what would you have me do?

Frankenstein (‘s Monster)

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

It was stupid good. So good in fact that the bbc filmed a version and put it on dvd when it debuted. I bought that dvd after I saw the show and put it up on the Internet Archive. The audio is not great but the dancing is spectacular. Ever see a pas de deux around an anatomical dissection? You will.

hm something about how the popular internet stance treats frankenstein (the guy)'s behavior as absurd & cowardly & easy not to have done in a confident superior unironic "I would simply not have rip to him but I'm different" way rubs me the wrong way, in that if we're going for the reading that it's about the harmful effects of failed nurture and lack of social responsibility or care (which isn't necessarily the only reading) then it sort of defeats the point to treat it entirely as individual failing on frankenstein's part (who remember. is also a teenager when this happens) rather than something that easily & commonly happens again and again throughout society & represents behavior (alienation of those with physical and behavioral differences & how they're shut out by society for things out of their control) that it's easy for ordinary people (& maybe even the reader) to fall into by accident & unconscious bias. like I wouldn't even say I like frankenstein as a guy but I feel like you're actually getting less out of the story by treating him as somehow uniquely stupid rather than a scared teenager reacting wrongly but still how a lot of people might. idk does this make sense

YES I think this is a really good addition actually & a perspective I feel like a lot of the posts on here don't try to take into account. flavours of this do happen in real life & the idea of responsibility is not nearly as simple or emotionally easy as people make it seem, particularly for a teenager who's dealing with it all alone

I envy Frankenstein’s Creature’s fucking whimsy like I will never have that level of appreciation for nature in my life

I killed Princess Fiona horrifically (don’t remember how, but fire was involved) in order to get with Shrek and so I was consoling him but also tryna low-key fuck him. This all took place in a castle on my dad’s property.

Mary Shelly losing her virginity on her mother’s grave

WHAT

And she kept her dead husband’s heart on her desk (it was calcified cause had died at sea and maybe had tuberculosis)

WHAT

Dracula Daily is making a lot of people interested in reading Frankenstein as well and as someone with a certain level of scholarly expertise on the subject it is my strong suggestion that if you do, you read the 1818 version of the text. The other version, the 1831 version, is more common but is pretty heavily revised from Mary Shelley's original 1818 version and vision of the text, even going so far as to include material that changes major themes of the book entirely (such as the 1831 text's new emphasis on fate and destiny as opposed to failure and consequences). the 1818 version also contains a lot more scathing subject matter about the Frankenstein family, its insularity, its class, etc., and is generally the much more rewarding version for hungry sickos so yeah just my helpful opinion

Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

Meanwhile Emily Brönte just said “We can make each other worse.” 

Mary Shelley said, "I can make him

The Hollywood creation of "Castle Frankenstein" as the place where Victor creates the Creature is really a shame, as it prevents the wider public from knowing the hilarity of the fact that Victor made his fucked up homunculus in his student housing at the college in Ingolstadt. Imagine you're trying to get your bachelor's degree and the chem major down the hall has created a crime against god in his fucking dorm room AND THEN HE LEAVES IT THERE. The creature has to make his own damn way off campus somehow!!!

19th century books will kill off a main character in one sentence and then spend 3 pages describing a street

Victor Frankenstein kinda energy

Victor Frankenstein anytime he is faced with a mild inconvenience: and then I fell into a month-long fever

it’s alarmingly unsung that frankenstein was conceived and written by a 19 year old woman

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when Mary Shelley said, “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” and when Stephen Chbosky said, “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”