victor frankenstein hate blog

“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

frankenstein - or, the modern prometheus, mary shelley

Now, don't get me wrong, "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" is a raw line, but I wonder if the folks who quote it misattributed to Mary Shelley would feel any differently about it if they knew it's really from a film adaptation of Frankenstein in which the role of the Creature is played – and the above-cited line delivered – by fucking Robert De Niro.

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

It was stupid good. So good in fact that the bbc filmed a version and put it on dvd when it debuted. I bought that dvd after I saw the show and put it up on the Internet Archive. The audio is not great but the dancing is spectacular. Ever see a pas de deux around an anatomical dissection? You will.

The Creature from Frankenstein at Hamburg State Opera

trans people obsessed w body horror and biological inhumanity that want to look like bloodborne bosses and animal chimeras 🤝 trans people obsessed w robotics and technological inhumanity that want to look like mechs and industrial machinery

mutuals i would torment in my gothic castle

ily frankenstein's monster :(

impossible to find a frankenstein recipe online that doesn't start with a freakin novel about the guy's early life in geneva... just gimme the ingredients and method

Federico Bonelli as Victor Frankenstein and Steven McRae as the Creature in FRANKENSTEIN | The Royal Ballet, 2016

The first rule of tragedy is to be yourself. The second of rule of tragedy is to be literally anyone else. The third rule is that however much you try there is no escaping being yourself forever.

Emily St. James on Frankenstein, specifically the 1931 James Whale movie, in Queer for Fear: the History of Queer Horror episode two.

tragedy enjoyers when even good intentions lead to ruin

you can do all the right things in a tragedy and that still won't guarantee the right consequences!