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STOBOTNIK X POTO, NOOOOOO I LOVED THIS

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my love language is being the most confusing and difficult person ever

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Born to be a baby girl

Forced to be the Opera Ghost

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WE WON SHADOW WE WON

Shadow wants Fernanda Torres to win the Oscar nomination /(source: bluesky)/

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I’M STILL HERE wins the Oscar for Best International Feature Film

This is the first Oscar win for Brazil! 🇧🇷

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Ainda Estou Aqui is already the winner of this whole awards season for being the only movie that managed to have indigenous people performing rituals for their Oscars win, mothers including Fernanda’s name in the blessings requests of Sunday’s mass and a massive Fernanda doll in the Olinda Carnival

There are flags with Fernanda Torres’ face on it, drawings of the two Fernandas on walls and homages being painted on buildings:

Now that’s what I call being a national pride <3

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BRAZIL WON MOTHERFUCKERS

WE DID IT

FUCK EMILIA PEREZ

ALL MY HOMIES LOVE AND SUPPORT I’M STILL HERE

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Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande singing “Defying Gravity” together at the Oscars

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I have a headcanon that Erik had such an intense and violent reaction to Christine unmasking him because he experienced this before. Ok I know it sounds dumb to say this like OBVIOUSLY that's the core of his character, but I mean in a way that: he had his mask forcibly taken off before, maybe even in public. His mask is his comfort zone, an emotional wall to keep people from harming him, so having it pulled off by someone he trusted and loved when he was in such a vulnerable position (Christine was in his house, he was playing to impress her, he had already confessed his love, etc etc) was probably retraumatizing.

Anyway take some chill pills, Erik, she didn't know 😭

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The Triplets (1999), S5 E9, "The Phantom of the Opera" (x)

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seething about a reddit comment I saw the other day only bc I KNOW its a common sentiment among housed people and I hear it all the time.

that being "homeless people having pets is animal abuse."

if you think this, genuinely fuck you. Insufferable fucking standpoint. being homeless is just regular abuse, but you don't give a fuck about human rights abuses, now do you.

this comment was left on a post in r/homeless about a veterinarian stealing a homeless man's dog, and refusing to give him back months later, even after the guy pressed charges. everyone was like 'she didn't steal him she rescued him.'

If you think this genuinely fuck you. I hope you find out firsthand what it's like to lose everything. I really do. I hope you're put in the position of having to call every shelter and foster program in your state, and calling everyone you know asking if they can take your pets, only to be told no. Or that the only placements are in high kill shelters. I want you to experience the dilemma of what to do next in that situation firsthand before you EVER raise a finger towards homeless people with pets. I want you to experience what it's like waking up on freezing cold concrete every day alone without a buddy for the extra body heat.

I want you to experience what it's like for every human in your life to abandon you, and then expect you to do the same to the only creature that didn't ever give up on you or stop loving you amidst all of that.

I want you to lose everything and have someone turn around and tell you actually, it wasn't enough. You deserve more taken from you still, for the crime of "failing" in the first place.

Unlike housing for the homeless, which we WOULD in fact have enough of, if we prioritized this, there are NOT enough shelter and foster programs for pets in this country, which is precisely why you end up with lots of strays and ferals in rural areas- it's easier for people to dump them in the countryside than to find a shelter anywhere nearby that can take them.

So what if it's a homeless guy who ends up with one of those animals. It's a symbiotic relationship between 2 creatures that have both been abandoned by society and are now caring for each other. How dare you judge someone for such an impossible choice, and one you've never had to make. The fucking gall.

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Omg this is so pretty!!

"𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒛𝒆 𝒌𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒊𝒔-𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. ...𝑰𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑱𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒛𝒆: 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒓 𝒏𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒏𝒐....𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓! 𝑩𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓! 𝑨 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏: 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒔! 𝑰𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒔! 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒔 𝒋𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉!"

(ɢᴀꜱᴛᴏɴ ʟᴇʀᴏᴜx, ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴘᴇʀᴀ)

The scorpion and the grasshopper always hold a unique meaning to fans of Gaston Leroux's original Phantom novel. Erik's ultimatum to Christine forced her to choose between marrying her ghoulish captor, or deny him at the peril of everyone in the Opera House. It was implied that the grasshopper was connected to the stores of gunpowder Erik had wired to blow the building sky high.

I recently found this brilliant, antique Japanese bronze grasshopper figurine, and knew I had to acquire it. It just arrived from Japan, and is a brilliant piece. Paired with an antique Chinese scorpion and model caskets, it makes a beautiful addition to my Phantom collection.

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Can we talk about ‘The Siren of The Opera’?

Plus, a doodle sketch of Erik and Daroga when they’re both in Persia…i think🥺because i luv my ghostly magician Erik

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I few notes about these tags! I feel like I didn't express myself correctly in earlier posts

I am, too, excited about these new adaptations. It's been years we don't have an adaptation like this, that isn't independent of purely fanfiction (not saying this in a derogaroty way!), and the fact that two new adaptations are being developed in high budget sets makes me hopeful that we'll see a reborn in the POTO media I want POTO relevant again, new fans, new media, new fanfiction and art and fanart, everything. But like. I'm also worried. I'm scared of possible flops, failures or straight up cancellation. We had enough terrible POTO media, I really want them to be careful. I want to watch a show where I know the creators care about what they're doing. I want them to know the fans, to listen to us and make something they know we'll love. (Of course, this can be argued to any other media, not just POTO)

And about the musical being the "Twilightification of the novel" uuuuh idk exactly how to feel about this. On one hand, yeah, it's a musical, its tone is overall different from the novel but not DRASTICALLY different. Personally I really don't want POTO to be portrayed as a story by teenagers in High School, that's all. I want POTO to remain being a mature story with mature themes, YA just... isn't the ideal public to me. BUT, I agree that anti-Twilight hate is so annoying and pointless, and the musical recieves the same bad faith criticism that medias like Twilight recieve so yeah ("don't romanctize an already romancticized melodrama!! bad toxic problematic😭"). I don't think an adaptation being inspired by Twilight is iherently a bad thing.

I would love to see a POTO adaptation made by Robert Eggers just like how he did with Nosferatu, for example. I'm expecting to see Erik being Leroux-accurate deformed, morally ambiguous, pathetic crazy wet old man. But I'm pretty sure this isn't what we're getting. If anything, I AM excited and happy that POTO is recieving attention again and I'll try to not be biased.

We're getting two new contemporary Phantom of the Opera film adaptations being made this year???!

Link to full article (x)

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Cheristine supremacy ���💛

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gay people don‘t even flirt anymore they just get all up in your face and stare at you with their autistic eyes

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The one thing I desperately need to see in the Hellaverse (literally either show idk) is sinners who were evangelical christians in life and are confused as to how they ended up in Hell. Please, Viv, I need it for my soul.