Hello, I'm a new phan (I got into PotO in August). I decided to create a Tumblr account because Twitter is more of a Phantom desert, and it seems the phandom is somewhat bigger here.
Let me introduce myself.
You can call me LL, my pronouns are they/them. I'm mostly here for E/C and unfortunately, I'm an Erik apologist (I can fix him 😌🤪). In the past months I've been watching a lot of Phantom adaptations, and it's probably no surprise musical!Erik is my favorite, but I have a very soft spot for Cherik.
I saw this cast for the first time today. Simply brilliant. Plus I was selected by Clay/Phantom to walk with him from Box Five to the music study to Christine’s bedroom.
“The Mirror, Phantom of the Opera, Music of the Night.”
Clay Singer, Riley Noland, and Francisco Javier Gonzalez, “Masquerade,” Sunday matinee, May 3, 2026, 218 West 57th Street, New York City
I'm still not over Ron's makeup at the convention Midsummer Scream from last year. He looks just exactly like his great-grandfather and it's eerie! He needs to do professional photoshoots and they need a great Christine!
To be honest, I would probably die if I saw him in person. Then again, my Phantom-loving ass would wanna take him home. 😅
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!”
The very best thing about The Phantom of the Opera is that it shows us a possibly supernatural occurrence, then gives us a natural explanation that is infinitely crazier than the supernatural one would have been.
What if there was a ghost in the opera house that was killing people?
Requires you to accept the existence of ghosts, but otherwise is a straightforward story.
What if the chief contractor who built the opera house was a deformed circus freak who used his experience building palaces and torture chambers for sultans to keep building secret passageways and torture chambers in the basement when construction halted during the Franco-Prussian War, and then kept living down there working on an opera and killing and blackmailing people who crossed him and also training a pretty opera singer that he wants to marry?
There is nothing in the world that could have prepared me to expect even half of that.
