I've been broken in, But I sure ain't been broken down

I'm not photosensitive and not the most qualified person to be giving this warning, but I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere yet so for what it's worth: There are some brief but relatively intense strobe effects near the beginning of Act II of Hadestown. After the song "Papers" (which begins with the line "You're not from around here, son...") there's an extended dance/instrumental break, and the strobe comes at the end of that. When you hear the Fates start singing ("why the struggle, why the strain?") the strobe effects are over.

no okay but persephone. when you listen to the soundtrack it's like she's a party girl she drinks and has fun but you guys dont understand because every single time she took a drink she grimaced. every single time. not once did she enjoy herself, because it wasn't her indulging in her wants it was her coping. and even!! even during livin it up on top when everyone takes a drink there's a moment of silence where they all look almost disgusted by it. none of them enjoy it it doesn't taste good to any of them yet still they drink it??

#When I was playing Persephone in Hadestown#they had me walk onstage a little bit before Eurydice enters the underworld in Why We Build The Wall#and every time I walked onstage#I would just watch the workers sing#And then Eurydice came on and I tried to look as horrified as possible#and during the last verse I would snap my head over to look out in the audience#I tried to convey that it was like I was singing along against my will#if that makes any sense at all and#during our lady of the underground we had workers on stage BUT#there was a section I always had fun with where we were allowed to call a worker over for “come here brother.. lemme guess” and#then we’d dismiss them and then#during the section where she’s singing “when was the last time you saw the sky..?”#I tried to make it very apparent that although she was looking at the audience#she was singing to herself#And I’ve been wanting to find a way to yap for a while so I hope you don’t mind my reblogging with my own shit#she doesn’t put into words how much she knows them but she interacts with both of them like she’s always known them#but I was always trying to make the audience get the feeling that#although I was acting like I was just a bit of an overdramatic party girl#there was a lot I was dealing with as the character and I was coping unhealthily#CHANT TOO WAS ALSO SUPER FUN#initially my Hades (awesome guy) and I had the idea that we’d come up and down the stairs on the platform#and it was intended to look like we were sort of chasing each other arguing about what was going on#but unfortunately we couldn’t execute that because there was only a set of stairs on one side of the platform#it was still awesome though !!!!! I was onstage during the part where Orpheus was singing and#I’d always close my eyes when he was talking about how “lady persephone’s blinded by a river of wine”#It was just so so fun anyway sorry for the yapping (via @exceptformarvin)

so on todays episode of jay can relate anything back to her bands

in a world full of opinions on the new odyssey movie

#wait sentinel aus are based on an actual show???#I thought they were just one of those inexplicable Fandom Things - im WHEEZING, i love this so much

i do not have the spoons to FULLY get into it, as it demands, but the one with the military haircut (he’s a cop, a “protector”, c’est la vie) is Jim Ellison, former Army Ranger, repressed fool. curly haired bb is Blair Sandburg, an anthropology grad student who realizes Jim is a Sentinel of legend, latches onto him like a remora, and Jim basically leans on Blair like a crutch all the while pretending he doesn’t care for him in a very “I made you a friendship bracelet” “ugh gross” “well you don’t have to---” “shut up I’m gonna wear it” way

Okay, I absolutely MUST chime in For The Sentinel which NEVER gets the respect of its peers just because "the plots were a little convoluted" and the "central premise wore a little thin as the seasons went on." those men were in love. THOSE MEN WERE LOVERS!!!!!

So today I learned that The Sentinel was a show, and so what is the term for when you get un-Goncharoved?

God this was such an important fandom to me. My Sentinel friends are my family now, more than a quarter of a century later. Merryish, who first offered my fanfic a home* in —1997? 1998?—taught my kid to snorkel 20 years later. Flummery are my kid’s fairy godmothers. I basically married astolat 25 years ago. And every time I see one of you Sentinel people online (waves to a bunch of you who reblogged this) I feel like I’ve run into someone from the old country! That fandom literally changed my life.

BEST fandom gateway ever! Juicy Juicy- LEMONS and also sometimes very crunchy.

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