This blog is Lit

 A poorly organized blog ran by a lazy lady with an English degree. I especially love the Shelleys, Byron, Emerson, and Thoreau.

[mournfulroses]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

[maykitz]

in bangkok my mom met a newlywed couple who were on their honeymoon with a third person, their gay best friend that they both like so much they took him along

[burningvelvet]

prev... so true

[reservaledog]

men will tell you "i experimented in college" and then you don't know whether they smoked weed, kissed men, or built an 8 foot tall monster in the comfort of their dorm

[charlesoberonn]

This pun is hilarious, but Victor Frankenstein would absolutely not fucking say that.

[charlesoberonn]

To clarify: My problem isn't Frankenstein speaking with modern slang. My problem is Frankenstein being okay with somebody drinking his monster.

[bethanydelleman]

[burningclocks]

I think about them constantly. They need a sitcom, I'm begging

[cadaverkeys]

genuinely one of my favourite details about Bram Stokers Dracula that isn't really transferred to the pop culture is that vampires have irridescent eyes, they appear brown at a glance, however when light is reflected on them they seem to go red!

[cadaverkeys]

another thing that pop culture latched onto is this idea that you might use a wreath of garlic bulbs to ward off a vampire, however, in the book there is a popular use of garlic blossoms rather than the bulbs. i think these are a lot prettier and way more versatile for stylisation! you could have a garlic flower crown.

[cadaverkeys]

also like the cowboy part can we please stop omitting the fact that there is a real ass cowboy in Bram Stokers Dracula and hes from real ass Texas and he has a fucking gun and he tries to fucking shoot Dracula

[burningvelvet]

desperately need a dude i can nickname “sweet elf,” who hasn’t slept in 3 days, is vegetarian, translates plato for fun, got kicked out of oxford at the age of 18 for penning the first pro-atheism work in the english language and mailing it to every bishop in england, distributes political pamphlets in handmade hot air balloons, hallucinates from stress, plays with paper boats and rocks while declaring these to be serious forms of scientific experimentation, hangs out with lord byron, casually writes some of the greatest poetry in the english language but then threatens to quit constantly because he’s not famous yet, is convinced he is dying of consumption despite no proof, blows things up with gunpowder unprovoked, and is addicted to sailing as fast as possible while refusing to learn how to swim.

[burningvelvet]

i forgot to add: electrocutes his beloved sisters because he believes it will cure their headaches, almost dies from eating laurel leaves because they symbolize poetic greatness, lifelong sleepwalker, regularly forgets to eat and can only be lured by bread and tea, horrifically bullied as a child, either super graceful or super clumsy with no in-between, reads while walking down the street, befriends people who are in confinement/imprisoned and tries to petition for their freedom, scares my step-sister so badly by pretending to be possessed and telling ghost stories to the point where she develops symptoms of a sleep disorder, possibly has an affair with that same step-sister because we live with her even though my relationship with her is kind of up and down, hair turning grey prematurely, blew up the playground and his desk with gunpowder at the age of 12, promptly took my virginity on my mother’s grave when i asked him to,

[burningvelvet]

this is a common source of confusion. you see, percy bysshe shelley was real, but only slightly.

[beloved-icarus]

You want me to use anti-ageing products? The thing that killed Dorian Gray?

[the-possibly-immortal-writer]

[ginkovskij]

the genesis of shelley's prometheus (x)

[poetryofmanya]

[strykerlancer-deactivated202405]

— Lord Byron, from “To the Countess of Blessington.”

[twinwound]

mary shelley writing about a monster rejected and abandoned by its creator and dedicating it to her own father i need to smoke a blunt with her i need to give her head

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you're at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you're beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn't even have ibuprofen

[burningvelvet]

Some of the pages and covers of Percy Shelley’s notebooks (1811-1822) — accessed through the Digital Bodleian Library

[speciesbarocus]

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein manuscript.