#literary queueicism

[felixravinstills]

I love the narrative as a prison. I love when things escape the narrative.

I love Katniss withholding the names of her children at the end of the Hunger Games!

I love the ambiguity of Lucy Gray's fate!

They, for the most part, escaped the narrative! Lucy Gray had to perform in the Capitol! Katniss had to perform in the Capitol and for the rebels! Their lives were forced into narratives! And then, the story ends, and they are free! The rest of their lives (whether short or long) are theirs!

[felixravinstills]

“If you were my wife, I’d put poison in your coffee.”

“If I was your wife, I’d drink it.”

—except literally with Coriolanus and Livia

[felixravinstills]

It’s actually really funny that if you go with my/the Corso Creatures’ crack headcanon that Grandma’am was the model for the personification of the Capitol, then the movie ends with Coriolanus staring up at a giant statue of his grandmother.

[felixravinstills]

But I wonder if Persephone (similarly to Sejanus) takes Coriolanus not from joining in with other people gossiping about the cannibalism as decency for a while.

[felixravinstills]

Concerning thoughts I've had this past year:

"I think I understand Class Clown Syndrome now."

"Sayaka Miki is such a relatable character!"

“Being a middle school girl really was just like Madoka Magicka”

*Literally every thought I've had about Felix Ravinstill*

"Why is Coriolanus Snow kind of relatable?"

"Why is Volumnia Gaul kind of relatable?"

"Ah, Volumnia Gaul, the most normal woman ever" <- dead serious

"Maybe, I do want to get President Ravinstill pregnant?"

[felixravinstills]

Everyday, I resist the urge to gone girl disappear on you guys, and I hope you appreciate that.

It’s not even that I’m burnt out or something (although actually very surprised that hasn’t happened lol). I just think that it would be funny.

Unfortunately, I genuinely like and appreciate you guys and value and love our little niche fandom space corner friendship, so I won’t do that, but don’t think I’m not a little sad about it… think of the laughs me and Lu could have…

think of the paranoia if anyone new ever posted about felix… is that abyssal? Or some new guy?

[felixravinstills]

You know… I don’t think I ever managed to fit this into a conversation because people moved on while I was typing and it felt weird to circle back to say this, but I actually do read Snow’s interaction with the girl at the train station as something leaning towards sexual rather than just making out.

Like this dare/peer pressure is one of Festus Creed’s crimes to me.

I actually didn’t want to read it that way, because I had decided that I liked Festus by then, but like… in my head, it makes sense with the way that Snow talks about it in his head? And also I’m saying it leaned sexual nature. Idk how much was going on.

Anyway, by the time, I finished the book for the first time, I circled back over on my initial denial and was like “yeah, I think that’s how it was.”

I would like to remind everyone reading this that Festus is one of my favorite characters. Also when I say he’s bad at boundaries, this is part of what I mean.

[felixravinstills]

I actually genuinely believe that I should be cancelled for being a Ravinstill fan. I don't know why I believe this, but I do. This isn’t even about the president. I should be cancelled for liking Felix this much.