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idk some people like to compare about how Spike reverts to William in Tabula Rasa vs. whatever evil mode angel went into when something similar happened on ats but. The very next btvs episode is Smashed. The very next episode Spike finds out he IS a vampire all over again but only towards Buffy and instead of continuing to be her actual friend he decided to be that vampire. Not william. Wouldn't have it any other way of course s6 Spuffy is everything to me but it's still so tragic because this is the point where he truly failed her. She was already starting to love him back and he chose to fail her. RIP to their best friend era

#btvs #spike #spuffy

frenchublog

#btvs #fanart #buffy fanart #spuffy #spike #buffy summers

feyd-meowtha

It's a moral imperative that we write more sex scenes which are

Weird

Uncomfortable

Not good for anyone involved

#fuffy #spuffy

mithli-archive

racists getting mad in the notes on this cute video I posted now lmao. the reason I posted it to begin with is because I was seeing too many posts about Palestine where people were talking about Palestinians as if they are a political problem to be solved and not human beings.

digi-moe

Of course when it comes to Palestinians who simply trying to enjoy moments of happiness they often get judged and disrespected for it!!! anyways here's the full song that they’re singing. it's a traditional folk song sung by the beloved Palestinian singer-songwriter Rim Banna, known as the voice of Palestine. (Rest in peace). her music truly captured the spirit and resilience of Palestine. May her legacy continue to inspire and resonate with people around the world. ✌🏼🖤❤️🤍💚

Hala La La Layya ( Palestinian Folk music)

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original post date: May 18, 2021

karadin

joy is also a form of resistance

#music #video #palestine

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“If It’s True” from Hadestown sung by Damon Daunno at NYTW

I’m forever annoyed that they didn’t include this in the recorded soundtrack. To give some context: this happens right after Nothing Changes, when Hades runs out Orpheus after he snuck in to save Eurydice the first time. By singing this song, Persephone takes his side and the walls open (see: Chant II “Everybody knows the walls have ears. Is it true?”)

#hadestown #music #audio

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wait for me from hadestown's 2000th performance on broadway, feat. ali louis bourzgui as orpheus

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#hadestown #music #audio

sipping-ambrosia-wine

another underrated facet of hadestown is the gender politics at play. i see a lot of talk around here on the climate and labour commentary but theres so much on gender too. the babygirlification of hades is so DIRE compared the reception the nytw hades would have gotten. hades is a misogynist who is possessive and controlling of his wife and takes impoverished mortal girls into indentured sexual servitude to spite her and incite jealousy then discard the mortals after. its a little less obvious in broadway but still clearly a predatory, sexually charged dynamic at play between him and eurydice. a poor, naive small town girl brought to the city by and older wealthy man to be his mistress is like. such a classic cautionary trope. his lyrics about women ("women come and women go/women are so seasonal" and "women, quicker than the asp/and always slipping from your grasp" come to mind), marriage ("if you wanna hold a woman son/hang a chain around her throat/made of many carat gold/shackle her from wrist to wrist/with sterling silver bracelets/fill her pockets full of stone/precious ones, diamonds/bind her with a golden band") and outright saying eurydice means nothing to him, that he only sought her out because she was vulnerable to the wealth and the trap of the gilded cage that persephone spurns him for. in the earlier versions theres lyrics about previous girls he abused and discarded, cinder[ella]s return to sweeping the ashes in the streets.

i love that hermes is now a gender blind casting and i think melanie la barrie could not have been a better casting but i genuinely think we can't have that for the rest of the cast save maybe the fates. persephone as a living woman with needs and feelings forced up on a pedestal by her husband and then cursed and spited for it when he himself falls short of reaching her and she strays from his desires. persephone who copes through pleasurable distractions and bitterness but never action until she's reminded of her power and agency by if it's true. hades, who copes from the emasculation and loneliness of his wife travelling for six months without him by turning to capitalism and industrialization. he chokes out and cuts down the parts of him they used to share. gentle death is gone and the dead do not rest but work. he keeps his head low and he keeps his back bending and refuses to look up or try to change himself or his marriage for the better out of fear that it has already left him. orpheus and eurydice, where they initially suffer due to promises made to each other of the heteropatriarchal romance. orpheus promised eurydice that he would take care of her, that he would be the provider with his music and the good times brought by it. he's working on his song, keeps his head low and does not look up while eurydice wastes away. eurydice was brought in by the naive idea that the song/love/marriage itself would change the world (not the people it effects or involves) and thought the hard times would have an end date and worked herself to the ground to support him in pursuit of an eternal rest brought by a better world less chained by hunger and instability. an eternal rest that she was promised again by hades and that she, again, fell for.

hadestown is a deliberately fluid and ambiguous show regarding the time and place but i dont think that ambiguity can be entirely extended to the politics and distinctly grounded social commentary. you cant divorce it from its commentary on feminism and sex work any more than climate, labor, or nationalism

#hadestown

merelyspecters

by degrees

3x09 "Lullaby" // 2x01 "Judgment" Script // 5x22 "Not Fade Away" // 5x05 "Life of the Party" // 2x19 "Belonging" Script // 4x14 "Release" // 3x03 "This Old Gang of Mine" Script // 5x15 "A Hole in the World" // 5x15 "A Hole in the World" Script // 5x21 "Power Play" Transcript // 5x22 "Not Fade Away" Script

#ats #lorne

galaxyhearth

'And all that he loves is a woman,

A woman is all that it loves'

#hadestown #fanart #hadestown fanart

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!!!!

#hadestown

rat-in-a-cloak

they make me ill.

so here, have this <3

#tma #fanart #tma fanart #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood

the-voidlingg

watched the hadestown proshot yesterday and. songbird vs. rattlesnake and flowers have always both held a shit ton of sexual abuse undertones but god you could really see it in the proshot. the fact that hades tells persephone that if she "doesn't want my love, I'll give it someone else who does" then immediately turns to Eurydice as he continues. the expression of fear on persephone's face. the fact that eurydice is so terrified yet just a bit entranced by him, but also needs what he has. orpheus jumping between eurydice and hades during way down hadestown-- which feels funny at first because it's itty bitty orpheus trying his best to protect her from Hades-- and then not being able to keep her from him, anyways. it makes me think of how people stay in abusive relationships because they can't financially support themselves or because it's all they know, because it's safer than doing what you truly love, and they can't afford to be unsafe. it's bad for her, and she hates it, but she needs to survive so bad that she can't say no.

#hadestown