astheworlldfalllsdown-blog
Been a Labyrinth fan for 15 years, it's about time I made a blog. My name's Noah, he/him, I'm from the UK and I'm 17 years old.
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orpheus but he's sisyphus
Ovid’s The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice (tr. Rolfe Humphries) / Spirited Away dir. Hayao Miyazaki / @mag200 / Jenny Diski, “Housewife” / Franz Wright, God's Silence / Adrianne Kalfopoulou, “Poem in Pieces, a Log” / Jon Ware, I am in Eskew / Kazimierz Wierzyński, “A Word of Orphists” (tr. Czeslaw Milosz) / @prisonhannibal / Aeschylus, The Oresteia / Ocean Vuong, Eurydice
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image 1: a quote from Ovid that reads: "And Orpheus received her, but one term was set: he must not, till he passed Avernus, turn back his gaze, or the gift would be in vain."
image 2: excerpt from the script of the film Spirited Away that reads: "Haku: But I can't go any farther. Just go back the way you came, you'll be fine. [highlighted] But you have to promise not to look back, not until you've passed through the tunnel."
image 3: a drawing, labeled in all-caps handwriting "a venn diagram of love vs. grief:". the drawing is a single circle.
image 4: an excerpt, highlighted and italicized, from Jenny Diski that reads: "People don't understand about repetition, do they? How it is at the heart (thump, thump, thump) of obsession; at the erotic centre (drip, drip, drip) of desire. You do, of course. Repetition is insatiability spelt sideways."
image 5: a quote from Franz Wright reading, "And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?"
image 6: a quote from Adrianne Kalfopoulou in red text, reading, "Grief will keep you reaching back / for what is not there"
image 7: an excerpt from Jon Ware that reads, "Here's my question. If the ghost wants nothing more than to be witnessed, why would it appear behind you, not in front of you? The only answer I can think of is this: [underlined] it appears behind you because it already knows, to an absolute certainty, that you will have no choice but to look back."
image 8: a quote from Kazimierz Wierzyński that reads: "I understood the true fate of Orpheus, that [highlighted] love is a constant terror of loss."
image 9: a screenshot of a tumblr ask from an anonymous user who says, "What's the point?" user prisonhannibal responds, "of what? it's love though".
image 10: two lines from aeschylus reading, "Orestes: This was always going to happen. She's been dead since the beginning."
image 11: an excerpt from Ocean Vuong that reads, "Your absence has gone through me // Like thread through a needle. / Everything I do is stitched with its color."
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Honestly I just want to have a small bakery in a misty mountain town where our biggest attraction is that there’s a cryptid in the woods around us so I’m making fucking winged panther cookies or some sea monster bread rolls. I have a small cottage and a cat. I am at peace.
Everything I’ve done, I’ve done for you.
“Your lips are like wine, and I want to get drunk.”
— William Shakespeare (via what-strange-lives-we-live)
unriddle the labyrinth.
Fairy circle
✰ she’ll forget everything…
the signs as cult classics
Aries - Barbarella
Taurus - Fight Club
Gemini - Donnie Darko
Cancer - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Leo - The Princess Bride
Virgo - Heathers
Libra - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Scorpio - Pulp Fiction
Sagittarius - Clerks
Capricorn - The Big Lebowski
Aquarius - A Clockwork Orange
Pisces - The Room
Films that I adore: Jim Henson’s Labyrinth
“Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything to himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and he had given her certain powers. So one night, when the baby had been particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help!”
“the labyrinth,” she whispered, “so that is the labyrinth.”
She bit into the peach.
“This tastes … so strange.” She looked at the peach, and found that her eyes would not focus on it. She began to sway. Feeling that she might be going to faint, she took a step toward Hoggle, for support. She stumbled. With one hand she wiped her brow while, with the other, she held the peach out at arm’s length, trying to look at it properly. Then she understood. Slowly, she looked at Hoggle. He was a blurred, shimmering shape. “Hoggle,” she said quietly. “What have you done?”
In a strangled voice, Hoggle cried out, “Damn you, Jareth! And damn me, too!” Turning his face away from Sarah, he ran headlong into the forest.
Now Sarah was tottering. She managed to stagger to a tree, and leaned against it. She had already forgotten Hoggle and Ludo and Sir Didymus and Toby, and where she was and why.
All her thoughts were for Jareth, and her eyes were looking up at the sky. “Everything’s dancing,” she whispered.
August
even though David Bowie wasn’t gay he still deserves a spot in LGBT history for making it easier for gay men to embrace who they are and express themselves the way they wanted
Sarah: And they were roommates!
Jareth: My god they were roommates
Jareth: And now, back to this bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day to the citizens of my Labyrinth... Sarah, what's good?
Jareth: Stop saying i look like Hoggle. He's dumb and he's a coward and i am nOT A COWARD
sarah: can i ask a stupid question?
hoggle: better than anyone i know
labyrinth + vines is my kink
Hoggle: so anyways what I’m gonna do is- Jareth: *punches Hoggle in the face* Hoggle: AH FUCK, I CANT BELIEVE UVE DONE THIS
this is Hilarious n tru
also i just realized
jareth: saw you hanging out with sarah yesterday
hoggle: jareth it’s not what you think!
jareth: I WON’T HESITATE, BITCH *shoots him*
As the World Falls Down
by MeganLara
Labyrinth Stained Glass by QueenTakesJacks22.
Another Great Photo of Jennifer Connelly and Hoggle, with Jim in the Background. This Photo is from the book Labyrinth- 30th Anniversary An Ultimate Visual History.
My best friend got this for me for Christmas, he found it at a flee market in Indiana and mailed it to me. Whoever the artist is, i want you to know your fucking amazing.
UPDATED Found the artist: Trevor Inkwell.
