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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      And it makes all these semi-random bits and pieces from the history of the myths actually fell like they make more sense than they did before Hades, king of the dead, is also Pluto, the god of wealth, simply because precious metals are mined from underground? Let's explore that

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      Persephone, bride of the dead, was originally simply the goddess of spring and growing things, and the Rape of Persephone was invented to explain the seasons She's Dionysus' mother and one of her Roman aspects is Libera, goddess of wine (and of "freedom") Hmm

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      Once I worked out the whole thing they were going with here - Hades is the boss man, the enforcer of debts and obligations, Persephone runs the company store, where you spend your excess cash on booze to numb the pain - it's really really powerful

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      The "seasons" of our post-agrarian, late capitalist world are the economy When Persephone goes back underground, that's when the stock market crashes and interest rates go negative and "money is tight"

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      Hades is hard money, the gold standard, bills coming due, austerity (he of the stern and austere countenance) Persephone is easy credit, runaway inflation (soft money, *green*backs), stimulus packages (she does love her stimulants)

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      (I love that in contrast to her mother, the goddess of grain and the autumn harvest, Persephone is the goddess of spring and green growing things The goddess of vegetables Which seems to contradict the party girl image until you remember other green leafy vegetables)

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      The whole show is extremely accessible without any of this nerdy stuff and yet as you keep thinking about it it's a lit major's dream, you can talk about these connections all day

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      My favorite thing is that classicists love to ding pop culture like Disney's Hercules etc for making Hades into a Satan figure To the Greeks he wasn't, he was just a stern enforcer of the balance between death and life

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      ...Okay but that means he IS a Satan figure Dying is terrible If we could be immortal but instead we have to wither and perish because the gods want to keep us humble then holy shit fuck Hades The subversive legend of Hercules beating up Hades exists for this whole reason

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      And, like, Hadestown really does get this Hades as Evil because he's Lawful, because that's how the way things have to be You signed a mortgage and your immortal soul is due Nothing personal (The word "mortgage" literally means death)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

      Hades and Persephone were honored in Greece as the ideal man and wife, brides venerated Persephone as the ideal of the passage from girlhood to womanhood, being abducted so she could come of age, shed being a carefree maiden and take the duties of a wife That's ALSO fucked up

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

          The whole show walks this line between "Let's just bluntly show how this value system is fucked up" and "Let's take it as read that they're right that this is how things have to be" Maybe it can't be changed but that doesn't make it not fucked That's what tragedy is

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @SquireOfCydonia

          And it's not really about the ancient Greeks We're no different We also live in a society (You imagine that in the framing device the "real" Hadestown was written by 1930s thespians struggling with how much suffering was being wrought by bankers "upholding the law")

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