#why does tragedy exist?

[orpheuslament]

The Greek myths are filled with mortals who transgress the bounds of their mortality, of course. The Atreids are exceptional only in that they manage to survive beyond these bounds, at least for a while. To take on unspeakable guilt and live with it: this is their curse.

Incest, Cannibalism, and the Gods: The Rise of the House of Atreus, Michael Kinnucan

#oughhhghg #house of atreus #brief pause. i'm walking backward into my own myth. i was trying to walk out. #why does tragedy exist? #words

[simmyfrobby]

What are your top 3 nhl teams with the best vibes?

ooh ok. yea. fun. love this. im going to declare all my biases upfront: im a pens, bruins & wild fan so obviously my nr 1 is:

minny

they have flower. they have kaprizov. they go on homoerotic little holidays together. they have two deweys and one foligno. their captain is pretty and everyone is short. every game is somehow embarrassing. even if they win. especially if they win. 11/10 cant lose.

nr 2: philly

i dont follow them or root for them but i will have nightmares about the dog mask every day for the rest of my life. also they made drysdale come hang out w them during the all star break and that was cute. also the conga line. hardass coach but we stay silly. 9/10 solid vibes.

nr 3: yotes

jason zucker lives there.

#bruins have the goalies ofc #but the ghost of christmas past still kinda hangs over that team and also they like to play soúper frustrating games #that go on for 4 hours and where I feel like I might die the entire time #captain rat gets + for vibes but then 2023 sadbrad hug kills it. if krejc and bergy were still on this team they'd make the top 3 #pens ofc dont make the list despite sunshine boy poj and the fact that erik brings the silly every day #theyre too much of a Serious Old Man Team #bonus points for the silliest own goal in the history of the franchise. points withdrawn for cookie injury i miss him so bad #anne carson asks why does tragedy exist #answer: because old men #because love. because brittle bones and traumatic head injuries. #last year i probably would've answered Seattle #Detroit at the beginning of this season but they um. made some poor hiring choices. rotten rancid vibes now im very sorry for your loss #Edmonton would've gotten a high score from me at the beginning of the season not because the vibes were good but because they were #without a doubt #the most miserable team in the league and i found that to be soooo interesting and fun #How Will The Oilers Lose Next #but theyre good again now so that's less exciting for me #montreal honourable mention for the short slutty guy #love him

[othellho]

Anne Carson, Elektra

#words #classics tag #Anne Carson #elektra #why does tragedy exist etc etc #on saying no #academia tag #grad school tag #?

[prophetmutual]

When ppl talk about how fucked up Sam was during the Jack s13 arc and how he enabled Dean's abuse and put Jack in danger: yess ha ha yessss

When ppl do so without acknowledging that Sam and Jack are fellow victims: ....... wtf...

#the demarcated line between enabler and victim you would like to be there does not exist! sam is both! #he failed jack. his own experience of abuse made it impossible for him to not fail jack #thats why the tragedy is delicious babes #theyre literally stuck in the cycle :) #sam #spn #ash.txt

[nercynorning]

Never not thinking about this

#John Gaius #Varun #Varun the eater #John Gaius the hungry ghost… #Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. #the locked tomb #nercyposting

[constantvariations]

If Salem obliterated Vale, does that mean she has its relic?

#rwde #ozpin said it was better hidden than the rest and ive been so curious abt it ever since #bc he's got two options for accessing it: the fall maiden who killed him and is working for his genocidal ex or the missing summer maiden #(seriously oz why the absolute shit do you not have a skeleton key for these vaults) #this was like. THE reason i wanted the story to go back to Vale. i wanted so bad to see what 'better hidden' meant #ngl i was hoping for smth like it not being hidden in the conventional sense but rather chose its wielder for their qualities #mayhaps someone w a simple honest soul #but alas. vale is destroyed offscreen w only a single sentence to convey the horror and tragedy #since patch was close to Vale does that mean Tai is dead too? Raven was the last person to see him and he aint w her so... #dude's probably dead right? or did the writers forget he existed again? #either way fuck that epilogue. i cant believe im prefering the half episode exposition dump ending but it truly is the lesser of evils

[mourningmaybells]

remembered presence in the form of absence again

#was it from an i am in eskew post? is it even the same wording? #you know that someone is in the form of a gaping hole in the speaker because the speaker is missing something.. someone... #they dont say what or who but you feel it #a person existed because a person is missing or something like that #there is a gap where a tragedy happened and affected everything after #...was it from that post where i said that i thought damien karras from the exorcist had a lost lover and that's why he does a little #blasphemy comparing god and christ to a failed love affair?

[shvroyism]

that tiktok sound that’s like “I’m not a violent dog, I don’t know why I bite” with I bet on losing dogs playing on the background…that’s literally shiv roy in a nutshell

#also the why does tragedy exist? because you are full of anger why are you full of anger? because you are full of grief quote #that’s basically shiv’s character thesis #the shivroyism of it all… #shiv roy

[thewingedchild]

we are full of rage because we are constantly grieving for the world we could have had. for the alternative scenario, the imaginary outcome. because we treat the present as pointless, instead of working with what we have.

#but sometimes because it’s just unfair #my thoughts on #grief lessons #anne carson #why does tragedy exist #words

[orpheuslament]

Greek tragedy exists in the split between actor and action, between fate and the individual; it is a poetry of questionable actions and the speech which seeks to explain them. And it is with Agamemnon that the house of Atreus becomes for the first time tragic; it is with the story of his children that Aeschylus invents the form. Homer did not write about the sacrifice of Iphigenia, and this is proper: it is not the stuff of epic. For adequate treatment it had to await Euripides.

Incest, Cannibalism, and the Gods: The Rise of the House of Atreus, Michael Kinnucan

#posting this for myself cus im losing it dont mind me #house of atreus #brief pause. i'm walking backward into my own myth. i was trying to walk out. #why does tragedy exist? #words #nr

[ardentpoop]

if there is emotional labor to be done to move the story forward you can bet your ass sam is the one doing it

#dean would be nothing without sam but the opposite is not true. which is possibly the root of all the tragedy surrounding #their relationship #and why the idea of the entire series ending with dean dying and sam living on without him makes a poetic sort of sense to me #I still don’t have faith in the series finale but that choice at least is a satisfying one for these characters #it does make me sad to think abt lol. yes dean is insufferable and violent and domineering and he NEVER learns and he never listens however #he doesn’t know how to exist without his brother there to keep him on the rails

[wereh0gz]

Making myself sad thinking about ghost maria......

#ramblings #bc like. she's barely even herself anymore #her memories and her mind have rotted away like a corpse. she clings onto what little is left but that's fading away too #really the one thing still tying her to reality is shadow #she doesn't want to leave him but she doesn't fully know why #she's almost completely unaware of her situation. existance feels like a fleeting dream and every day it makes less and less sense #and shadow. shadow doesn't even know she's there #he can't hear her whispers when she tries to call out to him #he can't feel when she strokes his fur while he sleeps #he can't see her get excited whenever he does something cool #she's dead. still lives on in spirit and in his memory but there's still a disconnect. they cannot interact with each other #and even if they could. would it be as happy of a reunion as you'd think it'd be? #like i said. maria is barely herself. just an image based on a decaying memory #she can barely speak. she doesn't remember how #it's painful whether they can actually interact or not. but not interacting may be the least painful #AUGH i'm so fucking emo about this i'm gonna cry #i fucking love tragedy can you tell

[othellho]

David Harsent, "My Judas Passion: to hell and back"

#judas tag #biblical mythology #judas iscariot #why does tragedy exist etc etc

[myname-isnia]

You ever have your narrative haunted by a character who isn’t even yours

#I’ve been thinking about lien-hua non-stop for the past two days send help #like… it’s true. she does haunt the sotrl and everything sotrl-adjacent narratives #the pair of tragic sisters. the grief. her death is both the catalyst and the butterfly effect for all following events #P’Li would be a different person. Suiren and Midori wouldn’t be left with Haya. the RL might not have even gone after Korra #because Lien-Hua went through the same thing as P’Li and the two of them would rationalise better together #I don’t think Lien would trust Unalaq at all. and her distrust is different from. for example. Ming-Hua’s natural snark #they might’ve payed more attention #and even if they didn’t and still left. again sotrl wouldn’t happen #Lien would be left with the girls and she’d seek out Zhi for help so it’d be closer to UtOS #and Midori would be a slightly different person too for a… different reason #I love Lien. she’s my beloved child but that’s why this story is a tragedy. she has to die. nothing would happen as it did if she hadn’t #she died and now she haunts the narrative #and it’s not even intentional bc when I came up with Suiren and Midori’s characters or sotrl’s storyline I hadn’t read LaF yet #well. I had. I read what was there before Kat continued it #but I didn’t really pay attention to Lien-Hua’s existence. like yeah. she was there and then she died and now P’Li’s the way she is #back then she didn’t influence the way I thought about my girls in any way #compared to now #now the way P’Li sees her nieces is forever shadowed by the loss of her sister #both as kids and adults. whether they’re happy or fighting #the first makes her remember her childhood before it was so abruptly ended #the latter makes her wonder if she and Lien-Hua would’ve ended up the same way #there is a tinge of resentment there. she wants to see her nieces as they are. not as what they parallel #she knows her sister is long gone. she’ll never see her again unless she wants to go into the fog of lost souls again #but the spirits can be as merciful as they are cruel #once. a girl was powerless to stop her sister’s death. 11 years later. the girl grew up and holds her newborn niece. filled with deja vu #because yes. Midori is Lien-Hua’s reincarnation #she was always so unexplainably drawn to her auntie. much more than Suiren was #so fond of the sun on her skin and spices in her food and the glow of a fire that it’s hard to believe she has no FN blood in her #she gets strange dreams of people she can’t know but feels like she does. of an oddly familiar red eyed girl. of a long time in a dark cell #losing her parents. Haya’s cruelty. her sister’s protection fill her with dread she swears she felt before. Why did it all happen again???

[lonesomedotmp3]

images that make me go fucking crazy. everyone clap for girls who let their rage and fear and hatred rot them from the inside out!!

#why does tragedy exist? because you are full of rage. why are you full of rage? because you are full of grief... #she literally came back wrong. if u even care. #merlinposting

[noxtivagus]

HELP no one talk to me rn /lh i'm in such a flirty mood for no reason, i'll flirt w anyone n everyone rn 😭😭

#🌙 rambles #LOWKEY SICK OF BEING SINGLE I KINDA WANT TO FALL IN LOVE ??? #but... studies first ig... sob #this is why star-crossed lovers & soulmates are my fave tropes... #IT'S FINE I'LL LOVE MYSELF AS I'VE ALWAYS DONE #being in an all-girls school made me a hopeless romantic and i hate it /hj #/hj bcs the tragedy feels kinda nice actually /lh 😭 #my discord status rn is: if i call u cute that means ur allowed to kiss me #bruh can someone volunteer to be my kitten or smth #let me practice flirting on you or smth #HHHHHH that's all a joke #i shld head to sleep soon bcs i'm going out tmrrw #but seriously tho #how do ppl even get into relationships. do romantic relationships even exist. does mutual pining exist #nah not that i want to fall in love tho nah #i wrote a bit more today and read some of my old writing so i guess that's why i'm like this rn #i'm just so baffled bcs i remembered that i have a friend that #a friend in another school and she has an s/o !?! and ik she has a friend as well that already had an s/o way back in middle school #DAMN HOW DOES THAT WORK ? #being an independent person kinda sucks sometimes #i'm afraid of getting attached but yk #i'm not against someone falling for me first 👉🏻👈🏻 #ignore me 💀