It's an old tale

"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

“Cause here’s the thing. To know how it ends, and still to begin to sing it again. As if it might turn out this time. I learned that from a friend of mine.”

Hadestown and Orpheus and Eurydice over the years. Broadway, NYTW, album, and myth.

portrait of a lady on fire, dir. céline sciamma // doubt comes in, hadestown // eurydice, sarah ruhl // metamorphoses: book x, ovid trans. anthony kline // “eurydice”, ocean vuong // talk, hozier

☀️ all i’ve ever known ☀️

I love in Wait For Me when the Fates are like "where do you think you're going who do you think you are" and Orpheus is just like

waah waah my wife dead

here’s a little late valentine’s day post i guess :)

reading the little mini stories on the mechanisms site and i don’t know why i find this so absurdly fucking funny

doubt comes in. or whatever

“The devil take this Orpheus, and his Belladonna kiss...”

Hadestown is so perfectly and lovingly crafted to my interests it’s hard for me to believe it exists; like someone took a dream from the deepest places of my mind and made it real. Do you ever encounter something you never knew you were always waiting for? That’s what this feels like.

"You got a lonesome road to walk

And it ain't along the railroad track

And it ain't along the black-top tar

You've walked a hundred times before"

Colored the drawing of Hermes and Orpheus that I posted last night!

hades: take it from a man no longer young

if you want to hold a woman, son 

hang a chain around her throat 

made of many carat gold 

orpheus: ok boomer

Wedding song

i have no idea if i’ll ever clean this up, but i just listened to hadestown for the first time and i wanted to make something while the tears are still fresh i guess :’(

i honestly believe human beings are not meant to live like this. we are meant to live in loving communities and be around nature every day and grow our own food and create art and not work day and night until we die. this longing for another life is not human nature, it’s a symptom of modern society.