#orpheus liveblogs

[enderenby404]

every time quackity streams an update on his life i feel like im about to be broken up with or smth

#/j lh #dream smp #dsmp #quackity #orpheus liveblogs

[eerna]

"why did Orpheus turn to check if Eurydice is there if he can just return to Hadestown if Hades really did lie about letting her go" that's the thing. he can't. the only reason he can enter Hadestown without taking Hades' deal/dying is because the lalalas open the way for him. Eurydice only gave him a chance after he showed her the power of the lalalas. and in Doubt Comes In, his lalalas no longer work - twice he tries to call on them, and twice he fails. he has lost the ability to wield their magic because he stopped believing their power can change the world. if he leaves Hadestown and Eurydice isn't behind him, she will well and truly be gone forever. of course he turns around. of course he can't take those final few steps out of the Underworld without making sure the lalalas worked.

#hadestown liveblog #listening to doubt comes in west end bootleg on repeat and going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #very much in the same vein as ''why should orpheus trust hades''. it's not about him trusting HADES it's about him believing in his mission #and holding true to his beliefs. THOSE are the things he betrayed. he was supposed to believe hades would fall under his influence. #and hades DID!! but orpheus no longer believed he could hold power over a king. #he was no longer the boy who noticed hades looking at eurydice and placed himself between them as if he could protect her. #WHICH IS WHY I AM ANNOYED THAT THEY TURNED IT INTO A JOKE. LIKE. BRO. it is supposed to be IMPRESSIVE. you're supposed to be like #''oh damn orpheus you're so brave???'' but no broadway turned it into a haha ''look at this pathetic kid defying hades'' moment #ANYWAY. ORPHEUS I LOVE YOU.

[pundromeda]

Did this motherfucker name his son after himself but just without the M

Did he

#this is about motherfucking morpheus naming his son orpheus #what the fuck #the sandman #sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #sandman spoilers #sandman liveblog

[fluorescentbrains]

honestly have yet to play a video game where i didn’t feel like the climax kinda fumbled the ball. it’s really really really hard to transmute the sense of potential and possibility inherent to a video game into a narratively satisfactory close that meshes with ALL the player’s choices. bg3 did pretty well for me but still. i have a sense i will be running many a playthrough where i simply don’t make it past that orpheus vs emperor bullshit

#the orpheus thing annoys me bc lore wise he’s as shady as the emperor but all the in game lore is like. propaganda for him ajdjsjdjs #brains liveblogs bg3 #i still freed him to make lae’zel happy and bc house of hope fucking rules but like. didn’t really feel great about it

[protect-namine]

if you only have to watch one (1) genshin lore video, I highly recommend this one. not because it's a beginner-friendly guide to those new to the lore (it's not), but because the vibes of this theory are immaculate and explains like... the kinds of things that fascinate me about the game

paimon is consecrated for consumption, in a eucharist way. blood is wine is memories is life is power. ambrosia for ascension. the blood to the traveler's bones

there are so many things in the game that seem like innocuous off-hand comments but when put into a bigger picture, is so ???

like. do you ever think about how paimon likes to eat slimes because they are pure elemental energy, and she functions as the traveler's conduit for the elements similar to a vision for vision-wielders (even though she is not a vision)

and what does this mean for the traveler who is hinted to be a star? how much can they consume before they "collapse under their own gravity", so to speak

I really have nothing to add, I just wanted to share how much I love the vibes of the content of this video. this is peak genshin theorizing to me

#mine musings #liveblogging genshin #the stuff about chaotic spacetime and block universe are interesting too but not NEARLY as fun as “paimon is literal emergency food” imo #also because like. time travel shenanigans and quantum stuff aren't that new in scifi so it's like. neat but whatever #personally i'm starry-eyed over the idea of “blood is wine is memories is life” like. the implicationsss of that in genshin #“death is a one-time loss of memory” like man if i can just translate my thoughts about how venti IS a psychopomp #like ashikai did a video on that too but i'm going one step further to say that if istaroth is kairos #then venti is orpheus. if not ORPHIC DIONYSUS #if i can just translate my thoughts to words you'll understand but like. wine and katabasis and shit. that's venti #as long as you view death as tied to memories and wind is the carrier of memories and kairos is both weather and time #and venti is a strand of the thousand winds if not a fragment of istaroth herself #and acts like the psychopomp to stanley and promotes wine and festivities #and also did you know western theater was birthed in dionysian festivals #and how orphic theogony talks about phanes as the primeval god if not dionysus himself and dionysus is the twice born god and-- #anyway. yeah. i went off topic. i just wanted to say that traveler having communion with paimon as the sacramental offering is 👌 👌 👌 #genshin lore

[notcapableofbeingtheguy]

Me watching Kim pass the point of no return live before my very eyes

#GO TO SANTA FE GIRL #DONT GO BACK TO ALBUQUERQUE #Orpheus turning around?? or something like that?? #better call saul #bcs s6 liveblog #Kim wexler

[dee-is-for-lots-of-things]

i know that this very comic says they never met again but actually in my mind they remain besties <3

#lily liveblogs #im right actually #neil gaiman liked one of my posts so now i get to make the rules that's how it works right #neil gaiman if ur seeing this i am writing the show <3 mine now #johanna constantine #orpheus #thermidor #sandman #the sandman #very much looking forward to reading the other johanna comics !! i just think she's neat #also now that my brain is able to read her handwriting (todd klein i love ur lettering work but i also like being able to read the comic) #this is ABSOLUTELY my favourite from distant mirrors #august is interesting and three septembers is fun and has del in it #but this one just goes so hard

[mentalmeles]

Will potentially finish Baldur's Gate tonight. Gonna try my damn best to kill that fucking squid

Oh, and the giant brain too, I guess

#baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #i wasn't liveblogging bc Depression(tm) #but FUCK the emperor!!!!! #ansur honey you deserved so much better #i wish i could've convinced him that i wasn't on the emperor's side or something but alas......... #also orpheus i'm sorry... #you JUST got your freedom and you're forced to either become a mind flayer or be consumed by one #you ALSO deserved so much better #gonna kill the emperor for you two fr fr #and also for myself 😤 #the star child speaks

[raayllum]

some things never change

#wait for me i'm coming with you #orpheus and eurydice motif #s1 #1x01 #arc 1 #dragons liveblogs #hiatus hoedown rewatch #tdp callum

[lonepower]

awwweww omg I am shooketh! blindsided! reeling!!!!!!!! i feel so bad that i will probably still have to kill him )))))):

#since he is almost certainly talking about orpheus and not squid bf /: #that was sweet!!! I like this dude!!!!! #chi plays bg3 #chi liveblogs #bg3 spoilers

[tenderloincherub]

I’m midway through Portrait of a Lady on Fire and so far these are my thoughs (beware spoilers):

> this reflects perfectly why erotic art pieces of men (created by other men, such as saint sebastian, paintings, sculptures) are symbols of homoerotism. there is a clear intimacy and erotism in staring at someone attently enough to capture their essence on marble or on a canvas, so the erotism lies not so much on the final product but in all the process it represents. I mean, when the-lady-on-fire (I don’t remember names, sorry) accepts to model for the painter, and the painter starts telling her all her gestures and what does she do when she has a certain emotion... that, that observation, that getting to know someone deeply through perception, that putting them in a piece of art and portraiting all that you see in them; that, that is such a symbol of intimacy and erotism.

> my friend who recommended me this movie had already told me about all the symbolisms with Orpheus and staring. It is interesting, before the scene where the-lady-on-fire reads the fragment from Ovid, there have already been a lot of parallels through the movie. There is a constant play between the-lady-on-fire and the painter of staring, facing the back of the other, looking at without being looked at, observing secretly as if you shouldn’t be observing (specially the painter). I mean, in the first scene they have together, the face-to-face interaction is delayed: the painter stares at the back of the-lady-on-fire and follows her and starts running after her, and only after the-lady-on-fire stops and turns around they face each other. At the beginning, it’s made clear that it’s the-lady-on-fire who doesn’t want to be looked at: she refused the previous painter, and she’s often turned back from the new painter; and so this lady-on-fire, we know, is Eurydice.

(but at the same time, the painter is the one who is intentionally often hiding from the-lady-on-fire, because she’s lying; she lives and paints behind her curtains, she sketches the-lady-on-fire secretly, while the other one is looking away)

> this leads me to the last part. When the three girls are discussing Orpheus’ motives and faults in having turned to look at Eurydice, the painter says he chose to do so because he chose not as a lover, but as a poet (as an artist, as she is doing as a painter) and he chose the memory of Eurydice instead of Eurydice herself; to this, the-lady-on-fire responds that maybe Eurydice asked Orpheus to turn back. And that’s what is happening: the painter ruined the first portrait, so the lady-on-fire offered to pose for her to paint her again (she asked the painter to turn back and look at her) and the painter did (the painter is again staring at her to portrait -and remember- her, instead of developing something further with the-lady-on-fire)

>I almost forgot. The joy, the life, the emotions that will fill the portrait are those of the lady-on-fire in love, and that is how her husband-to-be will perceive her and her beauty. But these emotions are not directed towards him, but towards the painter; and the painter is in some level directing this painting towards him. There is an interesting triangle forming here that reminds me so fucking much of Anne Carson’s Eros the bittersweet. 

#liveblogging #portrait of a lady on fire #painting #orpheus and eurydice #ovid's metamorphoses #sapphic #eros the bittersweet #anne carson #thoughts #live blogging #homoerotism

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

orpheus from greek mythology would fucking HATE this episode. damn bro i’m really feeling for you here!

#what’s happening to arthur rn is the exact OPPOSITE of what happened to orpheus #merlin liveblog

[eerna]

Happy 1 month to my world changing forever (seeing Hadestown live)

#one month since irish orpheus... it feels like 6. the entire production seems like it's been a part of me dibdbssb #hadestown liveblog

[vernalloy]

This is fascinating bc this podcast came out 2018 and so the T4T psy4psy swag hasn’t been really developed yet

#liveblogging #Orpheus is not autistic yet #epic iii live furever yes but I think bway definitely had the better love story

[tanoraqui]

I didn’t mini-liveblog The Golden Enclaves like the others, so here are my key thoughts:

what ORPHEUS & EURYDICE BULLSHIT—

Gwen Higgins MVP

at some point in her youth, Liesel watched the s6 finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, specifically the scene where Xander talks Dark Willow down from destroying the world with a heartfelt monologue about friendship and a symbolic yellow crayon, and thought, “Yeah, that could be me!”, and I love that for her. Get this woman a yellow crayon.

I can’t find it now but I saw a poll asking what your top ugly sobbing moment for these books was, so let the record note that mine was, “He would have taken you up the mountain and holding you in his arms, leapt.”

I was totally comfortable with El in ratty, unwashed clothes in the Scholomance itself, but now that she’s out, I DO keep involuntarily imagining her dressed as her honored inspiration Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way.

Orion gets to stay at the school that he and he alone loved his time at, and protect all the magical children of the world…there are going to be students, starting with the freshmen class they already saved, whose only experience of the Scholomance includes the fierce guardianship of Orion and El… 🥹 😭 ❤️ I hope he gets some lame but appropriate and punny title like “Custodian.”

#the scholomance

[casey-complains]

it’s me! again! a greek myth nerd! i have thoughts on the hades vid. (this is kind of liveblogging so it’s not entirely coherent)

first off the acting is very much tiktok-y. i think his glasses are fab (i’m a glasses-wearing person so i love when people give their characters glasses <3). ig my main question is what version of hades is this??? disney hades or greek myth hades? because the intro font is from disney’s hercules but this doesn’t seem like that version of hades. script is ok.

myth annoyances (myths are kind of subjective tho so take it with a grain of salt):

it’s “CARE-on” also not “SHARE-on.” just gets on my nerves a little bit.

oop no one goes to heaven or purgatory anymore. because of paperwork?????

orpheus and eurydice are married, not just bf/gf

old girl persephone??? they were the best couple in the greek myths!

this is a pet peeve of mine that’s constant - how does hades know about hell?? why is he referencing it if it’s not real?

ty for reading, hope you’re doing well :)

ty for your perspective! im honestly not surprised he got some things wrong

#kc.txt #ts critical #ts criticism #asks #dearqueerheart