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red death!!!!!!

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Apparently it needs saying that being a feminist, being anti-rape, and speaking up for women's rights, is not a right wing talking point. Quite the opposite.

Gibbering assholes everywhere. Fuck off.

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Happy Birthday to Le Fantôme de l’Opéra

It’s that time of year again, when we give birthday wishes to Le Fantôme de l’Opéra! On Thursday, 23 September, 1909, the first section of Gaston Leroux’s novel was printed in the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois. Phantom has now been in print for 115 years!

Follow along for the next 15 weeks as we celebrate the 115th year of Phantom in print by experiencing the 68 sections of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra as they first appeared in the feuilleton section of Le Gaulois.

As you will see, there are major changes that Leroux and his editors made between the feuilleton version of Le Fantôme in Le Gaulois and the 1910 first edition, including the deletion of an entire chapter, called “The Magic Envelope,” for which I created the first published English translation, which you can read here.

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Why are "feminists" silent on rape and murder?

(other than the ones who explicitly deny and cover for it, who are even worse)

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Broadway Con!

Three different looks for three different days:

I met lots of amazing people with amazing cosplays!

@devil-takethe-hindmost

@costumiereextraordinaire

I found the chandelier too, ofc

But Christine said no 😭 @flagbridge

I had a ton of fun! It was my first con and it was so great to meet people and see all the cool cosplays and the lovely art and other various fan creations, as well as attend some really interesting panels. I look forward to going again in the future!

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Meanwhile in reality, Starmer and Lammy have entirely sold the Jewish nation out to the radical left.

It's also fucking weird of leftists to think they're opposing some kind of "ethnonationalism" when the Palestinian National Convention (1964 and 1967) explicitly redefine Palestinians as Arabs (not what the world used to mean), let alone the "Queers for Palestine" numpties and pseudo-feminists supporting radical Islamofascists who oppress women and murder gay people.

this was Liverpool today. his shirt says: “if you have not been called anti-Semitic, you are not working hard enough on justice for Palestine.” this is what it’s come to, the admission that they believe hating Jews is necessary.

the rest of this is the typical “ZOG” conspiracies and blood libel we’ve witnessed without end for eleven months, so this couple is the part of this that chills me most. it’s not even saying the quiet part out loud: it’s shouting it with pride.

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On 22 September, 1909, the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois, ran the advertisement pictured above, announcing the serialization of Gaston Leroux's new novel, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra.

Leroux's novel premiered on 23 September, 1909 — 115 years ago today. It ran for 15 weeks, and it was segmented into 68 sections, each section covering roughly half a chapter's worth of content.

To celebrate 115 years of Le Fantôme de l'Opéra in print, over the next 15 weeks I will be posting all 68 sections of the Gaulois publication of Phantom to my blog. These posts will correspond with the original dates of publication.

Here is a link to Le Gaulois for 22 September, 1909. The advert for Phantom is in the middle of the page.

And in case you are wondering what the text of the advertisement above says, here is my translation:

Weary of purely psychological novels, the public awoke one day with a great desire to hear stories. Straightaway, these stories were served up — tales of bandits and policemen — assuredly quite amusing, but which soon grew tedious in their turn, yet without appeasing the public's thirst for mystery and magic. This is why the Gaulois has requested from one of the public's most rightly beloved authors, M. Gaston Leroux, a novel which, while departing from the genre dear to the Conan Doyles of the Old and New World, is still replete with the delectable inquietude that will give a thrill to the beguiled reader. More than once, this irresistible anguish will conjure in the minds of some of our female readers the dreadful, terrifying, ghostly, and sorrowfully human image, despite all of the illusion that surrounds it, of The Phantom of the Opera. We need not introduce our readers to M. Gaston Leroux, whom it is generally agreed is in possession of the most astonishing suppleness of imagination of which one can conceive, but we would indeed like to say that The Phantom of the Opera is worthy of achieving even greater success in the Gaulois than that which was attained in the Illustration by The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Perfume of the Lady in Black, by the same author. Tomorrow, this Thursday, in the "Gaulois," read: The Phantom of the Opera by M. Gaston Leroux

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what even is antidisestablishmentarianism, and wha'ts the difference between a Trostskyist and a Trotskyite?

Antidisestablishmentarianism is opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, although I have no position on that whatsoever, it just makes me think of Blackadder.

As for Trotsky - Troskyists grow up from the floor, and Trotskyites grow down from the ceiling.

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Piers Morgan is far less of a misogynist racist dipshit than Billy Bragg, Owen Jones, and Hasan Piker all rolled up together.

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Can we cancel Karl Marx already?

It's not really surprising that the left hates Jews, considering Marx himself was a massive antisemite, as well as an anti-black racist. His remarks about black people chiefly consist of variations on the n-word in close proximity to the word Jew.

As for the various postmodernist deconstructionists who followed in his wake - world's most cited scholar Michel Foucault was amongst many "intellectuals" who argued to lower the age of consent to 12 in the 1970s, and has a long history of allegations of raping children. No wonder he was obsessed with power - it's called projection.

And in the modern era, we're apparently supposed to listen to world's most racist white woman Robin DiAngelo, who by her own admission internalised a lot of racism from her grandmother and has made millions projecting it onto others, in deranged Maoist-style struggle sessions with brainwashed rich women.

Enough with this shit. It's all utter garbage, and the modern "social justice" movement does the absolute opposite of what it says on the tin.

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If you could do your life over, would you still be as obsessed with Phantom or choose to spend as much time and money on it as you did?

Well, I assume I'd be as obsessed, as my life would presumably have followed the same path. But if you mean would I still have thrown myself into it if I knew then what I know now, sure. Because it gave me endless good experiences, and really no regrets.

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This. Meanwhile, online leftists raise money for UNRWA, who train terrorists and took part in the Oct 7th massacre (and you all support UNRWA through your tax dollars).

UN: Israel, you are targeting aid workers. You need to stop.

Israel: these aid workers took part in 10/7 and are members of Hamas.

UN: Lies! Zionist lies! This is Hasbara. You’re the real criminals!

Israel: here’s official IDs for both the UNRWA and Hamas with the identifying numbers for the individuals who are members of both.

UN: …

UN: we want immunity for our members.

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yeah but is it dead things death, or the musky scent of aging roses, pot pourri, resins like myrrh?

Personally I think Erik smells like Lee Pace - but what does Lee Pace smell like? Kindly do not stalk him to find out.

phantom fandom if i was making a candle inspired by Erik what do you think he would smell like (he’s NOT STINKY and i stand by that)

old paper for sure but what else

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And this is the state of the modern "intersectional feminist left". Determined to march and chant with those who'd finish the job Hitler started. And they think they're antifascists.

People are insane. How can anyone say "I want everyone in Israel to die" and not realize that's calling for genocide. There are over 9.8million people there, that's more than 4.5 times Gaza's population before the war.

El Jazeera says the death count in Gaza could be over 186000 (while the Gaza health ministry says over 40000, meaning that number from El Jazeera doubles the known death count by about 4.46)

And you want to add 9.8million? So you want this exaggerated amount of death by El Jazeera to repeat 53 more times? Cool.

How many Jews died in the Holocaust? 6 million. How many live in Israel right now? 7.2 million, and you want all of them to die? Cool... I hear you ....

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Happy Birthday to Le Fantôme de l’Opéra

It’s that time of year again, when we give birthday wishes to Le Fantôme de l’Opéra! On Thursday, 23 September, 1909, the first section of Gaston Leroux’s novel was printed in the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois. Phantom has now been in print for 115 years!

Follow along for the next 15 weeks as we celebrate the 115th year of Phantom in print by experiencing the 68 sections of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra as they first appeared in the feuilleton section of Le Gaulois.

As you will see, there are major changes that Leroux and his editors made between the feuilleton version of Le Fantôme in Le Gaulois and the 1910 first edition, including the deletion of an entire chapter, called “The Magic Envelope,” for which I created the first published English translation, which you can read here.

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The Phantom anniversary special is now available to watch!!

In this big special we reach the highpoint of our Phantom of the Opera celebrations as Dannii Cohen is joined by four Phantoms to celebrate 115 years since the first chapter of the novel was published in the Gaulois (on September 23 1909.) four legendary Phantoms discuss the novel, the musical and more.

Ethan Freeman reveals how the book and Lon Chaney influenced his performance. He also dives into Erik and Christine's relationship, seeing Michael Crawford perform the role live and answers questions from Phans.

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Peter Karrie discusses memorable mishaps, his thoughts on Erik and his relationship with Christine and what he thinks Christine feels for him.

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Ciaran Sheehan shares how he moved from heavy metal to musical theatre just to play the Phantom and how it was the Susan Kay novel that shaped his performance.

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Jonathan Roxmouth discusses the difference between the musical and the book, Erik’s pain, Michael Crawford and what it was like to be "the only Phantom in the world".

Plus much more!!