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[comrade-orpheus]

Guess who crawled out of her depression hole and reorganized her secular Hadestown Shrine?!?

Thanks again to @orlean-red for the bespoke concept album Persephone cross-stitch!!!

Also, maybe just ignore how many playbills there are…

[comrade-orpheus]

Awe, my former high school did Hadestown: Teen Edition for their Spring musical this year, so I took my family to see it tonight and it was phenomenal! So rad seeing the youths put on such a salient and heartfelt production! Anaïs Mitchell would be so proud.

[spacepsychologist]

I highly recommend Kaos on Netflix if you’re into modern retellings of the Greek Mythos. The cast is super-diverse in race, gender, body type, and disability status in a way I haven’t seen before in something of this production value.

[spacepsychologist]

Also Zeus is a total tool played by Jeff Goldblum having the time of his life.

[sync-up]

WINNY HERBERT as HERMES | Hadestown (2024)

[sykesarchive2]

fans of circular narratives when the narrative is circular: oh boy sure enjoying this circular narrative

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You're a kitten and I want to pet you

[comrade-orpheus]

I’m so sorry but this looks like someone’s attempt at a Hadestown visual novel/dating sim.

[aaronstveit]

"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

[itsgonnagetinspiringsoon]

FUCK

[fathermulcahyofficial]

[boeing747]

5 am is the best time to get the drill out and hang stuff up because it's when the walls are at their softest

[plumslices]

Spinning enamel rotisserie chicken charm

[asiamarianelli]

Heavy and hard is the heart of the king king of iron, king of steel the heart of the king loves everything like the hammer loves the nail

but the heart of a man is a simple one small and soft, flesh and blood and all that it loves is a woman a woman is all that it loves

and Hades is king of the scythe and the sword he covers the world in the color of rust he scrapes the sky and scars the earth and he comes down heavy and hard on us

but even that hardest of hearts unhardened suddenly, when he saw her there Persephone in her mother’s garden sun on her shoulders, wind in her hair

the smell of the flowers she held in her hand and the pollen that fell from her fingertips

and suddenly Hades was only a man with a taste of nectar upon his lips

[comrade-orpheus]

Come to left mezzanine row D for an ass-kicking.

[helenaredamancy]

[comrade-orpheus]

Got to see Patrick Page in King Lear last night. It was great. This promo pic they had on display had me gagging.

[sweatermuppet]

why don't u listen to some folk & blues & realize that our timeless commonalities as humans vastly outweigh what few differences u perceive as alienating

[comrade-orpheus]

[rated-r-for-grantaire]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Y’all remember the most recent Scottish Play revival? Where Amb*r Gr*y played Banquo? yeah I wrote a fic about that specific Banquo fucking Persephone Hadestown. Call me gay, idgaf.

[filthyprotozoan]

one thing about orpheus and eurydice is you guys are all like “i’m different i wouldnt turn to look at her” because you are all familiar with the story of orpheus and eurydice. but orpheus wasnt familiar with the story because he was in it lol.

[filthyprotozoan]

“i wouldn’t look back bc logically if she’s not there it wouldnt help to look and if she is there looking back would cause me to lose her” cool so has love never made you stupid and insane

[filthyprotozoan]

another thing thats interesting is i think most people assume its a walk of reasonably short length that you have to resist looking back. but we dont know how long that walk was. its out of the underworld, time could work very differently. could be days. could be months. could you walk for months without looking back to see if your love is okay? i dont think you could

[filthyprotozoan]

exactly. like oh you’re not going to look back? have you never lost a love? there is so much looking back.