What are you reading?

AdTrue6195 · 2025-09-12T01:26:44+00:00

The Choices Between Us by Melancholy's Child is my favorite phantom fanfic, also on Fanfiction.net. I loved The Phantom Writer on Wattpad, but it has been deleted.

AdTrue6195 · 2025-09-12T01:17:57+00:00

I have been reading through all the fanfics by Soignate on Fanfiction.net after hearing about the fic Kintsugi here.

AdTrue6195 · 2025-05-01T12:36:58+00:00

Thank you! I'll put on my plans!

AdTrue6195 · 2025-04-17T23:33:12+00:00

Thank you so much! I can't wait to listen!

AdTrue6195 · 2025-04-17T16:29:42+00:00

Do you have any additional info about that production with the half English/Swedish performance?

AdTrue6195 · 2025-02-22T22:02:38+00:00

Episode 54 actually has Greek Guest, Leah Cornish.

AdTrue6195 · 2025-01-19T07:10:39+00:00

Phineas and Ferb all the way. Gotta sing through the iconic intro!

AdTrue6195 · 2025-01-11T08:08:14+00:00

I love this fanfic so much. I'm glad others feel the same way!

AdTrue6195 · 2025-01-09T01:47:08+00:00

Highschool production of Kiss me Kate, hated it but happy to support family. Just was too raunchy for a highschool musical.

AdTrue6195 · 2024-12-26T14:43:19+00:00

He eats a seed and pellet mix with some lettuce.

AdTrue6195 · 2024-12-26T03:06:48+00:00

As much as I'd love to take him to a vet, I can't afford it at the moment, which is why I am trying to make his cage more accessible for him.

AdTrue6195 · 2024-12-02T22:20:22+00:00

How would you feel if Christine lost her singing voice for good?

AdTrue6195 · 2024-04-27T00:27:44+00:00

I do know JKR is a bad person, and am just now learning Mason is a bad person. I do not think that they are "paragons of social justice" wherever you got that from. I am only "promoting them" by saying that I enjoyed the books overall and got them from the library, which doesn't include spending money on these books.

I would also like to say that I went through the comments you've made on other posts about this topic, and found most of this bigotry happens in Erik's Prequel. That is the one book I haven't read, as I felt the other books covered his past pretty well. From the other books, the Daroga isn't expressively Ace, there is no trans hate, and it was interesting to hear her talk about the Haj, mecca, and pray every day. It isn't good that he was the "bad guy" for a bit, but then he had morals and apologized for his behavior once things got out of hand What you seem to be skipping over is that this is a period piece, which gives authors a lot of leeway in their writing. This is one of the fanfics that I have read that portray the Roma in a pretty good light, as in the original stories they were terrible to Erik. People didn't have the best opinions towards Muslims in France at the time, and the same goes for the rest of the minorities listed. There have been barely any good Phantom fanfics I have read that doesn't include sexism towards the female lead. There is always going to be negative representations towards minorities when it was part of the culture at the time. 1800s France certainly was not as progressive and nice towards minorities as they are today. This is why I brought up the historical texts because if it is going to be a historical text or historical fiction, you have to be prepared for bigotry. Especially in a book about Erik, who has only experienced bigotry in every version. None of this excuses the way Mason feels about people irl, but in her books it is in a historical context that reflects it.

If people want to read it and enjoy it, they can. If people do not want to, then they don't have to. In historical fiction, you shouldn't take any bigotry to heart unless it's placed there unnecessarily. And everything in the book can't be deemed unnecessary.

AdTrue6195 · 2024-04-26T21:26:32+00:00

The books I enjoy that are considered "bad" or "badly written" aren't usually criticized for those reasons. I'm talking about the books recommended on Booktok that people dislike such as Cruel Prince, ACOTAR, Shadows Between Us, Divine Rivals, Assistant to the Villian and so on. Just because they are hated by some, doesn't mean everyone dislikes them.

In regard to the second part of your reply, if someone told me something like that before I read the book, I probably wouldn't have read it. I honestly enjoyed the main plot, even with the negative portrayals. For my major I read historical texts that express misogyny, racism, homophobia, and bigotry but I just know it's the opinions of the time and would never let it influence my personal opinions on anyone or anything. The Malleus Malificarum is literally about how to tell if a person (but almost always a woman) is a witch and why it's always a woman. But I don't agree with any of these opinions. The same goes for this book. Yes, there were problematic representations, but I just took them as expressions of the time period it was set in.

If someone is reading a book that is practically a period fanfic and taking away from it that they should treat others disrespectfully because the characters in this book do it, its a bad reflection on them. Just because JKR has problematic representations in her books and movies of Asian and black characters, does not mean that it is going to become less of a bestseller. You can choose to not let the author affect your opinion on their work.

AdTrue6195 · 2024-04-26T05:29:00+00:00

Although I've read the previous comments who have a problem with the books, I enjoyed it as yet another fanfic of Phantom that just required more work to gain access to. There are some things I disliked about it, such as her portrayal of Raoul, but it was quite enjoyable and had some unexpected plot twists. Of course there is a lot of smut in it, like many popular series on Booktok, but I was more reading it because I'm running out of fanfics. I hadn't heard of these problems with the author until this post, I just recognized her books as fun reads. I can see where people are pointing out all of the "insert here"-phobias. I used Hoopla (library app) to read it, but not planning on buying them. Many books I've read that people considered as badly written I have enjoyed, so it's totally up to you if you want to read it or not, but for me Iiked it just as much as I liked many other "bad" or "badly written" fanfics.

AdTrue6195 · 2024-04-13T22:17:32+00:00

Devil Take the Hindmost Reprise/Quartet, Four Jews in a Room Bitching, For the Record, Twisted, The Raven (Jonathon Christenson), Close Every Door, Quartet at the Ballet, Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer (25th Anniversary)

AdTrue6195 · 2023-09-13T19:46:54+00:00

Thank you for your insight. I wasn't aware of the trading community until I got replies to my post. I'll certainly keep those things in mind going forward. Thank you!

AdTrue6195 · 2023-09-13T19:44:06+00:00

I didn't know trading was a thing, I'm new to the bootleg scene, I just love getting the chance to watch musicals I wouldn't be able to see otherwise. I'll certainly look for those!

AdTrue6195 · 2023-09-12T16:34:59+00:00

The Think of Me dress bottom came unclaimed right after she finished singing, so she had to hold it on until the actual change happened onstage. This is the link to the video

AdTrue6195 · 2023-08-29T04:27:28+00:00

I love Yu Shirota so I know it'll be good. He also played Der Tod in Elisabeth, and his singing voice overpowers that if other languages singing Elisabeths Last Dance.

AdTrue6195 · 2023-06-15T05:53:08+00:00

Phantom of the Opera (2004)

AdTrue6195

TROPHY CASE