Unfiltered thoughts

23, bcom, law student, wanting to kick the internalised habit of perpetually filtering myself

[julieterbang]

onemorepropose

[sundaymix]

[nature-travel-photography]

[urj0y]

[motionnns]

[sawasawako-archived]

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

[meduseld]

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[dean-winchesters-clit]

This is true no matter the version you're reading.

1. Eurydice trips and Orpheus turns to help her because he loves her.

2. Orpheus cannot hear Eurydice behind him, and fearing that he's been tricked, turns to make sure she's there.

3. Orpheus makes it out of the Underworld, and so full of love and excitement to be with Eurydice, turns to embrace her, forgetting that they both need to be out of the Underworld.

No matter what happens in the story, Orpheus loses Eurydice because his love for her compels him to look.

[wildefluorescent]

Orpheus, I can forgive you, then, There’s not a soul alive who wouldn’t have looked back

The Descent, by Tyler King

[princesssarisa]

Don’t forget Gluck’s opera, where Eurydice doesn’t know Orpheus is forbidden to look back, Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her, she assumes he must not love her anymore, and Orpheus finally looks back to reassure her of his love because he can’t bear her anguish.

In that version in particular, but possibly in all retellings, a part of us wants Orpheus to look back, because his failure proves his love.

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[bareniabirkin]

What Happens to Women's Ambitions in the Years After College

When we graduated in 1993, my friends and I had big dreams for ourselves. More than two decades later I decided to find out if anyone’s had

[luthienne]

“…because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[graduate-diaries]

I ask myself what life could’ve been like had things been a bit different.

[birdasaurus]

[norsis]

Little tattoos

[curiousmiscellanies-blog]

curious miscellanies

[urgetocreate]

Amanda Millis, In Transit, 2020, Oil on linen

[anyomamu]

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The breathtakingly beautiful Elsa Hosk showed Architectural Digest & Get Clever around her converted NYC Soho loft, filled with large amounts of natural light and rare vintage finds

[kleinefreiheiten]

02.2014 Hamburg