#phantom mirages

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Apex Legends

Sample Size: 3,432 stories

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[modpoppy]

ty @doctorsiren for my pookieeeeeeee

[fdelopera]

Welcome to the 60th installment of 15 Weeks of Phantom, where I post all 68 sections of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, as they were first printed in Le Gaulois newspaper 115 yeas ago.

In today’s installment, we have Part III of Chapter 25, “Les Supplices commencent” (The Torture Begins), and Part I of Chapter 26, “Tonneaux !… Tonneaux !… Avez-vous des tonneaux à vendre ?” (Barrels! Barrels! Have You Any Barrels to Sell?).

This section was first printed on Tuesday, 28 December, 1909.

For anyone following along in David Coward's translation of the First Edition of Phantom of the Opera (either in paperback, or Kindle, or from another vendor -- the ISBN-13 is: 978-0199694570), the text starts in Chapter 24, “For she was right in thinking that there was some horrible significance attached to the light which had appeared in the spyhole…” and goes Chapter 25, “If I was ever to use what I knew, it was now or never!”

There are some differences between the Gaulois text and the First Edition. In this section, these include (highlighted in red above):

1) Chapter XXVI was printed as Chapter XXVII. This numbering error was made in Chapter VII, and was not corrected, so it was propagated throughout the Gaulois publication.

2) Each chapter in the Gaulois publication is one number ahead of the chapters in the First Edition, due to the inclusion of “The Magic Envelope” chapter in the Gaulois.

3) Compare the Gaulois text:

L'apparition de cette forêt impénétrable dont les troncs et les branches innombrables nous enlaçaient jusqu'à l'infini, le plongea dans une consternation effarante.

Translation:

The appearance of this impenetrable forest, whose countless trunks and branches surrounded us into infinity, sent him into a state of alarming dismay.

To the First Edition:

L'apparition de cette forêt impénétrable dont les troncs et les branches innombrables nous enlaçaient jusqu'à l'infini, le plongea dans une consternation effrayante.

Translation:

The appearance of this impenetrable forest, whose countless trunks and branches surrounded us into infinity, sent him into a state of frightful dismay.

4) Minor differences in punctuation and italicization.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE 1 (sections highlighted in blue above):

As in the previous section of this chapter, Erik shifts from 2nd person singular (informal “you”) to 2nd person plural (formal “you”) when addressing Christine. Again, these are not instances of Erik being proper, but rather of him being overly “polite” and thus condescending.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE 2:

Regarding Erik’s line: Tiens ! je soulève un peu mon masque ! Oh ! un peu seulement… Tu vois mes lèvres ? (Look! I am lifting my mask a little! Oh, only a little… You see my lips?)

The “barbe” (literally, “beard”) of a mask was a piece of hanging fabric attached to the bottom of a demi-mask. This design allowed Erik to lift the hanging fabric of his black silk mask to show his lips without having to shift the entire mask, as can be seen in this mask of similar design from Helsinki.

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 3: 

Leroux anachronistically based the design of Erik’s torture chamber on the Palais des Mirages (Hall of Mirrors) at the Musée Grévin in Paris (see the videos below), which was created in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and brought to the Musée Grévin in 1906. 

The Palais des Mirages is a small, octagonal mirrored room whose changing scenery reflected in mirrored recursion makes it appear like a great hall that stretches on into infinity.

Click here to see the entire edition of Le Gaulois from 28 December, 1909. This link brings you to page 4 of the newspaper — Le Fantôme is at the bottom of the page in the feuilleton section. Click on the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen to turn the pages of the newspaper, and click on the Zoom button at the bottom left to magnify the text.

[satoshi-mochida]

Some games that are currently stuck on older consoles that I hope get rereleased in some way, Part 4:

Part 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7

Kenka Bancho series

Mischief Makers

Silhouette Mirage

Fantasian(kind of cheating since it's technically not an 'older console', but still hope it leaves Apple Arcade for more people to play it)

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourlglass

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Luminous Arc series

A Witch's Tale

Okamikakushi

Avalon Code

Chibi-Robo

Drakengard series

Contact

Flower, Sun and Rain

Freedom Wars

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines(and it's PS1 prequel)

Ace Attorney Investigations 1 and 2

Hotel Dusk: Room 215

Infinite Space

Lifeline(microphone tech has probably gotten much better since this game first released to have it hear voice input better; low chance of this game coming back probably, though)

L.O.L: Lack of Love

Magical Starsign(Magical Vacation)

Metal Max and Metal Saga series

Nanashi no Game and it's sequel

My World, My Way

Snowboard Kids

Soma Bringer

Solatorobo

Viewtiful Joe

[subjxctseventeen]

no spoilers i promise but quantum break fans how are we feeling about alan wake 2 because i am LIVING

[picanogfx]

Ghosties

Tried playing around with geometry nodes and it almost fell flat but... I managed to salvage things with a couple of arrays before using them. Threw in the TMS ghosts for fun and since I didn't want to model more boo variations.

[felix-krain]

I started reading the Phantoms and Mirages (by Meowzy) series on ao3 and OOOOHHH boy

I loved the first fic so much, I'm so happy

Why acknowledge canon when this exists?

[xrinnas-sims]

Parking in Scottsdale

[blackpointgame]

fantasía #fantasy #art #arte #ia #6g #gpt #fiction #imagination #ai #dream #inventiveness #mosaic #hallucination #phantom #canicas #canicas #star #World #poster #mirage #illusion #aabon35 #artificialintelligence http:/ / aabon35.blogspot.com #vatio http:// arubio28814.blogspot.com #tiktokersleaks

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Apex Legends

Character: Lifeline

Sample Size: 301 stories

Source: AO3

[kiwikiswia]

anyone here fw harumaki gohan h

[modpoppy]

FINALLY PUT UP MY ART BOARD SO I OPENED MY ART PRINTS AND AAAAAAAAAAAAA

@doctorsiren new pookie previously unknown to scientists unearthed

(it was incredibly funny how many people reblogged the other pookie tagged as fulbright)

meanwhile the actual prints themselves, theyre bigger than i remembered so ill have to see if i have spare frames instead of goin on the art board

AND finally my art print by @effiesketch , not opening both so i can find a frame for him too but also id have to fucking kill shinx and im not ready for that yet

also i got rlly excited thinking i had another art print saved but it was. my fucking diploma

[bartoonist]

Zcott Zpectre vs. Corona-Rachnid + LMNT-Mirage Edition: These are my two new illustrations I just done this week, and the first Illustration I’ve done in traditional art form was done a few days ago and its an OC illustration of my Danny Phantom Parody OC: Zcott Zpectre👻🦸🏻‍♂️ who I haven’t drawn since 2019, and then there’s my Supervillain OC formerly known back then as the Phantom Covid but now renamed Corona-Rachnid🦠🕷️🦹🏼‍♂️ for his newest redesign, its also been five years since I created that Supervillain OC on account of the dark global age of social distancing us COVID-19 survivors had to go through back in the early 2020's, this was already a WIP a couple days before the California Fires started recently happening, I’m a Californian who lives in LA and I have a longtime best friend of mine who lived in Palisades and has just lost his home in the palisades to the wild fires too🔥🚒… I just hope my best friend and his family are doing okay and are finding a new home🙏🏡… (pull it together-coughing) uh hm hmm. The second illustration is of the LMNT in their Mirage Designs and in digital art form, yes I know I’ve only drawn two digital drawings since last year and that’s mostly because I’ve been learning to adjust to getting used to a preowned regular iPad 8th generation that a family friend of mine had given me two years ago now since the Apple Company had stopped updating my 1st gen iPad Pro’s software thus making my old one obsolete, I’m very absent minded when it comes to making time to use my newest iPad which has 32gb instead of 256gb like my old one did, so… yeah I’m pretty sure my family friend did not know that my last one had a higher storage capacity whereas the other iPad my family friend gave me had a lower storage capacity making it ironic a storage downgrade lol😂, but hey… at least this new digital drawing will make up having been carelessly absent from my digital artwork lately, so I hope you folks like my two illustrations anyway of course.

[fdelopera]

Welcome to the 59th installment of 15 Weeks of Phantom, where I post all 68 sections of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, as they were first printed in Le Gaulois newspaper 115 yeas ago.

In today’s installment, we have Part II of Chapter 25, “Les Supplices commencent” (The Torture Begins).

This section was first printed on Monday, 27 December, 1909.

For anyone following along in David Coward's translation of the First Edition of Phantom of the Opera (either in paperback, or Kindle, or from another vendor -- the ISBN-13 is: 978-0199694570), the text starts at Christine’s line in Chapter 24, “'I merely wanted’, she said, ‘to look inside that room, the one I’ve never been in, the one you always keep locked…'” and goes to Christine’s line, “'Put the light out in the little window, Erik!… Put it out!…'”

There are some differences between the Gaulois text and the First Edition. In this section, these include (highlighted in red above):

1) Each chapter in the Gaulois publication is one number ahead of the chapters in the First Edition, due to the inclusion of “The Magic Envelope” chapter in the Gaulois.

2) Compare the Gaulois text:

Encore un ricanement farouche.

Translation:

Another cruel snicker.

To the First Edition:

Encore un ricanement mauvais.

Translation:

Another nasty snicker.

3) Compare the Gaulois text:

Non !… n'éteignez pas !… J’ai peur !… Je vous dis que j’ai peur dans la nuit !…

Translation:

No!… Don’t turn off the light!… I’m afraid!… I tell you that I’m afraid of the dark!…

To the First Edition:

Non !… J’ai peur !… Je vous dis que j’ai peur dans la nuit !…

Translation:

No!… I’m afraid!… I tell you that I’m afraid of the dark!…

4) Minor differences in punctuation and italicization.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE 1: The text highlighted in blue in the first half of the section above indicates where Erik switches from using 2nd person singular (informal “you”) to address Christine, which he has used since the unmasking, to using 2nd person plural (formal “you”). Erik’s abrupt use of 2nd person plural here is overly polite, and is intended to be condescending.

Erik switches back to 2nd person singular later on, highlighted in blue in the second part of the section.

If you are following along in David Coward’s translation, Erik starts using 2nd person plural at: “Take a look for yourself, my sweet, through the peephole!” He resumes using 2nd person singular at: “Did you see any birds?…”

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 2: Leroux anachronistically based the design of Erik’s torture chamber on the Palais des Mirages (Hall of Mirrors) at the Musée Grévin in Paris (see the videos below), which was created in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and brought to the Musée Grévin in 1906. 

The Palais des Mirages is a small, octagonal mirrored room whose changing scenery reflected in mirrored recursion makes it appear like a great hall that stretches on into infinity.

Click here to see the entire edition of Le Gaulois from 27 December, 1909. This link brings you to page 3 of the newspaper — Le Fantôme is at the bottom of the page in the feuilleton section. Click on the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen to turn the pages of the newspaper, and click on the Zoom button at the bottom left to magnify the text.

[renegadewangs]

Fifty billion bazillion years later, aka "long overdue", I finally added a note about content warnings to the start of Chasing Phantoms (which also applies to the rest of Phantoms and Mirages). The first chapter of that fic was originally submitted on Feb. 25th, 2014, which was right around the time writers were starting to discover and acknowledge content warnings, but no one had really set down any rules for what does or doesn't warrant a warning, and how important they are. So occasionally I'd have this warning that was along the lines of "mention of character death" or "implied gore" while skipping right over the many other questionable things that Phantoms and Mirages had in it. Like, y'know, alcoholism or child abuse, or that one instance of manipulative dub-con. To this day I still don't really have the time- or, let's be real, the awareness- to compile a list of every single triggery thing in this fanfic series. I did try my best to list some of the basics in the warning note, at least. I hope that helps. Though, again, I'm aware it's LONG overdue and damage has probably already been done, for which I apologize.

[subjxctseventeen]

man i have got to stop letting other people talk me out of trying things i might enjoy bc cyberpunk 2077 is Good, actually