Any Other Lit Nerds Out There Always Associate This Quote With Erik?

the real true purpose of having a brain is to think about fictional characters

‘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)

Dear goodness. Hello, tears. Truly love of the most exquisite kind.

Definitely my favorite chapter of my favorite novel.

the phantom of the opera, gaston leroux

Why. Just, why. This is a beautiful horror tragedy following a murderer skeleton who sleeps in a coffin and writes his musical scores in blood—a story of obsession and sorrow—NOT a story for YA adaptation. That’d be like turning Dracula into a YA story—oh, wait, they did, it’s called Twilight.

I hate this world.

You know when I said I wanted more original Phantom of the Opera adaptations, having the director of High School Musical making a YA version for Disney + really isn't what I had in mind

*gasp* I love them

“Kissed her bruised and bleeding forehead”

Daroga is so funny because wdym you saved him because you thought he was funny?? Was it the really dry jokes about death?? The bad puns?? The weird cryptic metaphors???? The frog impressions?????????

““Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves.””

— Raoul to Christine, the Phantom of the Opera

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

Me defending my favourite fictional character: he's not even that bad (meanwhile he has a literal torture chamber in his house and drops chandelier on people)