Lucy Gray: “…are You Serious?” 🥀

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This song fit him so well I had to make an edit for it 🤍 Such a tragic character...

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Song Credit: Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden (Orchestral Version)

These books for an Autumn reading mood °.🍁.•🍂

Oooh, this parallel is crazy.

"The moment that bell rings, you can't trust anyone." The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) dir. Francis Lawrence

Reading through the first book again, and came across an interesting parallel to Ballad...

After Peeta "betrays" Katniss' trust and teams up with the Careers, she considers him an enemy who will try to kill her. I imagined Snow watching this and comparing it to his own situation in the woods with Lucy Gray.

He betrayed her trust with the lie he told and she determined he was an enemy whom she then had to flee from.

And (from his perspective) she intended to kill him with the snake bite in nearly the same way Katniss intended to kill Peeta with the hive of Tracker Jackers.

But where this inspired vengeance in Snow and made him fully turn against Lucy Gray, Peeta's determination to keep Katniss alive doesn't change. It doesn't change his feelings for her at all.

I sort of just love imagining Snow's reaction to that and how, even from the beginning, these two seem to defy his expectations.

Something struck me as I was reading Catching Fire again...in spite of everything else Snow learned through his experiences in Ballad, I do feel that one positive lesson he learned was that the people in the districts were not actually inferior to him or the rest of the Capitol. Reading this scene, I appreciate how polite he is towards Katniss and her mother.

Of course, he's a charmer by nature (and he was playing it up in this scene, I'm sure) and very much has an "us vs. them" mentality, but Gaul's lesson equalized everyone in his mind. They were all players in the game he considered life to be. He changed the entire way the people of the districts were treated. He humanized them to the Capitol.

Now, in Catching Fire, I'm sure one reason he's being so gracious towards Katniss and her mother is because he wants to stay on good terms and avoid a rebellion, but I also liked how he didn't seem to be flaunting any superiority with them, ruthless though he is.

Have to get!!! 🤍

I have finished with the main designs and ordered some of the keychains!!!!! I will make a post when I make a shop and upload the keychains they will be 10-11 dollars depending on my sister's and mother's advice cus I have no idea what I am doing. Thank you for being interested and helping me fulfill my silly dream of making money off my art!! Let me know if any of you guys would be interested in Lucilla, Ravi, etc. as added options later on!

🔸Even in Arcadia *. 🪷𓂃. Dedication to Emperor Geta {+ Caracalla}

.•◇° I feel like this, right here, was such a highlight moment for Coriolanus. For both him as a person and in his relationship with Lucy Gray. In this moment, he put aside his needs for hers. He really empathized with her.

That's what I love about this book though. He isn't all villain. It takes time for him to get there. He makes a few decent choices, like he does here. In small ways. Not all of his thoughts were self-centered or manipulative. He really was capable of becoming someone different. Someone better. •◇°.

Modern AU Fall Fic 🍁 For all the cozy feels.

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Snowbaird edit for Valentine's Event Day 4 - Hands

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