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Title: Designed for one another

Vidder: littlecatk

Fandom: Frankenstein (Universal Monster verse: Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Frankenstein meets the Wolfman (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944)

Music: Bride by The Mountain Goats

Summary: The Frankensteins, fathers, sons, daughters, mothers and brides

Warnings: Physical triggers (quick cuts/flashing lights), suicide, death,

On AO3 here / on tumblr version without subtitles here / version with subtitles here

This is the first vid in 3 years I finished.
I kind of want to explain my thoughs but I can write even less then edit videos - anyway, one core theme of this video is like self recognition through the other, but instead of self love it ends in repression? In the end of this movies the heterosexual, monogamous, white, abled couple lives and the 'unnatural'/monsterous is destroyed - till the next movie when the next person meddles with it.
Anyway, the first lyric match I decided on was that I wanted the marriage bed(s) standing head to head for "We lie tied to our slabs".
Things that bug me: The shot lenght is so inconsistent in this video and I fear it hurts its pacing. I used a free program to try split screens but I hate the watermarks so much.

kronette

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umadoshi

In the comments of

spikedluv's final post, which she made on Feb. 2, there's info saying that she died unexpectedly later that day, with a link to her obituary. :( No cause of death given.

Thank you,

shipperslist, for the heads-up.

ETA:

lunabee34 confirms in comments. ;_;
(Note: I'm taking the info in good faith as posted; I don't know the person who shared it, and while spikedluv and I were mutuals for a long time, I never knew her wallet name. But the obit info matches what I did know and she was an extremely regular poster, so even a day or two of silence was worrying.)

Current Mood: sad

usuallyhats

All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now - Ruby Tandoh
The Tomb of Dragons - Katherine Addison
The Grapples of Wrath - Alice Bell
A Case of Mice and Murder - Sally Smith
No Such Thing As Duty - Lara Elena Donnelly
Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer
Secrets of the First School - TL Huchu
An Oresteia - Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles trans Anne Carson
In the Shadow of the Ship - Aliette de Bodard

So my resolution to DNF more is certainly going... well?

A Case of Mice and Murder - Sally Smith, Secrets of the First School - TL Huchu, In the Shadow of the Ship - Aliette de Bodard

A Case of Mice and Murder
First in a series (of which I accidentally read the second one first, oops) of murder mysteries set in the Inner Temple around the turn of the century, in which one of the lawyers keeps getting dragooned into solving mysteries instead of spending all day solving difficult legal puzzles, as he'd prefer. The setting is very well drawn, as is the lead character (who by today's standards would be described as aroace and sitting somewhere in the overlap between autism, OCD and anxiety) - even with only two books out his development is already promising, but I also loved that he's never cold; right from the first time we meet him, he's trying to meet other people with kindness and sympathy, even if he doesn't entirely understand their emotions or why illogical platitudes help.

This first one suffered a bit from the solution to the mystery not quite landing - more of a "sure, I suppose that makes sense" than an "of COURSE" - but the second one is already better on that front, so hopefully the author will hit her stride with that aspect as well.

Secrets of the First School - TL Huchu
Final volume in the Edinburgh Nights series, in which teenage ghost talker Ropa Moyo gets increasingly tangled up in magical goings on in near future slightly AU Scotland. I feel like this series has always had pacing problems, and this volume is no exception - I could have done with one more book to give all the twists and revelations slightly more time to land - plus it's been frustrating to see Ropa keep on yoyo-ing between "I must do everything alone! No wait I have friends and allies! But I must ignore them and do everything alone!". But those problems aside, I've really enjoyed this series, and I'm sorry that it seems to have been flying under the radar a bit, there's so much good stuff in it.

In the Shadow of the Ship - Aliette de Bodard
De Bodard has been more miss than hit recently, but I liked this one a fair bit! I would have preferred it either without the romance or with more development for the romance than the page count allowed, but otherwise, a nice solid little slice of the Xuya universe.

Didn't finish:

A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians - HG Parry, The Iron Below Remembers - Sharang Biswas, Project Hanuman - Stewart Hotston

A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians - HG Parry
What if the late 18th century, but with magic? This slightly fell between two stools for me - it's not quite weighty enough to be serious, and a bit too serious to be fun.

The Iron Below Remembers - Sharang Biswas
I just don't enjoy prose superheroes - I keep trying, but there it is. There was a lot else in this novella that I liked, but... prose superheroes. They just don't have the weight for me of their comics counterparts, and it made the superhero characters in this feel underdeveloped.

Project Hanuman - Stewart Hotston
I wanted to like this, but it felt like the prose style was fighting me, and I didn't quite like it enough to soldier on. (It didn't help that it was FULL of typos, what is going on at Angry Robot.)

archersangel

in case you missed what this is about, here is the post explaining things.

another one of the more random of the random generator things is a breakfast idea one.

there's no recipe supplied, i guess you have to find your own. but they do have a picture so you can see if it is something that looks appealing.

the one given to me was strawberry oatmeal, which is just oatmeal with cut up strawberries in it.

Current Mood: blah

kronette

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omens

TV: finished season 1 of 1670 with Kelly but then got sidetracked before continuing with season 2, the part I actually haven't seen. Have to get back on track!

Finished Amphibia and misted up a bit. That was a good show & I enjoyed it. I liked having a ten years later glimpse ;-;

Finished Hilda and also enjoyed that! They crammed so much backstory into the last few episodes, wow. I would have loved to see more seasons! I liked that they grew. Physically, I mean, but also, yk, in other ways. My biggest complaint at the start of the show was that I couldn't stand David's baby voice, and I don't even know when it changed but now I'm like oh obviously it was intentional :D all season three he is constantly eating something because he's a 13yo boy now, lolol.

I'm midway through Way of the House Husband, which is very lulzy.

Books: I remember reading. Kinda. Sorta. (Trying to come up with a plan to bring back reading in English without feeling like I should be doing something else because there are many books I want to be reading!!)

Games: still playing ACNH, still annoyed it's still snowy >:/

Music: this bad bunny parody about Canadian winters made me lol :P

Watch on YouTube

In other music news, a lot of recs for Mexican emo on reddit today, I am time traveling, here. I don't think I will stick it out but I am enjoying the trip :D

Writing: I wrote?????? LOL. It was fun. A lil idea that's going nowhere, but I enjoyed writing a few hundred words about it. Been a long time!!

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