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I’ve been trying to put my finger on why Hades being depicted as a villain is so annoying in other media but works so well in Hadestown, and I think I’ve figured out why: Hadestown Hades isn’t the bad guy because he’s the god of the DEAD; instead, he’s the bad guy because he’s the god of WEALTH. Usually, whenever Hades appears in a movie or video game, he has some stupid motivation like “ughh I’m tired of being lord of the underworld I wanna be lord of everything” or “I’m the Greek mythology version of the western concept of Satan, fear me!!” but Hadestown really said screw that and made his motivation “I love my wife so much but we have a shitty marriage arrangement and her long absence combined with my severe self-doubt has lead me down the hellish road to corruption by all the riches under the ground.”

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tuck her in thursday

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honestly the amount of beef gods have against babies in greek mythology is kind of funny like imagine your ass has just been born or is even only about to be born and some guy with power over the sun or whatever, for reasons completely out of your control, is like actually Fuck you in particular. like idk what you want man im one day old. hermes is the exception though that baby absolutely deserved it

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queer people on this site really make me feel like a confused straight guy at pride. the discourse here could kill a man

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Hey strawb I'm a trans woman and my close friend talked to me about how gender isn't real, and that by doing stuff like wearing dresses or having makeup I'm reinforcing the concept of gender, which she said is bad because ideally a post-gender world is what to strive for... this came up because we were discussing Whipping Girl by Julia Serano. I'd like to feel that there is something inherent to me that makes me a woman but am I just repeating gender essentialist rhetoric by doing that?

that's straight up a TERF talking point girl! why are trans women the only people who are doing this enforcement? why do cis women get off scot free? what about men? why is it our responsibility to put ourselves in the closet and not express ourselves for the nebulous promise of a far distant "post-gender" future?

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shoutout to the mutuals i never talk to. shoutout to the mutuals who i silently reblog stuff from and who silently reblog stuff from me. shoutout to the mutuals who i don't have the balls to reach out to. shoutout to the mutuals i was once close with but now we are merely coexisting. i see you. i appreciate you

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im in the house¹.

¹ like carpet.

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i still don’t understand why recovery isn’t romanticized more. getting better after being at your lowest point? working hard and doing what it takes to feel safe again? knowing that occasional dips aren’t the end of the world? changing yourself and ridding your life of toxic behavior/people? i’m sorry that sounds better than any edgy miserable story i’ve ever heard. 

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God I miss the days when you could show up to a stranger’s farm and he’d say “What’s your name, boy?” and you’d take off your hat and hold it to your chest to better let him see your face and reply “Why I ain’t got none, sir, on account of my mammy passed on before she could give me one” and he’d tell you he’s real damn sorry to hear that and ask what he can do you for and you’d tell him that you can’t read nor even write neither but you’re mighty good with horses and can mend them fallen fence posts what you saw on your way in and won’t ask for nothing much more than a hot meal and a warm barn to sleep in and he’d keep his wife and daughters inside but send his boy who ain’t got married yet even though his mama tells him he needs a woman out with a lantern and some stew at night and the two of you’d get to talkin and he’d throw you his flask to take a swig from and watch you drinkin from it while he leant against the door frame and when he finally got called back on up to the house again he’d take a sip from it too real slow-like like it weren’t the whiskey what he were tryna savour

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i stole this from twitter

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who else up hurkleing their durkleing

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Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

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I can't stop laughing

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Diet companies won’t tell you this but starving yourself is a lot worse for your health than overeating