#it’s Orpheus and Eurydice

[funkyfaerie]

It’s fucking omelas. they’re using Gemma to test-run a million different iterations of the load-bearing suffering child so that they can circumvent their own pain/discomfort/inconvenience by handing it to a version of themselves/entity/PERSON they never have to see but can never forget exists

Lumon is omelas it’s fucking omelas

[amajorsystem]

[aaronstveit]

"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

[lilaccatholic]

I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—

We did it. We finally saved her.

[likethexan]

Why is it always about Orpheus turning back foolishly and never about Eurydice following him out of the Underworld, likely knowing she was doomed. That Orpheus went all this way, singing the story of their love, hopeful that he will return her to the surface and finally build their life together— but they will not. She knows her Orpheus will turn back. And yet she still follows him, all the way to the top, because the simple pleasure of seeing his back again is enough for her. Isn’t that a foolish thing to do for love?

[polartss]

Suddenly I'm holding the world in my arms

[gigizetz]

eurydice <3

[sauronism]

severance | gemma + mark s. orpheus and eurydice.

[theladyeowyn]

Hadestown // Severance, 2x03 “Who Is Alive?”

[mishoru]

It's an old tale

[metamorphesque]

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[wolfythewitch]

Hadestown au perchance

[tirednerddude]

Guys, he was coming up the stairs. He rose up from the darkness hearing her. He was walking up the steps, listening, and then she was quiet and he turned around.

Guys, he turned around.

Oh Orpheus oh no

[lunamonchtuna]

[12heartsinfavor]

the orpheus and eurydice of it all makes me sick

[lylahammar]

Queen of the underworld 🌾