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who wants to know my fancast for an all-drag production of poto 🤭 i have cast every single character i fear

you know who i want to play the managers in a production of phantom? them

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Love when people make Erik Weird(er)™ like hell yes girl make him more socially inept! Make him a soggIER mess of a man. Fav creature actually. Weird dog? Yeah that's him.

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When your card declines at therapy so they bring out "The end of phantom's love story" chapter.

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you know who i want to play the managers in a production of phantom? them

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every song is a ship song if you’re in too deep

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Based on this post: https://www.tumblr.com/flea-palace/748059076352737280/just-had-the-horrifying-revelation-that-ive?source=share

I now have an insatiable curiosity about your opinions on Phantom of Manhattan. Would you please share them?

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i have SO many opinions on phantom of manhattan (disclaimer they are all derogatory), i've read it a few times over the years to try and give it a chance but i simply cannot enjoy it (thoughts under the cut)

i first read it when i was like 12 because i was looking for phantom-adjacent books at the library and i was so excited to find it, my hopes were really high and they got SO crushed when i did read it

for a book that's like less than 100 pages long, why does it feel like it goes on FOREVER oh my god it is the most boring, dry exposition and the dialogue is pretty bad too (such a drastically different tone than the og novel or the ALW musical that it doesn't fit as a sequel to either of them)

speaking of ALW, i hate that fredrick forsyth has to discredit the original book so much in his little foreword (like ok we know you are meatriding ALW hardcore but you don't have to badmouth the source material !!! especially all the madame giry commentary where he's like "ooooh she's not portrayed correctly in the leroux version" like huh? you mean the original???? make it make sense king)

the characterization is so bland. i liked the flashback at the very beginning (mainly bc i fixate on erik's backstory so i like getting my hands on any and all content about it) but aside from that it's such a snoozefest and none of the characters feel like they want to be there lol. They're so lackluster compared to their original selves and it makes me not care about what happens to them

i HATE the "let's kill christine" ending for both phantom of manhattan and LND. if anything, kill erik and let him have a hero moment or something idk but why kill christine??? it's dumb

i also hate the very end where he's like "hehehehe the phantom still lives among us today!!! but we don't know who he is although he's incredibly famous" it doesn't make sense and it feels again like a lackluster epilogue for erik's story.

too many side characters oh my god. i do not care about fredrick forsyth's ocs and they are written so blandly that i don't think anyone cares about them. they clog up the story so bad and make it lose any cohesive elements

in what universe would erik get a job as a clown. be SO serious

raoul's balls getting shot off was kinda funny i will admit

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soooo

it's pharoga season i fear 🗣🗣🗣

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new staging idea for the wandering child sequence. instead of using the fire staff to fire balls of fire at raoul and christine, have the phantom just start hurling skulls at them a la the enchanted violin chapter in leroux. since they're prop pieces they don't have to be real, but they can be, but also they don't have to be, they can just be hard plastic. so like:

phantom: "i'm here, monsieur, the angel of DEATH!" (throws skull)

skull: thunk bounce bounce bounce

audience member in front row with new subdural bleed: oof ouch

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Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

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pissing each other off as foreplay

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phantom of the opera au where christine is replaced by elvira and the show is finished within 20 minutes because elvira immediately rails the phantom

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Emily Dickinson in a letter to Catherine Sweetser wr. c. February 1870

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Its you!

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what do we think of a h/c fic where the shah follows thru on his threat to put bestie erik's eyes out and bestie nadir has to step up his game in babysitting everyone's favorite political assassin and then they fall in laurve hmm

it's pharoga season i fear 🗣🗣🗣

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stalking but more like an angel watching over you