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like i don't think it's controversial to say Anaïs Mitchell is really good with words and really good at writing lyrics. and coming from someone with that strength, it's so deliberate and so hard-hitting that THE refrain in Hadestown, thee line that reminds the gods of their love and its rhythm, theeee song that pulls the world back into tune is... la lala la lala la. like the words aren't what matters; like a space for something that can't be put into words anyways.

i remember july like it was yesterday

you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing

the musical STARTS with hades looking back btw. “you’re early” “i missed you” is hades looking back. is anybody listening. orpheus is told he can’t look back because hades knows he will because hades can’t stop himself from looking back. and that’s why the world is out of tune.

a ​past url is kind of like a dead wife

now I’m curious, what’s everyone’s dead wife url

the word 'swim' is doing a lot of heavy work here

Not half as much as the audio is

"!!" is its own word to me

Everyone loves a cycle aware Orpheus but what about a cycle aware Eurydice? Eurydice who tries her hardest to resist the hunger and the cold. Tries to convince Orpheus to just LOOK UP time and time again to no avail. Eurydice who KNOWS and still fails. She knows he’s gonna turn around. She knows they’re not gonna make it out of hell together. But she hopes. Every time she hopes that he loves her a little bit less than the last time. Hopes he won’t look back. But of course, Orpheus is still Orpheus. And he loves her more than anything.

imagine going to your first rehearsal for a musical and the first words your characters say to each other are “come home with me” “who are you” “the man who’s gonna marry you” and your first duet is a song about a wedding and you get to fall in love doing a show about The Tragic Greek Lovers Ever and then years later you get married to each other and you become the version of the lovers who get a happy ending and get to go home together and you get to do the show again together and now the characters have a different meaning

is it too early or can we start screaming now

in retrospect perhaps we should have started sooner

this post is the equivalent of a newspaper from the day of the outbreak being blown past by the wind after you wake up in a post apocalyptic world

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