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If Project Hail Mary taught us anything it's that forced romance subplots have ruined movies. Too many stories about guys sacrificing themselves to save girls and not enough movies about guys sacrificing themselves to save their cool rock alien friend.

enthyrea

patron saints of one way trips

Wet eyes on wet lips

I guide your hand to my waist

A stolen glance between us

Leaves us kind of dazed

Wet lips on wet skin

You in me and me around you

The hot steam rises and rises

Fading everything from view

Bruised neck and bruised lips

The night moves on without us

We have nowhere else to be but

I think we do need another Bath

~an old love letter part 2, inspired by the roman baths in Bath, UK

#if the first one was a mistake the second one was suicide #poetry #random #love letters #unrequited love letters

They won't let you swim here anymore If only we were a Thousand years early We could've come in, Stepped in these doors Floated with the music Breathed in the earthy Scents spread about I would've chased you Pushing through the water Until I caught up with you Even in defeat Sky and pool, sparkling blue Your smile wouldn't falter And I'd tell you

That I love you

~an old love letter that should never have been sent, inspired by the roman baths in Bath, UK

#i genuinely wish he burned these just so he never gets to read it again #found in the archive #poetry #original #bath uk #roman baths #love letters #emo hours

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

danyllura

Snow always comes across as cold and unbothered when he’s dealing with Katniss and the rebellion- but knowing how actually delusional and unhinged that man’s inner monologue is and with all the Katniss/Lucy Gray parallels I know when he was alone that man was probably ripping his hair out and screaming trying to figure out how the two are connected and assuming all of Katniss’ actions had ulterior motives that were directed at him. Just raving in his room alone like:

lizweirdo

im going to say it… lin manuel miranda is a well trained actor and is actually eating hermes up a little bit… y’all just need to let go of your thirteen year old self who was cringe about hamilton…. do not let your anger be misdirected towards an artist that lost control of his creation…

#i said what i said

mo-mode

Percy’s New Yorker genes unlocking the moment someone cuts him off and sending him into a fit of 12yo road rage

jcforsapphics

Not Percy crashing the car cause he was smiling at Annabeth... That boy is GONE

wickedcriminal

THE OL' SWTCHEROO

Why does it lowkey hurt to see people be something for others that they could never be for you? I know you couldn't be there for me and I accept that but why are you there for them?

valtsv

immediately showering and furiously washing the blood off my hands after stabbing someone, not because i feel any guilt or remorse for what i did but because i have sensory issues

valtsv