to the world we dream about

Cackling at Orpheus writing in his little notebook during Chant, so focused, making his song. Wtf is he writing for 18 hours straight while Eurydice dies in a blizzard. La la la

they should invent a term for shipping were I don't think they should be in a romantic relationship however I believe they are each others parasite and separating them is not an option

much like the dual symbolism of the shovel i feel like black sails has this ambiguous take on mercy/forgiveness/redemption where it can be this sort of sacred liberating thing that resists state power and at the same time the most effective enforcer of submission to state power. and it's this duality (along with that of the aforementioned shovel) that makes the ending so ambiguous. not least because thomas hamilton obviously represents both

I hate Rogers but I love the fact that Black Sails is the type of show that gives him a ship called the Eurydice and then has him cause the death of his own wife by going back to her. Rogers never fully trusted Eleanor, and I don't mean he thought she was lying: he could never recognize when she was right and he needed to capitulate. If Eleanor had said "don't turn around and we can make it out of the underworld" Rogers would have been convinced he knew better, and that's why she died.

*flint voice* our golden age of piracy is collapsing

maybe orpheus always looks back because his very effort to reverse death means that he can't look forward. if he could look forward, he could accept eurydice's death, grieve, and keep moving in life. his refusal to accept her death is looking back. his going down to the underworld, asking hades and persephone for her life, trying to lead her out... it's all 'looking back'. he does nothing for the entire story except look back. orpheus! looks! back! it's his entire thing! the story ends the same way it begins: orpheus looked back.

AUGHHHHHH

Guy who’s seen black sails, watching any other show: I’m not getting enough black sails vibes from this

when i say “girl” randomly as an interjection i’m speaking to the omnipresent all knowing being of Girl. asking her for mercy. taking girl’s name in vain

something i adore about hadestown is that it still meant something, y'know what i mean? like okay, no orpheus's song did not convince hades to give up his empire. hades' love for persephone isn't enough to deconstruct the machine he's built and has convinced himself that he needs in order to protect what he has. but he let them go. he saw the love eurydice and orpheus had for one another and it convinced him to let them try. orpheus may have turned around but they still walked, they almost made it. doubt set it but they were right there. that's further than anyone else can say. nobody else had made it that far. who's to say someone else can't make it a few steps further? persephone is able to leave the underworld and go home again when she needs to. spring has come again, if we're lucky autumn just might too. will this change be permanent? we don't know. but it's something. it doesn't knock down the wall but it's one brick out of it. and that means something. it wasn't all for nothing. it's a crack in the wall. there's a reason we keep singing this old song.