#Frankenstein weekly

[can-of-w0rmz]

Being into gothic horror is wild, because you’ll look up the reviews/public opinion on a book and all the posts will be like “ugh, this was insufferable. The main character was the most melodramatic whiny narcissist cunt who’s perspective I’ve ever had the displeasure of following. When the main character wasn’t whining, it was just pages and pages of the most useless boring shit describing stupid landscapes over and over again. Boring and insufferable to read.”

And then you’ll get the book and read it and it’ll be like “Hi, I’m gothic protagonist. My entire family got brutally murdered by an unknown person and I also got horrifically abused as a child and struggle with severe mental illness, and now there’s unholy paranormal forces at work all against me, but at least I have the love of my life and my closest friends who I’d kill and die for and they’d do the same for me. Even though I’m cripplingly psychologically unwell and severely burdened with the mass of terrible things in my past, I’m going to figure out and track down the thing that killed my family and seek to destroy it, whilst poetically mirroring my suffering with the most beautiful and profound descriptions of the nature around me that you’ve ever read, contrasting the horror of nature with the beauty and goodness of it and giving you an existential crisis. This book is going to make you so ridiculously attached to these characters and change your whole perception of the life you lead.”

[disco-tea]

Sorry but the dust jacket for my hard copy of Frankenstein is so funny for some reason 🤣

[mothmore]

just got to chapter 5 in my frankenstein reread oh my god. i fucking love and cackle at the fact that henry is just like “omg victor ^_^ i’m so happy to be here to study with you at university finally after three years apart !!” and victor just stares at him with huge autism eyes shaking and malnourished like “i fucked up. big.”

[spacehippieface]

Boomers: Grumble grumble, young people don't read the classics, they're always on the tiktaks and their goddamn phones, mutter grumble bah.

A bunch of dorks on tumblr: Where is my good friend Jonathan? We haven't heard from him in a while. Victor, you are a bad parent! Take responsibility for your giant corpse baby! Man, I love Dickens' descriptions. Alas, poor Ogilvy. A trip to Jurassic Park? Sure!

[dathen]

I love the ways that the Frankenstein novel subtly questions the unquestionable elements of godhood and creation simply by putting a human in the role. The Creature demands that Victor create him a wife and give her to him, like God created Eve specifically for Adam’s loneliness.

Having Victor question whether a second creation would want the purpose she’s created for underhandedly asks: what if Eve didn’t want to be given to Adam?

It would definitely track with all the explorations of the trauma of motherhood and the mother’s role that Shelley seems to be processing through the story. What if the mother of all humanity didn’t want to be a mother?

[anotherfandomtrash]

Be careful for what you wish for

[shy-raccoon]

Gothic Lit Villain Swap

Dorian Gray wants to buy more real estate in London and holds his solicitor Jonathan Harker prisoner because he is fully corrupted by the painting and rich enough to get away with it. Then Lucy a fellow peer's sickly fiancee catches his eye.

Victor Frankenstein discovers a more sorcerous way to raise the dead and his first test subject is a recently deceased Transylvanian count

Dr jekyll makes a potion that turns him into a 8ft tall undead creature that haunts the night but heals him back to living in the day. Until the creature develops feelings of its own and is very angry about being put away during the daytime.

[flyingpurplepeopleeater42]

so i received an email from my new friend mr walton

[h4ise-art]

so guys, about victor frankenstein-

[artemisyates]

Henry Clerval my beloved ♥

[5-turtleducks-in-a-trenchcoat]

There's something about Victor saying that he doesn't want a mutilated version of his story to go down in posterity and the fact that due to countless adaptations and reimagenings the perception of Frankenstein has been changed so much that most people don't really remember the original story.

[can-of-w0rmz]

Damn, pretentious traumatised men driven to their downfall by their obsessive pursuit of knowledge and their poet boyfriends who take care of them. Real not fake.

[the-gay-prometheus]

Anyways so like this is the entirety of Frankenstein

[victorfrankensteinapologist]

actually, with frankenstein weekly starting i think it is really important to say that you cannot go into this book under the notion of either victor or their creation being "the monster", that only one of them is wrong, etc etc. both characters are very complicated, sick, hurt, and scared people reacting realistically to their own feelings, and choosing to name either of them a horrible monster does a huge disservice to both characters, ESPECIALLY if you lift up the other as some angel.

it would do a world of good to open your heart to have compassion for both the creation and his creator, because you're not going to be able to appreciate the book fully otherwise!!!

[dathen]

Mary Shelley, 18 years old, writing Frankenstein: How long could it take a college freshman to discover the secret of bringing things to life? Two years?

[gabrielisdead]

3 mad scientist 1 headache💀