Romeow

hi. so. me and my mom need some help

the more or less full story is on the gofundme page, but the gist is that we need somewhere to move soon, we have 4 pets, i'm too disabled to work but can't get on SSI for a while, and honestly she shouldn't be working either. she'll need to get set up with my state's government assistance and everything and in general we need somewhere to live while all of that is ongoing. so i set up this gofundme and it will go directly to her bank account.

my face is not on it, my legal name isn't either, but it's still pretty personal and that shit scares me but we really need this. anything helps. she just left a severely abusive marriage from a man who threatened her life and i'm at risk of eviction and neither of us have the funds we need to do much of anything.

she needs to be out of where she is by the end of january. we'll use whatever we get to figure out where to go from there.

all gfm funds go towards such expenses, like said hotel stay, pet care, supplies, storage, etc. i finally have some modicum of hope about this again and several other things coming along hopefully soon that should help me finally get on my feet. and my mom can worry less about me and also improve her own situation and we will, eventually, be okay. i have to have faith in that. a lot of people have come out of the woodwork to help me out, and i even made a new irl friend during all of this who has been a godsend for getting me where i need to go.

Grace mate bad as hell statement.

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

crossposting from bsky - glad I stopped using spotify when I did and that I unlinked it from my discord, but still

Something about how I can relate everything to greek mythos if I squint hard enough. But YEAH so funny story, after posting this protoframe, had like a couple people going (give him a ryan gosling). And thus the rabbit hole began. I did in fact see both movies and working on the book and played the game (poorly).

Anyway here

she picked up a sperm

what the people want, the people get

you see

my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.

evidence as explained:

victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world

his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression

he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest

henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces 

afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?

Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational 

the book does not otherwise have central female characters 

Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.