Drunk Book Club: The Phantom Of Manhattan (AKA Love Never Dies)

In which a longtime Phantom fan and someone who doesn't even go here read a published fanfic that hits all the notes of being BAD fanfic, including: a sequel that the original didn't need, killing off characters for no reason, magically adding babies that make no sense, and turning the canon love interest into an asshole because they're in the way of your preferred ship. And then there are the GENERAL bad book problems, like bad pacing and a complete disdain for women. Anyway, then it got made into a multi-million dollar musical. Because Andrew Lloyd Webber gets away with that kind of shit. Oh, and Forsyth is a pro-Brexit shitstain going back over a decade so y'know, fuck him in general outside of the bad book. CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, child sexual exploitation, gaslighting, ableism, misogyny, racism, and antisemitism Feminist Analysis of Christine: https://ninjagiry.tumblr.com/post/119216381093/christine-daae-an-actual-feminist-critique-by “Man’s Hatred Has Made Me So”: Freakification and the Shifting Gaze in The Phantom of the Opera(1925): http://bsuenglish.com/dlrOLD/past/issue3_hampshire.pdf "Pitiful Creature of Darkness": The Subhuman and the Superhuman in The Phantom of the Opera: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=music_books 1943 Claude Rains Adaptation: https://archive.org/details/PHANTOMOFTHEOPERANtsc Fantomestein Comic: http://fantomestein.com/ 1:00 The History of Published Fanfic 11:00 No True Phantom 21:00 The Overlooked Christine 28:00 The World's Pettiest Foreword 34:00 Erik, Coney Island Clown 45:00 Saga of the Busted Dick 51:00 POV Hell 55:00 THAT Romance Novel Plot 61:00 Love Refuses to Die 71:00 Should You Read This Say hi to Dorothy and Vrai on Twitter @writervrai and @dorothynotgale Our icon was designed by Allison Shabet. Get bonus episodes on our Patreon: patreon.com/trashandtreasures Join us every two weeks on Soundcloud, iTunes or Stitcher – and if you’d leave a rating and review, so that more people can find their way to us, we’d appreciate it!