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Is Hades A Flat Caricature? (ft. Hadestown, again)

Image credit to owner (Happy St. Patrick's Day from the part-Irish blogger who Does Not Care About Theming Her Posts Around The Day They're Posted.) It's been a minute...maybe you thought I was done talking about Hadestown ? Nope! Not a chance. (Okay, it helps that I wrote this post in advance, but still. Hadestown isn't something I'm going to stop thinking about easily.) So, Hades, in Hadestown , has a song. It's called "Why We Build The Wall". Obviously, this may remind some people of some political figure, but since I have a general rule about not talking politics on my blog, we're not going to talk about that. What we are going to talk about is how that song sparked a worry in my little obsessive brain that Hades was basically just a flat, one-dimensional caricature of said political figure, and that that would shape the course of the rest of the musical, and that it would turn into just a political commentary. (It was a storytelling conce

Comments Not Working?

Hey y'all! I've been wondering about the strange lack of comments on my blog, until I went to go try to comment on others' Blogger blogs and wasn't able to. I'm not sure what's causing this, or if it's permanent, or what the heck is going on, and to be quite honest, I won't have time to figure it out for a little bit (because #school). So, I'm going to take a brief hiatus while I try to a) figure that out, b) get my life together, and c) decide if I want to move to a different platform (scary, right?). See you in a bit! -Sam

The Honestea Tag

Skye @ Ink Castles kindly tagged me for the Honestea Tag back in *cough* April of last year (but guys, I'm ALMOST done with my tag backlog! I promise! XD) And besides the fact that I want to be caught up enough on tags to stop having to say that I was tagged almost a year ago , it's March. A good time to drink tea. (Or, well, this tag is about "spilling tea", as the kids say. But hey. Close enough.) Praecepta: no lies allowed. if an answer is too shameful to expose you may substitute the answer with a gif/image of someone drinking tea. e. g. → there are optional bonus additions to questions but these are not for the faint of heart. if you complete the tag having answered every question + the bonus additions (no gifs used), you are dubbed a certified tea chugger, and you deserve a badge to show the world that you are not afraid of a steaming hot cup of TRUTH. (The badge is available on the tag creator's blog ) tag at least one other person (a tea party with just

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