Crossroads of the Multiverse

[cloysterbell]

No one is allowed to write another Les Mis fic ever again

[mylordshesacactus]

[id: The AO3 “Theater” section fic count. At the top is “Les Miserables - All Media Types” with a total fic count of 24601]

[ancientphantom]

Here I am again, peddling ancient, terrible Phantom games to the unsuspecting internet.

In the past, I’ve been all like, “hey, you know what, you can download old Phantom games and play them in emulators! Here are the sketchy download sites!”  And this is still true.  You can still do that.

But thanks to the Internet Archive, you can also just play them in your browser using their built-in emulator.  For freeeee

So here’s the quality 1987 ZX Spectrum handheld game Erik: The Phantom of the Opera, a platformer where you play as Raoul and try to survive the Phantom’s attacks long enough to rescue Christine, and if this poster doesn’t convince you to play it, honestly I don’t know what possibly could:

(It’s a lying poster, granted.  The game is black screen with four-color graphics.  But look at this aesthetic.)

And here’s the 1993 adventure game Return of the Phantom, which involves time travel, reincarnation, and just so many things made of bones for, again, The AestheticTM.

Truly, these are gifts.  I want you to enjoy them.  Love them as I have loved them.

[muirin007]

Two things:

1. This is amazing; thank you so much, and

2. Why in the name of all that is sacred and holy is Erik holding an axe?

The developers just went, “SCREW THE PUNJAB LASSO—BERSERKER ERIK MODE ACTIVATED

[pagesofangels]

Phamily:

Please, does anyone out there have a gif from that PotO ballet? Specifically, the one where Erik and Madame Giry are having that fucking hilarious fight on the rooftop?

[a-phantom-fool]

[pagesofangels]

Thank you so much, I needed this back in my life.

[eriks-stale-breadstick-deactiva]

WHAT

[dyxlecsicatbest]

I don’t even want context

[pagesofangels]

Too bad! You’re getting it! @that1writergirl found it:

[goodphantomoftheoperaposts]

ya hey I know I already rebloged this before not too long ago but that gif is honestly one of the funniest fucking phantom-related things I’ve ever seen

[eriks-magnificentcape]

Saw the trailer and it was wild

[katy-133]

If anyone ever finds a copy of this 1990 New York radio interview for Good Omens’ book tour, please let me know immediately.

Because it’s bound to be hilarious.

[mirrorfalls]

The original source for this was a 1991 Locus interview with Gaiman. Stay tuned for more details…

[katy-133]

Oh my gosh.

[calrisians]

We have nothing whatsoever in common. I don’t even like you. You DO.

[greelin]

i just feel like it’s my right to go to a masquerade ball y’know? like i’ve earned that. it’s something i deserve to experience, at least once

[runatic-lavings]

[tsaritsaofstory]

the three phantoms: novel / musical / film (for @teddybat24)

beware, the phantom of the opera! 

[briefly-be]

Crowley: this is so sad alexa play despacito

Alexa: mama… just killed a man……

[neil-gaiman]

Here’s the first teaser…

[missendlessmultitask]

It’s only half 2018 but let us keep freaking out about Good Omens. Who’s with me?!

[grickenfish]

You know you’re getting older when well-dressed stalker-murderers are no longer your type.

[stardustch0rds-deactivated20210]

i pull up at the gas station. the bass is thumping in my car. people stare. they think i’m listening to something hardcore. i open my door. it’s the phantom of the opera soundtrack

[wingedsun9-deactivated20221117]

I just hear that is Barricade Day

©me

[peelingmandarins]

“There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you – may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn’t that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life.”

— Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Tragedy: A Curious Art Form. (via xshayarsha)

[harleyqquinn]

[empiricallly]

#a shipwreck of love and ambition seeking refuge among the rocks that shattered him     #(and I do believe he wasn’t intending to ally with Beckett; not at first     #he was just useless and drunken and signed on because why the fuck not)     #just…look at the way that he looks at her     #that is not a look of unrequited love; that is not even bitterness over spurned love     #that is the look of a man who is so far past losing everything that he can only laugh     #(what’s one more bullet wound when you’ve already bled out?)     #potc is about the ways people become pirates–and it’s always wanting that drives them there     #wanting love wanting freedom wanting a ship wanting glory wanting wealth wanting and wanting and wanting     #piracy is about the ability to chase that wanting; to cut the corners and simply aim yourself at what you desire     #Jack’s compass natch)     #but how do you stride for the horizon in a shipwreck? you’re left with just the wanting     #and the wanting kills     #and that’s what Commodore Norrington here is about     #pirates of the caribbean was kind of a formative influence     #pirates of the caribbean     #potc   

[hellenhighwater]

All this talk with @copperbadge about Javert’s suicide has made me want to fix things, so here’s my proposed solution: he is too buoyant to drown now. 

(Javert is wearing swim trunks with stars on them, a life vest, and arm floaties with little bread loaves, holding his head in his hand and saying, “I hate you so. much.” Valjean is poking out of the background in muffin swim trunks, holding a duckie inner tube and yelling “Wait, Javert, I found another floatie!”

[copperbadge]

Damned if I’ll live in the debt of a thief! Damned if I’ll yield at the end of the chase! I am the law and the law DOES NOT FLOAT! I’ll throw his water wings back in his face!

[hellenhighwater]

copperbadge replied to your photoset: oh no he’s so dignified!!

Javert has been my favorite since I was 11, no lie.

I didn’t really put enough thought into Les Mis the first time I was exposed to it to have a fave, but man, now that I have it is so unquestionably Javert, the legal tiger. 

[copperbadge]

He’s just so EARNEST and MAD and believes in a VERY FLAWED SYSTEM and then figures out it’s FUCKED UP but it’s TOO LATE and also he has the BEST SOLO SONG and then – 

Man I have loved the stupid One Who Dies since I was a tiny child, what is wrong with me.