everybody is nobody

fuck pronouns, i ain't no human, i'm a ghoul, misanthropic, nihilistic, atheistic ghoul

[ohmovie]

There were once passageways to the old world, strange trails, hidden paths. You'd turn a corner and suddenly find yourself face-to-face with the great mystery, the foundation of all things. And even though that old world is gone now, even though it's been rolled up like a scroll and put somewhere, you can still feel the echo of it.

Train Dreams (2025) dir. Clint Bentley

[neilvana]

[louisegluckpdf]

holy quaternity

[starfruitlily]

Father Paul Hill & Sheriff Hassan from Midnight Mass (2021)

[copiarion]

[leftlovetragedy]

I think all book purists and ardent lovers of Shelley's novel who are jumping on GDT's Frankenstein movie and are raging against it already because it's different from the novel need to take several things into account:

GDT is a big fan of monsters. He loves monsters. He takes monsters' side over humans all the time or most of the time.

In his movies monsters are often complex and sympathetic, while the humans are the real monsters.

GDT personally made fix-it fanfic movie Shape of Water based on Creature from the Black Lagoon where fish monster and main female character had romance and ended up together.

At one point during promotion of his Frankenstein GDT said that his fave Dracula adaptation is Coppola's Dracula. Yes, he read the novel. No, the differences don't matter to him.

Because GDT doesn't care about book purism and book fidelity or book canon in general. Here's what he also said while promoting his Frankenstein: "What I find beautiful is that when you create a universal myth, whether it's Frankenstein, Pinocchio, Dracula, or Sherlock Holmes, the myth itself rises so far above the original material that any interpretation is equally faithful if done with sincerity, power, and personality. If you think in terms of fidelity to the canon, you would be completely paralyzed."

Now, taking into account points 1-5 here's a very simple message and conclusion: GDT has never been a person you should or can expect perfectly faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel from. He was never a guy for this job. He was always going to make his very own take with his very own brand of approach. Yes, with extra villainous Victor, yes, with uber sympathetic Creature, yes, with some Elizabeth and Creature romance, yes, with everything else he cut, changed and all that.

So instead of jumping on GDT or his movie you can either approach it as its own thing and vibe with it, or if you can't manage to do that then really, you still have Shelley's novel, nobody's taking it from you, just reread it, watch other adaptations of it, like that ballet or the Hallmark miniseries.

[mcpayne]

Oscar Isaac reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein you have no idea what you do to me

[old-deerstalker-hat]

[brandneweyescd]

they were right btw. you have to dig yourself out of your grave over and over again

[gayboysteve]

you can find me by the window following my past to a trail of blood in the snow

True Detective Season 1 // “I Sing the Body Electric, Especially when My Power Is Out” by Andrea Gibson

[horrorsterrors]

time is a flat circle

[nemesisyphus]

a cynical mystic’s adnientie

the secret diary of laura palmer / sharp objects, dir. jean-marc vallée / an exit wound that feels so fucking good, megan lynne / twin peaks and twin peaks: fire walk with me, dir. david lynch / prelude, brynne rebele-henry / true detective

[helliecide]

( True Detective x Inbred - Ethel Cain )

[citheroniaregalis]

the problem with showrunners is that they create these distant, quiet, misunderstood-but-brilliant male characters with steely expressions and hearts of gold expecting for them to attract a male audience that would idolize them; but they are fundementally missing the fact that NOBODY is going to resonate with being pushed away from society, constantly questioned and talked down to, hating yourself but also hating everyone else but also loving everything in such a deep and terrible manner that it turns dreadfully violent, and being deeply disconnected with your body and autonomy as much as a young girl. Men reinvent women in themselves without ever being able to recognize it because of how much they hate being associated with femininity. and this is why fandom culture is born

[breadandlottery]

Gi-hun! Do you know why your life is so pathetic? Because you ask the dumbest questions even in this situation. Constantly minding other people's business with that pea brain of yours, not knowing your ass from your elbow.

[sweetvelvetdark]

i love you twisted retellings i love you stories within stories i love you unreliable narrators i love you mockumentaries i love you dramatizations i love you prose of carnage and war i love you cosmic horror upon Earth i love you doppelgängers i love you tales so graphic they cannot be retold in other forms of media

[pansy2025]

doc there is a fucking hole where something was