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"i'm sending you a lemon" postcard ca. 1910

#[insert cabin pressure reference] #art #history

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HI! i saw u reblogged the West end hadestown and said you've seen it so i have to ask, thoughts on hades? the character switch when he goes very camp on chant (reprise) threw me for a fucking LOOP. i had been crying beforehand but I was just like desperately holding in my laughter after that. the "young man" up against the door frame? I almost pissed myself. and his legs....

OH MY GOD. OKAY. YES

i'm the wrong person to ask about this because whenever a stage performer turns up the camp to 100, worthwhile questions such as 'is this the best considered acting choice for the character' don't stand a chance. they are completely overshadowed by the gay part of my brain emitting whirring noises. i enjoy it too much to care

but anyway my actual thoughts on zachary's hades are as follows:

i like when hades sucks. i enjoy when he gets to be a melodramatic loser and a villain-y villain, because it makes orpheus managing to get through to him hit much harder for me. so zachary hades with his sleazy attitude and the kind of warped enjoyment he's getting out of playing at being powerful and manipulative fulfilled my every wish. tailored to me specifically

i especially enjoyed his acting when he starts to break down a bit for epic 3, his scared/angry/shaken/lashing out was all delicious

direct quote from the messages i was sending people about the show after i saw it: i will say that he was not very.. idk.. plausible?? in chant 2 convo with orpheus specifically bc he was having too much gay fun strutting around the revolve to sell the lines about keeping a woman lmaooo

also i'm extra sad that we don't have the 'now it thickens on my tongue / now it quickens in my lung / now i'm stricken now i'm stung / it's done already' lines in his kiss the riot any more because they're some of my favourites and i want his gay take on them

#i can't be critical about it i love it too much. ref the lotr musical and tom giles's impeccable gay saruman also #but yes ESPECIALLY during chant 2 the walk took me out i was dying #is there any point in me tagging this as #hadestown spoilers #i loved the whole cast to bits tbh. saw madeline eurydice and lauren persephone so i'm excited to hopefully catch grace and gloria at #some point in the future but i really really loved madeline's eurydice like she's In My Brain Forever now #ANYWAY YEAH #hadestown #ask #anon #gay belligerence

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Hadestown performs 'Wait for Me' at Olivier Awards 2024

#THERE THEY ALL ARE #so glad i'm seeing this again soon. i love them all #hadestown

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“Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. When you look up the stage directions, it says, ‘Exit Ariel.’”

— Tom Stoppard, University of Pennsylvania, 1996 (via flameintobeing)

#this is one of those posts that make me cry every time i see them #words #shakespeare

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Dame Laura Knight - At the Edge of the Cliff (c. 1917)

#oh hello this is the cover art image on the edition of to the lighthouse i own #fuckor of seeing it out and about #art

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ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

#it's moby-dick. appropriately #joining hands with the other ppl in the notes saying the same thing #also most of discworld

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i had a joke about orpheus and eurydice but looking back it wasn't a good idea

#oh no

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Make them straight adjacent for the homies

#absolute icon #star trek #deep space nine

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listening to chappell roan and found myself thinking, wholeheartedly and sincerely, 'i wish i could play this album to a.e. housman.' late-victorian poet and classical scholar alfred edward housman. i want to hear his thoughts. about pink pony club

#i'm good at listening to music #he says a bunch of stuff in the name and nature of poetry abt poetry as a quality that exists separate to meaning #abt specific combinations of word or sound or /something/ that create a physical response that's 'poetic' regardless of what's actually said #and it happens for me in some of these lyrics to a marked extent and i want to see if it'd act on housman too #given that i think i tend to agree with most of the other stuff that 'goes through him like a spear'! #gay belligerence #of all the things to activate my latent housman derangement. honestly

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source

#cats #animals #ORANGE!!!

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crying rock

in an illustrated prose adaptation of "pèlerinage de la vie humaine" by guillaume de deguileville, hainaut, late 15th - early 16th c.

source: Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 182, fol. 175v

#absolute shape #art #history #like some kind of beluga. friend shaped

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updated: april 2024

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#obtain loren art!!!!

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#yayy the clip is my absolute favourite part of this movement (makes me cry)

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every day fresh hobbit-related agonies

#new pinned post time. edfhra

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you should be able to say "line" if you don't know what to say in a social situation

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john ronald my man his eyes are up there

#following the geoffrey bache smith tag finally comes in handy #this was one of the scenes that precipitated my gbs derangement #what were my tags for this i forget #tolkien 2019 #tolkien #gbs

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✨gaze on me, lady of gold✨ (acrylics on canvas, 2024)

IT IS FINISHED! I've been working on this painting since January, and it has been a certified struggle, but also SUCH a fun time! I haven't painted anything with acrylics in years and years, and nothing this ambitious in even longer. I'm unbelievably proud of how well this came out and I really hope y'all like it too! 🙏

Anyway, in this household we love and adore Georgia Louise and her portrayal of Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale. I was so unbelievably lucky to see her perform this role live, and it was a performance I'll never forget 💖 A genuine elven queen! I really hope we get to see her in the role again someday! 🤞

This painting is based on the stunning promotional picture captured by the supremely talented Pamela Raith! 💖

[ID: An acrylic painting of Georgia Louise as Galadriel. She's wearing a golden jumpsuit with golden fabric draped around her torso and standing with her arms outstretched. There is a circle of golden light around her, against a black background.]

#YAY STUNNING #lotr musical #lotr