moon!

hello i love soup

[starlightandtears]

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

[vodcar]

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

you can always tell a major breakthrough is made by a woman, a woc or any poc because it’s either completely ignored or never credited like it just happened by itself

[checkyourasianbias]

colored pictures of wong-staal, who died in 2020 at the age of 73

[movieswithtrains]

Yes, (it is heavily implied) that Hadestown (2026) has a train in it

[sparkbirdmusic]

I need to know more about this avian creature in Witch Hat Atelier... judging by location, it must be some sort of gull/seabird? with tendril-like outer tail feathers somewhat reminiscent of a Forster's tern or a tropicbird but veering almost toward motmot... and unlike a tropicbird, this bird can perch upright... the body is a nice shade of green, kind of thyme-esque? but we can't see the bill, argh.

[wifehaver103947]

[crpl-pnk]

you ever realize how able bodied people just are not expected to do things that cause them excruciating physical pain? like they’re just. not

if i shouldn’t use my cane because i can sometimes technically walk without it, it would just hurt like a motherfucker then abled people should no longer be allowed to use potholders to take things out of the oven because i mean

well they could technically pick up a hot pan with their bare hands. it would just hurt like a motherfucker

[crpl-pnk]

*sees an abled person using potholders*

i just think it’s really sad that you’re giving up on yourself like that

[crpl-pnk]

if you use potholders how will you ever build up the calluses necessary to pick up scalding hot metal without burning yourself so severely? it’s like you’re not even trying to get better

[darklingdawns]

I mean, my mother uses potholders, but she’s in her 70s. You’re just… too YOUNG to be resorting to potholders at your age.

[kipplekipple]

If you start using potholders, your inability to hold hot metal will only get worse.

[planouteverythingitwentwrong-de]

As a professional cook I was, and still am, able to pick most stuff up out of an oven without a pot holder. I might get blisters and maybe it will hurt, but usually it won’t

[crpl-pnk]

AMAZING! based on this one specific individual’s experiences i will now safely assume that it’s possible for anyone to overcome hand pain & leave potholders behind for good!!! as long as you want it bad enough, anything is possible!! make this story go viral so that all those self pitying losers who still use potholders know that there’s no excuse

☆♡LIKE & SHARE IF YOU WERE INSPIRED!!!♡☆

[starspork]

We Raise Our Cups really fucks with me. It’s brutally hopeful. It’s a farewell to Orpheus. Sure. everyone knows that. but. its also a call to action.

Hadestown is not subtle in how it shows the power of revolutionaries, of love and hope and human compassion over that of the capitalist cycle of abuse. WRoC is talking about Orpheus. But it is also talking about every person with that revolutionary spirit.

Orpheus is all of us, and every person who stands against exploitation, is Orpheus. The theme is there, but it’s especially strong in Is It True, where he stands against the Fates themselves to challenge the world, only bolstered by the normal people that stood up and heard his words and showed him the power of words.

When Persephone asks where Orpheus is now, it is not entirely that she wonders where the man himself is, but also that she is pouring a drop to every person who holds his legacy and fights for the cause.

Then they praise the birds who sing in the night and the flowers that bloom in snow. A metaphor for those people who fight to make beauty in inhospitable places, who strive for good in darkness.

“To Orpheus, and all of us”

To Orpheus, to those who hold his spirit, to those who lead revolutions, and to those who follow him. The cycle of Orpheus and Eurydice is a love song. It is a tragedy. And yet we all know that one day. one time. they will make it out together. It is on that day, when an Orpheus finally manages to bring their Eurydice back, that the revolution succeeds, and the Shades get to follow their path out of Hades. And the mortals get to live free from the poverty and despair of their oppression.

We sing the song even though it is sad, because we know that spring will come and the world will go back in tune once they make it out together. And Hades can take the seasons, the food from our mouths, the fire from our stoves, every ounce of gold from the rivers, but what he cannot take, nor any other like him, is our songs and the cries of an impassioned heart. And may those songs inspire a thousand Orpheus’ to journey to defeat Hades. Because eventually one will win. It only takes one.

So let the song reach the next Orpheus, wherever they are wandering. Alone on this Earth. And let the song comfort them as they start the cycle again.

[radda-radda1]

this was my first time seeing or even listening to hadestown today seeing the pro shot in theaters. and i’m just in awe at the fact that they made the stage itself into a literal representation of the holes that were left when certain events happened.

like when persephone was first called back into the underworld. there’s almost 10 minutes before the innermost circle comes back up. so there is both the metaphorical and literal representation of the loss of her presence. the actors cannot walk there. the Foundation Is Missing. much like how the characters are starving. they can’t take care of their base needs without the prosperity persephone brings.

later when eurydice takes hades deal to go to the underworld. she leaves by the same inner circle descending. it does not return until after orpheus has his scene where he realizes what happened. the hole is his heart left my eurydice literally represented by where he cannot walk.

i’m sure someone’s brought this up before and in more detail but as my first time watching this i was just in awe of all the meticulous details like this

[weird-goodbyes]

The thing about Hadestown is the line “To know how it ends. And still begin to sing it again. As if it might turn out this time” is an incredible way to describe most of life. We try because we have to believe that even when the ending is set in stone, it’s still worth trying. It’s still better to be a person who tried.

[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.

[lesbianroyai]

rwby makes me want to cry so bad. imagine being created with the budget of a nickel and two toothpicks. the map of the region was a stain on a napkin. the creator wrote out to the ninth volume but died before the last of the third volume. but his friends kept the show going, kept true to what he wrote. the show survived the shutdown of the parent company. had crossover movies with wb and was dropped by them as well. got picked up by yet another studio. has been in hiatus hell for 3 years but is confirmed to continue. this is insane and unheard of for this type of show. also the core message of the show is to not give up, to keep going even when the going gets tough, never give up. rwby is not giving up. rwby, monty, you will always be famous <3

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

always some new bullshit in the ocean

[local-demon-in-your-area]

Why is it always orcas or dolphins

Why can't a salmon do some bullshit for once

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

worry not ☝️ they're doing coke

[angelcuttingonions]

Lup the woman that you aree

“ I— I know this journey’s been hard, and it’s only going to get harder, but we can’t allow ourselves to— to get to that place again. To even think about destroying an entire world. We need to promise each other, right now, we— we won’t let one another get to that place. Never again.”

just something about this line in this episode specifically.

i really think the end of this episode in particular was the beginning of Griffin setting her apart from Taako as a character, fleshing her out as her own person separate from her brother. she’s spontaneous, she’s a fucking badass, she’s sharp, shes funny, she’s protective, she’s a kickass wizard and she knows she’s a kickass wizard. and she has been through hell and back, and knows she’s going to do it over and over again but she’s not jaded. she refuses to become jaded.

her dragging everyone back to reality with this line in particular?? all of them had probably died a couple times at this point and and know they’re going to come back so the idea of really truly valuing life as it’s become such an easy thing to take for granted.

now this next bit isn’t to say she’s Taako’s moral compass or fucking whatever, but then imagine their entire fucking childhood with his sister by his side, reminding him to have a damn moral compass, that there has to be something worth fighting for. that no matter what they’ve gone through they cannot go dark.

and then imagine him growing up without her, the memory of his sister stripped from his mind.

Griffin has put so much love into this character and the end of this fucking episode is the moment i really truly see that.

i could rant about this for a really long time but i think i have maybe one person who follows me who has listened to TAZ so. i will shut the fuck up. but like it’s fine it’s cool im so so so so so soooo normal about her.

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, being spent on species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[dogpuppy]

[voidfishing]

taako killing a man for deadnaming lup wasnt on my story & song bingo card but by god it got me

[astralcrash]

how have I not heard anyone talk about the fact that, on the cover of story and song, in the spot where griffin would be, lucretia is there instead. griffin is gone and it’s lucretia telling the story now, and so she takes his place on the cover. I’m going to throw up whoever came up with that idea owes me financial compensation

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of tiredness