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The tragic hero is complete. You can call him unhappy (miserable, utterly broken) even before he is dead. For an instant he is something like divine. And then he dies, because there’s nothing left to do. The center of every tragedy is the image of a human being who has already died but keeps talking, someone whose face is a mask.

— Michael Kinnucan, The Gods Show Up

– Mary Ruefle, “Deconstruction”

sorry this is always how it goes

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

the inescapable structure of tragedy, the lines of causality

matthew stover, star wars episode III: revenge of the sith novelization / prophetic perfect tense / louise glück, the triumph of achilles / hadestown, “road to hell” / sunnyscenegenerator / joanna newsom, “waltz of the 101st lightborne”

THESE TAGS SOMEONE JUST LEFT ON MY POST...... where's that fucking. queen's thief passage

#the coin is born face down; the character is born dead.

"Asteroid," poem assembled from quotations from Wikipedia articles

there is not a single day i don't think about this quote in relation to tragedies

Aeschylus, The Oresteia

Richard Siken, Planet of Love

The Lumineers, Cleopatra

the novelisation of The Revenge of the Sith (via @nonbinarydin)

love the way tragedy is simultaneously a funeral, a seance, and an exorcism like are you bringing the dead closer to you or pushing them away? yes

O, I AM FORTUNE'S FOOL!

i. hereditary (2018) / ii. ophelia / iii. the oresteia / iv. wolf in white van / v. antigone / vi. romeo + juliet (1996) by @rocktheholygrail / vii. rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead / viii. hereditary (2018) / iv. hadestown (2019)

Thinking about how tragedies only work when the characters are robbed of choice. It was always going to turn out this way. This was always going to happen. She's been dead since the beginning. You have already done all of this and you will do it again. He's a brave man, but deep down, he'd rather be taming horses.

How It Feels by Jenny Zhang

there is not a single day i don't think about this quote in relation to tragedies

Aeschylus, The Oresteia