#it's like that quote in frankenstein

[trashquisitor-shirozora]

Was browsing through early BOBF/Mando S3 criticisms on Tumblr and WOW, 93% of S2’s viewership dropped when S3 finished airing for an extremely understandable reason. As someone who got into Dinluke after all the dust settled I can only imagine what it was like becoming invested in Din’s story and being floored by the S2 finale only for it to get totally swerve-balled after a long-anticipated wait. How did you avoid the disappointment and burnout?

Spite is an incredibly powerful motivator, let me tell you.

I'm halfway joking about that, btw. I could say I'm used to disappointment and I also worked really hard not to take things too personally after being disappointed time and again year after year by fandoms I was in. Imo the healthiest attitude is that no show/movie/book/videogames/etc will ever play out the way you want/think it should so take what you can get and trash the rest. By the time I started watching The Mandalorian, I'd been burnt badly by Star Trek AOS, the Sequel Trilogy, the MCU, and the Disney machine, and I had to figure out how to accept that I like what I like, I can't change what I can't change, and I can/will run the fuck off with what I can change, which is making wildly fun and fulfilling transformative shit like fanfics and fanart.

I was actually excited about TBOBF and was utterly betrayed by the executive decision to throw him and Fennec to the side in order to absolutely trash the Season 2 finale of the Mando Show by having Din and Grogu reunite just like that. I guess I got lucky in that I had a long-running fic series that I was heavily invested in and I was not about to let Disney stop me from finishing it. Instead of letting my frustrations kill my interest in the show and fandom, I turned it into motivation to keep telling the story I wanted to tell based on the fallout of Season 2. It also helped that Andor happened.

I quit Season 3 of the Mando Show after the 1st episode and it was the best decision I ever made. I had a really rough time with it and was encouraged to step away if it was giving me too much stress. I'm glad for that. Less time and energy picking about Filoni&Favreau and Disney Lucasfilm's decisions and disappointments, more time and energy spent writing and drawing the dinluke I want to see. The nice thing about Star Wars is that it is an old and vast sandbox. Plenty of room here to build whatever sandcastles and dig however many holes you want while canon goes floundering by.

I think also that it really helped to find spaces to share with people who vibe on the same wavelength, so I'm not alone to my thoughts and spiraling myself out of a fandom I enjoyed (like what happened with TLJ but I shan't go there bc this response is long enough). Those posts about having friends you can shit-talk things with? Valid af. You need outlets to vent your grievances without setting bridges on fire, and it'll help your enjoyment of things in the long run.

I didn't avoid the disappointment but I figured out how to make something of it, so I'm still writing dinluke, I'm still drawing dinluke, I'm still getting giddy over dinluke. I actively choose to do what I want with them, and nothing Disney Lucasfilm puts out is ever going to stop me.

[panthermouthh]

“How can I move thee? Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion? Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing?”

[davinaclaires]

LISA FRANKENSTEIN (2024) dir. Zelda Williams

[horror-aesthete]

Lisa Frankenstein, 2024, dir. Zelda Williams

[poppy5991]

Natsuo: I saw that crazy doctor is finally going to trial. That’s a relief. What a fraud.

Dabi: Yeah, he’s a mad genius or whatever. He’s the one who sowed me up like this.

Natsuo, a medical resident: …

Dabi: What?

Natsuo: You know…skin grafts are a thing. That’s what anyone sane would have done.

Dabi: Are you saying I was medical malpracticed?

[serenaira]

Christina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown, The Penguin Book of Mermaids • Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Episode 9 • Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion • Hanokage, Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie -Rebellion-, Volume 3 • Mabel, Episode 33 • Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion • Nina Auerbach, Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

[the-insouciant-scientist]

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”

[yallemagne]

Papa Frankenstein: "Hey, you're depressed. Are you sure that you still want to fuck your cousin? Maybe you met someone else you might fancy? Perhaps, being raised beside her made you see her as a sister rather than a lover?"

Victor, who has way more important shit to deal with rn: "Nah, nah, nah, I totally do want to marry my cousin, I've been groomed to my entire life. Um. I'm just... gonna go dig up some lady graves. It's a character-building experience."

Papa Frankenstein:

Elizabeth: "Dad, you must know Victor's gay---"

Papa Frankenstein: "I know, I just wish he'd talk to me."

[webarebares]

the creature was kinda funny for this idk

[bunnyinatree]

There were many quotes that I couldn't include because they were too long 😭 At any rate, the backslashes indicate a change in singer, because I am obsessed with Victor and the Creature's exchanges.

[cyber-streak-2]

Tarantulas: You want to be healed now? Or would you prefer to bleed to death so I can try my hand at resurrection?

[hueberryshortcake]

i had a short and embarrassing john keats phase my freshman year of high school because i thought it made me cool. it didn't.

[mechsbrackets]

I've finished looking through the submissions for the Best Mechanisms Quote/Line bracket! 40 submissions gave us 169 different quotes! So many! I have the general quote and number of nominations together, but I have yet to go through and double check exact wording and punctuation for most of them, so no full list tonight sadly. I can give the top 3 though:

"Fuck you, and fuck your train!" 16 nominations

"Fuck the ship!" / "I do." / "Ew!" 13

"But any window with a hammer is also an emergency exit." 9

Thank you to everyone who's submitted nominations already! Everyone else, there's still 5 days to submit nominations, so make sure you do so before the deadline!

[aaronstveit]

people attributing "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other." to mary shelley is much worse to me than people thinking frankenstein is the name of the creature actually

[horror-aesthete]

Victor Frankenstein, 2015, dir. Paul McGuigan

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Dave: "I c9uld fix him" "i could make him vworse" well I could make him

Dave: hi victor frankenstein here