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Feeling a lot of feelings about how Hadestown doesn't present the story as "Orpheus turned around and everything fell apart and there was nothing anyone could do to fix it" and instead presents a story that says "he turned around, he doubted, he failed, but if we keep telling his story maybe one day Orpheus won't" and it's not just about Orpheus as a single character, it's a bout every Orpheus, everyone who runs up against a system they can't change and fails and everyone who sees that failure and gets back up and says "maybe I can change it now" and tries again. That Orpheus failed isn't the takeaway of the story. The takeaway is that one day he might succeed.

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“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

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On unlived lives

Tomas Tranströmer, "The Blue House" / Cheryl Strayed, "The ghost ship that didn't carry us", from Tiny Beautiful Things / monoprint by Sophie Lécuyer / @wei--wuxian / Joanna Newsom, "Baby Birch" / @hungerinmeliving / T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton"

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We laugh at Sauron for not realising a golden-haired Aman elf with the audacity to challenge a fallen Maia with song can only be Finrod at this point, and conclude that Finrod's spell must have worked in part -- but I've never heard anyone ask how on earth did he never come up with the idea that Celebrimbor might have given the three rings to his three remaining family members!

Who made the spell this time?

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I'm rereading lotr now and almost done with fellowship, and it's really interesting how Elrond is never ONCE, ever, referred to as an elf (but rather, as a half-elf, Halfelven). not even when boromir is ranting unwelly:

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Silm!

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Hey Gandalf you know a heads-up might have been nice? Even just a “It might be nothing, but I have a bad feeling so be on alert just in case" would have been helpful…

(Part 2)

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The front door of Bag End in my webcomic adaptation of The Hobbit, as seen in Chapter 1 vs Chapter 18 :). It turns out your art style changes a lot when you draw a webcomic. (I love painting Ghibli-inspired backgrounds!)

Chapter 18 hasn’t been posted publicly yet, but you can view the first several pages (along with other art) on my Patreon.

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SOMEONE KNOCKED ON THE TOILET STALL IM IN AND SAID "Hey, who took my stall"????? BESTIE WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN

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I'm sorry you can't do El Tango de Roxanne and have it not be in my head forever

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Every time I advocate for voting people are like "no you shouldn't vote! Read this literature, it'll totally change the way you view voting!" And every single time it's the same fucking "you shouldn't vote because both parties are exactly the same so it won't make a difference who wins" bullshit wrapped up in some fancy language

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I love pop rocks, can I have some more [x]

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Elon Musk bought the company. He has nothing to do with the development. #CosplayEngineer

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Found online.