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hawkeye221b · 4 months ago

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Hi, im going to ramble about my oldest, most special of interests and its going to be long so i'll be hiding it under a cut but just know i have been enabled by internet strangers and the fact that tumblr (to my knowledge) does not have a word limit. and if it does, i will be finding it.

So i'll try to organize the ramblings?? maybe?? we'll see how organized it is but honestly i just want to talk about Phantom of the Opera.

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So to start my ramblings i will be talking about the musical and book; mostly because i think about the differences almost all the time (it is my roman empire)

For example; to my understanding there are those who don't like the book because they think it says she's 15 which.. isn't true. it came from the line of 'she was as pure as that of a 15 yr old' but if she was that old during the events of the book, then the childhood friendship with Raoul would be impossible since he'd be 5 yrs older than her- an 10yr old and a 5 yr old basically if the 15 thing was right.

Another example is the shifting roles.. if memory serves me right, Madame Giry didn't have much of an impactful or big role in the book, but the musical pretty much just cut out the Daroga and split his roles between her and the music box. and even then it changes- in the 2005 movie version, there;s the flashback to show madame Giry as a little girl, helping the Phantom (my mans Erik) escape- but in the 25th anniversary recording, she says that he vanished (presumably without her help)

(Complete side note but why did we even have Daroga erasure in the musical?? justice for the man who put up with Erik's shit for so long..)

------------------- Another thing i wanna kinda ramble on is how Erik is almost always being exploited or used and its fascinating to analyze cause like.. i mean:

he was born with a deformity; he was shunned for it and cast aside and mocked openly

but he was a prodigy. mastermind in many different ways

and yet people took advantage of him- of his desperation as he grew cause no one wanted to be near or associated with what they considered a freak

they benefited and he was used because what else was there for him?

in the 2005 edition he kills because he was pushed to it!! to protect himself!! he was a child then!! a child shown as a freak and abused for people to laugh at!! ofc he was gonna snap! and since no one taught him right and wrong ofc he'd fall back on that defense mechanism whenever he wanted or needed something. its the safest thing he has!!

and in the other variations, its still similar. iirc he was highly under paid and unaccredited for his work. cause no one wanted to admit he was behind the success they benefited from.

and then he finds an orphan girl, come to live in the opera house. a soul broken as he was. and she longs for guidance, and he longs to teach someone. so they find solace in one another.

in my mind they both have delusions and dissonance with one another. he mistakes her friendship for love because no one told him the difference. and she mistakes him as the ghost of her father. its unhealthy yeah but they're both unhealthy people.

and then Raoul comes into her life once more. a reminder of the good in her childhood and the phantom panics cause hes about to lose something he hasn't had before. so he begins to lash out because he doesn't know better

and then.. and then!! because she goes to Raoul, its a betrayal all over again

even if she doesn't mean it the way he sees, she's still benefiting from his work. benefiting from his time in teaching her without credit. without praise or recognition.

in leaving him behind, she's become like the rest of them in his eyes- exploiting him for his talents while rejecting him for how he looks

Honestly i have more thoughts but i think this is really long already and the brain is wanting to over brain so like.. yeah. i love this story and i want to blorb about it all the damn time this is my roman empire

#phantom of the opera #poto #hyper fixation #special interest #if anyone reads all of that im both sorry and in love with u #new besties am i right?#i love this musical more than life itself #ALSO THE PHANTOM HAS A NAME!!!#HIS NAME IS ERIK!!#erik poto #erik destler #personally headcannon that as his last name #Hawk rambles

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xxplastic-cubexx · 3 months ago

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finally finished This Wip from Ever ago and so now i ask you ever look into another dudes eyes and suddenly want to do whatever he wants

#xmen #xmen comics #cherik #professor x #magneto #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #erik magnus lehnsherr #the kids are here too but i aint taggin them vaeLKEVJKLJ #snap sketches #posting this now and not obsessing over the details i need to SLEEP #please click/tap and zoom to read anything im sorry theres so much dialogue #i thought i was gonna finish this sooner but i went grocery shopping with my bro today and that took longer than expected !!!!#ALSO CHAT. if youre up to date on My Lore via my tags ... my prof's lettin me submit my assignment ... life's so good...#speaking of life being good i was giggling like stupid while drawing this . i named it 'this is stupid' and i stand by that #this is so unserious im gonna make myself throw up ITS SO CORNY i make myself sick with what i draw <- will continue to do this #only god knows if this is even how that power of his works i just saw an opportunity and ran with it #the trick here is he doesnt even have to use any 'power' he can just do that to charles by default #however im making them be obnoxious about it. i am making them obnoxious over dramatic grandpas because i can #my only crime is loving the utter cheese and corniness of the 60s comics like God. anyways bye !!!!!!!#maybe one day ill finish that other comic i sketched for this weekend but i fear i wont have time to so next weekend me thinks ....#for now i hope you all enjoy this. goofy as hell nonsense jLAKJVEKLVJ

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robo-milky · 3 months ago

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Wanted to base the masquerade fit on Anthony Warlow’s version- looking closely, I just love the two bows on the shoulders??? Idk what it is but I love outfits that are huge and accentuate the silhouette- like it screams power-

#it’s just this fit specifically I really like-#I’d love to draw rook as erik bUT- I like the implication of RookLoche being canon with Rook = Raoul more #IF I did make an AU with cloche- then it’d be Rook as Erik and Epel as Raoul…#srry rook bbg rollo’s suddenly giving me the dokis /j #the dynamic is more fun to me atm?? like rook might be too morally good for me that it makes me sad #rollo’s my punching bag now ��#lolol what if I named myself rollo’s second headache- *or is second place reserved for his lovely student council*#cat scratches 🌸#twisted wonderland #twst #twst au #twst Rollo #rollo flamme #twst art #twst fanart

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razmerry · 4 months ago

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x-nyan: first clan

Wolverine and Nightcrawler

Angel

Mystique and Juggernaut

Darwin

Sabretooth

Forge, Jubilee, and Dazzler

Cable and Deadpool

Kitty Pryde

Storm, Psylocke, and Havok

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch

Beak, Callisto, and Caliban

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myuminji · 1 year ago

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#trigun #vash the stampede #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #vashwood #ish (no ww included)#myuminjiart #squint hard enough and you'll see confettis in last page #the idea that none of them said the name but they understood who they're referring to #trimax vash who doesn't dare to speak his name and tristamp vash (eriks) who can't remember who 'he' is #but just knows who he's talking about and sheds a tear for him

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bertoyana · 9 months ago

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erik thinking about charles the same way he thinks about magda in x-men apocalypse (2016)

#bisexual character so good he has flashbacks about his TWO dead wives #cherik #gifset #mine*#xmenedit #x-men #xmenuniverse #marveledit #erik lehnsherr #otp: i want you by my side #I think the funniest thing about this fuckass movie is how they only decided erik's wife was going to be magda in the post production #and you CAN tell bc the entire movie erik doesn't refer for her. when she dies he only calls for nina but never for his wife which is so???#doesn't she have a name??? doesn't he have a pet name for her??? NOTHING??? they were married for like 10 yrs and yet??

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thedrawingduke · 3 months ago

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Happy (belated) Halloween from the worms that live in my brain! 💀✨🪱

Here’s some concept sketches too. It was very hard to get the poses figured out…

Hope you guys had a safe and spooky October ♥️

@ thedrawingduke on Instagram + Bluesky

#Halloween 2024 #fantomestein #phantom of the opera #ghost #papa emeritus 4 #the ghoul #fallout prime #that Olympics opening ceremony guy idk what his name is #lestat de lioncourt #harlequin lestat #hehe drawing them had me kicking my feet fr #the band ghost #interview with the vampire #raoul de chagny #christine daae #tc/Erik #daroga

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j2x3e · 4 months ago

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Reinhard and Felt Role Swap for @deafknell's fanweek: Day 2

#“I killed my cousin so what?!” -Felt #fourier is the theresia here #crusch is wilhelm #heinkel is the one who gave up reinhard in this AU #shout out to erik my editor who help with my texts and grammar #subaru also swap with emilia lol #the name reinhard in this AU is his real name #he usually go by the fake name of veltol #the name felt is a nickname here #rzs3fanweek #reinhard van astrea #felt #natsuki subaru #emilia #re:zero #re: zero #rezero #re zero #art

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nb-n0v4 · 11 months ago

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Rewatched the 2004 Phantom of the Opera bc I remembered it existed but I spent like the whole movie getting increasingly dismayed over how normal Erik looked so I decided to draw a more, eh, lore accurate version? at least according to his description in the novel

#like no offense to gerard butler he's a very handsome dude but like. that's the problem lmfao #make him look fucked up!! he's supposed to be a corpse #my art #digital art #phantom of the opera #PotO #erik poto #erik the phantom #erik destler #is that his full name? cool #I am admittedly a bit of a noob when it comes to the og source material but I like how funky he's described to look

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pacing-er · 2 months ago

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X-Men Red: Magneto's last words and Charles in mourning.

Important additions from Resurrection of Magneto:

#xmen #Krakoa #cherik #x men red #resurrection of magneto #magneto #professor x #charles xavier #storm #ororo munroe #erik lehnsherr #max eisenhardt #ngl i see why ppl have been pushing to call him max now but i still like erik more as a name 😭#feel guilty like im deadnaming him when i call him Erik now #conflicted about it #also charles looks so freaking pretty in resurrection of Magneto theres another panel with his full face and man is gorg

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wishchip106 · 11 days ago

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wife wait for me… america not that far

#-Erik Lehnsherr because he doesn’t own any legal documents in his name #i will save him and bring back to australia 🫡#Erik has to make his over by himseld #i guess the xmen can come too #package deal #anyway speaking of australia i’m finally heading back today #my trip is over 😨🤯#charles xavier #professor x #xmen #cherik #xmcu #wish does not shut up

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nathanbellamy · 2 months ago

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This is played as such a dramatic moment and I GET IT but also I will forever be laughing about Erik changing his name to HENRYK of all things to avoid detection and then acting like there’s some big reveal

Bc like. This man is an internationally known terrorist. Famous for his control over metal. And to work in a /steel factory/ he chose a name that is like two inches to the right of his real name????

Truly Hannibal the cannibal levels of subtlety. There’s no way his fellow workers didn’t clock him within 0.00001 seconds of meeting him