kiara ✾ ·˚’s Reviews > The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes > Status Update

“He didn’t mind the jabberjays so much — they seemed rather interesting from a military standpoint — but something about the mockingjays repelled him. He distrusted their spontaneous creation. Nature running amok. They should die out, and die out soon.”

saying what’s one more songbird in relation to snow’s hatred for mockingjays then katniss being the cause of his demise oh suzanne ate so bad here

“The Capitol would agree to let her stay and, well, he hadn’t worked out all of the details, but the point was, he got to keep her. And he wanted to keep her. Safe and close at hand. Admired and admiring. Devoted. And entirely, unequivocally his.”

having to sit through multiple occasions of coryo referring to lucy gray like she’s his personal toy TS IS TORTURE 🫩

“If Lucy Gray had not helped him, he would be utterly, irrevocably dead. Another shiny coffin dripping flowers. Another empty chair.”

the whole world would’ve cheered TRUST

“He thought of Sejanus telling Dr. Gaul it was the government’s job to protect everybody, even the people in the districts, but he still wasn’t sure how to square that with the fact that they’d been such recent enemies. But certainly the child of a Snow should be a top priority.”

malignant narcissism final boss 💀

“What was Sejanus up to? Was he trying to outdo him and steal the day’s thunder? To take his idea of coming to the zoo and then dress it up in a way Coriolanus could never compete with, because he could never afford to?”

coriolanus really has always been so tone deaf bc wdym your automatic thought is that sejanus does things just for the sake of shits and giggles and not bc he’s genuinely a good person 💀