It’s Come To My Attention That Apparently There’s A Kanye West Adaptation Of The Re-animator Novelization

He felt like he might create new life. "I-i think i'm gonna create new life.."

Feeling some kind of way about these passages from one of the books I've been consulting for my project on melancholia, which was written by Johann Freitag, who lived from 1587-1654.

In it, Freitag (who was a doctor) talks about how difficult it is to cure melancholy, and how patients often grow depressed, suspicious, and angry over the fact that their symptoms persist for months, years, or even their whole lives. He also describes melancholy as an "insolent guest, who doesn't obey the guest-rules" -- a description I absolutely love, in part because it sounds an awful lot like the way my friends and I talk about our own mental illnesses today.

The whole section just feels so true to my own experiences with mental illness (particularly fairly treatment-resistant mental illness), hundreds of years later. It's exactly why I chose this topic for my research project, and really incredible to me.

had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”

a little Frankenstein and Clerval update

”this video is made possible by ingolstadt morgue. not sponsored” victor says while breaking and entering

victor “i'm not mad i'm not a madman please believe me" frankenstein and his constant assertions that he’s not insane throughout the whole novel only to become the foundation for the mad scientist trope. puts head in hands

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😋 this strain is called demian (1919) it'll have you zoinked outta your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever i don't feel shit

5 minutes later: the bird fights its way out of the egg. the egg is the world. who would be born must first destroy a world. the bird flies to god

my buddy emil, pacing: abraxas is lying to us

unstoppable force (i want to see this tragic character survive and heal) vs immovable object (their death was the most thematic and narratively satisfying resolution possible for their character arc and anything less than death just feels cheap)

happy end of frankenstein day 🪦

Extremely funny to me. Ask and you shall receive, motherfucker.