Eurydice - Blog Posts

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Ship dynamic: She's everything, and he's just Ken/Worships the ground she walks on gotta be one of my favorites honestly

Today, i'm thinking about Hadestown and the celebration of a doomed narrative. I'm always a sucker for a doomed narrative, but for Hadestown, it's different because of course it's heartbreaking, its devestating and unfair and they're so close, but also because it's seen as a triumph. Because the very first song it tells you what this story is. Even if you dont know the story of orpheus and eurydice, it tells you the basics going in. It's an old song, it's a love song, and most of all it's a sad song. It's a tragedy. And then the rest of the musical is spent falling in love with the characters. The whole story is spent making you forget that first song. And it works. You're rooting for them, you want them to succeed. They're walking out of hell theyre gonna make it and they can be happy and orpheus turns around. And it feels like a betrayal, because it's so heartbreaking because how did you forget? It's made more so by the Road to Hell reprise, when Hermes retells yoy everything he already said. When he stops singing and tells you what you forgot. It's a tragedy. It feels almost like a beratement, because of course he turns around, that's how it goes. Why would this time be any different? It feels like a cruel reminder of our own stupidity.

And yet...it's not. Hermes says it himself. There's power in knowing how it ends and singing it again anyway. It's a celebration of that stubborness to see them get a happy ending. A celebration of the fact that we're all just little kids demanding the story be told again and to get it right this time Because they deserve their happy ending, they deserve to get out, even if we know it's impossible. It's triumphant because in the face of gods and death and hell itself, we are here demanding it be done again and again because they have to get it right eventually. And its true, because I listen to the soundtrack over and over and each time I get to the end my heart is ripped out of my chest because I thought it was going to end differently this time. And when it doesn't, I listen to it again. It's a blessing from hermes to be defiant in the face of cosmic forces for the simple fact that they were in love and they should get to be in love. A celebration of not the tragedy, but the refusal of it.

Orpheus/Eurydice Swap Au

I thought she was really pretty in the one scene she was in so I want to give her the highest honour I can bestow: an AU of her own

References under the cut

not normal about orpheus and eurydice and i never have been. like imagine loving someone so much that you can’t bear to live without them. imagine loving someone so much that you walk through hell to save them. and then you find a way, a real way to save them, and you love them so much you ruin it. whether it be turning just too soon in your excitement, or out of worry and care or they trip and it’s just instinct to catch them. no matter the reason you ruin it by looking back and it always comes from love.

Orpheus, Eurydice, Persephone, and Hades in my style

MY SCHOOLS SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS CAME OUR IM LITERALLY SO HYPE !!!!!!

laudna and imogen temult as joseph paelinck’s orpheus and eurydice

forgive me for the orpheus and eurydice parallel with these two but I can’t help but see it. these recent episodes have destroyed not just my pussy (sorry) but also my heart and soul. I had to paint something angsty and moon-washed and sad, so here you go!!! complete with some close-ups on their faces. I love them, I miss laudna, I am very excited for the coming episodes.

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🥀Orpheus and Eurydice

To love someone is to simply turn around.

*cries uglily while wraps herself in her blanket, cries more and plays "Sandman" by Ed Sheeran*

hadestown (2019) // the sandman (2022-)

Sandman by Ed Sheeran is a whole freaking level. I have the idea that Morpheus would cry while hearing it cause it would remind him of Orpheus, since it says "honeybees and birds sing your song".

Fight me or cry with me, you're welcome.

Don’t think about the line “doubt comes in and meets a stranger”. Don’t think about Orpheus only doubting one thing in his life. Don’t think about him being confident enough to walk into hell, defy its king, and only failing when it was him who had to be good enough. Don’t think about him doubting not his love for Eurydice, but whether he is worthy of her love for him. Don’t think about him slowly starting to doubt whether the girl he walked into hell for would be able to walk out of hell for him. Don’t picture his face as he slowly realizes that he might not be enough. Don’t think about him finally turning around because he thinks that no one would follow him, because who is he to be a leader. Don’t think about his face breaking as he sees her standing there, and the love on her face as she fades away.

Don’t think about any of that :)

happy hadestown uk cast recording day to all who celebrate