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Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

i’m sorry but it is absolutely a conservative impulse to believe that an ancient work has some kind of “purity” that can be “desecrated” by adaptation. think about what you are saying. why do you think adaptational change or reinterpretation is an “offense” to “culture” that must be answered for? what could motivate a person or movement to designate a certain story as “sacred”? when you do this, are you conjuring an idealized past? in the same breath, does this position modernity as a threat?

just think about it. ben killed locke AND jacob AND that weirdo army man. ben took a stand AGAINST toxic men in power. it’s actually pretty feminist of him if you really truly think about it.

eating disorders and abortions are two things that are like, spoken about in most mainstream discourse as though they are pretty rare and aberrant, but then when you’re actually friends with a lot of women you come to find out that they are extremely extremely common and kind of banal & mundane

notice how everyones 30 now

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

I am ready to support the beautiful nation of Mexico and its lovely people in their great battle with the uncivilized hordes of England. The world stands with you🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

sex isn't immoral, involving sex in a relationship isn't immoral, sex isn't taboo, kinks aren't and shouldn't be a morality issue, you aren't purer than anyone for perceiving something as strictly platonic

Write that one-shot. Those 3 chapters will be the best 10 chapters you ever wrote

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid