Feeling a lot of feelings about how Hadestown doesn't present the story as "Orpheus turned around and everything fell apart and there was nothing anyone could do to fix it" and instead presents a story that says "he turned around, he doubted, he failed, but if we keep telling his story maybe one day Orpheus won't" and it's not just about Orpheus as a single character, it's a bout every Orpheus, everyone who runs up against a system they can't change and fails and everyone who sees that failure and gets back up and says "maybe I can change it now" and tries again. That Orpheus failed isn't the takeaway of the story. The takeaway is that one day he might succeed.

chant (reprise) hypes me up SO MUCH like FUCK YEAH IF I RAISE MY VOICE I COULD CHANGE THE WAY IT IS

The ending of hadestown gets me everytime.. The little gasp.. The 'its you' 'its me'.. The long pauses.. The reality and dread of what is about the happen slowly setting in. And then hermes cutting it off. Saying this is how it goes, this was the tale. and then restarting the beginning. but this time! Spring returns with a love song!!! Yes it is sad but it mattered!! And the song will be sung again! Just like spring will come again!! Everything is cyclical and we may know the ending but still it matters, still love matters!! I'm go out of my mind everytime what a good commentary on the concept of tragedies and so satisfying within the story wowww

In Hadestown news, today Will Mann joins the ranks of T Oliver Reid, Tomas Matos, Alex Lugo, and YaYa Reich as a non-female Fate! Let’s wish him all the best! :)

not even a joke anymore

I am against all misinformation except the conspiracy theory that Queen Elizabeth II is already dead and they're covering it up because it's extremely funny

How Long with Jewelle Persephone and Patrick Hades, more like How Low…I swear at some points she goes lower than he does

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

I’m so fucking sick of it

Bruce Wayne IS NOT BATMAN!!! Leave the damn man alone! No offense but Bruce Wayne is a fucking idiot

Have any of your seen a single interview with him? The man legitimately didn’t believe narwhals existed

Cut of said interview:

Bruce Wayne: so the sea unicorns are real?!

Honestly Bruce Wayne is THE definition of himbo,I don't know why ya'll keep insisting that he's the bat.

Ok, but remember when the Riddler crashed a Wayne Gala. Bruce decked the first goon to get with 10 feet of his kids.

He’s just a really good parent. If you had your gang of children at a heist you too would drop anyone who approaches them

Look the baseline for Gotham himbo is different from everywhere else. You wouldn’t understand, you’re probably from Metropolis or smth.

As a parent, I second @frostbittenbucky That is simply instinct. I ill personally fight the joker if he threatened my kids. He may win, but he would not come out unscathed. Bruce Wayne is just a mother hen doing his best

I’ve seen Bruce Wayne stutter when trying to buy hot dogs from a vendor on main street outside his office, anyone who says him and the bat are the same has to be on something.

but the butts are the same

Are you seriously going on the fact that their butts are the same? That's creepy af! Now you're sexualising both of them >:(

Thank you!!!111!1!!!! Disgusting 😤

Honestly the theory of Bruce Wayne being Batman it's simply ridiculous, the guy is well intended trying to give jobs to people but he can't be Batman, he doesn't know the difference between buying a Netflix subscription or buying Netflix

Are we honestly thinking the guy that locked his keys in his cars 4x last year, that we know of, is batman? This man cannot even remember how to spell AAA for roadside service, he definitely is NOT batman.

Are we saying that the guy who started crying when he got lost in the supermarket after they remodeled and he was separated from his youngest child is batman??? Really?? Didn't Damian end up making an announcement to try and find his dad??

Isn't Batman an excellent actor? Couldn't he be pretending as "Bruce Wayne" to be a complete idiot? And it can't be cheap being the Batman. I'm just saying that if you ignore the obfuscation, it's clear that Batman is using "Bruce Wayne" as a disguise. There's probably no real Bruce Wayne at all, just some rich kid that after his parents died went off and died of a drug overdose or something.

Listen every time I see the tired “Bruce Wayne is the Bat” “joke” “theory” I roll my eyes. Because we’re missing the obvious. Look at the Planet’s website. Look at their reporters. All fairly small looking people with the exception of one who’s fucking built like a wall. You know the one I’m talking about.

Think about it? Clark Kent is only seen during the day. Batman at night. Knows lots of things based on his job as a reporter. The uhhhh physique. Plus think about it. When you think of it, biggest distinguishing features of Kent? Aside from the build which can’t be hidden to easily, the glasses, and the “aww shucks I’m just a simple boy who loves women” voice. What does Batman have? Obviously disguised voice and upper face. Think through it.

YES!!

THANK YOU!!

Finally someone stating the obvious! Clark Kent couldn’t more obviously be Batman. All you “Bruce Wayne is the Bat” conspiracy theorists need to open your eyes. Bruce Wayne? Batman?? Are you kidding? My friend works for Wayne enterprises and they’ve lost count of how many times they’ve had to tell him, THE OWNER OF THE WHOLE COMPANY, where to find boardroom B, or where the cafeteria is, or “does this elevator go to all the floors?” Y’all really think this is the same guy finding his way around Gotham at night IN A MASK?

Meanwhile we’ve seen numerous times where Clark Kent has been on the scene faster even than the police, clearly this man knows his way around.

“Bruce Wayne is Batman” smh

Also Bruce has what, 6, 7 kids now? We all know he doesn't have a nanny. Sure he has that butler guy, but he is practically 90. You are telling me Bruce Wayne can run an entire company, be a single father to 6 kids, AND have the energy to fight bad guys at night? Absolute nonsense. Do we forget the collage of tired dad Bruce the tabloid ran just last week from all of his sighs from his kids' shenanigans. He is trying his best, you guys just want to put single moms on a pedestal and forget that dads can be exhausted too!

You know who doesn't run an entire conglomerate and manage a house of 9? Clark Kent. Obviously the posters above get it. He has the build, the look, the excuse with his job, and more importantly- THE TIME!

#ClarkKentIsBatman

At CrossBones Graveyard, the unconsecrated mass burial ground for sex workers, the poor, and those who took their own lives is now marked by a beautiful garden and lovingly tended to by caretakers who see it as a sacred space. There are also clergy who do regular services of remembrance, regret, and reconciliation to apologize for the wrongs of the church and to honor the dead. There are no headstones here but there are flowers and bees and healing herbs and pilgrims who come from all over to pay their respects to the outcast dead of London.

I’m amazed at how many people this post has touched. This is my most reblogged entry. I hope more people will visit and donate to CrossBones, especially since the land is being leased. At some point it could be paved over if it’s not kept protected.

ICYMI - Huge news!

^link to the article for further info & accessibility

Just so ya'll know. They're gonna loophole this which is why we have to spread this information. I work at a pharmacy and I can tell you that a lot of these insurance companies only "Cover" them. Here's what has been happening: You go to your doctor to get PrEP, they write a prescription and send it to the Pharmacy. When you get there they tell you that insurance isn't covering it. You say that the law says that they have to. They say that it will, but not through THEM. The insurance company says that they'll only cover it through a "specialty pharmacy" (which on the one hand, fair enough, NIOSH standards for drugs state that if you are handling the pills then there are specific forms of PPE you need that we at retail do not have, but on the other hand that doesn't matter if we aren't opening the freaking bottles) which will then either mail it to you or ship it to the pharmacy to take it out of the box, scan it in, and bag it. Which is what we'd do normally anyways except with the added step of making you wait 2-3 business days to get it. And because technically they "cover it" it's not a law violation. But they're hoping that you'll not want to wait and just pay the $3000 out of pocket.

For any of my US friends out there 👍💡

Italian Navy, destroyer Luigi Durand de la Penne and tall ship Amerigo Vespucci.

Some one add the post about the USS Independence having a crush on the Vespucci

Today I found out that yarners think crocheting socks is subversive and controversial and I just…on one hand, why the fuck not, I guess yarners are allowed to have their controversies, but on the other, how much time do you have in your FUCKIN DAY??

My main concern is how they would feel but Maggie u know yarn fandom gotta think about something while knitting five miles of stockingnette for a sweater

Look, you can’t just leave it at that, why is it subversive and controversial? *gets popcorn*

I mean, I’m taking this on good faith, and I’m not saying this is my own personal belief.  I believe in all crafts. 

But…the structure of the stitches and the resulting fabric is pretty different between crochet and knitting.  You get different effects between them, which lends themselves to different crafts.  And none of the effects of (most) crochet stitches lend themselves naturally to socks.  You’re (usually) going to end up with something either stiff and bulky, or full of holes that will Not Feel Good to walk on. Whereas knitted socks will just…BE elastic and comfortable.

Sure you CAN do it.  And there are people and patterns that do it well!!

But MOST crochet socks are a bit like calling this a bicycle

I mean… Okay?  But people are going to Talk.

But this is BABY controversy, this is nothing.  You haven’t even touched on the good shit like RHSS or that time the Olympic Committee dissed us.

Iiiinteresting. So one of those “just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD” things.

Also I know very little about the yarn fandom except for that bit where a woman had to fake her death and had a nervous breakdown over selling homespun/dyed yarn so like, I already have big expectations.

Was that the one that “died” of leukemia or the one that “died” of lupus, or the one that overdosed?

From what I know of the narrative as it was described to me, I want to say the one that overdosed, but I am intrigued and vaguely concerned that there are multiple distinct individuals the above situation could apply to.

hey umm, what the fuck

the fake deaths thing: indie yarn dyer gets popular, gets overwhelmed by orders, can’t refund money because of shitty bookkeeping, decides faking online death is the only way out.

i’m sure some of them are unintentional rather than premeditated scammers but they’re all still thieving assholes who shouldn’t be running businesses and need to give all the money back.

the olympics commitee: ravelry, well-known knitting (fiber arts in general) site, held a contest they called the ‘ravelympics’ to drum up olympic support then get a cease-and-desist letter for copyright infringement, and the letter said that calling it that ‘denigrates the true nature of the Olympic Games’ and was ‘disrespectful to our country’s finest athletes’

except, you know, ravelry had like 2 million users who all, by nature of ravelry being a website, have basic tech literacy. the social media backlash was so bad that the olympics board had to make 2 official apologies because the first wasn’t good enough.

RHSS: Red Heart Super Saver is cheap Walmart-level yarn. some people hate it because it used to be just really fucking awful and they haven’t bothered updating their opinions. some people hate it because they hate non-natural yarns. some people hate it because they’re yarn snobs(which, btw, comes in two flavors: the disdainful assholes and the people who just don’t see the point if you have the money and don’t indulge yourself). a lot of people defend it because it’s cheap and widely locally available and honestly not that bad after a wash and some fabric softener.

crocheted socks: exactly what kaitoukitty said. people who crochet socks tend to either be new crocheters who are not aware crochet is not the best medium for socks or experienced crocheters who are pushing the boundaries of the medium.

babies on fire: i can’t believe we’re talking about yarncraft controversies and no one mentioned babies on fire. that’s my favorite controversy.

so when deciding what material to make baby blankets out of, in addition to considerations like softness, ease of washing, and allergy concerns quite a lot of people like to consider what would happen to the baby if the blanket was set on fire. yes, really.

wool has the problem of hand-wash only blankets for a new mother (superwash wool exists but that’s a whole ‘nother paragraph), allergy concerns, and also real fucking expensive if you want quality not-itchy-on-baby-skin wool. but pro-wool-blanket people insist that because wool actually resists being set on fire pretty well and also can self-extinguish, it’s the only sensible choice.

acrylic on the other hand is cheap and you can throw it in the washing machine, and while bad quality acrylics might be stiff and plastic-y they’re not itchy, but if it gets set on fire it will melt onto the baby’s skin. pro-acrylic people insist that if your blanket is on fire, you probably have bigger problems than what the blanket is made of.

wow I didn’t expect such a detailed response. thank you!

Fiber Arts Just Be Fucking Like That.

what hte FUCK

A couple more from Ravelry:

If I ask my mother she could probably give me more. These are just what I remember off the top of my head. I don’t knit or crochet (I do cross-stitch and don’t really interact with the wider community) but my mother runs a small yarn dyeing business and has been part of the community on the Internet for a LONG time before that so I get all the juicy details on the drama.

It’s worth noting that the founders of Ravelry, Cassidy and Jessica Forbes (both women) are married to each other; and Cassidy is trans.

I had no idea this was the drama I needed on my dash today

It’s nearly Cozy Things Knitted By My Mother season!!!!

(via @scoutdoesstuff)

1) Yeah I’m not necessarily the biggest fan of the change but the timing and number of TERFs make it either the TERFs co-opted an existing complaint made by people who liked ravelry but had physical issues with the new site, or it was entirely FABRICATED by TERFs to try to make the founders problematic bc one of them is trans.

2) oooo now I want to try making a slipper in Tunisian crochet because you’re right, it makes a much flatter, knit-like fabric that might be actually quite pleasant!

3) I assume it’s a collective word for both knitters and crotcheters, since both work with yarn but their crafts are quite different. It’s the easiest most intuitive word to refer to both groups at once.

I don’t understand… I grew up in crocheted socks… I mean, they were more like house slippers because we didn’t really wear them inside shoes, but still. What’s wrong with 덧 버선?

I love that this looped back after all that to absolve the crocheted socks.

Wait for Me // Wait for Me (Reprise)