Oh, man, oh, man, I’m scrolling through my blog to see if Tumblr has flagged anything and it hasn’t flagged any of the actual boobs that I have drawn, of which there have been a few, but all done as works of art (also, boobs are no big deal).
I don’t even understand the poto scene where the piano plays itself like isn’t the point that it’s NOT an actual ghost it’s just a man in a mask… how is the phantom controlling the piano…. fight me alw
*in the audience of the Majestic theatre*
person 1: who wrote this
person 2: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Person 1: I’m gonna fucking fight him
Erik: My plan is to kidnap this soprano and force her to marry me. What do you think?
Daroga: Do you accept constructive criticism?
Erik: Sure
Daroga: Your plan fucking sucks
Erik: THAT’S NOT CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM!!
Okay so I’m really sleep-deprived from travelling all day, but I was thinking about why ALW!Phantom vanishes at the end of the play and my brain was like, “Well, what if the Phantom was a literal poltergeist who had unfinished business and Christine resolved it for him and now he can cross over to the afterlife?!?!?” (My more rational side says they did it because it’s better than showing him die a slow depressing death and it leaves the ending more open-ended while allowing the Phantom one more magic trick for y’all to gawk at)
Dude, when I first saw the OCR as a wee little one….I thought that WAS what happened. Holy shit! XD
I’m not joking, when I first learned the plot of the musical my thought was this:
“The Phantom was a deformed guy who was being paraded around at a carnival. He killed his master and escaped, but drowned in the river (I don’t know why I thought this, but I did and I cannot explain why). His ghost started haunting the opera house and causing all the trouble. He fell in love with Christine and when she showed him love for the first time at the end, he felt complete enough to move on. Proving that the rumors were true, the opera house truly was haunted.”
I was a dumb kid, and I later learned I was dead wrong; but it’s interesting to think about.
Maybe because he lives on the lake, which runs outside the Opera into the river? His body could’ve floated into the lake from the river, and that’s what caused him to haunt the Opera. I think that plot would make a great AU! It’s a unique spin on the story.
I wouldn’t complain if a newer adaptation were to come out where that was the case. ^^ Hey, maybe someday you and I can pull a Susan Kay an co-op a book about that!
“The (Literal) Phantom of the Opera”
Maybe! That’d be fun 😀
You know….it would explain a lot. Like why he’s so obsessed with death, how he can create illusions and manipulate objects seemingly with his mind, ect. …… Actually, this makes more logical sense the more I dwell on it.
Oh my God, yeah. It could explain details in a few different versions tbh. The coffin bed The fireballs during Wandering Child How the candles in the lair rise from the water and light on their own Why he can appear and disappear so fast seemingly with no route to do so on Why he talks in 3rd person (trying to make sure he doesn’t forget his mortal life) And most importantly The threat of blowing up the opera house. it wouldn’t kill him, and would leave her a ghost with him, so Christine’s choice becomes “stay with me, or stay with me as a ghost” without her knowing it. That has so many extra implications and is dark as hell. I love this AU already.
If we apply it to Leroux, he could’ve tried to re-inhabit his mortal husk after he left it, so that’s how he’s capable of physically touching things……as well as explain the smell of death that follows him everywhere. It also gives his wanting a “living bride” a whole new meaning. And the way he constantly calls himself a corpse.
…..oh my god, what have we stumbled across?!
If you go by the “felt of death” side of the “felt vs smelt” translation issue, it also explains why he was as cold as a corpse, because he is a corpse. And if you go by Kay, it explains why he was so adamant about not killing the spider: because it’s an innocent but ugly creature that doesn’t deserve to die for it’s appearance, and that’s exactly what happened to him.
We’ve found a damn good au, my friend.
A damn, damn good au. I’m saving this thread.
GOD BLESS THIS AU POST I WANT MORE!!!!!
@cyrodiil-phantom ~ The people are demanding this, should we give it to them?
I say we absolutely should!
I say let’s do it, then! Let’s start plotting a fic!
I’m going to hound you two on this one. I shall not rest until the deed is done.
I shall see it through. I don’t care what happens I’m going to see this into the world.
Things you need to understand about Phantom of the Opera:
It actually has a happy ending
Platonic love is just as valid as romantic love
I’m serious please for the love of Leroux don’t let alw’s fanfiction teach you that unless you have sex with a person you don’t love them
Christine loves Raoul very much and your anti-Raoul posts are very likely also anti-Christine.
I’m serious about this too, stop making anti-Christine posts
Regardless of who you ship Christine with from a romantic point of view, that shouldn’t invalidate the love she has for other characters and certainly doesn’t mean she takes pleasure in seeing whoever she chose not to marry dead or suffering
Leroux’s novel is about all the ways in which people can love each other: sibling love, father-daughter love, random strangers ending up as close as family (strange choice of words, but I’m talking about Valerius taking in Papa Daaé and Christine), platonic love, romantic love, all the love. It would be a shame to reduce the whole novel at the “who’s this girl gonna marry?” kind of question.
ALW!Erik: *twirls cape* let me show you my humble abode, my sweet *unravels millions of candles, showers her with expensive presents, shows her a michael angelo painting of her* all for you, my angel
Leroux!Erik:
*trips on boxes of presents* *slithers into a sea of flowers* *sweats and quivers* *wheezes nervously like a cat* *trying hard not to cry* hai
I think its so interesting how, in almost every adaption of Phantom I can thin of the ~Lair~ is always dark and mysterious. I’m especially thinking of the 2004 movie, with the Sex Grotto decor, but the ALW musical is that way too, with all the floating candles. Charles Dance/Y-K has the magical ~world~ complete with a giant forest for some reason (MASSIVE DOWNGRADE from the less literal torture forest) etc etc
Because like– what Christine finds so bizarre and off-putting about the little house on the lake in Leroux is how normal it is. She’s traveled through her mirror, through the strange, jumbled world of the cellars, past the furnaces fed by demons (I think you are more than en peu myope girl), been rowed across a Stygian lake by her own grim Charon, and winds up in this perfectly normal little house, complete with a matching set of ugly furniture (which is hilarious because I’m sure the Louis-Philippe room is full of gorgeous antiques, but by Christine’s “contemporary” tastes…)
But anyway, the normality– maybe even the banality– of Erik’s house is such a crucial part of the story. So many strange and terrible things happen in what might otherwise be a very sweet little house, if it wasn’t bizarrely located under an Opera house and didn’t have a torture chamber. The contrast between this very conventional space in a ~world of dreams~ is one of many extreme contrasts in the story, especially regarding Erik– his beautiful voice coupled with his repulsive face, his cruelty compared to his real potential for kindness, etc. It also says a lot about the nature of the horror of the story– its not the realm of the fantastical, but the real world that’s full of monsters.
But most importantly, the house on the lake says the most about what Erik wants. He’s built literal palaces and temples to music, but what he builds for himself is a very normal, quaint house– even modeling it (at least furniture wise) on his childhood home which, though desperately unhappy, was the only one he ever knew.
TL;DR I don’t know why directors don’t take advantage of this in their adaptions, its easy visual shorthand for the Big Ideas that power the story. Ugly furniture adaption 2k16
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