been thinking a lot about Hadestown and its messages this week. . .
If Hadestown has a moral, she says, then it’s “you have to try, you have to have hope, not because success is a given – it’s not. Orpheus fails. We heroicise” – here she breaks off to apologise that jet lag has led to her making up words – “we heroicise Orpheus not because he succeeds but because he tries, and that endeavour alone is worthwhile. How to live, and not merely survive, is to believe things could change.”
Anaïs Mitchell on her musical Hadestown: 'I worked on it so long I was afraid I'd never make another record'
there are literally so many books in the world and they just keep writing more and i’ll never be able to read them all. devastating i feel like throwing up
This is so important. I wish we had more rep resentation of ace characters who aren’t aro, though, and vice versa. It seems like the very few times we get characters on either spectrum, it’s BOTH spectrums. It would really help with society’s lack of separation between romantic and sexual attraction.
isaac's storyline has always been a little secondary in heartstopper. it was a b-plot in season 2, and not even that in season one. but i was happy with it nonetheless y'know? because we have to start somewhere right? baby steps in the right direction.
but just now i'm sitting here and thinking, is this Really as much of a baby step as i feel? i learned the word aromantic from a throwaway sentence in a novel by a small time author, and within a few months i realised it was my identity. and here's this very popular netflix show and there's a secondary plot about a character realising he's aromantic and asexual and this is the first time i'm hearing the word aromantic on screen and how many teenagers are going to google aspec identities after watching that episode? how many people are going to stay up at night thinking about that artist saying that he never quite fit in, but then he realised what was going on and it was freedom? how many 10 year olds are going to have those words stuck in the back of their minds for years and then realise when they're older that those words describe them, and that doesn't mean they're broken, that they have a community that will understand what they're feeling?
aromantic. asexual. holy shit, this is a big step in the right direction.
@ the Gildharts
sure, you may be verified. you may be twice verified. but are you verified. in the eyes of the GODS?!?
The YouTube content creator community was wracked by macabre tragedy this morning after Amelia Bedelia was instructed to hang streamers for a six year old’s birthday party
custom-made armor. and swords. lots of swords
what's your "if I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone but there would be signs" thing? mine is getting a fully green kitchen
love writing. writing is awesome. it’s a shame that it involves writing though
the plight of a writer with adhd and major executive dysfunction issues
I WANT TO MAKE ART BUT INSTEAD OF MAKING ART I JUST SIT AROUND AND FEEL BAD ABOUT NOT MAKING ART AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUGHHGHHG
i have a newfound respect and concern for chessex
it’ll never fail to amaze me that chessex, the game dice company - like if you bought your first dice set from a game store/comic shop/card shop you most certainly bought a chessex set - has such an ugly and poorly designed website. it looks like they went out of business 15 years ago.
*me eating something that I know will make my tummy hurt* i don't really care if this makes my tummy hurt
*a few hours later when my tummy hurts* oh... the quencies ...