the mouse whose name is time

everything blog 🌟 (interacts from @crimsonbright)

[bellsofsaintclements]

“Dream of Aphrodite” by Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994).

[nobodylivingknows]

charlie gillespie playing a fuckboy version of luke patterson in one night only... I was HOLLERIN

[takingupliminalspace]

I will never get over the fact that Hades and Persephone’s parts in Chant are a minor key version of Wedding Song, literally and figuratively

[antigonehappy]

imo part of the message of hadestown is that fundamentally love alone cannot stop oppression. it can make things more bearable in the meantime. it can even motivate people to take further action. but you cannot destroy the cruelty of capitalism just by loving hard enough.

orpheus's love for eurydice might have driven him to go to hadestown looking for her, but it couldn't save her. hades's love for persephone might have driven him to give orpheus a chance, but it couldn't convince him to give up his empire. love makes the story repeat over and over again, but love cannot break that loop. something else is necessary. something else is required. and multiple times the characters are on the cusp of acknowledging that (if it's true, chant ii, word to the wise) but they never fully reckon with it. hadestown is a story about love, and that's a big part of why it's a tragedy.

[ashleyslorens]

It’s an old song It's an old tale from way back when It's an old song And that is how it ends

[istherelifeonmercury]

With all this discussion about the Hadestown pro shot I wanted to share my potentially controversial opinion, which is that Reeve Carney is actually a great Orpheus. I know that a lot of people don’t like his voice, or feel that his voice feels jarring or out of place next to his costars on the Hadestown OBC album and in the pro shot, but that’s actually why I think he’s so impactful as Orpheus.

For starters, the entire Original Broadway cast of Hadestown is incredibly talented, and they all have very distinct voices that add so much personality and depth to their characters, but you can tell with the entirety of the main cast that they all still have that Broadway sound. While their voices are unique, they still feel very musical theatre. But Reeve Carney’s voice doesn’t feel like something I would expect to hear in a Broadway musical, it’s sits more in that folk-rock timbre. And while I don’t think it would work for other roles on Broadway (see his run in Great Gatsby — that I was admittedly not a fan of) I think it actually works really well for Orpheus. Orpheus is the son of a muse. His voice has been blessed by the Gods themselves, and in a cast of incredibly talented people, Orpheus should stand out vocally. The colour and timbre of Reeve Carney’s voice is very distinct from the rest of his cast, and provides such a stark contrast to the rest of the world around them, which sits at this intersection between your typical Broadway sound and jazz.

While I love many of the other (Orpheuses? Orphei? Whats the plural of Orpheus?) I feel that when Orpheus is singing with that typical Broadway or BFA sound, as beautiful as it might sound, that contrast that makes Orpheus stand out so much from the rest of the world around him is lost. Vocally and technically it’s a beautiful performance, yes, but I personally feel like the impact of Orpheus is lost when he sounds like the rest of his cast. Again, not a dig on anyone who’s played Orpheus, they’re all very talented. This is just my opinion.

I’m not saying that you have to love Reeve Carney’s voice. After all, art is subjective, everyone has different tastes, and Reeve Carney’s voice does have a very unique sound to it that might not sit well with everyone, especially musical theatre fans who are more familiar to a certain kind of sound. But there’s a difference between not caring for someone’s voice and actively putting them down every time you get the chance to. Reeve Carney’s portrayal as Orpheus had a huge impact on the show, whether you like it or not.

Anyways, I want more unique voices on Broadway and the Hadestown proshot was amazing to see in theatres.

[depsidase]

[polkadotmotmot]

Stephen Fox - Window To A Larger World, 2026 - Oil on canvas

[ashleyslorens]

You, the one I left behind If you ever walk this way Come and find me lying in the bed I made

[dykeselfcest]

recent epidemic of adaptations that take lots of liberties with the source material and also, separately, are bad. but then if you say "this is bad" you get hit with "you're just being a source material purist and you don't understand the vision"...like. well actually I think it rules when people do new and different things with classic works. I just think these particular new and different things suck ass.

[wordfather]

[shetheyslain]

Crazy how you all know me as this funny glamorous blogger whereas in real life I’m the Belgian agricultural minister

[thesweetiepienovels]

Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Walking for three minutes, is better than nothing. Drinking a glass of water and eating a snack, is better than nothing. Wiping down the counter, is better than nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. You don’t have to achieve grand things if all you’re capable of right now is the smaller things. They are still achievements. Don’t do nothing just because you don’t think you’re capable of doing bigger things, just do something you’re capable of today. 

[heavensghost]

I’ll take care of you

[rowanclair]

These pieces are moments in time but they are also made up of many things. Field Path, the middle illustration here, is a patchwork of memories from different places, brought together by the hills I always look for as a landmark. In a photograph they look distant and tiny, but that's never how they feel to me.

Even the wild rose, which is quite similar to the reference photograph, is still a representation of my memory more than a direct copy. Some things I re-drew several times or felt indecisive about, others I drew once and that was it, the first time.

The end result in each case is very much like what I see and feel when I remember these places, and I'm happy about that. I'm always seeking to convey feelings more than a literal representation of something. These two things do often go hand in hand, but perception and memory shape and change things. I think this is true even when I'm drawing from fantasy, because it has to draw from both real and imagined reference points and be processed mentally... The lines are often blurry between drawing from life and imagination.

[funstyle]

Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand

[thepromiscuousfinger]