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ari | he/she | 23

[soncee]

Mommy Katara

[anxeious]

one thing about me is i’m gonna go lay down

[howling-wizard2]

carnivore on carnivore ccomfort

[moleculargraces]

Grace Rocky save each other

[prose-n-scripts]

sunday orphydice sketch dump yay

[antigonehappy]

imo part of the message of hadestown is that fundamentally love alone cannot stop oppression. it can make things more bearable in the meantime. it can even motivate people to take further action. but you cannot destroy the cruelty of capitalism just by loving hard enough.

orpheus's love for eurydice might have driven him to go to hadestown looking for her, but it couldn't save her. hades's love for persephone might have driven him to give orpheus a chance, but it couldn't convince him to give up his empire. love makes the story repeat over and over again, but love cannot break that loop. something else is necessary. something else is required. and multiple times the characters are on the cusp of acknowledging that (if it's true, chant ii, word to the wise) but they never fully reckon with it. hadestown is a story about love, and that's a big part of why it's a tragedy.

[beccadoodled]

it’s an old song….🌹

the hadestown > next to normal > shadow and bone (tv series) > six of crows duology pipeline IS REAL💔

but I want to thank the rabbit hole I fell down because now I’ve seen Kurt Elling’s hermes do a little dance with an umbrella AND I read possible the best fantasy duology I’VE EVER READ????? A win..I think?

[prose-n-scripts]

walked out of hell with an anxious attachment style

[bijackkellys]

maybe it will turn out this time

[pancakehauses]

HADESTOWN Jack Wolfe as Orpheus Morgan Dudley as Eurydice 📹@theriddletrades

[bluebelleisms]

thank you hadestown for rewriting my brain

[nedlittle]

people always talk about the doomed love timeloop when they talk about hadestown. look i love that shit as much as the next homosexual but can we please talk about the revolutionary politics. genuinely one of the best anticapitalist pieces of art of the 21st century. can we watch act 2 with our brains please

[wormthought]

and what if I told you the doomed timeloop is precisely about revolutionary politics and how vital it is for us to keep trying to change the way things are over and over despite inevitable failure... no one's doing it like hadestown I fear

[eerna]

wait for me, I'm coming

[allthatlovesabout]

orpheus saying "to the world we dream about" and then turning and raising his cup to the audience when he says "and the one we live in now." fourth wall break of all time. reminding the audience that this story isn't just about hadestown, but is also about our world. stepping back into reality, just for a brief moment, to acknowledge both the joy and pain of living in that world. it is so deeply compassionate and real and it breaks my heart every time.

[allthatlovesabout]

just got back from seeing the proshot in theaters and can report that when reeve carney delivered these lines it was with such genuine weight that a single tear slid down my face.

[grimalditeuthis]

what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck

[starspork]

We Raise Our Cups really fucks with me. It’s brutally hopeful. It’s a farewell to Orpheus. Sure. everyone knows that. but. its also a call to action.

Hadestown is not subtle in how it shows the power of revolutionaries, of love and hope and human compassion over that of the capitalist cycle of abuse. WRoC is talking about Orpheus. But it is also talking about every person with that revolutionary spirit.

Orpheus is all of us, and every person who stands against exploitation, is Orpheus. The theme is there, but it’s especially strong in Is It True, where he stands against the Fates themselves to challenge the world, only bolstered by the normal people that stood up and heard his words and showed him the power of words.

When Persephone asks where Orpheus is now, it is not entirely that she wonders where the man himself is, but also that she is pouring a drop to every person who holds his legacy and fights for the cause.

Then they praise the birds who sing in the night and the flowers that bloom in snow. A metaphor for those people who fight to make beauty in inhospitable places, who strive for good in darkness.

“To Orpheus, and all of us”

To Orpheus, to those who hold his spirit, to those who lead revolutions, and to those who follow him. The cycle of Orpheus and Eurydice is a love song. It is a tragedy. And yet we all know that one day. one time. they will make it out together. It is on that day, when an Orpheus finally manages to bring their Eurydice back, that the revolution succeeds, and the Shades get to follow their path out of Hades. And the mortals get to live free from the poverty and despair of their oppression.

We sing the song even though it is sad, because we know that spring will come and the world will go back in tune once they make it out together. And Hades can take the seasons, the food from our mouths, the fire from our stoves, every ounce of gold from the rivers, but what he cannot take, nor any other like him, is our songs and the cries of an impassioned heart. And may those songs inspire a thousand Orpheus’ to journey to defeat Hades. Because eventually one will win. It only takes one.

So let the song reach the next Orpheus, wherever they are wandering. Alone on this Earth. And let the song comfort them as they start the cycle again.

[naveenzluv7]

finally drawing something so self-indulgent that i have to share it with tumblr . drawing markiplier again after like 10 years is an experience so sacred to someone like me who was on the internet in 2015