet at every moral crossroads he comes to he makes the wrong decision. He didn’t have to become a villain, and yet he made the choice to do so anyway, despite every chance he was given

I think it’s a really effective portrayal of Snow as a character, and it’s a very effective villain origin story for the type of villain that Snow is. It never once excuses him from his actions because it highlights just how accountable he was for his actions

[lucy-gray-baird]

bringing my thread here in honor of the ballad of songbirds and snakes trailer today because the "lucy gray parallels katniss" people are out there and they are wrong, lucy gray baird is peeta mellark and sejanus plinth is katniss everdeen and i will die on this hunger games hill

[onioneyez]

He's very easily peer pressured

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