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The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box- keepers, the cloak-room attendants, or the concierge. No, he existed in flesh and blood, though he assumed all the outward characteristics of a real phantom, that is to say, of a shade.
Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
The phantom of the opera
But a HORROR film.
If you see posts appearing and disappearing from my blog, it's my indecisiveness afoot.
What if I hurt one character's feelings when I post about another?
Featuring a doodled Leroux Erik.
I hope you have a good day, whoever you are. 😊
Just, more sketches.
😊Have a good day, whoever you are.
Quick sketches to get back into the swing of things. Most of these feel wonky, but, you know.
Can you tell I actually used a reference for Christine's dress? Haha.
Hope you've had a good day, whoever you are. 😊
Snippet from a wip I visit... sometimes. Not fun. An oc thing though.
Here is some Erik being nasty.. because I do not write him in a nice light! I love him but I also want him to suffer.. (cue evil laughter.)
I AM GOING NUTS!? I could've sworn Meg was blonde, but I guess I'm character descriptions mixed up?? 😔 Don't know how I didn't realize it until this reread.
I think I swapped her and La Sorelli.
I'll be going back to edit my description of her, at some point.
Book-accurate Meg, because after beginning reread, I realized I remembered her description wrong and it's been eating away at me.
The scene's loosely worded from my phic. 😅
Messy sketch of the old man
On the outside, he looks like a monster with his tough outer shell, but one you break into that shell, he’s just a big baby. 🥺🖤
I don’t think we talk about this picture of Ramin Karimloo as the Phantom enough.
Look at his eyebrow. Look at his quivered lip. Look at the tears.
And I think this was during The Music of the Night, too. Erik was crying while singing about his music to Christine. He was actually crying while he sang to her.
All the fanfictions where he practically molests Christine make me so angry, because Erik is such a soft boy who’s feelings get hurt so easily and who cries while he sings to the girl he loves more than anything and who was so surprised to be kissed that his arms stuck out straight the whole time and who covered Christine with his cape when she fell asleep in his lair and who called her his Angel of Music and I just have a lot of feelings about Erik ok
i should've known my love life was never gonna be normal considering my first crush ever was the phantom of the opera
Trying to draw Leroux Christine (: Somebody on Reddit suggested it. but she's anime-fied ofc. This is like my 8th sketch because I can't get her mouth right. What even is the shape of mouths??? Mouths are my eternal suffering
Portrait of Leroux's Christine!
Book Review: The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Gaston Leroux
My favorite quote of the book:
"... He declared that he admired the cautious doubt with which certain people (me) approached the most simple problems from afar, not daring to say: this is like this, or this isn't like that, so that their intellects arrived to the same results as if nature had forgotten to put some gray matter in their skulls."
My Full Review:
One of the most famous closed-room mysteries out there, "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" is a captivating novel from french author Gaston Leroux that feels fresh despite being more than a century old.
The driving force of the novel and the most powerful magnet of the reader's attentions is our "detective" in the story, Joseph Boutabille, local reporter: a competitive boy, his charm has no rival and his self-confidence results admirable rather than annoying, buying himself the trust of any potential witness of the impossible crime of Mathilde Stangerson.
The crime itself is fascinating, and the author gives all the clues and tools to the reader to solve it by themselves, since the conclussions Boutabille draws are not really out of thin air, even when there are some hidden "mechanisms" in his mind that he later reveals during the trial of the main suspect.
But since the mystery it's actually two-fold, the author takes the same route as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Valley of Fear": there's an impossible-to-know-or-suspect backstory of some of the characters that complete the puzzle and explains their odd behavior, which cheats the reader from dechypering the rest of the mystery completely by themselves.
Regarding the style, given it's the narration from the point of view of Sainclair, lawyer and friend of the young reporter, it has a careful prose and rich vocabulary, which doesn't prevent the author from highlighting even more the intrepid spirit and resourceful mindset of the young Boitabille, who compensates his more proactive and sometimes premature attitude with a fierce adherence to logic and reason.
A lovely novel and a captivating mystery.
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