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HEY FRIENDS I’M STILL ALIVE!! I wish I had a great excuse for my absence but really it all just comes down to parade shifts keeping me exhausted and a strange new pattern where I actually might have a social life?? I do miss roleplaying though and I promise I will return soon! As of right now I’m sitting in an airport waiting to fly to NYC, where I’ll be for the next week, but when I get back you can count on Christine, Erik, Raoul, and I to be around a lot more!!

In the meantime, consider my hiatus still very much a thing.

#( forreal i feel so bad for disappearing omg )#( esp RIGHT after i made raoul )#( getting home at 3am every night is real tiring y'all )#██ ♡ συт σƒ Hєανєη ( ooc. )

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The aesthetics of blue

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one of my favourite parts of the leroux novel is when christine notices that the child dancers have practiced so hard in the hopes of becoming ballerinas that their feet have gotten blistered so she gives them all sweets to make them feel better and to let them know someone is noticing all their hard work like christine daae is so kind to everyone she is good and pure and we don’t deserve her

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and she visits the workers backstage and listens to their stories and their troubles she is the cutest person ever it should be forbidden by law to hate her

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and the day after an argument with raoul (and two days after being taken to erik’s lair) she sat with raoul and let him talk about his plans for the future and his problems and joked with him to try and make him feel better instead of talking about herself and what she went through like what kind of beautiful angel

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girls holding roses

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Dress, 1880′s

From Whitaker Auctions

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12!!

Singing Meme || Accepting! (forever tbh)

12. Leading Player: I’ll pick a song sung by a Lead in a musical.

I Miss The Mountains from Next to Normal (I would recommend turning down your volume bc the audio is very loud and I am also a very loud person orz)

In a perfect world I’d have the voice of Alice Ripley or Pia Douwes when I sing this but alas I do not! Either way this is still one of my favorite songs to sing and it’s a go-to when I’m in the shower.

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redesigned book covers: the phantom of the opera by gaston leroux

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Send Me a Number To Sing~

Send me a number and I’ll sing (part of) a song that fits the ask!

1. An Underrated Musical - I’ll sing a song from a musical I think is underrated. 2. An Overrated Musical - I’ll pick a song from a musical I think is overrated. 3. A Happy Musical - I’ll sing a song from a musical that makes me happy. 4. A Sad Musical - I’ll pick a song from a musical that is hella sad. 5. A Musical Flop - I’ll pick a song from a musical that flopped. 6. A Long-Running Musical - I’ll pick a song from a musical on this list. 7. Favorite Composer or Lyricist - I’ll pick a song by my favorite composer/lyricist! 8. Off-Broadway Show - I’ll pick a song from a show that started off-broadway. 9. Love > Hate - I’ll pick a song from a musical I USED to love, but now hate. 10. Hate > Hate - I’ll pick a song from a musical I have always hated. Go ahead, torture me. 11. Guilty Pleasure - I’ll pick a musical theater song that is my guilty pleasure. 12. Leading Player - I’ll pick a song sung by the Lead in a musical. 13. Featured Player - I’ll pick a song sung by a Featured role in a musical. 14. Ensemble - I’ll pick a group song from a musical. 15. Disappointment - I’ll pick a song from a musical I thought would be awesome, but disappointed me. 16. From a Movie - I’ll pick a song from a musical movie. 17. Adaptation - I’ll pick a song from a musical that was adapted from a book, movie, or anything else. 18. Robbed! - I’ll pick a song from a musical I think was robbed of a Tony. 19. It Changed Me - I’ll pick a song from a musical that had a profound impact on my life. 20. Last I Listened To - I’ll sing whichever musical song I last listened to. 21. Starring… Me! - I’ll sing a song from a musical I’ve been IN. 22. Dream Role - I’ll sing a song from a dream role of mine. 23. Genderbend - I’ll sing a song originally done by the opposite sex. 24. Best… Book - I’ll sing a song from the musical I think has the best book. 25. Best… Choreography - I’ll sing a song from the musical I think has the best choreography. 26. Best… Set - I’ll sing a song from the musical I think has the best set design. 27. Best… Costumes - I’ll sing a song from the musical I think has the best costumes. 28. Best… Revival - I’ll sing a song from the musical I think has had the best revival. 29. Best… Musical - I’ll sing a song from MY favorite musical of all time. 30. Asker’s Choice - I’ll sing a song from a musical you choose.

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I found on Google Maps the exact beach that Raoul and Christine were at when he ran to catch her scarf and for whatever reason I find this Incredibly Significant

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actofgenius replied to your post:actofgenius replied to your post:I’m trying to get...

((I feel like Kay was trying so hard to make Erik Christine’s ONE TRUE LOVE that she neglected to realize people can have multiple true loves over a lifetime and that freezing Raoul out of Christine’s love does a great disservice to both characters and to all source materials. Tbh, it’s one of the reasons that (even on my Kay Erik blog) I tend to pretend the counterpoint and beyond just didn’t happen.))

Yessss exactly?? And people are capable of being in love with multiple people in different ways. Like in Y/K’s version Christine repeatedly says that she loves both Erik and Philippe Raoul in different ways. I definitely have to pretend the counterpoint and beyond doesn’t happen in Kay’s novel; while the novel in its entirety is beautifully written and very fun to read, I have a lot of issues with how she portrays the Main Three characters.

Her Nadir is perfect though and I love him with my entire soul. I want her to write a whole book about Nadir and his wife, haha!

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actofgenius replied to your post:I’m trying to get in a Raoul-y mood (which is...

((The fact that he is a loving father to Charles despite his paternity and a loving husband to Chriatine earns him brownie points.))

Soooo many brownie points honestly. It just makes me so sad because he was such a good husband and father-figure and tried to make his little family happy but was never able to father his own children or even make love to his wife and that she didn’t even wear his ring and the whole time he knew she loved Erik more than him... which honestly I have a lot of issues with in the first place considering that the book is supposed to be an extension of Leroux (albeit with added ALW touches). Raoul is just such a positive presence when he’s in Kay’s novel and I love that she wrote him as being a genuinely good person but I wish she’d treated him more fairly, because a lot of the fandom treats him poorly as it is!

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ofsoprano replied to your post:I’m trying to get in a Raoul-y mood (which is...

(At least she didn’t LND him. That’s like the one redeeming quality.)

TRUE she wrote him as being a very good man and that’s part of what kills me tbh he did nothing to deserve the ending that was written for him so really it’s equally as sad. #LetRaoulBeHappy2k16

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I’m trying to get in a Raoul-y mood (which is hardly a difficult task tbh) by reading his section in Kay’s novel but it’s really only just upsetting me because poor Raoul doesn’t deserve anything that happens to him in that book like I got 99 problems and Susan Kay’s treatment of Raoul de Chagny is all of them

#██ ♡ συт σƒ Hєανєη ( ooc. )#( there are plenty of reasons why i should never reread phantom )#( and yet here i am )#( still clinging tightly to the idea that raoul and christine move to sweden )#( and have nine wonderful babies )#( and live to see their great grandchildren )#( @ susan kay fight me )#( a raoul blog as told by kit: coming to a tumblr near you )

Anna Karenina the Movie is killing me slowly because not only do we have Vronsky who looks like Raoul, but now we have Holliday Grainger looking like a perfectly cherubic Christine and they’re interacting and he’s kissing her hand and my gay little Leroux Trash heart is withering away because they took a Leroux cast and put them in a Tolstoy story

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HELLO FRIENDS!!!

I just wanted to ~apologize~ for my absence over the last few days; not only was work kicking my ass but I also set a goal for myself in which I would finish the last 600 pages of Anna Karenina that I still needed to read. That goal was NOT accomplished; I have around 350 pages left that I will hopefully be done with tomorrow or Monday!

Any spotty activity will be due to that and also because slowly but surely I’m bringing a Raoul blog to life and making blogs is often a very long process for me! If we have threads going I promise those will not be dropped! If you need to contact me for any reason feel free to ask for my k.ik or sk.ype!

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