A Great Loss To American Literature. Now He Joins The Greats.

@cuddlesforerik Thank you for tagging me!

Yay, this one is about BOOKS. Let’s see…

1. Currently finishing up The Count of Monte Cristo. (Took nine hundred pages for the story to actually start, but dear goodness, it’s so good.)

2. Next will be The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky (my favorite author to ever exist). This is one of the few stories of his I haven’t read yet, so I’m very excited and have been preparing my soul to be crushed once more.

3. Les Misérables is a must. Finished Notre-Dame de Paris a while back, and I’m in love with his writing style. Truly a master at his art.

4. Bleak House by Dickens. Because nothing that man writes is bad.

5. The Turn of the Screw. A recommendation from my sister, so we’ll see.

6. And finally, Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard. I started it a while ago, but I was too busy to give it the attention it deserves (30 pages in and could already tell it was a masterpiece), so I’m going to start from the beginning now that I have more time to absorb it properly.

No pressure tags: @angel-with-paper-wings @buccaneeering @holyspiritgirl

Tagged by @rainintheevening to list 6 books I wanna read this year!! It's my New Year resolution to read more this year so this is great!!

One Piece (currently I have Vol. 1-3 but I plan to get at least up to 12!)

Re-read Wings of Fire 1-6, then read books 7 and 8 for the first time!

Mary Poppins!! One of my closest friends gifted me the most lovely copy and I really wanna read that!

Re-read the Phantom of the Opera!!

The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban! It's been on my bed waiting for MONTHS lol

Re-read Artemis Fowl 1-3, then read book 4 for the first time!!

No pressure tags: @the-old-fashioned-girl @overthinking-with-katy @enigma-absolute @nerdywriter36 @brendadaaedestler

Whoa

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry featured in Rapture & Melancholy; The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

This.

the thing, why Erik and Christine is my ship and beyond that the dynamic that fascinated me the most is because their relationship is so toxic and so beautiful and so layered. it's like...i am the angel your dead father sent you, you are my angel of music, i am your father (figure), i am your teacher, you are my teacher, you're my muse, you're my victim, i am yours, you made me experience musical ecstasy, you too, you guided me out of my grief, i am grieving because of you, you're the normalcy i long for, you bring out the side in me i didn't even know i had, i've never been so happy, i've never been so frightened, i've never been so desperate, i want to die because of you, i want you to kill us both, he's just a man, he's every shadow, she's just a woman, she saved everyone, it's just a kiss, no, it means everything!

Erik and Christine are an abuser and his victim but they were also two lonely, broken people who found solace in each other, they are also musical geniuses inspiring each other to inhuman achievements in their art, they share are bond that even they can't really understand or anyone else.

I also love the weathered frenemy relationship he has with the Daroga and Raoul is also a perfectly nice young man who, in my opinion, is the most interesting when he's at his worst (jealous) and I love that everyone has fun with their non canon ships too. But Erik and Christine's dynamic will always be like crack to me personally. They're Death and the Maiden, Hades and Persephone, Mephisto and Faust/Margarete, the Rose and the Nightingale, Beauty and the Beast, they're opposites, they can't be together, they're day and night AND YET

ah! Fate links thee to me, forever and a day...

音楽の天使

2024.5.8

Who. Was. The. Genius.

‘Oh, tonight, I gave you my soul! [...]’ ‘Your soul is a beautiful thing, child,’ replied the man’s grave voice, ‘and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight.’

— Gaston Leroux, My Gothic Heart, (2023)

"I had slipped into my own apartment and I was seized the scissors, which could put an end to my dreadful destiny... when the organ sounds were heard..."

Erik, you can't make a love confession less intense by saying:

"I love you. We don't have to talk about it. Actually, I won't talk about it. Don't bring it up. Unless you want to. No, you don't want to. Let's just do music."