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[birdstooth]

This is a really silly doodle that fits in with what is now an ongoing saga I guess 🤷‍♀️

(1) phantom obedience training, (2) positive reinforcement

EDIT: omg I forgot I wasn’t supposed to post this until the POLL finished 😭😭😭

far too many NOTES below the cut 🎶

As part of his ongoing efforts to be“good” Erik is learning doing his income taxes this year!

(Like he definitely 100% does every year! Multiple times even, just for fun!! And bc he is very extremely skilled!!!)

idk if they had income tax at that time tbh… but I feel like it would come up if Christine encouraged him go legit and negotiate a salary with the opera managers haha

Also Erik would prob be really excited about it, like “omg we are doing our income taxes together, like a HUSBAND and WIFE would!! 😍😍😍”

In my mind he gets unreasonably giddy imagining all the domestic activities that “normal spouses” might do together eg:

“we are brushing our teeth at the same sink, like a HUSBAND and WIFE!”

“She is tidying the inside of the lair house like a WIFE, while I am outside lighting the 300 candles that float on the lake like a HUSBAND!”

“My WIFE is making dinner while I do the HUSBAND task of drowning intruders feeding the siren!”

[birdstooth]

Basic puppy phantom obedience training:

Christine: 😬😬😬

Erik:

[dailyphantomhands]

Peter Karrie

[marumotto]

Wake Me Up Before You Thiago-go Stream Notes

Attempted to fill in for the lovely @greenstripedcat <3 Apologies in advance for the incorrect tags/names!

ACT I:

Hannibal:

@Stephistopheles: I really don't know when I became such a Carlotta simp lol

-Aldebaran-: `I can think of two reasons Steph

after-perfect: RIP Carlotta you would've loved reporting your employer to OSHA three times a week

@opera-ghost: i would be gentle as a lamb and she could do whatever she wanted with me

On Elephant Shenanigans:

AngelofMusicals87614: I got to imagine at some point in the 40 years Phantom has been around, they had to have done more than just Drink inside that Elephant

-Aldebaran-: Wine Elephant vs Cards Elephant is the new Far Reaching vs Fathering

@warpweight: they are exploring each other's bodies in the elephant

Freckle Meg is in this boot! (and Raoul was 47(!) per Celina)

@wheel-of-fish: OH I FORGOT ABOUT FRECKLE MEG

@or-what-you-will: FRECKLE MEG

backlitmademoiselle: freckle meg :)))))

@forestscribe4: this boot is freckle meg?! she's so beautiful

Mirror Scene / Title Song / MotN:

whatyouwill: he's giving "my mom made me do the school play" kyannite: come through the mirror is u want 2 i guess. or dont idc

almostemily: how is he giving NEGATIVE hand

Ravens_Reproach: He's giving me Death of a Salesman and I want to be the Salesman

-Aldebaran-: She faints not because the Bride is a mannequin but because she realizes Thiago is

After First Lair:

lit-ari-ture: Since when are we ever EXCITED for the office scenes?

kyannite: never thought i would look forward to buquet

@flora-gray: Finally, someone with some rizz: Joseph Buquet

During Il Muto:

wheel-of-fish: he reminds me of the energy vampire in what we do in the shadows

@litloverscorsetlaces: Was Thiago at least a good colleague?

GlassPrism: He got his own alternate fired Brazil would show what cast you were getting when you bought tickets So everyone started buying the days the alternate was on He noticed

On the Roof / AIAOY:

Ravens_Reproach: You don't understand Raoul. He's so boring, I can't go back!

Lizzie_Boredom: "I gave you my mind blandly"

Aldebaran-: And in this labyrinth where night is bland

lit-ari-ture: Order your fine horses, please save me from the bore

Intermission:

courtesy of @opera-ghost (and it SLAPS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTm4NXtU514&t=3s

dimmedghosts: ok reading some brazilian reviews and apparently thiago broke a bone in one of the shows, he shouldve fuckinf died instead

Flora-Gray: do you think when he broke that bone he went RARRRRR

opera-ghost: do we know which bone he broke and how

Ravens_Reproach: It was his acting bone

lit-ari-ture: We know he did NOT break a leg

ACT II:

CARNIVALLLL! (Masquerade)

phaptomoftheopera: I’m so scared thinking about how uncunty his red death is gonna be

lit-ari-ture: Deflated codpiece

after-perfect: The red mild illness

Flora-Gray: "Why isn't he sexy"

-Aldebaran-: Society exiled him because he was so dull

motelpearl: he had a heart that could hold gary indiana

NOTES II:

motelpearl: i had a terrible coworker who stormed out on the last day & said "this is overrated. im going to move to alberta and work at tim hortons" & that is thiagos energy

Stephistopheles: He's giving office manager the week before his retirement

Ravens_Reproach: giving I'm calling about your opera's extended warranty energy

warpweight: crazy that when you are acting you can make choices and those choices change how the audience perceives your character and the story that character is in HUGE if true

-Aldebaran-: Warp he had to say "clever friend" and he hates to lie

Wishing:

kyannite: she is carrying the love triangle like atlas

-Aldebaran-: Okay now here is the payoff, some actual caring and emotional and wonderful talent

Ravens_Reproach: Could the boot just be this scene

TheEggSaysTuneAGAIN: all that work and then nothing the next scene

(My connection started getting funky here unfortunately and missed the rest - Thiago killed my internet and I am seeking financial compensation) Point of No Return:

warpweight: don't want to say i've been forced to this point by thiago because that makes it sound like i would reject a piangi in any other situation when that is just untrue. he is a baddie. but usually i'm busy politely coverign the foam in my mouth with one hand because of the Basement Tenant so

backlitmademoiselle: she's audrey hepburn against almost every leading man of her career

opera-ghost: thiago funny moments runtime 2 hours 15 minutes

Unfortunately this is where things cut out, and I had to face the reality of watching this stream alone and I was too weak, but I believe a few others were also taking notes! @paper-faces

[marumotto]

Putting that man in all the situations 💖

[endocathexis]

Anne Bachelier’s illustrations for The Phantom of the Opera

[heathcliffgirl1847]

when people are named baker or fuller or tanner or something its like HA 🫵 I KNOW WHAT YOUR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDPA DID 🫵🫵

[opera-ghost]

in the group chat editing leroux quotes over @funeral-lilies' DMs

[ojnah]

[dorfs]

this is my fave post on this whole website

[divinum-pacis]

A priest sprinkles holy water on a pet snail during a blessing of the animals service marking the feast of Saint Anthony, at the San Anton Church in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

[berkelbites]

@pokotate this snail is Catholic

[berkelbites]

In nomine Snatris, et Snilii, et Sniritus Sancti, amen

[britishchick09]

@jennyfair7

[trans-flint]

Alright, who can read the original crossed out name? ‘Can–’ something? 

By the next scene Leroux seems to have decided on ‘Erik’ so these are, afaik, the only crossed out examples.

[BnF: NAF 28093 (10)] 

[masksonmasks]

Can-, Cun-, Cav-, Cuv- it’s really a tough call. I had a little look around for anything else we could use to for reference. Here’s a post that @fdelopera​ made containing further samples of Leroux’s handwriting. Maybe that could help?

[marumotto]

To me, it doesn’t look like a C (as nearly all of his contain a top curl going inwards) but instead it may be a G; if someone has a photo of what his written G looks like I would love to see, it looks like it could possibly then be the name of a certain architect…

[greenstripedcat]

I don’t understand the writing, but here are some examples:

[marumotto]

This is indeed his "G", and it looks like a very close match to me of what was originally crossed out - if that is the case, then it looks like it was "Garnier"!

[trans-flint]

Alright, who can read the original crossed out name? ‘Can–’ something? 

By the next scene Leroux seems to have decided on ‘Erik’ so these are, afaik, the only crossed out examples.

[BnF: NAF 28093 (10)] 

[masksonmasks]

Can-, Cun-, Cav-, Cuv- it’s really a tough call. I had a little look around for anything else we could use to for reference. Here’s a post that @fdelopera​ made containing further samples of Leroux’s handwriting. Maybe that could help?

[marumotto]

To me, it doesn't look like a C (as nearly all of his contain a top curl going inwards) but instead it may be a G; if someone has a photo of what his written G looks like I would love to see, it looks like it could possibly then be the name of a certain architect...

[cottoncandylesbo]

(scrolling my dash) trite. trite. trite. contrived. foppish. shameful. oh, a disgusting embellishment from one of my decrepit mutuals. to be cordial i will re-blogge it. JEFFREY! (a butler-type creature who is as tall as my knee and incredibly ghoulish skitters into the room from a crack in the wall) be a dear and block this fool for me would you? (jeffrey pulls out a rusted dagger from behind its back and licks it) thank you. begone. (jeffrey scuttles out of the door and into the road where it is immediately struck by a semi truck at 80 mph)

[marumotto]

Leyendecker art study of David Young Fernandez cause he's pretty 💖

[marumotto]

Christine's Snapchat adventures 💖

(my Fiance's Cherik mask finally came in and I made him take 400 of these stupid pictures)

[marumotto]

Guys I'm really obsessed with this version okay?

WIP of TIQ Phantom of the Opera!

[warpweight]

romanticize getting chloroformed by a roadkill-looking bandcamp user and taken to his condo where you have to sit on his dead mom's ugly furniture and smile and nod while he recites to you every tweet you ever made from memory. normalize returning to your first-ever second location to bury the guy who put you there. sexualize the scary old spinewoman from the chocolate episode of spongebob