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“Cause here’s the thing. To know how it ends, and still to begin to sing it again. As if it might turn out this time. I learned that from a friend of mine.”

Hadestown and Orpheus and Eurydice over the years. Broadway, NYTW, album, and myth.

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everything about Jesper and Wylan (it was a gunshot. It was prairie fire) and Kaz and Inej (but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her) and Matthias and Nina (they were twin souls, soldiers destined to fight for different sides, to find each other and lose each other too quickly) is so poetic I want to SCREAM

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feels so peaceful to log on to tumblr for the first time in years and see that posts i made as a 16 year old girl are still out there making people mad <3 a version of myself will exist on this website forever!!! an archive of my obsessions going back for years and years!!! friends i haven’t spoken to in forever but still have love for in my heart!!! i already feel more genuine and heartfelt and free to be lame just looking at that calming blue color!!! 

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does anyone remember that line that used to circulate tumblr that was along the lines of “I must confess I have never wanted to be loved so much as I have wanted to walk into a room and be the only source of light” I swear I remember it circling around here all the time but I can’t find the source anywhere??? 

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does anyone remember that line that used to circulate tumblr that was along the lines of “I must confess I have never wanted to be loved so much as I have wanted to walk into a room and be the only source of light” I swear I remember it circling around here all the time but I can’t find the source anywhere??? 

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I am absolutely not joking at all when I say that The Sixth Sense should be required as teaching material when you’re trying to get kids to learn about why color matters.

No, the red DOESN’T mean love or violence or passion, however the creators set it up so that in this particular work red means OH NO A SCARY GHOST IS HERE.

When I was in college (as a lit major) I ended up sitting down and talking to a returning student who was having trouble in one of our classes. He liked books, and he had GI bill money so he decided to be a lit major.

He was VERY confused about the “The Curtains Are Blue And It Means Something” approach to symbolism and I remember that he very seriously got out a notebook and a pen, sat down, and asked me “Okay so what to stars mean as a symbol?” 

And I was at a loss because of course I was! Stars-as-a-symbol can mean a thousand things and are heavily dependent on context. Are you reading a book about sea travel? Stars mean a map. Are you reading Maus? Stars represent faith and community and the way that the Nazis dehumanized Jewish people. Are you reading something by a romantic author who has a thing for the classics? Stars probably have something to do with heroism and destiny. Are you reading science fiction? Stars are probably just stars but if you’re reading Whipping Star by Frank Herbert they are literally people and our entire conception of stars is reexamined.

So one one the things that I think a lot of people are missing in their high school English classes is that whether the curtains are blue matters or not depends on the work.

The fact that Hamlet is wearing black is an important part of the story and the antagonist commenting on it it is almost the first thing that happens in the play.

What color dress is Lizzy wearing at the first dance in Pride & Prejudice? It doesn’t matter, the curtains are just blue.

And that’s one of those things that it takes a lot of time and a lot of exposure to different kinds of stories to learn and when you’re in high school you just don’t have that experience and your teachers are just now telling you for the first time “sometimes it matters why the curtains are blue” and I know you’re going “okay, sounds fake” but the goal is to get you to look at blue curtains and ask if they do matter, which is why they hand you books with big obvious examples of the kind of shit they’re talking about. You read A Tale of Two Cities because it’s full of binaries and line motifs and it’s the perfect thing to teach a fifteen year old how to look for a motif because there are a shitload of them. You read  The Scarlet Letter to look for color symbolism and to ferret out biblical allusions.

“The curtains are just blue” is just “yet another day has gone by and I haven’t needed algebra.” Most people aren’t going to need algebra in their day-to-day lives but it’s handy to know how to do a bit when you need it and it’s good to learn that the concept exists.

If you’re reading books just because they’re fun and you like them then that is cool and I’m glad you’re having a good time and you absolutely do not have to give a fuck about symbolism.

But I am going to laugh my ass off at you if you’re one of those folks who is like “the curtains are just blue it doesn’t matter” and then whines about why scifi and comics and cartoons and video games are all political these days. They were always political, you just couldn’t tell because the curtains were red.

(also because you were socialized to see certain things as apolitical and value neutral but if you’re going “WHY DO THEY PUT SERIOUS MORALS AND SHIT IN A KID’S SHOW, STEPHEN UNIVERSE IS FOR TEN YEAR OLDS IT’S NOT THAT DEEP, LOONEY TUNES WASN’T LIKE THIS” I’m afraid I’m going to have to refer you to all the actual war propaganda made by Disney and Warner Brothers.)

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To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs. To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in and my collaborators and I are proud to announce that my 9th studio album and folklore’s sister record is here. It’s called evermore. [insp]

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tag your opinion, chocolate combo opinion. list in the tags how you feel about the combination of chocolate and…..

mint

orange

strawberry

raspberry

peanut butter

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I dropped your hand while dancing. Left you out there standing. Crestfallen on the landing. Champagne problems.

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folklore was an album where I loved all the songs immediately but evermore is an album where I love all the songs more and more as I listen to them again and I think that’s nice ! 

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evermore by taylor swift (released december 11, 2020)

To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in.

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evermore (track) gives me big hoax meets daylight vibes and i really really love that

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“hey December, guess I’m feeling unmoored/can’t remember what I used to fight for” 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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Taylor finally contributing to the “murdering my husband” side of country music

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TAYLOR SWIFT

‘evermore’ album shoot (12.11.2020)

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the lamest and most helpful thing I’ve learned as an adult is that exercise......... actually works? all that stuff they tell you exercise does? it does those things! crazy i know but it came as a real shock! u start working out for 20 minutes a day and suddenly you’re like huh..... feeling energized... mood stabilized.... sleeping better.... what is this witchcraft??? 

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“our coming of age has come and gone” “I could never give you peace” “all these people think love’s for show but I would die for you in secret” “it’s like I’m wasting your honor” “family that I chose, now that I see your brother as my brother” mayhaps Peace is the best song from folklore after all,,,,,,,,,,,,,,