We're All Stories

his first ever call from his dad. have you thought about it

the last stand

lucy, you're coming back to us too, right? to me?

these photos literally look like percabeth fan art. you know what i mean?? i fear they’re taking it. they’re so good at their jobs. everyone clap.

the best percy & annabeth we could've ever asked for

claimed by the sea 🔱

Percy age 12: And if the mission required someone to push me down a flight of stairs for it to succeed… you’d want someone who won’t hesitate when they do it

Percy age 17:

okay but like the way they introduced the fatal flaws was so subtle and soooo insanely good. like alecto playing on annabeth's pride to get her to give up percy versus medusa appealing to percy's loyalty to get him to give up annabeth and grover. sooo good fr fr.

watched the ballad of songbirds and snakes today with two of my friends and their reactions to the ending made me realise just how genius the entire concept is. here you have the main antagonist of one of the most popular franchises of all time - the audience knows he’s a villain, and does despicable things - yet you’re seeing him young and, initially, with the same framing as katniss had in thg. and it just reinforces everything about the original trilogy in the most heart wrenching way possible.

one of my friends said she felt ‘manipulated’ by the movie because of its ending, and honestly, I felt the same way while both reading the book and watching the film. but it’s an intentional manipulation, and it’s very similar structurally and thematically to a greek tragedy - the protagonist, full of potential, makes a series of choices that ultimately lead to his moral downfall. my friends kept saying ‘if he’d just—!’ if he’d just stayed with lucy gray. if he’d just been content with the love he had. if he’d just not let his ambition rule him. but we all knew how it would end, and we watched it anyway.

collins is weaponising the reach that her previous novels (and their adaptations) had to make a point about human nature and our tendency to hope for good even when the odds are completely stacked against us. when lucy gray says, ‘i think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings’, she’s putting into words what we as the audience are hoping for the entire way through.

and that’s what makes it so powerful. you know how it ends, but for a time, you believe in snow’s potential to be a good person. hope is the only thing stronger than fear. thematically, it’s full circle. you’ve been played by collins, and by your own expectations for a happy ending. it’s orpheus and eurydice. it’s a tragedy, with a fatal flaw. you’re a spectator of a pair of star-crossed lovers in the brutal arena of a dystopian world, where the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. everything about it is doomed from the start, but it’s human to hope, so there’s hope anyway. what the fuck.

One detail that would really have helped the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie is Coryo saying that Lucy Grey isn't District because she's Covey. The way he allows himself to see her as a person by rationalizing that she isn't District.

It's such an important detail for how the hate was always there.

King candy

The Izzyguana Saga part 1

this is so funny to me im sorry djfgbjsdf

(ID in alt and under cut)

Coriolanus Snow and Tigris Snow in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

The Hunger Games Renaissance. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023), dir. Francis Lawrence

"Then he reads the list of past District 12 victors. In seventy-four years, we have had exactly two. Only one is still alive. Haymitch Abernathy, a paunchy, middle aged man, who at this moment appears hollering something unintelligible, staggers onto the stage, and falls into the third chair." - The Hunger Games, pg. 19

Riptide (Percy's Version) rocked my world because this fandom has been saying for years that Riptide by Vance Joy was the series theme song and now it actually is and after all these years of waiting and praying and dreaming and we finally got it y'all we're winning.

brainrot sketch