#gaston leroux

[phantasma-studio]

The wands, marked by a red curtain, since it is the element of fire. This is 9 of Wands: The Phantom has seen and heard Christine and Raoul on the roof (8 of Wands) and is heartbroken. What to do now?

This card will be in our Phantom of the Opera Tarot, that we are currently busy developing. Give us a follow for more progress :)

[achildsfirstsorrow]

Erik and César!

I havent actually drawn a horse before so this is a start for me I guess 😭!! César is based off an Arabian horse here.

[melit0n]

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.

[forever-and-whats-left]

Old art. Yippee! I forgor to post this. This is how I found out how to draw Erik’s face, which some of you like I guess haha. I was worried it would be too scary(silly, for fanart of a horror novel lol)

[thatsbelievable]

[opera-ghost]

the managers' plotline: we need a safety pin to solve the mystery of how the opera ghost keeps stealing our money!

christine's plotline:

[camsartblog]

my verison of Christine 

the brooch represent erik's eyes color c:

[ghastlychamber]

i should've known my love life was never gonna be normal considering my first crush ever was the phantom of the opera

[from-the-dead]

[milaeryn]

Hold me, love me, touch me, honey Be the first who ever did

This song always make me think about Erik and Christine...

[okkt0b3r]

"Ange de la musique"

[achildsfirstsorrow]

Figuring out how to draw his body for fun, since I need to work on anatomy right now.

Bendy lookin dude.

[madreemeritus]

[ilustrariane]

You Are Music

Oh, you are music Beautiful music And you are light to me

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Aaand hello everyone!!! this account was banned for over a week cause i trusted it to someone i shouldnt, yes very stupid i know. *sigh* anyways, i dont want to talk about that person.

So, i was having terrible insomnia and i decided it was time to go back to my old habits of reading before bed, and guess what, i chose one of my favorite Phantom of The Opera fanfics... BENEATH THE SHADOWS.

I dont need to tell you all that it gave me phantom fever and crazy inspiration lol so heres a fanart. Who missed my phantom content?

Oh, yeah, it cured my insomnia...eventually!

[les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques]

my favorite thing about this fandom is all of the incredibly niche, minor things that make women FERAL BEASTS

[magicisrealandsoismyblog]

We make fun of the owners of the Opéra Populaire for ignoring the Phantom's messages when he's clearly murdered people but. If I have a new job and the first message in my inbox is "My salary has not been paid!! Signed, the opera ghost" I would also click 'mark as spam', delete the message and move on with my life.