#tragedyposting

[tragedykery]

antigone…GOD what a play

[tragedyposting]

URL CHANGE!

oklahoma2019 → → → @tragedyposting !

(I’ll still check for things tagged with my old URL! But this one is in for now!)

[geothermalescapist]

u guys ready for this

[supercantaloupe]

tagged by @tragedyposting to share my receiptify stats from the last month, ty!

i don't actually use spotify all that much tbh. all the opera and orchestral stuff was from making a playlist for my group chat at one point. and all the pirates stuff was from working on my show to help learn tunes off book.

i shall tag... @theresa-of-liechtenstein @malcolm-f-tucker @kingfisherkink @grasslandgirl @beatricexbenedick @leporellian @nablah if you wanna!

[coldasyou]

Top 5 most babygirl characters?

good question prepare for the most basic answer lmao

zack addy (bones, my original babygirl)

sam winchester (supernatural, sorry)

malcolm bright (prodigal son, miss u 4ever wahhh)

temperance brennan (bones, god forbid women do anything)

ainsley (prodigal son, GOD FORBID WOMEN DO ANYTHING)

[wamiandayne]

what’s wrong w Coriolanus :(

I never saw this my bad But i cannot describe it i think it is just the most evil and boring play in the world. i read it once and just absolutely despised it. i experienced what every cishet teen boy experiences in freshman year english class when you read romeo + juliet and decide to never read again

[solrites]

i look at all these translations and excerpts and introductions and analyses (spelling?) about greek dramas and tragedies and if we're mutuals and you have a character doomed by the narrative in some way there's an extremely high probability i have something highlighted that reminded me of yalls character. as if this brainrot is my fault.

[annabelle--cane]

media made by addicts always has a certain je ne sais quoi that I can't quite describe but I feel like I have sixth sense for identifying. even when a work is in no way about substance use or compulsive behavior, there are just ways that authors treat subjects like guilt or secrets or self-control that make me go "hang on. You 🫵." and then when I check it always turns out that I'm right. it's even happened to me a few times, I'll make what I think is a generic tragedypost and people in the notes will say "op am I reading too much into this or are you. maybe. yknow. 👀"

[jewishdragon]

Meme: make a poll with your favorite characters and tag folks to do the same!

Tagging: anyone who wants to do this AND Tagging: @jewishfalin @earlgraytay @nymphofnovels @tanoraqui

@tanadin @fancydunamancy @tragedyposting @sidhewrites

[tragedykery]

my brother doesn’t understand why I like tragedy. “it’s just sad” yeah exactly that’s the point

[rocicrew]

The Expanse 6.04, Redoubt

requested by @tragedyposting

[ive-fallen-and-i-cannot-get-up]

tagged by @gunktuationmark , thanks!

rules are post gifs from your 10 favourite shows without naming them, then tag 10 people. luckily i watch a lot of tv so this wasnt hard

tagging @coffeefirst-thenspacepirates @sometimes-i-talk-a-lot @nasturtianredux @lazzerot @overlyobsessedwitholdermen @reginasbread @tragedyposting @tarthole @113timesasecond @thiswildernessismyhome

[supercantaloupe]

Can we get some unpopular opera opinions?

i find wagner's operas are too drawn out and self important to enjoy and even though occasionally his composition style produces moments of sheer genius more of the time it's uninteresting shlock. i respect wagnerites who can see smth in his operas to appreciate that i cannot/don't but also i think the guy was a cunt and if someone is a self professed fan of his writings/Opinions™ outside of the stage itself i do not trust that person within a mile of me

also i don't know what it is about verdi that i'm not quite Getting. like his music is good but it never sticks with me as being memorable like mozart or overly evocative like puccini. there's a chorus or an aria here or there that stick out but it's kind of a wash overall for me with his scores, even when he's working with a good plot/characters. and his orchestrations are solid but often Too Much for me; would love to see how verdi would work as a chamber opera piece... la traviata is probably my favorite of his works that i've seen so far still which unfortunately is the boring answer i know (rigoletto and il trovatore have better, like, Themes but traviata is a more solid total package) but my more hashtag controversial one is that don carlo(s) is a mess and not very good even going beyond my personal taste issues with verdi's compositional sound.

and norma was really boring sorry.

[ask meme]

[chamerionwrites]

More tragedyposting (and this is me jotting notes not an exhaustive thesis) but basically

I do think it's worth talking about the ways in which a genre that has its roots in a lot of stories which are arguably About Fate, originally written/told for audiences that would have conceptualized "fate" in a very literal sense, is going to hit different for a lot of present-day readers without active reinterpretation on their part

At the same time, I don't think that conceptualizing fate as a real and meaningful force acting on human lives is at all a prerequisite for conceptualizing fate as a meaningful narrative device. In fact I think it's sort of silly to suggest otherwise. "Fate isn't real" bro neither are any of these characters, the buy-in when you hear the word FICTION is that everything here is representation and metaphor to one degree or another

(The other buy-in is that stories are in fact constructed, which means that regardless of where they fall on a scale of naturalistic to fantastical in the telling, the ending nearly always IS predetermined in a meaningful and not at all metaphorical way! And I suppose at that point you could argue that railing against the injustice of the author is a stand-in for railing against the injustice of the gods, but personally I do think it's kinda. Willfully missing the point)

In a story where fate isn't the Literal Foreordained Will Of The God(s)/The Universe At Large, it's just...the sum total of flaws/convictions/limited perspectives or information that made it impossible for these particular characters to act in ways that would lead to another outcome. Or it's all the stuff that acts upon individuals while remaining outside individual control: a hurricane, a terminal illness, systemic injustice, the weight of history.

I get why people don't like stories about characters being acted upon by forces beyond their control. And I do absolutely think they can be told in such a way where the (shitty!) implication is that the status quo can never be changed and should not be resisted. But I don't think "every story should be about a hero who triumphs over adversity via the power of bootstraps character and conviction" is exactly free of shitty implications either, you know?

[amphiptere]

Inspired by @tragedyposting, making a quiz with my favourite books. Things to note: lots of these are from when I was a kid, not sure all of them would hold up anymore. Some for sure won't, lol. However I'm keeping them on here. And then obviously awful authors are not necessarily reflective of my views and I don't support anyone financially if I dislike their views enough. Most of these books that are part of series are my favourites in the entirety of the series but there are a few exceptions. Mark off as "read" if you've read one or more of a series.

[dapper-nahrwhale]

@collectoroflovelythings tagged me in this song game thing let's go!

the goal is to spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters

DEBT COLLECTOR by Jhariah

Allez les Blues by Los Campesinos!

Pacific by Chase Petra

Pathetic/spinless by the garages

Everything is ending by Chameleon Circuit

Reuse the Cels by Car seat Headrest

- by Hop Along, Queen Ansleis, Frances Quinlan

No friend by Paramore

Absinthe by I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Hymn for a scarecrow by Tally Hall

Reverberate by Bears in Trees

Woodcut by Jenny Owen Youngs

Hot and heavy by Lucy Dacus

A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit by AJJ

Loved by FEiN

Eurus by The Oh Hellos

Oof that took a while but it was fun! Tag as many people as the letters so here we go: @dawnarts @fiddler-sticks @tragedyposting @transmasc-taub @vampireautism @audiodramatist @koszmarnybudyn @51nn0n @ceilingfan5 @anatomical-puppet @batboi13 @cowboyadjacent @oaklores @rustedhalberd @superanxiousssfrog