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If anyone ever does the Francis-eating-the-great-red-dragon-painting thing to my own art I'll go on a murder spree

(@jpasserii I'm keeping an eye on you)

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Killing must feel good to God, too. He does it all the time.

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Color study

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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god i love the part of the leroux novel when erik “have i really committed murders?” phantomopera is like “christine if you marry me i would be as gentle as a lamb………….” while the daroga and raoul are being microwaved and there’s a mountain of gunpowder beneath their feet ready to explode and kill them all if she says no

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That was the show right

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Just watched Hazbin Hotel and my god, this dude is entertaining

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I don't think we talk about the moment in Leroux's Phantom where Christine asks Erik to play from his Don Juan enough like he literally goes "nah it's too #deep you wouldn't understand, I'll play you some basic bitch shit like Mozart instead"-- I aspire to match that level of wild, unprecedented ego

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My therapist just told me my problem is that I need to write more fanfiction.

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Something that always confused me when I read TPOTO was why The Phantom chose box five out of all the private boxes to be his.

Out of all the seats in the house, box five is among the worst and would be (and still is) sold cheaply (average 65 francs at cheapest in 1880, now sold a between 10-25 euros nowadays) on general sale. A higher profit would've been made from a year-long booking, especially since there are multiple seats, so it would be 65 francs per person on a yearly booking no matter how many people are in there at once, but still not as much as other seats.

Visual wise, a good chunk of the left side of the stage is cut off and parts of the performance that would occur in the higher wings would be completely unseen, so, why choose it? Isn't the main point of going to go watch an Opera is to actually see the performance?

(A screenshot from the Palais Garnier's seat listing stating the best seats for viewing and the view from the box five via this video)

Having been there myself in late May, I found an answer to my own question and I'm gonna share it with you guys because maybe someone else was asking the same thing!

Although yes, the stage is half cut off, it's one of, if not the, best seats acoustic wise. You're a perfect distance from the orchestra as well as the stage for everything to sound just right. As much as The Phantom would've loved the operatic performance, I don't doubt he would've been more focused on the music itself as well as the vocals, and, mainly, Christine.

Further, although going to the opera was more of a social thing than an entertainment thing, so the boxes were built for aristocracy to be seen above all things, you can disappear from public view quite easily in that box. There are two to three rows of seats going backwards to the door, so all one would have to do to disappear from sight of anyone on stage or in the audience would be to just move a seat backwards (which means he wouldn't have been able to see the stage at all, but would still be able to hear everything perfectly well).

Plus, the box is located right at the end of the row of private boxes, as well as very close to entry and exit stairs, both public ones and private ones meant for stage hands and general workers.

All in all, those three reasons are why the box was chosen and kept in high priority for The Phantom, because he could quite literally disappear, like a ghost, by just moving himself in the box, as well as disappear out of the box and hear Christine almost perfectly.

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Red Death has come to take what is rightfully his own.

Version without wings under the cut:

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maybe it’s just me but Jekyll and Hyde loses something when it doesn’t have Jekyll’s first person narration (or other equivalent narration tool) (and it has to be book accurate) because you really can’t understand what Jekyll is going through unless we really get in his head. Even if he lies. if anything the lies are even more revealing. watching it from the outside you can see what his situation looks like, but not what it is. only when you understand him, his motives, his thoughts, the horror and the tragedy reveal themselves- the layers of metaphor are peeled back and we can really see Jekyll’s fear, confusion, hurts, losses- his shame, his guilt, the sort of person he is, the sort of person he wants to be, and how all that sent him down a spiral of self-destruction so bizarre it can only be truly understood from within, and even then, we’re at the mercy of his narration, of his denial, of his torment. only he can explain what is what makes this story scary, and he will control what we know of it.

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this is really how i feel sometimes

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Leroux!Erik’s rants about being a corpse and being dead are severe dissociation as a result of a lifetime of being dehumanized, abused, and deprived of any love, touch, or acceptance. Humans are social animals who can and have died purely as a result of isolation and emotional neglect. No wonder Erik would feel dead after decades of being denied a basic need of life and being seen as only “the living corpse”. He is not dead or supernatural, he is just a man born with odd deformities who has lived a terrible, loveless life and his brain has cracked as I believe anyone’s would if they were him.

And when he emphasizes that Christine is alive, his living bride, and didn’t die when she kissed him - it’s because she feels more real and more human to him than himself, and she treats him like a human which makes him feel almost alive again or very possibly for the first time. This was a very superstitious time when the story takes place so it makes sense if Erik feels dead, he would believe Christine would die from kissing ‘a corpse’. When she doesn’t, it breaks his belief and he realizes he’s not dead. Because love is the essence of life, if she loves him and he loves her then he must be a person. And he’s ready to die then because he has finally received the greatest joy life and humankind has to offer - love.

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Hi there! 👋

Just wanted to say your art is breathtaking and absolutely beautiful.

Also, I hope you're having a good day! =D

Oh damn, my first ever anon message!

Hello and thank you so much, I appreciate it <3. My day has been good so far, I have gotten a lot of positive feedback for my art and that really made my day brighter. I hope you're having a great time as well!

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Don't let the mask slip, don't let them see what lies beneath the veil