sameoldghostie

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the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating

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#poto #phantom #going with my gut, our boy is a 0; he's a man! a human man! his physical deformities are human, if overemphasized in dramatic ways in both book and film #feels wrong to classify him as monstrous on this scale when his whole personality was defined by people refusing to accept his humanity due to physical deformities #he's a simple murderer who happens to look the way he does

(HERE, I HAVE) NOTES:

• the Kinsey Scale in question:

• we're looking at mostly musical or book Phantom but if you have a special Phantoms Georg you want to sound off about I won't stop you 🫶🏻

• justify your vote in the tags if you want (pwease 🫶🏻)

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Herbert von Krolock has arrived at the Met Gala

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sweet italy as per ushe

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HELLO I’m making a return to tumblr to post my attempt at a translation of a song from the German 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea musical concept album, Nautilus das Abenteuermusical, which I dearly hope they bring to the stage one day. I’ve been listening to this thing all week. The orchestrations, the choir!! Good lord.

This is Wir werden Wunder seh’n, sung by Thomas Borchert as Captain Nemo, and it is LOVELY. Please take my translation with a grain of salt, or several. (Ty SO much again @maladaen​ for your help on this ♡)

Deep in the sea, life began to emerge

Tief im Meer begann das Leben zu entstehen

Thousands of secrets full of meaning

Tausende Geheimnisse voll Sinn

I have a ship, I know the way, I know the price

Ich hab ein Schiff, Ich kenne den Weg, Ich kenne den Preis

It is low

Er ist gering

 People see the world only in captivity

Menschen seh’n die Welt nur in Gefangenschaft

 Here is God's creation as it lives

Hier ist Gottes Schöpfung wie sie lebt

 The longing calls, the price is small, the pain fades away

Die Sehnsucht ruft, der Preis ist klein, der Schmerz verhallt

 The door opens, the soul shines

Das Tür geht auf, die Seele strahlt

 We will see miracles that no one has ever seen

Wir werden Wunder seh’n die noch nie ein Mensch geseh’n hat

 Will see miracles that no eye ever looked upon

Werden Wunder seh’n die kein Auge je geschaut

We will go under

Wir werden unter geh’n

 But we’ll rise up again with God's work within us

Doch wir steigen wieder auf mit Gottes Werk in uns

 We will see miracles that no sleep has ever dreamed

Wir werden Wunder seh’n die kein Schlaf jemals erträumt hat

 Will see miracles that no poet ever painted

Werden Wunder seh’n die kein Dichter je gemalt

We will go under, and once again understand with God’s work within us

Wir werden unter geh’n, und wieder auf verstehen mit Gottes Werk in uns

 We will see miracles as cruel as hell

Wir werden Wunder seh‘n so grausam wie die Hölle

 Brave death and the devil far from home

Tod und Teufel trotzen ferne von zu Haus

 We will see beauty, we will see truth

Wir werden Schönheit seh’n, werden Wahrheit seh’n

 The door opens, we have to set out

Das Tür geht auf, wir müssen hinaus

 We will see miracles that no one has ever seen

Wir werden Wunder seh’n die noch nie ein Mensch geseh’n hat

 Will see miracles that no eye ever looked upon

Werden Wunder seh’n die kein Auge je geschaut

 We will go under, and once again understand with God’s work in our hearts

Wir werden unter geh’n, und wieder auf verstehen mit Gottes Werk in unseren Herzen

 We will see miracles that no fever has ever dreamed

Wir werden Wunder seh’n die kein Fieber je erträumt hat

Will see miracles that no poet ever painted

Werden Wunder seh’n die kein Dichter je gemalt

 We will go under, and once again understand with God’s work within us

Wir werden unter geh’n, und wieder auf verstehen mit Gottes Werk in uns

 We will see miracles

Werden wir Wunder seh’n

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Gems (my favorite songs) from ALW’s Aspects of Love and Song and Dance

Aspects of Love

Love Changes Everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iaTUA2JSLM

      THE classic!!

Mermaid Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62m57juJfSI

      Lovely & melancholy

Seeing is Believing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlQnGPc3Jko

      The OTHER classic!!

She'd Be Far Better off with You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C93xKtsgDrU

      Just a grand old time?? Kind of a bop?? A+ rhymes, ALW

A Memory of a Happy Moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjRkGorI7II

      This one always stuck with me for the reminiscing about the passage of time idk

Song and Dance

Unexpected Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFmEPhlkfHQ

      An actual gem, I just really love this love song. The melody is fantastic (which is probably why it’s repeated for the entire song)

Take That Look Off Your Face (& Overture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0OQW90PlVY

     Love a good overture, love the framing of this song

Tell Me on a Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGGimqMg-64

     Is there a more quintessential breakup song? A classic, a beauty, a don’t-listen-to-if-you’re-sad

You Made Me Think You Were in Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvP2qbqzmas

      An 80s BOP, TELL HIM GIRL (”if they gave Oscars for deceit you would win \ Plastic man, hear me if you can” NICE)

So Much to Do in New York: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ct4KkS_KcQ

      Who let the orchestration for this song be so pretty??

s/o to @deardaaery who this is for <3

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is this a meme here too?? who KNOWS, I don’t!!

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Found a PDF of the program for the Vienna production of Rebecca so please enjoy these photos (including Danvers actually wearing the nightgown! That’s not in later European productions!)

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I ship you with Maxim de Winter, cool collected older husband with a secret that eventually makes him not so cool and collected extraordinaire

Yesss. Not so cool and collected,, flustered, one might say, and in need of someone to comfort him, I might say

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Dracula so you can turn into clouds of mist and float all around together with all the atoms of yourselves entangled across time and maybe you can slap some sense into him idk

Entangled across time!! Oh, beautiful. Would HOPE I could slap some sense into him

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I ship you with your mysterious, older gentleman Maxim de Winter. You will spend your days going for long walks on the strand with your seaside husband and spend your nights by the fire reading together.

Oh.......this is so, so lovely. I love him so much. My mysterious seaside reading-by-the-fireplace husband :’)

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Tell me on anon or not who you ship me with and why

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staying here on my own far away from the society, spending mornings with reading old books, drinking hot chocolate, wandering around, observing the nature and breathing deeply

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LADIES, IF HE:

- Is tall

- Dark

- Handsome

- Can sing in both German and English

- Played Dracula and The Count of Monte Cristo

He’s Thomas Borchert- you’re in love with Thomas Borchert

(Y’all it’s okay, I’m also in love with him)

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the best gag in dracula by far is how the entire time jonathan harker is imprisoned in dracula’s castle, dracula is pretending to have a full household of servants when in reality it’s just him running around doing everything, and it would be CRIMINAL to write a drac-centric adaptation and not milk this gag for all it’s worth. dracula dropping off harker in the carriage, pulling into the stables, then sprinting through the castle to answer the front door. dracula lurking outside harker’s bedroom for him to leave so he can sneak in and make his bed and fold his pajamas. dracula in the kitchen struggling to make food when he hasn’t eaten anything except blood in centuries. dracula giving up, turning into a bat in frustration, flapping over to the nearest farmhouse, stealing a pie off the windowsill, and proudly presenting it to harker for dinner.

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Asks for the Gothic Heroine

candelabra - Are you afraid of the dark? If not, what do you fear?

skeleton key - Is there a room that you are not allowed inside?

moorlands - Do you prefer the rain over the sunshine?

the bleeding nun - During childhood, was there a monster under your bed?

pressed flowers - Have you ever fallen in love?

whispers - Tell a secret.

shadowy ruins - If you had to conceal yourself from someone, where would you hide?

cobwebs - Have you ever been lost?

silver dagger - Have you ever had an injury? Of mind or body?

hidden staircase - Have you ever witnessed something you weren’t supposed to?

white chiffon  - Do you want to get married? Why or why not?

neglected manuscript - Do you have a favorite novel?

distant shores - If you could travel anywhere, where would you go?

armoire in the attic - Have you ever hidden anything away? What and why?

sleeping draught - What was the last dream you had?

peeling wallpaper - Write about a memory.

conspirators - Do you have a confidante?

phantom footsteps - Do you believe in ghosts?

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i would never work as a gothic heroine which is a shame because i’ve got the looks for it but the firm presence of mind to gtfo from anything unpleasant