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[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

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[longstoryshort-143]

alina starkov, they could never make me hate you

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

[aphilologicalbatman-deactivated]

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

[zipstick]

Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[fathermulcahyofficial]

What if you were on a giant treasure hunt to get tickets to the annual community theatre production of Julius Cesar and you had to drink the most disgusting insane drink at the pub and the local vicar had to walk you home

[a-mythologynerd]

Okay I love how in Letters from Ketterdam: A Darker Shore that you can tell when Kaz realizes the letters are being intercepted. Like the previous letter is so much more vulnerable? The whole section about the farm and wanting Inej to come visit it? And after this we are on Club Cumulus paper and there’s a less sentimental, less effusive, more to the point and typical Kaz flippantness to the remaining letters. We were robbed by the Merchant Council and their interceptions.

[marvinthecrow]

Love and larceny,

Jes and Wy

[nikoliesss]

Letters From Ketterdam spoiler

Extreme cosplaying jokes aside, genuinely what the fuck is going on with Kaz that he's completely fine with poisoning himself for months in order to disguise his disability. We're just kinda glossing over this I think

[ekbelsher]

Kaz (without his gloves) and Inej  🖤🖤 This is the last page illustration I did for A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam :)

[dragonqueenstormwitch]

the investigators in a darker shore trying to uncover this big political murder mystery and their ‘evidence’ is just letters from notorious crime boss kaz brekker and this random sailor flirting

[safesoundxswift]

thinking about a much younger taylor writing ‘chose the rose garden over madison square’ and believing that she’d have to sacrifice her career in order to have a steady of relationship but in the end, travis turned their back yard into a rose garden to propose and now they’re getting married in madison square

[columbusswift]

he had a friendship bracelet and a dream

[lunar-years]

florescence gets better and better with every listen. I’ve quite literally had it on repeat since it released.

[saymynameinyoursleep]

Maisie Peters for Paper Magazine

[yourlocalchronicdaydreamer]

Ah yes, the 13 stages of a relationship:

1. Ohmygodohmygodohmygod you’re so hot

2. Early infatuation

3. I love you so much, I hope we can be like this forever :)

4. I’m so obsessed with you, it probably isn’t healthy but I’m not thinking about that now because I just want you here

5. iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou I’ve never felt like this before and this will last forever (real, trust)

6. He’s mine. Back off.

7. While this is wonderful and I love you a lot, I feel like I’ve stopped being my own person and that’s maybe Not Good

8. So, funny story, turns out being in love does not magically cure depression

9. Please reassure me you love me as much as I love you

10. Oh, so love can actually make depression worse. This is really Not Good (ft Robert Smith)

11. You noticed. You weren’t supposed to notice. Don’t leave. I can be happier. You’re not bad for me, I promise. Please don’t leave. Please love me less so you don’t have to leave.

12. So. I’m single now.

13. I can’t make sense of everything that happened. I think I’m mad at you. Can you tell me the truth about it all, about why it all ended, please, so I can just move on?

[all-women-kick-ass]

followers with pets reblog this and tell me what your pet is doing at this very moment in the tags

[rihfenty]

YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A GIRL SO IN LOVE - Olivia Rodrigo (Released June 12, 2026)

[deep-down-in-drowsy-town]

language ideology is a fascinating thing. i was with my mom and brother and we were comparing different actors who've played jean Valjean in Les Mis, listening to different versions of Bring Him Home. you know, normal family activities.

so i say oh i gotta show you this one version- and i pull up Þór Breiðfjörð's INCREDIBLE performance from the 2012 Reykjavik production of Les Mis. i didn't tell them what it was, i wanted them to experience it fresh.

as soon as it became clear that it was in a different language, my mom starts- i kid you not- LAUGHING. then she asks me "what is this"? like what do you mean? it's Bring Him Home from Les Mis, it just happens to be in Icelandic! but my mom immediately loses interest, and i turn it off.

it's just another example of what anglocentirc culture does to our brains. anything that's in a different language- especially a non-global language or minority language- is treated as a joke, not serious, or "lesser than" content in english. it doesn't matter how mind-blowingly gorgeous Þór Breiðfjörð's voice is (i honestly think he rivals Colm Wilkinson), he can't be that good because he's not singing in english. this is why we NEED more visible multilingualism, and a total re-evaluation of our anglocentric language ideologies.