After several months of fierce fighting, with 256 initial combatants, we have made it to the FINALS
Now, it's time to determine Tumblr's Favorite Show!
Previous rounds can be found below the break:
Clytemnestra and Helen dancing through the mythos
art by @flaroh
guys... it's finally time
teach me?? how to draw?? the action of kissing????
Step 1. yearn
simply dont monday
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Beautiful from Ordinary Days
:’D
In the club
I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.
sing, o muse, of the rage of achilles
look at it!!! The songs are playable!! I’ve had this album bookmarked in VAIN for over 2 years, with all the songs grayed out, but now they play!! actual sounds!!
@kashuan cursed me with the knowledge that this show ever existed but it was all worth it. Totally worth it.
For an overview of the stage show with song-and-plot explanations, see: https://thedailyfandom.org/women-trojan-war-paris-a-rock-odyssey/
Recap for those not aware of this GEM of a musical: (with some spoilers for the musical past the “read more” line)
1) It’s named after Paris, Prince of Troy and Disaster Supreme. He is absolutely a disaster in this musical. And yes, this recounts the Trojan War but technically goes past the Iliad given that we see the Trojan Horse episode (courtesy of Virgil’s Aeneid, or as I like to think of it, Virgil’s fix-it fic where he fixed nothing and just filled in the gaps with stuff we either lost or things he thought made sense given the rest of the Homeric canon & tradition. I don’t know, guys, I’m deeply unqualified to discuss this. Next point.)
2) “Paris” was written by Jon English, an Australian singer who was (wouldn’t you know it) unbelievably talented and apparently a big Homer fan. Truly one of the longest living fandoms, I swear. We drag everyone in, sooner or later. Anyway it’s gloriously 80s in style and just so good.
3) The Helen / Paris / Menelaus thing is… a very good surprise. Seriously. Menelaus cares so much about his wife in this one. Paging @menelaiad your boy was done justice in this one. He has a whole song about how much he loves her. (It’s “Thief in the Night.”) Helen sings about how she had these huge hopes for her life and finds herself feeling detached from the life she wants with her husband. (”A Long Time Coming”) (There’s also an EXCELLENT scene where she yells at Paris, “Any Food Could See.” Yes, Paris is the fool who is SO foolish he literally cannot see the obvious. He’s in full Himbo mode here. Well-meaning but not the brightest torch in the cave. Which he displays in the major Act 1 closing number, “Hell or High Water” where he presents Helen to the Trojan court and says NOPE won’t send her back, no sirree.)
4) Agamemnon is… ok no he’s thrown under the proverbial bus. But he is so fun as the villain, I don’t care. Iphigenia isn’t mentioned at all, I think? At least in the songs. Neither is Cly? But it’s still not the Helen of Troy miniseries version of Agamemnon (and for that, I am grateful). The list continues under the cut, but needless to say, this is an amazing musical if you love Homer or just 80s musical theatre. Totally worthwhile, especially here on the #tagamemnon. I WILL overuse the tag, it’s for a good cause.
why so silent?
i’m curious. in the tags let me know a media property that lowers your opinion of somebody’s tastes when you find out they enjoy it, not because it’s genuinely harmful but because it sucks. bonus points if you explain why
everyone here saying marvel you are so boring. of COURSE that means someone’s tastes are bad but it’s the most boring answer possible because that is widely accepted. give me niche media you personally hate. come on
my mom’s been telling me my entire life she and my dad met at a bar which BOOOO BORING but today she just casually mentions actually she placed a fuckin ad in the newspaper saying she was ‘a single lady ready to meet the one’ and he was the first to call her and they dated over the phone for like three months before they met n she was like “i was already pretty much in love with him because i adored his laugh on the phone” ????? What kinda 90s romcom bullshit
btw the first time they met in person apparently was because my grandpa fuckin uhhh died? and my dad called my mom inconsolable and she went over to console him and literally just kinda ?? never left???? ehakdhskdhskfjdkdh this bitch’s been telling me they very casually met at a bar can you beLEAF no wonder me and my brother were born fuckin drama queens
me: so you placed an ad? in the newspaper? telling men who were interested in fathering children a beautiful woman to call you? like a person advertising property they want to sell?
my mom, pokerfaced: yes that is exactly what i did
me: mom.
mom: it’s not that different from tinder!
me: you know i read a fanfic once where that was the exact plot of how the two characters met. except it was set in the nineteenth century!!!
mom:
mom: bet you thought it was hot
me: NOT THE POINT
apparently. when they had their very first date my dad mentioned his daughter (my sister on his side) and my mom was like :( because she really wanted children and he just patted her hand and was like “don’t worry! we’ll have children of our own.” HDLSHDSKDHDK THE AUDACITY OF THIS MAN? ON THEIR FIRST DATE??? HELLO?
me: so dad what did you think about mom’s ad in the newspaper
my dad, curt: it was cool i guess.
me:
me: did you not think it was weird at all? why did you call her specifically and not anyone else?
dad: no it was common back then. idk i liked the font she chose for the ad
my mom, from the kitchen: it was standard issue from the paper for the ads to look like that
dad: oh… guess it was fate then :)
me:
dad:
mom:
me: did you feel that? did you feel the breeze that just passed?
dad: yeah?
me: that was because mom just melted in the kitchen
mom, from the kitchen, voice clearly a little choked: NO I DID NOT
personal ads were WILD and very common pre-dating apps!! they’re basically the origin of Craigslist and equally fascinating– I Know You’re Out There: Private Longings, Public Humiliations, and Other Tales from the Personals by Michael Beaumier is a wonderful read written by a former editor for the personals, you can buy it for cheap or read for free here! it’s a wonderful reminder that people have been tender and weird and hopeful about romance forever, only our approaches change c’:
This man took so much longer to crack than I would have what a PROFESSIONAL
Plotting, scheming, etc.
Translation for the monolingual:
“Where’s your mom? Where? You don’t—you don’t have one? Sorry. Poor dude.”
I love the shift between languages when it mleps through the English, as if he’s realised ‘oh, this must be a Spanish speaking deer’, and even more so because it genuinely seems to notice and stops to consider the question that time
I forgot I have to be active here so here’s my Twitter tutorial on how to draw folds I made a while back to help a friend!
