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Jacob should not have been playing Victor he should have been playing Jekyll

i think you might mean oscar issac but i totally agree

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thinking about how walton is the only person who’s ever seen the creature for who he is. how every single person either attacked the creature or ran or fainted except for de lacey and walton.

how walton chooses to compose himself and speak with the creature despite his initial shock and victor’s dying wish for walton to kill the creature. how he chooses to hear what the creature has to say. how despite his grief and anger he chooses to treat the creature like a human and not some monster of pure evil. he doesn’t call the creature a demon out loud, only in his letter to his sister.

and walton listens. and he doesn’t judge the creature for his monstrous appearance. he reminds the creature that at every point he had a choice and yet the creature still chose to continue his violence every time. walton doesn’t hate the creature for looking like a monster. walton hates the creature purely for what he did.

imagining that scene from the creature’s point of view.

nobody has ever treated the creature like this before. even victor had to be restrained from attacking him before he would listen. so when the creature, mourning victor and once again wallowing in his guilt and self-pity, hears this other man approaching, of course he turns to escape through the window.

and then.

he hears walton’s voice telling him to stay. and for a brief moment everything seems wondrous. perhaps this is the small scrap of acceptance he’s been searching for his whole life.

in another world they could have been friends.

in any other world they never would have met.

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My cousins best friend is showing me his silly doodles bc im thr only artist he knows and its all fantasy stories abt how he'd totally heroic knight style rescue him if there were a beast or perhaps a creature.( Not like thats ever gonna be a thing.)but its cute.

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like, you don’t get it, victor was a science dude, but he would vomit a flower arrangement to describe his man henry because he knew he was truly into poetry, i cAN’T.

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Ghhhgghhhh Victor Frankenstein from the hit 1818 book Frankenstein…

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sending in tons of anonymous asks to accounts i like because i get shy but then the second they reply and i find it amusing im like "YES!! I DID THAT!! THATS ME!!!" but not posting anything like that because im still shy. simultaneous want to be seen and not seen. simultaneous pride and embarrassment. im like a walking oxymoron

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rip mary shelley you would have hated ai

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Sorry for being so inactive lately 😓😓 im starting high school in less than a week and am trying to mentally prepare myself

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Hope Guillermo del toro knows 20 yr olds don't look like this

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Elizabeth Lavenza is truly God’s strongest soldier. She was taken in by a family who immediately viewed her as an object for marriage, parentified her when her mother died, used her essentially as a “backup mother” (Alphonse’s “more than daughter”????) and pressured her into valuing other people’s feelings and thoughts over her own. Her brother/cousin/fiancé went on to create the being that would kill her younger brother and frame her best friend for it. When said best friend was on trial her testimony was not believed, and she had to live through the execution of her closest companion. And then, once everything was done, when things were supposed to get better, she was murdered by that same creature.

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Elizabeth Lavenza

in my au liz gets strangled by the creature, but survives it for then Victor to accidentally shoot her - oof - yeah so this is that in her wedding dress and stuff.

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The Phantom and the Creature. Despite their many differences and rocky start the two eventually develop a kind of friendship.

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Victor Frankenstein:))

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I thought someone complaining about the Alpine poetics and heavy descriptions of nature in Frankenstein was weird because it’s expected, then they said that Mary Shelley’s writing is bad in comparison to Jane Austen and everything made sense. Jane Austen’s novels, despite her most famous being written pre-Regency, are the face of Regency writing in today’s world. Austen is a social writer of novels of manners, comedies, and satire all of which are situated with their realism. Mary Shelley on the other hand had a vast array of works that fall under speculative fiction — gothic, horror, science-fiction, mystery, and dystopian mixed in with the contemporary, futuristic, and historical. Shelley’s writing was also heavily influenced by her upbringing in a politically radical household with a library as a second home, her childhood guests were revolutionaries and Romantics. She had a husband who was equally as passionate in R&R with an interest and love of the fantastic and supernatural to boot — you can read there notes and edits here. The Shelleys’ have the social commentary, it’s just not in the places you’d expect it to be, like literal and philosophical nature. A lot of their commentary involves post-French Revolution fear and fever and the environmentalism and human-nature reflection that characterises Romanticism. Mixed all of those with the Gothic genre, you get things like Frankenstein (1818) — The Last Man (1826) is there too, but that’s a different revolutionary flavour and is post-Romanticism, at least in Shelley’s perspective as a widow and ‘last of her kind’. Either way, don’t come to an author decades later in an entirely different sociopolitical context and expect their writing to be similar to one before their time. I can understand the similarities of Austenite social realism and Shelleyan Romanticism to an extent, but there’s a clear difference in presentation and approach based on their core beliefs and observations of themselves, nature, humanity, and society.

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my tears recochet is so Frankenstein

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Frankenstein characters x folklore lyrics

Somebody tell me why every significant character in Frankenstein 1818 can be summed up with lyrics from taylor swift's folklore album because this is NOT okay.

victor: "I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere / fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here" (this is me trying)

the creature: "and I can go anywhere I want, anywhere I want / just not home / and you can aim for my heart, go for blood / but you would still miss me in your bones" (my tears ricochet)

henry: "don't want no other shade of blue but you / no other sadness in the world would do" (hoax)

robert: "only twenty minutes to sleep / but you dream of some epiphany / just one single glimpse of relief / to make some sense of what you've seen" (epiphany)

elizabeth: "I'm still trying everything to keep you looking at me" (mirrorball)

justine: "I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best / but the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me" (peace)

I originally had a rant here about mad woman and Elizabeth's reaction to Justine's conviction too but I think that deserves its own post atp

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"V...Victor?"