Sapphic Tadpole

Female characters who are the sole voice of reason <<<<<<< Female characters who think of themselves as the sole voice of reason but who are actually just as insane as those around them

The Odyssey vs. Birds of Prey

Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.

He does so to dodge the draft

#achilles

i actually didn’t realize reeve was so unpopular, i’ve always felt like his approach was interesting bc his orpheus really feels New To Life. he is like heterosexual luke skywalker, he is driven off hopes & dreams & a longing to Do Something bc he has just never experienced the real world and he knows it. he’s fascinated by eurydice’s jadedness - one thing that struck me while watching was how she frequently dodges his unthinking embraces, but when we Actually see them kiss, he throws his hands up and lets her react first. much of what he does, especially in the first act, is his instinctual reaction to completely new experiences. all he knows is that he has to meet eurydice on her terms, so he learns to move around her, to encourage rather than lead. it’s not calculated; it’s just how he feels. he’ll be anything for her. the orpheus at the ending, rather than becoming confident in how close he is to success, becomes burdened by doubt however. orpheus in act one would have led instinctually and trusted she’d be behind him. but he faced his VERY FIRST trial in life and it was so hard and it felt so hopeless and things do indeed get so desperate and he has all this time to give into despair because even the gods have insecurities in love! orpheus will always make the journey because of who he is, but orpheus taking that journey will always turn him into the person who fails the journey. reeve gives him this sort of anti-character growth, just frozen at the end staring into the abyss, because he was tested, and he grew, but he still failed. and that’s his life forever. he’s too fresh, he’s too green, and he’s not enough.

I think Emily Wilson just killed Christopher nolan

so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back

the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing

Cannot possibly explain how feral I feel about the Hadestown proshot having so many shots that include the audience. Because they’re as much of a part of the story as Orpheus and Eurydice and Hades and Persephone are. Because they are there watching however they’re powerless to do anything except watch because that’s just the way the story goes but they sing it anyways and and and

theatre kids are all like “its my comfort musical” and then watch as the main character goes through genuine psychological torture for two hours that is only lightened by the fun catchy music underscoring it all

horses cant scratch themselves but humans cant go fast. we support this legandary partnership

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

just saw a pigeon doing the puffed up courtship dance thing to another pigeon, and as he was strutting around he suddenly stopped for a split second to do a very brief preen-peck at his own side, then returned to the strutting around. and i surprised myself by instantly losing respect for the male pigeon in that moment, like come on man i appreciate you had an itch or whatever but how is she supposed to feel special when you're getting distracted by bullshit like that? which on reflection i don't endorse, i mean those are pretty harsh dating norms i'm imposing on these pigeons, from a total outsider perspective, for no reason. probably not all girl pigeons are as uptight about that sort of thing as i would apparently be if i was a girl pigeon, maybe she even found it endearing who knows, i don't know her. it's none of my business really. sorry pigeons.

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

on a scale of nothingburger to everything bagel