Commentary by the author of the drawings (who is not me, but the artist at @vermium!):

The Persian is based on 1925 version, played by Arthur Edmund Carewe. He was the best, even though he wasn’t supposed to be THE Persian, but some other guy. The Persian is fascinating. He is like Theseus who can’t bring himself to slay the Minotaur, the whole purpose of him entering the labyrinth, and the Minotaur has long forgotten about him. His guns in disuse, his sword all clean, the unfortunate Theseus wanders the house of Asterion aimlessly, lonely like the monster, lost in the labyrinth like a man would be. There is a part in the book when the Phantom, the one who wants to be seen, loved, all of that stuff, turns to a man who saved his ass, paying for that with his everything, his homeland, even his name - and casually says: “you didn’t exist, you had ceased to exist”.

The Red Death - the hat is inspired by Cranach, the text comes from Petrarch’s The Secret, and the skeleton illusion is based on pajamas.

Get them here (I'll get them to work on Instagram in the near future too.)

Another way to access them, install the app Whatsticker, then search the code Ysunic and the you go!

This is the last post of this year so happy christmas and happy new year, see you in 2024!

It's Always Sunny at The Opera pt 2

Kay Erik & Nadir - with a lil cameo by Ayesha.

You know I know we all love the Daroga Erik Buddy sit-com where Daroga bursts into to Erik's House, Kramer stylez (except its always to demand that Erik tell him if he killed some one, crashed or exploded something etc.) But I love that in Canon, Daroga cannot even get into Erik's house. He can't even get twenty feet out into the lake. And Erik ALWAYS knows when he's around. So I think it's equally funny to have Daroga trying his darndest to throw rocks at Erik's door from across the lake like "ERIK, DAMMIT I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME. GET OUT HERE. ERIK!!"

Entwined  🤭

Poor Nadir, always pulling Erik out of his own misery. And poor Erik of having a whole cake✨

You idiot, we could have been... us

Aka me dealing with me watching Good Omens and Phantom of the Opera on the same day. Sorry, not sorry!

I haven’t been able to muster an update lately… so in the meantime, please accept this concept work of the poto-people’s princess 👑

Christine, the Phantom and the Persian

Made by the @vermium artist

more ppl need to talk about the rat scene in POTO.

insp. by this still from Eerie Tales (1919)

guys i think i downloaded the wrong version of the phantom of the opera 😧😳