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Mary or Kaylean //33/ /she/her// married // here since 2009 // working on a sapphic steampunk novel right now

[marydawson]

This year I got my very own Wonwoo 🥰

[sentrysvoid]

Frankenstein dir. Guillermo del Toro | 2025

[bangchansrose]

never kill yourself because who knows if guillermo del toro will make a film that stares straight into your soul and says "i see you, i understand you, and the cycle of violence can end" and you will leave a theater sobbing with hope

[phantom-threaded]

Frankenstein (2025) + trivia

[mcpayne]

"Del Toro sees Victor as "an arrogant, abusive father" and the monster as a "tragic child." "Our Victor is a selfish child," says del Toro, "who was hurt himself and therefore thinks the world owes him everything. He is trying to measure up to 'Daddy' ... Victor is like some tech bros— oblivious to consequence-consumed by a vision in the abstract. And, like all tyrants, he believes himself a victim." [Frankenstein: Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro]

[valarinde]

frankenstein (2025) is a movie about the cycle of violence and the inevitability of violence and about the miracle of being kind. it is a beautiful and touching adaptation that takes a unique view of some of the story’s focal points while staying true to the novel’s themes. it is also a movie that aims to remind us that the original creature textually had long flowing locks, for which I think we should all be thanking del toro specifically

[itsjustthechems]

i bought the $70 book about guillermo del toro's frankenstein film because i'm nuts, and here are some of my favorite highlights thus far:

• the fact that all jacob elordi really had to say for guillermo to cast him was "my father is spanish. also i went to catholic school and felt scared and deeply uncomfortable there" like...GDT's requirements are: you gotta be hispanic/latine, be filled with catholic guilt, or BOTH

• [regarding the nine hour prosthetic application process] "elordi recalls, 'the first thing guillermo said to me was that it would be my skin, and i would have to take the sacrament. like every morning, getting the prosthetics put on would be like the eucharist. that's how he spoke about it from the moment i came to the project.'" THAT'S INSANE LMAO

• this quote from jacob - "i love that the film doesn't have a fatalistic ending. what recourse does the creature have but to live? in all the drudgery and sadness and rejection, what else will you do but keep walking toward the sun?"

• the character of william frankenstein was based on guillermo as a child. guillermo gave the actor, felix kammerer, a photo of himself where he looked very little and sad and lonely, and felix carried that photo with him for the entirety of the film.

• the makeup artist applied subtle prosthetics to mia goth's face when she played victor's mother in order to make her look slightly more similar to oscar isaac

• jacob had to wear oversized fake teeth because of the way the prosthetics altered the proportions of his face. they also gave him large dark contact lenses to make him even more doe-eyed/baby-ish.

[belciiboo]

"To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love"

[adyophene]

Husk's secret weapon

[fulaipyy]

Siren Angel and Pirate Husk

i was listening to the song 'i could be the one' while I was drawing it lol

[poppyflavour]

Anime sequence profile pictures for y'all

[marydawson]

15 years 😂 don’t know if I should be proud but… guys, I love you!

[seoksoonwoo]

[60] weeks until wonwoo is back ↳ SVTSIDE OUT

[nondelphic]

writing isn’t hard. i just have to extract 80,000 words from my brain using sheer psychic force

[gay--dog]

on squid tumblr it wouldbe called an inkbox

[eingedeutscht]

schwul--hund

Auf Tintenfischtumblr würde es Briefkraken heißen

[magicoleanders]

if you watched the Leviathan anime on Netflix, what did you think?

liked it (read the books)

liked it (never read the books)

mixed feelings (read the books)

mixed feelings (never read the books)

disliked it (read the books)

disliked it (never read the books)

other/nuance

Voting ended onJul 20, 2025

please elaborate in the tags!!

[i-gwarth]

I did not actually think I'd see a Leviathan adaptation in my lifetime

I read these books over 10 years ago, and they've been a huge influence on my aesthetics, tastes, storytelling and personal feelings. But they've always been an obscure little gem, a lavishly illustrated series of children's book that practically nobody knew about or had any interest in. To see this series with my own two eyes has been enormously uplifting.

Music by Joe Hisashi. Executive involvement of both Keith Thompson and Scott Westerfeld (who I'm glad is getting a W in adaptations after the calamity of Uglies). But a different writer and art director so we're not slavishly devoted to the source material. There is a significant number of changes: some were clearly made to save up on budget (fewer characters, fewer locations, fewer contraptions and beasties) while others are meant to shift the tone of the narrative.

I'll put it this way: this is clearly a 2020s production. The characters are aged up slightly from the book, and we're working from a perspective that understands it is impossible to have the sort of idealized ending the books had. But in this decade we're also desperate, starving for the kind of hope and wonder the books tried to capture and convey.

Leviathan is a conscious, insistent rejection of cynicism. This theme is not just preserved from the book, it is amplified, stronger and more impactful and all the more valuable because we live in a different world, we're older and things feel worse than they used to.

The ghibli vibes are powerful here - a wondrous fascination with the possibilities of machines, with the miracles of life, with the world as seen through the eyes of one who is growing up. It refuses prejudice and violence, but also the squeaky-clean deception of quick and easy solutions.

I wasn't on board with every change from the novels, but I don't have to be. I respect them. The team clearly had a strong love for the source material and by the end of this series I was left feeling the same joyful hope and longing that the books left in my heart over 10 years ago.

I can pay it no higher compliment than that