Saturday 16 April 2022

Eurydice



There's a musical called Hadestown which is more or less based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. It's a tragedy which they do warn you of in a very upbeat jazz number. It's a very fine line between false advertising and honesty. I would protest, but they did give the fine print up front. (all photos of me are mine, but all the other photos were from Pinterest)


Main 4 characters:

Enter Eurydice, a hungry young girl who's negotiating skills could use a little work. 




Enter Orpheus, naïve, angel voiced Orpheus, who gives me slightly Milo Thatch energy. 



Enter Persephone, goddess? of Spring, Queen of the Underworld, and resident alcoholic 



Enter Hades, King of the Underworld, infatuated with the Industrial Revolution and big fan of walls, emotional or otherwise.


Plot

Eurydice and Orpheus have a meet cute, they get married, and Orpheus gets really wrapped in writing his song that will bring the world back into tune. I mean she did marry an artist, but also on a serious note he's not wrong.  Hades and Persephone are having a rocky relationship, hence why the world is all out of whack. Eurydice, the hungry young girl is taking care of things but the winter is really bad and she's starving. So Hades comes in 


and Eurydice is like 'would go to hell for a sandwich' while Orpheus is off somewhere else


After finding out what happened to Eurydice, Orpheus goes to save her. And sings potentially my favourite song on the soundtrack album, 'Wait For Me.'


If you don't know the story, I won't spoil the rest of it for you. That's just the general context for this whole cosplay-ish photoshoot that I did. If you're up for bootlegs there's a pretty good one on Youtube titled The Tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice Explained ft: Hadestown OBC . Not that I care if you watch/ listen to it. I barely have a passing interest in this musical. Truly mild interest. It's not even that good guys.

So now that context is out of the way here's photos...














There were so many sounds in the woods. There were these loud geese on one side, and this loud hoard of frogs that sounded like they were fast coming our direction. Who new frogs could sound so terrifying. It sounded like we were stuck between a goose/frog battle or something and both sides were angry.




This poor lady on her horse that we startled in the woods. She seemed really suspicious of us but we were explaining what we were doing and she was curious about the carnation I was holding and she seemed like she was less nervous about us and then she saw the feathers in my hair and got really excited. Everything changed after that, she started talking about her horses and cameras and whatnot.










channeling my love of being a feral woodland creature aside from having this gif going off in my head the whole time there were photos being taken.




it looks kind of like claw marks but it's just the bark. Need I say more





Special thanks to Skye's mom for photos and her sister for makeup. It turned out so well and I had a complete blast. I don't know, this whole thing meant a lot and I've been kind of obsessed. I adore this musical more than I can say. 


Friday 1 April 2022

A Few Would-Like-To-Do Cosplays and Music

 

McKayla did a 'Cosplays I want to do in the Future' post and it inspired me. I had a lot of fun just throwing things together. Honestly I could have made this post a lot longer, but then I didn't. It's a messy post that I just had fun with. (Pictures were all from Pinterest)

Eurydice (Hadestown)


Honestly aside from the fact that I love Eurydice as a character, she taps into my love of outfits looking like they came out of a trash bin. Weird patchwork, tatters and frays, big coats over junky dresses or shorts and tights, aesthetically junky. It brings me joy. 10/10 would wear all of it.

Chise (The Ancient Magus Bride) or Elias (honestly would dress up like either one)



Yoon Ji-woo (My Name)


Ivy (The Village) 


It's starting to turn greener now, but the woods near my house would have been a perfect spot to do a photoshoot for it because everything was brown but there were these red berries hanging over a bunch of it. There's always next year.

Suzy Bishop in her Raven costume (Moonrise Kingdom)


Billy Butcherson (Hocus Pocus)/ Edward Scissorhands (Edward Scissorhands)


I love the Edward Scissorhands costume and I also love the behind the scenes pictures of Johnny Depp in sweaters or looking like himself but has the scissorhands and he's hugging Winona Ryder or something. The casualness of it gets me.

The Mad Hatter (Once Upon a Time or Alice in Wonderland)