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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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im only at page 34 and someone had already married his friends daughter

like i know this was written in the 1800s but it still feels yucky

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Yo con Historia Argentina

Hyperfixation so bad people think of me when they see it

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First look of Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein Monster in Frankenstein.

The film is directed by #GuillermoDelToro.

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Mary Shelley and Viktor Frankenstein <3 These are pretty old, so not my best work but! I thought they would fit in nicely on this blog.

(if you look rlly close in the first piece you can see lines from Percy Shelley’s “Adonais”, the poem Mary wrapped his heart in)

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Some Frankenstein doodles I made during a lecture

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Por favor vayan a darle amor a mi historia, iré subiendo los capítulos de a poco:

También esta disponible en Wattpad

Sinopsis:

Argentina, 1840. La familia de los Arismendi se lleva un susto al esperar el nacimiento de su séptimo hijo, o sea, un futuro lobisón. Pero vuelven a respirar al ver que nace una niña. Lo que no saben es que esa niña no es como cualquier otra, y que tiene varios secretos esperando salir...

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DEL TOROS FRANKENSTEIN CONFIRMED FOR THE TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL! I don’t think I can attend, but the real heavy hitter here is that RUNTIME. TWO AND A HALF HOURS?!?! I WILL BE FEASTING FOR *YEARS* ANALYZING EVERY FRAME!!

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unfortunately chivalry IS dead

victor version

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How was the argentine independence war much different from the independence war of the US? Both were led by colonial elites on behalf of a population of european settlers. I'm not trying be a "hurr durr latinos are all white colonisers" yanqui, I just wanna hear about the topic

Well the similarities were certainly there. In fact, many Latin American próceres saw the United States as a model to emulate, as an example of a successful New World republic. Both the US and the Latin American revolutions are examples of liberal revolutions, as the ideas of socialism were not developed yet.

But I would disagree that in Latin America's case, even in Argentina's case, it was led "on behalf of European settlers" as if it was a movement driven by race. First of all, the distinction of "White" settler compared to slaves and native americans in the 13 Colonies and the latter United States was sharp as a knife. There was little active (I repeat, active) participation of them in the process of independence.

In Latin America this was not the case, as black and native people actively participated in the processes of independence and nation building. Not only in leaders of the Rio de La Plata such as Azurduy (mestiza commander of independetist forces), María Remedios del Valle (black commander, now called Mother of the Motherland) and Rivadavia (first Argentine with the title of President and mulatto), but also as in political forces.

One of the reasons why slavery was virtually extinct even before its abolition was because former slaves joined independentist forces to free themselves, and the abolition of slavery and colonial mistreatments was a demand by all revolutionaries. Native people were first represented politically in the congress of Artigas. And of course, perhaps the most striking political proposal was to crown a descendant of the Inca as emperor of South America (not just Argentina, but all of South America, the Argentine declaration of independence declares the Provincias Unidas en Sud América). This was proposed by people like Belgrano and San Martín. The idea was not just independence but the determination of building a new society, not just the continuation of colonial society. Indeed, it was the abolition of feudal colonialism and slavery that drove the ideas of the independentists. (worth noting that the Spanish repressed the Tupác Amaru rebellion decades earlier, and killed or repressed much of the independentist Inca and native elites. Who knows what might have happened if they were present)

So, what happened? The ironic thing is that the testimony of these radical ideas reach us by the most part from historians that hated them, like Mitre and Sarmiento. They were the ones that after decades of post-independence chaos, built the "Conservative Republic" of Argentina. They were the architects of the myth of White Argentina, of the need of erasing the native, black, gaucho elements of Argentina and building an "European" society in America, and indeed, Roca and Sarmiento were inspired on this by none other than the United States. Much like elsewhere in Latin America, what happened after independence is that a new bourgeois oligarch class arose to replace the colonial landowners (in many cases directly descended from those colonial landowners) while the more radical aspects of independence were suppressed and erased from history.

This is why I insist that Argentine and Latin American independence is not complete (especially with our current president), political independence is not enough, it needs to be economical and social freedom too, the construction of a new society. El socialismo será nuestra segunda independencia.

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Terror gótico argentino a lo Mariana Enriquez? ¡Sí señor, eso es "La séptima hija"!

La séptima hija es mi cuento ya disponible en Wattpad con el mismo nombre, la historia ya está escrita y finalizada pero estaré subiendo los capítulos semanalmente, estas son las vibras:

Y esta es la sinopsis:

"Argentina, 1850. La familia de los Arismendi se lleva un susto al esperar el nacimiento de su séptimo hijo, o sea, un futuro lobisón. Pero vuelven a respirar al ver que nace una niña. Lo que no saben es que esa niña no es como cualquier otra, y que tiene varios secretos esperando salir..."

DISPONIBLE EN WATTPAD

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More Bernie wrightson panels I coloured for funsies. Maybe second to last post I have a bunch of these and dont wanna post them all in one thing.

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That one “are you man enough?” Song but Victor Frankenstein

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He has the inmortal soul of a tumblrina

poor victor frankenstein was born in the WRONG generation

cos if bro was born a few hundred years later, he could just hop on tumblr all like “i desire to uncover the secrets of life and death” and at least a few dozen little freaks would be in his notes going “hell yeah”

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What I say: I’m fine.

What I am thinking: How come Victor Frankenstein is always played by older people? One of the main points of Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is to show that Victor was a young college kid who made huge mistakes that came to bite him in the end. If he isn’t played by someone in their early twenties, it loses that point entirely. He can’t be a young idiot who makes bad choices if he isn’t played by a *young* person.

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One of my favorite lines in Frankenstein is "his dream was to become one among those whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species" Henry wanted to be seen in the world, to make something of his life, but when henry's life was cut short without fulfilling his dreams, victor did it for him. He told his story, he made sure to stop at particular moments to explain how benevolent of a being he was, he made sure to explain all that Henry was

Though Henry may not have lived long enough to be recorded as a brave and honorable man, victor always saw him that way, and that would have meant more to him than anything else