#phantom architecture

[the-gilded-chronicles]

Opera Garnier, Paris, France.

August 2024.

Edited with Snapseed

[littlemsjane-error]

[depressed-linguist]

opéra garnier, paris

[vladdyissues]

They could have been BFFs

[escapismsworld]

Opera Garnier where Phantom is based off of in Gaston Leroux's book. The chandelier did fall in the late 1800’s. Other accounts state it was one of the counter weights and not the chandelier. There’s many variations of Erik’s origin but Christine was based off a Swedish singer of the same 1st name.

[melit0n]

Thinking about Her again

[thoughtfulobservationcollection]

graffiti

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[neptunefairytales]

Phantom Manor (Disneyland Paris, 11/01/2024)

(Personnal pic. Please REBLOG, do not use or repost. Thanks! NSFW AND KINK ACCOUNTS DO NOT INTERACT !!!)

[gabityaby]

I think i cracked it, the reason everything produced in the times of the High Republic is soo good compared to modern Star Wars, tldr its because of pain.

See, in all the works that date during the High Republic (specifically during George's ownership of SW) there's this fearlessness to show pain and tragedy and death, and i know it sounds like "everything for the children these days is sanitized!" but think for a second if Revenge of the Sith would be something Disney would publish these days and that's your answer, but that's just a tangent meant to emphasize the difference between Og SW and new SW, because what Og SW had was strife, and you the viewer knew that, because every time you booted up KOTOR or played Phantom Menace you knew what was coming, you knew to expect the isle of happiness in which the characters lived to slowly sink beneath the waves of tragedy and you'll see it happen as the characters around the story just dug up their own fates, in very much George Lucas fashion, and THAT is what made the work and the small moments of levity to taste so much sweeter, because you see the characters who you've grown attached to suffer so un-justly that when you return to the good times you can't help but appreciate the good and mourn it's departure.

The reason new SW does not achieve this is because the characters are dealing with the aftermath of the destruction of the baddies, its the birth of the hope for the future, its when you look at the horizon at the END of the movie, yes new problems may arise but the big hurdle is done and Disney didn't cultivate the joy from the Alliance's victory as it should, because instead of giving us proper post-war optimism (as it fits the real life post WW2 countries counterparts and fantasy sci-fi proper) it stuck only with the brooding post-war trauma, and while yes, that is also a very realistic take it still lacked verily from the former and thus there is no reason why we should mourn a character's strife if that is all we've seen from them, its like watching paint dry, nothing particularly changes, just a new villain here and there, the new character discovers new powers, new info, but there is no resolution, no reward for their strife, and even if they were going for a bleak post-war future (which they didn't and it also doesn't fit SW's constant theme of hope for a better future) it still ends up looking incomplete for the mere reason that they don't want to shut the book in case they need to milk the cow some more.

My point with all this was not to bash new SW though, my point was to use it as a comparison to highlight how Og SW built itself on a foundation of hope, how it showed us the height before the fall, how it is possible to make Shakespeare in space and leave all of us with broken hearts and looking hopefully into the future.

[phantom-cosmonaut]

Virgil Abloh DJ Set

Williamsburg Brooklyn (2018)

📹 From my personal archives

[the-gilded-chronicles]

Inside His Majesty’s Theatre in West End, London

The home of The Phantom of the Opera Musical since 1986

June 2024

[the-witchhunter]

DP x DC Fandom: y’all don’t know what gothic architecture is

I’m only bringing this up because it keeps popping up. Gothic architecture is a real thing, and the name Gothic is from before the modern context. In fics it’s not uncommon for Danny or Sam to make a comment about Gotham’s “Gothic Architecture” but... Gotham doesn’t really have much gothic architecture. I wouldn’t be posting about it if it was one or two people, or if it was just the characters that got it wrong.

Gothic architecture is what you would see with a cathedral. It will have pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses. It’s pretty common to also have stained glass,

Example

The building of Gotham are obviously much more modern. The style Gotham is actually based on is Art Deco, a style that was super common in America during the 20′s and 30′s, The first Batman comic came out in 1939, so it was based on contemporary cities at the time.

It’s fine if it’s something the character just doesn’t know, and it’s really not a big deal, but I keep seeing gothic architecture used wrong that it feels like a bit of education is in order. 

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

[cameron-possibly]

not based on anything, i just had this cute idea in my head listening to phantom of the opera in italian and had a day free :)

i've named them anwen and piero

[high-quality-tiktoks]

🖤🕯

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