#the midnight watch

[startrekfangirl2233]

Okay, I recognize some of those titles, or my context clues can figure it out 😂

but could we hear about Midnight Watch ? it's caught my eye! 🥰

Hi Vinny! I'm about 90% certain that you know about Midnight Watch.

Here's a little summary:

The Queen's Guard both defends the people of the capital and protect the denizens of the once prolific fae kingdom who live in a section of the Queen's Timberlands. What happens when Fae and Human need to work together to quell a primordial threat encroaching in the heart of Fae territory and the Queen's Timberlands?

And here is a little snippet:

There’s a sign in the middle of Portmiota Timberlands Watch House’s announcement board, half hidden by bounties and notices, smoke smeared and tattered. It proclaims one of the mottoes of the Queen’s Guard, all members of which take a rotation in the Portmiota Timberlands, and is the first thing every new addition to the watchhouse has drilled into their head before they patrol the woods for the first time.

In the middle of the night, if ye hear a song summoning ye to the forest center, go not, for only peril and your death awaits. Naught else.

Sir Robert Floyd has made this motto his guiding tenet since he set foot in the watchhouse as a young boy eager to escape his mother’s fussing, following behind his father as he Captained the guard. It’s not a surprise that Sir Floyd is the youngest Captain of the Guard, at only four-and-twenty. But it’s still a habit for him to glance at the tattered sign, which sometimes seems to glimmer with verdant magic, dripping with it like a spell woven into the parchment or like there is a potion mixed into the faded ink.

Thanks for asking about The Midnight Watch!

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[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Midnight Watch | Author: David Dyer | Publisher: Atlantic Books (2017)

[spielzeugkaiser]

I watched a certain movie today! We finally saw them at the coast..

[cow-wife]

at midnight she wanders for blood

[spaceiscoolss]

Just finished The Midnight Watch by David Dyer. Such a beautiful book with such a unique way of wording things. It made me cry multiple times. Absolutely 5 star book. On a side note: I'm wearing a corset style top with a skirt, I feel like I should be foraging right now.

[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.

[tomcriuse]

MIDNIGHT MASS Episode 3 - "Book III: Proverbs"

[timethehobo]

Scribbled on the flight home. One day more! 🥺

[walnutcookie]

pretending to love yourself, in hopes it will make others love you

[rorydrawsandwrites]

Ribbun week: "Alternate Universe" (Hedonism City) + "Plushies"

Wanted to post this before the new ep aired. Updated Ginnie's look in light of her new mask in canon - I think she looks cute enough. Had a great time turning her into a marketable plushie.

[phantomrose96]

*looking completely normal and composed while I bleed from every orifice* Severance is. well. it's pretty cool.

[kirbstarzz]

This gotta be the most autistic thing I've ever put effort on

[cloudcastor]

secret rendezvous

[princehoneytea]

simple little thang but i wanted to try drawing burning spice cookie …

[buddyhollyscurls]

it's just me and the ten bitches that watch Midnight at the Pera Palace against the world, huh?

[jakeperalta]

there's been a mistake. conclave you win best cinematography despite not being nominated. this is not a joke