help, she's going insane over a book again!

aroace, loves reading and music, bio+history nerd she/her

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is being shot out of a bow to hit a target

*thwap*

[thesheerabsurdityofitall]

spotify shuffle on bea miller's music going from drunk enough to i never wanna die is a diabolical choice

[thesheerabsurdityofitall]

so like what happened to saying "i'm sorry" when you're sympathizing with someone's situation. like i never say it out loud bc ofc i want to sympathize with this person yk solidarity etc but like why does NOBODY understand "im sorry" is not me apologizing but me sympathizing. i swear this used to be a normal thing???

[thesheerabsurdityofitall]

listening to born to lose and listening to "god i miss being a teenager more than i care to admit" yeah sometimes sure i have nostalgia but other times it genuinely is like bea miller. what the fuck are you talking about . you need to go back farther than that i fear. (general you this is not shade)

[its-timego]

Imagine the surreal insanity of being Irina Petrova and just hanging out having a hobby that you're very intense about and then you notice something weird and then all at once your name is one of the most uttered in history, by total accident. In the movie universe they describe her as a "radio telescope enthusiast" she does not even do this professionally. And suddenly everything is Petrova line, Petrova frequency, Petrova wavelength, Petrovascope, Petrova Task Force, Petrova problem. And you're like man. I have a day job.

[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[ihatenearlyeverything]

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

[oatmealbrain]

And boy are they clumsy

[hydrangeafae]

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human

[polar-solstice]

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

They are just!!! Student drivers!!! 😭

[sindri42]

BONK!

[should-be-sleeping]

[one-real-wrimonkey]

When Grace sacrifices his life he’s a hero.

When Stratt sacrifices his life she’s a monster.

*dramatic gasp, hand on my chest* the double standards they hold women too these days

[deermouth]

i really really really really really like hadestown's repeated use of "eurydice was a hungry girl" because at first pass you might think oh, she's scrappy and street smart and her ambition is going to be the foil to orpheus's idealist romanticism. but nope! no she is literally hungry. she is starving. that is her motivator and everybody knows it. she loves, oh she does, but she can't be fucking blamed for fulfilling her physical needs first.

[chungledown-bimothy]

Hadestown really did just set the standard for all proshots going forward. "The cinematography of this stage production was extraordinary" is a wild sentence but completely true. This is the rubric all future proshots should be held to.

[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

EDIT IF YOURE READING THIS CHECK THE REBLOGS THE ONE WITH BLUE'S TAGS IS THE BEST YOU SHOULD REBLOG THAT ONE NOT THIS ONE!!!!

[reineyday]

really starting to feel it when hadestown eurydice sings "weather ain't the way it was before" like yeah it really IS either blazing hot or freezing cold these days...

[bloggingboutburgers]

"It's not hurting anyone" until it is, y'know

Obligatory "not all people" and "not all situations" yadda yadda yadda, but also, I don't feel like watering this one down into oblivion. You know what I mean.

[thesheerabsurdityofitall]

me when i actively seek out books/movies/tv shows that do not feature any type of romance or even any hints of romance between main characters and all fan stuff i can find related to it is just. romance.

i mean i've never given as much of a fuck about it because even before i realized i was aroace i thought romance in books was stupid and people's obsession with it is stupid but like. irritating as shit to see people consistently do this as if it's not possible to exist without any romantic intentions or attractions etc etc i'm so TIRED of it

like im not even romance repulsed bruh do you guys really have nothing else going on in your lives to include romance in everything

[thesheerabsurdityofitall]

my sister telling me to shut up after i sing/hum wait for me counter: 7

[grac3yn]

eva stratt they could never make me hate you

[thesheerabsurdityofitall]

your favorite singers will continue to make great music and have concerts near where you live

your favorite singers will continue to make great music and have concerts near where you live

your favorite singers will continue to make great music and have concerts near where you live

your favorite singers will continue to make great music and have concerts near where you live

affirmations

[thesheerabsurdityofitall]

reblogging this bc janani k jha's stories about opening for emi beihold's tour are starting to physically pain me

[thesheerabsurdityofitall]

KING MALA I SWEAR TO GOD

WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME

LITERALLY EVERYBODY TOURS IN AREAS AROUND WHERE I LIVE

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOURE NOT TOURING THERE RN

[thesheerabsurdityofitall]

insanely tired but need to wrote down before i forget idk if makes sense but : orpheus+eurydice/hadestown where everything same but eurydice is the one who can't look back. smth smth my brain was talking abt her looking back bc of kindness like prim but idk what that means rn so will expand later

[bongwaterbunny]

is this anything