#now i’m *average*

[to-be-a-dreamer]

I can’t stand that TikTok trend that’s like “just saw Hadestown and my boyfriend is walking the entire way back to the hotel without looking back at me to prove Orpheus was a chump” because not only do they not get the whole point of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth they also Were Not Paying Attention to the musical they just saw.

Hate people who see WSS as “just a Romeo and Juliet retelling”. Hate people who see Hadestown as “Just an Orpheus and Eurydice retelling”.

Hate people who watch a musical that takes a classic story everyone knows and uses it to explore/critique our modern society and only see it as a funky retelling.

Not Getting The Point of WSS is one thing because it’s more subtle and it can be really easy to just see it as a modern R&J, especially if you don’t really know R&J.

How the fuck do you watch Hadestown and see it as just an O&E retelling? It is one of the most heavy-handed political musicals out there how are so many people missing the point?

Orpheus has to fail. Not because that’s how the Greek myth ends but because that’s the whole point of the message of Hadestown.

Social reform is hard. Changing the world is one of the most challenging things you can try to do. So often we see people try to make a difference in society, to change some kind of injustice in the world. And so often we see those people fail. It can feel so impossible to actually do some good in this fucked up world because we see these people who are smarter and stronger and more qualified than us fail over and over again.

Why do we even keep trying?

Because we have to.

Because one day, someone will try and they’ll succeed.

One day Orpheus won’t turn around.

One day the people of Hadestown will get to see someone escape and they’ll know they can escape too. Only then does the world get to change.

So we have to try. We have to keep singing the sad song, no matter how many times Orpheus turns around, because one day he won’t.

In the Greek myth, Orpheus fails because he loves Eurydice.

In Hadestown, Orpheus fails because we fail.

We try and we fail to make a difference. We try and we fail to change the world for the better. We try to see the world for what it could be and it keeps letting us down.

But we don’t give up. We don’t stop singing.

Hadestown is genuinely one of the best musicals ever. Full stop. This musical is one of the reasons i wish I was smarter because I would love to be able to do an entire thesis on this show and all the themes and messages in it. Some of them are subtle. Some of them aren’t.

It is not just an Orpheus and Eurydice retelling. I am begging people to hear the real message.

Never stop trying to change the world.

One day we’ll make it out of Hadestown.

We just have to keep singing the song.

[boonanaghost]

Any petscop fans in 2024

bonus:

[marauderingminnie]

I’m such a tall Sirius shorter Remus truther it pains me to see so much tall Remus content

[wynandcore]

The “prodigal son” 😁

[onceuponalegendbg-rwby]

Well look who’s uploading a new RWBY video tomorrow at 11 CT.

Y’all know what to do!

Let’s goooooo!

[caramelcactus]

William, manic: have you ever considered how ingenious it would be to add knockers to robots?

Henry: who the fuck starts conversations like that I just came in

[mushroominaforest]

Ever considered stuying mycology as a job in the future or is your interest in mushrooms more of "only a hobby" kinda deal?

I really want to do some type of scientific research, but studying fungi and fungal-related organisms is my dream job lol. I’ve wanted to be a mycologist for a while now, but honestly any sort of biology or even chemistry job would be amazing.

Unfortunately, my parents don’t think I can become a mycologist. They say that I’m smart and have a bright future, but that my interest in fungi is useless. They want me to use my ✨big brain✨ to become a doctor instead. I’ll make more money that way, yeah, but I don’t think I’ll be very happy lol.

I just wanna look at lichen all day is that so much to ask 😭

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

Growing up (and still having) a mid size body with broad shoulders surrounded by skinny dainty women on the TV telling me that I need to lose weight (wasn’t even overweight) and look like them in order to be desirable really did a number on me :/

[arty-e]

arty, do you already have a prediction on when gen 2 will start?

Afraid not, it’s been taking longer than I thought to prepare for it and my irl has been busy with quite a few changes going on. I am hoping for a September release for the mini chapters (they’ll be released just before gen 2 starts up) but once I’ve got everything I want prepared done I’ll release the official date a few weeks before

[transkingcobra]

Using Shadowheart to unlock the secret room and then sending her off into a far corner so Astarion can steal the fancy dagger that does necrotic damage without her disapproval feels like a role reversal of act 1 where I’m always sending Astarion off into a far corner to avoid disapprovals

[sunnibits]

ok but can we talk about the transition from being the weird unattractive girl/boy as a kid to suddenly being percieved as a hot gay person bc that shit is so jarring. but also like really wholesome? like wow I don’t have to conform to cishet expectations of attractiveness and actually people find me really attractive for the natural way I look and present myself. that’s so wild.

[hella1975]

ONE EXAM DONE RAGHHHHH

[loki-cees-all]

Dramatized re-enactment of actual events.

[moonstoneistired]

Just found out that the top two f/f bsd pairings on ao3 are just genderbends of m/m ships. In the top ten f/f pairings only three and five are canonical women.

[poisoned-pearls]

Azul who is just obsessed with being Jamil’s biggest fan. He goes to every game puts Jamil’s number on EVERYTHING buys him twenty different compression sleeves all of it. Most supportive bf ever. He knows Jamil’s game schedule before he does

[tenitchyfingers]

I GOT TICKETS FOR PAUL IN PARIS