Oh my stars!

hermes in hadestown is the exact opposite of an unreliable narrator. a tortured narrator. a little *too* reliable. incredibly aware of exactly what is happening at any given moment, vaguely spoiling it for you in the beginning, despairing every second of it. but ultimately motivated to continue to tell the story over and over and over with a smiling face for the sake of the audience, and for the sake of the characters themselves, singing it again to keep them alive. knowing how it will end, but singing it again so that the cycle may restart and eurydice may come back to life. enduring the misery of it all, over and over, holding the knowledge of what will come to pass but continuing anyway to see orpheus happy just one more time before it all goes down in flames again.

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

LWJ really just spends the whole book stealing WWXs shit

At least he treasures what he stole 🤷‍♀️

Very sad to hear that we lost Justin Richards yesterday who was instrumental in The Gallifrey Series and creating Brax amongst so many other things. He leaves behind an incredible legacy and my condolences to his friends and family ❤️

Something I feel like is a little bit important to keep in mind in regards to Jiang Yanli, she doesn’t live in a “Wow, you were so brave for speaking out against your parents,” society. She lives in a “talking smack about your parents gets you fired from your job, because not honoring your parents is a moral failing, and we don’t want you ruining our own reputation by extension by being associated with you,” society.

Cringefail, I think it’s been so long I forgot who is who in Gallifrey secondary characters list

Ok I decided that I at least need to relisten to wr1-2 to remember what’s up

Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell