I Dont Think We Talk About The Fact That Eponine Would Love Taylor Swifts Music Enough. The Archer???

i don’t think we talk about the fact that eponine would love taylor swifts music enough. the archer??? labyrinth??? illicit affairs???

“You shouldn’t self-ID as ADHD/autistic, you’re turning a very real mental condition into a trend” Ok then stop saying delulu. Stop speculating on which cluster C personality disorder the criminals you hear about on the news have. Stop saying “schizoposting” and “acoustic” and “is it restarted?” Stop using “psycopath” and “sociopath” as catch-all ways of calling someone a bad person. Stop saying “the intrusive thoughts won” when you bleach your hair and then turn your nose up at people who suffer from very real, very scary urges of physical/sexual violence. Stop saying “I’m so OCD” as a way of calling yourself neat. Stop treating BPD/ASPD/Bipolar as inherently abusive. Stop saying “OP I am living in your walls” without tagging for unreality. Stop diagnosing complete strangers you’ve never met on r/AITA with NPD.

You first. If you don’t want our disabilities to be treated like trends then stop belittling and minimising them. I’ll NEVER judge a person for trying find labels for their symptoms when an apathetic, racist, sexist, ableist healthcare system refuses to. But I will absolutely judge a hypocrite. Which a lot of you are

i don't know man, i just wish that we could [suddenly realising i'm coming dangerously close to expressing a real and earnest thought instead of filtering everything through several layers of intangible running bits] blow up the entire world. or something.

“Hold the fuck up.” I say. I am the fuck up. Please hold me.

One thing I find fascinating about Great Comet is the way characters talk about the war. Their tone tends to be light when mentioning it, but there's a repressed gravity behind their words. They don't want the war to come to them, so they hide behind jewels and fashion and operas. But it impacts every path that every character takes. The very first lyrics in Prologue are "there's a war going on out there somewhere". The war is happening, that's not debatable, but it's "out there, somewhere".

Natasha lets her anxiety show, but it's centered around Andre. She would have near the same worries if he were away on anything else. She misses him and loves him (which is a topic for a whole other post) fiercely. Additionally, when she brings these fears up to Marya in Moscow, Marya quickly changes the topic to dresses and games.

The only real time the war is brought up with real severity and anxiety is when Andre finally comes home. In Pierre & Andre, Andre repeats the line "there's a war going on". This time, he drops the "out there, somewhere". He knows exactly where the war is and knows that it's not something to speak lightly of. This line gives me chills, both for it's delivery and the way it wraps up the opening motif.

I never had the chance to see the show in person, but from what I've heard, this effect is magnified by the decoration of the hallway leading to the theater. The hallway is desolate and cold, with recruitment posters and propaganda on the walls. But then you enter the theater and it is lush and luxurious. The war is happening out there. Not here. We can't let it happen here, and we will prevent it through head-on denial.

jules pendrith as anatole and cameron bajraktarevic-hayward as dolokhov / natasha, pierre and the great comet of 1812, darlinghurst theatre company

master: serarichu