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nothing about the post apocalyptic, great depression-themed folk opera is ‘historically accurate’ in sets, costumes, or aesthetics

“yeah but it keeps the plot the same” Orpheus is not Hermes’ adopted child, Persephone is not an alcoholic, her marriage to Hades was never remotely consensual, Eurydice died from a snake bite, and Orpheus is dismembered by maenads.

“yeah but it maintains the themes” Orpheus and Eurydice is one of several underworld myths with a message of ‘you can’t cheat death, you will always fail (so don’t try)’. Hadestown entirely rallies against this by daring to see how the world could be. It’s about how you have to keep trying and you cannot give up even in the face of impossible odds. It’s also heavily anticapitalist and critical of xenophobia and facism, none of which was in the ‘original’ myth, in part because capitalism didn’t exist yet.

It’s also about the cycle of retellings. “We sing it anyway” isn’t just about how you gotta try again it’s also about how Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the most retold, reimagined and reinterpreted stories of all time, with tens of hundreds of adaptations across literature stage and screen because it understands that stories get retold and that is not only fine but in fact great!!!

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

alt text is an accessibility tool. use it like one.

I dont care if 9/10 of the people who use the wheelchair ramp arent actually in wheelchairs. As long as the 1 person who needs it has access to it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who use the automatic push button on the library door can actually push the door open themselves. As long as the 1 person who the door is too heavy for gets to use it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who buy the can tab opener, or the little guitar clamp that holds the chords for you, or the hand grip that helps you hold chop sticks, don't need any of it and just get it to "be lazy". As long as the one disabled person who needs it gets access to it.

I do not care. Oh my GOD I do not care. As long as there's a disabled person on this planet who the accessibility device will benefit, the accessibility device is necessary.

ehasz then went out to put out 'the dragon prince' for netflix which was not a show i was crazy about but i think i feel pretty confident in calling it better than legend of korra.

now what's also notable about this situation is that ehazs is a notorious enough misogynist to have a section of his wikipedia page devoted to his alleged professional mistreatment of women

elizabeth on the other hand has absolutely no presence online whatsoever. ATLA is her only writing credit. She wrote eight episodes of the show including Zuko Alone, The Avatar and the Fire Lord, and The Southern Raiders. She and aaron are now also divorced.

Now, if you know anything about how misogynist male creatives working in the same field as their wives operate, then you can probably reach the same conclusion I have. If a man is willing to treat female coworkers like his nanny and assistant as a baseline, imagine what he feels entitled to expect from a female coworker that is also his wife. I would not be surprised if much of the work on ATLA that ehasz was able to build his career off of would not have been nearly as good without a lot of behind the scenes assistance from elizabeth.