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I made a Poto iceberg

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I am fully aware that Phantom of the Opera is a very weird inspiration to suddenly pop up in book 2 of a sci-fi take on China's only female emperor but listen...I imprinted hard on Phantom when I was little and connected a lot with Christine's struggle to break free from manipulation by a man who's alluring in some ways but deep down you know you gotta leave him. You also can't write a Wu Zetian retelling without a middle part where she plays mind games with a shady manipulative emperor obsessed with her. The Phantom parallels weren't intentional when I started writing the book (I swear, not even the half mask at the end of book 1 was an intentional reference), but once I realized them I was like OH SNAP here we go. Instead of teaching her singing he teaches her dialectical materialism.

(Stitched video is from AnaisElysium on TT)

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I've always associated erik with owl especially barn owls because their faces are kinda uncanny and they look like they're wearing masks so...OWL ERIK????

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The angel in the mirror

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They're back!

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my roman empire is the suspense that must have existed when Phantom of the Opera was being published as a serial in Le Gaulois back in 1909-1910. crazy. i would be yearning for updates.

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“If I am the Phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I shall be saved, it will be because your love redeems me.”

Phantom of the Operas

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Stranger than you dreamt it

Can you even dare to look or bear to think of me

This loathsome gargoyle who burns in Hell

But secretly yearns for Heaven

Secretly, secretly

Quick night sketch with my fav brushes

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Duality of the man

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so no one was gonna mention the shanghai phantom ballet based on the leroux novel……..

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Aw oops I did more Fairytale AU Phantom of the Opera

Raoul is the fair elven noble crushing on the sad but talented forest waif Christine(now with musicalChristine-like hair)

and nothing bad ever happened to them

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Thinking about Love Never Dies and how an actual, hand-to-God thing the Phantom says with his own mouth is, "Give me the gun, Meg."

"Who should we send in for hostage negotiations? Probably someone level-headed and normal like, you know, the Phantom of the Opera."

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Phantom sketch dump because i’ve finally found a perfect procreate brush