#should pick it up ...

[k3n999]

A crossover no one asked for...

except me.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[mllenugget]

The exact opposite of being doomed by the narrative

I discovered this game while playing with a group of friends on Halloween, and I must say it was quiet immersive because we each wanted different things so we always had to argue together on what to do before the Voices would Took 3 days to complete a single run

[taigarrryen]

My irl buddies were making silly meme mugs at ceramics masterclass today and thought it was funny of me to just paint cactuses on mine, like, you know, a normal person. They think I'm sane. They have no idea I made myself a cactus ring mug.

[whalesharkstho]

thinkin bout how jazz was taller than orion at the beginning of the movie lol

[squoobest]

LET'S GET ONE THING CLEAR, I can brush my teeth all by myself OK?

[metamatronic]

What’s the relationship between William and Phone dude?

William Makes A New Friend

William actually got along really well with Phone Dude! Granted, after 30 years and no company, he didn’t have a lot of other options. But based on his best friend from before he died, he’s always been fond of chatterboxes on the other end of phone calls.

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

Intimacy be damned

[deerspherestudios]

surely Mychael will spend 5 days away from MC thinking about them very rationally with completely normal thoughts

I assure you he's done nothing but the most professional of in-depth research (cheesy romance novels) since then.

[seagiri]

pots n picks week - day 2: race swap

turning them into neopets was a joke until it wasn't

[wasabi-gumdrop]

Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!

[fisherrprince]

I’ve been possessed. If anyone wants to know where Edgeworth is, he’s been watching kamen yaiba with the detective boys for 4 hours

[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.

[critterbitter]

The nimbasa trio manage to make it to a meteor shower at pinwheel forest! I like to imagine all those star fragments from challenger’s rock has gotta come from somewhere.

Some other pinwheel forest shenanigans:

Usually, Ingo’s the impulse control. But sometimes the Urge To Pick Up a Sphere is too much to fight.

Wanna see more?

Here’s the masterlist!

[ratajota]

(...) but amongst the pastiche of war and desire, beauty and damage, I saw Claudia, in an impossible afternoon light she could never survive in. Claudia as Madeleine perceived her. Resplendent. rendered even more beautiful by her beholder. And I knew then, with all certainity, she would be a better companion to Claudia than I ever had.

[beskarfrog]

@rebel-hunk-enjoyer has been shaking my brain around like a can of soda all day with this post, please enjoy older padawan obi-wan causing cody the most distress