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My beautiful libby app is full of books I want to read, and also a billion romances named things like Melting the Neurosurgeon's Heart and Twin Surprises for the Greek Billionaire and One Night with her Untameable Amish Beau
We need to update these for the modern era. Romancing Her Sexy Podcaster. A Baby for an Influencer. Loved Up with the Finnish Tech Mogul.
Art by Elena Kononenko
Every year, we do a secret santa event in my discord server. This year, I was asked to draw a Christmas ghost for Frederik and this is what I made! Even though Christmas is behind us, it still feels weirdly relevant with all the snow we’ve had here in the past week. It’s melting now, but it was a magical few days while it was here ❄️
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COSMOS by Victor Hugo Harmatiuk
Although I will never stop telling people to watch the Royal Albert Hall version of Phantom before the movie (or if they’ve only seen the movie) bc it really is a phenomenal production, Raoul’s actor just does not hit the role quite right for me. He plays it very confidently. Whereas Raoul is traditionally extremely babygirl, extremely tender.
& I believe that distinction is important because Raoul & Christine are childhood best friends recently reunited & he generally spends the majority of the show out-of-his-mind terrified for Christine and eventually asks her to endanger herself to catch & defeat her tormentor. A tender Raoul asks her to do this because he believes it’s the only option, and also because he believes in her strength and that she has the power to set the trap that saves herself. Because he’s known her since they were young and he knows how brave she can be even as everyone else thinks she’s mad and powerless. & Because he worships her quite frankly.
but an overly confident Raoul seems dismissive and naively bold, asking her to do something dangerous simply because he’s so confident it will work out. He’s not AFRAID FOR HER!! he just thinks he’s right! It takes so much away from their love!!!
Few romantic exchanges in fiction make me quite as insane as the singular line from the original production’s “All I Ask of You” when Christine says “say you love me” and Raoul replies, “you know I do.”
She’s begging Raoul to take her away and save her from the Phantom and requesting a variety of grand gestures from him until finally it boils down to her only wanting to know he loves her and he delivers the line like breathing. Like he can’t believe she even has to ask but he’s still glad for another opportunity to say so.
Also the repeated “let me” line from him. He’s asking for her permission to love her in return. I’m sick.
That’s Raoul!!!!!!!
Anyway I have to stop typing about this before I become feverish. Listen to them.
#YEAH YES YEAH#a bad raoul can spoil the whole show for me#there certainly IS a valid read of his dialogue that's like... dismissive and shitty and Refusing To Listen to christine#and I KEEP! SEEING PRODUCTIONS THAT DO THAT! AND I HATE THEM!!!#he HAS to be tender he HAS to love her sincerely and gently and on her own terms as a cointerpoint to the phantom's entitled domineering#or else WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF HIM#as an adult I can recognize why so many people hate the movie but this might be the big reason I'm still so soft on it lol#raoul my sweet boy raoul... 🥺 via @blujayonthewing
YOU GET IT!! Raoul’s and love character exist as the Phantom’s foil. "he HAS to love her sincerely and gently and on her own terms" EXACTLY EXACTLY! A lot of people interpret Raoul's insistence that there is no Phantom as a dismissal of Christine's torment. That's often the fault of the production. Raoul doesn't doubt for a MOMENT that a very real figure is grooming and baiting Christine. But Christine believes that figure is a literal angel sent by her dead father, and therefore infallible. She's terrified to doubt the Phantom's command 1. Because it would mean doubting her father's love and 2. He's killing people for disobeying him.
She's obeying the Phantom not just for her own sake, but to protect everyone else in the opera house. Because she's brave!!! She would rather be damned than doom anyone else. She also tells Raoul he can't save her because an angel/phantom can't be defeated.
Raoul tells her there is no Phantom, because the figure is just a man. He's not gaslighting her. He's telling her there's hope. That the Phantom is just some fucked up dude that they're going to stop together. But doing so is going to ask a lot of Christine.
If Raoul's actor doesn't play Raoul on his knees, caressing her hands and bequeathing this of her, begging her to play this active role in saving herself and everyone else while acknowledging how much he’s asking of her, his entire character falls flat, lost.
A Raoul who plays the role as "I know best, Christine. Stop being scared. He's just some guy," ruins Raoul! Because now he's just another man telling Christine what's best for her while putting her in harm's way! TRAGEDY!!!!
That... would legitimately change the entire way I've always looked at Raoul, in the best way. All the versions I've seen, he's come across as dismissive and condescending. "Yes, yes, I know you're scared, but I know best." Which is why I've always had a hard time getting behind his and Christine's relationship. (Not that I thought she should end with the The Phantom either. I've always been vaguely either "She doesn't need either of them." or "Have you considered lesbianism? Meg seems very nice and supportive.")
But this... this would change the whole vibe for the better and would actually make me like Raoul.
Yes!!! Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote that man in the show's climax with a literal noose around his neck, begging Christine through song to let him die in exchange for her own freedom. The Phantom captures Raoul with the noose and offers to spare his life if Christine leaves with the Phantom, and we get Raoul's lyrics, "For pity's sake, Christine, say no!"
And then begs Christine for HER forgiveness. He would rather die than see her trapped with her tormentor, but he knows Christine is brave and heroic and will sacrifice herself for him, and he hates himself for putting her in that position, so he sings,
"Christine forgive me, please forgive me. I did it all for you...and all for nothing."
He admits his plan failed, and by extension he failed her. All while begging the Phantom for her freedom, "why make her lie to you to save me?!"
And actors and directors are still like, "hmmmm. Play this man as dissmissive, domineering, and self-involved. that's what the people want."
The character they preent doesn't match the words he's saying!!
I'm sick!!!
It is what it is *throws up*
So no one told you life was gonna be this way *Phantom of the Opera overture*
Romeo + Juliet (1996) Directed by Baz Luhrmann
why is trying to make a new friend so embarrassing. hi. me again. asking for your attention once more even though i am literally just some random person to you. it's because i want to be not just a random person to you. please understand
The Ballet Rehearsal on Stage, Edgar Degas 1874
A very intense apple
Like so intense
I'm cryinnggggg
This tattoo is very funny when you know that kerning is the fancy term for the space between letters. Very important in text design to get it right.
This remains one of the most clever applications of ink I have seen.
@systlin I blame you for getting me into spinning, which got me into dyeing, which got me back into crochet. Behold my magnums opus: the solar system shawl!
The planets and asteroid belt grey were dyed by a lovely dyer on Etsy (nikkislipp) but I dyed the sun and the starry background myself. It was fiddly tying so many knots for all the colour changes but it was absolutely worth it.
Includes all the planets + dwarf planets, with four of the dwarf planets being represented just in their respective asteroid belts, and Pluto getting the same treatment as normal planets because I did a project on Pluto in sixth grade and am therefore deeply attached.
@swords-n-spindles
Oh that is SO COOL!
