SORRY WHAT IS LESBIANISM HADESTOWN IN SPACE IM IN LOVE WOTH IT AREADY
Batteries low. Only enough air in the filters for one person to survive the rest of the winter.
“Orpheus,” she cries out, but Orpheus does not wake.
It is both the easiest and the hardest choice she’s ever made. Orpheus my heart is yours. She leaves. Not even in the dead of night, Orpheus is so deep under that they haven’t seen each other in a week. Hermes lets her out at the last stop without comment. Always was and will be. She’s heard enough about Hades from rumors amongst the workers, whispers, the last station, the one before hell, where you can get on if you have a ticket. Hermes sings it sometimes. Descend into whatever’s there, because that’s the one station that hasn’t been picked clean. And she’s not defenseless, she knows some of Orpheus’s songs. Enough to escape. It’s my gut I can’t ignore. Eurydice is good at casual seduction, good at getting people to let her in, and all she needs is to be let into Hadestown, and then she’ll fucking take what she needs. She’ll take it and she’ll run, she’s good at running, the best.
Orpheus, we’re hungry.
Especially now that she has someone to run back to.
“Wait for me,” she whispers.
And then she leaves to rob a god.
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so lesbian hadestown in space, which is actually titled 'the wind, the wind, the wind', is a present to one of my friends that is at this point.... literally more than two years late? I think literally two years late, close to two and a half now. there is also literally just one scene left for me to write and then one last round of editing to do and then it will be ready for me to send to my friend with the "happy belated two years plus late I guess this is now an anniversary gift?" (E if you're reading this aaah sorry I'm ridiculous but also soon to be happy two years late present). BUT. lesbian hadestown in space happened in the following manner: -> me, listening to hadestown: okay oh gods this is great but what part would I sing. as a soprano. ......Orpheus, maybe? is Orpheus the highest part in this show? -> me, pulling up the lyric ____/ And I know how it was because ____/ He was like me ____/ A man in love with a woman okay so side-rant one of the reasons I loved hadestown so much besides I'm a sucker for literally anything with counterpoint singing or harmonies and also really good lighting in musicals, is because!! hadestown is a masterpiece!!!! that is directly about climate change!! and unionization!!! with the really strong thesis of "the only way we can fight climate change effectively is via unionization!" (and all sorts of fun sub-themes about art mattering but how much does art alone matter without collective action to back it up) and just, like. absolute top-notch did not have to go as hard as it did but damn does it go hard, if you haven't listened to Hadestown defs do, much like Hamilton and gods can't believe I'm bringing up Hamilton but I'm doing it for the sole reason of saying, literally everything said on the stage is in the cast album, it's a fully sung show, so at least you can get the full storyline via the cast album on youtube
BUT ANYWAYS the thought of 'what would happen if you re-cast Orpheus as a woman' led me to the realization of 'really, not too much, until you got to the lyrics 'And I know how it was because / He was like me / A man in love with a woman' that you'd want to change it a bit, I never quite settled on what I was happiest with, maybe 'Someone in love with a woman', but then suddenly you have added to the massive unionization theme and climate change theme in the most emotionally raw and evocative moment of the show, when Orpheus is trying to reach Hades and remind him of his humanity through the shared experience of just. simple, unadorned love. what if that was a lesbian not knowing whether or not she would be acknowledged or rejected in trembling voice trying to offer 'look at my love, when you strip it down to its core, it's not that different from yours.' -> me: gives that above speech to E -> E: you need to write this fic -> me: ........okay but come on that's not enough to write a fic around, like, that one simple change. I'd need to make at least one other significant change for it to work as enough to write a fic around esp given that my main fic style is 'just retell the canon but, like, with this particular shift' and I'd want more than just the shift to be a single genderbend. -> me: like putting it in space -> me: like there are so many fun sci-fi things you can do with it. Hadestown you can't go back from it, because it's the station on a stable interior orbit of a (Kerr) black hole's event horizon, you know actually you can keep the whole 'mining town' bit given that the majority of heavy elements in the universe are forged either in neutron star mergers or the accretion disks of black holes, -> me: [20 minutes later] and so yeah that's the r-process and why it's not enough to account for all the heavy elements in the universe and while neutron star mergers are a candidate this is three years ago so LIGO hasn't observed them yet and the other explanation is black hole accretion disks. and THAT'S why Hadestown is still a mining town. also event horizon being the 'once you go you can't come back' bit is really clever and I'm in love with my own cleverness here. -> me: also if you do some sort of fun post-post-apocalypse setting where the majority of the people have lost understanding of technology you could make Orpheus and her song literally be that she's trained in the lost art of hacking and coding -> me: and you can make Eurydice a grifter. that feels like the Vibe. Eurydice cool space grifter. -> E: I have patiently listed to you infodump about black holes because I am a genuinely a great and deeply appreciated friend. also I'm in love with sci-fi grifter Eurydice, you now need to write this fic -> me: given how much I'm in love with black holes I think I'm writing this fic -> me: but you're right grifter Eurydice is great, I will extra special write it as a present for you
and now for the better part of three years I've been writing this fic, anyways, fingers crossed really soon like in the next few weeks really soon lesbian hadestown in space is going to happen, I've been saying that for nearly three years but It Will Happen Eventually
