brodalisque

From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro // The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (c. 1640–1649) by Matthias Stom

Annibale Carracci, c. 1582

he's so so so suicidal but dying means failure and he's terrified of failing the people who he perceives as Worthy (notoriously: anyone who is not him) but the sheer panic that's always bubbling right beneath the surface that peeks out when it's Time™ when he realizes This Is It™ is unhinged.

follows order that runs counter to his instinct and immediately dissociates

I look exhausted Oh, stiff and awkward on the outside of the moment It's not my first time bitter, drunk on a red carpet Or my first time losing, and it won't be my last

From: HOW TO READ A PERSON LIKE A BOOK (1971), by Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero.

dir. michael powell and emeric pressburger