i look at you, and i sigh.

grace | she/her | winter loves me

[paddingtonbears-deactivated2021]

me when i definitely don’t have plany off time: oobh i got plany off time

[ringwormstarr]

i’ve been caught…

[googledocsdyke]

the man who would be king // digital exploration of interior design

[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.

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

*hot chelle rae voice* it’s been a really really messed up week.

[seravph]

watching a movie and it’s like. oh this has chronic made by a man syndrome

[gownegirl]

Amy Adams as GISELLE in ENCHANTED (2007) dir. Kevin Lima

[gangueiro]

[transviktortalis]

#oh this place is HAUNTED haunted

[musicistheart-deactivated201901]

Edward Gorey

[rumiensze]

small vases

[macklesufficient]

im not 17 anymore and i should find something new to talk about but remember when ophelia said “i hope all will be well” (4.5)

[macklesufficient]

pain is stored in the shakespearean woman

[macklesufficient]

this isn’t an original thought by any means but when shakespeare wanted to examine the depths and nuance of human suffering it was almost always most effective in his women. you got the articulate outbursts (oh god that i were a man i would eat his heart in the marketplace) (grief fills the room up of my absent child. have i not reason, then, to be fond of grief?) (the time was, father, that you broke your word) etc etc but tbh what gets me is how often they’re the ones to sorta metatextually admit that something’s unspeakable, which is a wild thing to do in a shakespeare play. romeo monologues in the sepulcher for a long time but juliet says “i’ll be brief”/lady macbeth can’t talk about it at all she sleeptalks and kills herself offstage/isabella’s told she’s getting married and never speaks again/ hamlet talks and talks and talks bc he’s convinced he can work it all out that way as if there’s something to understand about pain besides that it hurts, but she doesn’t try to explain her songs to anybody. unhappy that i am i cannot heave my heart into my mouth etc

[amyadamsource]

Amy Adams photographed by Boe Marion for So It Goes magazine (2018)

[julie-fourni]

statues from Musée d’Orsay I drew a while ago 

[ambassadorquark]

when the quarantine is over we are bringing back the cult of dionysus

[raisinchallah]

also thinking about this like gay sephardic poet from like the 13th century who wrote that moses would not have written down the laws against being gay if he had seen how beautiful his lovers face was and im like god the layers the romance the religious emotions..

[jewfrogs]

the poet is rabbi yehuda al-harizi/judah ben solomon harizi! it’s from his book of taḥkemoni iirc, and the quote is “if Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

the double image, anne sexton from the complete poems written c. 1960

[lesbianshepard]