#my own frankenstein monster

[panthermouthh]

“Oh, Frankenstein! Generous and self-devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me? I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst. Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me.”

[poisonandpages]

[akkivee]

NEW HALLOWEEN CHIBIS DROPPED

[eli-am-confused]

Young Eddie catching a young Howard reading a romance book.

Part 1/3

This had to come out in tree parts because Tumblr said I drew too much. (Could I have stopped here? I mean yeah. But I didn’t write all those words in my notes planning out this comic for nothing)

As always, the words are after the cut.

Picture one

Howard: Oh Collin. You’re so dreamy <3

Picture two

Eddie: Hey Howie! Dinner’s ready! We’ve been callin’ ya for like an hour!

Picture three

. . .

Picture four

Eddie: Whatcha readin?

Howard: NOTHING!!!

[morninkim]

The homunculus child of an undead mad scientist and a reawakened mummy, Sukruyu Franken's world changed when their parents were murdered by the Hunter's Institute, Van Hell.

With their father's latest invention, the Mash Driver, they must now become Kamen Rider Bolt to stop Van Hell's crusade and protect all monsterkind.

[carcarrot]

[moe-broey]

AND NOW FOR. SOMETHING BETTER. That tbh I DO really wanna pick up again. Something I DEF was keeping under wraps, holding it esp close to me.... but I got distracted and oh god I can't remember when I started this but it CANNOT be a year old at this point... surely it was just a bout of off-season Halloween fever.......... surely.....

REGARDLESS. HALLOWEEN DUO UPON YE (only sharing scraps/glimpses here!)

THEMATICALLY. A bit of a mishmash between Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, but the wolf is also just your average werewolf.

This was esp early in Mani's development, me trying to get a feel for it... and I thought the coolest/funniest way to do that would be to Sothis its ass. You thought you were just a formless apparition that lives in somebody's head? WRONG. GET PHYSICAL FORMED, IDIOT. (It is worth saying, this is just one really weird uniquely cursed Halloween night. Put that thang back where it came from OR SO HELP ME.)

Also ALL of the storytelling you can do w a duo unit. Goes crazy. Goes insane. ESPECIALLY in this case, where it's just two of the "same" person. INSANE.

Snippets/notes...

Please note these are all somewhat early notes!!! And tbh Mani lore is so fucking complicated I have trouble completely capturing it, myself. So... a lot of the information here does hold up. But in some ways, I think I may do things a bit differently... maybe just the presentation of it. I have gotten to the point where Mani has some really distinct mannerisms. So I'd lean heavier into those!

I think I may end up reworking Mani's look, but it is very classic lolita inspired. (Also!! Mimics the silhouette of Moe's typical robe/bloomer look... for a Halloween alt, goes CRAZY). MEANWHILE. MOE.

Moe..... aren't you cold.... or is the fur enough to keep you somewhat warm..?

[thechainsawtango]

Ok you guys!!! I did it!!! I subscribed to Dracula Daily!!

[proosh]

|| You said to send Gil thoughts, so I got you some 💕

It's all personal headcanons but maybe you might agree. 😀😂 (there's some lud in this one)

Gil absolutely has some top class tutors for baby lud, because a future king has to know everything. And then when he returns from his whatever, he personally drills him on those. But that also means he himself has to be constantly learning ahead of him.

And maybe one day Lud surpasses him in knowledge and Gil is both annoyed and proud.

Oh my god you don’t even know how much I think about this

So, one of my more set in stone headcanons is that Gilbert is a bit of a freak for education, and while he can be incredibly harsh he is an incredible teacher. Like, Prussia was one of the first nations in Europe to institute a compulsory state education for children of both genders from childhood to teenage years. This was repeatedly reformed and built upon from Frederick the Great’s reign onwards through to the 19th century where it was borrowed in part by other Western nation – the United States in particular.

There’s something to be said for the rational, practical purposes of intense interest in pedagogy – that it represents the intense urge for modernisation, it existing as a baseline for a smarter, stronger officer class that can be more efficiently fed into the war machine (“The battles of Königgrätz and Sedan have been decided by the Prussian primary teacher" - Thomas Nipperdey), that it exists to bring the population within the influence and authority of the state – but I do truly believe that it’s something close to Gilbert’s heart that he’s a strong believer in.

I do firmly believe Ludwig would have been afforded the education fit for a prince of the German Empire both academically and militarily; he could probably ride before he could walk, and would have tutors for English, French, Latin, and Greek. Ludwig’s a clever boy and a horrifyingly quick learner – reflective of his unnatural growth from babe to child to teen and onwards – and Gilbert finds himself both unsettled by how adeptly the boy takes to education but also deeply, furiously proud and protective.

He’s sharpening Ludwig into a proper weapon, but he himself has to keep his cutting edge and likely finds himself studying and researching along with his charge, training in the field alongside him as well. 

It’s all very well and good until the boy becomes a man, and starts having ideas and dreams of his own that grow outside the scope of Gilbert’s goals for him, and, well. Gilbert has raised himself an Empire and now it’s going to do what Empires do and throw its weight around.

That’s something Gilbert is going to have to learn for himself.

[theboykingsmichaelsword]

outsider pov was severely underutilized in spn like it's actually criminal the more you think abt it

[sicktwistedlimpwristed]

my current breakfast "invention" is this. Cheese grits with kimchi, with scrambled eggs mixed in while the grits are boiling. It becomes a delicious sludge

[smoreal]

I love the dynamic between newly formed creation and reluctant/resentful creator

Frankenstein, Del Toro’s Pinocchio, I’d even argue Paradise Lost would kinda fit this too, but just the overwhelming feeling of helplessness you feel for the creation… the pain the creator causes in, or for, its creation… PEAK fiction

[gods-no-longer-tread-here]

some 20-something internet rando who has only ever watched/read Twilight, True Blood, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Actually vampires are a metaphor for queerness/blood-borne illnesses and that's why I think we should write more stories about vampires of color and poor vampires and non-predatory gay vampires and--

me, a 20-something internet rando who has only ever watched Blood Red Sky and Castlevania and read "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley: INCORRECT. Vampires are a metaphor for privilege. Pop culture vampires are overwhelmingly white, male, rich, and hundreds of years old for a reason. They are "ultimate predators" in every culture's mythos. They feed on those most at risk--children, pregnant women, "thralls" (essentially slaves or indentured servants). They are violent and greedy and cruel because that is what power, privilege, and money do to real people. You are missing the point of vampires when you turn them into Poor Little Meow Meows.

normal people: hey can y'all stop arguing over pointless shit for like five minutes

[teethbomb]

I may not know a lot ab lupin III but if I had the energy I’d scour for more proof of zennigata being born in a lab out of a tube

[freaky-flawless]

I just found out that my work has styrofoam heads of Frankenstein and his Bride, and I desperately desperately want to buy them and paint them.

[conehatcryptid]

my gender is "tragic character from a novel you were made to read in high school english"