Beloved Ghast

Adam Frankenstein’s debut novel about an unhinged goth queen who fucks in graveyards and keeps her love’s calcified heart

ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.

do not have the energy to block these bots anymore. hey girlies do you enjoy literary fiction?

My kink is science fiction in which the plot is set over a period of centuries or greater.

Putting this back at the top of my feed because even though I wrote it a few years back it is even truer now!

i think what bothers me about what tim b*rton’s work has become (and like perhaps this was always an undercurrent in it that has become more prominent over time) is that it depicts a version of the experience of being a creepy outsider that’s always entirely palatable to the mainstream. with the exception of maybe beetlejuice (but even there, i feel like subsequent depictions of beetlejuice have sort of defanged him from his hilariously smarmy, slimy initial incarnation), ed wood, and sweeney todd, his misunderstood protagonists are always completely understandable and likable to a mainstream audience. whatever makes them “different” is a quirk that either makes them more endearing or is offset by other more socially acceptable qualities. i’m not really sure where i’m going with this exactly, but i suppose it irritates me bc it’s like media that poses as counterculture but, in fact, espouses utterly mainstream, establishment values.

i was reading up on clive barker several months ago and his YA fantasy series abarat and how, in the early 2000s, he was in talks with disney for a film series and a theme park in conjunction with it and how those things never materialized and the comparisons + contrasts to burton’s relationship to disney are striking