#merik

[lilithsaur]

Safi+Merik

Iseult+Aeduan

#the witchlands #iseult #aeduan #safi #merik #lilith art #book art

[void-ptr]

Saw this format and had to make one for cherik and merik lmao

#poto #cherik poto #merik #phantom of the opera #shitpost

[joolychuu]

Yugioh? In the year of 2022? Don't come for me.

#yugioh #yugi moto #yami yugi #seto kaiba #Bakura #Merik #Joey wheeler #My art #This is actually my first digital piece of them #I have drawn them like maybe... 3 times in my lifetime...

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

The girls are fighting

From Fernanda Muniz's instagram. (x)

#erik #meg giry #phantom of the opera #fernanda muniz #Leonardo Neiva #<(i think )(correct me if i'm wrong) #poto brazil #o fantasma de opera #erik x meg #merik #poto

[phantomato13]

Why'd I forget to show this??? I got these in the mail last month and they're pretty sweet, I cannot believe I was able to get 1990 on DVD WITH English subtitles like whaaat. And even though it's from Korea it plays in any region so hey.

#phantom of the opera #poto #the phantom of the opera #erik destler #erik the phantom #cherik #poto 1990 #merik

[not-theangelofmusic-sorry]

okay i am open to all types of eriks. i don’t discriminate. however, i do have four favourites.

cherik

merik

gerik

og book erik (idk what to call him-)

and the main reason book erik is on there is because, while most of the other unmasked Eriks come all out with the “IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED YOU LYING DELIAH” (excluding cherik, lerik etc) or whatever, book erik is just

“..hey i’m a pretty handsome fellow, aren’t I?”

everyone should aspire to be like that part of him.

#erik poto #phantom of the opera #lerik #gerik #cherik #the phantom of the opera #merik

[esmiephan]

Listing my fave Eriks (Phantomverse Of Madness).

This is a post i was suppose to make a long time ago, but i only got the time to write it now. I will probably make a part 2 with the "Worse/Less Favorite Eriks".

Remember everyone, this is ✨MY OPINION✨. No adaptation is free from flaws, these 6 Eriks are my favorite but they won't escape from my critics. And if you disagree, feel free to comment about.

6. MazM!Erik (2018)

We start with a polemic one. Mazm!Erik has an unique beauty and amazing hairstyle, his PTSD, the pain, the crying little boy inside of the man, the despair to be loved are still ON POINT. But let's not forget they turned him into a generic anime sociopath who does bad things because yes, and abuses Christine, and keeps Melek aprisioned, and other nonsense things of this mediocre script. However, MazM!Erik is still redeamable at some point and he has good stuffs.

5. Chaney's Erik (1925)

Our first adaptation, the 1925s silent movie! In my opinion, NO ONE played Erik better than Lon Chaney. No one. Like, this man, he's just fantastic. Chaney's hands, movements, the PHANTASTIC make-up, the expressions of pain, madness, anger and tenderness, OH MY GOD THIS IS HEAVEN!!!

ok but let's not forget the ending sucks and the movie tried at best to villainize Erik, this is unforgivable.

4. Merik (1986-2004)

Probably the most known version among us. Andrew Loyd Webber delivered us an amazing, outbreathing and beautiful musical that saved Broadway's story in the 1980s and brought Phantom back to popular tastes since then. Musical Erik has its questions, many people fan of the novel think Webber tried somehow to make him more manipulative and less redeeming. After all, even though people he killed weren't innocent at all, Erik isn't a man who runs out judging people and killing the ones he consider to be unworthy. He killed in EXTREMELY ocasional times in the novel. By the way, the way he constantely manipulates Christine and try to keep control as "the Angel" is just... no.

The original Erik wouldn't do this. He hates lying to Christine, he avoids at his best hurting her. Merik has more childish and toxic behaviour, even though he still ends up redeemed and changed out of his own will and kindness. We cannot deny Merik is one of a kind, one of the most iconic versions of the story. There are many actors who played Merik: Gerard Butler, Ramin Karimloo, Hugh Panaro, Norm Lewis, Ben Lewis, Michael Crawford, i could make a whole blog about my favorites and less favorites Meriks. And i'll probably do it.

3. Cherik (1990)

Look what we have here ❤️

"MY GOD, THIS PLACE REALLY IS HAUNTED" -- this and other funny lines are a gift of Charles Dance's version of Erik. The minisseries isn't very loyal to the novel, however, it's not a bad adaptation at all. This Erik is funny, shy, awkard and more healthy than most of the other versions. I disaprove anything about his version? Yep. First, he wears too colored clothes and is less "dark and goth" like other Eriks. Second, his mother actually loved Erik in this version... I think this was an unnecessary changing. Because the horrible abuse committed by Erik's mother is something EXTREMELY important that can't be changed. Mommy issue is an essence of this character. Should I talk about the "Christine looking like his mom" problem?

Well...

2. Kerik (1990)

Our favorite Susan Kay monologue! Yes, here it is. Kerik (or Serik as some people say) is funny, jerky and tragic, it's almost the same as Leroux's version, as it is supposed to be because "Phantom" isn't exactly an adaptation, but an explanation/expansion of what we've seen originally. Phantom is so good that we phans consider it as canon!

I can't help but say his relationship with Christine in this monologue is weird and a bit disappointing, though. Susan Kay actually started this "Christine looked like Erik's mom" shit, and it's not only weird, it literally confirms Erik's love for Christine was not real, that he only wanted to have a normal relantionship with his mother and Christine was a link to escape his pain. Ok, it makes sense Erik having mommy issues, but i disagree with Kay's vision about his love.

1. Lerik, The Original (1910).

Claps to our king, sis and bros. Gaston Leroux wrote this character with passion. This is my favorite deformity and vision about the character, the lines and the emotions are all just perfect for me. No one ever surprassed the original novel. Erik is a symbol, and a figure to many people. A broken, tortured, emotionally unstable man, who wants to fix everything his way, who doesn't have anyone to trust, who searches for love, pity and compassion, who searches for inclusion and tenderness from the society... but had everything despised and wasted. Erik, originally, is not a villain or a romantic hero. He is an anti-hero. He's the representation of frustrated people and abuse survivors who are able to LOVE, even after everything they had to pass throught. People who are able to recognize and fix their mistakes, people who won't sacrifice their beloved ones happiness for their own problems and fears. Erik is all of us.

Thank you.

#the phantom of the opera #erik the phantom #gaston leroux #andrew loyd webber #mazm erik #lon chaney #lerik #merik #phantom musical #cherik #charles dance #susan kay #kerik #phantom #mazm the phantom of the opera #phantom minisseries

[alastorvalentine]

I need merik with a full half-body deformity. I have no idea how hes gonna cover all that up but GOD!!!! Glovesglovesgloves. i need him with just one glove

#shitpost #phantom of the opera #erik poto #poto #Merik #the phantom of the opera #erik the phantom #musical theatre

[dark-giver]

What happens to "enemies next to lovers"?!? I don't want to criticize but in today's YA books the "enemies" part is cut off entirely. She thinks he is the most handsome man since the.first.time.she.saw.him. And he wants her from the moment he lays eyes on her?!? And I ask what's going on? I don't see at what point in the book they are enemies. And the fact that I read the same male main character in every YA book, I don't think to comment on it at all.

But, look, Susan Dennard is the Queen of ,,enemies to lovers". Safiand Merick had a fight the first time they met and continued to fight for quite a long time before they decided they liked each other. Aeduan and Iseult....well Aeduan tried to kill her and Iseult's first words to Aeduan are something like beheading him. In both couples, sympathy emerges with difficulty slowly, and during that time at least there is chemistry.

This is how enemies become lovers.

Without stereotypes and clichés.

#the witchlands #iseult det midenzi #aeduan #susan dennard #iseult x aeduan #safi #truthwitch #Merik #safik #safiya fon hasstrel #ya books #enemies to lovers

[masqueradeball]

Have you ever wondered what Lerik, Cherik, Gerik, Merik, Ratrick, Kerik, and Erik Destler would do if they all got together for a birthday party? What if I told you one of them was a clown, and there were also some adorable rats?

Read my new crackfic to find out!

#Lerik #Cherik #Merik #Kerik #Gerik #Erik Destler #ratrick #phantom of the opera #rat phantom #poto 1989 #poto 2004 #phanfic #it's just crack and some fluff bits #destler has a lot of angst

[dreamingofmaidensandmonsters]

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow and I still haven't decided if I should go back to my merik fics...

#meg giry #my fics #PotO #merik #meg/erik #otp #erik the phantom #she's so amy march #phantom of the opera #little meg #the one who is like your sister but isn't your sister

[hop3isaprison]

sketchbook spook~

#it's been a while #but hey #never stopped doodling him #myart #the phantom of the opera #phanart #erik poto #andrew lloyd webber #merik

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

The biggest encumbrance to me as an avid Erik x Meg shipper isn't the idea of Erik falling for someone other than Christine -- realistically I don't think it would take much for an isolated romantic man like Erik to fall head over heels for someone as beautiful and compassionate as Meg, especially if she fancied him back -- but instead it's the opposite. Why would someone self-possessed and sane as Meg (LND was character torture porn and I refuse to acknowledge the majority of it as canon) fall for a murderer? She was the one who found Piangi's strangled corpse. It would take some doing for her to witness that then become enamored of the man who committed that atrocity.

I know the Phandom likes to collectively forget Erik Did All That, but I don’t see Meg forgetting any time soon.

Yet the reason I ship them is the same reason I ship Christine and Raoul. To me, Christine and Erik are too much alike in all the wrong ways and they bring out and emphasize each other’s most troubling qualities: Christine's childlike fascination with Erik mixed up with her unprocessed grief from her father’s death makes Erik want to stay on that all-knowing, godlike pedestal to wow her, and it turns into him grooming her. Meanwhile, Christine feels she must remain the awed pupil, the child, and he only encourages her penchant for disappearing into her fantasy world and ignoring reality.

But although I think Raoul does buy into his savior role a little too much, he is a solid rock for Christine who also encourages her to take accountability for her own life and her own decisions. I honestly think he wants her to grow not just as a singer but as a person, to mature and live outside of herself and her fantasy life. He grounds her.

In my ideal scenario, that's what Meg could do for Erik. However, that can easily veer into the toxic trope of female characters functioning as caretakers and cheerleaders for the problematic male heavy with little else to do. Luckily my version of Meg wouldn't let any man, phantom or not, take center stage in her life. If he wants to be her partner in life, he can certainly come along for the ride; if not, maybe she broods awhile and always secretly carries a torch for him, but there's a whole world out there ready to embrace the talents of a smart, promising young dancer. She wouldn’t let it crush her spirit.

And now I'm back where I started: how does someone like that fall in love with a murderer in the first place? I guess her deep compassion once she learns about what he's been through could lead her to think he deserves a fresh start and a second chance. After all, isn't that what the audience wants for Erik at the end of the day? So why not a sweetie like Meg?

#erik x meg #raoulstine #phantom of the opera #erik #meg giry #merik #e/m #poto

[phantomato13]

Been rereading Phantom of the Opera and I've been OBSESSED with Lerik like omg. Bro just wanted to get married and live a normal life, like the huge difference between him and Merik makes me feral.

#love em both tho #phantom of the opera #poto #erik destler #erik the phantom #lerik #merik #gaston leroux #ramin karimloo

[not-theangelofmusic-sorry]

idk if this will flop but i gotta know

honestly this just depends on which version of the book you watched/read first, lol. Also uhm Merik team is exclusively the best /j

#erik poto #poto #phantom of the opera #poto 2004 #poto 1990 #gerik #cherik #lerik #merik #kerik #poll time

[everythingunderthestarsthings]

Heyyy everyone!

I love reading books but never seem to have a bookmark. I can actually remember the page numbers where I stop reading and have no problem going back to the correct page, but bookmarks are fun!

And though it's a very simple one, I made a bookmark for myself with my absolute favourite phrases from the Witchlands series by Susan Dennard!

#underrated tropes #bookmark #truthwitch #windwitch #sightwitch #witchshadow #bloodwitch #aeduan #iseult det midenzi #safiya fon hasstrel #safi #iseult #ryber #kullen #merik #vivia #witchlands #cahr awen #mhe varujta #te varuje #vaness #and of course #owl #fantasy #magic #friendship #love #trust me as though my soul were yours