blood is basically the most normal thing for a sword to hunger for. if a sword gained sentience and started asking me for blood i’d be like yeah i thought you might say that
I couldn’t stop thinking about all those “Justice League plays F/M/K with the local billionaire population and Batman must sit there and suffer awkwardly” posts so I decided to flip it round a bit
It’s a miracle I made it through this I was laughing so fucking hard the whole time
I spent a good chunk of my weekend scrambling to finish this comic. I hope you like it. I was really trying to push myself with the colours.
You know what’s wild? This comic still gets reblogged every single day. I made it so long ago it doesn’t even feel like my own work haha. Anyways, I guess I’m glad people still like it but it’s very weird to have One Piece of Art that Doesn’t Fade.
i love seeing the confidence with which people are wrong on this site. like when people here are wrong about something they are wrong about it with their whole chest. they come out swinging ready to defend information that they made up in their own brains as if it was truth penned by god himself. unparalleled entertainment.
i’m not going to lie to you guys, this was a little bit of a bitchy subpost about supernatural conspiracy theorists being all charlie day in the mail room about production schedules and cast contracts when they do not know actually how production works, but it turns out they WERE right. i apologize queens and kings, go forth and be crazy but ultimately somehow correct
Here’s the bit from orpheus in the underworld I think op is referring to since I don’t think the title is well known. It me laugh just reflexively now. If the time doesn’t get saved in the link it starts around 6:50
Also would like to put shostakovich waltz no. 2 forth as another contender
Exactly!
Mountain king is good for something like “post about tea that starts relatively normal but descends into chaos as ppl admit things like putting the mug of water directly on their stovetop to heat it”.
Orpheus is for anything summarizing, say, the likes of the SPN finale and the world news that was happening at the same time, and the various memes developed about it all.
THIS SONG IS CALLED ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD?
Not um, actually anyone but I gotta word vomit some nerdy shit.
“Orpheus in the Underworld” is actually the name of Offenbach’s opera. The opera is originally called Orphée aux enfers. It was originally a two-act opéra bouffon, which is basically an opera buffa but either performed in France or in French (the difference between Italian and French operas was a whole thing for a while). It later became a four-act opéra féerie which are French operas based on fairy tales and, as in the case of Orpheus in Hell, mythology.
The song being referred to is called “Galop infernal”. Paris cabarets in the 19th century (i.e. Folies Bergère and Moulin Rouge, yes that Moulin Rouge) used it to accompany the can-can hence the association with the dance. A Galop is also a type of dance that was more often than not, the final dance of the evening and signalled the end of dancing at balls. The can-can is technically a faster version of the galop.
Now, the reason why the culminating song of an opera called Orpheus in the Underworld sounds like that is that the whole opera is actually making fun of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Years before the opera came out, Offenbach told his friend Hector Crémieux that the “posturings of mythical heroes and gods of Olympus” in the plays of the Comédie-Française, the oldest theatre company in the world, bored him. So Crémieux wrote Offenbach a liberetto that pretty much lampoons said characters.
Instead of being a demigod son of Apollo, Orpheus is a violin teacher who was happy his wife got abducted by Hades. But he still ended up trying to save her because he gets bullied by Public Opinion. The Olympians were terrible and it was widely believed that they were a satire of Napoleon III’s own court and government.
The reviews for the opera were mixed. Some felt like Offenbach was disrespecting not just mythology but the work of another composer Chirstopher Gluck’s own Orfeo ed Euridice which is a significant work when it comes to looking at the evolution of opera. It was the beginning of Gluck’s reforms in the opera genre.
There are different musicological readings of the Galop Infernal. Many think that he defied musicological methods but I agree with Thomas Schipperges who basically argues that Offenbach had layers underneath the straightforward nature of the song.
Image: tags which reads “#both have different uses! mountain king works for slowly escalating drama #orpheus is for when everything is a wild shitshow from the beginning” /end ID.
learned today that macklemore has a song on his new album called 1984. it makes no reference to the book at all. it’s like it doesn’t even exist. the song is just about dancing at a club . that’s so fucking choice.
took five writers to come up with those bars
the idea of macklemore mixing up great gatsby w 1984 is so fucking funny i’m just going to assume this is what happened
Hannibal has a really interesting and profound thesis about self discovery if you are cool and queer enough to read into it but I genuinely think my favorite motif in Hannibal that seems to recur a few times in that vein is “killing parts of yourself do not work”.
See, Hannibal snaps Franklyn Froideveux’s neck in the same episode we get him discussing his obsession with Will with his own therapist, Bedelia. Hannibal’s disgust with Franklyn is a disgust with himself, and he kills Franklyn only to find himself more desperately fascinated by Will than ever
In contrast, Will kills Randall Tier at Hannibal’s prompting, and ostensibly he does it as part of his becoming, to maintain the “illusion” that he is going to run away with Hannibal, but this isn’t the only time Will kills a serial killer that’s more evolved in their Becoming than he is- but it is the first time he did it with his hands.
The very act of killing Tier, of trying to kill off the savage animal part of himself, brought him closer to that brink, closer to monsterhood. For what is more savage than self denial, and the killing of brethren?
I find it interesting because in the book Red Dragon, Will SUCCEEDS in killing off this part of himself. Or, Molly does. With the Red Dragon’s death, he retires to fucking Florida. Vicious repression and suburban heterosexuality wins. And in the show, killing the Dragon, a parallel to Will’s becoming, only succeeds in transforming him further under the flame
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