#this is NOT about the opera for once

[hamletthedane]

The fact that Shakespeare implied an entire fraught backstory to Beatrice and Benedick’s relationship with only five words - I know you of old - is so genius. This play is so genius. I don’t think I’ll ever get over the cleverness and subtly of writing in Much Ado.

#much ado about nothing #had a professor tell me once he preferred As You Like It bc the writing was ‘more nuanced than Much Ado which is a soap opera play’ #and I was like did we??? read the same play??? #where seemingly random scenes and conversations all create a backstory and strong & memoral personality/history for every character #much ado: the mother of all funny but kinda tragic romcoms #much ado: the mother of all believable relationships set in stories with absurd plots #much ado: a work of art

[yinyuedijun]

if u have an interest in c-media whatsoever and also especially if u are any kind of queer, I rlly think the one thing u have to watch (at the exclusion of everything else if u must) is farewell my concubine (1993) dir. chen kaige like that was absolutely an absolutely CRAZY film, from a drama perspective an aesthetic perspective a political perspective, and it changed chinese lgbtq media forever. there's a reason it simultaneously won at the cannes and ALSO got banned by the govt. legends only

#sorry i talk about this movie once a year whenever i flirt with the idea of finally writing a chnese opera reader lol #yueshuo

[feline-evil]

Never gonna be over how unutterably pathetic and in dire need of ANY kind of companionship or friendship that doesn't revolve around their band the entirety of dethklok are. I love these horrible idiots who are so devoid of any real connections outside of themselves that they will latch onto anyone unfortunate enough to get too close to any one of them! And GOD help anyone they latch onto!!

#jay talkin #metalocalypse #im thinking about the doubles episode where they just seem genuinely happy to have 'friends' #who arent like. industry people. these men are so starved of any kind of connection #and it takes them four seasons a rock opera and a movie to realise they can find that in each other lmao #also thinking about how quickly any of them bond and become really intense abt anyone in their life #aka: NATHAN TOWARDS ABIGAIL. oh dear poor abigail oh dear #but also toki to damn near anyone and this goes for the entire band tbh as well they all do this at least once #and yeah its mainly cuz 10min eps mean u gotta progress stuff fast #but also holy shit. charles these boys want friends so bad u gotta set em up on playdates or smth #maybe it'd get some of their dumb stupid idiot energy out and they'd be better behaved. well. no they wldnt but... u can dream #i do think theres smth to be said that yeah all of dethklok are cool theyre metal superstars they r good at what they do #theyre also fucking prophesised saviours too and theyre also incredibly dangerous idiots and terrible ppl #but never forget that they are also. so so SO pathetic and isolated and dysfunctional #these men have not lived in the real world in decades and are disconnected and unsocial and spoilt and u can see that this does impact #the way they interact w the world! they need like. anything other than the band in their lives hah. they do need to pal around #im glad they find that in each other eventually!! #i dont want 2 sound like im babying them or infantilising them these r grown asshole idiot men but like. listen these shitheards r lonelyyy #everyone in their lives is like. assigned to be there and is set as beneath them in a class and workbased system #they dont rlly have ppl who r just there cuz they like em. outside of fans. and fans arent rlly a real connection yknow #their only connections come via work networking sex and violence and worship baby!!!! its fucked up!

[cherrycoloredphoenix]

some pose practice and warmup sketches

opera performances referenced from here and here, hands and other poses referenced from my dance teacher, mostly

#my art #chinese opera #sorry it's been radio silence i have risen from the grave once again #about me #in that i came home from dance class lay around in agony for an hour because i hadn't stretched in a month and then basically wrote notes #if someone who knows dunhuang dance sees this and my hand poses/labels are wrong blame my shitty memory not my teacher #edit: THE HAND IS WRONG AAA #orz

[spacebugarts]

Holy shit I just realized that my dreams have a version of PotO (Broadway version) where the Phantom just fuckin shoots Raoul in his box and it apparently happens not long after Masquerade? Like in place of the Red Death scene they all go into the theatre and Raoul is in box 5 alone for some reason and Erik just. Shoots the poor guy with a period-typical pistol and disappears. Raoul recovers eventually but its like the turning point of the story yk.

#also Philippe is in it!!!!! #hes the one that finds Raoul and takes care of him afterwards :) #also i have reoccurring dreams about being part(?) of a local theatre priduction of it #my position in the musical changes sometimes but the Raoul Getting Shot part is canon #to the degree where I noticed it was coming up and was confused when it didn't #turns out they wanted to try pushing it back a bit and I Did Not Vibe With That #most of the time im either a background actor or set design but once im pretty sure I was Raoul? #which was cool :) #bc in Dream Fashion the actors actually looked like my headcanons for the characters #so i got to be hadley fraser lol #i distinctly remember being on the set crew and getting excited when they got to Masquerade #bc it meant my favorite part was coming up lol #like i feel bad for Raoul bc hes my blorbo but the Tension! the Drama! #might fuck around and write about it idk #poto #phantom of the opera #rip Raoul you deserve better but Damn That Character Arc

[kaimactrash]

Finally got around to doing that meme where you draw your comfort characters as Garnet and Steven in that one awful SU 'fan' comic.

Both of my comfort characters are kinda bad people, but even so, I feel like they'd be fairly enthusiastic to kick anyones ass.

The mall goth is Amber Sweet from Repo! the Genetic Opera and the emo is Matthew Patel from the Scott Pilgrim franchise.

Amber encouraging all of Matthews's worst character traits could be a crazy but fun few days for them, and terror for anyone in their paths!

I used to draw these two a bunch and it was SO much joy to work on them again! I love them both with my whole heart and I will excuse any misdeed they do. (joke)

#no genders only alternate fashion sub cultures :P #amber sweet #matthew patel #scott pilgrim #repo! the genetic opera #RTGO #I have the biggest crush on both of these weirdos #I couldn't really think of anything snappy or funny for matthew to say so fuck it lets do it! #youre lucky the scottish in me didn't have him say here we fucking go!!! #also just to make it clear I fucking hate that SU comic I am not approving of it by making this just doing a meme #and yes ofc I ship them why would I not ship two of the only concepts I'm attracted to??? who cares about universe limits #IDK if its true but I once heard repo was set in Canada too so they're not even too distance in space just in time #btw I dont think he'd natrually be much shorter than her but she wears like HIGH high heels so she looks taller than him

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

all i’m saying is that i have managed to get through this opera bracket rooting and advocating for my faves without threatening to harm myself or others over how people vote/the results.

if i can do it, so can and should you!

#opera #opera tag #opera bracket #but seriously. do some of y’all realize how you sound #i’m sorry but as someone who has dealt with her share of mental health issues it’s not only not funny but also genuinely hurtful #this is absolutely ridiculous. #and once again: for the love of everything holy no one is a better or worse person solely based on what operas they prefer/think are better #everyone pls just calm the FUCK down. #these are real humans behind the urls! and we all love opera! and that should be a good thing! #sorry everyone i am genuinely upset about this

[yloiseconeillants]

JUNELEZEN - Day 13 :: Ancient Times

all.is.right.in.creation

#junelezen #junelezen 2023 #the allagan tempest #azem tag #medusa #ariadne #emet-selch #endwalker spoilers #junelezen: medusa #OK LET US REVIEW: #medusa is pretending to be a reawakened ariadne because the halmarut crystal that emet-selch gave her doesn't work correctly #because the memories contained within are from emet-selch's recollection that just so happen #to be the same memories that ariadne had eternal sunshined because she doesn't know how to break up with someone like a normal person #but like as time goes on it becomes clear that emet-selch knows she's lying and she's just fucking committed to the bit anyway #and they drift apart and emet-selch wakes up daedalus and that's a WHOLE OTHER SITUATION (good for them) (oof) #the Bad Things escalate as the ascians are making moves to actually cause the calamity (thanks for dalamud daedalus!!) #and medusa is committing more and worse crimes since like #emet-selch is trying to test her loyalty too? it's complicated don't worry about it #POINT BEING: she's starting to indulge in watching the memories from the halmarut crystal like some fucked up soap opera #that she puts on before bed because like - the implication that someone loved her soul once is one of the few points of comfort that she ha #also she's killed like 6 clones of her girlfriend at this point which is not great for her mental health

[cosmicallydivine]

i fear the target audience for this may literally just be me but this realization hit me like a fucking truck the other day and i could not stop thinking about it

#it’s the religious trauma of it all #i think about “and i forgive you father” at least once a week #that line fucking HAUNTS me #and don’t even get me started on the implications of azira’s “i forgive you” GOOD LORD #good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #arizacrow #bare a pop opera #bapo #bare: a pop opera #peter and jason #🕯️

[doctor-octiddius]

phantom of the opera hyperfixation is going crazy today !!!

found out that there is an Estonian translation of the book and we actually have a copy of it !!!! so soon i will have three different translations of the book because i am getting my hands on the david coward english translation as well! the estonian one says that it's translated from french but it looks very much like the first english translation so i have no clue if the first translation is just that accurate (though i don't see people recommending it as the best translation so i kind of doubt that) or the estonian one is actually translated from the first english one.

i have been through well over 10 adaptations of the story at this point, this is insane. I'll probably get the 90s point and click game too and someone in estonia is selling an LP of the walter murphy album (WHICH IS JUST BANGER AFTER BANGER) so i have my eyes on that too. also recently watched the 1925 film (which was somehow my first silent movie) and it's actually so fucking good, erik looks fucked up in the best way and i think it's the only version of the persian (though here he is just an undercover policeman) that I've seen with an astrakhan cap ?

basically i will get my hands on any poto adaptation i can get, no matter how good or bad (sorry to the susan kay book tho, i don't think i'll be reading that), the 1989 movie is next on my list >:) and eventually i want to maybe rank or just ramble about my fave adaptations

#the fact that i am here just because siddig played the persian once #anyways i am very abnormal about this story #phantom of the opera #poto #gaston leroux

[sibblank]

ppl are saying adults shouldn't have opinions about media made for TEENAGERS now??

#Once you turn 18 you shouldn't be thinking about any media except soap operas and slasher movies I guess #All ages media? I don't know her!

[firstroseofspring]

i didn't want to leave a wall of text on that muse post by @marxistgnome but i love it so much and this is going to be so rushed but i could go on and on and on about b'elanna and storytelling and narratives. this got really long and so under the cut it goes

it all really ties into that post i once saw about this consistency with b'elanna episodes where they reveal more about her as a person through her interior life- her thoughts and dreams and visions... what she does when she's alone. and muse really gives us this close up look at the way she sees things and what she cares about through kelis - the stories she tells him and the way she interacts with him- because he gives this good intimate portait of the world as b'elanna sees it- as she's described it to him (almost makes you wonder what she was considering there- whether she thought she should tell someone their stories because they're stuck in another quadrant and might not make it home, or if she thought she wasn't going to get off that planet and might not make it back to voyager)

and of course he's crafting a play so there's room for his own creativity but b'elanna tells him their story really well and she cares about it and you can tell. she cares a lot.

we get another really good look at this in barge of the dead like famously- and it's so consistent in that episode too because she's on the barge and she recognizes kortar from the stories her mom told her as a child and he directly acknowledges that. he says she believes in grethor and in him and she believes because her mother told her the story after she nearly drowned in the sea of gatan. remember prophecy? she's recounting the whole heroic battle with the borg to the klingon generation ship that think baby miral is their savior and the whole scene is framed like (at least it felt this way to me) that for all she says about not being familiar with klingon culture in any respect, the way she interacts with storytelling especially reveals the depth of her understanding of it- shes telling the story and she's telling it really well according to klingon custom and the first thing the visiting klingons do after she tells it is compliment that ability. and its sooo much.

when her and harry are going back and forth at the end of muse and she just goes harry have you ever inspired somebody? when he asks why she even cares so much about the ending of kelis' play. there's just like this klingon belief about living a life that's worthy of being shared with others- like when in day of honor the hologram is evaluating whether she's spent her year honorably and asks her what she's done with her life that's worth celebrating and she can't answer and he tells her that she's giving him excuses. and the direct parallel that could be drawn about how she feels about that with the janeway vision in barge of the dead where she's being condemned and the whole reason is that she's done nothing worthy of glory- 'nothing worthy of song and story.' my goodness

even when she convinces janeway to let her go back to the barge- janeway says it's not real, that she won't let her risk her life for something that she only thinks she experienced- but b'elanna tells her it doesn't even matter if she thinks it was real- that it was real to her and she cares about what her mother thinks of her and she doesn't want her to die thinking badly of her.

we see this with worf, of course the angle we're given is honor and truth and duty- but how you're remembered and talked about is important, even from generation to generation- disgrace in his family is disgrace for him. when they accuse his father of being a traitor at khitomer, it's important to him that his father be remembered as he was - truthfully, honorably, as someone to remember well (even the titles and names they give themselves being little retellings of their lives and the members of their family- on memory alpha worf isn't just worf, he's worf, son of mogh, of the human family rozhenko, mate to k'ehleyr, father to alexander, husband of jadzia, bane of the house of duras, slayer of gowron etc etc.)

((sidenote but b'elanna never in her life introduces herself as b'elanna daughter of miral always as b'elanna torres but on the barge of the dead kortar calls her miral's daughter immediately. and if she's partially from this culture where naming and titles are so important in that respect and b'elanna thinks her mother is. not what she wants to be known by not what she wants to be identified as it's soo relevant to what she calls herself. roxann dawson said that b'elanna wanted to be 'human and perfect' like her father and so she's not ' b'elanna daughter of miral' anymore because she doesn't want miral to be a part of her story, how she's remembered. so it's belanna torres.))

anyway this same- dedication to truth we get from worf and his father's memory we see even with b'elanna in 'remember' where she gets those telepathic dreams/visions from the alien woman about what really happened with that group of people they oppressed. the crew discover that the dreams are starting to affect her health- and so they offer to suppress them, take them away and b'elanna just refuses. because how else will she know what happens to them? who's going to tell their story? and she shares that story once she has it with anybody who will listen because its worth telling.

i'm going a little crazy but klingons and writing and literature and song and stories and living memory its all so. it's ridiculously important culturally. and how that translates back to b'elanna is so fascinating

#this could even extend to her time in the maquis but thats so much and i dont have a good enough grasp of the maquis to tell it #as well as i'd like to. #i could even talk about. what she says- whats revealed about her through her dialogue vs whats said about her. <-a narrative #and those posts going around lately about how softhearted she is despite whats said about her #klingons and story.... everything important getting a retelling and recorded and passed down and set to music and told in theatres #even if its exaggerated its important that its being told. worf loves klingon opera b'elanna never sings a song once in seven seasons #b'elanna 'sometimes i'm little more than hearsay a story told back to me that doesn't make any sense' torres #trek #sidenote also being disgraced / the discommendation stuff from tng #where they turn their backs to the dishonored person and shun them and refuse to talk to them ... with the whole living memory... its like #you're dead and it's not acknowledged and your life dies with you- nobody to tell your story unless as a warning

[emiliosandozsequence]

anyone want to request any moodboards/web weaves?? i'm bored and want to make something relevant rather than sift through my vibes tags to find inspiration

#the fandoms i like most making web weaves for btw are: #house of the dragon; yellowjackets; the sparrow; the borgias; dune; supernatural; and phantom of the opera #emilio.txt #also i'm super exhausted so i'm about to take a nap #but i'll make them once i wake up!!

[umilily]

gotta say, watching the so called career of this guy who went to school with me, decided to become an influencer and has been scamming people with his esoteric bullshit for years, crumble over fucking his “besties” ex, was not on my bingo for this year, but it’s the most entertaining shit i’ve witnessed in ages.

#lily talks #GET THE POPCORN #sorry but this is actually hilarious #the people in his comments are so unhinged it’s delightful #‘there is no love in your heart’ lmaoooo #can’t say I feel bad for the Schadenfreude when this dude has been using anything he could get his hands on for clout #I hope this woman is doing the fucking same to him for once #ditch his ass as soon as he’s gotten you a few more followers on OF please #the only person I feel sorry about is her kid(?) #poor boy has to live with these egocentric assholes #the whole thing reads like a summary of a soap opera and I’m living for it #rich assholes punching each other in the face tonight at 6 #love it

[qualitychaoslover]

Its genuinely incredible to me that some people can have an interest and it NOT consume their every waking thought for years

#i spent ages 9-12 with phantom of the opera on my mind 24/7 thinking this was perfectly normal #my special interest in doctor who lasted about 10 years before DC started battling it for dominance a couple years ago #i half expect it to make its return sometime in the future #for the past 2 years dc has had me frothing at the mouth and i have to physically restrain myself every time someone briefly mentions it #lest i once again annoy everyone by infodumping about whatever character they mentioned #and youre telling me theres people out there that just hace casual interests? sounds fake

[garnet-xx-rose]

The thing is like…

ALW!Christine with a hint of Leroux!Christine sass that’s into Erik would’ve confronted him early on and be like “You want me to be your wife? Okay, court me like a real man!”

And like what would Erik have done? Say no???

#erik/christine #poto #phantom of the opera #Christine daae #I am once again thinking about how their relationship could’ve been salvaged after that first unmasking #things could’ve been great if either of them gave each other space to apologize