#the shelleys

[burningvelvet]

Lord Byron's first edition copy of Frankenstein (1818), one of only two known surviving copies to be personally inscribed by Mary Shelley (the other is to her friend Mrs. Thomas). Byron took this copy with him when he went into the Greek War of Independence, and it was among his personal things when he died there in 1824:

Mary didn't disclose her name in the inscription because the novel was published anonymously and she initially wanted to keep it that way. However, Byron did reveal her identity in a letter to his publisher, correcting his assumption that Percy was the one who wrote the novel:

"The story of the agreement to write the Ghost-books is true — but the ladies are not Sisters — one is Godwin’s daughter by Mary Wolstonecraft — and the other the present Mrs. Godwin’s daughter by a former husband. Mary Godwin (now Mrs. Shelley) wrote 'Frankenstein' — which you have reviewed thinking it Shelley’s — methinks it is a wonderful work for a Girl of nineteen — not nineteen indeed — at that time."

Under Mary Shelley's consultation, Thomas Moore writes in his Life of Lord Byron (vol III):

"During a week of rain at this time, having amused themselves with reading German ghost-stories, they agreed, at last, to write something in imitation of them. 'You and I,' said Lord Byron to Mrs. Shelley, 'will publish ours together.'"

Percy, writing as Mary with her permission, mentions Byron and himself (in the third-person) in the novel's 1818 preface thus:

"Two other friends (a tale from the pen of one of whom would be far more acceptable to the public than any thing I can ever hope to produce) and myself agreed to write each a story, founded on some supernatural occurrence.

The weather, however, suddenly became serene; and my two friends left me on a journey among the Alps, and lost, in the magnificent scenes which they present, all memory of their ghostly visions. The following tale is the only one which has been completed."

#mary shelley #frankenstein #percy shelley #percy bysshe shelley #lord byron #byron #shelley #the shelleys #literature #english literature #romanticism #novels #books #authors #writers #19th century #gothic literature #gothic #the geneva squad #lake geneva 1816 #geneva squad #dreams of 1816

[vamprisms]

science fiction as a genre was invented specifically to show lesbians some greasy sweaty women in tank tops fixing machinery

#mary shelley knew where all that was heading when she did that

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#frankenstein #mary shelley #writing #writer #writers #meme #memes #tweet #tweets #twitter #funny #lol

[mangozic]

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

#really happy with how michael turned out :] i might stick to this design #rapunzel ah glowy hair <3 #i do need to workshop gerry though orz #have been working on this during breaks from my other projects and god it took way too long to finish #fun fact the final file for this is over 2gb 👍 forgot i was recording the timelapse #i could post it if anyone would be interested #the magnus archives #tma #michael distortion #michael shelley #tma michael #tma distortion #gerard keay #gerry keay #tma gerry #gerrymichael #doorkeay #technically? i’m not one to draw ship art usually but this one’s close enough i think #tma fanart #fanart #my art #digital art #illustration #magpod

[extremefrogrefrigerator]

fucked up vampire who sucks COCKS instead of blood. ha ha. I Will Just Say Anything On This Website

#vampire #halloween #happy halloween #the vampire chronicles #wwdits #interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #iwtv #vampires #goth #gothic #mary shelley #lgbtq #gay #lgbtqia

[prokopetz]

The problem with Victor Frankenstein isn't that he's not as smart as he thinks he is. The problem with Victor Frankenstein is that he's exactly as smart as he thinks he is in one very specific area, and he just expects that to automatically translate to every other area of his life and is taken completely by surprise every single time it doesn't.

#media #literature #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #mary shelley #characterisation #he's the forefather of every stem influencer who thinks having a phd in physics automatically makes them a qualified sociologist

[karmiculture]

shelley duvall in annie hall, 1977

#shelley duvall #annie hall #70s movies #fashion #coquette

[kittengutss]

Waiting patiently for Michael to show up so they can be canon

#tmagp needles #michael shelley #gerard keay #tma gerry #tma michael #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol #the magnus archives #my art

[furiouskettle]

i still havent actually listened to TMA

#TMA #the magnus archives #michael shelley #michael distortion #Michael tma #the spiral tma #someone dug up my old art of him and i got the itch to draw him

[wolfythewitch]

Flesh, Desolation, Spiral

#art #sketch #character design #body horror #tma #michael distortion #michael shelley #helen distortion #helen richardson #agnes montague #jared hopworth #the magnus archives #anyways shoutout to jared top surgeon extraordinaire and trans ally king

[burningvelvet]

"I love Love — though he has wings, and like light can flee . . ."

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Song: (Rarely, Rarely Comest Thou)"

#percy bysshe shelley #percy shelley #mary shelley #the shelleys #quotes #quote #love #valentines day #february #hopecore #hopepunk #love aesthetic #romanticism #romantic poets #romantic #literature #english literature #history #poetry #aesthetic #light academia #romantic academia #grief #sorrow #inspiration

[heavenhotline]

#my art #the magnus archives #michael distortion #michael shelley #the distortion #tma #eyestrain tw

[momokarp]

He Michaels on my Shelley til I Spiral.

#momoart #fanart #michael shelley #michael distortion #gerard keay #the magnus archives podcast #the magnus archives #traditional art #pen #sketches

[future-crab]

Not to beat a dead horse, but the naming conventions in the Magnus Archives are truly delightful. Jonny really said, “Here’s a cast of fascinating characters! Their names are:

My actual full legal name

The first names of my friends + the last names of famous horror writers

Michael (x4)

They all die horrible deaths :)”

#there is some overlap between the three categories #jon and at least one of the michaels also have the last names of famous horror writers #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #sasha james #tim stoker #martin blackwood #michael shelley #mike crew

[dzgrizzle]

#Bram Stoker #Dracula #Henry Irving #Herman Melville #Moby Dick #Nathaniel Hawthorne #Mary Shelley #Frankenstein #Lord Byron

[cielle-b]

Finally able to use my tablet again, how I missed you. Anyway here's a Michael sketch

Low res cause it's just a screenshot (sorry)

#tma #tma michael #tma michael shelley #michael shelley #the magnus archives #the magnus archives fanart #cielledraws