Oxford is one of those places where the clearly ridiculous overly snooty cat name concept just doesn't really work, isn't it?

Glad to see Teabag on there: as I recall Teabag also had two kittens named Tealeaf and Earl Grey which the college kept.

Honestly I think the trend basically begins with Call Of Cthulhu and it's habit of churning out sourcebooks to colonise every possible period of historical storytelling with 'what if the real story was the completely ahistorical, acontextual battle against G'Thar-D'Huffegf'

I keep saying to my Frankenstein-head friends that we should do a podcast where all the episodes are discussions of Frankenstein adaptations/retellings. Looking forward to adding this to the putative episode list.

This happens weirdly frequently in my areas (ghosts) because Big Hauntology has gotten everybody absolutely addicted to using ghosts as metaphors for basically anything.

I don't think the existence of queer people within the church throughout history - a real and important part of Christian history - outweighs the homophobia that has characterised Christianity's institutional stances for almost its entire history.

The idea that Christian homophobia derives from one translation error in 1946 is simply wishful thinking. I am an expert on medieval Christian religious literature and these works roundly condemn men having sex with men for essentially identical reasons to modern Christian homophobes.

Was at an art museum today that had the same problem - absolutely no connection between the shop and anything in the gallery.

anyway this artist Charles McKim is really cool and I'd never heard of him, yeah don't bother making any prints or anything though. continue to sell chocolate and socks

Authentic in the sense that it is actually food?

It sounds like, if anything, the actual difference is that book-Victor is sympathetic whereas film-Victor tends not to be.

I haven't actually watched any of the famous Frankenstein films (partly because I'm a huge novel-head) but the differentiating factor I usually hear reference is the level of the creature's articulacy.

How sympathetically does Victor tend to get portrayed in the films?

Most people, particularly in Europe, don't imagine #wombats (or any Australian #mammals!) in the snow, so it's cool that the #wombat diorama at @nhmwien.bsky.social depicts a snowy habitat. Snow wombats are common in #Tasmania - like the live one above. #taxidermy