#the history of man

[cassandrattpd]

hear my lyrics, taste my venom

you are still my great obsession

[dearreader]

why did i only just now realize that the good witch starts with maisie saying she IS the iliad and ends with her saying that the men start wars yet troy hates helen?

like she literally opens the album by saying she is a long classic novel no one can read and figure out but ends it with the same story but highlights how no one can read it and that’s also the problem. because the men started the trojan war, and the iliad, but they still blame helen for it even though she was just kidnapped (in the most BASIC TERMS, i know the iliad is more complicated but just go with me)

like… it was right under my fucking nose????

her saying that the men start wars yet troy hates helen and how wendy will chose herself and lock her window but peter will throw his stones and call her a bitch and say it’s her fault.

like the iliad reference wasn’t just her saying that “i am a long complicated novel, of course you didn’t get me”. it’s her introducing the topic of the history of man from the beginning and saying that he didn’t get her from page one because that’s how the story of man goes.

but the difference is that in coming of age she’s taking back the narrative and trying to rewrite the story (when all i do is think about the past/make it a universe you can live in and i know i made you the BIG star/i let you butcher my big heart/but it’s my song and my stage and it’s my coming of age!) but ends it with openly admitting she can’t rewrite it. that no matter what she does the past is written and set in stone (not just the history of man but how their relationship happened and ended) and that she can’t change the past. just like how she’s been revisiting so many classic tales trying to find an answer to her heartbreak in them and realizing there’s nothing to do or change because this is simply how it goes…

baby, i am the iliad of course you couldn’t read me…the men start wars yet troy hates helen…i save you a seat and you say you want to stand

and so on

[none-of-it-was-accidental]

women’s hearts are. lethal weapons. did you hold mine and. feel. threatened?

[likeafolkssong]

[typingwithmyhandstied]

So you'll lose me the best you'll ever have 🤝 I'm the best thing at this party / you're losing me

[starbrightmaiden]

he stole her youth and promised heaven. the men start wars, yet troy hates helen.

is so sansa coded within this fandom it's heartbreaking.

[reminiscentreader]

the history of man is such a beautiful song

[echxverq]

he stole her youth and?????? promised heaven???? the men start wars????

yet??

troy???

hates????

HELEN?????

[catalvarezs]

if you're not crying to 'history of man' by maisie peters literally what are you doing with your life?

[enterintoevidence]

the double meaning of the history of man as yes the history of humankind but also it’s referring specifically to the history of men being dumb and awful and fumbling the best thing they EVER had, a love so great it is a historical wonder of the WORLD but she can’t rewrite what he will do

[its-tortle]

thinking about history of man and how perfectly it encapsulates the patterns of romance and female loss throughout history. it references mythologies to show how women have always been the pining, desperate lovers while men have cast them aside and blamed them for the consequences of their love. there's no rewriting it. heartbreak is age old and universal. there was heartbreak inside the walls of jericho. but still it never feels that way. over and over, she loves him more than anyone ever has in the history of man.

[dearreader]

baby i am the iliad of course you couldn’t read me… the men start wars yet troy hates helen… you could never understand me but that’s because it’s written in the history of the world that woman will do everything to save others but will get blamed no matter what… it is the history of man and i am the history of man so we never had a chance

[petite-ursus]

“So Samson blamed Delilah, but given half the chance I, I would have made him weaker too”

[likeafolkssong]

give me back my girlhood it was mine first // he stole her youth and promised heaven // and I damn sure never would’ve danced with the devil at nineteen, and the God’s honest truth is that the pain was heaven

[clarabowmp3]

I save you a seat and then you say you want to stand……….so you lose me…………………the BEST you every had…………it’s the his-tory…….the his tory of man

[truelovein3d]

“Women's hearts are lethal weapons, did you hold mine and feel threatened?“ omg