is this a hadestown blog? this is technically a hadestown blog, in the way that https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a search engine.
all of it? everything here relates to hadestown. loosely. allegedly.
why is this a hadestown blog? because i am interested (in alphabetical order) in borders, cyclical narratives, environmental justice, folk and other activist music, labor movements, meta commentaries on myth and folktale, migration, orpheus and eurydice, translation and adaptations, trainhopping, and theater, among other things, and anais mitchell was nice enough to put all of them into one show. it’s a very nice and large umbrella.
do I need to be into hadestown to enjoy this blog? it will increase your score on I Can Identify The Connection To Hadestown bingo, but otherwise, no. if you don’t like the above list of interests though, you might not dig it.
will you explain how the posts connect to hadestown? sometimes but mostly no. i feel self conscious tagging things like labor movement history with thoughts on blorbeus from my folk operas.
will you explain if i ask? probably have a ramble ready to go but no promises. please ask away tho!
what if i only want to read posts with your commentary? then i want to kiss you on the mouth! also check out this tag.
is this a hadestown blog because you think hadestown is a perfect show? nope! in fact, i find many choices made with this show to be endlessly (and yet, productively) frustrating. a not insignificant portion of my engagement is with these limitations and frustrations and unrealized potential, so if you’re not into alla that critique you might not enjoy this. and at the same time, it’s managed to land precisely at the intersection of a bakers dozen of my interests, and so it’s largely a very useful umbrella upon which to dangle all these shiny things.
why don’t you like hadestown!hades? he’s henry ford, and henry ford can always get fucked.
wow trump / why do we build the wall / that’s crazy! I’m cursed with knowing anything about the history of the US-Mexico border, and yeah, I will probably keep replying to this every single time. Construction on the contemporary US-Mexico border wall dates back to 1993/4 with the passing of NAFTA & the start of Prevention Through Deterrence as our official border policy. Which as predicted 1) made millions of people in Mexico lose their jobs & livelihoods, particularly in rural areas, 2) increased income inequality in Mexico, and wage disparity between Mexico & the United States, 3) drove migrations to cities and across the border, and 4) in the last 30 years has led between 10,000-80,000 people to die trying to cross into the United States, after border walls pushed them into increasingly remote & dangerous areas. Anais is a brilliant & insightful songwriter, but I cannot over emphasize that Why We Build the Wall is a very direct laying-out of the economic and political realities of migration, written in the same year that the Secure Fences Act authorized an additional 700 miles of border wall. The talent lay in clearly articulating the present reality, not anticipating one decades later. Though Republicans have made it more a part of their image, funding and construction on the wall -- along with the punitive border & migration policies that undergrid it -- have been bipartisan for 30 years. Trump did not start our trend for punitive migration policies, he didn’t start the wall, and he didn’t even build the majority of it.
is this blog 18+? this blog may have Grown Folks Stuff on here from time to time, and I do not keep up with tagging. if that works for you, then I’m happy to have you sit round this fire with me. if not, then shalom good bye and happy trails
what is your age / gender / location / religion / various other identities? what are you, a cop?
tags? My tagging is very inconsistent, and i’m sorry to say i generally do not keep up with tagging for content warnings. I recognize that tagging for content warnings is incredibly useful, and I’m glad Tumblr is one of the only social media where you can curate your experience that way; that said, I can’t promise to keep up with cw tagging with consistency & fidelity, so if you need tags for certain triggers then please use your best judgement on if you’d like to follow this blog. I do have some tags I use (inconsistently) for various content / ideas though:
#poor boy working on a song: Orpheus / rad musician vibes
#poor boi working on a song: orpheus but make em queer / butch / trans / better
#a song to fix what’s wrong: the work of art in the world
#all alone your blood runs thin: solidarity babyyy
#this is the shape of a story
#make you see how the world could be: i haven’t actually used this in a while
#orpheus is a punk mood board: what it says on the tin
#a suitcase full of summertime: solar punk ish
#our lady of the underground: persephone
#it’s a love song - love & orpheus/eurydice
#a tale of love from long ago - hades/persephone, love that’s been alive too long
#it’s a goldmine it’s a graveyard - haunted architecture, this place wants to kill you, etc
#we’re gonna sing it again - circular narrative, repeated narrative, time loop, help i’m stuck in a story and I can’t get out
#hot labor summer
#i remember fields of flowers
#how to put a crack in the wall
#advertisements for power
#why the winds have changed: climate change, climate chaos
#the house is the shape of a story and that story is shaped like a person
