Used to be a Texts from Last Night account, now just a general fandom blog for Phantom of the Opera. She/they, 20s, bi/pan/queer. I sometimes write as well. Equal opportunity licker. Love and peace.
Hi! My name is Elizabeth. I used to create memes of Phantom of the Opera and its sequel Love Never Dies by applying quotes from Texts from Last Night to screenshots from the musicals, but these days this blog is my space to enjoy POTO content and also repost some of my old memes.
General: they/them, 20s, bi/pan.
This is a sideblog. All replies, comments, and asks from @deceivedcomet are from me.
My fanfiction is compiled into this masterlist.
If you’re here for the memes: #texts from last night.
I also run two annual events in the POTO fandom: Queer Week and Fluff Week.
Queer Week runs in late February/early March and is a celebration of queer pairings in the Phantom of the Opera fandom.
Queer Week 2022
Queer Week 2023
Fluff Week runs in late July and promotes fluff fics in the fandom.
just as a heads up, phantom of the opera poster @/filthybonnet / @/filthy-bonnet is an unrepentant racist terf who made a hyphenated new version of her username to start reblogging from people who blocked her old account and you should probably block her new one too
the first time I saw masquerade, madame giry handed me the rope right before learn to be lonely, and I was like “ok I will hold this prop and be a very reliable audience member” so when the phantom held out his hand for it I immediately handed it over bc like yes good this is a prop for actors I do not want it. And then I Realized what the next scene was going to be and audibly said “oh” which got scattered laughs from my fellow audience members. and that kids is the story of the time I became an accomplice to the murder of joseph buquet
Your "terfs can eat shit & die" comment disgusted me. Violent thoughts like this have been hurled at women for years for stating their beliefs. There are women on a college swim team right now being told to deal with being uncomfortable for the sake of one trans woman. Would you tell them to their faces to each shit and die because they have expressed terf views to media outlets of wanting their own locker room back? That one person matters more than the many?
I'm sorry, what part of TERFS Can Eat Shit And Die did you not understand? Did I confuse you? Were the words too big?
Just to be super clear, I'll repeat myself to remove any doubt: TERFS can eat shit and die. Trans rights are human rights.
Let's say it one more time. Feel free to join me: Trans Rights. Are. Human. Rights.
It's very simple. I hope this clears up your confusion.
i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life
“Persons who are visited by the Angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind. And they cannot touch an instrument or open their mouths to sing, without producing sounds that put all other human sounds to shame.” - Gaston Leroux, The Phantom the of the Opera
At this point, most of us in the POTO corner of Tumblr have dealt with @/ouat90, a rando who posts mostly AI slop of women being bridal carried by men, targeted harrassment of a community theatre in Brooklyn, NY and his own former high school in the Midwest, and complaining about how he thinks Black women can't play Christine Daaè in Phantom of the Opera (despite the fact that at this point at least six of them have professionally, to say nothing of how they always could and just weren't given the opportunity for way too long).
I've learned, almost by accident, over the last few days that this guy isn't some new rando out of nowhere when it comes to pulling this stuff. He's been a malignant presence in various theatre fan communities for over a decade, pulling mostly the same stuff. This post, and the identifying information therein, contains nothing this guy hasn't put out there himself. My point in sharing this isn't to start a counter-harassment campaign. It's that this guy will not go away but is very easily identifiable when you know what to look for, and I feel that people in the spaces he digs into should be prepared so he can be blocked/kicked out as necessary.
Meet Joey Velazquez. He's an aspiring actor who takes basically anybody getting cast above him extremely personally and makes up inflated claims about his own successes. When called on this, he begins years-long harassment campaigns against anyone who corrected him/denied him/whatever. This is part of where his whole vendetta against Narrows Community Theatre in Brooklyn comes from; he was in a production of It's a Wonderful Life a few years ago, and when the company tried to accommodate his lack of experience without kicking him out of the show, he accused them of discriminating against him for being autistic. It should go without saying that a lot of people who work in theatre are autistic or otherwise neurodivergent and don't have his issues.
In fact, he's just as vicious toward other autistic people. A personal friend of mine who is also on the spectrum shared this account with me:
This was over a decade ago. Joe continued harassing him for over ten years for calling him on an obvious lie. He might still be trying to do so, but my friend blocked him a while ago after one of the emails crossed the spam filter. My friend continues:
Regarding the first marriage in question, my friend mentioned that Joe attempted to force the woman into a "relationship contract" by which he claimed she couldn't leave him, and that he would grow verbally abusive whenever she simply walked into the home she shared with Joe and her ill mother rather than letting Joe carry her over the threshold. While this came up in a phone call, so I don't have screenshots, Joe's own Tumblr features multiple posts where he complains that his "wicked ex-wife" didn't let him carry her. His kink for men carrying women wouldn't have even been mentioned in this post if he didn't leverage it as an excuse to abuse his ex-wife, but here we are.
After his marriage ended, Joe had a long-distance relationship with a Norwegian YouTuber named Martine, who ended things after a few months. Joe has since had several Reddit accounts banned for begging others to try to force Martine back to him and to contact her on his behalf (which, to be clear, the Redditors refused to do). Martine is also on the spectrum, and Joe has used that as an excuse for why they "belong together". He's also posted alarming intent to defy a restraining order Martine might have placed against him:
@littleeliza-lotte has also spoken to Joe's former castmates at Narrows Community Theatre, who mentioned that his harassment of Amelie Jacobs began while she was still underage and that he's been banned from the theatre. I have also had to ban him from my bookstore in Brooklyn before I even knew who he was (it was recognizing his photo that tipped me off that it was the same guy as this incident) for following and harassing the staff of a local theatre in the same complex. I ended up having to get him escorted away by complex security, and he might very well be banned from the whole thing.
His tumblr right now as far as I know it is ouat90; he is on Instagram (and presumably Threads?) as joevelazquez2.0, joe.velazquez.7, and biggestpassionsfan. I'm not sure if he has any other accounts, but I've tried to provide a comprehensive breakdown of his behavior so he can be recognized and avoided accordingly.
I'm inserting a read-more at this point because there are discussions of CSAM under the cut.
The "her" in the first sentence is Gypsy Rose Blanchard; he was apparently stalking her/sending letters while she was in prison for killing her abusive mother (thankfully, she was released a few years ago), and after everything else she's been through. The last thing she needs is This Guy writing to her. I knew he was kind of fixated on her; I did not know he had contacted her enough to concern her family. As for the rest of this... good lord.
I am not sharing any of this for the sake of starting drama. This guy is legitimately dangerous and needs to be treated as such.
He also provided me with a log of Joe's posts on FilmBoard ("same behavior and just as unsettling there").
From another user, here are public records of his letters to Gypsy Rose Blanchard. And to circle back to what brought this goon into our consciousness in the first place, it turns out that while he complains about Black women playing Christine, he has no problem doing the most minstrel show-style blackface I've ever seen irl.
Don't engage with this guy. Block, report, spread the word, do whatever you need to do.
Genuinely imagine how much of an absolute loser you have to be to film teenagers and community theaters to make bigoted remarks about them on tumblr dot com. "I am not to be messed with in the theater community" I am shaking in my boots. You are harassing teenagers how important can you possibly be
No idea who this person is, they’re either a bot or a 13 year old, there have been some notorious racists and bigots in this community that are more well known but this rando decided they wanted to get added to the mix! They seem to be making racist and fatphobic comments and insulting community and high school theatres. They’re also trying to say they’re important in the theatre community (if that’s true then I’m playing Eurydice in the west end next month since we seem to be playing make believe) and it’s just very strange, but I suppose if you don’t know how to make content then rage baiting is probably your only option.
It’s just giving jealousy, like they didn’t get the role they wanted so they’re lashing out on tumblr?? For some reason
“It’s unrealistic” yeah because a phantom hiding in an opera house and training a young woman from behind a mirror then dropping a chandelier on the audience is sooo realistic. (Props to @brendadaaedestler )
Again, no idea who this is but I feel like people should be careful with them, they’re definitely not actually going to blacklist you or whatever but I’d be worried about them harassing others who don’t share their opinions or fight back against them. While it’s fun to argue and see their ridiculous responses, it’s best to block and not engage or keep your engagements limited (I say as I already commented on their stuff but I’m a hypocrite)
The best thing to do is ensure they do not become a part of this community, there is NO place for bigots here and if you share these beliefs then you can fuck right off
They have blocked me (yippee saves me the trouble) but please let me know if they say any more random shit because I’d love to see it and make sure everyone is aware.
The thing that cracks me up the most is that they have the audacity to tell me “shut your face” but then are telling me “never talk to me like that”. I’m not one to be rude to people on the internet, because hello, waste of time, but this is one situation where I’m not keeping silent.
They really think they have so much power, but if they were anyone of any actual significance in theatre, they wouldn’t be trashing community productions on their little tumblr blog.
Edit: they keep saying stuff like “my word is fact” and my “word is law” which is just taking me out 😂
