#and yet we sing it anyway
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Watching Curse of Strahdanya, and falling in love with these ships and characters, is like watching the Hadestown musical to me.
In Hadestown, the first thing the narrator—Hermes—tells the audience is that this tale is a tragedy. There is no happy ending. And yet, as the show goes on, you forget that, somehow. But not fully. There’s still a little voice, lingering in the back of your mind, telling you that it’s always going to end horribly. And if you’re already familiar with the Greek myth, or the musical itself, then you know exactly how it’ll end. And yet, part of you still roots for Orpheus. To save Eurydice. To not turn around. To ignore the voices in his ear. To bring her home with him.
But. That’s not how the story goes. He always turns around. She always returns to Hadestown. And he always returns alone. And Hermes feels for the audience. He, too, yearns for there to be a day where the story changes, somehow. Of course, it won’t. That’s not how the story goes. But every time he tells the tale, some part of him yearns that maybe, just maybe, Orpheus won’t turn around. He would ignore the voices in his ear. He would bring Eurydice home. But he knows this is all in vain, for the tale is that of a tragedy, and it’ll always end the same.
Curse of Strahdanya is the same way. All the way to the title of the prologue; “The Cursed Expedition”. From the very beginning, they tell us that this tale is a tragedy. No matter what the characters do, no matter how strong they think they are, it will always end the same way. Their fates are set in stone. They will never leave, never get out. Strahdanya always wins.
And yet, the audience yearns for this telling to be different. Maybe if this character made a different choice, maybe if they convinced this character to stay, maybe…maybe…
But it always ends the same. It’s a sad tale. It’s a tragedy. Yet we tell it over and over again, as if maybe our heroes will get a happy ending this time
“To know how it ends/And still begin to sing it again/As if it might turn out this time”
#its a love song. its a sad song. its an old song.#and yet we sing it anyway#legends of avantris#curse of strahdanya#hadestown#idk why I have Hadestown on the brain#I woke up an hour ago and my brain produced this#haven’t listened to Hadestown since watching it live a year or so ago#so idk why i suddenly latched onto this#I haven’t even finished cos yet technically#but I know enough about the ending to get a sense of how it ends#just from the knowledge of Victoria marrying strahdanya#something I knew going into this#that voice in the back of my mind told me that it’s not going to end happily#but I ignored it. I fell in love with the characters. with Shepnax.#and now I’m near the end and that voice is screaming in my ear#and I can’t ignore it this time#it’s a love song/it’s a tale of a love from long ago#it’s a sad song/we keep singing even so#it’s an old song/it’s an old tale from way back when#and we’re gonna sing it again and again#jade I know you’re reading this#sorry lol
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finally rewatching the ep and some things are starting to make sense (still don't like some of it, but there's nothing i can do about it). if Armand had planned to kill both Claudia and Louis in order to stay with his coven and keep the stability and power, then why stay with Louis after the events in Paris, and when the 70s have presented an opportunity to leave? well:
yes, this is a very Armand thing to say and do. Armand is nothing but a black hole, no identity, no feeling of self, complete detachment, need to dissolve self in the presence of others, to distract, to forget. no pain. Armand needs to constantly attach himself to someone in order to know what role to play (and to have one, otherwise there's nothing but a confusing half-remembered pain), to serve, to be served, the familiarity of the habit/ritual (even if it's from his abusive past. it's the only thing he knows, the only comfort he got). they made it extra crispy, in the show. + the vampire loneliness.
Lestat still owning Louis. Armand, with no coven, no theater, attaching himself immediately. Was there a choice, Louis? Did you really have any power at that moment? “Maître, but only when it's convenient.” Lestat not telling Louis because he'd figure it out. “and we are once again teachers of one another.” Teacher student, husband wife, father daughter, dom sub, maker fledgling, ...
but why release Louis from his “banishment” if Armand was planning to kill him anyway? I believe that Armand did have feelings for Louis (even if those have withered with time), one thing is a relatively fast sacrifice for personal gain/out of fear, the other is to hear Louis scream his lungs out as he starved and grieved Claudia's murder. Armand didn't plan Louis' torture, he couldn't take it.
Louis doesn't leave, why let him do his revenge? same situation. no marius, coven. no coven, lestat? no lestat, new coven. louis, no coven. no louis, coven. no coven, louis. no louis, daniel. no daniel etc it's this or death, just like when he got kidnapped. “He remained with me because he had to do it. It was the only way that he could go on existing(..)” projecting, Armand?
#anyway if this is stupid sorry for wasting your time#interview with the vampire#loumand#iwtv spoilers#vampterview#armand#iwtv meta#idk if this makes any sense. i'm trying to accept this ep. still dislike how they had to make armand extra evil in order to redeem lestat#the are all monster they are all monsters sing song unless it's lestat. then we need redemption#idk i'm sure i'm misreading something. haven't finished the ep yet. just thoughts#iwtv caps#iwtv parallels#vampchives#screencaps
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MacGyver (2016) s1e12 Screwdriver | Cold Open
#anyways back to your (ir)regularly scheduled cold opens#macgyver 2016#macgyver#jack dalton#angus macgyver#video#one thing I've always loved was how they slowed down the salt n pepa to his drugged singing. flawless no notes 10/10#I have so many thoughts about this opening I couldn't possibly put them all into the tags so ill just settle for a few key things#I Must mention Jack calling Mac his boy. never fails to make me smile + almost brings a tear to my eye. “I really love the little guy”#what if I ended it alllllllllll AUGHHHH#“shutting up”P popping the p. the wink. the “oh I think that's for you. hehe☺️” George Eads didn't have to be so funny and yet he did. bles#the horror on his face as he sees the sauce under the door. perfection.know the poor guy thought it was real at first and I am living for i#plus affectionate and clingy jack is one of the best jacks imo#jack#mac#cold opens#mac + jack#and one of these days I'm gonna write a scenario where the roles are reversed. because we were robbed of seeing sodium pentothal mac#god. sorry for the rambling. hey if youve made it this far thank you ur a real one#also if you have any requests for cold opens or scenes you want posted dont hesitate to shoot me a message👍
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2009 Brazilian Grand Prix - Jenson Button
#no matter how many times i have seen him kissing the camera i still combust and fall onto the floor every time i see it#JENSE SINGING WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS ON THE RADIO I FELT SO UNWELLLLLLLLLL JENSEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!#AAAAHHHH HES SOOOOOOOOOO YKNOW???? HES SOOOOOOO!!!!!!#ANYWAYS I LOVE BRAWN!!! BEST TEAM!! BEST UNDERDOGS!!!#i fear that i am dreadfully painfully wholeheartedly in love with him....#god ive not even delved into the pics from this race bcs i think i will melt into the floor and sob when i do#also i am not immune to a man loving and supporting his son sob sob sob ;;; jense and his dad always make me feel so warm#again ty to lemon for pointing me towards the one clip!!#usually these posts are just moments from the main race archive but these all came from 3 dif videos so that was v fun as you can imagine..#im not quite finished the season yet but i can still commentate on this bcs now the wcc and wdc are tied up#but its wild bcs this season took me longer than the last one but since it had less races it still felt shorter/faster to me somehow#for the midseason i was practically lined up with the current season(i.e. watching Monaco 09 the same week as Monaco 23)#so it was pretty fun to experience both and see the differences(i think i like 2009 better hehehe) but now i have majorly overtook 2023#jenson button#jb22#brawn#brawn gp#2009 brazilian gp#f1#formula 1#formula one#we do a little bit of f1#season: 2009
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Oh it was sad but the love was there!! You felt it nonetheless! Doesn’t it make the sadness worth it to know you’ve felt such bliss, and to know you will feel this over and over again- that everyone will feel this, everyone has felt this since the dawn of time and will continue to until the sun explodes and somehow we survive and are better for it. Somehow the love exists even after it’s gone, the traces of it are imbued in your bloodstream, it’s horrific and barbaric and BEAUTIFUL! Let it be beautiful when you can, and when you can’t remember that we sing the song anyways and the song will be sung again. There’s a beauty in that if you let yourself grasp it.
#ramblings#words#poetry#web weave#hadestown#the song is sad and yet we sing it anyways#tragedy#breakups#quotes#mine
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I’d be more convinced that the monologue from the end of “Tribe” was a throwaway line if it weren’t for the fact that we got the weeping maya tree right before Omega left Pabu, and if the batchers on Pabu weren’t left in the present day sequences with a group of force kids whose families need to be found and who will probably need somewhere safe to be once they are.
#the bad batch#so anyway#back on my bullshit#about the story being told in the bad batch just not being done yet#yes I think that once it is done being told that at least some of the batchers are going to be working with a branch of the Path#hell maybe Pabu is a path endpoint#maybe Havoc Outpost is connected to it too#Tribe is an incredibly overlooked episode#and I am still waiting for ‘and when they return the trees sing’#and ‘in time we may all find a new path’#which would be hilariously literal if they end up working with the path#or naming the path#let’s be real that’s what these guys would call it#‘It will be a path to safety for clones and force sensitives’#‘we’ll call it…the path’#exactly what you’d expect from a group of people who named their gonk droid ‘Gonky’#pleeeaaaaaase let this be a thing#listen I can’t imagine them decomposing under a tree for fifteen to twenty years
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actually stunned by how gay The Beatles has been all this time and I just never knew
#like its always just been there in my life but i just never paid attention#my university roomie was obsessed w them and had several beatles posters that i looked at every day#so stuff like the pictures of them from the let it be album are like engrained into my brain#and yet i never knew the lore??#nor did i know until recently that they were actually all high school buds nor did i know they wrote their own music#nor that they genuinely basically invented modern bands n using the studio the way they did etc. so all that was very impressive and cool#but THEN on top of that omg the angsty gayness of john and paul#like all i knew previously basically was that john was a thing w yoko ono and paul had a young wife recently#i had at one point heard of people shipping j&p together and was just kinda like wow i guess people will ship anything#I DIDNT KNOW#that they were actually like that cute and that insane together and that their song writing together was like an actual marriage#anywayz the old pictures and videos of them are just like jesus look how they look at each other i dont think it was just being bros#i am sort of in the camp of they prob didn't act on it for real but there was def some insane tension/chemistry going on#and then ofc once youre aware of this their songs take on so many possible meanings outside of just singing about their gfs and wives....#anyways i just have to vent about this somewhere bc im actually shocked at how this has just passed me by all these years#and it definitely was not on my bingo card for 2024 to fixate on the beatles but here we are lol#more proof to me that my ultimate fave trope or wtv is 'besties to enemies when really they actually probably wanted to be lovers'#gets me every time!!!!#whats been fun about this rabbit hole is how just every single one of my expectations has been reversed as well#i went in assuming i would like them best in this order:#(1) george (2) ringo (3) paul and (4) john#i was sure i would hate john i thought he sounded so pretentious and like such a douche#but no actually he is my fave one and it's literally in reverse order for me i find george my least fave#(i like his music and feel bad for how he got ignored in the band but i like him the least)#and then i literally am john paul ringo george in order of faves now#i just love when i get surprised like that idk it keeps me on my toes and keeps things exciting and fresh#and yes john is indeed pretentious and a douche but i didn't know he was also funny and vulnerable and that i like his voice and songs#the most in the bunch almost every time as well#the beatles#p
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You don't know how to write a fix it fic after episode 15x18 "Despair"? Let me help you a little bit (well it's more like let Jensen help you with one of his songs):
Dean would still hope deep deep deep down that Cas would come back because he always did. He came back once from the Empty maybe he can do it again.
"How far will you go You should know You'll be on my mind Said you were leavin' But never said when you'd be comin' back home and I can't wait another day"
But Dean would also miss him and feel miserable without him. He would feel empty and would no longer want to live.
"Ride with me Round the lakeside Got a raincoat and a veil It's been so long since you went away Took all of your lovin' and left me with nothin' and When you go What a shame"
And Dean would think that he deserved to lose Cas and that it was his fault the angel died. He would remember all those memories and wouldn't believe he didn't see Cas's love for him. He, who always thought his love was unrequited, would realize how wrong he was.
"Maybe I deserved it To be left this way I'm not sure How I was so blind"
Dean would want Cas's love back, would want Cas back. But if he comes back he might become insane from the fear to lose him again or simply because he will be consumed by this love or just that he would lose his mind if Cas had to keep his love for himself again (lots of possibilities for this one).
"All I know's that if you return it And kept it here to stay I'd lose my mind I'd lose my mind"
Despite the lack of will to live, despite thinking this is what he deserves, despite the fear, despite all that, he would try anything to get him back from the Empty. He would go to the end of the world for him.
"Cause you know I'd go to the end of the world for you To the end of the world for you"
#destiel#deancas#dean winchester#castiel#return to me#radio company#inspiration to write a fix it fic#spn 15x18#Despair#we already know how insane jensen is for writing watching over me#but i think this song is underrated#because it could also be about dean and his feelings for cas#he just didn't tell us about it#or just didn't tell misha so he couldn't tell us#or maybe he hasn't realized yet that dean took over the vessel while writing it#dean did go to the end of the word for cas#remember purgatory?#anyone?#anyway I keep singing it in my mind lately#that's why I had to let this out#my random thoughts about destiel
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You know...maybe the revenge dress theory is not that far off...
#he's still wearing those clothes and singing NGVOT and we still have no explanation to why he disappeared for a while + nace saying#he knows some stuff about Kris he can't disclosure to the public + Kris revealing he hasn't been on a date for 5 years#yet again#this could all be speculation (most definitely is) but I still decided to let my thoughts run wild#anyways#Please nobody dare to actually ask them what happened because that's extremely disrespectful#I was just having a shower thought (or a csr thought again)#I hate long trips#joker out#kris guštin#kris gustin#*car
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moodboard
#personal#GODDDDDDD fuck ive thrown up three or four times today and have had horrible other stomach problems and now on top of all that im pretty#sure this has exacerbated my period symptoms bc now my lower back hurts like hell and my legs are so achy and every time istand up i get#lightheaded#it took me a fucking hour to make a smoothie for myself bc i kept feeling weak and at one point had to run upstairs to Expel My Insides in#the middle of it#also all of this means no auditions for me today 👍🏻 messaged director to let her know i wouldn’t be coming in and also to ask her to tell#stage manager that despite my bailing on this i do plan to be involved in crew still 👍🏻 since the stage manager told me she’d see me at#auditions since she’s part of the audition committee. anyway director messaged back saying i could do an email audition which was very#nice of her so i guess im supposed to send a vid of me singing + reading some sides + following a choreographed routine once she sends me#the guide for that which she said she would do later… since she like just said that im guessing it will be like 9 at least by the time she#gets it to me so hopefully it’s fine if i do that tmrw morning instead of tonight bc i don’t want to disturb my roommates#<- we are all students btw sorry this is making it sound like i have a weirdly informal relationship w the audition committee#the music chronicles#anyway also emailed asking if i could take work off tmrw bc i still feel like shit and don’t want them scrambling to figure out the#schedule tmrw morning if i had called then instead. they haven’t replied yet tho#also i feel like. sick bc tmrw is MLK jr day and like what if theyre thinking i thought we had the day off and am now finding out we don’t#and just spitting out an excuse to not come in bc i made plans for it or smth… ugh#lke it would be fine if it were just this but I also requested Feb 7 off not long ago and last week my testing went so overtime like they#are going to think im slacking so bad… :/#i am straight up not having a good time ‼️#cw emetophobia#also if i am still sick tmrw that means no working on crony with lab partner either since we meet on mondays ☹️ was looking forward to that#even if im not sick actually i still shouldn’t go bc i called off work and we work on it in the same building as my workplace so if they#saw me that wouldn’t be great#the engineering chronicles
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sometimes I wanna talk about big theological things here. then I remember where I am and close the post we
#other people are better at articulating these things anyway#I do have a few niche things I would love to say but I'm a coward yanno#things about servitude to higher powers and adoption and the nature of mercy#and navigating faith when the church says you're too broken in six different ways#and how to love like Christ loves and what it means and why we fail#and all these other things#and yet I won't say them#aren't brains funny that way?#vibrating because I want to speak so badly and as soon as I have the chance to open my mouth my jaw locks shut#anyway#and the sparrow sings
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it's awesome how he saw women as people. pretty cool
#honestly impressive#based on the lyrics they were having... well mostly his brothers sing#he definitely said some things but usually the really bad stuff they gave to the older brothers#'i know you're looking for some property... mine is not for sale' wow could we not . do that#also the interview where the guy asks if tito's gonna take his wife on tour with them#and he went 'no cuz her place is being at home and raising children etc'#and several of them were like Amen#:////#all the treatment of women michael saw when he was little. yikes#and yet there's that story of him telling a girl not to sleep with i think jackie bc he was just using her#and then afterward when she was upset they took her home and for some reason michael was there for that#and knew she was (previously) a virgin. like damn guys. can we keep the 12yo out of this stuff#anyways#i think he really identified and connected with women. and that started when he was little#his sensitive little soul :(
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me 🤝 @rhinoyo, wandersong and chicory buddies :> <33
#starlight originals#i still have yet to finish all of chicory but i love it all the same <333 contrarily i have finished wandersong. several times hkjh#i love. artists. artistic mediums. and storylines with them. wishes unlimited games you're too emotionally resonant hkjh#anyway hi cos!! sings to you!!! we are silly protagonists together!!! :D this has been stuck in the drafts for MONTHS hkjgh <33#a gift for u just for fun!! <33 wishing you well!!! :D <333#my favorite color is queue
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Hey @quiddie ???
Hey @noshirdalal ?!!!
EXCUSE YOU that was INCREDIBLE and one of you owes me a new box of tissues because I'm gonna go dissolve into tears like I'm trying to beat Cordelia's record thanks.
#candela obscura#candela spoilers#the circle of tide and bone#rajan savarimuthu#quiddie#noshir dalal#i knew it would hurt and Yet#it's sad tale it's a tragedy but we sing it anyway#QUIDDIE THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT WHEN I WANTED THEM TO REST
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did you watch the Shattered/Asylum Talkville episodes? 👀
Yes I did! I'm really sorry, I've been meaning to send you all my notes/highlights from the Shattered pod ep like I promised I would, but my last semester of grad school started like 2.5 weeks ago and I've just been massively overwhelmed since then. 😭
Tbh, you could probably watch the full Shattered pod if you wanted, it was a pretty good ep for Talkville standards. The biggest highlight was probably Michael saying that the moment where Lex sees Clark use his powers for the first time is his favorite Lex moment in the series (especially in terms of his own performance)—he's clearly really proud of this episode and I think that made the pod better in general. Also Lionel gets called an evil bastard a couple of times, Tom points out how we all feel bad for Lex by the end of the episode, and Al Gough calls the Clex relationship "the focal point of the series." Other stuff happens too ofc, but I'd say those were my top moments.
The Asylum pod was... less good, IMO—like, it wasn't bad I guess, but some stuff def left me feeling kinda frustrated, so I wouldn't really recommend that you watch that one askldfsk (I could probably skim through it again and collect some highlights from it if you want, though)
#this is like a quick and dirty summary of my 'shattered' notes but hopefully it's better than nothing??#(also I hope it's okay posting this ask publicly but I know that at least one other person was interested in these pod highlights)#anyway the only thing in the 'shattered' pod that made me a bit frustrated was that none of the guys really seemed to 'get' the scene#where lex sings to the blanket while thinking that it's julian#like rather than being emotionally impacted by it they mostly just thought it was odd and unsettling#which makes me wonder if the rest of us are influenced by the retroactive context provided by 'memoria' when we rewatch 3x08#because once you know the full backstory that 3x08 scene is soooo haunting and devastating#but maybe without that context it just feels kinda jarring and out of place?? idk#oh and I wish the guys would've talked way more about clark and lex's dynamic in both of these eps#they spent more time dissecting the lex and lionel stuff which like... valid I guess#but these are some of THEE clex eps and yet you wouldn't really know it from listening to the pods. sigh.#asks#lexkent#should I tag this?? ehhh I guess...#smallville#talkville
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Almost rebloged a Band of Brothers post to the Nerdy Prudes Must Die tag
That would've been fun-
#but now yes. i'm thinking a NPMD BoB au-#listen. liiiisten. just listen#sobel is Max Jagerman alright. the Nerdy Prudes(TM) get him killed at old Waylon Place right.? then his ghost is fucking back#i have not worked on the logistics yet but imagine Ron/Roe or Ron/Lip singing If I Loved You????#then one has to shoot the other but the bullet does not hit do whatever :3#who woukd be Grace Chasity????? that perdon would have to fuck Jagerman tho#anyway crazy teligious bitch that believes that cursing at god is worse than actually dismembering a body??? anyone????#and of course Dick and Nix as Emma and Paul💞 they have a SMALL scene#then Ruth and Richie my beloveds??? who can they be??? Lieb and Webster??? they are freaks anyways#guarnere would be officer Bailey just because I think that him tackling Nix (Paul) down would be funny as fuck#then we have Detective Shapiro Jason Kyle Grace's parents and the other students idk#brenda and?????????????forgot her name#who the fuck would be the Lords in Black#they are the most Colorful Weird Eldrich Gods ever#band of brothers#???#i'm not writing this btw#🥨🪶
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