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cherubg1rl

“People you may know” and it’s the devil from the Bible

charmsterz

#“hIIIII SHadOWWW it's mE the devIL”

lostvoyager222

I'm compacting her into a little cube

#murder drones

queerofthedagger

the problem is that lack of enrichment WILL turn you into the most abhorrent little gremlin bastard known to mankind and it's entirely on you to notice that ah, yes, it's been two months since you've seen anything other than your flat, your workplace, a friend if you're doing well, and the same three streets you walk every day. and then you just gotta sternly grab yourself by the scruff and go maybe take a beach/lake/forest day or visit an art gallery or whatever and then, respectfully, calm the ever-loving fuck down

#im in this post and I don't like it

frederickchiltonsdivacup

AO3 Writer Affirmations:

I do not have to reinvent the wheel every time I write fanfiction

I do not have to make every chapter's word count above 1,000 in order for it to be good

It is okay if some things don't make sense

I can write whatever I want

I am writing this shit for free

If people don't like my stuff, they can block me. If they're being mean about it, I can block them.

The most important part of writing fanfiction is having fun

Writing fanfiction is supposed to be fun

I do not have to appeal to people

This shit is fun

I am doing this all for free, and anyone who objects can go eat wet sand and worms from the sidewalk

anik

i love this guy

shytreeking

Actual marketing tactic that DOES exist btw. I can't remember the term, but all major businesses have special roles specifically for people who understand how to manipulate human behaviors & emotions. Why are snacks at the checkout area? Temptation. Why is candy so low to the ground? Children. Types of store lighting can affect peoples mood. Cheaper products are low or very high so people won't look for them. Branding companies have this as well for packaging & logos that hide products lack of quality & manipulate people to impulse buy.

I know damn well I watched a documentary on this in high school, but that was quiet awhile ago. Everything is designed to subtly manipulate your perceptions & tastes. Once you see it, it's everywhere & you can work against it out of pure spite.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I don't know if this is still a thing but they used to go so far as to make the flooring material in big stores in shopping centres slightly softer than the floors outside the store, so that customers would stay inside a bit longer since people have (largely subconscious) preferences about floor textures based on how easy they are to walk on and how much they hurt tired feet. The amount of research that goes into choosing the lighting in makeup and clothing stores is bonkers. Bakeries often smell a lot more like fresh bread or donuts than their actual baking activities would create -- they pipe the smell out front on purpose. Grocery stores are deliberately laid out to be very slightly confusing -- not confusing enough to impede buying, but confusing enough to send people down a few wrong aisles to look at products that they wouldn't otherwise see. Signs are often placed in aisles so that you have to go into the aisle a bit to read them clearly, or at least take a good look down it.

dear-ao3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21945784/chapters/52455163

thecryptkeeper

melovebunny

My gf inspired me to draw something (thanks baby!) that might bring in mixed thoughts…

but I don’t care, because it’s cute asf

And don’t mind how Uzi looks weird, I didn’t want to draw her stupid ass but did it anyway

looooooook at them 🥰

I might do some bunny J also if I feel like it..

#murder drones

tgirl-tamag0tchi

What is a girlfriend if not a special interest.

thistlefig

I see a lot of people online saying that Orpheus (Hadestown specifically) looks back because he loves Eurydice so much, that there isn't a world in which he doesn't look back, because the kind of man who wouldn't look back is not the kind of man who would go after her in the first place, etc. It's inevitable because of the strength of his love. But I don't see that as being the whole picture. Textually, it is explicitly his doubt in himself, and in the narrative of his life, that makes him look back: "Doubt Comes In", and he wonders, who is he that Hades would let him win? Who is he that Eurydice would follow him through the dark? Orpheus used to have a very simple, naive view of the world and his place in it. He was single-minded. At the beginning he tells Eurydice he's the man who is going to marry her because...well, that's how the story should go, and he is a poet first and foremost. Then, when he meets Hades, he is confronted by what Eurydice did and what the world is really like. He is shattered by the realisation that Eurydice wasn't just a simple, "pure" victim, but that she signed her life away. He is beaten down and loses faith, he goes into "Is this how it is?" after he's literally already done the impossible by reaching Hadestown on foot. He should have proven his abilities to himself by this point, but things aren't going the way they are supposed to and he doesn't know who he is anymore. He isn't just a boy in love with a girl who sings a song to bring back spring: he's a boy who didn't look back when he should have the first time when she called his name; she's a girl who chose her immediate needs over his grand ideals. His faith in a world where they make it back together is broken. He looks back because he doesn't trust himself or the narrative that he's found himself in. It's even more heartbreaking to me, because the Orpheus he was at the beginning of the musical might not have looked back, but that version of Orpheus doesn't make it out of the Underworld.

And to top it all off, the version of Eurydice from the beginning of the musical, before love softened her hard edges and made her trust him, probably wouldn't have followed Orpheus out of Hadestown. Eurydice really does trust him to get her out, because she's looking for the Orpheus she used to know and she's seen the power of his song and worldview.

Am I rambling into the void or does this make sense to anyone else?

#this but also!#“she's a girl who chose her immediate needs over his grand ideals” I imagine a small part of him had doubt eurydice would follow him #she already left him once!#hadestown

typebeanie

Also can we talk about how freaking good Flowers was in the proshot??? The emotion in her voice?? Her loneliness onstage?? The TEARS STREAMING DOWN HER CHEEKS THE WHOLE TIME?!!?? Like the song hit two hundred times harder while watching her sing it up close. The grief… ohhh the grief…

#I have a newfound love for flowers honestly #like I thought it was a pretty good song already #BUT WATCHING IT ON SCREEN NEARLY BROKE ME #hadestown