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I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—

We did it. We finally saved her.

#hadestown #lilac rambles #orpheus #eurydice #orpheus and eurydice

The waiters

#epic the musical #Hadestown #Hamilton #penelope #orpheus #aaronburr

maybe orpheus always looks back because his very effort to reverse death means that he can't look forward. if he could look forward, he could accept eurydice's death, grieve, and keep moving in life. his refusal to accept her death is looking back. his going down to the underworld, asking hades and persephone for her life, trying to lead her out... it's all 'looking back'. he does nothing for the entire story except look back. orpheus! looks! back! it's his entire thing! the story ends the same way it begins: orpheus looked back.

#these are the questions you ponder when you write an orpheus eurydice inspired valgrace fic #where the only possible way for jason to bring leo back is by gouging his eyes out #orpheus #orpheus and eurydice #valgrace #<- sort of bc my valgrace fic is why i think about these things #anyway.

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?