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( well, she did kind of, But we’ll get to that later, I’m also defending poor Erik here.)
so one day I was scrolling through Instagram, and my christine loving heart finds a comment like this,
“Christine is a selfish, little slut. She doesn’t deserve erik. Well, the best men find the worst women i suppose,”
or something like that , I did post about it before I wiped out my account because one, I didn’t enjoy the things I was doing with my account—anyhow, I’m sure you can find the original post on a reblog.
but that comment really did infuriate me. I bet they hate raoul, I just know they do. And no, that’s not the first Christine hater I have encountered— In fact, they’re everywhere on Pinterest, indeed—everywhere!
Oh, and another thing! Why do people hate raoul? Because of Love Never Dies? Even with the sequel, he is an amazing character!
I don’t like what they did with love never dies . . The music is outstanding, but really, the ironic ending is too good to continue , leave that to the fanfiction writers who want a better ending for poor Erik. I’m sure the Phangirls screamed at Webber for having a poor ending for Erik , Even though Gaston Leroux wanted it that way.
(Or...I’m convinced it was made for Brightman, whom divorced Webber, responding to that— Webber made a self insert fanfiction— and made Christine perish.)
But anyways, Christine feared Erik, that’s the thing. Yes, I’m sure christine loved Erik, Erik is supposed to be a sympathetic villain.
But he murders people, manipulated the entire opera house, threaten to take raoul’s life many times in the book, kept her down for two weeks in the book, tied Christine up in the book, made Christine choose between the death of many people of Paris or marriage—must I go on?
Now, I’m more of an E/C shipper myself. But why hate on Raoul and Christine? Why hate on Raoul because of something he couldn’t control? Why hate on Christine becuase she was told to go by the poor man, who she was afraid of and chose Raoul?
Now here’s were i défend Erik.
Erik didn’t know how to love. Erik didn’t know how to do anything but kill. He saw a light and loved her because she was kind and could bring him music, kind of in the mindset— “Well, maybe she could bring me happiness, joy.. something other than agony, that’s what I’ve always wanted ,”
But he was too demanding, scary and angry. (Half of the phandom, including I- ship Erik x Therapy, hell, he made a mannequin in a replica of his crush, I’m scared of what that mannequin has seen.)
Raoul had no control over whom Christine would choose, but he was sweet; a boyish charm and warm. Yes, nobody likes that boy. But he’ll treat you better, would you like a toxic man who has known nothing but pain? Or a warm, kind gentleman who would protect you with his life? Both would die for you, but one is more mentally stable than the other.
Oh, yes. The answer you may choose- the toxic man, so you could “teach him love,” I’m looking at you, wattpad. I am in an anti-raoul club. I can confirm however I want an Anti-Raoul & erik club because they don’t deserve the goddess we call Christine Daae.
Like, let’s be honest, they’re both not good, but the better choice would be raoul, maybe if Erik didn’t do all the not-so-good things I listed in the 9th paragraph of this rant, (I hardly even call these paragraphs, maybe—ninth glob of sentences?)
Okay, the title is kind of clickbait— Christine did do something wrong. But not because she left erik! Because she tore off his mask after he said repeatedly not to!
I do agree why she did it, possibly because she thought it was someone she already knew, (the MazM game explained it perfectly.)
But overall, she didn’t do much wrong, she did what she could, and tried to do something, anything to protect others from erik.
Christine Daaé did not do anything wrong, as neither did Viscount Raoul De Chagny.
(okay that’s a lie, raoul didn’t listen to christine—but that doesn’t make it okay to hate raoul.)
currently reading
lolita - nabokov (pg. 56/ 331)
crime e castigo - dostoievski (pg. 33/561)
the way of kings - brandon sanderson (530/1252)
estado de sítio - camus (42/149)
to be read
cult classic - sloane crosley
i love you but i've chosen darkness - claire vaye watkings
dream work - mary oliver
read (11/12-17/12)
in the dream house - carmen maria machado
currently reading (finish or almost)
o mito de sísifo - camus (45%)
lolita - nabokov (pg. 25/331)
crime e castigo - dostoievski (pg. 33/561)
infocracia - byung-chul han (pg. 19/107)
chouette - claire oshtsky (starting rn)
to be read (or just to begin)
the right to sex - amia srinivasan
kibogo - scholastique mukasonga
a peste - camus
I wanna thank the CR fandom for supporting the little art I made. I didn't expect all the love and support!
Especially cause I was contacted by Liam the other day and it really made my day! Once again thank you all for your support!
I don't have have any of the social media that would let me get this to him directly.
Can someone tell Matt Mercer that Candela Obscura has been haunting my library for the last three weeks? I think he'd think it's funny.
Someone, somewhere, who somehow has access to our closed wifi has been printing a copy of the quick guide at least once every day or every couple of days.
We have sixteen, now.
There will be a lull, we're sure it's finally over, and then boom -
Candela Obscura
Thanks for tagging me! YOUR DR SELF IS SO CUTE BTW 🥺🥺🥰🥰🥰🥰
I decided to do this and here is my BNHA dr self 🙃🙃
She’s supposed to have white horns, pink scales on her face , and 3 ear piercings
I love her sm I want to hug her lol
Here’s the link for the website!
(It’s self-indulgent but I don’t care)
This is probably the cutest/closest depiction of Penelope except her hair is more brown/auburn (strawberry blonde idk it’s very specific in my mind lmao)
I WANNA SEE YOUR DRSELF 🥺!!! @crispyanthiccy @sir-knight-slytherdor @fagshifting @poppythewitcher @shifting-to-hogwart and everyone else cause I can’t remember!!!
Picrew link: https://picrew.me/image_maker/431179
With the Mighty Nein animated series being in the works, there’s one thing I’m really hoping for and I don’t know if it’ll happen.
I want the little details of Caleb casting spells to be there, like how Liam describes the components and how he uses them. I would love it if we just had a zoomed in shot of him grabbing stuff out of his pouch and smooshing it together and then BOOM ✨magic✨
Because I swear Liam does it almost every time while everyone else is just like ‘imma cast this at this level’ so it would be so funny if everyone else casting spells was (unless it was a big moment) to just be BAM ✨magic✨
My boyfriend and I recently got a bird together (we now have 3 total) and two of them are named after lion king characters due to a family tradition, so ofc when we got our baby bird I tried to keep that tradition.
But obviously with me getting super back into Critical Role I gave only one name suggestion, now the tradition is out the window so say hi to Artagan or Arty
He is a cinnamon turquoise conure and he’s an absolute menace of a baby but we love the chaos. Also I named him that because he is the traveler (we had to drive 6 hours total to get him) and he’s got them orange eyebrows
Mozzarella
boiii whatchu say about ookie cookie??!?
I'm gonna draw a picture of him to prove he rocks
Happy Campaign Three y’all!!!!