HUNGER GAMES MASTERLIST.
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series:
- the devil hath power ( e )
- the game ( part two )
- the victor ( part three )
drabble:
- snapshot ( e )
analysis:
nsfw headcanons about coriolanus snow:
- i know a lot of people think snow becomes a nonsexual being in his old age, and i agree to a point, but i don’t think his sexual inactivity began after he left district 12. i’m not certain it even began when he married livia. i think after district 12 & after lucy gray, snow fucked A LOT to make up for all his inexperience. i view him as rather calculated and i don’t think he liked the idea of anyone being able to take him by surprise in any way. and i don’t think he slept with just women—i think he used university to explore in a lot of ways, so as never to be thrown off by anything. when he married livia, i think infidelity helped him weaken whatever intimacy between them might have inspired.
- he’s kinda freaky but repressed so it is not often he deviates from good old fashioned intercourse. but he likes dirty talk (from the right people), praise, and light bdsm (he always has to be the dominant one though bc he’s crazy in the head). power play is so his thing in the most painfully obvious way. bondage is interesting to him, and can be appealing, but i think his preferences lie more in edging and spanking. he likes to feel like he owns whoever he’s fucking—that even though he’s obviously deriving pleasure, they are still under his thumb in some way.
- he’s got some sexual fantasies he does not like but craves, and most of them go back to lucy gray or sejanus. he has an erotic recurring nightmare about those woods. sometimes he’s the captor and sometimes he’s the gunned down, but not always are the people involved lucy gray and sejanus
- he’s interested in blood play. it’s not like his main kink or anything but he definitely gets off on it. blood on snow is too poetic for him to ignore. it is a shade too intimate for him most of the time, though
- he’s more of an exhibitionist when he’s younger. he gets a little thrill out of fucking in public. he’s never very daring because he thinks so much about his public image, but he treads the line: fucking with the curtains drawn, fingering beneath the table at a dinner party, bathroom sex. he’ll do it in the campus library, even.
- as he gets older, he gets more voyeuristic. he remains relatively repulsed by sex work most of his life but he’d been to rich people sex parities in his youth; he enjoyed watching people fucking, taking note of their moans, the way they connect and pull apart. even better were the moments where when someone, in the midst of orgasm, looked up at him, shared that with him. that’s about as close to intimacy as he allows himself
i have thought in great detail about coriolanus and sejanus, and whether or not coriolanus ever really liked sejanus. i think that the novel/movie are purposefully constructed to make this ambiguous, but i prefer to veer on the side of "yes, he did."
coriolanus' way of loving people was...lacking, to say the least. even with tigris, he thought awful, mean things about her, but it was evident he cared very much for her. the problem with coriolanus was not that he couldn't love -- it was that he could not love without first being assured that his investment would yield positive results for him. at least, he could not readily admit to himself that he was loving until he knew it was going to work out for him.
his character is very succinctly summed up by sejanus, when he tells him, "I remember that from school, watching you watch other people. Pretending you weren't. And choosing the moments you weighed in so carefully" (397). without fully knowing the totality of it, sejanus got it all too right: coriolanus took people in, measured them out, decided what they meant to him, and weighed in when he thought it'd benefit him. coriolanus was calculated in all things, most of all in love—a thing he knew made you vulnerable.
#sejanus plinth#coriolanus snow#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#tbosas#suzanne collins#tbosas meta#tbosas analysis#didn't mean to write an essay#this fully was meant to be a short post but i had finished all my homework#and suddenly i had my kindle app open and i wrote a page number without thinking (bc i am an english major and this is my lot)#and bam it was an essay
snowjanus headcanons:
- when they were much younger, little more than school children, sejanus kissed coriolanus. it was chaste and boyish and had everything to do with the fact that coriolanus was the only person nice enough to treat him like he was human. sejanus apologized profusely for being so silly, and coriolanus told him it was okay—said it was just playing and swore never to tell anyone. and he didn’t, not even tigris, partially because he kinda liked it and partially because he was worried he’d get in trouble for it, too. sejanus trusts him so implicitly because of incidents like this
- they didn’t kiss again until they were peacekeepers. it wasn’t chaste but it was boyish and it had everything to do with the fact that sejanus was the only one who cared enough to follow him out to district 12.
- coriolanus did love sejanus, just as much as he did lucy gray, and he was only so hesitant to say as much because he knew sejanus could not be controlled like lucy gray. sejanus plinth was richer than he was and loving him would require more of coriolanus—a lack of control he did not like to be without. but he did love him, despite himself; he took comfort in sejanus’ presence, and sometimes even in his naïveté. sejanus was gentle and that was a brave thing to be in the capital. coriolanus had never really seen anything like it except for in tigris.
- coriolanus’ feelings towards sejanus did not cause any sort of bother inside of him in the typical fashion. he was not surprised by the fact that he felt attracted to a boy as much as he was that he was attracted to sejanus. sejanus was embarrassed by his attraction to coriolanus, not because he was a boy, but because he felt it was asking too much of coriolanus. especially as younger boys—he knew the others already ridiculed coriolanus for even being his friend.
- they liked having sex together ! a lot ! it terrified coriolanus, how much power he was willing to give sejanus when it was just them, naked and needy. and he was surprised by sejanus; the way he could be rough and controlling, how he was not always pliable and powerless. and he was braver than coriolanus—he didn’t mind asking and communicating, exploring. that first month in district twelve was bliss for them both. it was a month of unhurried and unabashed exploration—like making up for all the time they spent pretending they hadn’t wanted just this thing
- coriolanus did not tell lucy gray about sejanus, but he felt she knew. and, of course, sejanus knew about lucy gray. it was unspoken and neither parties were offended. they were all so young and life had been so unfair up until that point. the only possessive party involved was coriolanus
alright you convinced me i’ll write that coryo x sej fanfic
sejanus plinth: the name & what it says about fate vs. choice
sejanus plinth is the namesake of the roman solider, lucius aelius sejanus. i've seen many people question why suzanne collins would choose to name sejanus plinth after this historical figure, and i think her reasoning was rather clever. their similarities are few, but striking: both of them have fathers name strabo, both came from humble riches and both of them were eventually tried for treason. save for that, it seems everything about their narratives were different. i believe collins did this as a way to invite conversation surrounding the topic of destiny vs. choice.
the devil hath power
part three: the victor
pairing: coriolanus snow x f!reader, coriolanus snow x you, coriolanus snow x nameless reader (no use of y/n) rating: e (explicit, 18+) tags/warnings: power imbalance, sex work/prostitution, degradation, smut, explicit sex, a little bit of violence, roughness, blood tw, hate sex, protected sex, handjobs, oral (female receiving), fingering, a general evilness for coriolanus snow is NOT a good guy. i hate to tag this as Dark Coriolanus because i think that's just who he is, but i will do so for the sake of this. word count: 7.9k+ summary: Coriolanus Snow is always the victor in his games. Or is he? a/n: this series was lots of fun to write and i can only hope that you all enjoyed reading this half as much as i enjoyed making it. i'll kiss you on the nose if you decide to leave a nice comment and/or reblog this, but if you only like it that's okay, too; i'll think of you fondly for having followed me on this journey regardless. no beta because life is hard but i did my best here.
Anonymous asked:
Hello! Hope you’re doing well!! I’m not sure you’d like followers to respond to/ interact with your posts w your thoughts in the tags but I just wanted to say that I totally agree w your thoughts on Coryo and Sejanus LOL. Im v surprised (tho I guess I shouldn’t be given how old I am at this point + the no. of fandoms I’ve been in) that people can read them so differently from the novel. Coryo is an unreliable narrator and that makes it kind of fun to read because his pov shouldn’t always be taken as the truth. In fact I think it’s fun to read how differently his peers view him/ his r/s w other people vs what he himself perceives. Sejanus is such a nice, sweet boy and it’s kinda sad that other people don’t read him that way just because the book is filtered through coryo’s thoughts haha. He’s kind and dares to stand up for what he believes in… I think the saddest thing abt his story is that he was genuinely trying to help others directly but unfortunately the people he spoke to weren’t the most honest/ dependable (I don’t think the stuff with the rebels would have gone down well) and he also trusted Coryo (I don’t blame him cause Coryo was the only “nice” person in the Capitol) 😭 I suppose that’s also how difficult it is to deal w people sometimes IRL (in extreme situations). Anyway ya just wanted to share my thoughts :x feel free to ignore if this isn’t something you’re ok with!!
hi nonie! i'm absolutely okay with followers interacting with my tags and posts/coming to talk about this stuff with me! as you can probably tell i've got a lot to say about this stuff - i'm just a chronic in the tag poster lol.
because suzanne collins wrote the ballad of songbirds and snakes in a third person point of view, i think that readers have taken to assuming that what they're getting is an unbiased narrator, when in fact we are still very much getting a biased point of view from coriolanus. sure, we are distanced from his thoughts--not exactly seeing things through his eyes as we did with katniss--but that doesn't mean we don't have access to him and that his thoughts aren't distorting what we are seeing. i've thought a lot about the reasons suzanne collins might've chosen to use third person pov when she used a first person pov for the rest of the novels, and i don't think there was one definite reason. some of the brilliance of suzanne collins' writing lies in the fact that you do have derive these meanings for yourself at times. personally, i like to think that she chose to use third person pov because this story, while very much coriolanus-centric, belonged to characters like sejanus plinth and lucy gray, too.
the devil hath power
part two: the game
pairing: coriolanus snow x f!reader, coriolanus snow x you, coriolanus snow x nameless reader (no use of y/n) rating: m (mature, 18+) tags/warnings: talk of suicide, talk of death, talk of sex work, classism, a little bit of power play, power imbalance, food mention, alcohol mention, tigris snow cameo <3 word count: 3.6k+ summary: Coriolanus and his 'friend' begin to play a game neither of them are prepared to lose. a/n: the link to part one of this story can be found here (tumblr) or here (ao3). part three of this will follow very quickly after this one - maybe a day or two later - i promise. i've written a good chunk of it, as i intended to post this all one part, but it became much too lengthy. also, if you want to be tagged in the next part of this - or other stories like it - you can sign up to my taglist here or follow my updates blog @belovedinfidels and turn on the post notifications. thank you a ton for all your support and love. it's been lots of fun interacting with you all and writing for this fandom.
the devil hath power
pairing: coriolanus snow x f!reader, coriolanus snow x you, coriolanus snow x nameless reader (no use of y/n) rating: e (explicit, 18+) tags/warnings: talk of sex work (sometimes negatively), sex work, dubious consent, illusions of sex, talk of previous sexual acts, class differences, classism. word count: 4.4k summary: Coriolanus Snow catches up with an old acquaintance. Neither of them really recognizes the other, not in any way that matters, but that's just as well for the scion of the Plinth family fortune. Well, until the meeting takes a turn he hadn't expected it to. a/n: well. fiction is such a slippery slope sometimes. i in no way condone the actions of coriolanus snow, nor am i romanticizing him or what he would come to do later. i think he's a vile person. having said that, i wouldn't consider this a scathing, well-crafted critique of him, either. i wanted to explore this character, to see what made him tick by putting him in a situation where he has to confront issues he merely bumped into in the book/movie. there is a high possibility of a part 2.
#coriolanus snow#coriolanus snow x you#coriolanus snow x reader#tbosas fanfiction#tbosas smut#young coriolanus snow#coriolanus x reader#coriolanus x you#ballad of songbirds and snakes#hunger games#tom blyth#tom blyth fanic#coriolanus snow imagine#coriolanus snow fanfic#coryo x reader#coryo x you#coryo snow
just thought of sejanus plinth, and how all he ever wanted to do was to bring humanity to the people of the districts, to help them. thinking about how he loved coriolanus, even though coriolanus was so capital. he loved him so much that he shipped himself off to foreign district to be with him, because he knew his friend would be scared and he spent the whole train ride there trying to get him to see how this meant they were free now. thinking about how gentle sejanus was—how he continually chose goodness. he gave the tributes sandwiches and declared that they were people, too, and he never stopped speaking out against the hunger games even though it made him unpopular. he had no reason to do that. it served him no purpose. thinking about the way he broke into the arena and scattered bread crumbs over a boy who wouldn’t even look him in the eye, risking an almost certain death, just so that at least in death the kid would be treated as if he mattered. because he did matter. they all mattered to sejanus. it’s what makes his death all that much more tragic—he loved so deeply, and died a cruel death in a home that wasn’t his, calling out for his mother, surrounded by no one that loved him. he died because of coriolanus, and the simple fact that even in someone like him, he still chose to see goodness. and sure, coriolanus cried for him, but the simple fact of the matter was that coryo all but put the noose on his neck, and didn’t even have the decency to look back and see what he’d done
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