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forever grateful for the authors who work and write and continue to produce work contributing to the 16 million fan works
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Update: this is the best post I’ve ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.
love these variations on Fall Drink. Makes me want a tumblr cocktail book
thinking about hadestown as a story in which each character realizes both that they’re in a time loop + that there is an audience observing them at different points throughout the show
there’s this moment in if its true where it seems like orpheus is pleading with the audience to change how the story goes. eurydice knows this has happened before by come home with me reprise (“i can sing us home again” “no, you can’t” “yes, i can” “no, you don’t understand”) but orpheus doesn’t know until doubt comes in (“who am i to think that she would follow me into the cold and dark again?”). the gods are both observed and observing (hades and persephone and hermes all stand off to the side for most of the show when they aren’t the main people in a scene); for hades and persephone, this happens year after year anyways without any kind of time loop narrative, but hermes is fully aware from the beginning of the narrative structure of the story, obviously.
persephone knows all along that she’s being observed, but the amount she cares varies between actors (amber gray’s persephone does not care that there’s an audience; jewelle blackman’s persephone is desperate for this story to be witnessed). hades never knows.
cause here’s the thing! to know how it ends!! and still!!! begin!!!! to sing it again!!!!!
@perennii you understand me
[id: tag reading, in all caps “Hadestown is haunted send tweet.”]
The fates are an interesting case in this. They know how it goes. And are actively forcing everyone else to stick to the plot, because that’s their job. When the other characters stray from the loop, the fates nudge em back on
Planes are bombing randomly and the sound of tanks is very close. It is a horror like the Day of Judgment. The situation is very dangerous now. The bombing does not stop.
Guys, they just bombed a house next to us, very close, stones are falling on us, it’s very dangerous and the situation is difficult, it’s now 1:10 in the morning and the explosions are intense and people are screaming
The matter does not stop at land and air only, they are launching shells from ships and warships so that no one can reach those inside the house. The matter is very horrific. How long will we continue with this miserable life? Please, please donate to us and help us.
There are people calling for help. The ambulance has arrived, but you cannot advance because of the shooting and bombs and because the building is burning. What is more difficult than this feeling? If you do not die from the explosion, you will die waiting for someone to save you. Please wake up. What we are going through is a war crime, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Please save Gaza, please save us.
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