Jarchivist 👀

Someone on ig asked if they could print out the encouraging gerry i drew and put it in their wallet to look at and that's simultaneously so funny but also so touching.

IN MY DEFENSE!!! the horrors of the world are ceaseless and my friends are already amused when i open my wallet, sigh, and go "oh martin we're really in it now" to my shrinky dink i made of him. having a "hang in there" gerry photo feels so perfect to have with that i love them both dearly

I think the real torment nexus for jon and martin somewhere else is that they'll come to the mind-breaking conclusion that, in order to salvage their relationship and not devolve into a pure resentment and guilt feedback loop, they will have to--horror of all horrors--live separately for a little while. they don't even need to temporarily break up, they just need separate spaces and support networks so they don't feel like any argument has the possibility to instantly destroy their whole lives, and this one challenge could potentially grind both their brains into a fine sand.

like, one day they're going to have an argument so cataclysmic and soul crushing that they aren't even angry afterwards, they just take a few seconds to breathe after finishing yelling and lock eyes and both realize "oh. if we don't start getting serious help and disentangling ourselves Right Now then we are heading directly towards mutually assured destruction in the distressingly near future." and the prospect of taking a single step back from each other to do this is so terrifying that they do briefly consider "beautiful date night followed by romantic candlelit murder-suicide" as an alternative option. which mainly goes out the window as a plan because they're both totally up for the "suicide" part but neither are willing to do the murder (the "and they were both bottoms" conundrum as it has never before been seen). so they go for plan b, which is fucking "couple's counseling" or some bullshit.

thinking about hadestown as a story in which each character realizes both that they're in a time loop + that there is an audience observing them at different points throughout the show

there's this moment in if its true where it seems like orpheus is pleading with the audience to change how the story goes. eurydice knows this has happened before by come home with me reprise ("i can sing us home again" "no, you can't" "yes, i can" "no, you don't understand") but orpheus doesn't know until doubt comes in ("who am i to think that she would follow me into the cold and dark again?"). the gods are both observed and observing (hades and persephone and hermes all stand off to the side for most of the show when they aren't the main people in a scene); for hades and persephone, this happens year after year anyways without any kind of time loop narrative, but hermes is fully aware from the beginning of the narrative structure of the story, obviously.

persephone knows all along that she's being observed, but the amount she cares varies between actors (amber gray's persephone does not care that there's an audience; jewelle blackman's persephone is desperate for this story to be witnessed). hades never knows.

cause here's the thing! to know how it ends!! and still!!! begin!!!! to sing it again!!!!!

[id: tag reading, in all caps "Hadestown is haunted send tweet."]

my divorce themed wedding

FUCK ITS BEEN TOO LONG

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

decay exists as an extant form of life

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

World Heritage Post

I love how elias's fatal flaw that he repeats over and over again is that he has the ability to know basically everything about everyone around him, but he's just. not that curious about it. he assumes he already knows everything by surface-level personality judgements alone and doesn't care to Actually Check. he doesn't care enough to look into tim's past, he doesn't care enough to check if he's underestimating martin, and he doesn't care enough to consider whether jon might actually be willing to kill him. pitch perfect representation of an academic with almost unimaginable access to information who simply does not give a shit about his professed area of expertise. even jon at his absolute rock bottom worst is still interested in learning new things.

he really thought he could wear the watcher's crown when his allegiance to the eye was utilitarian at best. cringe fail watcher who probably doesn't even like stalking that much.

context: the heritage foundation is trying to launder data in support of doge by sending a survey to only their supporters and using blatantly leading questions. the survey takes less than 5 minutes and they don't verify your email

you CAN do it multiple times if you so wish

Just did this, took 2 min!!

my infamously data skewing followers rise up!