I Noticed This The Other Day And It Made Me Sad.

Whoa

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry featured in Rapture & Melancholy; The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

This…This is PERFECT. Beautiful, beautiful symbolic representation of their relationship in the book. Like, this IS the book. and i’m picky. They are gorgeous and Leroux-accurate!! Bravo.

My heartbeat is a symphony by EriksDesdemona That pencil work, though.

[…] for when one has fire within and a soul, one cannot keep bottling them up – better to burn than to burst […]

Vincent van Gogh, from ‘The Letters of Vincent van Gogh’ ⁠— Wilhelmina van Gogh c. summer or autumn 1887, tr. Arnold Pomerans

The original problematic fave: Erik, ze phantom of ze opera

the real true purpose of having a brain is to think about fictional characters

So many tender and painful, sweet and bitter, emotions crowd in my soul—yes, there are painful and bitter ones. You cannot dream how bitter it is for me when people don't understand me, when they mistake what I say, and see it in the wrong light.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter to Mikhail Dostoevsky, written c. October 1832

I just think they’re neat

Wh—….

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ERIK?

It would be a lie to say I understood particularly much of the plot, but this figure from the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 was apparently the Phantom of the Opera.

音楽の天使

2024.5.8

yes all my favorite characters are desperate to be loved. no i don’t think that says anything about me