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Devil's Temptation

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i did this for a uh certain group of friends but i think it's brilliant

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Javert but in my simplified artstyle,,,,,,,, if there was a modern cartoon/animated les mis this is probably what id make him look like 😇

No color effect ver and zoomed in under the cut

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“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” well, i asked the personification of death that keeps showing up whenever i'm mentally at my worst. we are not the same.

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Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.

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here at the end of all things

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My Favorite Mayerling Kisses (with Dishonorable Mentions)

This is just my personal opinion. All clips are kept at original speed. Pls inform me of location/dates where they are missing or if they’re incorrect. Thanks <3

• Dishonorable Mentions:

Mark Seibert & Fredrik Andersson (Essen 2015)

Did Mark just headbutt Fredrik??? What the heck was that? It lasted less than 1 second. At least as it looks like a power move on Der Tod’s part? And Mark looks cool, too. But there’s not a lot of intimacy.

Máté Kamar��s & Lukas Perman (Osaka 2007)

This is so funny, I love it! But I couldn’t put it into the “favorites” list for obvious reasons. Did they lose the gun? Why is there a knife? They were so discombobulated they forgot the KISS (which is what I’m ranking lol; so this technically shouldn’t be here). I adore the way Lukas arches his back after the stab, and the how Máté drops him like a rag doll. This video is a gem. As a Mayerling it gets 100%, but as a kiss it gets a 0%.

• Favorites (least to most):

8. Thomas Borchert & Lukas Perman (Trieste 2004)

It’s a concert, so they have minimal space, but the kiss is still very good. The head tilt and going straight for the lips? Holding Rudolf by the waist??? Love it! (And more so because of Nautilus das Abenteuermusical brainrot, but that’s not the point).

7. Mark Seibert & Martin Markert (Essen 2012)

I HAVE to give Mark some credit, he has some good kisses in there (despite what some people say lol). This kiss is direct and long with no hesitation. And grabbing Rudolf by the neck is a unique power move, low-key. Usually it’s waist or upper-back. Love how Der Tod aggressively yanks Rudolf’s neck back after the kiss lol.

6. Felix Martin & Thomas Harke (Vienna 1998)

That kiss is so passionate. Felix is GOING IN! And you can actually see Rudolf kissing back this time, which is nice. I have an inkling the kiss would’ve been much longer if the gun hadn’t gone off so soon. You can’t hear the audio (because it’s a gif) but I heard it while making the gif lol. Trust me, they kissed even after it went off.

5. Oliver Arno & Martin Markert (??? 2011)

I’m OBSESSED with the way Oliver gently inches his hand from the gun barrel down to Martin’s hand. It brings back some fluidity I miss from Uwe’s og Vienna kisses. The kiss is similar to Mark’s (from number 7): direct, lengthy, and on the lips. But this time Rudolf is held at the waist.

4. Lukas Mayer & Dennis Hupka (China 2024)

The return of the Mayerling Kiss after years of missing it. And in CHINA of all places. Iconic. The way Lukas grabs Dennis’ head so hard that his whole body starts swaying lol. And the kiss isn’t brief, it’s like Tod is devouring Rudolf’s face.

3. Máté Kamarás & Lukas Perman (Vienna 2003)

Lukas really went to the LIMIT on this one. I’ve been mostly talking about Der Tod, but Rudolf really stole the scene this time. Excitedly grabbing the gun, laughing, and pulling Tod into the kiss is brilliant. 10/10. And I like how Máté doesn’t immediately let go of Lukas, but slowly glides his palm across Lukas’ chest first lol.

2. Uwe Kröger & Jens Janke (Vienna 1994)

That kiss is UNBELIEVABLE. It’s like Der Tod was taking five large gulps of water after being in a desert for a month. And the HANDS- I can’t even describe it…wow. I love how Jens kinda slides forward and Uwe is like- WHOA- and backs up. I feel like the Mayerlings increasingly got more stiff as time went on. Love how fluid everything is here.

1. Uwe Kröger & Andreas Bieber (Vienna 1992)

Not the one from the pro-shot (I like it better zoomed-out). Uwe Kröger is the best kisser in Elisabeth, no question (in my opinion). The fluidity in his Mayerlings is unbeatable. The dress and the graceful aura are everything. I love how he slides his hands up Andy’s body and then to the gun. The way Andy arches his back during the kiss and recoils when the gun goes off is PERFECT. I think more Rudolfs need some spine action.

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European musicals explained really badly:

Woman keeps seeing her imaginary friend well into adulthood. This ruins lives.

Rich guys new wife is obessed with his previous deceased wife. This is the only thing she and the housekeeper agree on.

Child prodigy realizes that being an adult sucks.

Village boy battles vampires and bisexuality.

Two kids decide that dying is better than enduring their families’ bullshit.

Girl just wants to perform in the Opera, forced into a love triangle where both men suck.

Adolescent girl is under a lot of pressure in her new school, starts talking to a statue in the garden.

Crownprince only has dysfunctional relationships and he is very sad about it.

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they ran away together and lived happily cuz i said so!!!

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Here they saw a world reborn

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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"This I swear by the stars"

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og!tybalt and revival!mercutio had to be kept in separate productions because otherwise they would have burned verona to the ground and then fucked nasty on the ashes

i mean look at these freaks

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"Citoyen Robe--- Maxime! You could at least pretend to stare at something else."

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adding onto the fact that i am insane

Elisabeth from Elisabeth das Musical is La Mort from Romeo et Juliette

reasoning?

In Wie Du, Elisabeth is talking to her father about how she wants to go and explore the world and have all sorta of adventures, and going to Verona seems like enough of an adventure to me.

in Elisabeth's sort of postmortem scene, we see her in a white dress, thin and long. La Mort's dress almost looks like it if it was that dress, torn into pieces.

And if Elisabeth is Death's lover/wife/SO post musical, that probably means she absorbs some of his power to be able to kiss people into death, hand them weapons, reveal herself at will.

Specifically, la Mort's muteness and only being a dancer- she will only dance in death's sight (wenn ich tanzen will), so whenever any Veronese peeps see their deaths coming, she reveals herself (or in moments of intense suffering for Comment Lui Dire). Specific to Comment though, Mort is taking Benvolio's suffering and physically moving and stringing him up by it, which totally recalls die Schatten Werden Langer blocking with Rudolf and Tod to me.

Elisabeth's hair is also totally long and fabulous enough for all those hairdos. Her choreo also often obscures her and her face, which is a bit of a callback to Elisabeth always hiding her face with a fan, but that might be a stretch.

(in order: comment lui dire (retj), die schatten werden langer (elisabeth), mort de juliette (retj), die schleier fällt (elisabeth))

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jehanparnasse match each others freak