My Little Slice Of Hell

snake pareidolia is one of the strongest things in human minds too! people report freezing mid-stride before being consciously aware of a snake in front of them, and the same happens with coiled rope, etc. in humans and other primates. it’s even been proposed that the need to detect snakes was a factor in the development of primates’ insanely good color eyesight

It’s because snakes are wonderful and we must stop and admire them at any cost

and this is why snakes are the animal that most closely represents god

was just gonna reblog this bomb ass comic again bc it's a mood but the author's addition is hilarious. this is why your english teachers taught you to find meaning in a text

[Image description: an illustrated looping gif of three grey mice throwing mulberries into a basket. The mice are standing on their back legs, throwing the berries in a chain from one to the other. They have pink stains on their front paws and one mouse also has stains on its nose and mouth. The mouse to the right is wearing a white headscarf and the mouse throwing the berries into the basket to the left is wearing a brown vest. The background is vibrant shades of green berry bush with blue flowers. /end ID]

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!!!!!

garden party invite! no clothes snakes everywhere and hopefully god will give us back what was taken if we get it right this time