#monita

[thelunar27]

ITS ALL ABOUT MII

[peachi-blossom]

Screen/TV head characters, any object head characters, and a literal TV character that are better than Vox

NOTE: Originally I was going to add only screen/TV head characters, but I included any object head characters.

I hate Vox because he's basically Vivienne Medrano when she had beef with DollCreep.

Sylvester image origin that I screenshotted:

[kirbstarzz]

Monita with Karen's faces

[slateszyslak]

A six fanart challenge with suggestions from bluesky

[mlti-mn]

I think they would be in love. . .

[just-an-enderman]

Anyone remember Nintendo Land?

[carrotartdisplay]

Inktober compilation! Meant to make this in a timely manner but NOPE. I forgor. oo this might be the most amount of tags i get to add to a post..

[mo-nee-ta]

The (fictional) girls from Klaus Poppe’s and Humbert Humbert’s pasts

Disclaimer: since I have to rely on the fan-translation of Another Monster, please let me know if you spot a mistake that changes the meaning of the original text in a significant way. Thanks!

CW: pedophilia, death mention, sexual assault mention

Another Monster introduces us to a certain girl with whom the young Klaus Poppe supposedly fell in love. Everything we know about her comes from rumors: 

Oh yes! I remember, there was something about his father and the girl from the rumors and another boy his age. The son fell in love with the girl, but lost out to a young man in a neighboring village who stole her away… A typical story of passion among young guys like that, but somehow the rumor turned into a story about his father and the girl. Well, you can’t help but get this sort of thing in a small town.

(...)

— What about the rumor of falling in love with a young woman?

It was a rumor that ran through the whole town, and I heard it myself. Although she was young enough to be his daughter, the story goes that he asked to impregnate her. She supposedly lived in this town, but was of both Czech and German parentage. At the time she was probably 18 or 19 and very beautiful… all the young men in town were in love with her, thus giving rise to endless gossip and rumors. In the end, she hastily married a man in a neighboring village, but it was quite a rumor while it lasted.

— The girl in the rumors about his father… the one the son fell in love with (...)

Weber then presents his interpretation of the rumors and states that there is no evidence to support it:

This is all just my terrible imaginings. It’s a story with no evidence or foundation. 

Still, there are some elements that make her character more real: her double parentage (something she could bond over with Poppe), her sudden pregnancy, and the resulting necessity to get married in another place, with Terner Poppe, Klaus’ father, as the possible father of the child. 

The son fell in love with a beautiful girl of German and Czech descent, but the girl and his father fell in love.

While Weber presents his interpretation, he fails to notice the darker undertone of the story—in what he calls Terner Poppe and the girl falling in love, I see a story of an older man taking advantage of a girl who was young enough to be his daughter.

These elements aren’t, however, enough to create a full picture; all we have is a shadow of a character.

Another shadow of a character is presented in Lolita; it’s Annabel Leigh, Humbert Humbert’s first love.

Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

Her name is an obvious reference to Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee.

It was many and many a year ago,

   In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

   By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

   Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

   In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love—

   I and my Annabel Lee—

With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven

   Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

   In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

   My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsmen came

   And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

   In this kingdom by the sea.

We don’t get much information about her:

Annabel was, like the writer, of mixed parentage: half-English, half-Dutch, in her case. I remember her features far less distinctly today than I did a few years ago, before I knew Lolita (...) Let me therefore primly limit myself, in describing Annabel, to saying she was a lovely child a few months my junior.

And she dies suddenly (just like the girl from Poppe’s past suddenly disappears from his life):

I was on my knees, and on the point of possessing my darling, when two bearded bathers, the old man of the sea and his brother, came out of the sea with exclamations of ribald encouragement, and four months later she died of typhus in Corfu.

Much later, Humbert Humbert recognizes Annabel in Dolores, the girl he will later turn into Lolita: 

I find it most difficult to express with adequate force that flash, that shiver, that impact of passionate recognition. In the course of the sun-shot moment that my glance slithered over the kneeling child (her eyes blinking over those stern dark spectacles — the little Herr Doktor who was to cure me of all my aches) while I passed by her in my adult disguise (a great big handsome hunk of movieland manhood), the vacuum of my soul managed to suck in every detail of her bright beauty, and these I checked against the features of my dead bride. A little later, of course, she, this nouvelle, this Lolita, my Lolita, was to eclipse completely her prototype. All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that “princedom by the sea” in my tortured past.

Humbert Humbert mentions the princedom by the sea again; we are reminded of the fictional nature of Humbert’s dead bride. Taking this into account, can we believe him when he describes the discovery of Dolores as a fatal consequence of that “princedom by the sea”?

A similar question comes to my mind when I think about the girl from Poppe’s past: is the stolen love that we know about only from rumors enough to explain Franz Bonaparta and his obsession with the twins’ mother?

Let me quote a further fragment from Lolita:

The able psychiatrist who studies my case — and whom by now Dr. Humbert has plunged, I trust, into a state of leporine fascination — is no doubt anxious to have me take Lolita to the seaside and have me find there, at last, the “gratification” of a lifetime urge, and release from the “subconscious” obsession of an incomplete childhood romance with the initial little Miss Lee.

Here, the text openly mocks the belief that everything that happens in Lolita can be explained by Humbert’s incomplete childhood romance—the romance built of too many fictional elements. 

Similarly, the girl from the rumors can’t be the answer to what created the monster inside Klaus Poppe.

While the girls aren’t the answer, they provide us with bits of information that form a more complex picture, and in this picture, we can see more elements that form Humbert Humbert and Klaus Poppe. The mixed parentage; the partially fictional past (due to the imperfect nature of human memory and the very limited point of view); the grieving the loss of innocence; the pain they’re not able (or willing? or both? or?) to let go and which results in even more pain and destroyed lives (countless in Poppe’s case).

Are these elements the answer? Again, no. Both Lolita and Monster aren’t interested in giving an answer. Instead, they show that the richness of the human experience and all the little details that shape it make creating a gapless picture impossible.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

[skyward-mailman]

Forgot that I made a fave character bingo a while back, here y'all go:

feel free to use this as you like :p

(character's names are listed in tags, starting from top left and going row-by-row to bottom right)

[bed-wed-behead-your-fave]

Can you please do Monita from Nintendo Land?

[fat-tundra-64]

Ima upload these concepts separately just in case no one sees them in the reblogs

[sketched-out-can-of-chairs]

Some uncolored school drawings. some are new, some are less new.

[shar0nm]

🐶🐱

[natiebugs]

I made Monita from Nintendo land 💙

Video 🎥

[supa-mehyro]

“I wouldn’t dream of playing nice”

Also her theme song is really good

[mlti-mn]

Robots going to the robot beach (they can't swim)