“Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained …”
I gave you my music… Made your song take wing… and now, how you’ve repaid me, denied me and betrayed me…
my favourite musicals (1/?): the phantom of the opera (1986), andrew lloyd webber.
you alone can make my song take flight…
it’s over now, the music of the night.
vergiss–mein–nicht
faut-il qu’on soit seul sur terre? [x]
Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Montmartre, Musée du Louvre | 05.2017
Hey, this post may contain sexually explicit content, so we’ve hidden it from public view.
get to know me meme: [1/5] tv shows ♡ lost (2004-2010)
“It doesn’t matter, Kate, who we were, what we did before this… before the crash. It doesn’t really… Three days ago, we all died. We should all be able to start over.”
Is anyone whose into fantasy or sci fi on here interested in being writing buddies? I’m gonna need some motivation if I’m ever gonna actually get my story written. :-)
Norse Paganism [1/?]
↳ Freyja.Goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war, divination and magic. Freyja, of the race of the Vanir, is a daughter of Njord and a sister of Freyr. As the story reads she was, at the treaty of peace with the Vanir, delivered over by them and accepted by the Æsir among the goddesses. She was wedded to Od, but he left her and went out into foreign lands; she often wept over him, wept golden tears. Her daughters, Noss and Gersemi, were so beautiful that from them all precious gems have taken their names; and from Freyja the designation freyja or frúva (meaning “lady”) is likewise said to have been formed. Freyja was called goddess or bride of the Vanir, and one of Loki’s scandalous assertions was that she had love-dealings with her brother Freyr. She is also linked specifically with a special kind of witchcraft known as seiðr, in that she was a priestess of the Vanir who first taught this knowledge to the Aesir. Freyja was in the habit of driving a cart drawn by two cats; and she had in her possession the magnificent necklace called Brisingamen. She wore this most cherished possession of amber around her neck. She dwelt in Folkvang, in the great hall named Sessrymnir. Of all the heroes who fell in battle, half became her portion; it was her right to choose them, and to her they came in Folkvang. She had special authority in the relations of love, yet she was not the only goddess of love to whom men had recourse; Sjofn had the power to kindle love between men and women, and Lofn to help those who loved each other but who met with difficulties in winning the beloved. Freyja had many names. Gefn expresses her character as a giver. Mardoll suggets a connection with the sea (marr). Syr, ‘sow’, reminds us of the boar symbol that belonged to her (as well as to her brother Freyr). Horn is another of her names which occurs in place-names in east Sweden, and may be connected with Horr (flax), indicating a special local variant of the cult of the vegetation goddess (it is said that when rye is ripe, Freyja is out watching).
