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Random musical/phantom of the opera stuff

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Hello, hello, hello! It is your secret Santa again🎄🎁 If you are American I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving yesterday 🦃 Today we're going to play (drum roll please) RAPID FIRE PHANTOM QUESTIONS (Cue confetti canons 🎉🎉🎉) Favorite phantom universe? Favorite character? Favorite song? Favorite costume? Favorite Erik portrayal? Favorite Christine portrayal? Is Christine a blonde or brunette in your mind? Any explanations or stories about an answer are welcome! Thanks for playing!

poto universe- leroux 

character- Erik or Christine as long as she has a backbone

song- “Phantom of the Opera” or “Final Lair”

costume- Christine’s 2004 Empress Sissi “Think of Me” dress is very nice in my opinion

Erik portrayal- If we’re talking about stage musical productions then I’d say Ramin Karimloo or maybe Hugh Panaro. But if it’s any version in general, then I think that Charles Dance really captures Erik’s savageness yk. 

christine portrayal- Sierra Boggess and Ali Ewoldt.

is Christine blonde or brunette?- I honestly don’t know. If it’s a portrayal based on the Leroux novel I would kind of expect her to be blonde because she’s blonde in the book, but if she’s not I won’t make a fuss about it either.

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Many apologies! Santa's mask slipped for a moment! You don't have to post this or the previous ask with the joke

I’m sorry, so do I post my answer for the last question? Because I’m a little bit confused.

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The part of LND that doesn’t completely insult its predecessor but was taken out of the pro-shot anyways

I’ve never heard anyone else talk about this and I honestly don’t get why we don’t talk about this. So I’ve watched LND too many times for someone who doesn’t like it. I’d have to say I’ve seen it, 7ish times maybe. And yes, I’m actually going somewhere with this. I’d only ever seen the pro-shot Australia LND with Anna and Ben. One time I started to watch the Sierra and Ramin London recording but I didn’t finish watching it. And recently I did. I’ll now be giving a lot of spoilers for Love Never Dies and the original phantom novel so yeah if you don’t want to hear it please don’t continue. 

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[cdaae]

I honestly don’t think the ring thing was a reference to the book but rather the first musical where he gives her his ring after point of no return. And I honestly really hated that detail and I’ll tell you why.

London LND phantom doesn’t treat Christine that great. He wasn’t doing too bad until he wanted the truth from her and decided the way to get it was to grab the woman he supposedly loves and adores by the throat, and then squeeze harder when she doesn’t immediately give him the info he wants. As soon as she does, he’s right back to being sweet to her and I hated that. He was even willing to hurt her to get what he wanted.

When Christine dies, yeah they kiss and stuff but no promises have really been made and she’s still married to Raoul. And she honestly seemed terrified of him through most of the show. Him putting his ring on her after her death felt like another possessive claim on her, without her consent, but now she can’t do anything about it. She spends so much time trying to prove that she doesn’t belong to him that I found that action offensive to her character.

You don’t have to agree with me, I’m just giving my two cents, but that part actually really bothered me

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I get what you’re saying, and yes you’re right because in lnd almost everyone’s toxic but I wasn’t really linking that part to the rest of the show it was mostly the act in itself. Because yk, we don’t get the Leroux ring, or any real reference to it anywhere else at all. Not even the 1925 silent film or the god awful animated movie. And I just kinda got excited because its the closest thing we get to that and its a pretty important part of the book. But of course it had to be in lnd and not a real half-decent movie version.  

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Hello! It's your Secret Santa! Would you mind sharing what some of your favorite things are? Colors, foods, media, stores, etc… Whatever comes to mind.

I mostly like operas and musicals cuz I’m like a one trick pony but sometimes I also watch comedy TV shows (parks and rec, the office, malcolm in the middle, its always sunny, glee, ect.) My favorite food is the chow mein from pnada express or maybe the pizza from costco because that’s some solid pizza. 

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Hello! This is your POTO Secret Santa!🎅🏻🎄 I'm going to get to know you so I can pick out you gift! First question: e/c or r/c? Or is there another ship you like more?

personally, E/C but I also really ship Mlle. Giry with Daroga cuz Erik is at the same time a full-time job and bonding activity

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The part of LND that doesn’t completely insult its predecessor but was taken out of the pro-shot anyways

I’ve never heard anyone else talk about this and I honestly don’t get why we don’t talk about this. So I’ve watched LND too many times for someone who doesn’t like it. I’d have to say I’ve seen it, 7ish times maybe. And yes, I’m actually going somewhere with this. I’d only ever seen the pro-shot Australia LND with Anna and Ben. One time I started to watch the Sierra and Ramin London recording but I didn’t finish watching it. And recently I did. I’ll now be giving a lot of spoilers for Love Never Dies and the original phantom novel so yeah if you don’t want to hear it please don’t continue. 

In case you haven’t seen it here’s the Love Never Dies Anna and Ben Australia pro-shot (ABAPS) finale.

Now, here’s the finale for the Love Never Dies Sierra and Ramin London production (SRLP) . You really only need to watch from 9:30 till the very end.

Like, I’ve seen the ABAPS so many times and not once have I cried with Christine’s death. So nothing gave me a reason to think this time would be any different with the SRLP. And I normally don’t cry with movie deaths, grandma deaths, or even dog deaths, and yes I know I’m a horrible person. So here I walk in, thinking I’m fully desensitized but boy, was I wrong. not only did I cry the first time. I had to watch it 3 additional times to “check if it still made me feel things” because I’m an idiot to a severe level. And I cried every single time. So, what’s the difference here? Why am I sobbing my ass off? Well, I decided to make a Super Carlin Brothers theory about it and this is what I got.

Actually no, this isn’t nearly as complicated as those videos because I’m not psychologically complex. I’m really basic. But anyways, what I concluded on was that the part where Erik gives his ring to Christine is what makes me cry.

And now I’m going to give you a 2 paragraph summary of Leroux’s second to last chapter of his novel to make you understand why because this is the only other that hasn’t happed to me in real life that’s made me cry. So this is after the “final lair”. But this is the book, you know, where Daroga exists. So after so many times of being in near death situations because of Erik, he says I’m done covering for this motherfucker I’ll turn him in to the police. And after he makes his whole police report and is ready to walk out the door to turn it in guess who’s there? Erik. He waltzes in, and does this over dramatic thing where he sits on a couch. And Daroga starts asking Erik if Christine and Raoul are dead. And I kid you not, Erik does the most shocking, un-Erik thing ever. He makes things about himself. WHAAT?! Ikr. And then he finally gets to the point and tells Daroga why he let Christine go.

What essentially happened is that Christine agreed to get married to him and not kill herself if that guaranteed Daroga and Raoul’s safety. Erik actually follows through with his promise and Christine lets him kiss her on the forehead afterwards. Erik is so over come with emotion and happiness (?) that he tells Christine that she could leave, go and marry Raoul if she wanted to. He only asked as his last request that when he died that Christine buried him with the ring that he gave her because he's aware that he's gonna die soon. Christine agrees and leaves with Raoul and the ring. Fast forward 30 years later because this book is weirdly but efficiently narrated. Erik is dead, and there’s like this detective looking through the Palais Garnier sewers and he finds a body there. And he says that he knows that body’s Erik’s not because it looks like a skeleton cause at this point, they all look like that, but because he’s wearing the ring he gave to Christine which she later came back and returned it to him.

In LND things are the other way around. Christine is dead and Erik is the one giving her his ring. It’s such a subtle but crucial refence to the book and I really don’t understand why they took it out of the Australia production. Normal people who haven’t read the book wouldn’t have been bothered by it and most people who watch LND are phans anyways. I might’ve liked LND just because of that small detail. But I guess we’ll never know. *Imagines an alternate universe where people actually like LND because of that one small detail that’s insignificant to the real story*.

[epwhales]

Danny devito as Erik. Boom. The trashman and sewer goblin in one.

trash goblin emerges from the opera cellars

[filthybonnet]

You Anon are a genius!!! But now I want to see Charlie as the Phantom and the Waitress as Christine. I mean Charlie already dressed as the Phantom for Halloween in that one episode.

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Here’s Charlie and the Waitress as Christine and Erik. The scenes that inspired the drawings are below if you didn’t get it. And tbh these 2 are polar opposites but at the same time they’re essentially the same thing.

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Aside from the entire inaccurate Wikipedia information, the part I have the biggest problem with is the friends/ allies. Like, we get the entire uggo club @phana-banana​ and more here and not one single mention of daroga for his friends.

above: when you’re not even included in the Wikipedia character analysis 

[valtsv]

the funniest character headcanons are feral, homophobic and tax evader i dont accept constructive criticism and you cant change my mind

[shaggytwodope-deactivated202104]

hates the irish, fucks to survive, war criminal

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alignment chart

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[pacmantrinity-deactivated202207]

she does not FUCK

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can you believe this website is free

[technicallytransparentghost]

I feel like trump evades taxes more. I could be wrong tho.

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[half-black-phillip]

I’m so mad because this worked

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help me roger

[telanu]

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

[luthienebonyx]

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

[riskpig]

………my friend has made me curious

[maryburgers]

help me roger

[maryburgers]

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director

[zombbeans]

These never work for me, but here’s to trying.

[strangenewclassrooms]

I don’t believe in these things

But last time I reblogged one ten/fifteen minutes later I got a call offering me a job

But I reblogged it because I was waiting on hearing back from the job. So there you go.

Roger is cute.

[sugared-violets]

Eh Roger is cute I might as well

[secondlina]

That fish is so happy it makes me happy.

[loli-tease]

awww, how cute!! is it weird i have a crush on Roger??!! 

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I’m going to the casino roger, give me luck!

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I’m reblogging because i’m desperate Dx

[tclovestuff]

Roger pls

[technicallytransparentghost]

I think that Ayesha could be more entitled than Erik. Maybe. Just saying.

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when you become relevant for 5 minutes becausee you post about the 2020 election and Destiel

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Castiel’s coming out scene and others

actual photo of Cas:

actual photo of Dean:

actual photo of Putin:

actual photo of Nevada:

[cdaae]

Phantom Ask Meme

1. How did you get into phantom?

2. Favorite adaptation?

3. Favorite phantom?

4. Favorite Christine?

5. Favorite Raoul?

6. Madame Giry or The Daroga?

7. Least favorite adaptation?

8. Why do you love phantom?

9. Favorite phantom song?

10. Thoughts on Love Never Dies?

11. If you could chose an actor that’s never played the phantom for a new film adaptation, who would you choose?

12. London/Broadway or the New Tour?

13. Blonde or brunette Christine?

14. You’re putting together a “phantom-inspired playlist: top three songs?

15. Have you ever seen phantom live?

16. What’s your favorite phantom memory?

17. Favorite phantom pairing?

18. 2004 film or RAH?

19. Favorite scene?

20. What’s one detail you would change about your favorite adaption?

21. How would you make your least favorite adaptation better?

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I’m pretty new to tumblr so I was thinking i’d try this so people would get to know me better and stuff.

1.funny story actually. i guess my mom thought i’d be into r&b/rap or sum so she made me listen to Sarah Brightman, ALW, and operas when i was like 5ish. Fast forward when I’m ten and a die hard wicked fan. I’d never actually seen any real poto adaptations i’d only heard the title song. But anyway, I watch the 2004 movie and then i’m officially obsessed. So basically my mom’s plan of making me not musically illiterate backfired because now the only thing i listen to is operas and phantom.

2.ALW musical and original book

3.Ramin Karimloo and Hugh Panaro

4.Sierra Boggess and Ali Edwolt

5. Killian Donnelly and Hadley Fraser

6. the Daroga

7. Dario Argento (aka rat phantom) for sure, and although you can’t compare these three i just really don’t like phantom of the megaplex or the David Staller musical either

8.Erik’s sense of entitlement and pettiness in general is a big factor. But I think that one of the best reasons is that he lets Christine go at the end because he wants her to be happy w/ Raoul.

9.title song and final lair

10. The music itself is good but the story is bullshit. PotO doesn’t need a sequel. You know what does need a sequel tho? Lnd

11. if it’s a normal movie Keanu Reeves purely because in John Wick he goes psycho after they kill his dog (*cough cough*kerik*cough cough*). But if the actor playing Erik actually has to sing then Dimash for sure.(below are videos of Dimash being fucking amazing)

12.London/broadway

13.I love them both equally but if I had to choose, then I’d say blonde because it’s true to the original novel but then again my Christine is mulatto with dark brown hair so yeah i’m kinda torn

14.I am Damaged from Heathers gives me some serious PotO vibes, Chandelier from Sia, And Take a Chance on Me from ABBA.

15.nope

16.This is a long story so bare with me. So I have this friend and one day he asked me what I was doing. And I told him i was watching a movie about a deformed guy who fell in love with a pretty girl but she was in love with a guy that looks like Goldilocks (it was the 1990 miniseries). what wound up happening is that i summarized most of the story for him and when i finished this is literally what he said: ”deformed guy is sus” then he asked me if Raoul (aka goldilocks) was actually a girl because I kept on using male pronouns and that confused him. it took me 30 minutes to explain he was indeed a guy. I had to send him a few photos of Raoul to show that he wasn’t a girl. Then he said Raoul was hot. Mind you, he was straight but tbh I’m not so sure anymore. What I learned from that is that my friend thought Raoul was hot therefore, he must be a girl. But when he learns Raoul is a guy, then he’s gay for Raoul. So regardless of the gender, he finds Raoul hot.

17.I’m personally an E/C shipper but if you ship R/C i won’t fight you on that unless you say Erik’s a disgusting creep and you’re talking about Erik in general and not just rat phantom. Wow that’s a mouthful. I also ship Madame Giry and Daroga really hard for some reason.

18.RAH

19.all of final lair in all versions (except the david staller and 1980s animated movie for obvious reasons)

20. They should’ve had the actual Daroga and not just replace him with Madame Giry in the musical. And this applies for both that they should’ve made Erik apologize to Christine because I don’t think he apologizes in either version. Correct me if I’m wrong.

21. a deformity, no rats, and most importantly no raping

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I just made a sloppy doodle/meme of daroga being a mood. I encourage people to put whatever on it.idk why I put the Dora thing. It’s just been on my mind recently.

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This is late cuz it was supposed to be for Halloween. Anyway this the gang in my modern au dressed as the Care Bears. The girl w/ ombré hair is Meg Giry because I imagine being an e girl considering her mom is pretty goth.

[timebird84]

🎄It’s time for the 3rd PotO Advent Calendar!🎄

Now that Halloween is over and after its great success last year, it’s time to start planning the PotO Advent Calendar again.

To make it work I’d need 24 volunteering artists and writers (23 would also be okay, in that I case I would submit one piece myself), who sign up for this project by contacting me personally either via my inbox or the messanger - so I can go chronologically by receiving dates, in case I get more than 24 willing contributors.

It would be great, if we could get a good mix of visual and written art, so please let me know what you are planning to donate.

Every participant will get a date when their contribution shall be posted (if you want to claim a special day, please let me know, otherwise I will just choose one for you).

Make sure you only sign up, if you seriously want to contribute something. Your piece (no matter if drawn or written or whatever) has to be themed winter-ish and/or Christmas-ish, beside that you are free to create whatever you want.

You need to send your finished piece in time (!!! at least 24 hours before your publication date !!!) to me via email –> [email protected] . I will put all received 24 ones in an order and upload one every day of December until Christmas, of course with crediting each creator!

In case you are not okay with sending your art/writing to me - submit it to @timebird84. But I would rather prefer the email option, so I can give every day of the advent calendar a similiar look.

You can check the tag #PotO Advent Calendar on my blog to see last year’s PotO Advent Calendar’s doors.

Please follow the tag PotO Advent Calendar, if you don’t want to miss anything related to this project!

And as always, please help me to get as many Phans as possible to see this post by reblogging it and/or tagging people who you think could be interested in participating. Spread the word - Make it work! Thank you <3!