#https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/06/08/true-blue/

[greenstripedcat]

Highlights from tonight's 'der hand' stream!

~ @brainrot-flowerpot's live translations of the German lyrics, my favourites:

"Why does my mind refuse but my heart says yes" (Wishing)

"Everybody hunts me like an animal, everyone speaks like scum of me", "Pity is too late because the nightmare never ceases" (Down once more)

~ Picture of Michael Nicholson and his wife Carla Michalski-Thamm dressed as Phantom and Christine, courtesy of @operafantomet

~ @nokturnal-me's crack fic Rope burn, or 'this rehearsal scene where he wanks over the stage while watching them'

~ @les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques suggested Sergei Lemeshev as a Phantom, here's him singing Una furtima Lagrima and Lensky's aria from Onegin - this one actually with a video of him

~ most importantly, birds mentioned:

North American robins

Bluebirds

Sandhill cranes

[craig-h-stuart]

"Yet we can’t handle or touch the blue of the flame any more than we can bottle the blue of the sky."