holy fucking idiots

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    …did they read the book?? You cant really help but feel bad for Adam (he called himself Adam at some point, been a while). He was absolutely right to wanna kill Frankenstein, Frankenstein created him and then was fucking awful about it

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      orphaned child rejected by society and parents

      this says a lot about science and creation of life over-your-head

      (i also remember feeling very bad for the guy)

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          That being said, I’m surprised that CHUDs haven’t adopted Frankenstein’s monster or Grendel from the novel in 1971.

          “Nooo! Us Nazis aren’t evil, we’re just misunderstood! And did you guys know we were sad once?”

                • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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                  Okay but what if that’s your kink though thonk sincerely and not a bit-ly. Like, y’know?

                  To me there is a world of difference between “ooh getting bit by this vampire and becoming a thrall to them would be hot” and “THIS FINE MAN LOUIS, HE OWNED A PLANTATION, HE’S A VALIANT MAN” type shit, I guess.

            • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              I read some of those vampire books and there was so much weird shit but I was 13 and horny and it was the late 90s so what you gonna do? You read some smut with the barest veneer of story between the sex parts. Look, mom, I’m reading! I’m being a good boy just please knock before you come in here!

              But I definitely remember one series that had vampires hanging out with Krishna as the backstory because vampires were the original Aryans and of course the main character is a sexy blonde lady and looking back I think “what the fuck was going on”

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netOP
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        Rejected on account of inhumanity though - it’s more like a racial spurning than him being a malcontent. Initially, he tries to be kind, even though he was been brought into the world lacking a real parental figure.

        Frankenstein himself was much more of an entitled shitlord.

        • RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          I think the incel theme is reinforced by the whole “build me a woman who will have no choice but to be my wife” situation

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            Yeah, definitely true, but that’s after the majority of his troubles. For sure though, Shelley was commenting on male ownership/entitlement to female bodies.

    • RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Iirc the phrasing is like “I ought to have been thy Adam,” so more of him evoking the biblical theme than advancing it as a name he’d like to go by

      And also… Bro did kill one child and two adults that had absolutely nothing to do with his anguish. Definitely pitiable but not exactly in the right