#frankenstein's creation

[brightgoat]

Pretorius's Tomb (comic page practice)

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[ibrithir-was-here]

So the uh, redesigned Frankie Stein thing ended up sparking a conversation on Discord and so...

Meet Lilie. The last thing she remembers is falling into a river, only to wake in a strange labratory in Geneva with a giant claiming to be her new father, and a gaunt gentleman trying to keep the giant happy while also keeping the giant from disappearing with Lilie off into the mountains...

Lilie just wants to go home, but that might not possible anymore, after all, she's not the girl she was before...

(Basically an Au where The Creature fails to save the girl in the river, brings home the body and asks Victor to make him a daughter instead of a bride. The Creature is selfish, Victor experiences parental guilt all over again and Lilie is having an existential crisis--Thanks to everyone on the LXGF Discord who helped make this AU and especially @see-arcane for giving this monsterous creation its name "The Wretched Family")

#my art #Wretched Family #thats what it got dubbed in the discord #Frankenstein #victor frankenstein #dr frankenstein #frankenstein's monster #frankenstein's creation #the creature #adam frankenstein #ocs #tw scars #tw bible #mary shelly's frankenstein #mary shelley #frankenstein novel

[hauntedradiotower]

I love characters who realize the error of their ways, and put in the work to change for the better. I also love characters who take back their agency from the world, declaring: “If all you see is a monster, I will become the worst one ever. I will haunt your dreams, and I’ll do it on my own terms. bitch” 

anyway, crazy that both things happened in Megamind

#tx post #megamind #this post is also about: #dalek sec #helen distortion #frankenstein's creation #and others #fictional characters #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #WAIT ALSO #prince zuko #mbs #the show at least #there are so many others but I can't list them all #the spot #we got another one boys

[glismoda]

operational bed

#experimented with lighting #frankenstein #frankenstein's creation #adam frankenstein #mary shelly's frankenstein #frankensteins monster #victor frankenstein #had fun making this #my art stuff

[chickenscratchstudios]

It's the Yellow-Eyed Girlies

Alternately titled "Fantome n' Frankie", as per my image save.

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[frank-enthusiast]

Gorgeous Frankenstein’s Monster art by @fetlockflowers (@fetlock_flowers on Instagram). Isn’t he adorable? 🥺

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[mishkinis]

i ought to have been thy Adam

(we're reading my fav book ever in AP lit ❤️❤️)

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[infectedpinkie]

(why did you do it? kill a child?) why did you leave me thereeee to diiie (so full of promise, full of wonder) have you forgotten so was iiii

#we're in gay marriage we'll be married by dawn #i love him .. i lovehim i #frankenstein #mary shelly's frankenstein #frankenstein's monster #frankenstein's creation #frankenstein's creature #the creature #the being #the monster #damn babe for someone with no name you have a lot of names #mine #art

[catboy-joyfriend]

thansk @mymilkhasice

#frankenstein #victor frankenstein #frankenstein's creation #frankenstein's creature #gothic literature #classic literature #chalupa

[inkmage13]

Finally made one of these things

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[kerakitty]

Adam’s Creation and Appearance

So there’s a lot of nitpicking surrounding how Victor made Adam and how Adam should be portrayed as a result of that (e.g. should he have stitches, varying skin color, etc). I find this kinda weird because we don’t actually know how Adam was made. Victor intentionally omits this information when telling his story to Robert Walton for fear of someone managing to reproduce his work.(1)

We do have a few, scant details, but they’re hardly enough to draw any solid conclusions from. Here’s a list of all the facts given about his creation (relevant quotes with page numbers at bottom of post):

Making Adam big allowed Victor to work faster.(2)

It took Victor months to gather the materials he needed.(3)

Some materials were gathered from dissecting rooms, charnal houses, and slaughter-houses.(4)

Victor was able to choose Adam’s features (e.g. hair color and texture, tooth alignment).(5)

The whole process, both gathering materials and actual construction, took a little under two years.(6)

That’s it. That’s all we know. We don’t know how these “materials” were used, we don’t know what caused them to go from inanimate to living, or even what exactly they were. Yes, Victor mentions collecting his materials from the places listed above, but aside from mentioning bones(4), he doesn’t say what exactly he was taking. Were they intact organs? Pieces of tissue? Entire limbs? We don’t know. Confusing things further, Victor mentions that he “dabbled” with graves and “tortured living animals”(7), but doesn’t clarify whether these were additional sources of materials or simply research into the mechanisms of life and death.

General consensus seems to be that Victor used organs and whole body parts from cadavers to create Adam, but there's plenty of evidence that that’s not the case. Aside from the fact that it would’ve been difficult to create an 8ft tall body with proportional limbs out of pieces of humans averaging under 6ft, there are a few lines in the novel that indicate that this wasn’t Victor’s method. Victor consistently refers to the materials he used as “lifeless” and “inanimate”, but never dead. He also consistently speaks of imbuing new life into the materials rather than renewing or restoring life. In fact he outright states that reanimating the dead was, as best as he could figure, impossible.(8) Whether this only refers to raising a dead individual as they’d been in life or to any organic tissue is, like so much of Victor’s research, extremely vague.

So where does that leave us in terms of Adam’s appearance? Well, with not a whole lot to go on. Does he have stitches? Maybe. Does his skin color vary? Also maybe, though probably not given that Victor describes his skin and makes no mention of any variation in tone.(9)

The closest thing we have to a canon appearance for him is probably the illustration included in the 1831 edition of the novel.

There’s no stitches or other scars visible here, but since we have no idea how much (if any) input Shelley herself had on this design, that’s not necessarily confirmation one way or the other.

Ultimately, aside from a handful of details, we don’t really know what Adam should look like. We know he has thick black hair, watery yellowish eyes, yellower skin, straight white teeth, thin black lips, and is 8ft tall with all features proportional to that size.(9) Outside of that, and the fact that he looked ugly but not horrifying right up until he started moving(10), it’s up to the reader’s imagination. And given that the novel was intended to be a horror story, I suspect that’s intentional. In horror it’s often our imaginations that supply the most frightening imagery and any good creator of horror is aware of this fact.

So portray Adam however you want, and maybe don’t nitpick other people’s portrayals of him. So long as neither of you are going against the few explicitly described details the novel provides, they’re probably not any more off the mark than you are.

Source quotes and page numbers below the cut.

All quotes and page numbers are taken from this upload of the 1818 text.

”I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be. ...I will not lead you on... to your destruction and infallible misery” pg 23

”As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved... to make the being of a gigantic stature;” pg 24

“...having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials...” pg 24

“I collected bones from charnel houses... The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials;” pg 24

“I had selected his features as beautiful.” pg 26

“I had worked hard for nearly two years...” pg 26

“...I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave, or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay[.]” pg 24

“...if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.” pg 24

“His limbs were in proportion, and... [h]is yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips.” pg 26

“I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.” pg 27

Side note on that last line: I always felt Victor was rather underselling the creativity of Dante here. Dante came up with some trippy shit. I doubt the Uncanny Valley was something of which he “could not have conceived”.

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[brightgoat]

Inspired by the Arcane art style

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[isablooo]

𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖐𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖎𝖓; 𝖔𝖗, 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕸𝖔𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖓 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖚𝖘

#it was on a dreary night of november... #Frankenstein #mary shelley #victor frankenstein #the creation #frankenstein's creation #gothic #myart #isabelle draws lit

[punchiki]

I have some frank art saved so I decided why not post it <3

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[glismoda]

these hands

#I FINALLY COLORED SOMETHING #very edgy #frankenstein #frankenstein's creation #adam frankenstein #mary shelly's frankenstein #frankenstein musical #my art stuff

[kiruliom]

update: I took a nap and I feel way better

[Flag IDs: 2 rectangular flags with 6 equally-sized horizontal lines. colors in this order from top to bottom: darkish grey-blue, darkish green, light green, pale yellow, grey-blue, and darkish grey-blue. the second flag has a pale yellow line, starting near the top right and ending through the middle-ish right. the line mimics a stitch. End ID]

frankensteins monster or frankensteins creation pride flag

a flag for when youre a frankenstein's monster and proud of it. can be one's non-human identity, aesthetic, a metaphor, just those who's fav monster is the frankenmonster, or literally anything else, if you wanna use it, use it!! its not exclusive to anyone

made this because I managed to find general vampire and werewolf and zombie and (monster) witch pride flags but none for frankenmonsters

tagging @revenant-coining and @radiomogai, feel free to ask to be added to my tag list ^^

do not reupload anywhere public unless I'm informed and credited. pretty please?

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