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colourmeastonished · 3 years ago

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The way this site talks about orpheus and eurydice as though looking back is the most powerful expression of love... I don't get it, like, maybe I'm built different but enduring the excruciating pain of uncertainty and denying yourself the reassurance of their safety in order to ensure it?? Seems more romantic to me...

Feel free to change my mind, but honestly maybe I'm just not on yalls wavelength here

#orpheus and eurydice #my thoughts #I would simply not look back... it's called unhealthy self-effacement with left martyr complex 💅#but also I feel like they were very clear on the terms... don't look back and she'll be saved... so like... don't?#am I callous and heartless?? I don't think so!!! I'm the biggest simp for tragic romance but I don't get it!!!#I don't feel sad and wistful about this at all I feel mad at orpheus and I have since I first encountered the myth as a child #develop some fortitude bro... develop some object permanence... endure the test bitch!!!#and that bit from portrait of a lady on fire where its like... he chooses the memory of her... she's a person though!!!#you're trying to save a person from the underworld!!! she can't breathe the beauty of a memory... she can't eat artistic merit...#if I was eurydice I'd be so damn mad like bitch your love is worth jack if you'd rather gaze upon me than suck it up and save me #I can see it as a bittersweet 'you have to let your loved ones go' but the way all analysis of it is like #'this is so romantic... eurydice obvs forgive him bc he loved her so much so he can't be blamed' like...???#I only accept this if eurydice convinced him to look back and let her go or something like that #also keep seeing quotes from talk by hozier taken as a romantic ideal but didn't he literally say that song is from the perspective #of a pretentious academic trying to woo someone and its supposed to be over the top and wanky??#anyway I'm pressed about this #rip to orpheus but I'm built different #also just to expand real quick: I like it as an allegory for coming to terms with the loss of a loved one but if its love in general #I always think its more romantic to fight for it and to endure hardship out of the strength of ur love rather than to succumb #if turning ur back on ur loved one is what's best for them then Do That 🔪 be strong for them bitch!!!#but that's just my opinion 🐸☕#and legit if anybody tries to tell me I don't understand metaphor or allegory I will beat them to death with my undergrad thesis #also getting in ahead of ppl trying to put words in my mouth: I'm not saying YOU can't enjoy your own interpretation I'm just saying #I personally Don't Get It 😘#live ur life live ur truth live ur dreams whatever babey

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