holy fucking idiots

  • DengistDonnieDarko [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    when I was in high school I was in the teacher’s supply closet and stole a copy of Frankenstein that one of the other classes was reading. I’m 100% sure if I just asked my teacher to borrow a copy she wouldve lent it to me no questions asked. it had this cover art

    this is unrelated to the thread but it’s a fun little memory I share when I remember Frankenstein is a thing.

      • your_moms_account [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        It looks so much more like Frankenstein’s monster than the pop culture thing does.

        Information about its appearance in the book: a bigger-than-average human sewn together from large bits of corpses.

        That looks like it.

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          True, much more accurate than Mr Bolt Through The Neck, but in my mind the stitching was always more apparent, and the parts less perfect in their symmetry.

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            The part that always is funny to me is that somebody just decided to make him a mint green color like something you’d see in a 1950s furniture store and everyone just rolled with it

          • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.net
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            There’s mixed reaction to the 1994 film, but what I liked is that initially the stitching is very obvious as well as as the asymmetry of the various body parts. But as the film goes on the stitches have fallen out or rotted away and the join areas have scarred and then faded, everything sort of settling into place. So he looks like a very scarred man rather than a sewn together creation, which highlights that he is more of a living being not a zombie or undead.

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            I could be remembering wrongly, but wasn’t the creature described as being uncannily attractive? Like maybe not conventionally so, but in some indescribable and uncomfortable way?