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Since I made the post about how it was gonna end soon that happened to get widely shared I thought I’d give it a send off post as well.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast all speak to one of humankind most consistent questions;

can French men be loved?

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Just asked my ten year old brother to name three phantom of the opera characters and he went “the phantom, Christine, and that little boy who went to jail for killing his mother” Raoul is there something you would like to tell us

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The whole “Ballad of Billy McCaw/Next Time You Fall in Love” song had more emotional depth when it was about a parrot dancing at a bar in the middle of a racist pirate opera in Cats than it was as a cheesy 80s love song in the Thomas the Tank Engine/Cinderella crossover musical I said what I said

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Misto/Victoria? I always liked them as the pair for the pas de deux because of their bride and groom aesthetic

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Not enough jobs are willing to do training anymore, no matter what the situation. Grocery stores won't teach you to work a cash register, businesses won't teach you how to use their programs, even the arts won't teach you anything

Everyone wants a triple threat, expects you to just have those skills. In the old days? you could show up to a random theater barely able to dance and they'd teach you, and then the incel living in the walls would make you a world class singer and actor and you'd be headlining your own show in a few years

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Hey y’all wanna see the worlds most appropriately unhinged phantom of the opera as it came up on my FYP?

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"Kill them with kindness" WRONG. drop the opera house chandelier on them.

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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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Something I don’t really see people talk about is the fact that the Charles Dance Phantom had a half sibling. Possibly the only Phantom who is officially not an only child. Gerard couldn’t marry Erik’s mother because he’d already gotten a girl pregnant and married her. There was somebody out there who legitimately had the ability to say that their brother was the Phantom of the Opera

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Christine…

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TEN YEARS OLD IS TEN YEARS OLD

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i reimagined leroux's the phantom of the opera as a mobile visual novel for my illustration thesis 🙏🏼

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A strange new world

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on september 1st 😊