Quick Thoughts - Phantom of the Opera - London - August 27, 2022 - Matinee

- As I didn’t have access to the cast list for the performance when the show started, I went in blind, not knowing who I was seeing. I want to know why, despite not actively following the London cast, I managed to correctly guess all of the actors for the principle roles

- Main trio was James Gant, Lucy St. Louis, and Matt Blaker

- This write-up is specifically about my thoughts on the performances not my thoughts on the London production and changes made to the show post reopening. That will be its own separate post.

- I would die for Louis St. Louis’s Christine. There is just something so precious, gentle and caring about her (almost Disney Princess like?) She gives a delicate quantity to Christine (which is only amplified by her delicate, almost siren -like quality to her singing voice). I can’t recall at the moment who it was who wrote that Lucy St. Louis’s Christine has a weird girl energy to her (I am running on 3 hours of sleep and some adrenaline right now - it will come to me at a very inopportune moment) and I do agree with that assessment. Of course she would have an element of weirdness in her if she’s believes that the Angel of music is giving her lessons and she follows the phantom into his lair.

- Matt Blaker’s Raoul just had so many good details. He can be confident and charismatic but also has a dorky side to him. I’m obsessed with the way he spun when he sang “then say you’ll share with me…” Enthusiastically earnest, yet so dorky

- When Matt Blaker did the jump into the “lake” he landed with a loud bang. My immediate thought was “did Raoul just die???” He seemed ok in the final lair scene so I guess the landing was safely done, just loud.

- Let us now discuss James “Ganthom” Gant.

- What I like best about his Phantom is that he is very pathetic and desperate (in a good way).

- He reeks of desperation even in the scenes when the Phantom is in control. The way he touches Christine, the way he longs for Christine to touch him in the first lair, but is too desperate for his own good that he pulls away… I felt that.

- Also the way during music of the night he held Lucy’s hand with both of his hands before leading her to the mirror bride during the line “let the dream begin…” I was floored. That was an option on the table this ENIRE time????

- On the Pegasus when he softly cried out ‘Christine, my Christine’… Sad, but also pathetic

- In the final lair this pathetic (affectionate) man is crying Christine’s name into the veil.

- When I chose my seat in the balcony section (yes, my knees still hurt) I made sure my seat would have a clear, unobstructed view of Raoul and Christine on the boat. It paid off because Lucy’s Christine was looking at this pathetic (affectionate) shell of an opera ghost until the very last moment as the boat drifted away.

- I was feeling so emotional at the end of the final lair (maybe on the verge of crying??? I almost never have the urge to cry during the final lair) but then the little girl behind me had to start chattering away about her thoughts on how the Phantom was going to escape the mob and my moment of emotional vulnerability was over.

"WHEN they INEVITABLY break up" oh honey bucktommy is endgame, there is no breaking up, they're the IT couple actually, tim told me that himself

I watched Avengers: Age of Ultron (apart from I skipped some overly long action sequences) and I am not sure so can someone tell me whether or not Tony Stark was the baddy in that film? Because about halfway through I was sure he was but then it was maybe just an evil robot after all and I am confused because either this film was surprisingly subversive or it was about robots hitting each other.

very often ill see bears following my nsfw account and ill end up looking thru their profiles as i check for ppls ages in bio and theyre 99.9% bear4bear. That one anon lied to me.

H o p e l e s s n e s s   and   p r a y e r s for rain

6 and 11 for the ask challenge?

IZ THEMED ASK 6: Any fan characters? I do have a few fan characters that I use in Space Trash, but I dont really post a whole lot about them. My fan characters are mainly just vehicles for hardcore ZaDr and interesting plots. If Zim and Dib are made to work together, you need other villains. They're created for utility but I think they're pretty interesting and play their roles well 11: Would you be scared if Jhonen found your art/fanfics/blog? I hope I make that man scared, I hope I make him puke, I hope my art of Zim and Dib kissing and my Fictional scenario of Zim and Dib getting nasty and suffering their lives, causes him to break into a cold sweat, tossing and turning, ashamed of the potential that he failed to birth into the world. The glory of Invader Zim was only halfway realized before I touched it

*charles wtf discord react*

Here I was wondering where were you 🥺 Missed you

You have to do your own taxes 😱 At ghe risk of sounding ignorant, what country do you live in? I have never had to do taxes where I live and I way older than you :B

Yeah, I'm sorry it took a while to answer your ask 😖

No, it's ok! You don't sound ignorant ^^ I live in America. Once every year, we have to file our taxes (when you have to mail/file them all depends on the state. Where I live, the deadline is April 15'th), which can get more complicated or expensive to have done the more jobs/income/properties you have.

You can pay for someone to do your taxes, but A) it can be very expensive (one company I called gave me a deduced price between $160-$210 dollars. And I only have two W-2 forms to do -_-), and I don't want to shell out that kind of money right now XD and B) I want to learn how to do them on my own. I know that it's not shameful to not know how to file your taxes and there's a reason why people are willing to pay to have them done, but I still want to learn. Both for myself and, if I have kids one day, I can show them how to file their taxes and they won't have to struggle with the learning curve as much ^^

... But now I'm considering moving to your country XD

George and Dream were on the black and white teams respectively, and they both decided to wear grey

does anyone want to come over and give me weed. we can smoke together in a shed/. we have internet...

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i'm about to throw hands with this yt poll.

this is the zelda version of that twitter butch post to me.

Surprisingly from the clips I have seen on youtube about the Mario movie it actually seems to be pretty decent for kids and fans of the franchise. 

More of a Mario and Luigi with mutual brotherly love and origin story than anything really. Glad to see Peach is treated as her own character and that she is shown to be very capable. 

Can’t believe it, but they actually make it more Mario and Peach than Mario/Peach, where you can see the potential for romance but it’s really more of a friendship right now. Although I am going to bet that Illumination is planning on making this a new fully fledged franchise so romance will probably follow in the next few movies. 

For the headcanon game I request the objectively best character <3🥊

I can’t keep having this same conversation

Heylo my maggotsies... I'm sorry to do this but I have a thing that I really, really need to do (thank you Ash for helping me realise that) but I'm terrified to. so well. I'm going to make one of the posts (Neil reblogged me a couple of days ago so I feel pretty safe making one now since he only lurks by once in two weeks so this is as good a time as it gets to make a post and not expect many notes, yes I'm an overthinker and I'm actually scared of this getting notes).

Sigh. Here goes.

...I'm scared of even typing it.

Nope okay I can do this let's go.

If this post gets 1k notes, I'll look up jobs in design and film making that don't need a college degree.

2k notes, I'll sign up for an Alliance Francaise course so I can have another language on my CV, and I'll find a course that teaches me how to use design software.

5k, I'll look up distance learning alternatives, because just talking about physical college yesterday made me spend the whole morning and afternoon today in and out of nightmares screaming. Fuck.

10k, I'll tell my mum that I can't do the offline college. She's been talking to me about it, but I've been dodging because I'm not well-off and I really need to be earning and idk how to do that without college and I feel so guilty.

15k, I'll officially back out from the college (does that count as dropping out, if it hasn't begun? maybe half. i am a college and a half dropout, my 11th grade self would hate me and my 10th grade self would refuse to believe it).

I don't know what I'll do then. I don't know how to live as trans here in India, I don't know how to earn enough to be able to help my family, I don't know what I'm good at and I'm so fucking terrified. But. I spoke to @random-doctor-on-the-internet last night (I love you Ash you're such a fucking amazing human) and they made me realise that well maybe landing in a hospital with steroids to relieve an allergy attack because of exam stress isn't normal and so.

Well. Here I am. I know I can't do it, but I'm scared to risk everything, it's just not something people do here, dropping out. But also (TW s**cide statistics mentioned below the cut)... And so I've just. Got to do it, got to save myself and say no to college (cue say no to school, kids joke). Somehow be brave enough. And yeah.

To quote a financial express article: "In an alarming situation, a total of 7,62,648 suicides were reported in India between 2018 to 2022, Of this student suicides account for 7.6% at 59,239". Maybe if more people did say fuck you to the system here, that wouldn't be the case. That number could have been 59,240 (aside from everyone who wasn't counted and hushed up), that could have been me, and I don't want to put myself in that situation again. You know? Yeah.