#like VERY LONG

[cardi-c]

a new chapter

[augustheart]

official "married couple & just some guy" post

[staticevent]

mother goose (a story about fear, silence, being all alone in the world, and eventually realizing that you never actually were. // comic text included in alt)

[clovercow8228]

gillion and chip as hadestown!orpheus and eurydice

ok so i was listening to hadestown again because i love it dearly and i am still desperately trying to cope with ep 101 and i was like haha. chip and gillion as orpheus and eurydice. because yknow in the context of the actual myth you could compare it to the whole feywild arc and whatnot.

but then i listened to it more (more than halfway through the first song) and i realized it’s way better (worse) if you have it the other way around with chip as hadestown eurydice and gillion as hadestown orpheus. (there’s another way to read it too but we’ll get to that because it’s a bit more convoluted since. well it’s basically a game theory atp)

i’m going through this song by song because i have never felt happiness or peace ever

Road to Hell: ok so ignoring the gods for now. road to hell does eurydice a little dirty so for this song it’s just orpheus i’m talking about, but hermes describes him as a muse’s son and touched by the gods themselves. ok cool whatever so what Any Way the Wind Blows: “eurydice was a hungry young girl / a runaway from everywhere she’d ever been”? like yeah ok sure cool (side note? “ain’t nobody gonna stick around when the dark clouds roll” and  for chip, mr. constantly both afraid his crew will stay and will leave anytime something bad happens and who literally lost his family in the hole in the sea? silly.) plus for orpheus, “and this poor boy wore his heart on his sleeve / you might say he was naive to the ways of the world / but he had a way with words”. that’s my boy right there

Come Home with Me: most of this is just very funny (”oh, a liar and a player too?”) but “why would i become his wife?” “because he’ll make you feel alive” kinda got me a little tbh. and there’s also the ongoing theme of orpheus working on something to fix the balance of the world, which he can do because he’s touched by the gods.

Livin’ it Up on Top: most of this i’ll talk about when i talk about the gods because woo boy that should be a post of its own with how much psychological damage it caused me. but “there was a girl who had always run away / you might say it was in spite of herself / that this young girl decided to stay” for chip?

All I’ve Ever Known: yeahhhhhhhh nothing real metaphorical about this one. fnc shippers come get yalls juice ig idk that’s really all for that one

A Gathering Storm: title aside, the whole thing is eurydice being concerned about the practical way they will survive the winter while orpheus works on his song to make the world right again.

When the Chips are Down: hand to god i did not think about that pun until now. but yeah this whole song really sold it for me. “help yourself (to hell with the rest), even the one who loves you best / take if you can (give if you must), ain’t nobody but yourself to trust / aim for the heart (shoot to kill), if you don’t do it then the other one will” are interesting enough to think about with chip because basically his whole thing is not turning out like that but there are still some times (mainly early on) that he gets a little closer to those ideas. finally, “cast your eyes to heaven / you get a knife in the back”. put your life in the hands of anything but yourself and you get fucked over.

Wait for Me intro: alright one god i can pitch right now. hermes with the “so, just how far would you go for her? you got a ticket? yeah, i didn’t think so. course there is another way, but nah, i ain’t supposed to say.” being as mean as possible rn? hermes as niklaus would work as absolutely unfortunate as that is. which also makes the “ain’t no compass, brother, ain’t no map” line in the actual song even funnier since it’s hermes describing how to get to the underworld to save eurydice.

Wait for Me: the fates hit orpheus with the self doubt and worry that essentially he’s not the chosen one, part one. don’t really need to explain that one

Way Down Hadestown (Reprise): now hear me out on this. because hades’ whole bit is deals for people’s souls. eurydice signs a deal to give him her soul in exchange for not starving to death, and this song is her realizing what that really means and trying to defend it. which i will admit, makes it seem like it would work for niklaus too. but we’ll come back to that

If it’s True: “is this how the world is? to be beaten and betrayed and then be told that nothing changes?” now this one got me a little, between gillion’s ‘my last sin’ speech and what he said to jay in the block.

Intro to Wait for Me (Reprise): “it’s a trap?” “it’s a trial.” hermes explaining to orpheus and eurydice the conditions of them being allowed to leave. at the end of the day, according to hermes, their success rides on whether they trust each other and themselves. arguably the most recurring theme of riptide.

Doubt Comes In: orpheus doubting that he actually has the power to bring her back, thinking he has been tricked or is too weak to do it. in gillion’s own mind, his fatal flaw is not knowing if he believes he can be the chosen one or protect his friends. and for orpheus, he couldn’t.

a good amount of the songs are missing because i haven’t talked about hades and persephone yet. they’re. a separate issue

[applesfallingfromblondehair]

I know I've been away for a while but a promise is a promise and Monday's chapter is going to blow your minds

(I hope and I pray because it took me so long to get it right)

[blankieisablankie]

I’m sharing my list of Spider-Man content I’ve gone through and have yet to go through and nobody can stop me

Movies:

- Spider-Man ✔️

- Spider-Man 2 ✔️

- Spider-Man 3 ✔️

- The Amazing Spider-Man ✔️

- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ✔️

- Captain America: Civil War

- Spider-Man: Homecoming ✔️

- Avengers: Infinity War

- Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse ✔️

- Avengers: Endgame

- Spider-Man: Far From Home ✔️

- Spider-Man: No Way Home

- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ✔️

- Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (currently unreleased)

Related movies:

- Venom ✔️

- Venom: let there be carnage ✔️

- Venom: along came a spider (currently unreleased)

- Morbius

I had no idea there were a thing movies(?):

- Spider-Man (Nicholas Hammond)

- Spider-Man Strikes Back

- Spider-Man: The Dragons Challenge (????????)

- 24 minute Japanese Spider-Man film (???????????????????)

Shows:

- Spider-Man (1967) (0/52)

- Spider-Man (1981) (0/26)

- Spider-Man and his amazing friends (0/24)

- Spider-Man the animated series (0/65)

- Spider-Man unlimited (0/13)

- Spider-Man the new animated series (0/13)

- The spectacular Spider-Man (26/26) ✔️

- Ultimate Spider-Man (0/104)

- Marvel’s Spider-Man (0/58)

- Spidey and his amazing friends (0/45)

- Spider-Man freshman year (?)

Games:

- Spider-Man (1982)

- Questprobe: Spider-Man (1984)

- The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom���s Revenge (1989)

- The amazing Spider-Man (1990)

- The amazing Spider-Man (1990) (why is there two of them)

- Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin (1991)

- Spider-Man: the video game (1991)

- The amazing Spider-Man 2 (1992)

- Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six (1992)

- Spider-Man X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge (1993)

- The amazing Spider-Man 3: Invasion of the Spider-Slayers (1993)

- Spider-Man Venom Maximum Carnage (1994)

- The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes (1995)

- Venom - Spider-Man separation anxiety (1995)

- Spider-Man (1995)

- The amazing Spider-Man: web of fire (1996)

- Spider-Man: the sinister six (1996)

- Spider-Man (2000)

- Spider-Man 2 (2001)

- Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro (2001)

- Spider-Man: Mysterio’s Menace (2001)

- Spider-Man (2002)

- Spider-Man 2 (2004)

- Ultimate Spider-Man (2005)

- Spider-Man: battle for New York (2006)

- Spider-Man 3 (2007)

- Spider-Man: Friend or Foe (2007)

- Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (2008)

- Spider-Man: Toxic City (2009)

- Ultimate Spider-Man: Total Mayhem (2010)

- Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (2010)

- Spider-Man: Edge of Time (2011)

- The amazing Spider-Man (2012)

- Spider-Man Unlimited (2014)

- The amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

- Insomniac Spider-Man (2018) ✔️ (dlc in progress)

- Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020) (in progress)

- Insomniac Spider-Man 2 (currently unrealsed)

Comics:

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998) (0/like 150, I think)

And all the others

I’m not writing all that

Thank you for the visit have a nice day

[zappedbyzabka]

I’m actually going insane over this kreerence Red riding hood au

[lanterns-and-lightmares]

Reblogging :) Love y’all! Keep on keepin’ on!

If you support gay marriage reblog this. If you're on the homophobic side, keep scrolling.

As a bisexual, it sickens me that some people WILL keep scrolling.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

[jjcattt]

I've been thinking a lot recently about liminal spaces, dead malls, etc. It reminded me of an experience I had a few months ago.

There's a city a few hours away from me. I was born there, but when I was 6 my family moved to where I live now. It's much bigger than my current city, and we visit there a few times a year for a number of different reasons. In this case the reason was to attend a concert.

Our airbnb was right in the middle of the city, so we decided to make the most of our few days there and do as much as we could. On the first day we went to the museum, and on the way there we passed through a large open-air mall.

The next day, we went back to that mall. We were specifically there for a certain store, but I can't remember which. Google maps was incredibly unhelpful past a certain point, so we decided to wing it and just wander around until we found it.

While we were looking around, we found an escalator in the middle of the mall, going down underground. I thought this could be the reason Google couldn't seem to tell us where the store was, and went down.

Underground, it was quiet. You couldn't hear any of the commotion from the surface, like stepping into a bubble.

The escalator ended and I stepped off into a room. It was small, only about 4 or 5 meters in both directions. On the opposite end to the escalator there was a hallway, angled in a way that meant I couldn't see the other end.

It looked like a normal room. Plain white walls, and that inoffensive speckled tile flooring that every big store seems to use because it doesn't show dirt. All of it normal, except for the doors.

I don't really know if I can call them doors, because that wasn't all they were. It was more like someone had carefully cut out a chunk of space around someone's front door and put it down here. Some of them even had fake lawns, awnings and outdoor furniture.

They all looked similar too. white doors, white trim, pastel siding and shiny gold doorknobs. Glossy green plastic plants hanging from shiny hooks.

I can't properly explain just how unsettling this was with words alone, but I didn't take any pictures.

I heard my mother come down the escalator after me, and after a few seconds we walked down the hallway. It wasn't very long, and we ended up in what would've looked like a normal mall, if the ceiling wasn't so close to our heads, and if the storefronts weren't entirely blank.

Directly in front of us was an advertisement for a food court, the only thing that I'd seen on the walls that wasn't the doors. This seemed to jog my mother's memory, and she explained that this used to be an extension of the above mall. People would mostly come down for the food, which was apparently very good, and stay for the stores.

When the food court closed down sometime in the late 90s, people didn't have any reason to come down anymore, and eventually all of the businesses went with it.

To our right was another escalator, which we took back up to the surface.

I don't really know how much of this I've exaggerated in my head. It felt like I'd stepped out of reality, like some shitty creepypasta made manifest.

I've tried looking for the entrance to this place on Google maps, but no matter how many times I walk back and forth in that small area I can't seem to find the escalator, and I don't remember which part of the mall it was in.

I feel like I've completely hallucinated this entire scenario, like I'm confusing dream with reality, but I swear on everything in the world, that was real. I've never had trouble distinguishing fact from fiction, and I can remember every step from climbing that escalator to walking back to the airbnb.

I'm going back there in a month (another concert, funnily enough), and it doesn't matter what it takes, I will find that goddamn escalator, and I will take photos this time. I know what I saw.

[wildbasil]

things haven't been great but i think they will be. eventually 🌻🌼🩷

[star--stricken]

I SAW THE ORIGINAL POST I SAW THE ORIGINAL POST!!!!

Are fedoras really that bad?

YES YES THEY ARE

[isjasz]

[mob killing noises] BAM!!!!1111!!

[krispiecake]

Okay, without trying to take away from the joy we are feeling, we must stay vigilant. This ceasefire deal is 3 phases, the first is a 42 day pause for hostage exchange which is set to start on SUNDAY, as long as Netanyahu’s cabinet signs off on it. The IOF is not expected to fully retreat from Gaza, but stay to ‘mandated zones’. Palestinians are meant to be able to return to their homes, but with Israeli soldiers still there, this is not a guarantee. The 600 aid trucks a day into Gaza during this 42 day phase 1 is still not enough.

THIS IS NOT OVER. We do not know the details of phase 2 and 3, and nothing has been agreed for these phases in writing. We must not get complacent in this moment of respite. Please, do not stop fighting. This is not over until every Palestinian can return home, until the occupation is gone, until all of Palestine is free.

Keep protesting and campaigning, keep donating because aid organisations need all the help they can get, especially in the next 6 weeks, and it might be the only window people get to evacuate. This is a step in the right direction, but it is not over.

sources: 1 , 2

[katsinspats]

I think my copy of the game is broken they've been doing this for 30 minutes

Crop of the Biolizard edit I did bc it makes me laugh: