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my rendition of Eden Lamar.
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"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."
dude honestly shout out to my guards i told them to seize this guy and before i could even finish my sentence they soze him. My goats
within many transgender readings of frankenstein, people are quick to point out victor is building an "idealised male body" that is meant to be the pinnacle of masculinity. it's common for that to be seen as like, a trans man scientist trying to build the dream body for himself. subsequently, the failure of creating the idealised man resulting in a grotesque man-inhuman instead is seen as a representation of the actual self (in dysphoria), a thing that tries to mimic a man but Isn't. this has merit 👍
however!! i'd make argument that, in order for this concept of the Being being the Pinnacle of Masculinity to follow through the novel, a transfeminine reading would apply easier; as we look at the events of the book, isn't then the Spectre Of Idealised Masculinity then Haunting victor until he reaches his deathbed? i feel that is a more transfeminine kind of horror, if that makes sense. victor spends years of his life haunted by Masculinity and its ruins his entire life.
you try in vain to create the most Perfect Man one can be but you fail because you fundamentally cannot achieve that and now it is a deformed broken masculinity that YOU cannot bring yourself to look at anymore and you run from it and it chases you and chases you and chases you until you technically die because of it. and then it kills itself also. Well ok.
side note from my conversation with @frankingsteinery on this matter: this is a more half baked thought i have to dwell on, but after she asked me how the destruction of the bride could fit into all of this sort of transfem dysphoria lense... i think it is possible to see it as a sort of repression/supression? the broken manhood asks for (idealised?) feminity to make him happy and whole, victor accepts after it claims it will go away into south america with her (i.e get rid of himself and the woman). nearing the completion, however, victor destroys the female body. self hatred idk i have to think more on it
really awesome additions from my mutual @jackest-jack & after that my friend @twofaceforever (written on discord)!
and now my friend:
okay this is for you girlstein nation before starting, i’d like to establish one element that will be relevant to the rest of the analysis: victor’s association of his material achievements with the measure of his worth. i believe this trait was instilled in him very early, both by his father, who disparages his interests as “sad trash,” and by a figure like krempe, who ritually humiliates victor by bringing up agrippa. victor feels the need to materialize his ideas, to have something to exhibit in order to legitimize his obsessions. there’s a direct link between his concrete success and his value, hence the need to create something beautiful, grand, and admirable; if it is, then that must necessarily mean victor is too. victor’s vanity is key in the discussion, because the creature is, to him, the material proof of his worth. the creature is grandiose, intimately connected to traits idealized and judged favorably by society, such as beauty. thus, the creature becomes a performance, a demonstration of victor’s abilities, and by extension, a performance of masculinity. the creature displays hypermasculine traits: a large stature, immense physical strength, an intimidating presence, etc. he’s a parody, a caricature of the hegemonic masculinity that victor is expected to deliver (which is also tied to heterosexualy, something i think could be connected to the topic of the bride). at the same time, the creature is a failure of masculine performance. on paper, yes. the creature ticks all the boxes of the ideal male form: he is tall, strong, yada yada. but concretely, this display is unnatural. the performance is fundamentally… wrong, uncanny, and unhuman. there is a clear dissonance between the intention and the performance BECAUSE victor does not embody the performative identity he tries to present to the world. the male body, by its unnatural quality, becomes a source of terror and discomfort for victor. i’d like to note something, and that’s the dream victor has before running away from the creature. i’d like to point out that the dream is composed entirely of women, the most important feminine figures in his life. upon waking, victor flees the creature, and thus rejects masculine performance. what makes this so interesting is that, during those two years when victor was crafting the creature, he systematically neglected those feminine figures in his life. he barely wrote to elizabeth, he immersed himself in his work to cope with the grief caused by his mother’s death. figuratively and literally, victor relegates the feminine to the background, and indirectly, his own femininity. he needs this dream in order to wake up and renounce a manhood that never truly belonged to him later, i might try to talk about the return of the creature as the return of a masculine obligation to a heterosexual relationship, and how this manhood haunts him until his death, but my brain is out of brain juice so 😛 tldr estrogen could've saved victor frankenstein
somewhat related to the original post & frankly i don't know where i'm going here but! but the quote jack mentioned was "You are my creator but I am your master; obey!" which i have thought a little more on. once all the ways victor frankenstein is feminised in the narrative and the birth metaphor are considered, what the being says could be taken as You are my mother, but I, your son (a Man), am your master; obey!
obviously very patriarchal families something something. though you were the one to give birth to me, i am a man and you are not and i have more power than you.
i do feel like somehow the fact this is said in the scene after victor destroys the bride can add to this somehow. the Being asking for a bride in the first place can be seen as forcing victor to bear another child which additionally does add a layer of pseudo-incest to it as the Being is her son, therefore logically he would be the brother of the bride. victor destroying the bride can, therefore, easily be seen as an abortion and one of her most significant demonstrations of autonomy after the initial loss. all of this is followed by the infamous declaration of "I will be with you on your wedding night". but i'm still not entirely sure how to tie it all in.
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my rendition of Eden Lamar.
One of the NPC'a from our Voidfront TTRPG by my friend
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