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i had a vision. erik sleeps with this exact eyemask cuz of the fact that he's missing an eyelid and it helps him sleep properly. if u disagree then erm you're wrong

(p.s. if someone was to draw him in this i would explode out of joy)

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Team SSS!

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It’s a fairly common thing to hear that monsters, especially in Gothic literature, represent societal fears of the era they came from. While there is a lot to be said for this point, I think the reason so many people (myself included) love monsters so much is because, almost universally, they represent ‘otherness’ and their scariness is supposed to come from the fact that they are unnatural, vastly different from humans, incomprehensible, ext. Anyway, I think it’s interesting that this otherness is so pervasive in gothic literature monsters because one of the hallmarks of gothic horror is a sense of isolation, usually in setting but sometimes our protagonists are also just very isloated from society.  

Frankenstein’s creature is considered a monster within the first moments of his life- “…but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart,” Victor writes. The creature is outcasted by everyone he encounters, though he’s done nothing wrong and has even helped people, in the cases of the DeLacey family and the little girl. Nothing he does can erase the fact that he is so fundementally different from everyone else that they will always hate him. “I am malicious because I am miserable,” he says. He is a monster in the world’s eyes for existing, and so he truly becomes a monster to try and get back at the world that has caused him so much pain. 

Edward Hyde is a fascinating example of this otherness because, at first glance, he is just another fully-evil monster. And while I think it’s fair to say that he isn’t a good person, it’s also fair to say that, since he is the physical embodiment of everything Jekyll had tried to repress about himself, he also is ‘other’. “Many a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as I was guilty of; but from the high views that I had set before me, I regarded and hid them with an almost morbid sense of shame.” Here we see that, even from a young age, Jekyll thinks of his ‘irregularities’ as marking him different from the people of high society that he is surrounded by. There is also a very interesting line later in the book- “All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil; and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.” I think it’s interesting because this is what is supposed to drive home how bad Hyde is- he is different from everyone else. There is no other person on earth like him. Even though this line tells us he’s evil, I’ve always thought it presented him in a really sympathetic way. 

The Phantom is like Frankenstein’s creature in that the text is pretty forward about ‘otherness’. “Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He only asked to be ‘some one’, like everybody else! But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genuis or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.” All throughout his life, despite his great skill in many areas, Erik was ostracized (and in many cases, almost killed) by everyone he met, because he was different. No amount of artist genius or human kindness could overcome that. Thus, like Frankenstein’s creature, he became violent and angry. 

I think they should all start a support group bc heaven knows they need it 

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Anytime I see people who say 'Erik should have gotten Chirstine!' I always let out such a loud sigh because they are completely missing the point of the book.

The tradgedy is not, and never has been, the fact that The Phantom didn't get Christine, it's the fact that he never got to be human.

Erik, as a character, is so insanely full of love and yearning and that is exactly what leads people to sympathise with him; to lead them to the point of 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. He's poetic with his suffering and expresses his truama in a obsessive and borderline psychopathic way in order to deal with it and get what he wants. To have what he never had; real affection. To be kissed without his masked chucked at his face.

To be looked at with fondness instead of fear.

Leroux's whole point with the character of The Phantom isn't that he's another man who deserved the girl, his point was how real life literature Others are treated. Erik is both The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Quasimodo and Jane Eyre's Bertha Mason. Both, of which, despite the fact they don't conform to societal standards, still deserve to be treated as humans.

Erik deserves to be treated like a human despite his deformity, despite his otherness that has literally forced him into the basement of an Opera House he helped build; to be loved like any human wants love. Everybody in that book demonises him for such a human feeling and that is the point. That is the metaphorical kick to the chest.

Further, rounding back around to the 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. If Erik got Christine, he wouldn't learn that the fact he murdered multiple people to get there, that he threatened to blow up half of Paris, that he tricked a young girl into believing he was her dead father, was wrong. If he got what he wanted, with no consequences, then it wouldn't teach Erik anything, because he would never learn what real affection would be like.

That's why, at the end of the book, where Christine shows him genuine love, willingly, he absolutely crumbles because he realises that is what it means to be human. To feel human; pure love given of someone's own accord.

To love is to be changed, as the poets' say, and that's exactly what it does to him.

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The ending of the 1925s movie is probably one of the most horrifying shit I've ever seen in my life and it decreased my hope in humanity, specially when knowing that the original ending, which was much better, was cut due pression against the director.

But. I'm actually planning on writing a delulu mlm gay fic about this movie, so no worry.

what is the message of phantom of the opera 1925? (according to the audience at the 100th anniversary screening i attended)

mob violence is great!!!!! totally great!!!!! yay mobs!!!!!!!!! [nervous laughter]

consensual love is the only way

audience member: erik has Issues™®©. one of the live muscians, who has clearly the book: Mommy Issues™®©

just be yourself and everyone will love you for the real you that you are inside <3

society creates its own monsters through fear of people who are different. it is like this in 2025 and it was like this in 1925, and 1825, and 1735, and 1625, and... [more nervous laughter]

learn to swim

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Daroga doodle from earlier.

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Rare 1925 phantom of the opera promo image(?)

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A coloured sketch to finish for less busier days. But yet i still love it even like that

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The thing about headcanon'ing Shadow as gay, in my opinion, is that he's a very "traditionally masculine" character.

Know what I mean? He's got a deep voice, a "rude" personality, he rarely if not ever shows vulnerability, he's violent, he's shown being into guns and motorcycles and racing, he isn't exactly the stereotype that most people associate about when they think of a 'gay man'. And I just think that's awesome. Yeah he's edgy and "masculine", but he's still gay.

I’m curious if in your headcanon Shadow is gay and Sonic is gay or bisexual. How do you see them as characters?

You know, this question made me realize something. I've literally never thought about this before.

Like, at all.

If I had to take a stab at it, I guess Shadow is gay and Sonic is bisexual...? I guess I've never really considered it because usually, I don't make their sexuality a plot point of the story, nor do I feel the need to have other characters reference it to establish that they like dudes. Because for me, the big reveal where they realize they have feelings for each other isn't "oh no I'm gay! D:" but rather, "oh no, why the hell is it HIM?!"

But that's just how I prefer to write it! And with that being said, it's always fun seeing how other people tackle and approach their dynamic :)))

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Guess what

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nap time

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I was given a sonic ship prompt by a friend to draw two characters in a bath scenario, I chose Sonadow since their dynamic is fun to me in any context, and why the hell not, eh? This is how those shenanigans turned out (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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*coffs* a vague initial concept of one of my OCs

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DC x sonic redraw challenge

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I love Princess Luna 💕

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I fucking love the character that’s like. not really the villain. but definitely not a good guy I mean he’s on our side. but he’s definitely not morally upstanding.