Energy in Adversity

Dawn. She/her. 21

[timetravelcreature]

i find it so cool how each hadestown character represents a different way of coping with and existing in late stage capitalism

orpheus: the artist/the activist, he wants to make things better and feels a sense of urgency, causing him to pour everything he has into it at the expense of his personal relationships

eurydice: the impoverished/the working class, to busy worrying about where her next meal is coming from to be able to devote time into organizing for a better world, the only way for her to survive is to become a pawn of the system

persephone: coping through substance use/escapism, she sees how fucked up the world is and the only way she can cope with it is through drowning her feelings in substances and partying just to feel some sense of joy and release

and of course hades, the 1%, the only one who benefits from all of this taking and taking, the nonstop extraction of labor and resources. he will never be satisfied, he will always want more power and more wealth.

anyways the proshot was so good everyone go get involved in ur community us organizers are tired and burnt out we could use the extra hands <3

[kaslynspeaks]

no okay but persephone. when you listen to the soundtrack it's like she's a party girl she drinks and has fun but you guys dont understand because every single time she took a drink she grimaced. every single time. not once did she enjoy herself, because it wasn't her indulging in her wants it was her coping. and even!! even during livin it up on top when everyone takes a drink there's a moment of silence where they all look almost disgusted by it. none of them enjoy it it doesn't taste good to any of them yet still they drink it??

and then UGH okay because lady of the underground i was under the impression that she was interacting with the workers and whatnot like making the cracks in the wall that orpheus was about to break down but there's no one on stage. the only people on stage are the musicians, hermes, and persephone. none of the workers are there. she's singing to herself. do you understand do you get it?? especially with why do we build the wall right before that because I didn't realize persephone was in that song?? and the whole time she looks terrified. she Doesn't want to be here she Doesn't want to engage with this (my mom compared the song to being at a maga rally and she was 100% correct) but she does anyway, perhaps because she's forced to. and the look of heartbreak when eurydice appears; the way eurydice is confused and put off at first, but it doesn't take long for her to learn the words and join in????

eurydice and persephone is a whole other thing because I never realized how much of a relationship they had. like persephone is quick to be friendly with her, and eurydice is enthralled by that attention. but then during chant when persephone is singing about like the earth dying and people starving she's looking at eurydice walking by. she's looking at her and she looks heartbroken, she's reaching out to her but she can't reach her because she's not there. she watches as the fates strip eurydice of everything she has, and then that look of despair changes of one to fear as hades' eyes land on eurydice as he declares he'll find someone else who will be grateful. and I know that like flowers can be like an analogy for sa but I really felt it during that part. not so much in songbird vs rattlesnake? but definitely during the end of chant like AJHVSGDJAS.

and then like I said when eurydice enters the underworld persephone looks shaken. because she knows eurydice, and she knows orpheus, and- idk man. imagine being in hell and someone you know shows up, but you know they can't leave and you know they're soon to become a shell of who they once were. like. yeah

[kaslynspeaks]

@blueisconfused blue your tags mean everything to me by the way. like yes this exactly this you Understand you Get It

[shakespeare-guy-anon]

in a world full of opinions on the new odyssey movie

go and watch the hadestown proshot in theatres with your best friend

[anxiousfuckupon]

Happy birthday, friend! Would you like A) an additional chapter of Heart of a Dragon B) a snippet of a WIP (whump) C) a snippet of a WIP (flirty) or D) snippet of a WIP (horror)?

All WIPs are also NineRose :)

oooh i’m so excited!!! C please! You’re amazing thank you!!!

[yeehawpim]

a comic about fix-it fanfics

[izloveshorses]

marvelous mrs maisel is an excellent show but the biggest mistake they make the entire five seasons is thinking i care about joel. i don't. half the episodes are him moping around about fumbling his funny hot wife, moping about fumbling his girlfriends, moping about how he's not funny. get him out of my SIGHT. stop putting that bitch ass man on my screennnnnnn leave me alone!!!!

[poetdept]

"A spotlight waits for you center stage. All you have to do is step up and claim it. Once you do, everyone will know who you are. They will know your wit, your intellect, your smile. Your great, expressive eyes. They will be helpless to your charms. They will fall at your feet and worship at the altar of you and your show corset."

[doctormohansamira]

I don't think I've stopped thinking about Robby and Samira in the past year. God, what a waste of an incredibly interesting dynamic.

[anxiousfuckupon]

forcing external validation after most of my friends don’t wish me happy birthday by wearing something that visibly states that it’s my birthday and getting their well-wishes

[patheticwhimsy]

pmdd is having a little guy in your head whose solution to any and all issues is “just kill yourself” and you have to be like. sigh. NO, that’s not an option. and they’ll be like “…unless??” and it’s just that for a week and then they clock out and you wave to each other and say see you next month

[castle-of-dust]

Daisy is so funny to me because imagine you know that your adopter friend Agnes has a thing going on with her best friend who has just been forced into marriage with HER crush and brutally left as an orphan, and the marriage she'd been preparing her whole life for just got cancelled and you decide this is a good moment to tell her that her mother is a terrorist.

[lacyblackpaiir]

if something aggressively lesbian doesn't happen to me this summer i'm gonna do something drastic.

[puppydogwhitaker]

the pitt is really just about how shit sucks. it sucks so bad. there is this deeply entrenched, intentionally unempathetic dysfunction baked into the fabric of all of our institutions. we are at the mercy of these forces that are incomprehensible and insurmountable.

and yet, we gotta try.

we gotta get up everyday, face the darkness, and find balance if we can.

and we don’t have to do it alone! in fact we shouldn’t. we can’t. but we can find people to make all of the helplessness and suckiness a little more bearable. we can find people to stand on the roof with us, we can find people to hold us, we can find people who stay when we’re mean and flippant and can’t give anything back.

the message is hope, even in the depths of despair.

[spacescaptain]

if season 3 is supposed to be focused on robby sitting at rock bottom and doing the work to try to get well again, then i would have kept mohan there and made her better than ever. because if he really does see himself in samira and resent her for it, him coming back and seeing that she thrived under anyone else's guidance would get right under his skin.

he could see his own potential for improvement and EMPATHY (something samira has an abundance of) reflected back. robby could dig his heels in and keep projecting his own self-hatred onto her, except we see her character development in how she's stronger and won't accept that treatment; not just in a weak "i belong here" way, but truly standing up for herself. the reflection could reverse, and mohan could grapple with her future in medicine after seeing what a shell it's turned robby into. MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES!

[mysteriouseggsbenedict]

I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind

[greatsluginthesky]

listen, i’m not ship-shaming, but how tf does emma nolan/ park the shark have nearly DOUBLE the amount of fics barantos has

[storyofmartha]

Imagine in the companion support group Jo reminisces about the Master and is like ah yeah that gay ass bitch he was so funny we used to have tea parties every wednesday, and Martha is like Girl. what are you ON about he killed ten percent of Earth population and enslaved the rest

And these are the only two Doctor's companions the Master has respected as equals