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🪡🫀 i draw sometimes @clervalstein_enthusiast on tt !!

[clervalsteinreal]

victor hallucinated a third pair of eyes in prison actually. it was henry, the creature, and stevie nicks, he just didn’t recount the stevie nicks part to walton because he knew if he did walton would clock the clervalstein situationship immediately. silver springs was looping 24/7 the entirety of victors time in that jail cell

[clervalsteinreal]

late night clerb doodle. im half asleep rn so i cant tell if this is ass…..ill be able to tell tomorrow but anyway. him!!!!<3333

[can-of-w0rmz]

Why does clervalstein seem so dead lately ☹️ I feel like I’ve returned from war and my house has been sold and my family is missing. Reblog if ur a true clervalsteinhead guys

[tmprometheus]

The Princess and her Knight.

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[rat-talks-alot]

What if Victor had….a different kind of fever?

Late clervalstein thingy for Valentine’s Day. Go my victorian twinks

@clervalsteinreal , I summon you

[can-of-w0rmz]

Announcement!!Frankenstein Animated Pilot

With co-director and co-writer @dykensteinery, we’ve recently started work on our pilot episode for a small, indie animated adaptation of the 1818 text of Frankenstein!

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[clervalsteinreal]

the girls!!! might color this properly someday

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[clervalsteinreal]

we as a fandom NEED to talk about how elizabeth lavenza coded this song is bc omg

“and as i climb into an empty bed” when victor left her alone in their room on their wedding night

“love is natural and real, but not for such as you and i, my love” when her marriage to victor was arranged. neither of them wanted this.

and. the constant pleading with “mother” throughout the song. the way caroline was the one who forced elizabeth and victors marriage upon them. the way caroline placed her role in the family as caretaker, wife, and mother on elizabeth. the way caroline caught scarlet fever tending to elizabeth, which elizabeth likely blamed herself for as this led to caroline’s death. uuurrgghhh im sick

[soulofatorturedpoet]

Doomed cousins

Close ups!!

[clervalsteinreal]

Hello, my dear clervastein lover. U see, my dearest, I am also a clervastein lover. Therefore I think that we should be friends.

*runs away and hides in the woods*

YESS !!! love love LOVE finding more clervalstein fans, just followed u back!! im so glad tumblr loves these guys as well, they’re so dear to me

[snow-onthe-beach]

the number of romantic analogies used in descriptions of victor and henry's relationship is so. wow. there's a lot

I have slowly reached this conclusion after months of watching people on here talk about the book and pick apart the references to other pieces of literature so these are not original connections of mine in any way. Just a compilation of things others have observed over time that have built upon each other to the point where it's very much not in the realm of coincidence anymore

long post warning

below is a list of the references to romantic stories used as comparisons to Victor and Henry:

victor describes Henry using what's pretty much a direct quote from the story of Rimini by Leigh hunt ("he was a being formed in the very poetry of nature,") designating Paolo and Francesca's story as a metaphor for his relationship with Henry. this post explains the connection more

after Henry dies, victor starts rambling about the deaths of "blooming children" and "brides and youthful lovers" while lamenting his own misfortunes. Why the fuck is "youthful lovers" a thing he brought up while mourning Henry 😭 that's not the straightest choice of analogy sir (Henry seems to be the only person he could've been referencing here - Elizabeth wasn't dead atp, William was already referenced in the blooming children line, and Victor is certainly not more likely to compare mourning a lover to Justine's death than that of Henry's.)

Henry is described as noble and heroic, which conjures up images of fairytale knights and princes who come to the aid of helpless princesses and stuff. He's further linked to those types of stories through his canon passion for fairytales and romance. meanwhile Victor is quite feminized (more explanation here, but big points are: hysteria, pregnancy, PPD, and what I'm talking about in this bullet point.) In many aspects, he's likened to the "damsel in distress" archetype. Basically, victor and Henry are compared to the traditional romantic story of "brave knight rescues damsel in distress from [insert whatever bad situation here.]"

In reference to the above point, I suspect mentioning that Henry likes Orlando, Robin Hood, Amadís, and St. George may have been an attempt at furthering the fairytale romance allegory. I don't know much about these people so I won't elaborate too much on this, but the strongest sense I'm getting from glancing at Wikipedia pages is that all of these characters are bear similarities to Henry personality-wise and are the subjects of classic love stories. I won't claim to know if any of this can be related to Victor. It might just be a way of illustrating who Henry is as a person. I appreciate input from others who are more well-read than I am.

I've seen people theorize that Victor and Henry's relationship was actually influenced by the love Mary Shelley had for her husband. The whole Henry-cares-for-Victor-after-he-collapses-post-creation thing can be compared to husbands taking care of pregnant/postpartum wives, which is something Percy may have done for Mary.

Apparently the Iliad was one of the inspirations behind Frankenstein. Somebody said victor and Henry were likened to achilles and patrocles (I WOULD LINK THE POST BUT I CAN'T FUCKING FIND IT. there was also an expansion that linked Elizabeth and briseis, so drawing comparisons between patrocles/achilles/briseis and Henry/victor/Elizabeth which I think sounds reasonable, although the closest thing I've read to the Iliad was the song of achilles when I was 13 and probably missed a lot of shit, so again, I don't claim to be well-informed and am open to other input.) This is a less concrete romantic comparison since the nature of achilles and patrocles's relationship isn't agreed upon by scholars. However, the romantic interpretation certainly exists. Whether or not it was prevalent in Mary Shelley's time, I don't know. I suspect it wasn't, but again, idk

Frankenstein is a very queer text in general, with the core plot centering around being rejected, isolated, and despised for intrinsic and immutable parts of yourself and all that jazz. here's another fascinating post about the portrayal of heterosexuality in Frankenstein as widely socially accepted and enforced to the point of being restrictive, in contrast to queer desires, which are not strongly validated by outsiders but are natural and authentic to the self. The creature is an allegory for those queer desires and the rejection of them, and the homosexual-esque relationships in the book (majorly Victor and Henry) are further expansions of this allegory.

If there's anything I missed (there probably is, Frankenstein is a very, very complicated text) feel free to add more things you noticed!

In conclusion: Clervalstein is canon, at least in an allegorical sense. Thank you for listening to my TED talk 🫡

[la-poupee-endormie]

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[self-proclaimed-mad-scientist]

Blorboposting about Victor is so weird to me. Yeah that’s my blorbo. Guy from the book you read for a grade in English class. He means everything to me.

[clervalsteinreal]

billy idol wrote eyes without a face for clervalstein actually. trust

UURRGGHHH im so sorry for being inactive, artblock is not for the faint of heart…. BUT i was listening to eyes without a face and like. clervalstein. victor hallucinating henry’s eyes in prison. it’s perfect. so until i can get back into drawing again take an edit of the only doomed gays ever. the clervalstein grind never ends

ac: can-of-w0rmz, freysai, spacecattle on twt, couldn’t find the 4th artist bc tumblr hates me, hypo-critic-art

[can-of-w0rmz]

CW: Disturbing imagery, mutilation, implied nsfw

[can-of-w0rmz]

Little Stein doodle

[soulofatorturedpoet]

When they finally catch a break from Ernest and William