#I’m sure someone’s already said this

[queenbeekb13]

Re the post I just reblogged (linking it isn’t working for me for some reason):

It’s the way Bobby says I got him. Once so everyone knows and then again quietly for himself. Because that’s his kid and he can’t lose another kid

It’s the way Chim was about to use the lifepak and then stars compressions manually and has to ordered off so they can get in the ambulance. Him begging Buck to hold on and come on come back to us. Because that’s his brother and he can’t lose another brother

It’s the way Eddie looks DEVESTATED. Tries to pull Buck up to him and then rush down to see him and then has to be pulled away because “you’re driving” because neither of them should be in the back when Buck is like that. Because that’s Eddie’s partner in everything and he can’t lose that again.

[podcast-hemocytoblast]

When you think about it, it was pretty on brand for Elias to start the apocalypse by giving Jon Evil Paperwork.

[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.

[mayormimii]

Pathologic said “What if the rat put the scientist in a situation.”

[tallmadgeandtea]

“Benjamin is a virgin, Benjamin is inexperienced.” REAL historical romance enthusiasts know that a virgin!hero is one of the best heroes you can have. He’s a little ashamed. He’s eager to learn. He’s so full of yearning and horniness he’s about to explode. He gains confidence in his abilities as the story progresses! Character development AND hotness development!

Another great of this we have?! Benjamin’s predecessor, if you will?!

NONE OTHER THAN JAMES ALEXANDER MALCOLM MACKENZIE FRASER! ANOTHER FELLOW PATRIOT! SUPPORTER OF THE CAUSE!

VOTE FOR THE FATHER, VOTE FOR THE SON, BENJAMIN TALLMADGE

SUPPORT OUR VIRGIN HEROES 2024!!!!

[rjgraves]

Upon yet another the passenger rewatch I’m now completely convinced that if randy hadn’t opened up to benson when he did about mrs.beard their next stop would’ve been randy’s house to confront his mother. After the phone call you can almost see benson working up to it, a part of him knows it’s stupid and could go bad very quickly cutting his time with randy short. He’s just about convinced himself that she’s the source of randy’s problems and it’s worth the risk if it means fixing randy. So when randy tells him what happened, a part of him still wants randy to confront his mother but this leads to a much bigger crack in randy’s psyche. Because if the story didn’t convince him, randy’s speech about living in fear of his own reactions his whole life. Just letting anyone do whatever and basically describes having zero autonomy to allow for other people’s happiness. Is enough to send benson over the edge.

[shadowslocked]

“The QSMP doing events and lore feels off given the admin situation especially since we haven’t had an update” and “we likely will not receive updates on what is being worked on behind the scenes and if we do it likely won’t be in depth, we’ll have to wait and see what happens” are two things that can co-exist

[coconut530]

LET THE DIVORCE ENSUE

[andrephernelia]

Mama is about a trans person who perchance died in war idc

[sunshinechay]

JengPat from Step by Step 🤝 Zong Yi x Ze Rui from Kiseki: Dear To Me

Fuck kitchen hygiene, we’re gonna fuck right here on the counter in front of god and the window

[starshine-valley]

“Mi Casa es-“

[ricky-mortis]

Quick disclaimer!

I will be posting art on this blog that contains spoilers for Cinderella’s Castle. I will make sure to tag it as such, but I don’t want anyone to be unwillingly spoiled because of my art. Here are some of the tags I will always have on these posts in case you want to filter them:

Cinderella’s Castle Spoilers

Cinderellas Castle Spoilers

Cc spoilers

Starkid Spoilers

Cinderella’s Castle

And for those of you that have seen it, will be seeing it before the pro shot, or don’t care about spoilers, expect art for this incredible show soon!

[scentedinksandwhackedseals]

one thing I love about Julien’s music is that it feels like admitting that everything is not ok but letting myself believe that some things might be. there’s no pressure to be optimistic or act like everything is fine. I can just accept the way I’m feeling and it’s such a relief. not having to pretend to be ok leaves more room for hope. also it’s fucking beautiful and stuff.

[apotelesmaa]

The thing that really irritates me abt ppl completely fucking up the ruikasa canon dynamic & replacing it with the much worse fanon one is that people genuinely think tsukasa falls for the “woe is me” crocodile tears bit when he never does. Irritating bc 1) the exaggerated crying paired with tsukasa just going -_- is funny every time 2) it ignores the real & very funny way rui gets tsukasa to do stuff which is by playing into tsukasa’s massive ego. Other characters do this too btw. I genuinely think you could lure tsukasa tenma into a cartoonishly obvious trap by telling him it would make His Excellence And Talent Shine So Brilliantly. The only characters who fall for Rui’s fake crying are 1) characters who don’t know him that well 2) emu except she doesn’t fall for it she just pretends to and eggs him on like “you made him so sad!! He’s crying!! cheer him up by getting in the human cannon tsukasa!!”

[deityofhearts]

I honestly just don’t get how people default to thinking southern accents are like unserious and unintelligent, I know I live in a bubble and I’ve never been outside of the south so like my world view is skewed but like idk I can’t like conceptualize hearing someone’s accent and going “your accent is too stupid and silly for you to have a brain” like ???

[legally-allowed-to-slime]

i need someone to put on the detective hat and analyse everything pearl said about the new hermits on stream because. i’m sure there were so many clues, probably unintentional but still.