Haven

A liminal safe place for self exploration

[wuika]

Acrylic on canvas of Frankenstein's creature. It had been a long time since I'd done any traditional painting. This work was good for me. ^^

[wuika]

I believe this is one of the greatest portraits I have done so far. (60 x 120 cm)

[alicesodyssey]

When we first meet Elizabeth she rants about the war and soldiers dying. According to her uncle and William she does this often enough for them to be annoyed. The Creature was made of pieces of those same soliders.

[theautisticjedi]

One thing about Frankenstein I don't see people talking about is how the Creature doesn't ask for a wife from Victor, he wants a companion. Victor takes it as him wanting a wife but the Creature never said that. He just wanted a friend.

[medusas-daughter]

I love that Viktor Frankenstein is shown treating actually sick people horribly. I love that he goes on this long agrandizing rants about defeating death and then stands in front of people condemned to die, miserable and terrified, and looks them in the eye and goes "ugh terrible condition ugh be glad you're about to be killed you would have died anyway ugh" because yeah that's what an ego boost "I'm gonna defeat death and beat god" will do to you. That's a horrible doctor, an incredibly smart one, but a horrible one. He doesn't care about improving the quality of life of anyone, he doesn't care about actual healing, he cares about his ego, about getting retribution from death for having taken his mother, not anyone else's mother though, or someone else's son or father or daughter or sister, just his mother. Even when he finds out about Harlander, who has done so much for him, there was no empathy only disgust at his compromised body. And I liked that it was shown because so many doctors, even to this day still, despite the development of ethics and deontology committees, don't understand that the job isn't to defeat death or destroy a disease, the job is to help a human being. Even when you can't heal you should still do your best to help them, improve their quality of life even if they only have one minute left to live. That's the job.

But Viktor didn't vow to become a better doctor, he only vowed to become better than his father but he was still on the same wavelength, still on the same ego trip, just better at defeating death. And the other doctors who rejected him, they were also on the same wavelength, still obsessed with their place vis-à-vis god, as good christians and good extensions of their god, that they shouldn't try to defy him. But noone in that boys' club was identifying the actual problem of their practice. That patients were accessories when patients should be at the center of every single decision a doctor makes.

[cloudy-rina]

Creature getting ready for winter 🥹🥹🥹 So princess coded 💖💖

Also challenged myself to draw an actual background this time hahaha

[nyxemisa]

[julesjuliiet]

⋆ 𖤓 ⋆˚࿔ turn your face towards the sun ⋆ 𖤓 ⋆˚࿔

this might be my fave thing i’ve ever drawn <33

[terminalnaps]

The spirit of the forest!!! 🌲🌲🌲

[muirin007]

Let! Him! Live! With! Peepaw!

[tel-the-wayfarer]

This relationship is my absolute favorite, and seeing one of my favorite content creators post this had me gasping in delight.

[nuria-schnee]

JACOB ELORDI

in Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson (2025)

[tel-the-wayfarer]

Photo references

[thecrowsinkwell]

"Have you never seen the snow, my dear friend?"

[tel-the-wayfarer]

I need more of these two, I might cry (and save up to commission more) T.T

[darillium-night]

Update from the man himself

The Porn Guy aka The Nice Guy aka The Canadian side of Pornhub aka SFW Pornhub’s REAL NAME is Ryan Creamer. No joke, that is legit his real name.

Also this.

Which led him to this.

Bless this man.

[the-nightman783]

[lynati]

I can appreciate him and the service he’s providing independently of the shitshow that is the platform he’s hosted on.

[fly-chicken]

He remains just as funny and weird on other platforms dw

[fly-chicken]

By the way, the topic he was presenting was

‘Can I get an Honorary Degree if I Just Ask Really Nicely’

[intrinsicklutz]

I need y'all to know that he’s not just a part of the shows, Ryan Creamer is a Co-Executive Producer of Game Changer. Legend.

[phantom-threaded]

Guillermo del Toro on the Creature

[whispersofwonderlandofficial]

Finally, some official Whispers of Wonderland content exists and is being released into the wide world! The wait is ov- well, not entirely over, but it has begun! Let the dawn of Whispers of Wonderland begin!

...And other dramatic phrases that would theoretically sound good in a pivotal moment like this. *coughs*

Sorry this is shared as a TikTok link rather than just posting it directly to Tumblr. Tumblr has a 500MB limit for videos, which makes things tricky. 😅

But hello! Today is Midsummer's day, my birthday, and now Whispers of Wonderland's birthday as well. Strange things can indeed come through the veil on this day, can't they?

Enjoy the first 5 1/2 minutes of official Whispers of Wonderland content. Hopefully the full episode will be available within a few weeks, but I'll keep you all in the loop about how that's progressing. I'm still learning my creative process, so it's likely to start speeding up now. Good thing too, because this first video took me six months! 😅 But I think the next bit will happen a lot faster. We'll learn what's possible together. 🤞🤞🍀🍀

This first video will be spread around everywhere immediately, but the next one will go straight to Patreon for a few weeks before releasing it to everyone. I'll make it available to those on the $1 tier so that no one has to break the bank to get it early.

Thank you for your patience all this time! Now that Whispers of Wonderland has finally been properly born into the world, there's nowhere to go but up! I'm excited to see where this goes! ❤️

If you'd like to support us, and therefore help us to be able to speed up production, please consider subscribing to our Patreon:

https://patreon.com/whispersofwonderland

Or donating to our Kofi:

https://ko-fi.com/whispersofwonderland

And of course, sharing this around to get some more eyes on it is so helpful!

Thank you so much for watching this. We'll see you with the next part soon! ❤️

[tel-the-wayfarer]

Consider donating to these talented trans artists, I've followed them for more than a decade at this point and consistently been impressed.

They're trying to pay for rent and at least a few meals over the next few days --

Support small indie artists, not just big corporations, whenever possible <3

[whispersofwonderlandofficial]

I've been wanting to record this song for a while since it means a lot to me. I was feeling a lot of emotions when I wrote these lyrics, but the music Rythmix came up with, while amazing, was a challenge to sing to. I eventually managed it, but it was still a challenge. 😅 I think I like it anyway. And making the video was super fun!

There is a little hiccup in the whole mess though. My spouse and I have been living in a hotel, but we haven't been able to pay our bill today. If it goes unpaid for much longer, we'll be evicted and banned from this place without anywhere else to go. And we've hardly had any food either. It's been so hard.

If you're at all willing or able to help, here are some ways you can do so:

Ko-fi (Good for a one-time donation of any amount)

Patreon (Good for helping us to get out of this situation permanently and ensuring this animated series can continue)

It also helps tremendously if you're willing to share this around with everyone you know, even those who aren't on Tumblr. It's a public post, so they shouldn't have any trouble seeing it. I am also on Facebook and have already posted this there as well. I'll eventually share it to other places too, but I'll probably only manage Facebook and Tumblr for tonight since I've already worked so hard today. 😅 But we'll see how far tomorrow gets us.

Thank you for viewing, sharing, liking, commenting, encouraging, and helping us out in general. It means the world to us! Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

Stay tuned! So long as we can survive, I will definitely be releasing more content as soon as I possibly can! 🤞🤞🍀🍀

[tel-the-wayfarer]

Please reblog, and help if able!

[madeofclockwork]

I know this is a long shot since the chances of someone being able to respond as quickly as I need is unlikely on this site, but I'm not sure what else to do by this point, heh. My husband and I are going to get kicked out of our shelter in about an hour's time if we can't raise the remaining amount we need, about $65, which includes transfer fees.

If anyone can help even a little bit, that would be such a huge blessing! Reblogging this to help signal boost it is also really helpful. ❤️

Paypal: https://paypal.me/theodoreashford

Venmo: @thatashfordperson

CashApp: $thatashfordperson

Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/theodoreashford

[gardenvarietyhuman]

💥🙌👏

[ineffablebookgirl]

Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs

[addressmysol]

Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!

[angstbotfic]

i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:

"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"

Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.  

there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand.