Ad astra per aspera

Ronan. They/Them. Nonbinary goth hobbit, sometimes-artist, and overall existential mess. This is supposedly where I tend to my aesthetic garden but who knows what other posts I will commit 

[averyterrible]

apparently, chinese goths have figured out how to do qing era costuming. jiangshi time.

[averyterrible]

@post-brahminism check it

[bish0ps]

damn that's crazy dot com forward slash thanks for sharing

[ravioliet]

[kosmogrl]

we got august this week

[daintyartisan]

High Fashion SpongeBob by WISDOM KAYE (2023)

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Mary Blair's concept art for Alice in Wonderland (1951)

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

Hey,.. if you were thinking about having sex today, I'm nonbinary fortnite.

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[kosmogrl]

Dont blame yourself for not having known a lesson only time could teach

[izbnart]

Disco Elysium animation 🕺

[alice-is-annoyed-deactivated202]

[apenitentialprayer]

Am walking through Manhattan, there's a woman who can't be more than 25 in a big fur coat, walking with a cane, angrily saying into her headpiece "I want them them destroyed," I feel like an extra in a movie

[frommylimitedtravels]

Post-storm at Ruby Beach

[itsybitsyjoltik]

we can’t keep letting him get away with this

[plant-based-person]

had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”

[plant-based-person]

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 

[just-call-me-the-old-hag]

[everythingfox]

The bell

[luna-azzurra]

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

[brigantias-isles]

Holly Grove 

by Flora MacLachlan