#frankenstein daily

[hauntingyourself]

Me after googling something I knew I’d regret

#mine #Frankenstein daily

[kissmefriendly]

I just need y’all to keep in mind that the entire framing device of Frankenstein is that it’s a letter. And I need you to imagine being Walton’s sister going forward.

#just keep that in mind #I promise it will improve your reading experience 100x #poor Margaret lmao #frankenstein #frankenstein daily #I wrote an epilogue YEARS ago from her pov I should dig it up #I MIGHT have published it to fanfic but I have no clue and I don’t remember #or I just kinda imagined I did

[btrflyng]

Jurassic Park Daily starts tomorrow my children!

Go get your dino book fast!! I want to see memes

#jurassic park #jurassic park daily #jurassic park 1990 #ian malcolm #alan grant #jp daily #ellie sattler #dracula daily #frankenstein daily #daily tumblr #substack #jurassic park novel #lex murphy #go girls #classical novel #memes #literature memes

[madamearachne]

GUYSSSS

LOOK AT WHAT I GOT!!!

#FRANKENSTEIN PURSE #FRANKENPURSE #BOOK PURSE BOOK PURSE BOOK PURSE #frankenstein #adam frankenstein #classic lit #frankensteins creature #frankensteins monster #goth lit #gothic literature #classic literature #gothic #gothic fiction #gothic fashion #mary shelley #mary shelley's frankenstein #frankenstein weekly #frankenstein daily

[jurassicparkdaily]

Jurassic Park Daily Announcement and Organization 🦖🦕🦖🦕

Considering the rise of substacks (especially Dracula Daily) and the constant discovery of how some classical stories are so different in adaptions compared to it's original source there was one book (series) that came to my mind that is so entirely from it's adaptions. Jurassic Park. If you want the beautiful insanity (and genuine good sci-fi thriller!) that the original is then prepare yourself for Jurassic Park Daily! From rich bicycle twinks, MILFs, GILFs, bikers, baby-faced chaotic villains, homicidal maniacs to dinosaurs with unchecked vendetta and anger issues... we have everything! And especially dinosaurs! Gene manipulated ones even!

With Dracula we redeemed a bunch of characters from their adaptions perhaps with Jurassic Park we'll redeem the next!

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How will Jurassic Park Daily work?

Well, quite different from the typical substacks. Unfortunately the book is copyrighted/not in public domain so we cannot mail them to you. However what we can do is provide you with sources to the books and we'll update you where we currently are in the book on this blog.

Which means:

We will probably read one sub chapter every day or two (still open to debate, poll is on the blog) to keep a steady pace to make it easy to follow how far we are into the book.

We will update everytime which one we are reading that day plus what the title of the next sub chapter is so that you do not miss it by accident.

We will read both books. Means we will also always post in which book we currently are. Note: The two books only loosely tie together meaning you can decide whether you want to read both books or only one of the two.

The starting date is not official yet but we hope to start in late june/early july depending on the chosen reading pace

The reading process will be a lot more independent and will be an attempt at a digital book club where everyone individually finds their best source. If this (a bit) unconvetional way is fine with you and you're interested in dinosaur chaos then join us on our journey through the Jurassic Park 🦕🦖

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What can you do to help the project?

We have a few links and sources but if you have good ones feel free to share them with us!

Nothing else. Just be open for a bit of unconvetionalness and letting yourself get bitten by your local dinosaur 🦖

#jurassic park #jurassic park daily #book substacks #tumblr book club #dracula daily #alan grant #jurassic park novels #novels #books #the lost world #ian malcolm #ellie sattler #frankenstein daily #substacks #new substack #information #announcement #dinosaurs

[ava-does-dumbassery]

Anyway I’m also kind of dreading Frankenstein daily, too. I know from looking through the tumblr tags for Frankenstein that a lot of people’s first reactions to the book are “I hate Victor Frankenstein so much, fuck Victor Frankenstein” more than any other emotion or thought about the book. And that’s fine, I guess, I can’t control what makes a fictional character annoying to people. But I don’t want the fandom to suddenly be flooded with people who will only talk about how they really hate the protagonist (a very key aspect of the story!) and nothing else.

Also there are the people who try to channel their annoyance at certain characters into “literary analysis”… I really don’t want any more of those either…

#Frankenstein #ava has thoughts #victor frankenstein #Frankenstein daily

[mxalexwhat]

A LOT of people have been asking about the author of this lovely book, but if y'all haven't noticed, they're on Tumblr @ahhill and they're very funny.

They also did Frankenstein for when Frankenstein Daily starts up! And a cute one about masks.

I know they're short, but please, don't post the entire book online. Instead go support them. Buy the book! It's like $8. Read it and gift it to a friend or a kid or even donate it to your local library. If they do well enough, maybe we'll see a Baby's Classics Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or even a Phantom of the Opera! 👀

#dracula daily #dracula #Frankenstein Daily #Frankenstein

[denndrawings]

Thoughts on Frankenstein and the trans experience

Hi! So some months ago I finished my Final Degree Thesis on monsters and the theory behind why queer people tend to relate with them easier than with heroes on the pieces of media that features them and I've been sitting on my thoughts on Frankenstein and how it is a source of identification for both the trans feminine and the transmasculine experience.

My credentials are I'm trans (non binary)! and also I've been researching this for like. Four years. So if you want to read the part of my disertation about Frankenstein and gender (I also have a lot written about otherness, the concept of the monster, queer narratives and vampires but this is not the post for that) you can find it under the cut! (be warned its gonna be long because it's straight up copy-paste from the disertation)

If vampires are a mirror for sexuality, there is little doubt that the “monsters” that haunt gender are Frankenstein and his creature. That is hardly a stretch, since he is an Adam —he calls himself that at one point (Shelley, 1818, p.69), recognizing himself as the creature casted out of the Garden of Eden unfairly by Victor, who is at the same time a creator God and the Eve who rebelled against “natural order” making them both fall out of grace—in a stolen body made out of someone else’s expectations of what a “man” is supposed to look like, how he should act  and think and move (how he should perform his gender, that Victor seems so utterly obsessed with, and then devastated about until he became the monster his creator wanted him to be); rejected by the one who created him, forced by society to stay hidden, unable to ever “pass” and misunderstood (Fox, 2017).

There is something interesting about this book, and it is that different sources of identification for both transmasculine and transfeminine people’s experience with gender can be found within it.

On the one hand: the creature, an individual whose creator conceived as “male”. But then again, gender is a performance, gender is something taught (Preciado, 2018, p. 27) and nobody told the creature how to dance to that rhythm. Instead, the creature was explained how the world works through Safie’s feminine lens, listening to the lessons that were given to her about how to behave and understand everything. And then, looking at the image reflected in a pond, the creature realized they were not the same Other because, unlike in hers, beauty will not buy society’s acceptance in that case.

Still, there is an attempt at getting affirmation from the old man of the De Lacey family, the grandfather that, because of his blindness, is not able to see the creature and have prejudices based on the appearance that is offered but only on the words spoken and the kindness shown. But unfortunately, the other De Laceys are sighted individuals —although blind because of their prejudices—, and what they behold is someone far too big and too coarse. A threat.

That is very much the same risk transgender women face when going out as people who may or may not conform to society’s view of gender presentation, because as it has already been demonstrated, transgender people who are perceived as such face much more problems (like bigotry or unequal treatment among many others) than cis or cis-passing people (Dias et all, 2021, p.695), because, just like the creature, they are regarded as less than human, something unnatural and wretched.

On the other hand, Victor Frankenstein: pale, thin, dramatic, and beautifully at the verge of death at every point during the book (Cale, 2018). He would have been such a gorgeous lady of his time…if he had ever been one.

His resemblance to the transmasculine experience is even more tangible than the creature’s, from his obsession with the male figure to the “natural philosophy” that his father disapproved of and that helped him create, with the help of science, a “male” body that destroyed his conection with his family (as homophobic people threaten queernes does to people, being a threat to others, to the community and to oneself (Benshoff, 1997, p.1)).

Long story short, Victor Frankenstein’s inner struggle can be read as that of a transgender man who, facing the rejection of his family and his own internalized prejudices tries to come back and live his life as he normally would have done before realizing about his queerness, but the shadow of the man he has created —the man he is— follows him around throughout his life because as much as he tries to get rid of him, the creature will keep coming back as he is a part of him that  he projects as unconnected to him because he refuses to accept it. That last point is clear at the end of the book, because it takes for Victor Frankenstein to die for the creature to do so too.

Bibliography quoted (in order of appearance):

Shelley, M. (1818) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones.

Fox, C. (2017) Why Frankenstein’s Monster Haunts Queer Art. Retrieved June 11, 2022 from New York Times Style Magazine at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/t-magazine/art/frankenstein-monster-queer-art.html

Preciado, P. B. (2018) Countersexual Manifesto, Columbia University Press.

Dias, C. K., da Rocha, L. R. L., Tateo, L., & Marsico, G. (2021) “Passing” and its effects on Brazilian transgender people’s sense of belonging to society: A theoretical study. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 31(6), 609-702.

Cale, J. (2018) Drop Dead Gorgeous: 19th Century Beauty Tips for the Aspiring Consumptive. Retrieved June 12, 2022 at https://dirtysexyhistory.com/2018/05/16/drop-dead-gorgeous-19th-century-beauty-tips-for-the-aspiring-consumptive/

Benshoff, H. M. (1997) Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film, Manchester University Press.

#frankenstein #idk how to tag this #classic literature #frankenstein daily

[greenheart99]

remember, Frankenstein weekly is starting tomorrow!!! sign up!! I want my favorite book to be memed on like Dracula was!

#frankenstein #Dracula #dracula daily #frankenstein daily

[dathen]

The annotation for Frankenstein Weekly is hit and miss for me but love this bit:

In respect to the master categories of eighteenth-century aesthetics, the Creature is exactly the opposite of the Beautiful: he is the embodiment of the Sublime, at once awesome and terrifying. If most of our experience with sublimity is mediated through art and literature, the Creature in all his encounters forces it with stunning immediacy into normative human life, always with disastrous consequences.

The first thing that comes to mind is Biblically Accurate Angels and how the human mind can barely withstand beholding them. It works well with how the Creature is going to compare himself to Lucifer eventually: Victor is playing the role of Creator, but he is still only human, so goes to pieces when beholding his creation.

#frankenstein daily

[basilsbestpainting]

Just caught up on Frankenstien weekly.

Victor what the hell man? You build this creature, then abandon it, then when it shows up you get mad? What did you expect to happen when tou made a creature, it to disappear??

I'm also not convinced it's not just in his head. Like, is there actually a creature, or is it just a symbol of his loneliness and insanity?

#frankenstein daily #frankenstein #frankenstein the modern prometheus

[btrflyng]

I ran out of options so you have to choose one of those. 🤷 Sorry 😘

#carmilla daily #jekyll and hyde weekly #woman in white weekly #whale weekly #dracula daily #jurassic park daily #dickens december #frankenstein daily #frankenstein weekly #sherlock holmes #sir arthur conan doyle #lord of the rings daily #was it called lotr daily? #idk anymore

[madamearachne]

My favorite lads as the barbie art trend

#art #digital art #frankenstein #adam frankenstein #classic lit #creature design #frankensteins creature #frankensteins monster #goth lit #gothic lit art #victor frankenstein #frankenstein daily #frankenstein weekly #barbie #barbie meme

[noiselessbuck]

now that we've all discovered that checking your email is much more fun when your blorbos are in there who wants to be old timey pen pals who send each other longwinded emails and reply back once a week at most

#mutuals i will do this if you dm me #dracula daily #dailystiel #<is that the spn one #supernatural #frankenstein daily

[nomolosk]

I didn't expect Frankenstein to start with a letter about sailing to the north pole.

#frankenstien #frankenstein daily

[tundrakatiebean]

Man victor frankenstein really is just an awful human being huh? Like the wimpiest, sniveliest, little shit to have ever been written.

#Frankenstein daily #I do not like him your honor