what the people want, the people get

you see

my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.

evidence as explained:

• victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world
• his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression
• he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest
• henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces 
• afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?
• Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational 
• the book does not otherwise have central female characters 

Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.

in conclusion, Frankenstein (1818) by Mary  Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the first examples of mpreg in English literature 

I was not expecting that last line.

THIS IS THE KIND OF ESSAY WE NEED MORE OF

“This, too, is Torah, and I must learn!”

Citation

None of these words are in the Bible: This is a very strange concept to an outsider and possibly even to me. I probably understand what this is saying but it’s kinda weird. Let’s bring attention to that.

By Allah, you people are dogs. I will reblog as always: This is gross and possibly not an appropriate thing to say publicly but I mean that in the most lighthearted and unserious way possible because clearly I found whatever you said or did entertaining enough to platform it.

This, too, is Torah, and I must learn!: Nobody asked me to look at this or platform this, I don’t have to look at this, perhaps I shouldn’t be looking at this, but I’m going to double down anyways for the bit. <-speculative analysis, needs more data of natural usage of phrase in the wild

How Mexicans feel about duendes too.

True. Most Irish people, as Norwegians do with Trolls, will happily let the 'fairies' be a thing to make tours for tourists and idle threats to make children behave. Most Irish people will have a very normal and mature explanation of fairies as a common folk mythology that expresses some dimension of Irish culture but are not, obviously, to be taken literally.

And most Irish people, if you ask them to move a stone from a fairy circle will immoveably, flatly respond with 'absolutely fucking not'.

Construction projects have had to halt and be abandoned for it.

At work me and a couple coworkers (black, white, and mexican) had a fun discussion on whether there are more ghosts at a hospital or a cemetery.

everyone individually took a moment to specify that ghosts probably aren't REAL real. then weighed in on where and why.

for the record my position was that there's probably way more ghosts in hospitals because that's where people die horribly, but since you can only see ghosts in dark, solitary conditions, graveyards at night is where the majority of ghost sightings occur. hospitals are usually well lit and busy, so even if they're crammed with ghosts the living are too damn busy to see them. meanwhile if a cemetery has even one ghost that followed her corpse there from the hospital, she'll be spotted because that's where all the ghost hunters go to look.

this theory was received as extremely sensible, and a coworker drew the conclusion that that's why abandoned hospitals are even scarier than graveyards. once the place gets abandoned then you can tell how much ghosts got built up.

we all liked this explanation a lot and explained it to everyone else all night. and of course, none of us believe in ghosts.

May I also add:

Catholics and Saints

I can't speak for people raised with Islam, but I've heard similar discussions about djinns.

oh cool i got a double whammy lmao - over here in the philippines we’ve got a thing about duendes - you gotta go “tabi tabi po” (kinda like excuse me) if you’re stepping on dirt/nature-y areas so they dont curse you if u step on one of their uhh anthill houses.

we’re mostly catholic so most believe in saints like 100% my family’s taken me to pray w/ relics of saints I’m pretty sure, when the relics were in the country.

can’t speak on the behalf of all filipinos here but my family also believes in witches/black magic and hypnotism - growing up i was discouraged from even making eye contact with strangers sometimes lmao! and also like, “aswangs” but surprisingly not as much. (aswang’s like a catch-all phrase for monsters, shapeshifters, vampire-esque creatures, etc)