MORE 🐉 THAN 🐉 ACCEPTABLE 🐉
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
MORE 🐉 THAN 🐉 ACCEPTABLE 🐉
And he did great! Gosh! The milk alone… ! Also Oscar Isaac played the best Victor Frankenstein ever. I could rant for ages, but I won’t because I don’t care enough.
The Creature was merely adequate. This isn’t a new world of gods and monsters.
The Creature was merely adequate. This isn’t a new world of gods and monsters.
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
And he did great! Gosh! The milk alone… ! Also Oscar Isaac played the best Victor Frankenstein ever. I could rant for ages, but I won’t because I don’t care enough.
The Creature was merely adequate. This isn’t a new world of gods and monsters.
The Creature was merely adequate. This isn’t a new world of gods and monsters.
Guillermo del Toro dodged all of this and made a film about parenthood, pride, and the difficult necessity of interfacing with life
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Guillermo del Toro dodged all of this and made a film about parenthood, pride, and the difficult necessity of interfacing with life
Frankenstein is a multifaceted text
I read it as a story of queerness, the twin aspects of creation and destruction inherent to progress, and the difficult necessity of interfacing with society
I read it as a story of queerness, the twin aspects of creation and destruction inherent to progress, and the difficult necessity of interfacing with society
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Frankenstein is a multifaceted text
I read it as a story of queerness, the twin aspects of creation and destruction inherent to progress, and the difficult necessity of interfacing with society
I read it as a story of queerness, the twin aspects of creation and destruction inherent to progress, and the difficult necessity of interfacing with society
Del Toro is wielding his full power to reach into someone’s soul here, but the soul he’s chosen isn’t mine. This… fully tracks with what he’s said re: adaptation, that’s it’s “like marrying a widow: you respect the memory of the husband, but at some point you've gotta get it on.” And yeah. Legit.
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Del Toro is wielding his full power to reach into someone’s soul here, but the soul he’s chosen isn’t mine. This… fully tracks with what he’s said re: adaptation, that’s it’s “like marrying a widow: you respect the memory of the husband, but at some point you've gotta get it on.” And yeah. Legit.
It could be transcendent. Or it could be awful! Didn’t seem LIKELY that del Toro would make a bad Frankenstein movie, but he is a fallible human being and I had to acknowledge the possibility. I didn’t really think about how I’d feel if he made a brilliant movie that just… wasn’t FOR me
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It could be transcendent. Or it could be awful! Didn’t seem LIKELY that del Toro would make a bad Frankenstein movie, but he is a fallible human being and I had to acknowledge the possibility. I didn’t really think about how I’d feel if he made a brilliant movie that just… wasn’t FOR me
So when I found out he was adapting Frankenstein, arguably the most important story to me, a person stitched together from stories, stakes felt high. What happens when an artist who can reach into my soul connects with a thing that already lives there?
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
So when I found out he was adapting Frankenstein, arguably the most important story to me, a person stitched together from stories, stakes felt high. What happens when an artist who can reach into my soul connects with a thing that already lives there?
I went into this almost scared - Guillermo del Toro can make movies that change my life. He’s done it twice. Twice! And this was in adulthood, well after the effortless neuroplasticity window had shut. That’s real power - an ability to reach directly into my nonexistent soul and SQUEEZE
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I went into this almost scared - Guillermo del Toro can make movies that change my life. He’s done it twice. Twice! And this was in adulthood, well after the effortless neuroplasticity window had shut. That’s real power - an ability to reach directly into my nonexistent soul and SQUEEZE
An entire song EXCEPT HIS NAME
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
An entire song EXCEPT HIS NAME
So I had to frantically stall until his drink sticker printed - Michael. Michael!
Michael caught me looking at the sticker. R.I.P. my dignity, that’ll be five more minutes in the skull chair
Michael caught me looking at the sticker. R.I.P. my dignity, that’ll be five more minutes in the skull chair
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
So I had to frantically stall until his drink sticker printed - Michael. Michael!
Michael caught me looking at the sticker. R.I.P. my dignity, that’ll be five more minutes in the skull chair
Michael caught me looking at the sticker. R.I.P. my dignity, that’ll be five more minutes in the skull chair
Aagh, really I should get points for ALMOST knowing his name. Out of all possible names I’ve narrowed it to two, and there are a LOT of names out there! But unfortunately that’s not how the points work
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Aagh, really I should get points for ALMOST knowing his name. Out of all possible names I’ve narrowed it to two, and there are a LOT of names out there! But unfortunately that’s not how the points work
🎶 It's the eye of the tiddy if the tiddies had sight
Covered up now for work here in the city
Until soon (name) changes his shirt in the back room
And he's watching us all with the eeeeye of the tiddy 🎶
Okay, quick, which name fits in the song? Dangit, Aaron and Michael both scan.
Covered up now for work here in the city
Until soon (name) changes his shirt in the back room
And he's watching us all with the eeeeye of the tiddy 🎶
Okay, quick, which name fits in the song? Dangit, Aaron and Michael both scan.
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
🎶 It's the eye of the tiddy if the tiddies had sight
Covered up now for work here in the city
Until soon (name) changes his shirt in the back room
And he's watching us all with the eeeeye of the tiddy 🎶
Okay, quick, which name fits in the song? Dangit, Aaron and Michael both scan.
Covered up now for work here in the city
Until soon (name) changes his shirt in the back room
And he's watching us all with the eeeeye of the tiddy 🎶
Okay, quick, which name fits in the song? Dangit, Aaron and Michael both scan.
This wasn't Nick. This was... Michael or Aaron. The guy Nick had caught full tits out changing his shirt in the back room, and I'd written a song about it to the tune of Eye of the Tiger:
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This wasn't Nick. This was... Michael or Aaron. The guy Nick had caught full tits out changing his shirt in the back room, and I'd written a song about it to the tune of Eye of the Tiger:
See, many years ago my coworker Nick had sent me a drawing of a shirtless man with googly eyes stuck over the nipples, and the caption "Is not the nipple the eye of the tiddy?"
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
See, many years ago my coworker Nick had sent me a drawing of a shirtless man with googly eyes stuck over the nipples, and the caption "Is not the nipple the eye of the tiddy?"
r e l a t a b l e
October 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
r e l a t a b l e
Okay but he has to promise not to tell Bard the Bowman about my missing scale
October 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Okay but he has to promise not to tell Bard the Bowman about my missing scale
They all had strong dynamics with each other, too. It’s one thing to ask a LARPer to treat a monster like a person - most of them have recent practice. It’s a separate thing to ask adults to remember that 13 year olds are people, with full and rich human lives, and these players excelled at both
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
They all had strong dynamics with each other, too. It’s one thing to ask a LARPer to treat a monster like a person - most of them have recent practice. It’s a separate thing to ask adults to remember that 13 year olds are people, with full and rich human lives, and these players excelled at both
They requested an ENTIRELY UNPLANNED EXTRA SCENE where they snuck me to a cabin and spent over an hour just hanging out and teaching me about like. Math? And dancing? And MORTALITY?
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
They requested an ENTIRELY UNPLANNED EXTRA SCENE where they snuck me to a cabin and spent over an hour just hanging out and teaching me about like. Math? And dancing? And MORTALITY?
ANSWER: They wove a friendship bracelet onto my claw hand. They made scout badges with my face on them. They had an in-character D&D session where half the group decided to play “lily pad orcs.”
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ANSWER: They wove a friendship bracelet onto my claw hand. They made scout badges with my face on them. They had an in-character D&D session where half the group decided to play “lily pad orcs.”
Got nervous about the swamp monster though. He was potentially friendable, but his plot involved characters who were 13 years old, and would a group of adults really invest in playing a bunch of kids?
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Got nervous about the swamp monster though. He was potentially friendable, but his plot involved characters who were 13 years old, and would a group of adults really invest in playing a bunch of kids?