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Two Dancers (1880) by Edgar Degas

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IT HAS ONE OF THE BEST READS OF THAT ONE SCENE WHERE DAROGA GETS DRENCHED

Love listening to Sir Christopher Lee's reading of Phantom. Like yeah make Buquet a smoker, king

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Days go by.

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I don’t understand why people who cannot accept any moral grayness or complexity decide to join fandoms for the most emotionally complex stories and then try to shame everyone there who actually is able to understand the material.

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i wanna get stoned and cum twenty times

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Elaine with the Armour of Launcelot, Arthur Hughes, 1867

Source: Tate

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i picture erik with a kind of weirdly shaped body, where his torso is super skinny and you can see his ribs through his skin, but his shoulders are kind of unexpectedly broad, and his arms and back suprisingly more ropey than boney, so hes kind of deceptively strong, more than he might appear at first glance.

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Let’s talk about the Mystery Legends: Phantom of the Opera game from Big Fish.

They have quite a few great search-and-find games based either on classic gothic stories or dark tales of their own, but one of their best by far is their Phantom game. You play as Evelina, Raoul and Christine’s daughter who gets trapped in the long-abandoned Opera House where her mother performed. Evelina also happens to look exactly like her mother when she was her age, so it’s no surprise when Evelina learns that it’s the Phantom who’s trapped her there… and she’s not all that sure whether the Phantom is flesh and blood or a true phantom.

All in all, it’s a great game! The graphics are beautiful, and I was geeking out about all of the Leroux-based things. Even minor background things can be linked back to the book! It had great attention to detail, and all of the puzzles, clues, and riddles you have to solve felt very much like something Erik would have come up with.

The Phantom routinely pops up to mess with you, make demands, etc. while you try to find a way out. Evelina also keeps having mysterious, magical flashbacks to when her mother was there, so you get to see Christine perform while Raoul (and, secretly, the Phantom) watches on, as well as the death of Joseph Buquet (which I only have a screenshot of while I hit the volume button at the same time, sorry)—interesting, you also have to do a puzzle that opens a stone sarcophagus, which holds a rose that you need to give to the Phantom… along with the bones of Joseph Buquet. That was really exciting, as a fan, that they even involved Buquet’s corpse. Even in death he can’t get away from the Phantom! (Even more bonus points because MAGIC LASSO.)

The sets were also fantastic; just look at the cathedral in the cellars and Christine’s dressing room, complete with the large mirror! And in the ballroom shot you can see the life-sized marionettes of the Phantom and Christine posed as if waltzing… while the marionette of Raoul is hanging in the background from the chandelier, tied up and gagged. (And yes, that’s an organ grinder and monkey in the bottom left!)

All in all, this game is AMAZING. There a lot of detail that phans can appreciate, and it’s just a fun game. The first few levels are free, after that the rest of the game is pretty cheap, only a couple of dollars. I’m really hoping that there’s a sequel, because the game ends on a strange cliffhanger and let me unsatisfied.

Fun fact: On the middle shelf in the last screencap, you can see a black pipe near the edge. Right next to it, on the right? Yeah. That’s totally the music box from the animated Anastasia movie from the late 90s! What the heck is that doing there?! ( ancientphantom, did you notice that when you played?)

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Had an abortion and the planned parenthood staff brought out a sombrero and a fried ice cream w a sparkler in it and sang a song about how I shouldn’t feel bad because the baby was ugly

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I've been very lazy lately

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merricat by angie hoffmeister / merricat by william teason

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boy if you play that leitmotif one more time

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'old friend' is about the homosexualest thing you can call somebody. you might as well be fingering them

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not now kitten daddy's microwaving your boyfriend in the medieval torture chamber

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"are you alive" no. leave me alone. #mygrave