use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
get rid of bloatware
use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
use storygraph instead of goodreads.
use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
burn your music onto cds
use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
remove bloatware on samsung X
use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.
feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3
last updated: march 18th 2025
Rare 1925 phantom of the opera promo image(?)
All of them
Best things for a ship to have or be:
Horny
Insane
Religious/spiritual themes
Obsession
Age gap
Doomed
ok but
what was the intended conclusion of Don Juan Triumphant?
Because, based only on the context of Point of No Return, there are only two options:
1. my man didn’t think that far ahead (likely)
Or
2. he really thought he and Christine were gonna raw dog it right there in front of God and everyone (very likely)
Which also begs the question — which act are they in? Of how many? Because I dunno what’s funnier, them fucking and then “goodnight everyone hope you enjoyed the show” or “it’s intermission!!! go grab yourself some chocolate covered raisins”
My doodle request:
Erik calling Daroga a "Booby" ala the NOT WHAT I'M CALLED meme format. ✨️
like this? thinking. emoji
I love the Phantom because he wasn’t “pretty on the inside”.
He was full of hate and disdain for himself and mankind.
And he was beautiful through his gifts and talents. And he was beautiful when he was exposed, when he was unguarded… But he was also ugly. He was more complex than simply being a monster or being ugly ‘on the outside’.
He was still magnificent, but he changed the rules. He changed the game. He changed everything. He wasn’t kind and he wasn’t terribly sincere and he wasn’t patient or helpful but he was still beautiful.
He was beautiful through his obsessions, his knowledge, his struggle and his downfall.
His struggle, his downfall, his destruction and his insecurities were his beauty.
SHOOTING CIVILLIANS POINT BLANK. SHE WAS TRYING TO GET HOME AND THEY SHOT HER FOR NO REASON. GET THIS FOOTAGE OUT!
Very messy Lerik sketches. Lmk if I should finish them 😭
I LOVE HIM SO MUCH GUYS.
Phantom of the Opera fans, I have returned for you ❤️🔥
I got to make a character sheet for my favorite gangly weirdo for class and had a lot of fun doing it
Guys as much as I love E/C, I understand it doesn't work in the context of Phantom as a whole. However, I choose to believe that perhaps in those two weeks she was kidnapped, Christine could've helped Erik begin to heal,and alternate storyline could've taken place, and that's what I chose to indulge in.
THAT BEING SAID RAOUL PLS PLS PLS HES SO CUTE I LOVE HIM HES A BABY OH EM GEE I KISS HIM
I felt I needed to explain my views on shipping in the Phandom somewhere on my page :P
Favourite POTO 25th Anniversary shots cuz why not<3
He looks like he's guiding her to walk here🤗 (I know a lot of productions do this but oh well why not)
LMAO LOOK AT ANDRE TRYNA SNATCH THAT NOTE😭😭
AS IF THE SERAFIMO COSTUME ISN'T GREAT ENOUGH. CHRISTINE LOOKS SO SMUG HERE💔💔(i js realise carlotta looks like she gon sneeze)
I CAN'T. DID HE ACTUALLY BUMP INTO HER ON ACCIDENT
honestly these two are my fav andre-firmin duo bro❤🩹❤🩹
we need more christine being angry/ crashout cuz girly don't deserve nothing she been thru🙁💔
Not just this shot. The entire song. She looks so smug for what😇😇
NOOOOOOOO SHE LOOKS LIKE SHES BOWING. RESPECTING HER TEACHER ONE LAST TIME OH MY DAYSSS and the way erik looks at her sympathetically too bro☹️☹️☹️
pro tip: i recently discovered alt text and now im abusing the hell out of it😜😜
YIPPE YIPPE DAROGA MY HUSBAND
Why the Persian's name is Ismaël? There's no name Ismaël in the Leroux book.
The name Ismaël comes from Gaston Leroux’s manuscript for Le Fantôme de l’Opéra. In describing his character “the Persian,” Leroux included a word-for-word copy of a passage from an 1857 account of an exiled Persian man of high status who was living in Paris on a British pension. This man’s name was Ismaël. Like Leroux’s character, he frequented the Opera and was known to the Parisian upper classes, and he also lived in an apartment on the Rue de Rivoli. Leroux ended up deleting this copied paragraph, so it does not appear in the Gaulois serialization or the 1st edition of Le Fantôme, but it does show that Leroux was thinking of a specific, and real, person when he developed the Persian.