I appreciate how Hadestown is a mix of messages. There are so many lessons to be learned from this show, and I feel like I have learned a different one each time I saw it.

It starts as a story about love. About trust and working together and relationships. A relationship will die if one person is the only one working on it, no matter how much you love the other person. You cannot just share the good times and make empty promises. Relationships require work, especially during the hard times. That is how relationships grow and become stronger and more meaningful. You also have to trust your partner, again, especially during the bad times. Both Hades and Orpheus were in positions where they could not get the affirmations they needed from their partners during the bad times, and we see how that turned out. Lack of trust can lead to bitter resentment and doubt, which are relationship killers.

It is also a story about poverty, abuse, and the strength of community. We live in a world where we are trapped by rising prices and low paying jobs that treat us like machines instead of people. But it's just as Orpheus says, we are many and they are few. It is not for the few to tell the many what is true. And it's true that at first it is hard. We may want to keep our heads low and keep our fellow people "safe", (I really enjoy the "Keep your head low if you want to keep your head" line, because I think that speaks more about how Hadestown works than what we are shown) but nothing will change if we don't stand up for ourselves and each other.

I especially love the message about trying again. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice will never end differently. It shouldn't end differently. But at the end of the day, it's a story. We do not live in a story. We live in a place where we can say, let's sing it again - maybe a little differently this time - and hope it turns out this time. We can learn from our previous mistakes and try again. And try again. And again, and again. Eventually, it will turn out. You just have to be willing to see how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is.

All backed by incredible songs, too

GUYS ITS ME GARAKS-PADDED-BRA i was so moved by being terminated for no reason i wrote a song so beautiful that tumblr would have no choice but to give me access to my wholesome family friendly blog once more. Reblog if you want Gpb RETURN so you may LOOK AT THE PAUL WILLIAMS FANCAM I MADE

The way this shit worked

OKAY GUYS IVE GOTTEN LIKE 100 ASKS ABT IT IN THE LAST FEW DAYS. SO.

Garaks-padded-bra is back. Idk why. However, i havent announced anything because although its back up, tumblr has decided that despite my email still being connected to it, and me receiving emails when people interact with it, when i try to log in with said email, uhh. Tumblr says that email isnt associated with any blog/account. Ok.

So ive spent the past few days trying to fill out support forms and i havent gotten anything back. Garaks-padded-bra is a reanimated corpse i have no control over. I’m trying though!!!!!

ten years apart 😭

Bessie is playing hard to get but not Miss Gracie

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

@plaguedocboi Are you aware that you’re featured in this video at 18:45?

“Unless Plague Doc Boi is LYING” got me tbh

Having "a lot" of followers on tumblr is funny because probably 80% of them are ghost blogs who haven't been on here in like a decade.

It's like, no no, those aren't my followers, that's a graveyard! I'm the caretaker of a thousands of tombs. I love them, but they've been dead for seven years.

had to share this

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

i love this guy

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for