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“‘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

#the phantom of the opera #ouch

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I just think they’re neat

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Commentary by the author of the drawings (who is not me, but the artist at @vermium!):

The Persian is based on 1925 version, played by Arthur Edmund Carewe. He was the best, even though he wasn’t supposed to be THE Persian, but some other guy. The Persian is fascinating. He is like Theseus who can’t bring himself to slay the Minotaur, the whole purpose of him entering the labyrinth, and the Minotaur has long forgotten about him. His guns in disuse, his sword all clean, the unfortunate Theseus wanders the house of Asterion aimlessly, lonely like the monster, lost in the labyrinth like a man would be. There is a part in the book when the Phantom, the one who wants to be seen, loved, all of that stuff, turns to a man who saved his ass, paying for that with his everything, his homeland, even his name - and casually says: “you didn’t exist, you had ceased to exist”.

The Red Death - the hat is inspired by Cranach, the text comes from Petrarch’s The Secret, and the skeleton illusion is based on pajamas.

#art #the phantom of the opera

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Masquerade! 🎭

#art #the phantom of the opera

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“The Masque of the Red Death”—or rather, the Phantom’s costume in The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

Made by the delightful @vermium artist as a gift for me.

We were thinking about how he must have made the costume himself, and how he must have been the one to embroider the letters too.

#art #the phantom of the opera

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Portrait crop.

Really happy with how Ilya turns out in here, he's becoming one of my fav ocs to draw 🕺🏽

#art

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#fnuy

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She progressively becomes more miserable looking each time I draw/paint her

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i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

#help

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okay i wanna do one of these. PLEASE interact: fraternal twins, people who were blonde as children, geminis, scorpios, roleplayers (ttrpg or larp version), roleplayers (tumblr blog or discord or omegle edition), gif makers who are terrified of the death of tumblr bc they will have nowhere to post, people with septum rings, non supernatural fans who nonetheless have opinions on the characters by osmosis, ace attorney investigations enjoyers, people with old laptops, people who do not own airpods, flautists, people with ocd who are very messy, collectors of weird objects, drinkers of iced coffee only, and winter haters

#blond as a kid #don't own airpods #drinker of iced coffee only #💜

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step on a bad idea so let me just see what's real

#art

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drake?

#fnuy

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10 or 11 little ducks have been spotted crossing the dash board

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reblog to hit the person u rebloged from with a water balooon

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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

#help

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Extremely nitpicky but I hate white wedding gowns in fantasy, especially when they make absolutely no sense in the setting. No, that culture in the far north that prioritizes function over form and mostly wears heavy furs would not have the means, ability, or desire to make a sleeveless ivory silk gown with a semi-sweetheart neckline. Please be sensible about this and use your creativity instead of just slapping a Kleinfeld wedding gown into a medieval fantasy setting.

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