#Icarus fall

[archangel-lucerys]

Marguerite Steen // I, Carrion (Icarion), Hozier // The Matrix Revolutions (2003) dir. The Wachowskis //f. scott fitzgerald // wendell berry, the fall of icarus

[tenderlystupendoussoul]

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1560);

"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" (poem), William Carlos Williams (1960);

"Musée des Beaux Arts" (poem), W. H. Auden (1938);

“ICARUS”, STARSET;

“Icarus”, Bastille;

“Fun”, Coldplay;

“Sunlight”, Hozier;

“I, Carrion (Icarian)”, Hozier;

Icarus's passing is seen by Bruegel, Williams, and Auden as a minor incident in the grand scheme of existence. Williams' "quite unnoticed" serves as a reminder/memento mori of our own mortality. Dying is not such a remarkable occurrence, life moves on without us when we pass away. And sometimes all that can be heard at the end of a life is a just a brief splash sound.

"Icarus" by STARSET is about a self-destructive character. They interpret the story of Icarus as an allegory for being too self-absorbed at the expense of others. The lines "you'll never be good enough" and "you always fly right up until it burns" as well as "you'll never go through them" all allude to a tendency to constantly pursue the same route over and over no matter what.

Bastille's "Icarus" retells Icarus's story alongside a modern tragedy. The opening scene of "Icarus" shows a person preparing to "dig their own grave" and "drink themselves to death." The song continues by drawing a comparison between death and Icarus, who is "flying too close to the sun/ And Icarus's life, it has only just begun". With these lines, Bastille adapt the Icarus myth to a more contemporary setting, creating associations with tragedy and the carelessness of wasted youth.

In the song "Fun" by Coldplay, the singer likens himself to Icarus and confesses, "I know it's over before she says/ Now someone else has taken your place/ I know it's over, Icarus says to the sun". The Icarus myth is reframed by Coldplay as a tragic love story between a young person and the sun.

Hozier's song "Sunlight" describes how he is ready to die (metaphorically) in order to be with the person he views as his sunlight. While Hozier's main concern in "I, Carrion" is his lover's support, even in the face of death. The narrator's deep yearning for their lover's companionship leads them to embrace death willingly. Just as Icarus dismissed Daedalus' warning about flying too high, Hozier shows a similar disregard, blinded by love, prioritizing his over to the point of placing them over his own life.

[as-spring-came-in-october]

The Boy Who Flew Too High

“It's not about greed”, I plead,

“It is about venturing into the unknown”

I burnt right into the sun

Lest be buried here with her.

No, the wrath of the sun was too feeble to kill me,

It was her rage, I let myself be ignited in,

Hell claims me "an angel befallen"

Possessed by my ambition.

But here I drowned in her ocean eyes,

I finally get to breathe free

“Oh Thetis, thy womb so warm”,

I lay on the seabed, worshipping thy form.

A rebel, a narcissist,

My blood boils, melting my veins

And you all just blamed in on the waxen wings.

I could feel my skin flare,

I shined brighter than stars ever could,

Only fools rush in they say

But have wise men ever seen my Sun?

My sins match her amber eyes,

Lying in her grave, I can finally cry,

Oh, Helios, I am too close to thy light!

She loved me, and I could never say goodbye.

And here I fall, defeated in love,

It was never my ambition,

It was always my fault

And I surrender,

A fallen angel's curse, I am hers, I remember,

I flew, not to reach the sky,

I flew to escape my truthful lies.

I flew to escape what was never meant to be mine.

~By @its-ener

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[pimsri]

baa!

[doesromandoart]

i’ll only listen to my brain because my palm-sized heart has failed me one too many times

[inkyrainstorms]

I was a fool, Stanley

I didn't realize what I had until I lost it

I didn't know I had anything left to lose

[derpycatsu]

icarus

[camilleflyingrotten]

Icarus and Helios, a Dirk Gently AU 💛

(Sorry for the poor English)

In the 80s, in Romania, a baby was born with wings, making him look like a cherub. Since he was an orphan, he was taken (abducted) by the CIA at the age of 4 to be studied as some very unique phenomenon. Turned out that there was more kids born with strange anomalies this year so they created a secret CIA division called BlackWing (in reference to that first boy dark wings) to study all those “anomalous entities” and potentially use them.

The Romanian kid was called “Project Icarus” and for decades they tried to teach him to fly. But so far he was more prone to fall than to actually fly (hence the name Icarus).

Generally, the anomalous entities were tested separately and never met, to avoid any problems (some of them having dangerous abilities). They were all locked into an underground facility where there was rooms to study, to be tested on, or train their abilities… Some areas being dedicated to some of the most dangerous entities with bigger security and surveillance.

One day around his 30s, Project Icarus heard someone trying to talk through the ventilation of his room. A person was now occupying the fire proof room which was opposite of his.

That new occupant, “project Helios”, had recently arrived in that area of the BlackWing’s facility bc his ability of creating and manipulating fire was becoming too hard to control and the division just locked him in the best fire proof room they had..

The two men started to communicate regularly through the vent line connecting their rooms and slowly built a strong relationship (they were each other’s first friend).

Ofc they were closely observed the whole time by BlackWing, which decided to have them meet in person. The only condition being that Project Icarus had to fly if he wanted to see his friend more often.

They soon realised that Project Helios could control himself better when in the presence of his friend and radiated intense warmth which was actually helping Project Icarus to hover in the air long enough to manage to fly.

So they decided to keep the duo together, their compatibility being undeniable.

After a few months of training them together, they finally let them out of the BlackWing facility to work for the CIA. So they could help the BW division find and catch other anomalous entities that were starting to be more numerous and out of control.

They gave them new names, Project Icarus became Dirk Gently (he insisted for the last name) and Project Helios became Todd Brotzman…

[otta-cosyne]

Careful Meli! The floor is slippery

[tsunosagun]

i flew too high, please catch my fall

[gfanlocalcryptid]

IF ONLY ICARUS COULD SEE ME NOW

[suzieloveships]

One day I'm going to write a fic like this. But today all I can offer is a meme

[mellosdrawings]

"Lend me your wings so I can feel the sun on my skin"

Risking the fall for the warmth.

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[theseuschats]

icarus laughed as he fell

[elderwisp]

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Wren: Come on, it’ll be fine. We know the owner.

Winona: I dunno, what if we get kicked out? What if they call my brother? God I wouldn’t hear the end of it from him.

Wren: It’s not even like that. If anything it’s less of a bar and more of a place where everyone goes. Like a coffee shop. A disco coffee shop.

Winona: Convincing.

Talia: I’ll go too. We’ll be okay. 

Winona: I- Fine. But we leave once everyone’s asleep.

Talia: Got it.

Winona: And we exit through the window.

Wren: What da hell?

Winona: Like you guys said, we’ll be okay.

-

Winona: [ in a low voice ] Did you have to scream like you’re in a horror film?!

Wren: I was going more for an action sequence scene. Agh, my neck.

Talia: [ snorts ] You sure nailed that.

Wren: Was I cool?

Winona: The coolest.

Wren: WOO!

Talia: Dude!

Wren: [ whispers ] Sorry.

-

Icarus: [ humming ] I wanna make it, I wanna make it wit chu. [ knocking ] I was gonna order some takeout, want anything? Winona?

[ loud music in the distance ]