Not Dark Yet, But it's Getting There

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[emotionalmotionsicknessxx]

Behind The Masquerade

An in-depth fan-made record of the pioneering technology powering Masquerade, the immersive Phantom of the Opera experience

If you haven’t seen this…truly some amazing Phan work at play!!

[mistressofthelair]

A ring on his finger.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Trying to explore downtown Boston in fallout 4 will very often make reality freeze and crash due to the amount of stuff squeezed into the tiny area. I cannot confidently speak on the frequency this happens in real life Boston because I’ve never been there.

[caroline-vibecheck]

50-80% of the time

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[nine-inch-nile]

I need it to be understood that when I say I love The Phantom Of The Opera, I don't mean it a "Dark Romance, I wish I was Christine" sort of way but in a "I too feel like a ugly, celler-dwelling ghoul who is unworthy of love" way.

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

La Cave De Gaston Leroux a Cafe and museum dedicated to the memory and history of The Phantom of the Opera and its original author Gaston Leroux is reopening and needs your help!!

Donate here!!

(Full story below the pictures!!)

La Cave De Gaston Leroux is a cafe and museum in Paris ran by the great granddaughter of Gaston Leroux: Véronique. Once you enter, you find yourself transported back into time as you walk past historic items connected to the creator of The Phantom of the Opera and over a century worth of Phantom memorabilia.

A few years ago, during the pandemic, the museum was threatened with closure, and a huge Phan campaign started. This included the Fundraiser event "Phantoms for Leroux", where four Phantoms (Ethan Freeman, Peter Karrie, Jonathan Roxmouth, and Mike Sterling,) came together to help save this piece of history.

We succeed, but the job is not done: we now need to help Véronique to raise the money necessary to reopen.

[my-gender-is]

My gender is Homosexula

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

[windsing5]

And they’re all Vlad

[dailyphantomhands]

Gary Mauer (with Elizabeth Southard)

[christinegrrl]

Favorite Final Lair - David Shannon and Gina Beck

[pmamtraveller]

The Opera Ball (1866) by Eugène Giraud

[opera-ghost]

[wheel-of-fish]

Stolle roles

[operafantomet]

From Jeremy Stolle’s open Instagram

[marleneoftheopera]

Bringing this back because it’s gold

[cauldroncreations]

lets say, hypothetically, im a cat. a kitty cat. and for the sake of debate, lets say i dance dance dance.

[scorpiety-bye-deactivated202310]

do you think we get to learn everything when we die or are the colors that exist between colors gonna be shrimp-only knowledge forever

[civvic]

The mere concept of a resident evil male nude mod is so funny to me. Boy put that boaner away lest a sloppy little critter grabs hold of it

[sunderwight]

Evil wizard tasteful pin-up magazine but it's all photos of like, skinny old goths coyly fingering cursed amulets, long-bearded sorcerers doing the 'oopsie' pose as their corrosive destruction spell destroys enough of their own robes to show some skin, naked desiccated lich king positioning his staff of human skulls just so it leaves something to the imagination, dark knights in full armor just holding their soul-eating blades out in front of their codpieces, orc chieftain who did not understand the assignment and is posing with a monster he killed like one of those guys-with-fish photos. Or maybe he DID understand the assignment. Hmm.

[frontmansdefender]

RIP to the legend

[silvermoon424]

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.