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Me defending my favourite fictional character: he's not even that bad (meanwhile he has a literal torture chamber in his house and drops chandelier on people)

Redemption.

Michael Kinnucan, The Gods Show Up

One great scene in Phantom of the Opera is in the torture chamber when Raoul and the Daroga hear Erik menacing Christine and first it sounds like she’s crying

- but it’s not her, it’s Erik full-on sobbing while he’s threatening her, and if that doesn’t describe his character perfectly what will

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

I just think they’re neat

‘Oh, tonight, I gave you my soul! [...]’ ‘Your soul is a beautiful thing, child,’ replied the man’s grave voice, ‘and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight.’

— Gaston Leroux, My Gothic Heart, (2023)

all i wanna do is lie in the sun!!!! read my books!!!! daydream about fictional scenarios!!!!! love without fear of abandonment!!!!!! smell like vanilla!!!!!!! cry over great poetry!!!!! sit on the grass for hours on end!!!!! not care about how others perceive me!!!!!! find god in the smallest of things!!!!! be free of guilt and shame!!!!

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

““Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves.””

— Raoul to Christine, the Phantom of the Opera

Lerik giving Christine few organ play lesson's because I've been thinking a lot about it

At least you need some stuff to do when you're locked in the theatre basement for a two week's with girl of your dream or with madman

Literally read and watched C&P after a breakup because I needed him. My mom heard me from the other room: “Come, Rodya. Let’s suffer together.”

"My child is fine."

"Your child's comfort character is Raskolnikov."

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”

John Russell

Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh

Paris, 1886

“‘and now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn round in the streets. You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased.’”

- The Phantom, The Phantom of the Opera, 1909

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps … perhaps … love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”

— L. M. Montgomery ~ Anne of Avonlea (via missemilymorland)

The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons...I often went so far as to think passionately of serving mankind, and, it may be, would really have gone to the cross for people if it were somehow suddenly necessary, and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone even for two days, this I know from experience. As soon as someone is there, close to me, his personality oppresses my self-esteem and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I can begin to hate even the best of men: one because he takes too long eating his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps blowing his nose.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[…] 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

Famous authors talking about Dostoevsky

Dear goodness. Hello, tears. Truly love of the most exquisite kind.

Definitely my favorite chapter of my favorite novel.

the phantom of the opera, gaston leroux

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.

A great loss to American Literature. Now he joins the greats.

R.I.P. Cormac McCarthy