i need to talk about this beacuse i've been a poto fan since 2021 and i just have to say... i truly don't think raoul was trying to gaslight christine AT ALL in the rooftop.

the goal of his character is to protect everyone and make sure everything is ok at the opera. including christine.

one of his lines in "why have you brought me here/raoul i've seen him" is: "my god who is this man?"

of course he knows there's someone who's killing people. he just wants to make sure christine knows that it's not a supernatural being, because she is having a mental breakdown and because, at this point of the story, raoul thinks that if the murderer is only a man then he can be defeated and is not as dangerous as a literal monster (that's a reason why he tells christine "you said yourself he was nothing but a man... YET while he lives, he will haunt us till we're dead".)

he even checks to see what is happening when she asks "what was that?". he does care. that's why he's telling her all this. he wants to make her feel safe and calm.

while erik is blinded by the dark he has lived in his entire life, raoul is, at the same time, blinded by the light and his position. he is naïve (and maybe a bit dumb) but he has a heart of gold. he only wishes good for everyone (even for erik in some way. i mean, notice how he gives him advice. and, also, him and christine met because he went to fetch her scarf!! this dude wants to help others!!). and it seems to be hard for him to accept that not the entire world will be good and that not everything will always go as he wants it to be.

he has blind optimism.

and his journey is to see life and the world as it is. it's personal growth. it's letting go of the chains that held you down. and that is also christine's journey.

they both leave their caves and learn about life together.

he wants to do everything for everyone and he may be stubborn as hell, but he would DIE for others (especially for christine). he needs to be the hero, it's not until the end when he becomes the victim that he realizes that the world is more than what he'd always known. and now he has seen the good and the bad. and the middle of both. and he can carry on.

─♣️─ Lackadaisy : Shut-Eye²

⸝⸝ tl;dr : continuing on the shnor mimimimi headcanons from this post ! features the savoys, mordecai heller, mitzi may, and the lackadaisy band as a bonus !

🍺 Nicodeme Savoy + Serafine Savoy

I feel like, after trudging around in the bayous and the swamps and sleeping wherever their exhausted bodies drop on for most of their childhood, the Savoys are extremely picky about their sleeping accomodations.

Think of satin sheets, smooth as cream and fine as silk; embroidered pillows bursting with cotton and feathers; blankets upon comforters upon quilts; mattresses so fluffy and soft you sink into it upon contact. The Savoys demand the best when it comes to their beds, and considering their reputation around Marigold, I doubt anyone is brave (or stupid) enough to contradict their wishes.

And it would be alright if they actually slept in it but like .. they just don't .. well, most of the time, anyways.

Their evenings are spent not in their castle-worthy beds but rather in the Marigold room, chatting and smoking and drinking until the chickens start to crow. And even when Marigold ushers its last guests out the door, a couple dozen liquor bottles and boxes of party food somehow finds it way up the Savoys' suite, where the distinct beats of drums and gossip thrums in the room long after the sun rises.

Honestly, I'm surprised they can manage to go on rumrunning duty after getting shitfaced drunk the night (and day) before 💀

And when they do get to sleep, Serafine in particular really likes the windows thrown open to catch the nighttime breeze. It reminds her of the gales that go through the bayou when she and Nicodeme were lost in there, and as much as she hated every other aspect of the bayou, the gales specifically gave her a bit of comfort during those times.

Nicodeme's a blanket hogger. That's it. That's the post.

ALSOO ,, their room in the mornings is just . Eugh .

Littered with cigarette butts, burned-through matches, half-drunk bottles of gin and whiskey and whatever they could smuggle out of the speakeasy; pillows everywhere, the mattress hanging by a thread on the bedframe, and the sheets all nestled around Nicodeme while he sleeps on his back with his hands clasped together like a princess and while Serafine is 0.5 inches away from falling off the bed.

I just want to address a personal apology to whoever cleans their room up when they're gone because I know damn well the Savoys aren't doing it 💀💀

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🪓 Mordecai Heller

On nights when he's on "Asa's Shadow" duty, I'd say that Mordecai wouldn't really collapse on his bed from exhaustion the second after Marigold closes down and he's free from all the musical notes and murmurs and shrieks of laughter that he's been enduring all night.

If anything, I think he'd really take the time to unwind and calm down. He'd sit at his kitchen table and drink some tea, maybe cook up a couple of slices of French toast to fill his stomach as he never really eats anything that's served at Marigold -- he thinks too many people have touched it and it makes him feel all .. icky.

He'd also spend just a pinch of time cleaning the house; nothing too big, just rearranging some books in the shelves, sweeping the floors and wiping dust off the windowsills and tables.

Oh, and he'd read books before sleeping as well. Thick ones. Hardcover ones. He wouldn't read new books or books that he's put off reading because of his workload, but rather one that he's familiar with. Something he's read so many times that, at this point, he could recite it cover to cover without needing to look. In his mind, it helps him relax and destress because of the comforting familiarity of the paragraphs, the unsurprising and mundane words that his eyes had glossed over so many times before, the feel of the worn pages that his fingers had held and brushed too many times to count.

(Do I want to be a book? Yes. Yes, I do.)

As being a tuxedo cat means getting hot easily -- and that's a massive yikes for Mordecai -- I think that he sets the blanket aside and sleeps without one during the summer. Or if the night is chilly enough to warrant the presence of a blanket, he'd use a thin one, or he'd just wear pajamas and a long-sleeved top.

And I'd say Mordecai sleeps on his stomach, with his arms all wrapped around a pillow. Something about the way the soft, slow breeze of the fan hits the fur his back lulls him into a slumber like no other. Plus, it keeps him from feeling too hot and sweaty.

Tl;dr : Cold pillows, cold sheets, cold room for Mordecai. Anything other than that and he'd much rather sleep outside than have a single bead of sweat show up on his body during the night 💀

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🍷 Mitzi May

Oh honey .. Mitzi does not sleep well, that's all I can tell ya'.

In the timeline of the comic, I'd say that Mitzi rarely gets any sleep, and that she manages to get through the day with a conconction of the strongest coffee she could find mixed with whatever leftover beer she could spare.

Atleast, during the daytime, she has Rocky's shenanigans to keep her mind occupied. But once the sun sets and Mitzi climbs the narrow stairs to the third floor of the cafe's building .. it all just starts to unfold and her facade gives way to weary sighs and smudged mascara.

(Alright, that's enough angst )

On nights where it's not so bad, Mitzi would spend most of her time in Atlas's old office, talking to his painting and keeping him updated on what's happening. By this point his painting has become a diary for her, and although she knew it was stupid, she couldn't help but confide everything to it, as if it were a best friend. Even though his painting never moved, never talked, never offered any words of comfort, Mitzi always finds herself calmer afterwards.

Then she'd go into their - her - bedroom, and she'd start cleaning herself up. She'd do it slow, like it was her first time handling all the creams and washes on her vanity table. For Mitzi, this was when she really feels at peace. When it's just her, her cold creams, and the hum of the building's old heating system running in the walls. There was something in the soft, sure way she kept herself clean that made everything just a bit more bearable.

Mitzi likes to sleep on her side, with a huge pillow right besides for her to hold. Regardless of the weather, she'd keep herself under the covers. She falls asleep pretty easily, but on the nights where her troubles become too much to bear, she just stares at the lights of the buildings across the street, watching each window turn from gold to black, and play a little game with herself in which she tries to fall asleep before the light in the last window turns off.

Unorthodox, but it works everytime.

And in the morning, Mitzi finds herself with a little bit more willpower to carry on than the night before.

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🎷 Lackadaisy Speakeasy House Band (Bonus !)

I've read somewhere that Zib lives in the same building as the rest of the band so ..

Let's just say their landlord hates them. It's bad enough that the sounds of their instruments creaking and groaning along the tight squeezes of the hallway was enough to drive anyone up a wall, but do they really have to rehearse in their rooms, too?

And don't get me started when they having a little (BIG) jamming session. Like, yeah, they sound good at first but eventually it all just devolves into a cacophony of god-awful squeals from someone's saxophone.

Zib himself sleeps on his bed (a thin mattress on a rickety old bedframe .. someone get him a proper bed please .) most of the time, but every now and then the band likes to crash at his room for shits and giggles.

Cue Zib tangled up with Sy on the floor, with Ben sleeping on the bed like he owns the place, and J.J. and Mozzie snoozing in the makeshift bed they made pushing two old couches together.

Hey, atleast they pay their rents on time .. right ?

for the artist asks thing, 4 + 5 :)

YESSS THANK YOU FOR THE ASK :3

4. Favourite things to draw?

umm rn if we’re talking about fandoms i Cannot stop drawing victor frankenstein on everything (also jekyll & hyde but i don’t quite have designs for them yet so those are more experimental)

in general,, i actually love drawing hands, they’re fun to practice and obv easy to find refs for

i also like drawing eyes, side profiles, basically just the human body in general lol (my anatomy is still a bit wonky but it helps to practice so often)

and my favorite medium is prob either acrylic or just pencil sketching, i do love traditional art and i wish i could do it more but digital is more convenient and it’s easier to start a digital project ykwim?

5. Anything you haven’t drawn yet but want to?

YOU DONTUNDERSTAND I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS IN MY BRAIN THAT NEVER MAKE IT OUT

one of my bucket list things to draw is an actual finished animatic, like they’re so much work but i have SO many ideas and i think i could do some cool stuff if i actually commit to doing it

at the moment i have a lot of animatic ideas for the frankenstein musical soundtrack specifically. can you tell i like frankenstein

alsoo i really wanna paint something Big, i have this huge canvas lying around and i had an idea for it but i kinda forgot about it sooo we’ll see what i think of and hopefully i’ll have time to do something with it eventually

ridi i'm LOVING all these unpopular opinions!! music haterism is always justified imo and soo entertaining also love that i agree with you 100% on basically everything 😌 some of these things just had to be said…

i thought i didn’t have anything to add because ts, hs etc have all been spoken about and i don’t listen to modern music enough to have strong opinions on any others but then i remembered my BIGGEST parasocial enemy (who i never talk about bc i don’t really have that good a reason to find her annoying i just do) is beabadoobea…

apologies in advance but she sort of represents everything wrong with the music industry rn to me so maybe a rant is justified here? anyway taking this opportunity to say i think she’s so overrated and not in a unique way, like it isn’t new for people to get careers from how they look but in her case specifically it annoys me sm because of what her fans are like and also it’s close to home…as in my cousin is one of her best friends from school so i knew of her when she started releasing music on band camp and had to watch her make a music career off being pretty on instagram with the four chords my cousin taught her on guitar and a voice that’s just…fine, and whatever everyone has to start somewhere except she got a record deal when her sound was completely underdeveloped before she’d had time to learn anything about music or her own artistry and like fuck around experimenting for a while.

which is so common these days i think w people blowing up on social media and getting handed careers i.e riding on the people who can actually play their instruments and getting loads of money thrown at them to make really bland four chord nothing songs... like in the first few years of her career she made so much music and it was all so boring and sounded exactly the same, even now it might be unfair but i do just assume any vaguely interesting part of her output is someone else’s work like sorry she’s never had to come up with her own fully fledged ideas or concepts and she’s been working with the pressure of commercial viability the whole time, any potential she might have had i just think was squandered by having everything come too fast and too easily or maybe i'm being generous and her authentic sound is just boring idk because it still doesn't seem like she has anything to say…all this wouldn’t be as bad if her fans weren’t sooo insanely annoying about her + as a person i have no real reason to but i just do not like her :| my cousin is still good friends with her as well so i have to pretend i know nothing but the picture of her i’ve built from things my cousin’s said…just aggravating, alsoo she’d played at my work once when my friend was on shift and her ex bf that looks a tiny bit like george harrison was sitting at the bar the whole time drinking water and not talking to anyone while she was doing coke in the bathroom and he looked so pathetic my friend started talking to him to cheer him up in between serving him his next cup of tap water…

HELLO MY DARLING!! oh my god i didnt realise she needed to come up until you said it...bebadoobedobee...beadbeadooebadoo..clapping n cheering for your rant because youre fucking RIGHT i have a few friends who like her and have tried to get me to listen to her and she was just. appalling truly and as you say not even just in a ah shes trying shes young she'll get better kind of way but in a this is genuinely unbelievably soulless and bland and boring and says so little that even she seems disinterested with it. the inside scoop on her from your cousin is delicious also gbfskjfskd her poor sad george harrison boyfriend..

i think youre so right and i dont mean that new artists shouldnt be given a break or an opportunity or anything but like you say, when theyre being harvested on social media, where a lot of the time look is everything (as i believe it is for bebadoobebdoo, her look her 'aesthetic' pinterest-board fashion sense does play a part i really think it does because there is no way her music is strong enough on its own to be successful) and where they may not necessarily be super experienced or practiced yet (which again, i appreciate, theyre new), a lot of money goes into getting songs out of them which are inevitably boring unimaginative four-chord songs that do not have enough substance to make anyone feel anything. including the people singing them. i cant imagine that beabadoobee demonstrated enough genuine musical promise to be given a record deal so i have to believe its either her image or the idea that well if we give her tons of expensive resources maybe then she'll end up putting out something good.

there have to be new artists out there who are more talented and interesting and would do more with the sort of record deal thrown at beabadoobebee than beabadoobdbbee did...surely...i really did try to like her because my friends raved about her so much so i listened to a fair bit from her and her music was just so staggeringly nothing. i think you make a good point about how the fact that she got a record deal so early on probably has sort of stifled the music she makes/her ability to experiment with it but im not sure im as kind as you because i do fear she is just not very talented perhaps. sorry giggling at her sad george harrison tapwater drinking boyfriend again poor lad..

hiii can i get an enha matchup (ouu this so exciting)

im 156cm arab enfp im a very loud person my hobbies are shopping reading collecting cute things and sleeping 😭😭 i like pink mint choco pop music or noise music i listen to eveythting though im not that picky with music I HATE HORRO MORE THAN ANYHTING LIKE IT GENIUANLLY SCARES ME SO MUCH I CANNOT WATCH SCOOBY DOO ITS THAT BAD im a very sociable person or so ive been told that i can talk to anyone my freind tells me im never tired in school and that shes suprised that im always so full of energy ive also noticed im vert energtic like when i just wake uo even with 2 hours of sleep when im about to sleep no mayter what im always energtic but obviously i also can be calm at times I LOVE EATTING SO MUCH for my ideal type i literally dont have anything specific just someone who is loyal and pays attention to me thats so important to me sosmoene eho pays attention to me i need attention LMAO 😭😭 MY STYLE I LIKE BOWS PINK SKIRTS CARDIGANS LEG WARMERS ANYTHING CUTE KDNDJDJDJ i love animals more than anything theyre so cute also i get mad easily like im the type to get annoyed and mad so easily but it goes away in a second my mood changes so fast i love eveyrthing im also the type of person who isnt friends woth snyone she dislikes if i domt like a person i, not gonna pretend to like them just so i wont sit alone id rather sit alone then sit with someone i dont like i procrastinate alot BIT TRUSTT IM WORKING ON IT ALSOO LETS SEE im trying to fit as much info as i can sorry if this isnt good IM SO BAD IN SCHOOL LIKE I GET GOOD GRADES IN EVEYTHING EXPECT TESTS AND QUIZEZ I CANNOT STUDY TO SAVE MY OWN LIFE my favorite ever tv show is when i fly towards you its a chinese romance its so so so good I RECOMMEND IT. ive never been in a relationship before also i have a cat she’s literally my daughter i love her I LOVE HEALTHY FOOD but i always end up eating candy and ice cream i rarley get sick i love cartoons so much i have been confessed to before but its alwayx ppl ive been friends with for a while i cannot play video games to save my own life but i always play bevause literly evryone i know games so i always game with them but i SUCK SO BAD KANSJSKSK i like tall ppl and funnt people OMGG I LOVE FUNNY PEOPLE SO MUCH I LOVE LEGO SO MUCH MT FREINDS BUY LEGO ANF THEY CALL ME TO HELP THEM BUILD IT BCS THEY ALWAYS GET SO CONFUSED ONCE I WAS OUT IN THE MALL MY PHONE HAD NO CHARGE I HAD TO TELL MY FREIND THIS JOKE SO I ASKED A RANDOM PERSON IF I COULD CALL SOMEONE USING THEIR PHONE JUST TO TELL HER THE JOKE i have the attention span of a literal gold fosh is this the right term idk but its so bad i hate cofee and anything bitter flavor im so picky with my food i have the longest skincare routine ever but its cause i mostirusixe jy whole body when i sleep i sleep with my feet being in like plastic so the crean can like lock in idk bro MSNDJSMSK im a huge fangirl I FREAK OUT SOO much like my freind had her first kiss and i freaked out more than her its so insane to me i love when ppl tell me theirr probelm not ppl but my freinds im happy they’re comfortable enought snd trust me enough to tell me it truly makes me happy my classmate once said im a very postive person im thanful for that ALSOO I ALWAYS SAY IM GONNA KMS i need to stop saying it bcs im scared i might genuinely like trigger someone bcs yk its not so,ething to joke about but at the same time sometimes im so done i need to kms OUUU IM A VERY DRAMATIC PERSON once i saw this pig shakingbcs it knows its about to be eaten and kiled so i got sad and said im never eating meat again then for lunch that day i had chicken nuggets im sorry if this isnt what u were expecting i tried to talk as much as possibekdndj love u

YOU ARE SO SO SO UNDENIABLY JAKE SIM. you guys would sooooo feed off of each others’ fun energies and bounce around and get up to stupid stuff together !! ALSO you guys are both very silly and funny so your relationship would be super goofy and it would be so good. i love this and ur energy sm and you and jake would be adorable MWAH

hiii againnn 🫶🫶 (sorry about how many i sent you of these i just love chatting with you and the excitement ahshshe)

okayy sooo regarding your tags haha my favourite artists are gracie abrams as well and maisie peters and liv too and sabrina carpenter and so many more lmao and my aesthetic is like cutesy but also sometimes like grunge where i were like black cargo pants and fishnets and stuff bc yes (also your style sounds AMAZINGGG) and i love art too, music (singing listening and playing lmao) and crochetinggg as well!! (except i can't really finish a project bc adhd LMAO)

anyways enough about mee, time for more questions haha these are not related to the gift just me wanting to get to know you better lmao (i mean they miiighhtt contribute to the gift who knows?)

ok soo, what's your favourite colour (i know you said you like black in the last answer BUTT idk if it's your favourite colour so might as well be sure) andddd if it's not too much trouble and if it's possible (i know it might be super hard haha) but could you rank midnights/1989 (whichever one you find easier to rank/whichever one you prefer since theyre your favourite albums haha)

alsoo sorry if im keeping you busy agsvbdeb im just so excited ahshhebr

byee <33 (sorry ive written a lottt)

p.s. we aren't mutuals haha but I've seen you on my dash a couple times and you seem really cool and i love getting to know you better it's really fun to chat with you <33

-secret swiftie santa

Dw this is pretty fun hehe

I think I’m on the opposite side of the adhd spectrum, where when I start a project, I often find myself hyper focusing so hard on it that I can’t focus on anything else until it’s done LOL (thankfully i can finish the smaller projects in a day, and Ive often been multitasking with for exemple doing rows of crochet while reading my textbooks haha)

My favourite color is Tyrian purple! (Tyrian purple specifically because there’s some other shades of purple I don’t like that much) look at how pretty!!

✨My Midnights Ranking✨

You’re on your own, Kid

Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve

You’re Losing Me

Anti-hero

Labyrinth

Question…?

Mastermind

Maroon

High infidelity

Midnight Rain

Lavender haze

Sweet Nothing

The Great War

Hits different

Paris

Karma

Dear reader

Snow on the beach

Bigger than the whole sky

Bejewelled

Glitch

Vigilante shit

Im incapable of ranking 1989 though 😂 But rn my favourites are the vault tracks (though that might be because of recency bias) and of course Wonderland 😌

hiii it's your secret blouie admirer again! idk if i sent anything for the 4 feb bc i think i sent like 3 messages, but everytime it didn't send :/ anyways that's cool, how are you going to decorate your room? tbh room decorating seems like such a fun activity! :) and yes you HAVE to read tts whenever you have time, i recommend listening to the author's spotify playlist. alsoo yea i will check out that fic :D anyways any music recommendations apart from louis n harry? have a good day !!! x

HELLO!! I was wondering where you’d gone haha :D no worries!

also i’m not totally sure yet, i don’t have a whole lot of stuff, but i do plan on printing out pictures and making a sort of random collage with all of ot5, and i have some fan made stuff in my etsy cart rn for other kinds of decor. i’m so so so excited fjdjsksksj

i KNOW. i really need to read tts. my moots on twitter have been begging me to so i think after i finish reading this one i’m reading now i’ll check it out and let you know! i’m just a lil scared cause apparently it’s sad (weird; i can write sad things with no problem but reading sad stuff is HARD) and i’ll be sure to look for the playlist! and if you do check out the fic i recommended, let me know what you thought about it!

some current song recs i have (if you listen to any of them let me know what you think!! it’s totally fine if they’re not your thing lol);

the entire “plastic hearts” album by the lovely miley cyrus, it’s AMAZING. more specifically “edge of midnight” with STEVIE NICKS!!

niall liam and zayn’s music, but more specifically “san francisco” by niall, “remember” by liam, and “tonight” by zayn. those are some of my faves :D

the music i listen to mostly is actually classic rock LMFAO so some faves from some legends would be “hold the line” by toto, “here i go again” by whitesnake, and “more than a feeling” by boston. i def have a LOT more faves but i don’t wanna make this longer than it already is haha

hope you have a lovely day!! <3