#elizabeth lavenza

[frankenfartstein]

saw a funny image. had to re-draw it w/ victor

[frankingsteinery]

AITA for not telling my fiancé I know he’s queer? 

I 20s (F) have a 20s (M) fiancé, V, and he’s been talking about this terrible secret he cannot tell me and he keeps almost starting to come out and then backing out. The issue is V and I were raised together by his parents, and my surrogate 40s (M) father and (now deceased) surrogate mother arranged for our marriage back when we were both children. They thought it was the best for us and at the time we were too young to realize the implications and had no reason to reject to the match. When we were teenagers our mother was on her deathbed and she told us again that she wished for us to marry, and of course we both agreed. However, V is also best friends with a 20s (M) guy called H, and they were nearly inseparable as boys and teens. They also went to university together and shared an apartment but V had to come home due to family reasons. Lately he’s been going out all day and coming home at night hours later. He insists that he’s fine and that we all leave him alone and not worry for him, but I think he and H have been sneaking around. He even delayed our wedding day by arranging a trip to go to England alone with H. It’s exhausting for all of us and I think I should just tell V I know and support him and that we can call off the marriage, but I’m not sure that’s the best course of action? I’m completely fine with not marrying him - he always felt more like a brother to me anyway - but I worry it might come off wrong. The worst part is he’s really beating himself up about it. He’s so guilty it’s beginning to take a toll on his health. I don’t care if he has a boyfriend I just want him to be happy.

EDIT: nvm he built an 8ft creature in his dorm

[cerasifera]

some mock miniature portraits of the ill-fated Frankenstein trio

[hypo-critic-art]

Auntie Elizabeth and her peculiar nephew

@mightydyke

They share their love and appreciation for nature!

[saffricatrice]

LIBERAL FRANKENSTIEN

victor FAGenstetin

HORNY clerval

louis MANKISSER

justine MORETITS

robert walton

elizabeth LESBIANza

alpHOMO frankenstein

[dross-the-fish]

"It is well I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night."

[littleraccoonguy]

I just realized Victor Frankenstein and Richard Papen are both pre-med college dropouts that think they’re in love with a blonde woman but are actually just suppressed homosexuals who like a guy named Henry. Moreover they end up killing the things they desire/hold dearest to them. All on top of having a crippled, ill winter and being discovered at their lowest when their respective Henry’s arrive at their college and end up nursing them back to health.

[h4ise-art]

so guys, about victor frankenstein-

[victorfrankensteinapologist]

Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, illustrated by Barry Moser.

[toaster-trash]

Do you see my vision. (Adam Sandler has to play just the most regular guy known to man while Kermit is absolutely gobsmacked horrified at his abhorrent existence and What He’s Done)

[c0rpseparts]

happy belated halloween!

[frankingsteinery]

for some reason people seem to think that mary somehow stumbled into writing a commentary on marriage/incest accidentally, and that the themes of frankenstein are all about her trauma due to her experiences as a victim of the patriarchy, as a woman and a mother surrounded by men - as if she wasnt the child of radical liberals who publicly renounced marriage, as if she herself as well as percy shelley had similar politics on marriage, as if she would not go on to write a novel where the central theme is explicitly that of father/daughter incest years later…

the most obvious and frequent critique of victor i see is of his attempt to create life - the creature - without female presence. it’s taught in schools, wrote about by academics, talked about in fandom spaces - mary shelley was a feminist who wrote about feminism by making victor a misogynist. he’s misogynistic because he invented a method of procreation without involving women purely out of male entitlement and masculine arrogance and superiority, and shelley demonstrates the consequences of subverting women in the creation process/and by extension the patriarchy because this method fails terribly - his son in a monster, and victor is punished for his arrogance via the murder of his entire family; thus there is no place for procreation without the presence of women, right?

while this interpretation – though far from my favorite – is not without merit, i see it thrown around as The interpretation, which i feel does a great disservice to the other themes surrounding victor, the creature, the relationship between mother and child, parenthood, marriage, etc.

this argument also, ironically, tends to undermine the agency and power of frankenstein’s female characters, because it often relies on interpreting them as being solely passive, demure archetypes to establish their distinction from the 3 male narrators, who in contrast are performing violent and/or reprehensible actions while all the woman stay home (i.e., shelley paradoxically critiques the patriarchy by making all her female characters the reductive stereotypes that were enforced during her time period, so the flaws of our male narrators arise due to this social inequality).

in doing so it completely strips elizabeth (and caroline and justine to a lesser extent) of the power of the actions that she DID take — standing up in front of a corrupt court, speaking against the injustice of the system and attempting to fight against its verdict, lamenting the state of female social status that prevented her from visiting victor at ingolstadt, subverting traditional gender roles by offering victor an out to their arranged marriage as opposed to the other way around, taking part in determining ernest’s career and education in direct opposition to alphonse, etc. it also comes off as a very “i could fix him,” vibe, that is, it suggests if women were given equal social standing to men then elizabeth would have been able to rein victor in so to speak and prevent the events of the book from happening. which is a demeaning expectation/obligation in of itself and only reinforces the reductive passive, motherly archetypes that these same people are speaking against

it is also not very well supported: most of the argument rests on ignoring female character’s actual characterization and focusing one specific quote, often taken out of context (“a new species would bless me as its creator and source…no father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as i should deserve theirs”) which “proves” victor’s sense of male superiority, and on victors treatment/perception of elizabeth, primarily from a line of thinking he had at five years old, where he objectified her by thinking of her (or rather — being told so by caroline) as a gift to him. again, the morality of victor’s character is being determined by thoughts he had at five years old.

obviously this is not at all to say i think their relationship was a healthy one - i dont think victor and elizabeth’s marriage was ever intended to be perceived as good, but more importantly, writing their relationship this way was a deliberate critique of marriage culture.

[paris-in-space]

Today I offer you all my Frankenstein character design sketches and annotations. I’m not at home this week, and don’t have my ipad with me so I can’t do digital versions just yet, but I wanted to share the pencil drawings anyway. Hopefully I’ll post digital ones next week.

[f1amln-bugz]

I made this comic based off of one of @incorrect-frankenstein’s posts! Credit to them for the idea! :>

These are my designs for my Frankenstein au!

[hypo-critic-art]

experimenting with new designs for the main Frankenstein cast

[dross-the-fish]

Quick concept sketch I made while I was thinking about Elizabeth Lavenza and how she's probably the character I feel the most sorry for in the whole story. Even more than the creature tbh.