For anyone interested, but who hasn't been following masked_ball (which you should go check out if you're interested in good Phantom fic/art, because I approve of every one of the entries), I've written fic!

West of the Moon
Fandom: Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera
Characters: Erik, Raoul, Persian
Rating: Teen/PG
Summary: Raoul and Erik are not the ( Read more... )

To get the taste of my last post out of my mouth, here's a question for a) writers/readers, b) Phantom fans, and c) any for whom those intersect. I think it would be a good idea to get myself writing more, even if it's not linear, that I will eventually use. I also need to build some kind of portfolio. So I have two plans:

1. Write an article for ( Read more... )

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Through a clerical oversight (on my part), I'm left with an extra ticket to the Seattle tour of POTO.

Who wants it?

It's row C, center left, and $76.98 (incl. fees). The downside is, you'd have to see it with me and my friends, and who knows what that might entail?

Any takers?

In the hopes of spurring myself on to further action, here is something I wrote a few months ago about the place of fairy tales (specifically "Beauty and the Beast" and "Bluebeard") in The Phantom of the Opera. Reading it over, it needs some structural work, and is a bit dry. Do not feel obligated to read it, and if you do, don't feel obligated to ( Read more... )

You've probably seen this already, the report of the plot of the first act of ALW's POTO sequel:

As for "Phantom . . . Once Upon Another Time": It's set in 1906 in Coney Island. The Phantom, aka Erik, having fled Paris, is running a freak show. At night, he crawls into his lair and makes love to an automaton that looks like Christine ( Read more... )

Eight secrets behind the cut, and still taking submissions. I'll be camping for a few days. Play nice!
( Fantasies, Forsyth and Kay )

Ten secrets behind the cut, and still taking submissions if you've got 'em.
( Some Gerik. Some Raoul. Some... Travolta )

Entirely inspired by lizbee's highly entertaining Doctor Who Fandom Secrets posts, I thought it high time there was a special place for Phantom-related ones. There have to be lots. There are so many canons, so many opinions. But, like DW, an entire community isn't sustainable ( Read more... )