fine lines

to cross, bound, or read between 30something, theologian focusing on race and gender, multifandom

[cross-x-rose]

"Alice Through The Looking Glass" statue at Guildford Castle ground in England by sculptor Jeanne Argent.

[bitcoitus]

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

[bitcoitus]

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." — Robert Anton Wilson

[kaslynspeaks]

no okay but persephone. when you listen to the soundtrack it's like she's a party girl she drinks and has fun but you guys dont understand because every single time she took a drink she grimaced. every single time. not once did she enjoy herself, because it wasn't her indulging in her wants it was her coping. and even!! even during livin it up on top when everyone takes a drink there's a moment of silence where they all look almost disgusted by it. none of them enjoy it it doesn't taste good to any of them yet still they drink it??

and then UGH okay because lady of the underground i was under the impression that she was interacting with the workers and whatnot like making the cracks in the wall that orpheus was about to break down but there's no one on stage. the only people on stage are the musicians, hermes, and persephone. none of the workers are there. she's singing to herself. do you understand do you get it?? especially with why do we build the wall right before that because I didn't realize persephone was in that song?? and the whole time she looks terrified. she Doesn't want to be here she Doesn't want to engage with this (my mom compared the song to being at a maga rally and she was 100% correct) but she does anyway, perhaps because she's forced to. and the look of heartbreak when eurydice appears; the way eurydice is confused and put off at first, but it doesn't take long for her to learn the words and join in????

eurydice and persephone is a whole other thing because I never realized how much of a relationship they had. like persephone is quick to be friendly with her, and eurydice is enthralled by that attention. but then during chant when persephone is singing about like the earth dying and people starving she's looking at eurydice walking by. she's looking at her and she looks heartbroken, she's reaching out to her but she can't reach her because she's not there. she watches as the fates strip eurydice of everything she has, and then that look of despair changes of one to fear as hades' eyes land on eurydice as he declares he'll find someone else who will be grateful. and I know that like flowers can be like an analogy for sa but I really felt it during that part. not so much in songbird vs rattlesnake? but definitely during the end of chant like AJHVSGDJAS.

and then like I said when eurydice enters the underworld persephone looks shaken. because she knows eurydice, and she knows orpheus, and- idk man. imagine being in hell and someone you know shows up, but you know they can't leave and you know they're soon to become a shell of who they once were. like. yeah

[kaslynspeaks]

#When I was playing Persephone in Hadestown#they had me walk onstage a little bit before Eurydice enters the underworld in Why We Build The Wall#and every time I walked onstage#I would just watch the workers sing#And then Eurydice came on and I tried to look as horrified as possible#and during the last verse I would snap my head over to look out in the audience#I tried to convey that it was like I was singing along against my will#if that makes any sense at all and#during our lady of the underground we had workers on stage BUT#there was a section I always had fun with where we were allowed to call a worker over for “come here brother.. lemme guess” and#then we’d dismiss them and then#during the section where she’s singing “when was the last time you saw the sky..?”#I tried to make it very apparent that although she was looking at the audience#she was singing to herself#And I’ve been wanting to find a way to yap for a while so I hope you don’t mind my reblogging with my own shit#she doesn’t put into words how much she knows them but she interacts with both of them like she’s always known them#but I was always trying to make the audience get the feeling that#although I was acting like I was just a bit of an overdramatic party girl#there was a lot I was dealing with as the character and I was coping unhealthily#CHANT TOO WAS ALSO SUPER FUN#initially my Hades (awesome guy) and I had the idea that we’d come up and down the stairs on the platform#and it was intended to look like we were sort of chasing each other arguing about what was going on#but unfortunately we couldn’t execute that because there was only a set of stairs on one side of the platform#it was still awesome though !!!!! I was onstage during the part where Orpheus was singing and#I’d always close my eyes when he was talking about how “lady persephone’s blinded by a river of wine”#It was just so so fun anyway sorry for the yapping (via @exceptformarvin)

hi did you know that thats so cool and awesome and epic. this was so cool to read ty for sharing

[classicalcanvas]

Water Lilies (1904) by Claude Monet

[moetxt]

i tried making a contrapuntal poem for hollanov, which can be read 3 ways: shane’s side alone, ilya’s side alone, or both sides together. inspired by the long game.

[ambatya]

[kosmogrl]

deciding one day that you want to build a life for yourself is so scary. like damn I really want to live… I’m new to this. where do I even begin

[befikra]

i bet it feels good to be an underwater plant just swaying in sync with the flow of water

[befikra]

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

[aphilologicalbatman-deactivated]

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

[zipstick]

Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer

[hamletthedane]

Nobody was doing it like Mary Magdalene. Tits out. Standing on a mountain. Holding a skull. She’s like the lesbian catholic hamlet. Aesthetically an absolute win for the gays.

[hamletthedane]

Like if I was some peasant girl a few hundred years ago who visited a church or an Italian noble’s house and saw THIS, I’d be signing up with the nun recruiters they sent to my village school on the SPOT.

[hamletthedane]

I just had a flashback to a past life.

[roycohn]

happy lottery day girlies!

[luminote]

The poet exists in fragments, so does the poetry.

[glowcowboy]

it is important to cling to wonder btw

[glowcowboy]

many people grow up and forget what it feels like to be a child. we must remember this. we have to remember what a joy it is to play. to learn. to build connections. to grow. to experience. we must hold onto the things that awe us. we are changed by what we love

[stonegoddex]

what if we admitted to each other that it's not always really romance that we want. What if we admitted that what we're really craving is intimacy and society taught us romance is the only way to get it.

[pocketmilo]

oh to be snails sharing an apple 🍎 ✨

this months patreon sticker!

[dangerously-human]

@womaninwinter For obvious reasons 💙

[moodcafe]

archive moodboard: order for @an-puca | want one?

[holyunholy]

should be able to leave kudos on scientific studies. i liked your paper dude keep at it

[holyunholy]

sorry, Dr. Dude

[thepioden]

Dude et. al.

[wormofmouth]

need y'all to know that most academics have publicly searchable email addresses and this not only makes their day but they can put nice emails in their giant packets for applying for jobs or tenure. "hi i read your paper for a class and it was very helpful, im at xyz college and the class is blah with professor blah" is sufficient and ENORMOUSLY helpful

[link-the-feral-anon]

It seems that, once again, when you can't kudos, commenting is the way to go

[thatdisasterauthor]

I recently emailed a professor about a paper he wrote about old fire prevention posters pre Smokey Bear, and he was SO EXCITED. He immediately emailed me a copy, and physically mailed me multiple copies to hand out to my coworkers, and exchanged multiple very long emails with me discussing the paper, and sent me a whole powerpoint full of posters he hadn't been able to fit in the paper.

Email the authors.