#phantom of the Opera

[xphanlocked]

ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ᴀʟᴏɴᴇ

[esvvel]

Book Christine by me >0<

[box5intern]

Oh.

[lunonoxart]

Some JayVik for my Phantom AU! 🌹🕯️

[purrlockswatson]

It's a bit early for Valentine's, but it's never too early for ✨️miscommunication✨️

This happened during Erik's monologue to the Daroga after he dragged him off the boat. I maintain that we don't know what Erik was wearing when in Siren Mode, so it COULD have been duck swimming trunks.

Pharoga cats are back! More of them here and all PoTO cats here! (Spot more Erik in ducky swimmers)

[ineffablekink]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Hey y’all wanna see the worlds most appropriately unhinged phantom of the opera as it came up on my FYP?

[thedrawingduke]

They’re just hugging!!

[vladimirsangel]

@forever-and-whats-left ,a Christine Daaé for you. I hope she fits the bill. I gave her an earring and some hair accessories based on some pictures of Christine Nilsson, widely believed to have been an inspiration for Gaston Leroux.

[flea-palace]

phantom of the opera can't be genre-bent because any scrap pf plausibility in the plot is entirely dependant on erik being the most difficult opera snob, what other type of man would commit such egregious acts if not a man who never outgrew his theatre kid phase

[phantomonabudget]

"𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈..."

Phantom Cosplay & Makeup: @phantomonabudget

Prosthetic Design: @studio_d_fx

Some closeup shots of the famously unique paint scheme used in the Las Vegas production. This scheme is a radical departure from more conventional paint used in most replica productions. The bold paint job played well in a large theatre and became pretty iconic for phans of the production. It initially sparked a hot debate about the prosthetics beneath the paint. The prosthetic sculpt itself was made for Las Vegas production, and was a faithful but updated version of the original Crawford style prosthetics (photo 4).

Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular makeup design by MUA Ron Wild (pictured in photo 5 with me at the 2009 Phantom Phans Week in Las Vegas).

[dross-the-fish]

Love Never Dies- Thoughts and Reactions

This might end up being split into multiple parts but I am not finished talking about Love Never Dies. I did give it a rewatch to refresh myself and...oof. This play needs to be taken out back and shot because that is what it did to every single character in it. NO ONE looks good. Not even Christine. Let's start there. Let's talk about what this show does with Christine because we have completely reduced this character to nothing but her voice. What does Erik miss about Christine after ten years of pining? Her voice. He just wants her to sing for him one more time. The only thing he ever really mentions about Christine is her voice. Though I can't really fault him because if we're being serious about Christine's character...

What does she have outside of her voice? Nothing. Somehow LND Christine has even less personality than she did in the OG musical. She is a cardboard angel that other people pine over, try to control, or envy. She has almost no agency. I said before, I suspect that Andrew Lloyd Webber hates women and Christine does not come out of that unscathed. She spends pretty much all of the musical being bullied by Raoul, mothering Gustave, or being threatened by Erik when he and she aren't reminiscing about that one time they banged 10 years ago. Seriously what even the fuck was "Beneath a Moonless Sky?" For a song about how two characters couldn't resist each other neither of them seem particularly filled with desire. Christine is recoiling in horror and disbelief and Erik looks like a 15 year old who thinks sniffing his crush's hair is peak sensuality.

Mmmm....sexy. But whatever. Christine says at the end of the song she woke up to swear her love and was ready to dump Raoul but Erik had skedaddled so she ran back to Raoul. You read that right. Christine was going to pick Erik after they banged it out and he left and that is the only reason Christine is with Raoul. Seriously Andy? You're going to make her regret picking Raoul over Erik when she didn't even actually DO that? Erik made the choice for her?

*internal screaming* Erik, seriously, how are you going to be upset that she's moved on with Raoul if YOU left HER? Do you really think you have the right to coerce her to sing for you one more time when you were the one who broke it off? The hell is wrong with you? Of course when Christine resists he immediately goes to threatening her child.

When I say Erik is the WORST I mean it. He is reprehensible in this.

But this is about Christine. We'll get to Erik later. LND Erik deserves his own post.

There's honestly not much more to write about Christine. She spends a lot of time cowering from or trying to appease Raoul. She worries about her son and her death is honestly so unwarranted. When I say ALW's work has an undercurrent of meanspiritedness I mean shit like this. Christine hasn't really done anything wrong. I guess she cheated on Raoul 10 years ago? But well she was going to leave him and only stayed because her first option bailed on her? She didn't do anything to Meg. She's been living 10 years in an abusive marriage and her crazy ex who kidnapped her came back to threaten her kid and coerce her to sing his music one more time. Then she just...gets shot. She dies. It adds nothing to the story that she dies. It doesn't feel earned or justified in anyway. It just feels miserable for misery's sake. It's almost unceremonious the way they ax her off because it's not even intentional. Meg misfires the gun because Erik fucks up in trying to talk her down. Christine's death isn't even about Christine herself. It's about Meg and Erik. It's such a useless and stupid death to give this character. How old even is she? Supposedly she's around 18-20 in the original musical (we're ignoring the 2004 movie that puts her at 16) and this is 10 years later? She's barely 30 but she ends up a casualty to everyone else's vanity, jealousy, and selfishness. I feel like we're supposed to find it tragic but it doesn't hit. It's a meaningless and undignified end to a character that was given no agency over her own life or her death.

[ask-phantom-erik]

Enjoy this drawing I did yesterday

[vixenmaggie]

Why so silent, good Messieurs?

Did you think that I had left you for good?

Have you missed me, good Messieurs?

I have written you an opera

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

(Tags courtesy of @marzipanandminutiae )

Also tagging @fierceawakening

Here is the concept art of Elle, my female Phantom of the Opera.

This is just the concept, later I'll make a more rendered illustration of her.

[theres-music-in-you]

Some more photos of Kayleigh Marven as Christine, featuring two spooky Mirror Bride photos as well. (x) (x)