#reading...

[bleedinknight]

Guess who is not cooking and cleaning and only reading...

This bitch...

[nerdeas]

Reading...

[man-reading]

Just some bedtime reading... #snottydink #bed #reading #book #fit #fitness #igotacopy #itsonebayfor£45! @Elleclaramaystevenson by Ashley Jarvis Via Flickr: by samuelcurry ift.tt/1NdytjL

[wizardclown]

was gonna read Dune...there are 26 books...? i cannot.

i just picked it up today ...

[wizardclown]

🫡 finished project hail mary and to return it for the 200 other people in line rn lol

OH ALSO 5 STARS AGAIN

[wizardclown]

Project Hail Mary is so sad 😭😭😭😭

[localpilfenjoyer]

Victor's reactions to the daemon are interesting when you think of the daemon as embodying death and mortality itself (which he is in fact an animated incarnation of).

You flirt with it when you're younger, before actually grasping it and becoming frightened. It follows you around and you can't seem to shake it, even when you don't see it. It takes your loved ones from you and there's nothing you can do about it. On some intellectual level you understand that it operates by natural laws, but subjectively it feels cruel and unfair. Like on the day of Victor's wedding, despite the certain knowledge that it is there and it is inevitable, there are still times where you can forget about it and lose yourself in the happiness of the moment. Victor tries to bargain with it, before finally trying to resolutely accept and rebuke it. Towards the end, Victor sees confronting / meeting with it as the only way he will be reunited with his lost loved ones. It is predestined but hated.

Victor's behavior towards the creature vaguely expressed stages of processing grief - trying to deny or avoid its existence, raging at it, bargaining with it to preserve his peace, accepting it as an inevitability. On a metatextual (?) level, the daemon probably is intended as a symbol of death itself; on a character level, Victor's perception of the daemon as such a being rather than an ordinary creature or tortured person shapes the strangely helpless and desperate way he acts around it.