Dracula's lover

She/her latina age 23🫠 Frankenstein 🫀 And Dracula 🩸

[schoolhater]

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[writerxwren]

I've never read WH but we stand in solidarity with you 😭

[softly-and-suddenly]

Also while I’m thinking about the new Frankenstein movie, I’ve seen droves of people saying Mary Shelley would’ve absolutely loved it and I find that really strange. I really couldn’t even give an educated guess as to whether Mary Shelley would’ve liked this adaptation because she’s been dead for nearly 100 years and I haven’t read any of her works besides Frankenstein, but I’ve seen so many people parroting this opinion with the justification that Mary Shelley was a dramatic teenage girl when she wrote it and “they made the monster hot” or “they made Elizabeth a monster fucker” and she would’ve enjoyed that.

I think that Mary Shelley would’ve been fully within her rights as a very talented writer to have objections to the many ways in which the movie changed the themes and plot of her book, and I think it’s very strange and honestly quite sexist to insist that she’d uncritically love it for being uhhh sexy? because she was a teenage girl????

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

man, seeing the state of gothic heroines in this modern age just fuels my spite in writing my heroine slitting her abuser’s throat in cold blood before marching off to shoot her cult leader uncle in the head even more 🔪

Oh my God, do it! We need more Gothic stories like that after everything we’ve been through *shudders* 🖤

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

Any person that repeats the “um actually the Creature was beautiful in the book 🤓👆” automatically loses all credibility for me, im not taking a single one of their takes seriously.

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

"By making Mina fall in love with her rapist she's given agency" "By making Lucy cheat on Arthur with her murderer she's given agency" "By making Elizabeth fall in love with her killer she's given agency" "By making Isabella want to be her rapist's dog she's given agency" SHUT THE FUCK UUUUUUP

When you go to girlboss feminism school and can't come up with any ideas for female characters beyond making them the willing girlfriend of the guy who was their abuser/murderer in the original material, because apparently that gives them "agency" (just ignore what's actually written about them in the book)

[bef0re-i-sleep]

The only diversion from the book in dracula 1992 i will accept is Jack Seward tripping and promptly eating shit in front of Lucy because a) nothing in canon says that it didnt happen and b) its fucking hilarious

[marghen]

peak

[sanguinevisions]

the worst thing about all those dracula adaptations that recast mina as a pure wilting heroine caught in a dark romance with the sexy evil vampire who's obsessed with her, is that that story already exists. my girl my queen the sexy evil obsessive vampire of all of our dreams carmilla karnstein is RIGHT THERE!! laura, the pure sweet heroine who cannot resist the dark sexyevil allure of the vampire who won't leave her alone is RIGHT THERE. the people do not want dracula. the people yearn for carmilla.

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

Oh, the men aren’t baiting when they say this, huh? Isabella already has agency in the book, she escapes Heathcliff, goes to London, and raises her son on her own,she doesn't even ask her brother for help — and all of this in the late eighteenth century! "Full agency" just because now she's sexually into something that was non-consensual in the book? suck my clit

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

The way that movie isn’t even a good Wuthering Heights fanfic… because absolutely no one who’s actually read the book would think the character to make sexy and give a bdsm sex scene to would be fucking Joseph

[swiftsnowmane]

If tumblr's bizarrely rapturous reception to the abysmal Dracula: A Love Tale film tells me anything, it's that there will be plenty of people here who will absolutely eat up Fennell's "Wuthering Heights". I'm steeling myself for the reactions.

It's frustrating, because what it shows is that there is an appetite and desire for dark romance films, for epic and tumultuous love stories that people can get swept up and lost in. But I just wish this appetite was being served with more than steaming piles of sh*t. I get the feeling many people (perhaps the younger folks) have little to no exposure to higher quality versions of this theme, and are therefore grasping for cinematic satisfaction wherever they can.

(What makes it even more frustrating though is that this desperation for 'dark romance' seems to cancel out any critical thought about the directors of these films or their (imo) uncomfortable or even outright creepy filmmaking decisions—particularly in Luc Besson's case, seeing as he's literally a KNOWN plagiarist, rapist, and p*dophile.)

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

wait what do you mean that Isabella's consensually abused in the movie

Basically, Isabella sexually enjoys being treated in a humiliating way, like a dog who can't leave the house,Heathcliff straight up tells her what he's going to do to her, that he doesn't love her, and that he just wants revenge on Cathy.

So Emerald turns what is very clearly domestic abuse in the book into some kind of consensual dom/sub dynamic in the movie, apparently. So Isabella is just… okay with it.

I haven't even watched the movie, but you can see it mentioned in other reviews online:

[ilynpilled]

u ppl r gonna hate-watch that wuthering heights movie into a few hundred more million dollars

[jellogram]

I like a lot of the guy's work to be clear but it's wild to me how guillermo del toro's fans worship him as this sort of anti-capitalist, pro-art god with impeccable artistic tastes and zero flaws as a creator

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

... Yeah

[kheldara]

one of my favourite underrated crazy Wuthering Heights things is when Hindley shoves a knife through Nellys teeth and she spits it out, taking the piss out of him all the while.

their house had mould for real and it infected them all.

[ilynpilled]

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

10/10 ragebait.

[strawerryisacreaturelover]

“Oh, Nelly isn’t a reliable narrator because she hated Catherine 1.”

I don’t care, Nelly wasn’t even as mean to Cathy as she should’ve been 🤷🏻‍♀️