#your angry music

[the-dread-quinn]

"be good to me" I beg of him

"be good to me" I beg of him

be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good

[kaleidoscopiccc]

oh you hate musicals? oh so youre allergic to all fun and whimsy then? youre against all joy and giddiness brought in front of you huh? you just hate any and all happiness and silly times dont you?

[horsegirlsodapop]

arg! the outsiders fandom should all collectively talk more about poverty! ah! talk about cps. talk about food stamps talk about government cheese talk about stealing and not in the fun way talk about fear of going hungry talk about the reason the gang is a gang and not just a friend group. um. talk about dallas living in buck merril's like spare room talk about soda giving up his paycheck to darry so they can stay together talk about MORTGAGE talk about the vietnam war and poverty and enlistment and the draft! ah! talk about the class divide! talk about debt! talk about how darry could never "go soc" because no matter his skill in football or the way he wore his hair he could never rise above his socioeconomic class enough to be considered one of them! talk about paul holden punching him in the face! talk about county lock up! talk about police brutality! talk about pony craving escape!

[mixmangosmangoverse]

The discussion around the fandomization of the I/P conflict is so fucking relevant because why did I just see someone in a discord for a reaction channel that reacts to musicals and cartoons suggest them to react to the Columbia ""protests"" with a heart emoji as if it's another episode of their favorite show and SIX other people agreed with that

[magefelixir]

uhh scared to say this but i want to remind everyone to take care of themselves. its natural to be upset that actors are leaving the show but at the end of the day you don’t know these people and you should not be so upset affects you physically or affects your mental health, makes you anxious or stressed etc this should not consume your life it is actually not good for you at all and it might be a sign you need to take a step back and prioritize yourself

[hymless]

@gloomiegalaxie Femboy Friday, Dark Academia

Erecen (They/Them)

Ty to all CC creators

[liamsunshine]

maybe the reason y'all didn't like lp1 was because y'all had no social lives and never went to the clubs 

[animangalover-writes]

Yk it really bothers me when I see people talking about eurylochus and the crew like they were the problem. It just feels like everyone is just missing the point. Yes they stopped listening to ody, yes eurylochus opened the wind bag, but that's what makes them so human.

Picture this, you leave your home to fight in a war. It takes literal years for this war to be over. You've lost friends, you miss your family, you've been through hell. You're starving and your captain tells you they found food on this island.

And then the cyclops happens. More friends die, you barely escape with your life, and your captain gives his name to the creature that killed your friends.

And everything after that is a direct cause of that decision.

So you hesitate to trust him. Yes he's smart, he's capable, he always has a plan. But he would do anything to get home, and you know that. So when he comes back to the ship claiming to have a bag full of wind, and when he refuses to let anyone near, refuses to trust his own crew, you get suspicious.

Its been about a decade by this point, and your captain seems to get more and more desperate to get home. A god is after you. Odysseus is forcing himself to stay away, all to make sure nobody touches that bag.

Its human, it's realistic, it makes sense that someone would open the bag. Because odysseus stopped trusting you, and so you stop trusting him. So you open the bag.

I just find it frustrating that people look at the crew/eurylochus as bad guys because of this, as pawns for ody to get home and thats it. The point of the show is that ody has become a monster, has dealt with and left behind his humanity. We, as listeners, root for him. We give him grace because of his circumstances. Because he's the main character.

But for some reason, people don't give that same grace to the crew. They're human, their circumstances are awful too. They have no idea if they will get home, they aren't sure then can trust their captain anymore. They question things. They make mistakes. They cause the deaths of others. It's human, its that feeling you get when you think that maybe hope is lost after all, it's what this story is about. Mistakes and loss and blame.

People dislike Eurylochus because he opened the bag. But odysseus gave the cyclops his name. And polites trusted the lotus eaters. And Athena told odysseus to be cruel to a fault. Nobody here is innocent, not really. And none of them knew better either. They were working with what they had, with the terrible circumstances at hand. It's no wonder they made mistakes. It's no wonder people died.

Why are we ignoring the humanity of the crew? Why are we arguing that they, or that eurylochus, deserved it? If the story was about them, odysseus would be seen as the bad guy. But he's the main character, so the others are stupid and wrong, right? All that matters is that odysseus gets home, right? Even if it costs the lives of his crew. His crew who stopped trusting him when he stopped trusting them. His crew who he sacrificed to get home.

I think we're missing the point here. Odysseus did become a monster, and although we cheer for him getting home and Penelope and Telemachus forgive him, we have to acknowledge that he did do terrible things. Those men will never see their families again. Why are we erasing that humanity in them?

Humans do bad things for the sake of saving themselves or the ones they love. That includes Odysseus. That includes Eurylochus. That includes the crew. And that includes every other character in this musical.

[sera8273]

Calypso:What’s your type?

Odysseus:I have a Wife.

Calypso:So what’s your type then?

Odysseus:My Wife.

Calypso:And what does she look like?

Odysseus:She looks like my Wife-

Calypso:So what would you rate me out of 10?

Odysseus:Uhm.. I can’t do that.

Calypso:You can’t rate me at all?

Odysseus:I can’t rate you at all.

Calypso:What would you rate your ‘Wife’ out of 10?

Odysseus:She broke my scale because she so beautiful-

[pitconfirm]

sometimes I want to grab people and tell them they don’t have to tag every single driver they mention in a post. like if you’re offhandedly mentioning how much you think lance is a nepo baby daddy’s boy, you don’t actually have to and actually should not tag him. thank you

[nova-the-silly]

I KNOW IM LATE TO POST THIS BUT PROPS TO ALL THE EPIC LISTENERS LIKE MYSELF!!! Rip the watch party 😭

[the-dread-quinn]

unfortunately i am once again thinking about pushing my fingers into my eyes because it's the only thing that slowly stops the ache (saw him talk to another girl in a romantic way)

[supercantaloupe]

saw that stupid "if it sounds like the music is trying to make you go deaf it's beethoven 🤣🤣" post again. i'm totally normal and cool about it and definitely not grinding my teeth or clenching my fist so hard my knuckles turn white. anyway unrelated have you ever heard of the heiligenstadt testament

[grapefruittwostep]

I’ve been so stressed lately that my brain and body are shutting down and all my friends are like okay calming things, quiet time, gentle music, but the only thing that works is listening to riot grrrl as loud as possible in my car and occasionally letting out a full Kathleen Hanna scream of pure rage

[darkmuse112-og]

Where are the angry, underground, anarchist punk protest songs? I want more of that. Yes.

[grimstrawberry]

Saddest dead boy in the world keeps smiling.