#but it has like the opera?

[pwippy]

the monkey king havoc in heaven is literally so iconic i dont get why people discuss it more 😭 over the past few years i've noticed an influx of media retelling/remixing chinese myths

(a few familiar examples: lego monkie kid (2020) over the moon (2020) and the adaptation of the graphic novel 'american born chinese' into a show on disney plus (2023)) (more obscure(??) example: ne zha (2019). im sorry i cannot get behind the design they look like the kid from the robinsons but i digress!)

but honestly if you enjoy chinese mythology and specifically the monkey king pissing off the entirety of heaven this movies great. unlike disney's adaptation of folktales, i think chinese mythology created a lot of crossovers(??) so this movie is literally a huge crossover of major figures in myths. its a delight. and even if you dont know that much about mythology this movie is really entertaining in general!! (also it was made in the 1960s so if youre into the yellow submarine or classic disney films it has the same vibe) it's mainly based off of journey to the west and the animation style is reminiscent of peking opera.

characters + character design? especially the antagonists (at least for this movie lmao)?? actually top tier. theres straight up a rollerskating child that can grow 3 heads. (thats ne zha btw. very different from 2019)

the landscapes and worldbuilding have really surreal and gorgeous art. when it come to epithets/titles these types of myths go to the MAX with them and it translates really well to an animated medium.

i cant really demonstrate this well in a post but the score is also amazing!! as i mentioned earlier the animation is strongly influenced by peking opera and they incorporate the music into the film too. the percussion is insanely dramatic and the more melodic based segments are high energy. if you havent heard a full chinese orchestra (in western films its usually only individual instruments + western accompaniment- erhu was used in spocks theme from star trek!) you should- it diverges a ton from a 'classic' orchestra and the older compositions are incredibly unique

not going into the specifics of the plot to keep this post somewhat short but heres the movie if anyone wants to watch it 💃 its originally chinese so you'll have to watch with captions. overall very entertaining

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[monikarozaa]

Careful, I bite 🩸🗡️

A self-indulgent fake book cover for an idea - what if The Phantom of the Opera had Astarion in it?

[blacksm1le]

Re-agent comes in a little glass vial...?

[nipuni]

Once again I bring you some Eriks 😊

[egophiliac]

I got a really tough question.

What’s your favorite Twst event of ALL TIME?

I like Harveston

this truly is the hardest question. :( but after much consideration, I think Endless Halloween Night wins out for me, because it's nonstop Characters Being Silly the whole way through. the whole thing is just lots of these little dorks having the most ridiculous interactions, which is always my favorite! and of course the big twist is SO delightfully stupid and doubles down SO hard that it becomes AMAZING and I 100% unironically adore it. AND it's Halloween! everyone is in their cute little costumes and having a spooky adventure! it's great!

however, I am ALSO a big fan of the Harveston event! how can I not be! everyone is wearing comfy winter outfits and getting along really weirdly well with Epel's grandma and he's getting a little worried about that! my terrible loud son sews a plush squirrel and then gives it a silly little nickname and refuses to leave it behind when it breaks! the ending shot with the sled! I LOVE IT.

obviously we need the best of both worlds now

[opera-ghost]

it's immensely funny to me how andrew lloyd webber read this passage from the book and was like yeah the journey down to the phantom's lair is this really breathtaking magical gondola ride where christine is just captivated by the strange and fantastical beauty of it all (see below)

when in the novel they're both like in a rowboat in the dark with christine scared out of her mind and confused as hell while erik is paddling like he's out for an extreme day of fishing and just staring christine down for the entire duration of the journey without blinking once . like mind you his eyes quite literally GLOW in the DARK and he's just fucking staring into her soul and silently rowing and probably not even breathing like

[garnet-xx-rose]

I love watching Phantom where the Raoul is giving it his all and is trying his best to be a good boyfriend and yet Christine is still visually conflicted on choosing him or the literal murderer that lives underground.

[lyss-sketchbox]

requests? oh yeah I can do that!

my personal belief is that if neuvi wasn't a catalyst, the second best weapon type would be claymore. can you draw him with any of the claymores?

(my reasoning is that 1) we still have no hydro claymore, 2) the slowness and heftiness of the attacks would fit him and 3) "sword of justice" concept, especially as reference to Focalors' death method)

Interesting take. Im certainly up for trying to design alternate weapons for characters.

Do you know Starscourge Radahn from Elden Ring? I can see Neuvi wielding claymores like that, or idk just kaveh style where he doesnt really hold on to it and just magics it with telekenesis lmao

[roomtemperaturesuperconductor]

I know the new Saw movie is probably going to ignore the horribly convoluted nonsense plot and just take place somewhere vaguely “before John died”, but in my heart of hearts I want to believe they’re gonna find a definitive spot in the continuity to cram it into, and keep doing the bullshit they were doing in like Saw 4-6 where all the movies are happening on top of each other and you get to watch new versions of old scenes from the perspective of side characters like it’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”

[vingler-mirror]

So let's talk about the lyrics Isolde and Kakania were singing at the end of "Through the Glass"!

As the story described, Isolde was singing a part of the opera "Tristan und Isolde," specifically the part where Isolde is waiting for her rendezvous with Tristan.

In this part, Isolde ignores the calling of horns that signals the arrival of King Marke—the king she's supposed to marry—, insisting that it's just the rustling of the wind or the trickling of the stream, even though her maid tells her over and over that it IS the sound of the horns and the king is nearby.

In our Isolde case, I think we can interpret the call of horns as symbolizing the reality that Isolde doesn't hear—or rather, doesn't want to hear. Because "the calling of horns does not sound so sweet" compared to "the silence of the night" (the peaceful dream she doesn't want to wake up from), and the promise of meeting with "He who is waiting for me in the silence of the night," which—I think we can agree—is Kakania in her dream.

And unlike the "run away with me, Cavaradossi" scene, this time Kakania responded with her part!

Or at least... in the loose sense of it, because the part Kakania chose to sing skipped a lot of events ahead from Isolde's part, which is very interesting! Isolde's lines are from Act 2, while Kakania's are from Act 3: after the king catches Tristan and Isolde in the middle of their rendezveous, Tristan gets stabbed by his betraying friend, and he wakes up with a severe injury that will kill him very soon.

I think this might be intentional—to symbolize that Isolde is stuck in the past, in the happiest moments of her life, while Kakania is facing the reality of the present, in the aftermath of everything that has happened to them.

Unlike Isolde, who sang her part faithfully to the opera, Kakania took the full creative liberty of only singing a few lines from Tristan's part and straight up skipping the rest of it. Which is a bit disappointing at first (the time she actually played along with the opera act and she didn't even do it properly, smh), but this means that every single line she sang was deliberately chosen to convey what she wanted to say to Isolde!

I interpreted the first part of the lines as her expressing how lost she felt after the Storm washed away their era. She fully expected to get reversed by the Storm to atone for her sins, and now that she's left as the only survivor, she has no place nor people to return to. Her life, her purpose, the dream she worked on all her life, and the people she strived that dream for... all gone. She no longer knows where she's standing in the world and what lies ahead for her.

We can also interpret this as Kakania responding to Isolde, who was singing and waiting for Kakania as her "Tristan," saying that she can't meet her in fear of triggering Isolde's trauma and making her condition worse.

And the second part... is Kakania's resolve, that even if everything has changed, even if she's stranded with no era to return to, she will still stay on her path of striving to the betterment of the world, of trying to fix "the cracked mirror" no matter how fragile and broken it is. Back then, by fighting for the rights of arcanists and the other "outsiders" in Vienna, and now by doing all she can to help with the Storm.

...and this also means goodbye. Because Isolde chose to stay in the past, and Kakania, who took a different path, respected Isolde's wish and headed on alone into the future.

But goodbyes don't always last forever. And as Kakania said at the end of her story:

[hajimedics]

welcome home persona AU, aka mostly an excuse for me to draw my human designs in classy children’s fairytale-inspired outfits

[thefabulousfab-3]

It’s crazy how all the hatred for Colin can be boiled down to, “he’s not toxic enough”.

[twilight-zoned-out]

Hadley Fraser showed up for two weeks rehearsal, almost forgot his line on stage, almost got singed by the props on stage, gave one of the best portrayals of Raoul in the history of the musical, and then dipped immediately from poto and its fandom

[fumifooms]

The ultimate dogboy in Dunmeshi to me isn’t Laios, Lycion or even Kuro. It’s Mickbell.

Little dog man’s never had enough. Little dog man has someone in his hands already but it’s not all that he’s wanted and craved. He’s hungered for so long and now he doesn’t know what can quench it. When you’ve been hungry, once you have something it’s hard to not binge eat it because you never know when you’ll lose it. He wants more from them, more of them, more to chew, more safely locked within his teeth, more to taste on his tongue. Hungry greedy unkempt misbehaved. I think he loves like a dog I think he slobbers and digs his teeth in because he doesn’t want to let his bone go and he’s hungry and starved.

And he’s not like Laios he’s not like Kuro he’s not like Lycion, calling him a dog in any way would be the greatest offense to him but also it’s true. Sorry. Dogboy against your consent. You better be ready to unpack a lot of stuff you don’t like hearing about yourself!!!! The unwilling dogboy analogies are the most interesting ones get out Laios and Lycion. Mick doesn’t want to be a dog, it’s dehumanizing, demeaning, but he is, he loves like a dog.

Feeling dehumanized and demeaned by loving so much, by being walked on a leash by your feelings until your body acts on instinct like it’s primal and animalistic, for feelings you cannot control, and you’re drooling you’re drooling you’re clawing teeth snapping but you’re on hands and knees begging for scraps and treats. Just a dog picking up crumbs of a fine meal from where it’s dropped on the floor, affection from coerced hands, peanuts of self-esteem from judging others, anything to soothe while surviving.

It will come back by Hozier save me. "I love like a dog" and everyone is unhappy about this, it’s too much for everyone involved, 10/10. Dunmeshi animalistic metaphors you never miss. Stray dog mick. If I don’t use a dog motif in my mick fics it’s not me someone is impersonating me

This was my train of thought for the mickbell & kuro web weaving i made a while ago I guess. Dog imagery mickbell you will always get to me…

Little dog man wants a white picket fence family and house, somewhere someone to belong to :( Okay that’s more Kuro actually, happy to just have his little kennel day after day just following his owner, shackling yourself for the love. Ough.

Mickbell, my ultimate dogboy... He plays the part so well (derogatory)

Coughing blood

[opera-ghost]

the final performance of phantom on broadway - april 16th, 2023