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esmiephan · 2 months
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You are the kind of person that Christine would hate the most; calling an abuse survivor "abusive" while admiting you would abuse him 😂😂 Christine has self respect, unlike you who have no respect for neither she or Erik
(And defending Raoul's abusive creep behaviour, as always, because why not?)
Sometimes I really hate that I enjoy POTO because Erik's abusive, and if I saw him treat Christine the way he does I'd punch him, hard, then grab Christine by the arm and haul her away, saying, "Girl, lemme talk to you about self-respect . . . ."
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esmiephan · 2 months
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LOL
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also do not fucking reuse/repost my art you goblins i'm looking at you 👁️👁️
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esmiephan · 3 months
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red death copia
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esmiephan · 3 months
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yurifies phantom of the opera .𖥔 ݁ ˖
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esmiephan · 4 months
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omg 🥺❤️
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Commision for @lord-phantasm
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esmiephan · 4 months
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Again, you can support Palestine and Palestinian liberation without ignoring TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE AND CONSTANT EXPULSIONS AND MASSACRES OF JEWISH PEOPLES ALL OVER THE WORLD.
This is not something "in the past" (btw, those posts about how the Holocaust was "sooooo long ago" are fucking disgusting!), antisemitic violence is a global ongoing reality. Synagogues are being threatened and attacked, Jewish people are being harassed and murdered, Jewish-owned businesses are being threatened and vandalized, there are people in the streets calling for a Jewish genocide, and there are ongoing pogroms and expulsions of Jewish communities.
Jewish people did not leave their respective home countries for funsies, they left because those countries made it extremely and violently clear that they were not welcome. Many Israelis can't "go back home" because those "homes" chased them out at gunpoint or worse.
Again, this is not about having to support Israeli or the actions of the Israeli government. It's literally just about not spreading antisemitic rhetoric and revisionist history that tries to blame Jewish people for antisemitism (and yes, I've seen those "Zionism makes Jews think they can't belong anywhere else" posts, as if the constant hate and violence isn't at all part of that).
I'm so beyond disgusted by the behavior I've seen from people who I previously respected. I've seen so many Jewish people I follow saying that they no longer feel safe in any leftist community and I don't blame them for that. I'm not even Jewish and I have lost so much trust and faith in Western leftists over just the last month.
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esmiephan · 5 months
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*sighs*
Ok. Yes, she is undeservedly hated by some people, but holy shit no, she is NOT EVEN CLOSE the most unjustifiably hated character in the story. And your post proves it.
"uwu erik was soo much older than her and manipulated her griiieef" gosh, chill. How Erik's age matters when they are both two grown-ass adults? Or is it just naturalized ageism that wants to prove SO BADLY that he can't be loved because of his age? And he was literally trying to help her in any way he could, he literally plays the violin for HER COMFORT, he never used her "grief" to anything. Besides that leroux christine wasn't grieved or suffering daddy issues like the musical one.
"threatening her and her lover for just existing" 🙄 yes, Raoul was planning to literally MURDER HIM and stole his love even tho he's a piece of shit that didn't deserve her, but omg they're just little puppies existing 😍 Erik was heartbroken, it wasn't right but it also wasn't free hate
Erik is the most undeserved unjustifiably hated character in the story.
Okay Christine Daae is THE MOST UNJUSTIFIABLY OVERHATED CHARACTER IN MUSICAL HISTORY. THERE I SAID IT.
This VERY YOUNG WOMAN somewhere from 15-22 lost her father, the only person she ever had, at a young age and found her way of expressing grief through music. a MUCH OLDER MAN (we are not going to deny this fact please) saw her and decided to take advantage of that grief in order for her to fall in love with him (I know he had his reasons but it STILL HAPPENED) and after she found out how the man manipulated her she still understood why he did it, even after he KILLED PEOPLE she saw that he just wanted her love, and even after he threatened to KILL HER AND HER FIANCÉE for EXISTING (“now let it be war upon you both”) she was VERY smart and knew how to break the murderous trance that Erik was in, by showing him the one thing she knew he needed, compassion. She has the unique ability to see good in people when it’s not visible to anyone else, even after it seems like they’re past the point of ever being good again. That’s some LUKE SKYWALKER SHIT. She is literally a HEROINE who does not let anyone’s shit get to her, not raouls dumbass plan, not Erik’s anger. She wants to SING HER SONGS and she WILL, DAMN IT. Yes she’s naive sometimes but what did you want?? Her to be perfect?? Then you’d just call her a Mary Sue. Also she was a GRIEF STRICKEN YOUNG GIRL WITH FAITH IN THE WORLD OF COURSE SHE’D BELIEVE A NICE VOICE TEACHING HER TO SING AND BELIEVE IN HERSELF.
Christine Daae is a SMART, BRAVE, EMPATHETIC, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING CHARACTER AND IF I SEE ONE MORE PERSON BLAMING HER FOR *ANYTHING* THAT HAPPENED TO HER I AM GOING TO EXPLODE.
(Disclaimer: this is not an anti erik or anti raoul post, this is a PRO CHRISTINE DAAE POST) (GOD I LOVE HER)
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esmiephan · 5 months
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Broke: Copia is an absolute sex god
Woke: Copia is a virgin
Bespoke: Copia isn’t a virgin but he IS so awkward and annoying in bed that he can hardly ever get laid
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esmiephan · 5 months
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The 1987 animated Phantom movie had a budget of two dollars but by god how they made those two dollars count
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esmiephan · 5 months
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Zoe Maxwell
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esmiephan · 5 months
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A prince in exile here in Hell
In midst of sinners flocking up like soulless sheep
[My Socials] | [Prints]
Details below the cut
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esmiephan · 5 months
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HE'S HERE THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!!!
Someone at twitter asked me for him in my style, so there you go...
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esmiephan · 5 months
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Halloween Phic 🎃
A little collection of my Halloween and season adjacent phic from over the years! Some are very different than the others on the list so be sure to look at the tags and ships before reading.
THE GHOST AND MLLE DAAE - Christine’s father promised to send her a guardian angel, but what she accidentally ended up with was more of a stalker ghost. She also got a cat.
A THANKSGIVING STORY - All Christine wants is for Thanksgiving dinner to go off without a hitch so she can show her voice teacher, Erik, that the holiday isn’t so bad after all. That shouldn’t be too difficult, right?
NOTHING BUT A MAN - Chorus girl Christine Daae begins taking lessons from a mysterious tutor with the hopes of rising up in the ranks of the Opera Populaire, a place full of old tales and ghost stories. Despite presenting himself to her as an angel, she knows her new tutor is nothing but a man… Isn't he?
LIKE A WHEEL, LIKE A WIND - Not a Halloween story per say, but a Stephen King inspired AU with Werewolf Meg (WIP)
FLICKERTREAT - Christine is going to a party and has left strict orders that neither Raoul nor Erik can eat any of the cookies she's made--they are specifically for the children who are coming door to door for the FlickerTreat festivities.
THE CREATION OF THE VIOLIN - also not quite a Halloween story, but pumpkins definitely feature in this retelling of a Romani folk tale full of magic!
RAISIN CANE - Erik, having never celebrated Halloween, accidentally eats the entire stash of candy Christine set aside for the trick-or-treaters and must make do with he finds in the pantry.
PUMPKINS AND PIES - Halloween has arrived at Coney Island, and Gustave wants to try pumpkin carving.
CONEY ISLAND CLOWN - Not Halloween specific, but the season calls for clowns!
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esmiephan · 5 months
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esmiephan · 5 months
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A Letter to Non-Jews re: Israel
Jonathan Jaffe
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A Letter to My Non-Jewish Friends,
Dear Friends,
Please forgive me as I act so boldly as to speak for our collective Jewish community. I am writing in the fear that you may not know what your Jewish friends are currently going through. Surely you have heard the news of violence in Israel and some of you have even been so kind as to express your condolences. In this very lonely time, I cannot thank you enough.
Your Jewish friends and neighbors have spent the weekend in shock, misery and mourning. We are traumatized. Our families are under attack; some are missing and feared dead. Saturday morning began in dread and from there cascaded into frantic WhatsApp texts, panicked calls and constant scrolling through social media. We are not Ok.
If you are accustomed to receiving your news through the heavily sanitized Western media, please know that you are not living in the same world that we currently inhabit. You are not seeing what we are seeing: kidnapped children, naked bodies massacred and dragged through streets, parents murdered in front of their children, the elderly dumped into the back of pickup trucks; pages and pages of images of missing young adults, feared dead or taken hostage in Gaza to be tortured and paraded in the streets. Many young adults were attending a “nature party” music festival, as if Coachella was suddenly infiltrated by dozens of masked gunmen, arriving on machine-gun laden trucks, motorcycles and descending in hang gliders, thirsty for blood. Parents are posting pictures of their children, asking if anyone has seen them to please call them. There are dozens and dozens of such posts. You have not seen the video of the frightened Jewish young boy, mocked, abused and taunted for fun by his terrorist captors. You have not seen people dancing in the streets and handing out candy to celebrate the news of Jewish blood. You missed the Tik Tok videos and live streams of armed gunmen slaughtering parents in front of their children. You don’t know about the houses set afire to burn alive the families huddled within their safe rooms. We have seen all of it. And we know those who filmed it wanted us to see it and shared it with glee. And there is a world in which these videos are distributed in joyful celebration.
Moreover, you might not understand the historical lens with which we receive these images, a history of mutilated Jewish bodies and killing Jews for sport. To say that Saturday was Israel’s Pearl Harbor underestimates the sorrow and rage of the moment. At least the Japanese attackers had the dignity to focus upon military targets. They did not celebrate the animalistic torture of children and families. Candy was not passed out on the streets of Tokyo when the news of dead Americans was received. To see these images of tortured Jews invokes ghosts passed down from our great grandparents and beyond. We bear both the guilt and shame that it has happened again.
Our friends in Israel grieve. I can say without a doubt that there is not a single Jew in Israel who is not connected somehow to someone who was murdered over the weekend. The same goes for many Jews here in the US. Our Israeli contemporaries have been called into reserve duty, to put their life on the line once again. I received a picture from a friend of mine, a 50 year old father of four, with a sheepish look as he once again donned his military fatigues. My nephew is currently sitting on the border, somewhere under a bush, waiting for the enemy to come. Our family is heading into war. We pray for their safe return.
Here in America, your Jewish friends are under siege. Many of us spent the High Holy Days dealing with bomb threats. Did you know that many synagogues had to be evacuated last month? And that this happens to us all the time? Did you know that Anti-Semitic attacks are soaring by double digits each year, with a 36% increase just last year? Do you perform regular bomb sweeps of your preschools? We do. Are you forced to employ professional security teams to protect you around the clock? We do. And each time we do, we need to find the resources or cut from our programming to find the proper funding. Sometimes, it's not enough and we have to call in the police as well. When violence erupts between Russia and Ukraine, neither Russian nor Ukrainian churches must solicit professional protection for fear of attack. But we do. We are threatened by the far left and the far right, those who hearken to Hamas’ call for the destruction of world Jewry and those who march alongside the Proud Boys. We have seen our synagogues attacked and our congregants killed. We do not feel safe.
Today in New York City, those demonstrating in support of Israel were met with a fierce counterprotest of those celebrating Jewish murder. This happened today, in 2023, in our country. Nazi signs were held aloft. Last week, a speaker was invited on to my child’s high school campus, to spout Anti-Semitic tropes of Jews killing Palestinian babies and perpetrating genocide. Many of our political representatives offer infuriating words of moral equivocation in defense of murdering Jews. We hear the whataboutisms and the disinterested shrugs for a region inconveniently stained with blood. But worst of all, so many of our representatives remain utterly silent. Surely a raucous outcry will come when Israel inevitably defends itself. But when Jews are murdered for simply being Jews, and when we American Jews are targeted for the same, the silence is deafening. There are certainly those who have spoken out with empathy and clear denouncement of such cruelty. We are thankful for the light they provide in this time of darkness.
I wish I was in the mood for peace - but I am not. How can one talk peace as children are murdered over Tik Tok? In this moment, we are reminded that unlike our ancestors, we live in a time in which Jews have gained the ability to defend themselves. This power was not given to us but was won through blood. We no longer need to beseech the local feudal lord nor prove our worth to the ruling monarch. We will do it ourselves. On Saturday morning, the UN neatly packed up its tanks and vacated the northern border, lest they come under untidy fire from Hezbollah.
The Jewish state is now beginning to surely, unapologetically defend itself. Vanished is the false security that a racist, ruthless threat can be endured through the occasional skirmish. You cannot make peace with those who distribute candy to children in celebration that yours have been murdered. And now, Israel will act like any other country would if it was invaded by a blood thirsty neighbor and its citizens murdered, tortured, kidnapped and mutilated. It will do whatever it needs to make sure this can never happen again. And when the world inevitably protests the Jewish use of force, we won’t care. We will sadly disappoint those who long for the centuries of meek, defenseless Jews. We are no longer looking for the world’s approval and a condescending pat on the head.
If you want to demonstrate your support, you can simply ask us how we are doing. And if we don’t feel like speaking at the moment, you can sit with us in silence and we will know that you are here. Just know that we are experiencing trauma and that the sights we have witnessed will never be forgotten. We pray that all is done so that such things are never seen again.
On behalf of a mournful Jewish people,
Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe
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esmiephan · 5 months
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So when western leftist women organize and speak up against sexual violence, they mean everyone except Jewish women. Got it. I'll remember that.
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