QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY (2023—) 01×06 : “Crown Jewels”
“We like to think we are so smart and we have all the answers. And we want to pass all that on to our children, but if you scratch beneath the surface you don’t have to dig very deep to find the kid you were.”
Make me choose: Anonymous asked Phil Dunphy or Gloria Delgado-Pritchett?
suburbia; or the sad, quiet horror of getting everything you ever wanted
"No Surprises," Radiohead // Safe (1995) // Kingdom Come, J.G. Ballard // Blue Velvet (1986) // "Once in a Lifetime," Talking Heads // Little Shop of Horrors (1986) // Jon Ware on I Am In Eskew // Vivarium (2019) // "His 'n' Hers," Pulp // The Truman Show (1998) // White Noise, Don DeLillo // Supergod, Warren Ellis and Garrie Gastonny // 17776, Jon Bois // photograph of 1970s Las Vegas underground Cold War bunker // Disco Elysium, ZA/UM
the way coral said "I killed them all for nothing" just before whe was bitten by a snake hit so hard. because for the whole games you saw her as a villian, as a bad person. But, just like everyone in that arena, she wanted to see her family and friends again, she was just a kid that wanted to live. And her last thought was about the innocent souls she had to kill for that.
in another life, i think i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you ✰ everything everywhere all at once (2022) dir. by the daniels
100 ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ ꜰɪʟᴍꜱ
53/100 — pierrot le fou | 1965
dir. jean-luc godard ✦
i have often imagined what snow would be thinking during the forcefield scene in catching fire where katniss finally convinces him of her love for peeta. thinking about how snow eventually uses peeta as a weapon against katniss, i always thought that snow looked at the scene and was already thinking of strategies to use katniss's love against her.
but, the more i think about it, that doesn't make sense. at the time, snow did not know anything about plans to rescue the victors. so, why would there be any need to use katniss's love as a weapon? there wouldn't be. as far as he was concerned, he had full control of katniss's fate and her death was a matter of when, not if.
so, i think that snow, wherever he was, was having one of his classic coryo moral crises. because the task that he gave katniss– to prove that she was actually in love with the person that she used for survival– was supposed to be impossible. of course, it would be impossible. right? because lucy gray never loved him and only used him, right? of course, coryo…
so, i think that seeing that katniss was actually in love with peeta freaked snow out more than anything and sent him into full crisis mode as he works to find another way to justify his victimhood.
but this crisis would not fully be resolved until he finally had the boy who somehow miraculously won the heart of a survivor trapped in his control. and now that snow had him, he would do anything in his power to prove that katniss, when it came down to it, would betray peeta for her own survival. and so, he turned the boy she loves into a mutt set on killing her.
and i like to think snow's last glimpse before the mob of citizens rushed him at the end of mockingjay was of peeta, a boy who was programmed to kill his love, running to prevent katniss from dying. and snow finally understood that, after everything, katniss could never really kill peeta. because they truly loved each other.
and i like to think that his last thought was of lucy gray and sejenus, finally coming to the irrefutable, horrifying (to him) conclusion that relationships based on survival weren't destined to fall apart. that they could be real, interwoven with pure love. that he was not the victim of nature, but rather the gamemaker of his own hell.
and then i start cackling.