#idk what it is about this opera???

[monotonous-minutia]

5 seconds into my rewatch and I'm already crying

#idk what it is about this opera??? #i've been wanting to rewatch this (the Met 2021 recording) since i saw it the first time #but every time i think to do so i get so emotional i have to do something else instead #seeing a production i treasure so much live in cinema was just so magical #even if it is the abridged version #this opera/production has gotten me through so much #finally bringing myself to rewatch this one in honor of new year's when i saw it the first time #(though i saw it on new year's day then) #anyway there may be more cendrillonposting throughout the day #may even break out the gifmaker #been wanting to so that for a while

[riacte]

best friends -> something more -> situationship -> lovers -> best friends is such a dynamic actually

#hermitshipping #renskall #<- im sorry. i love renskall but i can’t ship hc10 renskall i can’t do it. iskall too busy doing yaoi with beef #also fuck it we ball #space opera au #don’t ask me what spopera is about idk atp

[houseofborgia]

hot take but the borgia apocalypse script was actually pretty good, and the characterizations were spot on. it's mindboggling how some fans hated on it solely because they expected a sunshine and rainbows ending between cesare and lucrezia. the truth is, they were never meant to be a pure fairytale couple. the most compelling aspect of their relationship is their intense toxic codependency and destructive dynamic. their obsession with each other consumed the energy, love, affection, and innocence of those around them, leading to tragic outcomes for anyone who got close to them. neil jordan stayed true to the plot with the apocalypse script, unlike what we saw in the s3 finale. despite cesare proclaiming his devotion to lucrezia and claiming to prioritize her happiness, he hurt her by killing alfonso and betraying her, alongside rodrigo, while keeping her in the dark about their plan. cesare ultimately turned out to be just like his father—his mirror image, his favorite chess piece, and a future king and pope. it was captivating to watch both rodrigo and cesare spiral into ambition and murder, becoming sociopaths. personally, i'm fascinated with the idea of cesare and lucrezia's relationship growing darker and cesare prioritizing his political gain, which terrifies lucrezia. this is the direction cesare's character would have headed if the show hadn't been canceled and if showtime had allowed neil jordan to film the script. 'world of wonders' should have been the episode that made the audience realize cesare was a manipulative, self-contradicting psychopath but alas! anyway, in the apocalypse script, he reaches the last stage of becoming a complete monster (for example, *spoilers* when he cuts off catrina's lips and poisons naples' water, killing half the city). this transformation occurs as he loses the remaining traces of humanity that were present in the first three seasons. valid criticism of the rushed nature of the script is understandable. jordan didn't have time to edit it and only released it to console devastated fans. i'm confident that his final draft would have been 100% better than what we have. in short, there's no way someone as genius as him would ruin the show he created with a disappointing ending or ooc moments. so if there's an opportunity for him to adapt it for the screen, it would be a serve as i enjoyed the overall conclusion of the story

#like bro idk what to tell you the reviews about the script had me giggle like y'all cannot be serious helpppp #wdym you need a happy ending because the show is literally made like its a tragic opera #the borgias #the borgias apocalypse #lucrezia borgia #cesare borgia #rodrigo borgia #neil jordan #borgia #text post

[kotaka-kun]

i spent way too much time putting together this maximalist kidcore (?) poto banner for my blog.

for no reason other than i was revamping my blog.

only to realize it doesnt show the full thing when my blog is viewed on mobile... also the theme i chose doesnt show my header anyway lmao

#poto #phantom of the opera #kotaka talks #kidcore #idk if kidcore is really the closest descriptor bc kawaiicore is also a thing but the neon colors??? and what about clowncore???? #anyway i just wanted to post this bc i figured no one would see this otherwise flkjadslgkhasdflkajs #also i changed my pfp on all my socmed bc the pkmn sv avatar didnt feel like me anymore lol #time to go back to having a picrew pfp for some time

[flea-palace]

was anyone else fundamentally changed as a person when they watched the 2004 phantom flashback scene at way too young an age and made their entire personality revolve around some french incel's tragic backstory for the next ten years or so or was that just a me experience

#idk what it is with mr sob story erik and his assorted backstories in varying versions but it was my special interest for YEARS #idk maybe trying to analyze what events in his youth turned this man into such a massive bitch/deconstructing his character etc etc #i was/am a huge nerd regarding character motivation so that was def part of it #but i didnt need to be making spotify playlists about it ??? #anyway i am still fixated on the phantom's Haunted Past years and years later and have been thinking abt it so much lately #phantom of the opera #poto #erik #erik the phantom

[thebrideofreanimator]

REPO! The Genetic Opera but it’s a silent film from 1928

Pavi Largo - Conrad Veidt

Blind Mag - Theda Bara

Graverobber - Arthur Edmund Carewe

Luigi Largo - Lon Chaney

Amber Sweet - Olga Baclanova

Shilo Wallace - Marceline Day

#alternate cast list: connie plays everyone #he could do it #haven’t thought of ppl for nathan or rotti yet #i thought wayyyyy too hard about some of these #theda bara went back n fourth between mag and amber sweet for a while #and then i remembered olga baclanova exists #i thought mary philbin as blind mag would also be a fun idea just bc her and sarah brightman both played christine daae at one point #but she could also be a good shilo #also #none of these were biased idk what you’re talking about #suddenly it is 2020 and REPO! is always on my mind again #repo! the genetic opera

[kind-of-a-shitty-wizard]

the production of don giovanni im watching has a very talented leporello but im way too distracted by his outfit to focus on his lines

what is this. pink on green? crosshatch on stripes? bigass feather cap?? this is the outfit of a man who hasn't realized he's bisexual yet. i need him

#don giovanni #i pivoted too hard and actually got curious about what i think jenkins would be interested in so now here i am deadass watching opera 🧍‍♂️ #my interests are shifting before my very eyes (might change some things abt this blog idk) #the opera's very good tho. its kind of like watching shakespeare #im not even gonna lie i chose this production JUST because i thought this leporello was cunty af #like theres a whole song where he talks about all the women don giovanni fucked and he fucking ATE in it !! #enochtalk

[sideshowreject]

HUNKY BABE WITH HER PLASTIC BOOBS, AND THE POISON IN HER SKIN / BLEEDING STITCHES ON THE FRESH CUT WOUNDS, I CAN FEEL HER NEEDLE STING

good morning repo! nation. some gramber for you?

thank you merc my token gramber mut for the pose reference. which will be under the cut.

#repo! the genetic opera #r!tgo #repo #repo! #repo the genetic opera #rtgo #graverobber #the graverobber #amber sweet #gramber #repo fanart #repo! fanart #fanart #zydrate #man idk what else to tag this #i got lazy but grave's tattoo is supposed to be a lined anatomical full sleeve btw. of the muscles & tendons of the arm. #(i hc as a former geneco employee. he was a surgeon in training. hence why he knows so much about rotti and whatnot.) #i think i did decent at following the ref without actually tracing it at any point. #rejectart

[bumblingbabooshka]

What’s your favorite, most unrealistic or downright ridiculous Tuvok hc?

For some reason I've always pictured him eating chips with 'chopsticks' (Vulcan word swapped in but we all know) as he watches/listens to some Documentary or History Channel thing Head Empty in his room. He has to destress after work too! He can't spend ALL his time meditating or taking care of plants - Vulcans have to just chill in their rooms sometimes too...but of course he'd never admit to this. BONUS HEADCANON: When he's alone in his quarters he sometimes sings or hums to himself as (he says) a way to focus on whatever he's doing...like a mantra or a chant. The only people who've heard him do this outside family are Janeway (who didn't let him know she knew) and Kes (who said she heard it can be good for plants, while smiling)

#I have a lot of Tuvok headcanons that I really love so I decided #to pick two that I don't think I've expressed before?? but I've thought them for so long that I'm doubting myself now hehehe #this also contains a subheadcanon which is that he takes care of his eyebrows in the morning #and if he doesn't they get messy and look thinner #Q&A #Tuvok sleeping on the couch - television on - one of his children staring at him as they try to assess whether or not he'll wake up if #they change the channel....<3 #Thinking about what every member of the crew does when they're just chilling out is fun #Like I could totally see Kes Harry & Neelix convincing B'Elanna to watch soap operas with them and the Doc being lowkey jealous #bee doodles #tortilla chips are famously not round but I drew the chip before I decided it was a plain tortilla chip so idk its the fuuuutuuure #they have square food cubes and round tortilla chips - it's wiiild!

[saviourkingslut]

not to be about opera again but to be about opera again. as an art form it has the reputation of being super stuffy and something for snobs who don't know how to have fun only but honestly this was one of, perhaps even THE main theatrical entertainment for centuries. i wish people knew how hard these things can go and how engaging they can be. like characters kill and die and fight wars and (almost) commit human sacrifice left and right. characters fall in love they mourn they're ecstatic they cry they're furious it's an extremely dramatic and emotional art form! and i understand that opera does not appear approachable bc of the general conventions of the art form but i promise old works can be fun and engaging if you go watch them with some preparation beforehand (reading the libretto helps) - not to mention not all operas are old bc there are so many modern operas which engage with topical events! also the music slaps.

#le triomphe de trajan (1807) out here calling for a man's execution with this banger: #point de grace pour ce perfide; que tout sons sang coule sur un autel #(no grace for this treacherous man; let all his blood flow on an altar) #this is also annoying to me when people write historical fic and the characters treat the opera as this elitist thing #that they don't know anything about. #you know when they go to the opera reluctantly and then they have no idea what's going on on stage or who the composer is. #which is. very unlikely for anyone with the money to attend an opera in certain opera houses in the 19th c. tbqh #like im more of an expert on paris and vienna idk what it was like in london #but if you were decently (upper) middle class or nobility (esp in paris) you went regularly. this was like a whole social space too #i recently read a fanfic and one of the characters was like 'oh it's in italian. i don't know that' and the other character went like #'it's by a man called donizetti what did you expect' #(this was situated in 19th century london) #like first of all. donizetti was NOT a librettist he was a composer he did not write the text #and second of all. he worked on french operas ?? so did rossini. and spontini. #opera was an incredibly international art form. also bc productions would be performed in different countries all the time #(sometimes changed and/or translated but not necessarily) #and again like i said. this was one of THE main forms of entertainment. people were familiar with its conventions! it was well-liked! #ofc bc of the seating prices it was not very accessible to lower classes most of the time #but lbr most characters that get written into an opera scene in fiction are at the very least decently bourgeois lol #i wish people knew how to properly historicise forms of entertainment whose reputation has changed in the modern era #from what it was a century or more ago #very adjacent to people 'cancelling' old lit bc of 'bad takes' like idk how to tell you this but people thought different back then #completely different world view from what we have today. that does not make lit from that era irredeemable it is just from a diff. time #acknowledging that and reading the text critically but also still enjoying it are things that go tgt here #ok rant over (it is never over) #curry rambles

[dolokhoded]

what i really love about figaro being a barber is that it serves absolutely no purpose to the plot. it's such a random ass useless part of the story and it has no reason to be written in. literally none. and on top of it all it's a Big Thing too the entire opera is called the BARBER of seville he has an entire cavatina talking about what an absolutely spectacular barber he is and that's how he's introduced to us. it's not going to contribute to the plot in any way. but you have to know.

#il barbiere di siviglia #the barber of seville #(in the opera at least I haven't read the play i don't know if he like breaks down the door with comically oversized barber equipment #or something) #AND IT'S NOT EVEN USED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PLOT EITHER HE DOESN'T EVEN LIKE #it's not even used as an excuse to why he's allowed in and out of basilio's house he's not like 'oh im their barber' he's their MEDIC #(which hes absolutely not qualified for btw. i refuse to believe he has any idea what he's talking about.) #it's not used so they can get into the house. he doesn't go 'ok so we'll say i have an appointment to fix rosina's hair' or something NO SI #he's too ELABORATE for that he has to be like 'so you'll pretend you're a DRUNK SOLDIER. why are you drunk? idk lol. for the shits of it.' #beaumarchais was rlly just writing shit. #and rossini saw that libretto and went yes this. this is the one. #mozart i get he's mozart but rossini girl what are you doing !!!!!

[menlove]

I think my favorite doctor who moment is when a woman in the 2040s who is in her like 40s/50s says "my nan had a tumblr" which means she's like my age (born in 99) and yet her grandma had a tumblr

and I know the joke was supposed to be to make us tumblr users feel old like woah! her GRANDMA had one? but bc they did the math wrong it just makes it sound like her grandmother, who is the same age as our grandmothers, used tumblr. granny was blogging about one direction in her 70s.

#I can't imagine what my grandmas would blog about #and that's so fair btw I know a good number of older women have blogs on here #usually it's abt star trek #my dead grandma would probably have blogged about soap operas and feminism #my dad's mom would blog about jesus #and my mom's bio mom would post abt idk her medical issues

[benny-the-spaceman]

i cannot stop thinking about the legoland 4d movie where emmet just starts opera singing because like? was he always just able to do that?? what is the backstory to this?? i like to believe he wasnt even in choir or anything and he just taught himself because he had some weird interest (maybe a hyfx? why not throw the autistic emmet hc into this too) in opera for a bit

#that 4d movie lives rent free in my head i cannot stop thinking about it it's amazing #i know it's silly and probably very noncanon all things considered but it's canon in my heart #also sorry to uh. ppl who do opera? idk anything about opera terms so idk what the opera style of singing is called lmao #the lego movie #emmet brickowski #tlm emmet

[dragynkeep]

i didn't care for things you see in a graveyard

#repo the genetic opera #ais.txt #idk what it is about that song but i always skip it on listening #IDK man. song has bad vibes! #gold is also on this list. it's boring as hell

[llitchilitchi]

I thought I need a beer after all we've seen today but I guess I need a whole vodka bottle

#litchi.txt #I am so tired but also dear lord what in the soap opera has this week been #anyways wheres my rules on no discourse talks #just idk send me asks about uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #something nice thats happened for a change

[a-wins-a-win]

unpopular opinion?? maybe?

Matt & Ivy have a really interesting dynamic!! both pre- and post-canon!! with or without romantic undertones!! either reciprocal or one-sided!!

and obviously it has to be handled with a particular level of care/respect BUT I think if we allowed them enough grace there is space to explore a really interesting possibility for that relationship.

#obviously Matt is not ENTITLED to Ivy - im absolutely not saying that at all #and he definitely did a lot of things extremely wrong and Ivy doesn’t HAVE to forgive him - she doesn't even have to *like* him #and in many stagings she actually doesn’t at all! even pre-canon she isn't into him on a *platonic* level - which i love for her #but I also think that - misguided & clumsy about it though he was - Matt is genuinely trying his best to see her as a person. #an idealized version of a person yes. but a person nonetheless. #which is what Ivy wants from Jason (and tbf he sees her as a person also but it’s an obviously different situation) #and while you can't force romantic compatibility (that was like. the whole point.) in some versions of the show they're not-quite-dating #- in varying types of “situationship” with varying levels of commitment. so it's not insane to me to say hey #maybe they need time to stabilize themselves and figure out who they are again after the events of the show. but maybe a couple years - #- down the line they reconnect and they're both in a better place & maybe this time it can all work out. #idk I think I just see a lot of people write it off entirely - and they’re well within their rights to do so don’t get me wrong #but I don’t think it’s fair necessarily to put them in the ‘doomed to fail’ category #wow okay I care about them as a pair more than I realised #tldr; give Matt & Ivy and their relationship dynamic the grace + complexity they deserve #mouse talks bapo #bare a pop opera #Ivy Robinson #Matt Lloyd #[as a side note - sometimes I think about queer Matt & transmasc Ivy & the interesting concept of their potential boyfriendism]