hi, im cait!! i used to be pretty active on writeblr as booksnotbookies/emmie but went on hiatus when i started uni. I’ll probably make a ~fancy~ intro post soon, but a lot of my old moots are no longer active and I’d love to meet more writeblrs! i love to read pretty much anything (but esp historical/science fiction) so interact with this post so I can find yalls blogs <33
Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa
The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923
"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years
”youve already drawn that character” yesss. i like them a lots. i will be drawing them again. 1000 drawings of the same character over and over again for ten million years
Usually it’s video games instead of music but this is pretty much accurate hehe
if i could get away with it, all my characters would wear black shirts and jeans and maybe a dress sometimes but that’s it !!!
ALTLadan Osman, “Sun to God (Gaza 2021)”
thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love
“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses
This is true no matter the version you're reading.
1. Eurydice trips and Orpheus turns to help her because he loves her.
2. Orpheus cannot hear Eurydice behind him, and fearing that he's been tricked, turns to make sure she's there.
3. Orpheus makes it out of the Underworld, and so full of love and excitement to be with Eurydice, turns to embrace her, forgetting that they both need to be out of the Underworld.
No matter what happens in the story, Orpheus loses Eurydice because his love for her compels him to look.
Orpheus, I can forgive you, then,
There’s not a soul alive who wouldn’t have looked back
The Descent, by Tyler King
Don’t forget Gluck’s opera, where Eurydice doesn’t know Orpheus is forbidden to look back, Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her, she assumes he must not love her anymore, and Orpheus finally looks back to reassure her of his love because he can’t bear her anguish.
In that version in particular, but possibly in all retellings, a part of us wants Orpheus to look back, because his failure proves his love.
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