Quick thought before work;

John Price hearing your alarm blaring that you’ve hit snooze on for the upteenth time before rolling over and cuddling into his side groaning. John smirking to himself that he know you’ll oversleep again no matter how many alarms you set for yourself, slowly pushes you onto your back before kissing you softly, his hands squeezing your hips, as he trails his light kisses down your body. Bunching up one of his old shirts, that you’ve shamelessly taken from him as soon as the two of you moved in together, pushing it up to your neck before teasing your nipples. Spreading your thighs to position himself between them and shooshing any whimpers, trailing his tongue and kisses down your stomach nipping at your hip dips groaning when you push into him. Smiling when he sees your not wearing any panties and start slowly licking long stripes up your slit before sucking your clit into his move feeling your thighs close his head in and your cries and pleas for him. John who will pin your wrists to your sides as he eats you out like a man starved feeling your walls clenching around his tongue, hips twitching with each nip to your clit before sucking gently on it, chuckling as you beg him to just fuck you already. John will persistently suck your clit right up to your orgasm which will make your back arch off the bed, your hips shifting away trying to escape the overstimulation his mouth was doing to you clit, using one arm to pin your waist down while his other hand will thrust two of his fingers quickly in you. Stabbing that sweet gummy spot that makes your toes curl and eyes roll to the back of your head as your second orgasm washes over you easily, moaning into your shared room. The alarm going off yet again making you jolt as he pushed himself up over you smiling licking his lips, “Time to get up sweetheart.” Before kissing you quickly and going downstairs to make your coffee.

Quick Thoughts on "Remember It" from X-Men '97

So I just now realized that Disney+ has rated X-Men '97 as TV-14 and...it really frickin' SHOWS with this episode.

I don't want to spoil things, mainly because I keep "Quick Thoughts" as spoiler free as possible, but like...FUCK dude. Holy hell, things went down hill quick. And you wouldn't think so, at first. Things start off relatively light enough with good fun like the X-Men getting interviewed and Nightcrawler returning to pal around with Rogue and Gambit. But slowly yet surly, the episode turns up the drama with every second.

It starts off with X-Men's usual standard: Relationship drama. Who's in love with who? Can these two still be in a relationship? How badly will Wolverine get rejected by Jean this time (Turns out, not that badly this week)? The meat of the episode is just this and I'd say MOST of it is engaging. Personally, I find the whole thing between Rogue and Magneto to be...icky. The age gap must be large between those two and feels like it was added in to twist the knife into Rogue and Gambit's tragic love story. Granted, the whole "I can't touch you" thing might not be considered a big deal in this day and age because, well, asexuality is a thing and that specific group of people might think "Oh, get over it. Physical contact isn't needed to make a relationship strong." Still, we don't need Rogue sleeping with Magneto to spice up the drama, it's already spicy.

But one thing I AM okay with is the complicated mess between Jean, Scott, and Madelyne Pryor. THIS is juicy because you can just FEEL how things can't be simple between these three, especially through Scott. The man fell in love with a girl and put a baby in her clone, you can't get more complicated. And I like that there's time dedicated to figuring out WHAT happened and WHERE to go from here. I'm so glad the show didn't just sweep the whole thing under the rug and I REALLY hope they still don't now that Madelyne MIGHT be...uh...Well...

You know how I said things went downhill quick? Well, a certain...event happens in all of this. An event with casualties, lots of blood, and bold sacrifices that left me STUNNED. It was at this specific event did I realize, "Oh, yeah, this probably SHOULD be meant for older audiences." Because, yeah, things get DARK in this event. I wouldn't say it ever gets to Invincible levels, the show NEVER goes that far. But I will say that it DOES go farther than what the original series does as well as anything Marvel has put out in recent years. Again, I won't spoil anything, but trust me when I say things are going to CHANGE with this series. I doubt the emotions would be as strong if you just watched the revival before the original series, but it is still some well-done action and drama that's perfectly executed--Oh, that was a poor choice of words...

In short, "Remember It" is DEFINITELY going to be a memorable episode...

Fuck it, more space orc stuff?

Had this thought while driving in to work this morning; someone else has probably posted smth like it too, but I just gotta get it out of my head. Let’s talk about acceleration.

Our bodies are really good at adapting to G-force so long as it’s consistent. So accelerating and decelerating feels like ✨something✨ but if you maintain speed it stops feeling like much of anything so long as it’s within the range of force your muscles can compensate for. Like car speeds.

If you’re cruising down the highway at 70+ then dropping to 40 is really significant. It feels so much slower than it actually is bcs your used to higher speeds. Planes are another good example. Once you’ve gotten into the air and maintain speed it doesn’t really feel like anything until you stand up tp walk around, and then bcs everything in the cabin with you is also moving at the same speed, you barely feel it. And all of this is an environment with friction in the atmosphere. Out minds are scary good at micro adjusting to velocity. Just look at racers and fighter pilots.

Our bodies are better at adjusting than our minds—a lot of decisions that happen at ludicrous speeds are all reflexes too—basically autopilot. It’s facilitating. We can already see in our own population people who are better at autopilot and people that generally cannot access that, so clearly this is a skill that can be taught. Humans can learn high speed precision reaction through just Doing the Thing over and over again.

Quick Thoughts - The Phantom of the Opera - April 15, 2023 (Evening)

The main trio was Laird Macintosh, Emilie Kouatchou and John Riddle

It’s hard to find a word that accurately conveys the feeling in that theater. It was a mix of love, joy, enthusiasm, sorrow, and grief. 

The cast seemed sharper somehow? So many extra little details.

I KNOW, every write up I do, I always go on about how much I love Nehal Joshi’s Andre but the man always delivers.

John Riddle’s Raoul seemed more boyish and charming than my recollection? He had such good chemistry with Emilie.

Raquel cracked on the opening Hannibal cadenza and just immediately redid it. Such a Carlotta move.

She was also somehow funnier and sharper than her baseline? That slow head turn after the line ‘These things do happen!’ was so hysterical. 

Despite the numerous times I have seen Phantom, I’ve never seen Emilie opposite a Phantom that wasn’t Ben Crawford. It was very interesting to see Laird and Emilie play off each other.

The main thing I remember from the first lair is how Laird’s phantom threw his fedora into the wings like it was a frisbee.

Oh also just how much despair and shock Laird’s Phantom felt at the first unmasking.

Nehal Joshi somehow makes the speech before the Il Muto ballet funnier every time. This time he tripped over himself in his haste to get down stage. I think what makes this so funny is that as the scene goes on he just gets more and more disheveled. 

Emilie’s Wishing was absolutely incredible. It practically stopped the show.

I swear, during the second unmasking, Emilie was going in for a kiss.

The Final Lair was something else.

It was just... so good.

Laird broke the kiss and the look of joy and wonderment on his face afterwards. His right hand was blocking the lower half of his face but I swear that man was smiling.

THE CANDLE WORKED!!!! 

OKAY, so the ring return - EMILIE SAID I LOVE YOU BACK

But it was so quiet, it was almost as if we all imagined it, so it made Laird’s second ‘I love you’ so heartbreaking.

Yes, Laird looked out at the audience again in this performance when he was about to cover himself with the cloak. It’s (most likely) the last time for him as it is for us.

woke up feeling bad one morning but the sun reminded me that it’ll be okay

uneasiness is the word for Queen of Tears. This show makes me uneasy. I felt it in the first episodes where a group of men lament having to cook for the Hong's family memorial service (cooking! horror!), I felt it when Soo-cheol opened his big mouth to call Africa barbaric, and I'm still feeling it 6 eps in while Hae-in cavorts around Germany with her lousy husband.

I haven't dropped the show yet because I find it entertaining, and I have no self-discipline. What I like: Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in. The ensemble cast is big and probably expensive, but the money is paying off. They're all individually strong performers, and they work off each other expertly. I like the Hong family, and I like their soon-to-be usurpers. I like how the camera moves - I like how funny the writing can be. I love the soundtrack. Hae-in's fake illness is one of the more compelling fake illnesses in k-dramas. I think everything around her character is sharply drawn, and most of that lies in Kim Ji-won's performance, who knows exactly how to ride that fine line of irony and earnestness. She knows Hae-in is out of touch and vain, and plays those moment with subtle self-riducule, but she also acknowledges that Hae-in is trying, if not necessarily successfully, to be a better person.

Her husband though - lol. Baek Hyun-woo starts out as someone with a degree of responsibility and morality that his in-laws severely lack. Much of the first episodes is playing up his alienation as a decent, modest middle-class lawyer who marries Hae-in, a woman from a vastly rich family, and learns quickly that the companionship and support he thought he'd receive from her isn't there. He decides to get a divorce after he finds out that his wife didn't put him in her will - the last straw, and ultimate proof that she no longer loves him. Fair enough, thought I. Then he finds out his wife is dying. His reaction: stash away the divorce papers and lover her up so bad she'll fall for him again and put him in her will. Okay...interesting! thought I. It was a refreshing turn in his character, having our nice lead be as self-interested and petty as the in-laws he looked down on. And at that point, the writing was vaguely, vaguely aware that he was a prick for it. But it also gave him an out - see, it wasn't really Hyun-woo's idea, but his friend's, whispering in his ear like Lady Macbeth to topple the faithful King Duncan, so y'know, this conniving isn't really Soo-hyun's nature. He's definitely not that kind of guy.

The funny thing is that Hyun-woo's selfishness is the only believable thing about him. Early on, it's hammered in that working for this family is eating up at his sense of justice, but there's no underlying reason or conviction as to why or where he has this sense of justic from. I can believe more that he is a deeply materialistic man, who says the "moral" thing, but ultimatley still cares about status and money and reputation. After all, the moral compromises he regretted making for his in-laws no longer mattered when he was busy chasing Hae-in's bag lol. And like his ethics, his love for Hae-in feels similarly hollow - when he starts to see her through sun-lit filters and flares with ballads in the back, it all reads like artifice attempting to simulate a sincere falling-back-in-love, and I don't buy it. I don't believe that he's a good man, and I don't believe that he loves Hae-in. I cannot believe that people were harassing Kim Sae-ron, a real woman with a real connection to Kim Soo-hyun, over this pairing. Stand up.

In fact, this show is a lot like Hyun-woo - hollow, saying the "right" things re: wealth, but meaning nothing. The villains are grasping class upstarts. The chaebol family are so dysfunctional and bumbling that they become like children, pitiable and endearing. There's a show in here that's brilliant, and I keep seeing flashes of it because I've seen it in other brilliant shows. An upwardly mobile lawyer marries into a conglomerate, and their corruption chews him up and spits him out - Stranger. A chaebol family whose stupidity and pettiness is genuinely disturbing and suffocating - Secret Love Affair. And if you want to ogle and jeer at rich people, then Mine is as indulgent, as excessive, as voyeuristic (bordering on exploitative) as QOT while still having a moral spine. Of course, those shows had very different writers, different aims and tonal registers to Queen of Tears, which is first and foremost a brassy, sweeping crowdpleaser. But QOT wants us to take it seriously - it wants us to at least believe in the romance that it's selling. And well...I don't know if I can manage that. Personally, I'd have cut Hyun-woo out all together, make Eun-sung/Hae-in and Soo-cheol/Da-hye the main pairings (while keeping Eun-sung and Da-hye as two-faced as they already are), and have the messiness of the plot spill out from that.

I think this is all a sign to watch My Liberation Notes again.

quick little thing I wanted to share with people:

if anybody who follows me also follows @/cathers-world, please unfollow me. i no longer support cathers-world & i regret ever supporting them in the first place. i am an age regressor, & knowing that they now post/reblog ddlg content, im very glad that they have blocked me so that i no longer see that content. they also shouldn't me following & interacting with minors since their blog is very NSFW, & i regret ever following them.

@ax-y10 @ace-is-back @o-kye @ogelizasoot @zuuriell @vibestillaxxx-updates @stars-around-scars-collective

not to be too much of a nerdy pervert trans girl but lowkey just got so focused on minecraft that i just simmered in my own sweat in my cardigan at my chair rather than turn on the ac for like. 2 hours. and when i went to masturbate the musk that wafted up? I think if this was someone else id prolly go feral for this cock. Anyway someone come be my little free use gaming cockwarmer so my cum doesnt get wasted on my stomach and so i can be clean even after gaming

Saw Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire yesterday.

Excellent Film, highly recommended; minor nitpicks on details of scale in some stills, wish it had a slightly longer running time, very disappointed that Scylla and Tiamat were killed off so quickly, hopefully they’ll correct this mistake in future films.

The Indie Animation scene has been growing significantly. I felt it was time to highlight some major Indie darlings. As well as bring back an old video series.

A quick thought came to me "what if Victor is colorblind?", because cats can only see slight shades of yellow, blue and gray. I think I read somewhere thats a possibility.

And I was going to put it in my fic like, not describing the colors when it's on Victor's POV, but then I remembered that he already described Tereza's eyes a "pretty red jewelry" so 🤷

Anyway, it would be pretty funny.

*Sighs*...Okay, yeah, Wish really IS bad

And I didn't want to go in thinking that. I went in with the most optimistic view possible. Because with EVERYONE treating this movie as the worst thing possible, a POX upon the house of mouse itself, I went in thinking that there's no WAY it's THAT bad. So when I finally watched, I decided...I was right. It's NOT that bad. But...Well...Let's get into it.

This is the part where I'd say "Positives First," to show off what worked before picking apart what didn't. Except that, aside from a few little moments and easter eggs that made me go, "Aw, that's cute," I'm coming up EMPTY. Every single thing--And I do mean EVERY SINGLE THING in this movie, from the animation, songs, characters, story, themes, ideas, and even EXECUTIONS...is ALMOST good. Every single aspect of this film ALMOST worked. The pieces are there and I can see just how this film could have been the masterpiece that was a CENTURY in the making. The problem is that there's ONE THING holding it back: Not enough time. And I don't just mean that the movie should have been longer. No, I mean that this movie needed another YEAR of production to tighten up EVERYTHING. Why's that? Well, let's go in order of the things I mentioned.

The animation is clearly trying to go for this mixed-medium style that movies like Puss in Boots: The Last Wish or Spider-Verse popularized. Those movies mixed hand-drawn animation with 3D models, making storybook illustrations or comic book art feel ALIVE. That's sort of Wish is going for. I hear people say that Disney's 100 year celebration should have been completely hand drawn to call back to their early years, but I tend to disagree. I think Disney making a movie that's mixed-medium is a better way to honor its one hundred years, taking the animation that made Disney huge and mixing it with modern CGI as a way to make it feel like a celebration of the old AND new. EXCEPT that it doesn't really look good, aside from certain screenshots. There are SOME still images where if you paused the movie at the right time you can get something that looks like a 2D image with CG touch-ups. For the rest of the movie, it looks like a modern CGI Disney film with a storybook filter slapped on it. It doesn't look TOO BAD when your eyes get used to it, but it doesn't stop the movie from feeling like it ALMOST hit the right mark. The only times it REALLY works is with Star.

Wha--No. No, not that one. That's the wrong Disney character named Star.

There he is. There's my little guy.

But look at him. He's a 3D character with hand-drawn touch-ups that really makes him feel like a 2D character brought to life. If the whole movie looked like HIM, then it would have been a revolutionary achievement for Disney. But it doesn't. Instead, it feels like a missed opportunity that would have worked better if they had more time to animate this film instead of leaving their animators scattered to the winds to make half-assed sequels or forcing out one to two projects every year.

There should have also been more attention given to the songs because...Oh my gosh, they're bad. They SOUND nice, I love the instrumentals and the POWER these people put into the vocals. "This Wish" and its reprise successfully gives me chills through how well they're sang and how epic the instruments make them. But the LYRICS...are messy. When you sit down and actually LISTEN to what's sung, it all just...BLEH. That's the best way I can describe it, I'm sorry! It's BLEH!

Why would a king in a fairytale kingdom in the distant past sing, "You're sure you're not the prob?"

"Throwing caution into every warning sign" doesn't come across as a person freeing herself from her insane king's vague warnings but ADHERING to them.

The way that Asha and King Magnifico sing about protecting wishes makes it sound like they're singing to EACH OTHER.

And "You're A Star." OH BOY! The song that's meant to explain how these animals can magically talk is just filled with allegories and allusions that think they explain EVERYTHING only to explain NOTHING. It's just vague nonsense that, again, SOUNDS nice, but offers no real substance. On its own, I guess I can get into it, but to tell a story, it falls apart. Because that's the difference when it comes to writing a regular song and writing a musical: You're not just making a good song, you're telling a story through MUSIC. Wish's soundtrack is one that's filled with catchy songs, but not ones that properly move the story forward. Not to mention how they're so jarringly out of character in cases like "This is the Thanks I Get." When Disney released the soundtrack, that was my favorite song because I felt like it perfectly fit this smug, egotistical prick who thought he was the best person alive. Turns out that's not what Wish was going for...Not entirely.

Magnifico feels like he's meant to be a mix between Gaston and Maleficent. A character that has a huge ego and loves himself more than anything, but has an incredible amount of power to make himself a threat. If done right, a villain like that could stand up to be with some of Disney's best. And, yeah, like everything else in this movie, he ALMOST works. When he's finally a villain, he's campy and over the top, making him entertaining...But notice how I said "When he's finally a villain." That's because Magnifico doesn't really become what he's meant to be until halfway through the movie. He starts off as a King with good intentions but paranoid ideals that doesn't make him evil, it makes him feel like a guy who needed evidence to prove that other magic isn't a threat. By the time he finally acts more like a Disney villain, it was such a jarring left turn that his sudden switch-up made me feel like it was somehow a nightmare sequence from Asha. He's NOTHING like the guy he starts out as, and it's not a natural change that flows well throughout the film. That's mainly because the story has a pacing problem worse than any movie I've seen. If King Magnifico's path to the dark side was slow and gradual, showing signs of his worst qualities first and make them more apparent as the film goes on, he would have worked INCREDIBLY. Instead, it comes across as his villainy was activated like someone flipped a switch in his brain that says, "Be evil now." It's the absolute REVERSE of a bad redemption story, mixed with a lazy explanation that it was dark magic that made him more corrupt when he should have been evil since minute one. And you want to know the worst part? He's probably the best character in this.

Asha...isn't bad. She's your standard quirky nice girl protagonist that Disney just LOVES to use, especially lately. It's just that Asha doesn't have that "Gets stuff done" attitude like Moana or Mulan, nor does she have the infectious charm like Maribel or Anna. Asha, instead, is a lot like her breakout song: Nice and enjoyably, but doesn't stand out from the biggest hits. As for her animal sidekick Valentino...He's not annoying, but he's not funny either. Honestly, his comedy peaked when it was revealed that this cute baby goat sounded like Clayface from that Harley Quinn cartoon. A joke, by the way, that got spoiled by the trailers, so it's not really AS funny in the movie. Honestly, Asha's SEVEN FRIENDS are funnier at times. Speaking of, those characters are very clearly meant to be the Seven Dwarfs. And it is VERY distracting because not only does it feel like only two or three of them are necessary to the plot, but they're the ONLY major reference that the movie shines a light on when it comes to Disney's history.

Would I have wanted this entire movie to be nothing but references of past Disney movies? Of course not. That's not how movies work. But Wish seems to have this problem where it doesn't really COMMIT to honoring Disney's legacy. The most it does is give the Seven Dwarfs human OCs, make them supporting characters, and throws in tiny little easter eggs here and there. Again, some of them are cute, but it's not enough. The same goes for when Wish tries to honor some of the tropes and cliches that Disney popularized. It's an animated musical with talking animals, a campy villain, an objectively pretty protagonist, and goofy sidekicks. But it takes more than ADDING that stuff to your movie in order to honor them. You need to look at what made those tropes and cliches work in the first place and make something that calls back to those classic films while still having something new to say. And Wish almost--ALMOST--has something new to say.

With everything surrounding King Magnifico and how he got more power with people's wishes, I almost thought Wish was going to be a film that called out modern Disney. At least, modern CORPORATE Disney, a company that takes ideas and thoughts created by dozens of talented people, twists them into something unrecognizable, and refuses to give those ideas back when choosing to do NOTHING with this great idea leaves them free of competition. And to stop something evil like that, you must make something of your own and work hard to make your idea yours instead of letting someone more powerful take it from you. I thought that would have been a GREAT message...But of course DISNEY wouldn't want a movie calling them OUT for their one hundred year victory lap. So, instead, we have a message that tries to get the same idea across, but in a simplified way where the wishes are taken LITERALLY and that the only way to get what you want is to wish hard enough for it. That is...NOT the message I want kids to learn from this as it often leads to bad expectations. If this movie tried an ironically anti-Disney message in ANY OTHER year, it would have a better chance of getting away with it. But for a hundred year celebration, there was no chance in hell.

Wish is NOT Disney's worst movie, but it's nowhere near the best. I love SO MANY of the ideas and what it TRIES to do, but there's a difference between good ideas and good executions. It was ALMOST good, but Wish was not the movie anybody was really wishing for...

My Interpretation of Aegon's Green Banner

The change to make Aegon's banner green and gold instead of black of gold is an interesting one. In the book the three-headed dragon from House Targaryen is changed from red to gold, which is a reference to Aegon's dragon, Sunfyre. In the show, while Aegon's gold dragon remains the same, the field (background of the sigil) is changed from black to green. This is a clear reference to the green flames on his mother's house's sigil, House Hightower (a show invention, but a clever one). The color is also frequently worn by his mother as a way to show allegiance to her house.

The simplest explanation, is that it's just an aesthetic choice to make things easier on the viewer. Personally, I think that is rather silly, as the different banners would signal whose fighting regardless if they matched the Green and Black faction names, and you should trust your audience to know which is which through showcasing that in the show.

However, I'm going to add my two cents in. It's true that it seems odd for Aegon to honor his Hightower blood, as that is through his mother's line, and Aegon is a misogynist. I believe that he chose the color scheme out of his personal relationships with his mother, Alicent, and his father, Viserys.

In the show, Viserys is shown to be very neglectful towards his children with Alicent as time goes on. While he may say he loves them, he does not show it, and it is made clear that Alicent is the one who does the vast majority of child-rearing between the two. Therefore, while Aegon and Alicent have far from the ideal mother-son relationship, he at the very least, knew that his mother did care about him.

EDIT:

And to further drive my point home, Tom Glynn-Carney, Aegon's actor, actually elaborated on Aegon's feeling towards his family and heritage in an interview when asked about why Aegon's hair is shorter than other Targaryen princes with The Hollywood Reporter - “That was from discussions Miguel and I had at the start...I was like, ‘I don’t want him to have long, luscious Targaryen locks, because he hates that.’ Like [his character’s brother] Aemond is completely reveling in it. Whereas Aegon just throws it away. He was like, ’Take it off!’ He doesn’t want to be defined by his family. He hates his family because — in his head — they hate him.” Essentially, Aegon does not feel close to his Targaryen heritage, and distances himself away from it in the little ways he can, such as through cutting off his hair. This plays into the irony of his symbols of legitimacy being directly tied to Targaryen heritage and power: his name, the Blackfyre sword, and the Conqueror's crown. But, that resentment would still be there, so the act of switching up the banner colors would still be something I could see him doing. END OF EDIT.

Therefore, while Aegon may be far from any sort of ally to women, he choses to honor his mother, as she's the parent that stepped-up. And this is actually not at all uncommon behavior for abusive and misogynistic men, many of whom, put their mother's on a pedestal/uplift/honor them but would not hesitate to tear down or harm other women.

That or, Otto just forced Aegon to adopt the Hightower colors for his banner out of sheer hubris *shrugs.*

I'll do an interpretation of Rhaenyra's banner when we get an official one. So far all we've gotten is the chainmail one which may or may not be official. It will be interesting to see if we get the quartered sigil or not.

Quick Thoughts - Phantom of the Opera - Broadway - March 27, 2023

The main trio was Greg Mills, Julia Udine, and Paul A. Schafer.

The energy in the theater was just electric. The audience was so enthusiastic and the cast was just on top of their game; everyone just had so many good details.

This is the first time, in all 25 times I’ve seen the show that I’ve had an understudy for Madam Giry on! I would say that Janet Saia plays Madam Giry a bit kinder that Maree Johnson. I always considered Maree Johnson’s Giry’s top priority to be only her and Meg, but Janet Saia’s Giry cares about the folks in the opera house.

I was sitting close enough to the stage to realize that Jim Weitzer’s Reyer was singing along with Piangi during the Hannibal Rehearsal, not mouthing along the lyrics.

Nehal Joshi’s Andre is just so good. I know I say this every time I do a write up, but this man has so many good details.

When Carlotta was singing ‘Think of Me’ Nehal Joshi’s Andre was singing along (not mouthing, singing along like he was a Kpop stan).

The look of utter relief on Nehal Joshi’s face when he thought saying ‘These things do happen,’ to Carlotta was the right thing to say, only to have the light completely die from his eyes, the moment he realized that he messed up.

The moment Greg Mills started singing from the mirror, I knew that I was going to be in for a ride.

He just has so many good details. I don’t think I managed to catch them all.

People started applauding, when he appeared in the mirror, I think he broke character and cracked a smile? (Or we can just say that he was smiling arrogantly cause the Phantom knew he was in complete control at this moment.)

Also during the title song, when the Phantom and Christine are on the boat and the ensemble is singing the chorus, the way Greg’s Phantom caressed (I’m still not sure if this is the best word) his face, touching his lips, all while gazing at an unaware Christine???! 

A lot of good hand acting details, in which Greg’s Phantom almost touches Christine’s face. but doesn’t quite manage to close the final 2 centimeters. 

The difference you get from the masked, mysterious, almost sexually charged man to the unmasked, pitiful, unhinged man still the same high quality hand acting though. 

During Point of No Return, Greg’s Phantom starts off with an Italian accent and as he got more enthralled with his ‘brilliant’ scheme, the accent slowly started to slip away.

When Julia’s Christine flashed her leg on the bench, the man’s brain just broke. His hand reached out like he was going to go for it, but he just ended placing his hand on the bench instead.

During Down Once More, most Phantoms like to option that second why into a wail/scream. Not Greg Mills. That why was a low, raspy growl.

We love a good sarcastic bow when Raoul emerges from the lake.

It always kinda cracks me up when a Phantom looks so dejected when Christine sings the ‘tears of hate’ line. Greg’s Phantom looked extra sad and dejected, as if he was thinking to himself “where did I go wrong??!”

During the line ‘send him to his grave,’ Greg held the veil, like it was a noose around his neck.

Oh, lord, the kiss.

Greg’s Phantom is just so overcome. He can’t manage to wrap his arms around Christine during the second kiss.

THE CANDLE IS BACK!!

Just when I was thinking to myself, “why must every Broadway Phantom gaslight me into think that they’re going to pick up the candle by walking right up to the organ,” Greg picked up the candle?????! The spark didn’t work, so now I’m wondering if the candle is part of the new standard blocking for the remaining performances or if Greg Mills just went, “Fuck it, I’m doing what I want.”

During the masquerade reprise, Greg’s Phantom was mimicking the monkey’s cymbals, before just slowly deflating and softly covering the monkey’s face.

The second ‘I love you’ was to the space Christine had left behind, and the third, softer yet, was to the veil, right before he picked it up.

Greg couldn’t get the final line out completely before the audience started cheering. That’s how enthusiastic the audience was.

Really love that when Greg Mills took his final bow as the Phantom, he ran out high-fiving his cast mates.

Imma say this because I have to go to work in the morning.

I watched a bunch of Lil Nas X's documentary and it was so inspiring. I assumed I'd be exempt from it because I've been out for a while but that wasn't the case. Seeing that as a child would've done wonders for me and its moving that little gay black boys with thicker lips and wider noses can be pop stars!