Elcia's Diary

...far off places, daring sword fights, magic spells, princes(ses) in disguise... a place for my thoughts on fandom. Sometimes I write stuff. This blog does not support Sauron or any of his forces. I am no Man. (use pronouns accordingly)

[elcias-diary]

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Bring Haven Back – The Fans Are Ready!

[duckcity999]

Doodled this because I felt like it was very bellum core if you squint

[mica-mics]

“If you squint” and it’s the most Dr bellum thing in existence

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This why she built a robot with kitchen functionality built in?

Dr. Bellum is banned from all food prep machinery outside her lab isn't she.....

[donotfeedthewildauthor]

I was scrolling through tiktok and heard "Ea-Nasir" and I knew I had to share lol

[squidnerds]

Orpheus fans. I know you love this quote from Ovid

But can I humbly present this for your consideration, also from the Metamorphosis

They got their happy ending, in the end

[eggcats]

also this hadestown proshot is what made me realize that hades literally built all that stuff in hadestown FOR PERSEPHONE SO SHE'D WANT TO STAY like SHE'S the reason he made it artificially hot and bright!! he's trying to mimic summer so she doesn't leave!! how did I not realize this before????

ALSO i knew the reason orpheus could finish the song was because he finally understood the fear and doubt hades has every time persephone leaves BUT I DIDNT REALIZE THAT THE TRIAL HADES GIVES WAS ALSO BECAUSE HE UNDERSTOOD ORPHEUS AS WELL!! like hades knew he'd fail because HE'D fail!!

also also I know there's a Thing between hades and eurydice but I didn't realize that there was also one between persephone and orpheus until now, and I think it's intended to show that they're foils of one another, that pre-seasons hades was more like orpheus and pre-seasons persephone was more like eurydice and that their focus on orpheus and eurydice is because they remind them of what they had (and think they lost) - the love o+e have for each other reminds them of themselves, and so hades wants to take eurydice away/lock her away and persephone wants to protect orpheus/let him escape because they're trying to prevent them repeating their own mistakes in their own ways

like the slime tutorial did not give me these revelations, all musicals need professional recordings for this reason!!

[elcias-diary]

Yep, that's the whole problem. Hades has got it so bad for his wife he's actively actually making whatever broke in their relationship worse the harder he tries to hold onto her.

Yep they are foils. When Hades finally lets Persephone go top side on time and willingly, and his hand is still out for her, hanging mid air beseeching and Orpheus jumps in to take it, I nearly squealed, because the man needed that! I don't know if Hades would have turned round right there to delay spring again without his foil jumping in for that one hand shake between them.

[hgedits]

On the road to hell there was a railroad car...

[we-will-all-be-stories]

Among the many amazing aspects of the Hadestown pro-shot, one of my favorites is the way Patrick Pages injury provides an excellent example of how disability does not have to be barrier to musical theatre. The way his injury was presented, especially in Hades and Persephone's dance, shows how with enough care, choreography and blocking can be modified for a disability and still present a beautiful story. In fact, the pro-shot shows how disability can not only be accommodated, but also utilized for characterization and storytelling.

[map9810-blog]

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It was also playing during my Hadestown showing. Thankfully I had a buffer theater between us. Because gods is the audio too loud for that movie.

I definitely chose the better classic Greek performance.imo.

I'm going to be listening to nothing else for the next few days.

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Dear spambot who keeps sending me asks... Have the world's smallest violin concerto.

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Seriously phishing bot... Get the hell out of my ask box

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Do you like Atla and Tlok?

(For me I mostly like Atla more)

*looks at ask* .... *Looks at my blog*

What exactly is happening right now?

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Dear spambot who keeps sending me asks... Have the world's smallest violin concerto.

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Was I supposed to just find out Hadestown is in theaters cause of Tumblr folk losing their mind in my feed!?

[papercrane]

Too tired from traveling to really review Persuasion, but it was constantly on my mind how much Anne was like...luggage as an (assumed) old maid. I would have hated to be an upper class spinster; if your family sucks then you're just alone and have nothing to do and can't pick anything. She never got to even decide where she'd be going, people were just shipping her around to various people's houses because they couldn't toss her out on the street. She couldn't even use any transportation on her own, if she wasn't bumming a ride with someone already going somewhere she had to walk.

[firawren]

But remember—her sister Elizabeth is an upper class spinster, and no one is treating her that way. Elizabeth gets to control where she goes, not to as great an extent as a man, but just about as much as a married woman would. Elizabeth is consulted by her father on travel, housing, furniture, finances, etc. She gets to make decisions about her own life. So the problem is not really that Anne is an upper class spinster, it's just that her family doesn't like her. Which is gonna be a problem for a woman of any age and marital status.

[elcias-diary]

Sure Anne suffers under Regency Era English Cultural Norms but that's nothing compared to how she suffers under shitty Parenteral Favoritism.

And it's not even because she's remotely an undesirable sort of person. Literally every other person¹ in the whole book who's not her father and her elder sister genuinely like Anne, enjoy her company, want her opinion, listen to the things she says.

It's kinda hard to ignore the fact that Walter Elliot and his eldest daughter are such appearances snob looks-maxers they literally run counter to all the normal people in the story.

I don't think that's a coincidence on the part of the writer.

1. ok there's probably an exception to that but it's been a while since my last read and my current read is not in a language I'm strong enough to get anywhere fast.

[elcias-diary]

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Nathaniel Hawthorne's reputation as a writer is a very pleasing fact, because his writing is not good for anything, and this is a tribute to the man."

[mafi-maken]

Another cutie ~ Megamind 🧊💙

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Haven (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jean Mitchell, James Cogan, Dwight Hendrickson, Duke Crocker Additional Tags: Spoilers, Ghost Duke Crocker Summary:

The summer of 2031, Jean left home on an impulse to head east and see the ocean for her 21st birthday. It was 27 hours from Beatrice, Nebraska to the seaside town of Haven, Maine. An obscure name on a map the only thing Jean really knew about her biological parents. A photograph of herself as a baby and the surname Mitchell her only leads.

As fate would have it she was about to learn many things, not least of which was that Haven had more than just the usual ghosts lurking in the closet.

[elcias-diary]

Re-Watched two more episodes of Haven and while I'm not ready to add my thoughts to the discord I was trying to finally wrap my head around starting a new section of my calendar and it's even more aggravating than I thought it would be because by my estimation season 4 happens in like a single bloody week.

Like plotting the passage of time is seriously damming for any argument other than back to back to back stuff happening.

And yet off hand commentary by the characters wants to imply more passage of time.

Nathan wants to know how long Duke's been keeping the Lexie secret and Duke says day one. But that was Literally Yesterday or else I'm the one losing my mind!!!

Wade has apparently been avoiding Duke and not answering his calls. But stabbing a guy for the blood rush had to have been the day before, 36 hours tops. Otherwise other stuff makes no sense.

I'm going to have to pick a random day and just stick things on the calendar but all my possible reference points are made of mist.

Anyway, here's my working timeline Haven Notes if anyone else wants a look so you can scream into the void with me.