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Holy shit… please…take this quiz…

#24!

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#a monkey with magnetic hands and feet #i also had another one which was a little skrunkly cat that i named after a fictional cat

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(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)

#who WOULDN’T pick making the bed #this sounds like the dream wish this could be real

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reblog for sample size !!

#for some reason i think orange

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What books have you done this to?

Instagram / Shop

#this is my copy of the northern lights

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sometimes “!!!!!!!!!!!” is a word

#‘!!!!!!!!!!’ makes a specific sound in my head #it’s not a sound that could be translated to outside of my head

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No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away—until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

–“Reaper Man”

‘Haven’t you ever heard the saying “Man’s not dead while his name is still spoken”?’

–”Going Postal”

People will always remember the songs he never had the chance to sing.   And they will be the greatest songs of all. Live your life in a moment. And then live forever.  Don’t fade away.

–“Soul Music”

Terry Pratchett 4/28/48-3/12/15-GNU

#gnu terry pratchett

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when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

#ouch

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Brooklyn Nine Nine (2013-2021) Halloveen (S05E04)

#this is the real valentine’s day. to me.

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

#nooooo they’re still beating us :_(

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my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called “daylight savings time” youll be zonked out of your gourd

Me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit.

1 hour and 5 minutes later: dude I swear it’s only been 5 minutes

my friend the oven, pacing: the smart devices are lying to us

#lmaoooo

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 10000 likes!

#10000 likes #tumblr milestone #thank you

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alison and mike get on very well because they're great at communicating and they genuinely like each other and the only major difference between them is that most of mike's ideas are stupid whereas most of alison's are illegal

#lmao so accurate #bbc ghosts #mike cooper #alison cooper

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Ok I already wrote this out in my notes but I thought I’d post a compilation of some of my thoughts/things I noticed about Hadestown when I saw it in London.

Firstly I mentioned in this post a thought I had during Doubt Comes In about Orpheus being injured after Papers and that making it harder to walk out of Hadestown

Secondly GENDER NEUTRAL HERMES IS ELITE. I loved that they were actually referred to with they/them pronouns a couple of times. Also Orpheus saying “excuse me Hermes” instead of “Mister Hermes” like. This boy is so polite.

Dónal Finn was absolutely devastating during Is It True. Like the way he just SOBBED “is this how the world is?” gave me intense chills

Multiple times during When The Chips are down Eurydice seems to be pleading with Hermes to tell her what to do, but Hermes just doesn’t respond. It really showcased how they can only tell the story, they can’t influence it

Also during Why We Build The Wall Hermes is the only character who isn’t singing—they’re just standing there the whole time stony-faced and silent despite at points Hades singing directly at them like he’s trying to get a rise out of them. Like it portrays so well how Hermes is outside of the story and also how they’re mourning it and have been since they started telling it.

Just in general Melanie la Barrie did such a good job portraying the tragedy of Hermes and being the powerless narrator

Zachary James was made for the role of Hades. His voice was incredible and his physical acting was so enjoyable to watch.

Also His Kiss, The Riot was incredible. Probably on par with Stewart Clarke’s Javert’s Suicide

After Why We Build The Wall Hades walked over to Persephone and touched her arm and she flinched and shoved him off and it was a really powerful moment because for the whole song Persephone is like a wall herself and in that moment you see the cracks in her composure

During Epic III after Hades hears The Melody he rushes over to try and subdue the workers and is physically taken aback when he realised he doesn’t have power over them anymore

Also at the end of Epic III when Hades finally sang The Melody Persephone burst into tears and Oh My God

Hades and Persephone’s dance was so dorky and sweet in They Danced and honestly Zachary James’s Hades was just so dorky in his more human moments. Peak endearingly awkward old people.

During Orpheus’s parts of Doubt Comes In the stage is completely dark with only him lit so that we can’t see Eurydice either and even we’re not actually sure if she’s there

I love all the ways in which they make the audience complicit in the story. Like obviously there’s the “we’re gonna sing it again” motif and like, by nature of us being there we’re part of the reason the story’s getting told again

But also in Epic III the audience laughs when Hades says “oh, it’s about me” and that’s what makes Orpheus lose his nerve and have to be encouraged by Hermes

Also when Hermes tells Orpheus and Eurydice “you’re gonna have to prove it before gods and men” they gesture to Hades, Persephone and the Fates as the Gods and then to the audience as the men. Like it just cements how we have a role to play as Orpheus’s audience, the thing that gives him his power

Which also makes me think (even though it probably wouldn’t work) how cool it would be if in Our Lady of the Underground the audience was expected to join in on the chorus lines (when Persephone sings “brother what’s my name?”)

#hadestown #hadestown uk #hadestown west end

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The wildest experience is hearing a song for the first time and realising it was the inspiration for a Horrible Histories song

#horrible histories

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so as I was singing “hey little songbird” in the shower (as one does) I realized… wouldn’t Orpheus be the songbird?

anyway here’s the “Eurydice goes to Hadestown to get her lover back” role swap

(if this has been done before in the centuries that the myth has been around, please excuse me. this was all plotted in the shower (as one does))

Orpheus and Eurydice get married, everything is great until the winter comes. she goes out to find food and firewood, as Orpheus tries to write his song. but you need more when you’re not just scrabbling for yourself anymore… it takes a lot longer when you’re trying to provide for two.

meanwhile, Orpheus is so caught up that he forgets to eat, forgets to rest or keep warm while he’s working on his song. maybe he just dies quietly at his desk. maybe here he hears a distant beat and chant and follows the noise. maybe Hades hears the scraps of his song and offers him a place in Hadestown. maybe Orpheus thinks about how he can finally help provide, help Eurydice so she doesn’t have to go out into the cold so often or so long. a job down there would make it so he could finally “earn a living”.

either way, when Eurydice comes back, Orpheus is gone. Hermes tells her what happens, how she took too long and there just wasn’t enough

but Eurydice has known a world without music and love. she refuses to go back to that. either she’ll find her love or. well. at least there’s always work in Hadestown.

meanwhile, Orpheus, who sings for the lord of the dead, begins to stagnate. he forgets the words to his songs. he can’t come up with anything new while his muse is so far away from him, and he can’t feel the breeze on his skin. like the songbird in the mines, the stagnant air of the underground begins to silence him.

but Eurydice works her way to him. she works. she helps the workers carry heavy loads. the burdens become lighter when she hums the melodies that made her fall in love, when she starts to sing it so maybe Orpheus will hear, to the workers who long for words of hope. they show her the cracks to sneak in.

she follows the snatches of song until she finds Orpheus, and he bursts into true song, at seeing his love having come so far for him.

but Hades feels the shift in the mood, hears the song and find someone trying to steal his songbird away. more than that, he is wrathful — hasn’t Hades been a generous patron? done the work while other sit and sing, or go away for half the year and play? (and he is jealous of how glad Orpheus was to see Eurydice — Persephone dreads the sound of his approach in the autumn)

but Persephone recognizes in Eurydice the parts of Hades that she fell in love with - a soul that was so closed off, but willing to be vulnerable and accept beauty into their life. he used to be a steadiness, a warm hearth to come back to, a quiet respite from the chaotic world

she is moved by how far Eurydice will go for Orpheus, and she once again sees Hades as a man who will always come back for her. she tells him this, and he once again sees her as a treasure to be shared, not wealth to be hoarded

Hades challenge to Eurydice is this: if you can believe that someone who is wanted by all will want you in return, and will follow you back to the solitude and the challenges of your home

Eurydice leads the way. at first she hears Orpheus playing his song behind her, but the wind and the jeers of the fates drown him out. why would someone so beautiful want someone who has struggled their way through the world, and cannot so easily match the effortless joy of his song? why would someone who creates such beauty want her as his muse? will he leave the next time she can’t put food on the table? was it all a flight of fancy, and would he ever write another verse to her?

do they make it out? does she look back? or — does she never look back, and does she leave it behind as a fool’s errand, chasing after someone who would only ever run away?

(or, maybe — she feels someone come up beside her and help carry the weight of the world from off her shoulders)

#FUCK #this is fucking galaxy brained #brb inhaling this concept #like the idea that every choice orpheus makes is out of love for eurydice #and that eurydice isn’t touched by the gods but she’s still determined to do the impossible #she’ll work her way there and sneak through the cracks if she has to #she’ll sing even if the world doesn’t sing back #hadestown

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did you date in high school?

#no #glad to see no sweeping