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Mary Shelley, in a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley written c. July 1814

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I wish I wasn't 6 feet deep in grad school hell rn because I would love to do a little scenography analysis of this new De Toro Frankenstein photo. Maybe I'll get around to it this weekend if I have time? Idk I have some initial thoughts and things about it I want to look into...

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gay people can never be normal they always gotta say some shit like "he was a being formed in the very poetry of nature. his wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart. his soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination".

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I am glad that I have seen the changes of day; to behold the sun, fountain of light, and the gentle pilgrim moon; to have seen the fire bearing flowers of the sky, and the flowery stars of earth; to have witnessed the sowing and the harvest. I am glad that I have loved, and have experienced sympathetic joy and sorrow for my fellow creatures.

The last man, Mary Shelley

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First look at Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (x)

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fully sober in the club googling frankenstein 1818 full text

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Victor Frankenstein upon reaching university

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Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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I am having so much fun coming up with different designs for The Creature. It's never explained in the book exactly how Frankenstein made him so I did a mixture of stitches, scars, and no stitches at all. I really like the idea that Victor was so far ahead of his time that he was fusing flesh and bone together to make something completely new.

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It’s weird that in all the essays I read on Frankenstein none of them have noted that Victor is heavily transmasculine-coded. Like he hits on a weirdly large number of transmasculine, particularly gay transmasculine experiences that are relevant today:

pregnancy and childbirth as traumatic and horrible yet unstoppable experiences that are totally foreign to nature

obsessive fantasies and ideation of an ideal masculine body

society finding your fantasized idealized male form monstrous and especially dangerous to children

being punished for recognizing that women are capable of independence and therefore can be as monstrous as their male counterparts

parents wishing for a real daughter when all they have is you

feigning attraction to a woman, any woman, for some scrap of masculinity, even though it’s obvious you’re not actually interested

weird esoteric historical interests that everyone around you denigrates as useless that you keep doing anyway

falling for your male best friend in a totally gay way

physically and mentally falling apart because of an unexplainable secret

trying to reveal the unexplainable secret getting shrugged off as impossible and you’re considered crazy — even your best friend seems to think it’s due to trauma you can’t articulate rather than what you’re actually literally saying

creating the man “responsible” for destroying your family and being a menace to society

I’m sure there’s more but that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. And yet cis people still keep pushing stories of girls dressing up as boys to experience the glory of war as transmasculine experiences. Why.

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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

— Mary Shelley

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—Elizabeth to Victor in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, pg. 84

The Creature:

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I am creating a life i don’t want to run from i am creating a life i don’t want to run from i am creating a life i don’t want to run from

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Carol Burnett, Vincent Price, Vicki Lawrence, and Harvey Korman in a Bride of Frankenstein sketch on The Carol Burnett Show, originally broadcast by CBS on November 22nd, 1972. Carol's costume was designed by Bob Mackie.

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Frankenstein re-release poster, 1974.