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I shall wrap thee in these cinders, Ell

And you shall be as radiant and terrible

As I

Ok I LOVED Cinderellas Castle it was so good especially Tadieus and Ella we gotta get a good ship name going guys before we end up with Ellieus or Tadella

We gotta use their servantuide to link them up quickly shippers we must make hast!!!

ive got a pitch for a third ending of the movie

Studying Irish myth and folklore is all fun and games until you find out pretty much all record of the roots of this shit was either lost, destroyed by the Christian churches that took over, or destroyed by the English. Which means trying to write literally any paper for class means digging for hours trying to find any credible source on the pre-Christian myths and finding the grand total of three surviving paragraphs on the thing you need. Head in my hands.

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We're crying out to your humanity—please don't look away. Speak about us. Stand with us. We're not okay. We're trying to survive.

This is not a nightmare. It's our reality.

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no but NOT ONLY does the Dracula novel explicitly show that the men's well-intentioned but extremely sexist decision to exclude mina because she is a woman makes her more afraid and unhappy and also puts her at risk BUT ALSO it shows that after they realize their mistake and start including her again she is actually noticeably happier, despite the dire circumstances, less worried AND she is able to meaningfully contribute to their efforts as a valuable member of the group, thus making them all stronger

it's so striking. many of the characters display very typical attitudes for the time that the book was written but the narrative...kinda doesn't. yes it was written in the 1890s so it's still dated by modern standards, but it makes a very conscious effort to question a lot of traditionalist attitudes and views that would have been prevalent at the time. like, the male characters all think that it makes sense that a woman's nerves would be too sensitive to participate in a vampire hunting mission...but the narrative does not validate this and in fact shows them to be wrong. and only when they change their behavior are they able to succeed.

Also notable that Jonathan is the first one to be able to injure the Count, and is ultimately the one who kills him. And he is the least traditionally masculine and most gender nonconforming of the male characters.

tldr lowkey in the books dracula was defeated with the powers of friendship feminism and gender nonconformity and I think we should talk about that more

an interactable crochet dissected rat i made a while ago

I finished putting together the Irish-American heritage month display and Jesus CHRIST there are so few books about Ireland in our collection?? Once more, I must say:

Why is it always about Orpheus turning back foolishly and never about Eurydice following him out of the Underworld, likely knowing she was doomed. That Orpheus went all this way, singing the story of their love, hopeful that he will return her to the surface and finally build their life together— but they will not. She knows her Orpheus will turn back. And yet she still follows him, all the way to the top, because the simple pleasure of seeing his back again is enough for her. Isn’t that a foolish thing to do for love?

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”

How to get to Hadestown? Take the escalator.

This is partly inspired by a tweet and was way funnier In my head. The other inspiration is the escalator to get to the subway in Washington D.C which could a quite possibly actually decend into hell. I think they’re the longest/steepest ever.

Hadestown but Hades gets a better idea

thinking about them

*dialogue credits aren’t mine !! I saw this somewhere but I can’t remember where I’m sorry 😭

"why we build the wall" from hadestown is really gonna trip up future media analysis students. they'll be like "ah a piece of media from the 2010s referencing building a wall to keep out the poor, clearly this is a reference to the president of the united states from 2016-2020", and then their professor will have to be like "actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010"

Chant I in a nutshell (click for higher image quality)

(OG meme under the cut!)

tbh I can't stop thinking about how i went into Hadestown being like "this is a tragic love story based on a greek myth I enjoy :)" and I came out the other side covered in blood being like "this is a thesis about how capitalism inevitably leads to both personal and global ruin, and so we are duty bound to resist it even as we lose, again and again and again. no matter how impossible it feels or how many times we fail and hit a wall and fall, we try again"

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'

i’m going to go lie flat on some train tracks

Hey, Tumblr. You like non-stereotypical depictions of autism? What about ✨ neurodivergent protagonists ✨ ? Yes? What about asexual neurodivergent protagonists that go on chapters-long rants about their special interests? You want gay characters that are important to the plot too? Then I've got the book for you! The author is gay!!! American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, is

There’s a venn diagram to be made here I swear

The funniest part of Ekko going to the alt timeline is how he casually and accidentally reminds everyone of the most traumatic things to happen to them

Like imagine you go to your future-son-in-law's graduation party after presumably knowing him for years and just not seeing him for a couple months and the FIRST thing he says to you is "remember when your husband tried to fucking murder you" LIKE???

Also, imagine your bf/situationship/lab partner/ best friend, who has spent time with you nearly every day for years and KNOWS how your sister died just starts suddenly being like "Your sister died? How did it happen? DID YOU MURDER HER?"

I love you Ekko you are very smart but "reading the room" is not one of your many skills lmfao

partner

Everytime I struggle to find the effort to keep learning irish a little demon in the back of my head goes "DO IT OR YOU LOVE COLONIALISM"

It is surprisingly helpful

There's a hand on my throat And a child at my feet Inspired by the statue "Latona and her Children"

I love the moments in tgg where Tom clearly wants to say a slur that doesn’t exist yet.

“He wears a pink suit”

when you’re in class and so you have to say “implied homosexual activity” instead of “nick carraway fucked that photographer”

Sylvia Plath // Fyodor Dostoyevsky