#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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[angelkarafilli]

As the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the Titanic fired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. The next morning, the Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed. The Midnight Watch is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction.

Told not only from the perspective of the SS Californian crew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found. The Midnight Watch is a powerful and dramatic debut novel--the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer.

First published April 5, 2016

[bookcoversonly]

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

[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.

[cow-wife]

at midnight she wanders for blood

[tomcriuse]

MIDNIGHT MASS Episode 3 - "Book III: Proverbs"

[sillyfairygarden]

my world blooms around you (this user has not stopped thinking about esmp1 shadowbeans)

[timethehobo]

Scribbled on the flight home. One day more! 🥺

[kirbstarzz]

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

[cloudcastor]

secret rendezvous

[purpurussy]

guys this shit is not fucking funny any more what do you mean there's a video which they would have posted earlier this year but then they couldn't because they decided to go on tour. and now they're still planning on dropping it but only when the tour is over i hate them so much this is gonna haunt me like the phagenda era but a million times worse

[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.

[buddyhollyscurls]

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

[camthecatchameleon]

waow first art post of the year… yeah nothing special though just more once upon a witchlight stuff.

assorted textposts saved to my phone from. various places i dont think i could find the sources if i tried. apologies.

[valtsv]

midnight mass (2021, dir. mike flanagan)

[simcardiac-arrested]

day 30 - videogame (undertale, fnaf, etc)

somebody get this man some chapstick