#it's a sad song but we sing it anyway

[i-lavabean]

See someone's got to tell the tale, whether or not it turns out well

Maybe it will turn out this time

[timetravelbypen]

The urge to make one of those “photos and quotes/lyrics” posts mixing up Doctor Who and Hadestown, in spite of the fact that I have no photo editing skills whatsoever, is STRONG.

[eri-pl]

The Hadestown syndrome

So I am re-reading the Silm. and I have a lot of:

I know [a terrible thing] will happen, but if I read it enuogh times, maybe it won't?

I know what you are going to do but how about you don't?

No, seriously, stop

If I read it enough times maybe it will somehow get better?

[deus-ex-mona]

scrolled a little too far back on mogetwt and found pure gold:

[bookishblogging]

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.

[lavellane]

thought abt solas as eurydice again

[sapphicflower-ao3]

this is so embarrassing to admit but i’m revising some lyrics for TAOF and idk if i’m just in a sentimental mood tonight but they genuinely moved me and i started tearing up???

LIKE GIRL GET UP?? 😭😭

[lilydvoratrelundar]

I think Church on Ruby Road has finally firmly cemented my opinion that Murray Gold should not have come back.

[zayadriancas]

[isseya-apologist]

pushing the limits of my self-control by listening to road to hell (reprise) right before I have to go into a meeting

[lionblaze03-2]

sometimes I think about writing and singing music not because I’m an incredible singer but because no one has my fucking voice, especially in popular music, and its disheartening to be born a girl, told you’ll only get girl roles or try to voice match other girls, or ‘sing with the girls’ and then only be able to match male voices because you’re a fuckin tenor and not anything higher. I can’t think of any girl Broadway roles I can hit all the notes on. Most songs I love I have to pitch down for myself or use falsetto for singing along to. It bothers me a lot less now because I’m an adult who’s more secure in myself but as a teen in kids musical theatre it FUCKED with me, BAD style. And I know for a fact that even now when I hear people with a voice like mine singing I get excited and immediately invested in their work because they’re like ME, finally, for once. A brother in this world of being afab and having the voice of a recently pubescent boy forever. Maybe I should be that brother too.

[asteriasfallingstarsandtears]

I think I like Hadestown AUs for FF14, especially if they take place in G'raha's timeline, because it gives the Warrior a chance to be saved rather than to be the one to save everyone. Sure, you could write it as the Warrior in the role of Orpheus, there's lots of dead characters that the Warrior could save, but I like the idea of G'raha attempting to save the Warrior of Light in his world.

Because he wants to save that world too. That world might be bereft of hope at first, but if he found out the Warrior somehow survived but was held by the Ascians? He could be the hero he always dreamed about, he could make the reopening of the Crystal Tower an event of Hope and Future in that world, something for the survivors of the Calamity to rally behind.

We're going to save the Warrior of Light who saved our world so many times.

And then, because it really only can end in tragedy, G'raha will fail in that world. He will doubt himself, that he is unworthy of being the hero this world needs, that he is unworthy of standing beside the Warrior of Light, let alone leading them to safety and a new life. G'raha has a lot of self doubt within him. He will doubt he has any right to change the world or save it.

And he will turn, fearing that the Warrior is no longer there. That he failed or was tricked or incapable.

And he will prove himself right. He will become the self fulfilling prophecy

It is because he doubts that the Warrior of Light is lost in that world.

That that world's hope is lost.

He failed to save his Warrior of Light, but there is another chance. If he is willing to stick to his convictions, if he is willing to exchange his own life with theirs, if he can keep moving forward without looking back.

He can give another G'raha and Warrior of Light a chance to live, and he will die, happily, knowing he has made amends and that the future he witnessed won't come to pass. He can carry the burden and expectations of a world lost to darkness and hopelessness.

He can die with that knowledge that he has made things right.

He never expects the people of the First to want him to lead them. In his mind, he's unworthy. So he refuses, he leaves, he wanders, emulating the Warrior in many ways.

And he does save them. He changes the story. He rewrites the tragedy of his own world.

[authenticcadence18]

I love being a musician with perfect pitch bc I figured out two of tonight’s surprise songs by chord pattern and key alone 😌💅

First song I was like oh the bolter? and she started singing Cornelia street so I was like oh Cornelia street x the bolter mashup I like it and then she started singing the bolter aND IM SO SMART

[twelverriver]

au: buffy and faith are in a pop rock band called The Slayers. buffy is the lead singer, faith plays the bass and does backing vocals. faith keeps fucking every single person in their band and their crew and buffy isn’t jealous. when they Do they together they’re absolutely obnoxious and faith keeps spilling things about their private life on stage with a smirk and a wink and buffy is really embarrassed but also thinks faith’s super hot while she’s doing it, so she doesn’t mind that much. 

[july-19th-club]

the bright sword is the most 'heather dale's album avalon' book ive ever in my life read and this is the hugest compliment i can possibly pay it . holy shit he did it again says longtime lev grossman reader who never doubted he'd do it

[missholloween]

Starship logs cancelled for the day, I saw Hadestown live and I need a full day to recover. I'm dehydrated, tried, my head hurts and I've felt all humanity's emotions at one, but it was so fucking worth it.