#it’s a sad song

[scientistswishingwell]

There’s something about the story of Orpheus and Eurydice that’s held my soul in a vise gripe since I saw Hadestown

And I think it’s the fact that the story is of course, devastating, but it doesn’t mean anything

Not to say that it’s meaningless, but that so many other stories in mythology are used to explain natural phenomena or take down histories or tell cautionary tales about what happens when you mess with the gods

No, in this case, it’s just a tale of two people who loved each other, and would go to the ends of the earth to save one another. It wasn’t about destiny or being forced down some awful path or making terrible mistakes and being filled with regret. At its core, this is just a story about love, in it’s most human vulnerability and strength.

I mean, think about someone you love. Doesn’t even have to be a romantic partner. I know, in my absolute core, that I would go to the ends of the earth and back and around again for my partner. I’d die for my sister. I’d live for my dog.

Sure, Orpheus walks the lonely road to hell and nearly makes it back. And maybe, sometime in history, there was a man named Orpheus who loved his wife and when she was taken from him, he followed, in one way or another, never to return. It’s not vengeance. It’s not destiny. In a way, it’s not even valor or chivalry or bravery. It’s just love. At its core, it’s just love. And maybe the people left behind honored that by telling their story.

So it is a sad song, an old tale. And we sing it again and again, because we hope that if someday we have to follow our lives into hell with no hope of returning, there will be some vestige of our love left behind.

So if I am remembered for anything, thousands of years after I have gone, let it be for my love.

I was here, and I loved, and I left with love, and I didn’t get to come back, so sing my song, in my absence, with love.

#hadestown #orpheus #eurydice #love #mythology and folklore #greek myth retellings #essays #writers and poets #greek myth poetry #it’s a sad song #but we sing it even so #musings #stuck in my brain #flowers #the road to hell #all I’ve ever known

[multiplefandomsofmaggie]

❤️‍🔥

#hadestown meme #hadestown musical #Hadestown #broadway musicals #broadway #musical #hadestown broadway #it’s a sad song #🎵

[bbreaddog]

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#personal #rent #listening to rent soundtrack after having put it down for a couple years #and now that I’m the same age as the characters it’s. it’s hitting harder #i know what the words mean now #and Mimi only being 19 is so so fucked up #my peak rent bullshit days were when i was at my healthiest… #and now it’s been a few years down the line and I’m very very unwell #and it’s taken (still taking) a while to come to terms with my declining health #and listening to will i? is… different now #they’re singing while coming to terms with their declining health #i really really couldn’t have imagined what that would’ve been like during rent hyperfixation 1.0 #but rent hyperfixation 1.5 (maybe 2.0) comes with more life experience and a ton of ‘I know what the fuck is happening right now’ #i used to cry listening to will i? #but listening to it today i was just kind of #sitting with it #it’s a sad song #and i think the characters are sad too #but not actively so. just a heavy something that’s been humming in the background every waking hour #present but been there long enough that it blends in with everything else #so this is not so much a song of despair #more just. genuinely asking #will i lose my dignity? will someone care? #and the pause between ‘will i wake tomorrow’ and ‘from this nightmare?’ #will i wake up to live/suffer another day? #will i wake up in a better place? will i wake up in heaven? #will i wake up from my sleep? or will i wake up as a soul detached from body? #will i wake tomorrow from this nightmare? #it’s purposeful. and i don’t think it’s something i would’ve picked up on during 1.0 #but now… I’m having thoughts and feelings

[words-at-night]

#quotes #dark academia #wordsnquotes #beautiful quote #dark academism #beautiful words #dark aesthetic #quoteoftheday #book quote #aestethic #academia #spilled poem #spilled poetry #poetry spilled ink #spilled words #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #self love #sad songs #moon poetry #midnight musings #moodboard #musings #live #lit #literature #life #love #music #art

[astearisms]

fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

#i’m part of the demographic where i was a kid when adventure time started and now watching fionna and cake as an adult makes me emotional #because did they keep us in mind when writing fionna and her attitude towards life #the dissatisfaction #the hoping for something more #something more magical than this dreary life filled with working to live and living to work #it’s so reflective of how life feels for me and perhaps many of us #and also Simon’s episode was so sad but so well thought out #exploring his feelings after the events of the adventure time finale is something I’m glad we get to see #there were already so many layers to his character in AT but now it feels like we get to dive deeper #I also felt emotional hearing Rebecca Sugar singing and writing a song that encapsulates his feelings so well #😭 it’s been awhile seeing her work exist alongside these characters #and all of these emotions get stronger because I remember AT being the one to inspire me to be a storyboard artist #when I was younger I used to follow many of the board artists here in tumblr and would get so inspired by them #to create simple but powerful boards that can capture the feelings of characters so well #Rebecca Sugar’s songs for the AT characters inspired me so much too #I’m sorry this is long I’m just feeling so many things experiencing all of this again as an adult #my art #fanart #adventure time #fionna and cake #fionna the human #cake the cat #simon petrikov

[slavhew]

hm

#hom3stuck #homestuck #john egbert #jade harley #dirk strider #dave strider #karkat vantas #davekat #lil hal #autoresponder #inspired sketches because i went thru a bunch of artblogs and wanted to be dynamic and artsy too #also love to listen to songs and then try my best to draw something for the duration of it. this isnt quite one of those times but #hey the names matched up nicely #idk man. tonight is a sad about dirk strider day turned into sad about dirk strider night. davekats to make it go down easier #anyways ever think about how a captcha of 13 year old dirk doesnt want to die but the 16 year old version does. #cause i do . plenty. #these seem like sketches ripe to do something with but i dont feel like touching them more so. black and white up they go

[frenchublog]

once you play god☄️🎇

#arcane #jinx arcane #silco #silco arcane #jinx and silco #look at me having the sad again #princess of zaun #to quote the new lol song #“bad girl woke up and chose violence” #my art #please don't repost #look at me trying to paint #i promise i'll stop #they're my comfort characters your honnor

[solarockk]

Im oh so normal about real life smp and gaslight gatekeep girlboss

#real life smp #rlsmp #what a name #im so so so normal about them #getting a gggs teamup after last life... we used to dream of times like these.. #im so happy cleo won #zombiecleo fanart #zombiecleo #scott smajor #dangthatsalongname fanart #scott smajor fanart #pearlescentmoon #pearlesentmoon fanart #cw blood #mcyt #fanart #artist on tumblr #sol art #the peaceful yet sad song i feel like fits well with the absurd violence of the serie #im very normal about cleo finally behing able to kill pearl

[felsicveins]

I'm so lonesome all the time

Some sweet day

Gonna take away

This hurting inside

#trolls #trolls 3 #it would have been so dark if floyd wasnt able to sing at the end of the movie #but wouldnt that have been interesting #i almost thought thats what they were doing with lonely people cause i didnt think troye sounded that good ... 👀 #trolls band together #dreamworks trolls #floyd trolls #trolls floyd #Brozone #velvet and veneer #this was originally and idea i had that involved assistant creek au but .. i think its nice on its own #I've never added a song on a post before!!! #i have a lot of thoughts about floyd. none of them coherent and all of them very very sad #Spotify

[wickedthing]

pietà

#asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #hotd #house of the dragon #alicent hightower #alicent hotd #hotd fanart #asoiaf fanart #samael does art #original art #my art #i love sad pathetic lesbians <3

[unpersoniverse]

I saw a tweet that said Korra's only a softie around Asami and one thing led to another...

#totally inspired by taylor swift's song gorgeous #you know that line #you make me so happy it turns back to sad ?? #these two before they got together #then they been dating so long and still look at each other and go😡 can't 😡 believe 😡 you're😡mine😡i 😡love😡you😡 #god bless korrasami #yeah #korrasami #korra #asami sato #my art #fanart #tlok #avatar the legend of korra #atla #wlw #valentines day #these two being soft for and only each other are my weakness bye #they're in love your honor

[southern--downpour]

gl!ranboo doodle sheet bc i am actually going insane

#generation loss #genloss #generation loss fanart #ranboo #ranboo fanart #haha get boxed idiot <- said while actively crying #virgil arts #this was drawn at like. 4-5 am while i watched my bf play a half life mod #dude this series has actually grabbed hold of my brain its so so good #also i was in fact looping puppet boy while drawing this #songs just good also started making me feel very sad about gl!ranboo and i think that was the point lmao

[shrimpyjackal]

Me: why is everyone was screaming about how cool Trolls 3?

Me 1,5 hour later: w h y I didn`t watch it before-

#velvet trolls #trolls veneer #velvet and veneer #veneer #trolls 3 band together #trolls 3 #trolls #art #art tag #my art #digital drawing #artists on tumblr #digital art #i am sad about sweet dreams full song #that probably will never come out

[words-at-night]

#quotes #dark academia #wordsnquotes #beautiful quote #dark academism #beautiful words #dark aesthetic #quoteoftheday #book quote #spilled poem #self love #sad songs #sylvia plath #punk #poetry #live #lit #literature #life #love #moon poetry #midnight musings #moodboard #musings #music #makeup #sad notes #i have no words #spilled poetry #poetry spilled ink

[bixels]

Portal 2 is still the perfect game to me. I hyperfixated on it like crazy in middle school. Would sing Want You Gone out loud cuz I had ADHD and no social awareness. Would make fan animations and pixel art. Would explain the ending spoilers and fan theories to anyone who'd listen. Would keep up with DeviantArt posts of the cores as humans. Would find and play community-made maps (Gelocity is insanely fun).

I still can't believe this game came out 12 years ago and it looks like THIS.

Like Mirror's Edge, the timeless art style and economic yet atmospheric lighting means this game will never age. The decision not to include any visible humans (ideas of Doug Rattmann showing up or a human co-op partner were cut) is doing so much legroom too. And the idea to use geometric tileset-like level designs is so smart! I sincerely believe that, by design, no game with a "realistic art style" has looked better than Portal 2.

Do you guys remember when Nvidia released Portal with RTX at it looked like dogshit? Just the most airbrushed crap I've ever seen; completely erased the cold, dry, clinical feel of Aperture.

So many breathtakingly pit-in-your-stomach moments I still think about too. And it's such a unique feeling; I'd describe at as... architectural existentialism? Experiencing the sublime under the shadow of manmade structures (Look up Giovanni Battista Piranesi's art if you're curious)? That scene where you're running from GLaDOS with Wheatley on a catwalk over a bottomless pit and––out of rage and desperation––GLaDOS silently begins tearing her facility apart and Wheatley cries 'She's bringing the whole place down!' and ENORMOUS apartment building-sized blocks begin groaning towards you on suspended rails and cement pillars crumble and sparks fly and the metal catwalk strains and bends and snaps under your feet. And when you finally make it to the safety of a work lift, you look back and watch the facility close its jaws behind you as it screams.

Or the horror of knowing you're already miles underground, and then Wheatley smashes you down an elevator shaft and you realize it goes deeper. That there's a hell under hell, and it's much, much older.

Or how about the moment when you finally claw your way out of Old Aperture, reaching the peak of this underground mountain, only to look up and discover an endless stone ceiling built above you. There's a service door connected to some stairs ahead, but surrounding you is this array of giant, building-sized springs that hold the entire facility up. They stretch on into the fog. You keep climbing.

I love that the facility itself is treated like an android zooid too, a colony of nano-machines and service cores and sentient panel arms and security cameras and more. And now, after thousands of years of neglect, the facility is festering with decomposition and microbes; deer, raccoons, birds. There are ghosts too. You're never alone, even when it's quiet. I wonder what you'd hear if you put your ear up against a test chamber's walls and listened. (I say that all contemplatively, but that's literally an easter egg in the game. You hear a voice.)

Also, a reminder that GLaDOS and Chell are not related and their relationship is meant to be psychosexual. There was a cut bit where GLaDOS would role-play as Chell's jealous housewife and accuse her of seeing other cores in between chambers. And their shared struggle for freedom and control? GLaDOS realizing, after remembering her past life, that she's become the abuser and deciding that she has the power to stop? That even if she can't be free, she can let Chell go because she hates her. And she loves her. Most people interpret GLaDOS "deleting Caroline in her brain" as an ominous sign, that she's forgetting her human roots and becoming "fully robot." But to me, it's a sign of hope for GLaDOS. She's relieving herself of the baggage that has defined her very existence, she's letting Caroline finally rest, and she's allowing herself to grow beyond what Cave and Aperture and the scientists defined her to be. The fact that GLaDOS still lets you go after deleting Caroline proves this. She doesn't double-back or change her mind like Wheatley did, she sticks to her word because she knows who she is. No one and nothing can influence her because she's in control. GLaDOS proves she's capable of empathy and mercy and change, human or not.

That's my retrospective, I love this game to bits. I wish I could experience it for the first time again.

#ramblings #long post #not art #personal #also i know “did glados actually delete caroline” is debated cuz the credits song disputes this #but i like to think she did #it's not sad. caroline died a long time ago #it's a goodbye

[jeyneofpoole]

leda 1, 2, 3

#quote is from lucille clifton’s leda 1!! #got super sad ab her so. um. #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf art #asoiaf fanart #lyanna stark #lucille clifton #tower of joy #starks #house stark #roberts rebellion