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Blackmail resistant Milverton anon:
Not really about the same thing, but something I've thought about a *lot* because yuumori already mixes British media of the time is Milverton's reactions to other villains in other media franchises of the era. Like Doian Gray, Frankenstein, Dracula, Jekyll/Hyde...
Do you have any thoughts about any of them?
I don't think any really are blackmail resistant. Dorian may be unafraid of getting caught as long as he keeps the painting a secret, but he is awfully paranoid and obsessed with his own downfall. I feel like Milverton wouldn't need real evidence to push his buttons, actually.
Dracula perhaps? He feels a little bit overconfident and less like he is even trying to keep his secret? Do you have any thoughts?
Hi, nice to see you again! I am a big fan of classic literature, so your ask made me really intrigued, especially that I never thought about these before.
First, Dorian Gray. I can't decide when it comes to him. First, he has his beauty and one of the main thoughts in the book was that people generally thinks that a beautiful being can only be good. Dorian might think that even if he gets exposed, the public wouldn't believe he comitted those awful things - he was also able to convince his late fiancé's brother that it can't be him who chased the girl to her death, since he is so young and that event happened 18 years ago.
On the other hand, what you say about his paranoia is true, too. Milverton might be able to scare him just by knowing too much about him.
Victor Frankenstein. I think he surely could get blackmailed, even if not through his reputation - Milverton blackmailed people with threatening their families, if he chose to blackmail Victor, he would use this method, who has people he holds dear after all. (If you meant blackmailing the Creature, on the other hand, I don't think so. The Creature is an outcast of society, who has nothing to loose already.)
Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde. Complicated matter. I think Dr Jekyll can get blackmailed, but Mr Hyde doesn't. So if Milverton blackmails Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde would come after him to destroy him.
Dracula. I don't think he would ever imagine someone would be so insane to blackmail him - but I can see Milverton doing it (of course, fully armed with weapons what can be used against vampires) just for the funzies and to later expose Dracula and turn humans fully against him.
If Dracula gets blackmailed, he would surely kill Milverton, even if he doesn't care about his reputation - and he might not even cares, people are already gossiping about him. But the fact that someone dared to blackmail him would make him really angry.
(Your ask also gave me a crazy AU idea - because vampires usually have red eyes, while dhampirs - human-vampire hybrids - in some series shown with yellow eyes. YuuMori setting in a world, where the high class consists mostly vampires and some influental humans and evil vampire nobles using the lower-class humans as livestocks. There, Liam and Louis are vampire orphans who are planning to overthrow the division of the races with humans on their side, fighting against the evil vampire nobles. And Milverton is a dhampir, who, because as a half-blood he was despised and rejected by both groups, tries to turn vampires and humans against each other even more through his blackmails, because he want them to destroy each other in the end.
Sorry for this stupid additional rambling.)
Thank you for the ask, these ideas were so much fun to play with. And now I wanna re-read The Picture of Dorian Gray, I love that book so much.
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its funny how many things have become such common cultural knowledge that people don’t need to see the original source material to know the “plot twist”
- dracula
- “luke i am your father”
- jekyll and hyde
- frankenstein
i could keep going but i dont wanna
#its just so hilarious to me#esp for the older references like dracula#like i wanna be there when people first read dracula or frankenstein#i dont wanna be there for st*r w*rs tho id actually prefer to wipe everything from my brain abt those movies#i hate st*r w*ra#but like dracula is fun
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I’d love to hear your thoughts on the Irish-ness of Dracula, if you wanna ramble about it!
(Okay I just want to apologise for how long this took to answer because I know it’s been sitting in my inbox for over a month but..depression and work happened and I just didn’t have the time or energy to complete it. I seriously do apologise for this but I hope you enjoy the post anyway!)
So the first thing I need to clear up is this: the concept of a monster or a demon that feeds upon the life force of humans is not limited to one singular culture or folklore. In fact, this core concept is a wider cultural phenomenon and variations of it exist across both countries and continents. And no one country can take sole credit for the this core concept of vampires. Anyone who tries to claim otherwise either doesn’t know much about vampires or is intentionally being disingenuous. There can be cultural variations that are specific to certain folklores (and to just blatantly steal these would be cultural appropriation), but the main idea of vampires exists across a wide range of folklores and no singular person, group of people or culture can take credit for the creation of vampires.
However, arguably it was the work of Bram Stoker that aided in the solidification of the concept of Vampires that we know today. While there were other authors from a wide range of nationalities who wrote about Vampires before Stoker (including John William Polidori who wrote the Vampyre in 1819)...Dracula is the best known. (Now I personally believe that’s because Dracula is an absolutely banging novel, although I do concede that the prevalence of adaptations of Dracula from the 1920’s to today helps keep Dracula in the forefront of audiences minds.) In addition, it’s important to remember that Stoker was inspired by another Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, who wrote the novel Carmilla. As far as I know, Le Fanu and Stoker actually worked together on a magazine!
Another thing I think that needs clarification is the common belief that Stoker heavily/religiously based Dracula on the historical figure Vlad the Impailer. This is heavily debated by scholars. While there’s an obvious, undeniable similarity between the names of these two...the similarities start to wain after this, with only small similarities between the two and there’s even literal contradictions between the history of Vlad the Impailer and Dracula’s history in the novel. In fact, there’s not much indication that Stoker based the character Dracula off Vlad the Impailer, or even that he had a working knowledge of Vlad the Impailer beyond the name. In all 124 pages of his notes, there’s nothing to indicate that Stoker’s inspiration for Dracula came from Vlad the Impailer.
(Plus Dracula in the novel wasn’t even originally called Dracula...he was called Count Wampyr in the original drafts of the novel and this was only changed, from what I can gather, in the last couple of drafts.)
In fact, I’d personally argue that that connection between Vlad the Impailer and Dracula is actually something that’s been retroactively added by other artists, for example the 1992 film “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” heavily leaned into this idea that Dracula and Vald the Impailer were one in the same, and as time has progressed people assume that these elements were in the original novel when that’s simply untrue! Stoker didn’t write that! It’s a retroactive addition by other artists that’s just assumed by the masses to be canon. This phenomenon is actually super interesting and it’s absolutely not limited to Stoker’s novel Dracula/the modern day perception of Dracula (another example would be Mary Shelley’s version of Frankenstein versus the modern day perception Frankenstein). I’m not sure if there’s a word for what this is, but I like the term “cultural canon”, where something that’s been added in by other artists has become as good as canon within the minds of the masses and as such is ingrained within the cultural perception of something, despite it having no basis within the original piece or even directly contradicting what is in canon.
(Now I’ll absolutely concede that Stoker taking the name of a historical figure and possibly their likeness from another country and making them into a literal monster is something that should be discussed. I don’t know how Vlad the Impailer is viewed within Romania - whether he’s viewed positively or negatively or a mixture - but regardless he was a historical figure and Stoker did eventually use that name for his own creative purposes. Again, Stoker didn’t say that Dracula and Vlad the Impailer were the same person, that’s other artists doing, but there’s still issues with Stoker that needs to be discussed)
Now, I’ve seen people talk about how Stoker took a lot of inspiration from the Baltic folklore surrounding vampires for his novel, but I don’t really know this folklore very well and therefore I don’t feel like I’m qualified to discuss it. If anyone is more well versed in this topic wants to add to this post then they’re more than welcome to! I don’t deny that Stoker too inspiration from places other than Ireland (like the novel is set in Whitby) but I just feel like people over hype the relation between stokers Dracula and Vlad the Impailer.
Now, onto the Irish mythology side!
So the most obvious inspiration for Dracula comes from the story of Abhartach. here is a link to an actual, respectable retelling of the story of Abhartach which I’d highly recommend people read (it’s really not that long) but the key points go as follows:
There was this Irish chieftain called Abhartach, who was really cruel and the townsfolk didn’t really like him. So, the townsfolk and another cheiftain (known as Cathain) banded together to kill Abhartach. They did succeed in killing him (yay), however, Abhartach just sort of...rose from the dead and began another reign of terror (not yay). However, Abhartach needed to be sustained by blood and required a bowlful every day to sustain his energy. Cathain comes back and kills Abhartach once again, but Abhartach rises from the dead once more and now needs more blood. Abhartach is only banished when Cathain uses a word made from yew wood and wounds Abhartach with it. Abhartach is buried upside down with a grant stone over the grave to stop Abhartach rising once again.
Sound familiar? The similarities between Abhartach and Dracula are undeniable! Yes, there’s some differences between the two but the core story here is almost identical. I could totally reword that paragraph, omitting the names, and it would be indistinguishable from a short summary of Dracula! Even the way that the main characters find out about the wooden weapon that can kill the monster is similar, as both Jonathan and Cathain go to wiser and older members of their community to learn more.
(Also please mythology blogs don’t come for me I know my retelling was an incredible oversimplification but I’m writing on my iPad and my thumbs are starting to hurt. People have wrote full papers on the similarities between Dracula and Abhartach and there’s so many more people more qualified than me, I’m just an 18 year old trying to make a fun and interesting tumblr post. Again, if anyone wants add anything like extra sources or more information or even to point out my mistakes then I more than welcome the additions)
Another piece of folklore that’s also said to have inspired Dracula is the Dearg Due. Now there’s multiple different versions of the tale, but the version I have heard goes like this:
There’s a noble woman who wants to marry a penniless peasant boy, but her dad disapproves and wants her to marry another man who is much richer. The rich man and the noble woman were eventually married but the woman didn’t love the rich man. In retaliation, the rich man locked the woman in a windowless castle where she starved to death. The woman was buried by the locals who took pity on her, but because she was buried hungry she came back to life and drank the blood of her father and her husband as revenge. The version I heard says that the dearg due now basically wanders ireland drinking the blood of men who have hurt or wronged women (as one should) but there’s other endings to the story.
(Again is anyone has a reliable source they want to share then please feel free to add!)
So this is another Irish piece of folklore that clearly includes some elements that we now associate with vampires. Now people (including Wikipedia) claim that this story was specifically what Stoker based Dracula on, and while I definitely think that Stoker was aware of this story and took inspiration from it, I personally think that the Dearg Due inspired the concept of Dracula’s wives more than Dracula himself.
However the key point still stands: Stoker was likely aware of these legends and even the most staunchly anti-Irish person would have to concede that there’s similarities between all three stories. And very rarely are these similarities discussed in classes about Dracula...which I feel is a real disservice. I don’t think students should have to have an intense knowledge of Irish mythology (my knowledge is spotty at best) nor do I think it should be an exam question...but even a brief acknowledgment of “hey, Stoker was inspired by these stories and you can clearly see similarities between them” would be nice. Moreover, it further solidifies my original argument that Stoker was, at least to some extent, Irish and that his Irishness inherently influenced his work.
Also...the social context of what was going on in Ireland in this period can’t be ignored! Again, while Stoker did spend time in both England and Romania, he spent a lot of his life in Ireland and therefore would have known what was going on in his own country.
Dracula was published in 1897, which is exactly 50 years after the worst year of the Irish Famine/ The Great Hunger/An Gorta Mór. Now I don’t have time to do a whole history of the Great Hunger but the effects of the famine were greatly exacerbated by the horrific mismanagement of Ireland by the British government and the British system of ruling in Ireland. How many people died during the famine isn’t clear, but we do know that the population of Ireland at the time was 8 million and the population today is 6 million...200 years later and we still haven’t recovered. So while we all like to joke about the fact that Stoker wrote about an unfeeling member of the aristocracy literally feeding off others with no remorse and basically ruining their lives...are we really going to pretend that there isn’t social commentary there? Scholars specifically think that Stoker was commenting on the absentee landlords (basically British aristocrats who owned land in Ireland but didn’t live there and as such didn’t care about the well being of their tenants) who would often have tenants forced off the land when they couldn’t pay rent...despite the fact that their tenenants were already starving and had no money because their only source of food and income failed.
(I’m not being shady by the way, I also love to joke about the social implications of Dracula, but I feel like people forget that the jokes have actual points behind them)
There was also a cholera epidemic in Ireland in 1832 which is generally accepted to be one of Stoker’s biggest inspirations. You can read more about the epidemic here if you wish, but I’ll summarise what I feel are the key points. Not only was Stoker’s mother from county Sligo and lived through this cholera epidemic, but Stoker also asked her to write down her memories of the epidemic and used her accounts to aid in his research of the cholera epidemic. Now the fact that he was actively researching this should indicate that it would influence his work, especially considering the situation in county Sligo was incredibly morbid. There’s accounts of the 20 carpenters in Sligo town being unable to make enough coffins to keep up with the amount of people dying, resulting in hundreds of dead bodies just lying on the street. However, the most horrific account from this epidemic was the stories of terrified nurses placing cholera patients into mass graves while they were still alive. Stoker himself literally stated that Dracula was “inspired by the idea of someone being buried before they were fully dead”. So while at first there seems to be very little relation between the novel and a medical epidemic, it quickly becomes clear that Stoker’s fascination with this historical event influenced his writing.
My overall point is that Stoker’s irishness inherently influenced his writing. Writers don’t write in their own little bubble, divorced from the world around them, their views and work are shaped by their position in society and their upbringing (it’s why I dislike death of the author as a literary theory). So when people try to claim that Dracula is a piece of British literature...it indicates either a lack of understanding of the context in which Stoker was writing in or a wilful ignorance founded on colonialist ideas. His influences are so obvious to me as an Irish woman but they rarely get discussed, and even if they are it’s seen as overreaching! To call Dracula British literature and to ignore the inherent Irishness of the novel does a great disservice to Stoker!
Anyways I really hope you enjoyed this discussion my love! Once again I apologise for how long this took to write. Also I’m sorry if this comes off as argumentative or anything, that absolutely wasn’t my intention, I just have a particular style of writing long posts haha.
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Classic literature vines compilation: crossovers pt. 02
A/N: The second part of the crossover compilation. :)
STRETCHING HABITS
Victor Frankenstein: *The Screamer*
Dr. Jekyll: *The Sexual Stretch*
Dr. Moreau: *The Tarzan*
Van Helsing: *The Exorcist*
Herbert West: *Death Metal*
Hyde: *struggling with his shoes*
Dorian Gray: *laughs* Can't tie your shoes?
Hyde: I can't tie my shoes, but I can fuck your bitch!
Van Helsing: And when we go in there, let's show Victor, that we're happy for him!
Dr. Moreau: But I'm not.
Dr. Jekyll: Well, then fake it.
Dr. Jekyll: Look at me, I could be grinding on the fact, that without my stabilising telescope mount, he never would have found that stupid, little clump of cosmic Schmutz.
Dr. Jekyll: But I'm bigger than that!
Dr. Moreau: … Fine. What do you want me to do?
Van Helsing: Smile!
Dr. Moreau: *smiles creepily*
Dr. Jekyll & Van Helsing: … O_O
Dr. Jekyll: Oh crap, that's terrifying. O_O
Van Helsing: We're here to see Victor graduate, not kill demonic entities. -_-
Dr. Jekyll: Try less teeth.
Dr. Moreau: *still smiles creepily*
Dr. Jekyll & Van Helsing: … O_O
Van Helsing: Close enough. Come on. -_-
Victor Frankenstein: I'm so angsty!
Dr. Jekyll, to Herbert West: Hold my champagne.
Dr. Jekyll: It was destiny, that we met! ;)
Herbert West: Did it hurt, when you fell from heaven? ;)
Victor Frankenstein: … *very fast* Do you want your mouth on my mouth? Darling. I'm out. >///< *runs off*
The other two: …
Griffin: At what point did you forget that WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!
Edward Hyde: Who gives a shit, GET THE FUCK A LIFE!!!
Everyone else: *clapping in approval*
Dr. Jekyll: I'm not angry. Nooo! *laughs* You thought I was angry? Quite the contrary! I feel … splendid, I do! ^^
Dr. Jekyll: *knees Dr. Moreau to the chin* My knee hurts a little bit now, but that's okay. Because, I'm … I'm a gentleman! A gentleman never gets angry. ^^
Dr. Jekyll: A true gentleman keeps his calm cool. And he … he … he respects his environment …
*Victor Frankenstein appears and taps him on the shoulder*
Dr. Jekyll: And he is nice to people-FUCK YOU!!!
Victor Frankenstein: :(
Victor Frankenstein: I'm so troubled!
Dr. Jekyll: Hold my champagne.
Edward Hyde: Hah, joke's on you!
Dorian Gray: There is something on me?!
Edward Hyde: Uh, no, that's-
Dorian Gray, shrieking: GET OFF ME!!!
Edward Hyde: But-
Dorian Gray, hellish voice of hell: GET OFF ME OR I'LL KILL YOU!!!
Edward Hyde: …
Herbert West: Yo, what do you wanna eat?
Victor Frankenstein: What do I want to eat? How can I eat, when life is an illusion? An elaborate-
Herbert West: So, like pizza, or what?
Me: Story time! For some reason Victor Frankenstein and Dr. Henry Jekyll are fighting. Again.
Victor Frankenstein, proudly: I created an artificial human, when I was nineteen!
Dr. Jekyll, drily: Yes, by committing grave-robbery and using rotting flesh and then you wondered, why he didn't turn out the way you had imagined. Also, why does your creature have to be so tall?
Victor Frankenstein: It was easier to form him that way!
Dr. Jekyll: Then you must really suck at sculpting.
Victor Frankenstein: Excuse you?! Your creature is just as hideous as mine!
Frankenstein's Creature, thinking: Why am I still here …
Dr. Jekyll: *glares* First off, don't call him hideous! He may look creepy, but he's not ugly! Except for being very small and pale, but that's not the point! He gives off the impression of being ugly, that's a difference!
Dr. Jekyll: Secondly, he's my alter ago and my other half. The only one who's allowed to call him a creature is me!
Victor Frankenstein: You were already an old man, when you created him!
Dr. Jekyll: Yes, I spent decades of scientific work, research and theorising! You just decided to reanimate a corpse out on a limb, like the immature teenager you are. And when you succeeded, you ran away. Like a coward, leaving him to his own devices.
Frankenstein's Creature: First trauma of my life.
Victor Frankenstein: *gasps*
Dr. Jekyll: Yes, I just went there!
Victor Frankenstein: Well … you're also a coward! As soon as your alter ego What's-his-name caused trouble and got into shit, you claimed that none of this was your fault!
Dr. Jekyll: That's true, I admit it. One of us has to be the adult in this argument after all. Still, your creature killed almost your entire family and your best friend and you did nothing to stop him. Hyde killed one man.
Victor Frankenstein: Fuck you, old man! At least I don't have a split personality! Your alter ego is a psycho!
*Suddenly Edward Hyde appears visibly in a nearby mirror*
Dr. Jekyll, noticing his alter ego: Why don't you say that to his face, Victor?
Edward Hyde: No thanks, I heard everything. I just showed up, because I have to tell Frankenjerk a thing or two.
Edward Hyde: Alright, kiddo, first off: leave Henry alone. Because if you make him upset, I will take control and tear you to pieces! The only one who's allowed to bug him is me! Also, don't try to be the smart one here: you're a college drop-out, he's an actual doctor and professor.
Edward Hyde: Secondly, I may be a freak of nature - I stand by that - but Jekyll is not, so shut the hell up. Also, even though we don't get along, he still treats me better than you treat your creature. At least I have a name, a place to stay, papers, a bank account and he lets me have fun once in a while. And he didn't immediately book it when he saw me, just because of my appearance! He may be hypocritical, but he's not as superficial as you! You're an arsehole to your creature 24/7. You didn't even name him! But don't bother, Jekyll and I already did that for you. His name is Adam Frankenstein now.
Frankenstein's Creature: *nods* It's all true.
Victor Frankenstein: YOU DARE GIVE HIM MY NAME????
Frankenstein's Creature: *grins gleefully* Indeed.
Edward Hyde: Try to bloody stop me. He's your fucking son, so deal with it. Moving on.
Edward Hyde: Thirdly, Jekyll may be fifty, but he's still gorgeous. Unlike you. Seriously, how old are you? Twenty? And you look older than he is.
Dr. Jekyll: O///O
Victor Frankenstein: *gasps* Oh no, you didn't just-
Edward Hyde: *smirks* Yep, I just went there.
Victor Frankenstein: *stomps off angrily*
Dr. Jekyll, to Edward Hyde: *blushing* … Thank you.
Edward Hyde: Eh, it's nothing.
Dr. Jekyll: Why did you defend me?
Edward Hyde: Hey, you're still my creator and my other half! And that little shit certainly has no right to talk shit about you. If anyone does, it's me. It's my privilege and mine alone. Do you hear me?
Dr. Jekyll: Duly noted.
Frankenstein's Creature: Ahem!
Dr. Jekyll: *startled* Ah, I'm sorry. Do you want to come over for tea?
Frankenstein's Creature, surprised: Really?!
Dr. Jekyll: Sure. Well, unless you mind having Mr. West and Dr. Moreau for company.
Frankenstein's Creature: Of course not! Count me in. :)
Dr. Jekyll: Great, let's go! ^^
Victor Frankenstein: I got 'A's in both my tests last week.
Dr. Jekyll: That's great.
Victor Frankenstein: And I was productive today!
Dr. Jekyll: Awesome.
Victor Frankenstein: So this is happiness! O_O
Dr. Jekyll: … Ew.
Edward Hyde: Can we go yet?
Dorian Gray: Not yet! Gotta do make-up! ;)
Edward Hyde & Dracula: *groan*
*later, after Dorian styled them both up*
Dracula: Never mind, this was an amazing idea!
Edward Hyde: We look so good!
Herbert West: Today we're gonna show you how we keep this delicious pie we just made taste fresh. ;)
Victor Frankenstein: And how we're gonna do that? ;)
*later, after they gobbled up the pie*
Herbert West: Eat the whole thing at once.
Victor Frankenstein: *burps*
Griffin: This homework is impossible!
Victor Frankenstein: I already did it.
Everyone in class: ANSWERS?!?!?!
Victor Frankenstein: Uh-oh. O_O
Dr. Jekyll, the professor: Boy, you better run.
Victor Frankenstein: *runs from a mob that wants his homework*
Dr. Jekyll, the professor: No one is answering? I guess I'll just have to call on someone.
Victor Frankenstein: GET DOWN!!!
Everyone in class: *panics and goes down*
Dr. Jekyll: *points at Griffin* You.
Griffin: Uhm … 42?
Dr. Jekyll: WRONG!
Griffin: x_x
Herbert West: THEY GOT GRIFFIN!
Victor Frankenstein: I bombed this test! :(
Herbert West: Yeah, we all did that, I got-
Victor Frankenstein: -Ninety-seven!
Everyone in class: *throws their paper away in frustration*
Victor Frankenstein: I'm so bad at baking.
Dr. Jekyll: Recipes are step-by-step instructions.
Victor Frankenstein: Yeah?
Dr. Jekyll: So you're actually telling everyone you can't read.
Dr. Jekyll, to the class: Alright, who's happy to be back?
Victor Frankenstein: Absolutely no one.
Dr. Jekyll: Me neither, let's get the heck out of here.
Everyone: *boarding the next train* YAAAYYYY!!!
Victor Frankenstein: *struggling to catch up* HEY, WAIT!!!
Dr. Moreau, sternly: Where is your project?
Herbert West: Uh, right … here!
Herbert West: *holds up a dog* PUPPY!
Dr. Moreau: *gasps* PUPPY!!!
Everyone in class: *squeals in delight*
Frankenstein's Creature to Edward Hyde: You ever thought about shaving your body or cutting your hair?
Edward Hyde: You ever thought about why your dad left you?
Frankenstein's Creature: …
Edward Hyde: Oh crap.
Frankenstein's Creature: *starts to cry*
Edward Hyde: I'm sorry!
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Monster Haus Reviews: Super Monsters
Since Monster High (and Ever After High) have no animated specials lined up at this current moment. I’m going to start reviewing Monster High adjacent properties. Today I’ll be reviewing Netflix Original Series Super Monsters!
It’s a show about the children of famous monsters in pre-school learning how to control their super natural powers before they get into kindergarten. This show debuted on Netflix October 13th 2017, I’ve watched a few episodes and the show is pretty much Monster High for very little kids, it’s cute, colorful, inspired and has a lot of heart in it! But I wouldn’t exactly call in ground breaking it’s got some cute lessons in it for little kids (such as encouraging manners and tidying up) The kids start the day as humans and at night they turn into their true monster selves.
The main cast is 6 kids and 2 teachers.
The teachers are Igor (the most good looking version of an Igor I have ever seen) and his Granddaughter Esmie. She is adorable but it’s hard for me to stomach the idea that Igor reproduced to have grandchildren, even this newer handsomer Igor. But she’s super cute! I like the idea of a gothy Pre-school teacher!
I watched the whole first season and part of the show I do not understand is why the kids start the day as humans, Their parents don’t seem to need to hide or transform so why do the kids? I wouldn’t even mention this is it wasn’t such a big part of the show, every episode consists of two 11 minute episodes and each episode has 2 transformation sequences in it. They say “Sun Down! Monster up!” when they turn into monsters and “Sun Up” when they turn back into humans and go home for the day. They don’t specify why they need to hide as humans at all, I wanna say to avoid prejudice from real humans but they don’t state that, that kind of thing happens in this universe so I’m left a little confused. They go out in public on field trips and to pizza parlors run by humans and no one seems to have a problem with them being monsters...so why the transformations?
The kids are sweet no matter what form they take, human or monster they are both painfully precious.
The designs range from super cool! to super samey.
Let’s go over each kids name, design, personality and super powers!
Cleo Graves is the daughter of the Mummy! she’s adorable and all but we’ve seen her hundreds of times in media, her name is Cleo and she’s an Egyptian princess. I feel like every time we see a female character from Egypt her name has to be Cleo or she loses her street cred. There are other female rulers of ancient Egypt that could be explored here. in Monster High we have our own Cleo after Cleopatra and Cleo's sister is named Nefera after Queen Nefertiti. If I was going to name this little mummy I would have went with naming her Hattie, after Hatshepsut. I’m also super over the Egyptian princesses as a personality trait thing, Where are the ancient Egyptian punks!? brats? athletes? nerds? spooky weirdos? class clowns? None of these concepts are new, they’ve been around as long as school has and I wish we’d take advantage of that more often.
Her super power is perhaps the most unique thing about her, they say in the show she controls wind but she’s been shown making clouds that rain and controlling sand so I think her power is more like control over the weather and not just the wind.
*pinches nose bridge* This kids name is Drac Shadows...Drac... Who keeps thinking this is a good name for anyone but Dracula!? There’s tons of old school vampire names out there, Vlad, Ixion, Vincent, Roman, Sterling, Talon etc etc. and they go for Drac, since it’s a kiddie show I would have kept it simple and went with Vlad or Bram. His personality is he’s very self absorbed, He’s a very gifted flyer and has a tendency to show off. He also tends to jump into situations without fully considering them first. He’s still growing his fangs in (he only has one) and his power is flying...duh. Not a ton to say about him really.
Katya Spelling has one of the more unique names! She’s a witch and her power is magic (duh) but her personality is very shy, cautious and considerate! Her mother has instilled in her that good witches use their magic to help others and she takes that advice to heart. Shes learning how to fly her broom, no one else is allowed to touch her wand and her familiar is a cat that turns into a plush when she’s in her human form. (pic shown further down)
*rubs temples* a Frankenstein named Frankie...ground breaking, I’ve never heard that one before. Frank and Frankie seem to be everyone's go-to when naming these types of monsters and I get why but it’s also so painfully over done, they could have at the very least named him Hank or Francis. I really wish they would have kept his glasses when he transforms or the unibrow when he’s in his human costume. they’re both unique features and it’s a shame that he has to trade one for the other. His power is super strength, He’s very sweet but very clumsy and doesn’t know his own strength yet, I appreciate that he’s kind and not just some big dumb doofus.
Lobo Howler is a werewolf! His power is super speed! I don’t really understand this trend with making werewolves fast, yea they run faster than humans do but it’s not like they're the fastest land animal (that distinction belongs to the cheetah) Wolves aren’t even in the top 25 fastest, so why is it so common to make them fast??? But that’s the only thing about him that’s predictable, he’s an athlete (he wears a varsity jacket) he’s got ants in his pants, he’s hyper active, inquisitive and confident! I have no beef with his name it’s just wolf in Spanish but at least it’s not super common and it makes his ethnicity un-disputably Latino which as I’ve seen many times in cartoons if a character is ambiguously brown people will just say they’re a tanned white person and its important to all little kids to see themselves in media! I don’t really like that his eyes change from brown to green when he’s in his wolf form, Green eyes aren’t even common in wolves (not impossible like blue eyes are, but still very rare) common eye colors in wolves are yellow, amber, orange and brown. so this design choice seems odd.
Zoey Walker is a zombie! and her power is that she can see and walk though walls! Zoey is by far my favorite character in the group! she is so adorable! She’s an artist (she paints) and she’s book smart! (she likes to read) and she’s considerate of others! I LOVE her design so much! she is so colorful! However what I love the most about her design is also what I dislike the most about it - while she’s very cute she looks nothing like a zombie, as soon as I saw her I assumed she was a living rag doll but they call her a zombie in the show??? I don’t understand it but she’s perfect everywhere else so I’m not going to question it. Zoey the Zombie is a great example of how to name a monster with it being close but not too predictable! Also her last name is hilarious if you are a fan of The Walking Dead.
Like Lobo her eyes also change color when she transforms and just...why!?!?! why green!? is green a more dead-friendly color? it’s cute on her, but why!?
They also have a class pet (Glorb the Hampster) and Katya’s familiar (Henri the cat)
In the season finale in they introduce a new character: Spike the Dragon! He’s only in the finale so we don’t know much about him yet other than he’s Chinese (stated that Chinese new year is a big deal in his family) and his power seems to be to summon clouds and make waves. He’s a little cutie pie! I love his design!... But I really wish they would have went with a different name.
All in all the show is very cute! I highly recommend it if you have little ones around or if you’re just into spooky cartoons! (like me) It’s a Netflix original show and I really hope it gets picked up for a second season!
The animation is really cute if not a bit boring but that’s kinda the standard of 3-D cartoons these days, I’m not sure if being 2-D would help or hinder this show.
I really wish there was an explanation for why they have to change into humans, I just don’t get it. Monsters and humans seem to peacefully coexists in this world. The werewolf kids dad works for the fire department and his fellow fire fighter is a human woman, They took a field trip to a pizza place run by a human man, Their veterinarian is a human woman (she may not be human he name is Dr. Jekyll ) and so far none of them have freaked out in the company of monsters... In fact They went out trick or treating to human houses to show off their powers to “trick” the humans and the humans seem to love them!?!?
This is not the face of someone whose shocked and afraid of being in front of a zombie. In fact they invite the humans to a Halloween party and they all go, no questions asked, no conflict started. I do not get the transformation sequences at all.
But it’s fun to see what the kids would be as humans. My favorite part of any non-human media!
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22-28 for the writer asks!
22.) Has your own writing ever made you cry?
Yes! So there’s a traumatizing death that happens either at the end of Undone Part 1/beginning of Part 2 that took me a good 3 months to recover from. I’m not looking forward to rewriting it, because it was literally a case of tearing it off like a bandaid, I dreaded it so much. I do have a very different relationship with the character now, so it may not have the same impact as it once did, but it’s an integral loss for the Marsette family and it really hurts them in very different, individual ways.
There’s also a reunion scene early on in Regardless that gets me every time, even though I know it won’t mean the same to readers who have only just met those characters...
23.) Are you proud or anxious to show off your writing?
Proud! Very proud! Considering I used to go out of my way to cover up my writing whenever I wrote in public, it took me a long time to get to a place where I was excited to share my work. I don’t even think I fully embraced it until Moonage received such an instantaneous and loyal following that it did. That’s when I realized I could share literally anything after that, and it feels good.
24.) When did you start considering yourself a writer?
I was 9 and I’d started dabbling in poetry, and my 4th grade teacher saw the potential in me and convinced me to enter an essay writing contest, which I won. I then woke up one day and decided to try my hand at writing a short story, which accidentally became a 75 page novella, like 3 months later!
25.) What books are must-reads in your genre?
For books that really speak to key themes/style for my novels:
Time travel:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A Wrinkle in Time
The Time Traveller’s Wife
Circus:
The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
Gender fucks:
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
The Passion of New Eve (Angela Carter)
The Passion (Jeanette Winterson)
Rogues and Thieves:
A Darker Shade of Magic (V.E. Schwab)
The Mime Order (Samantha Shannon)
Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)
Ethereal Magic:
Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
The Dream Thieves (Maggie Stiefvater)
Victorian Gothics:
Wuthering Heights
Dracula
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein
26.) What would you like to see more of in your genre?
I want more totally wild, completely surreal mind fuck time travel, where writers take more risks with throwing space/time continuum rules out the window. I want time travel with real, intense consequences.
I want scary, campy supernatural horror. Where we bring back genuinely scary vampires and werewolves etc, with fresh new twists on terror.
I want more gritty Victorian dramas, where we see the fucked up side of history, where people weren’t prim and proper and had to do horrible things just to survive. I really really want more gritty Victorian fantasy/scifi (even though I know it’s having a bit of a moment right now... but I want more!)
I want more female protagonists who are morally grey and just ready to fuck shit up. Girls who take on that bad boy persona instead of all the broody male love interests. These really flawed, unapologetically mean, angry girls. But also girls who support each other, and mothers who are gentle, and kind, and will give you what for when you do something stupid.
27.) Where do you get inspiration from?
Just reading a ton! I read so much classic literature, and YA scifi/fantasy. I unconsciously pull bits and pieces from every author I really connect with as a reader. But I also get about 85% of my motivation to write from readers, so the more they get excited about my characters, the more I get excited to write about them, and the cycle continues. Excited readers beget excited writers beget fully realized characters begets excited readers again!
But I’ve always been really fascinated with darker concepts. I love when a story has really dark and twisted elements that surprise me. I wanna be able to replicate that. That’s why you will always find strong hints of Wuthering Heights and Shakespeare in all my writing. I’m just extremely excited by pieces of history that are just so morally grey, or corrupt. I was obsessed with Sweeney Todd as a teen and that got me into Victorian crime. Seeing that era’s seedy underbelly has always been so fascinating to me.
28.) On a scale of 1-10, how much do you stress about choosing character names?
Like a 2. At this point, they just name themselves, and I’m like “oh, that’s your name? I’ve never heard of that before! Cool! Welcome to the family! Here’s a cookie. Go hang out and wait for me to torture you later!” Naming characters is fun for me. It’s a joy to collaborate with them on things like that. It’s like that first glimpse of who they are as a person and it’s exciting every time they divulge that first crucial part of themselves.
#asks#sophie writes#meg#ask games#writer problems#welcome to my twisted mind#where sophie is an emo edgelord#gosh she's a hell witch#:')#alcgideonlightwood
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Meant to post this last year but that didn’t happen so… its happening this year!
Along with some Halloween VLD Headcanons/Shenanigans!
Lance running down the hallways chanting “THIS IS HALLOWEEN”
and everyone is just like “??? I don’t even remember when we left Earth?”
Lance found some digital watch in his jacket pocket (still working, miraculously). It reads “October 30th”
“Oh shit! We only have one day to prepare!!!”
Everyone is panicking Well only Hunk, Pidge and Lance are
Keith is low-key huge fan of Halloween
but he keeps his panic on the down low
“What is this Halloween you speak of?” #cluelessAlienFamily
Cue the collective gasps of horror
Lance, Pidge and Hunk making this huge last minute presentation explaining Halloween. Horribly. (Good on Hunk’s part tho)
“Well that sounds lovely! I want to participate in this festival!” “*groans* Allura… It’s not a festival…!”
“But we have to wait until next year. It’s too late to make costumes and decorate the castle.”
“Nonsense! We can be prepared by tomorrow night!” “??? What.”
Coran showing some nice device that basically makes a holographic costume
Everyone making their costume in secret
“What do you think everyone is gonna be?”
“Isn’t Keith always in his Halloween costume? An angsty emo kid?”
Lance basically initiating the first ever “Best costume Contest” in space
Allura dimming the lighting system and giving it an eery look and setting up the decorations with the mice, Hunk and Shiro’s help
(It’s Halloween night and the big costume reveal time!)
Lance walks in all confident as… a Vampire! In a long midnight cape, silver hair, shiny ivory fangs, blood red eyes, fancy shirt and pants. He even conjured up a cup of blood-coloured substance
“Lance you look awesome dude! Even better than last year” says Undead Pirate Hunk. Grayed skin with patches of green along with some bones peeking through, ripped white tunic tattered in blood, black pants and a chewed up pirate hat
“You both look wonderful!” Cue in Allura as a mermaid. She used the colour scheme from her dress to turn her hair psychedelic, the markings on her face became scales, her neck and right below the ribs have gills.
“Cool Allura! You’re a mermaid!” Hunk obviously complimented
“What’s a… Mermaid…?”
“Mhm girl, you can have my trident anyt—”
“Lance.” #DadVoice
Shiro as Frankenstein. All his scars from his time as a Galra prisoner have been connected and turned into stitches of different colours of grayed skin and a huge silver screw protruded his head. He got inspired by his Galra prisoner uniform, so that’s basically his outfit
“Isn’t everyone lively? This reminds me of… (enter some Altean celebration)”
“Coran… Are you… Santa Claus?”
“Is this not a costume for the festival of Halloween?”
“No! That’s Christmas!”
“What’s Christmas?”
*collective groans*
(And here comes some KLANCE BCUZ I’M TRASH)
“Where’s Keith and Pidge? I don’t see them.”
“Who cares? Keith is probably some lame thing emo people dress up as.”
Cue Keith strutting into the room like a boss ass bitch
What is he? A goddamn witch. A hot goddamn witch. A witch in a deep purple skin clinging muscle shirt with a matching witch hat, elbow length gloves of the same colour, bright red earrings, a silver cartilage earring and clad in black leather pants with knee-high boots. Did he make his violet eyes glow?
HOTNESS OVERLOAD
Lance.exe has crashed
Hello, this is Lance Sanchez and I would like to perform “My Poor Bi Heart” by Me
That is so not fair, how can he be so hot?
Lance jokingly trying to flirt Keith, you know, like a vampire…? (JUST ADMIT YOU LIKE HIM! GDI LANCE)
Cue the corny/cringy pick-up lines
“You look fangtastic. How about joining me for a bite?”
“I’m a vampire on the streets, but a real devil in the sheets”
“They say my blood is the sweetest. Wanna find out how the rest of me tastes?”
Keith flirting back after a plethora of lines. Lance.exe has crashed (again)
“Better watch out, poison is not the only thing I do that can kill.”
After a build-up of sexual tension… Keith goes “Why tf not?” and kisses the vamp
“Looks like you’re under my spell now.”
“If I was a vampire, I’d bite you. Oh wait I am.”
“Okay, Dracula, Save it for later.”
Rip Lance
“And you said he would not look hot.”
Ghost Pidge with a new invention ― invisibility cloak
Spying on Klance from the very beginning
Everyone got a new arsenal of blackmail against Keith and Lance, but only Pidge uses it
#headcanon#saito writes#voltron#klance#halloween#shenanigans#ghost pidge#pirate hunk#witch keith#vampire lance#frankenstein shiro#mermaid allura#santa claus coran#saitodelphiaayumudrawings#vld#voltron legendary defender
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Eleven Question Meme
Tagged by @celeritassagittae. Original link here
1. You get the ability to deploy a save file once from this point forward in real life. Once deployed, you can reload from that save once before you die. How do you use your save, if at all?
Hm, if I could remember information from the previous save, I would save just before apprenticing myself to a time-consuming trade (metalworking, glassblowing, martial arts, etc), spend the requisite years mastering that skill, and then starting over and picking a different skill. Ideally I’d be able to learn two trades in the time it takes to learn one while retaining both, and hopefully not cause any horrible butterfly effects because I decided to go into stained glass making rather than learning the hammered dulcimer.
2. If you could choose to consume any piece of media completely unspoiled (including classics like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula), what would you pick?
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
3. Mix me a drink? Coffee or bizarre soda combinations count if you don’t drink alcohol or don’t drink it in mixed form.
I tend to leave the alcoholic drinks to @askcapeddarkness, but I make a mean cup of coffee. If you’re of a mind, and you want to be up for the foreseeable future, I can be persuaded to make Special Coffee. It’s brewed in my stovetop cafecito (Cuban espresso maker), which lets me add spices to infuse the coffee as its being brewed. I make a cup of Cafe Bustelo infused with cocoa, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and cardamom, and pour it into a mug alongside warmed whole milk. I add a half teaspoon of dark brown sugar and garnish with whipped cream. It tastes like drinking a cinnamon bun and once kept my roommate up for twelve hours.
4. If you could be fluent in any language you don’t currently know - living, fictional, or dead - what would it be?
Ahhhhh to just pick one! I would have to pick Spanish. It would help me communicate with more people and it is my family’s ancestral tongue. As far as fictional languages go, I do miss my fluency in Quenya.
5. If you were to win the Ig Nobel prize in something, which field would you be most likely to win, and for what accomplishment? (Assume unlimited grants if necessary.)
I’d be most likely to win for Psychology (since there’s no Sociology category) researching people’s attitudes towards the dead and whether or not they would consume food grown in a cemetery.
6. What is the title of the book nearest to you right now?
Dante’s Divine Comedy.
7. How long can you hold your breath?
About a minute, last I tried.
8. Which of the core Dungeons and Dragons classes suits you best? (I’m going 3.5, so: barbarian, bard, cleric, druid, fighter, monk, paladin, ranger, rogue, sorceror, wizard)
I am such a druid it hurts. It is almost physically impossible to imagine being a different class (though the argument could be made for cleric).
9. When trying out a new videogame for the first time, what difficulty do you normally pick?
I pick Normal, and if the game lets me I’ll scale up to Hard once I get the hang of things. If I’m replaying a Dragon Age game to try a new PC I’ll take it down to Easy for level grinding, since I’m really just replaying for the RP experience.
10. Favorite quest to play in the Dragon Age series?
Hm, let me go in order.
Dragon Age: Origins - The Brecilian Forest. I absolutely love everything about it; the wistful melancholy of the enchanted forest, THE GRAND OAK, the Hermit, the Dalish lore (great as a Mahariel), the cursed campsite, every-fucking-thing. I adore this one.
Dragon Age: Awakening - Entering the Fade/recruiting Justice. Ah, Justice. I always had a fondness for him, and every time I go back to this after playing DAII it’s such a gutpunch. 10/10 recommend for the emotional wallop.
Dragon Age II: The Deep Roads expedition. I admit I’m a sucker for the Deep Roads in all the games, but this one really shaped Evaine. The entirety of Act I ask the question, “How far will you go for your family?” and leads up to this doomed expedition. Evaine walked in with Fenris, Varric, and Carver. You can imagine how that went.
Dragon Age: Inquisition: I really enjoyed In Hushed Whispers. I’m a sucker for darkest timelines and time travel, and Dorian ended up becoming such a huge person in Ladwyn’s life it adds an extra level of affection for it. This quest was a huge turning point for Ladwyn as a character, since she is forced to confront her childhood fear of people dying to protect her, and comes to realize that she cares as deeply for her newfound friends as she does members of her clan. Without this mission, she never would have accepted the role of Inquisitor.
11. If you and your family (assuming you like them well enough to take them with you) had to move to any fictional setting, which would you choose and why?
STAR TREKKING ACROSS THE UNIVERSE. I mean, do I really need to explain why? I wanna boldly go.
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Eleven New Questions for @askcapeddarkness, @alongcameacyborg, @redgalrapaladin, @whatthefawxblogs and anyone else who’s interested!
1) Who is your favorite video game PC that you’ve created (or favorite to play if you don’t do RPGS), and why?
2) What is one job you would love to have, and one job you would never want to have?
3) Would you rather take a road trip or a cruise?
4) Which animal do you think you most resemble?
5) If you could have someone custom-make an item of clothing for you, with no budget constraints, what would it be/be made of?
6) Where do you wish you had never visited?
7) What was the first book you learned to read?
8) What do you think of when you consider liminal spaces?
9) If you could be the one to write a pre-existing bestselling book, what would it be and what would you change?
10) What’s your favorite dinosaur?
11) If you were a song, what genre would you be? Bonus: Who would sing it?
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The Mummy
Well I've seen it the 2017 one and I just got out of the shower and I'm on my phone now. I was in the shower for a while cause I was thinking of this and other stuff. Including I felt I was in a weird mood man. I don't know if this is really a review or mainly so kind of but a reaction. Mainly my first thoughts when my dad who was sitting to the right of asked what did I think of it. I told him it was pretty cool. Also my Nana and step grandpa were to the right of him. Including said yeah pretty cool and alright even to my mom just even also me wanting to mention how she made my bed beautifully and how it was finally cleaned after some weeks I think I don't know man a month. Yet I'm just gonna get this out of the way. I feel I have a mixed relationship with my dad. He wanted to go and just when waiting in line I remembered this he asks me about my wallet and phone and that I didn't bring it just it frustrated me even when I didn't wanna bring it. He's mainly right yet just the way and I felt embarrassed and he said don't get frustrated with me. Also when we got home including when leaving home first my step grandpa asked about Rotten Tomatos the 17% and when we got back home my dad says to my mom he said it was pretty good compared I guess to saying my name 17 reviews.....then I said percent okay to be honest I feel like in my head I'm like fuck you dad but I didn't say it to home. Also yeah make sure theirs no moldy food for the dog and don't want him sick it was one piece I'm sorry. That just bothered me a bit. Sorry I'll just get to this man. So The Mummy the 2017 version and Universal's start to their Dark Universe featuring their Universal Monsters. To be honest I don't mind cinematic universe's and including more movies for me, I like monsters, I'm wanting to see the original movies that started these. Including I like monsters so a cinematic universe around them seems really fricken cool but I wanted it to be good. Along with I legit want I think in one of my posts I talked about after watching Jeremy Jahns review, looked at some comments and I decided to see Rotten Tomatos I went yelled out, "OH FUCK!" Yet I was alone at my house cause I got home early there. Well now I've seen it. I did say it was pretty cool. Yet for a big film Universal has marketed and they are really committed to this. They are really wanting this to work, and become a big franchise. Including they already got some actors and we got a new Bride Of Frankenstein on February 14th 2019 and liked they chose that date cause of Valentine's Day but I don't like the holiday a lot man. To be honest like I said it was cool. But I wouldn't I guess recommend coming back to see it. Mainly if you like monsters but it depends and if your really interested but I want you guys to spend your time and money wisely. I'll be honest Tom Cruise as Nick Morton and had to go to Rotten Tomatos to spell that last name right. I think he does pretty alright. Including you know I'm not the biggest fan of him. Yet I like the Mission Impossible series mainly 4 and 5 almost left 4 again man lol dude. Including he's a good stunt man and all that shit. Mainly he's good at his job. Yet what's the problem I had with the film was it's characters. Including the character of Jenny who I don't know if this is much of a spoiler yet you can tell but fine also that's the name of her character she's basically Nick's love interest. Yet throughout the movie she's not all that interesting. Including I don't buy their romance and even like the reviewers I've watched Jeremy Jahns, Chris Stuckmann, Midnight's Edge, and Angry Joe, but also watched Hybrid Network's review too. Basically their isn't much there for them I wasn't invested in their relationship or their development I suppose. Yet I'm gonna say I legit love her introduction in the film cause it's just so out of nowhere and even funny. Because seriously I didn't expect that. But mainly any of the other characters even Nick their not developed much. Including just you don't care much for them. Mainly I just saw it but yeah. You have no attachment to them. Seriously I will say even in a supposed big film like this. I like it when I'm invested not just what's going on but even with the characters. Including you know the talk about Inconstant tone. Will say their are some funny moments and I guess some scenes work. Including seem to like that I don't know dark yet mysterious feeling yet I don't know what I'm talking about man. Including I don't complain much about Inconstant tone. Yet I don't know. You know what I just thought this the film feels bland, if feels bland as fuck man. I feel like for a film like this that seriously should not happened. A epic scaled action horror films that sounds so cool. Yet the way it's portrayed I'm not too excited about it man. Honestly I feel like this may be bullshit what I'm gonna say. Yet like what people said I honestly liked Russell Crowe and Sofia Boutella and had to go to Rotten Tomatos a couple times pressed the scene...her last name is difficult lol man sorry. So spoilers mainly for Russell Crowe's character yet they've marketed his character even with his announcement he plays Dr. Henry Jekyll aka Mr. Hyde. Honestly I haven't seen much of Russell Crowe yet he's a good actor. Really he was pretty cool with what he was given. In fact a lot more interesting then some of the other characters. I honestly hope we see more of him. Including his performance yet also his character were indeed a lot better then others ha man. Now for Sofia Boutella as the title character herself. Really she did a pretty alright job with what she was given. I feel like the way she was portrayed and how her character was. I don't know what yet she's a good mummy yet not that great. I'm sorry I feel stupid cause I'm praising basically two monster related characters. Because they stand out cause the other characters don't stand out as much and that bothers me thinking more about the film. In fact okay I'm gonna be silly so I'm not alone but even before the movie just....think if you've seen this Game Grumps Sonic Boom episode when Danny Sexbang makes a mention of Perci being pretty hahaha....yeah it's kind of like that.... Okay I feel theirs a thing with me and weird ladies no offense lol man. Including this is a God damn Mummy, God damn imagine what it's gonna be like with lol the Bride Of Frankenstein man hahaha or some shit man. But also honestly the action was pretty dang cool even the plane scene where it was marketed a lot and the Tom Cruise scream why the fuck isn't that a meme haha. That was all nice really I didn't mind it. Also some well some parts wanted to be scary like a horror movie...yet I feel like they could of been done better. Maybe like you get this feeling like you don't know what to expect yet this film you expect something I've learned that from many films. Including the ending I've read comments it was confusing so okay we didn't sit through the credits cause I don't know if theirs a end credits scene or not man. Just I'm gonna look that up now forgot lol man chill out. Almost left edit ha but looked at Wikipedia okay no end credits scene man. Yet the ending not gonna spoil it man it felt like they were setting up the universe and being like we're gonna see this universe again. I was okay with it and I didn't expect certain stuff man haha. Also I'm gonna mention this you know what I found cool easter eggs. Theirs legit easter eggs to other monsters and I was smiling. Even if I've haven't seen the originals I'm sorry but I was just happy seeing certain stuff it was cool man. I don't know if theirs much else to say well Brian Tyler does the score I guess he did a very good job man. Yet the movie itself. I'm being honest I wanna see this cinematic universe launch and get going. I wanna see the other Universal Monsters or basically characters such as Gilman okay I legit looked on Google I see nothing mentioning him from The Creature From The Black Lagoon ha man , and The Invisible Man who they have casted Johnny Depp as the character and also Jarvier Bedwin as the Frankenstein Monster but smiling a lot. Also even the Wolfman even with rumors of Dwyane The Rock Johnson being casted yet we don't know heard he's been in some serious films and I'm being okay with the idea of the casting. Also with other announcements and actors Universal wants to get. Seriously I've even thought of how I feel this universe should go man. You have some big films and small films. Also these are different characters and some of them people. Such as the story of the Wolfman, and the original story of Frankenstein and maybe you can bring that but do a modern take on it yet respect the original story. Including some random idea like the Wolfman film is like Wolfman meets Dog Soldiers haven't seen both films and just whatever 1941 film or 2010 film the 2010 seems decent but the original and Dog Soldiers seem amazing man. So if you want action yet also that tragic tale of a man being bitten by a werewolf this idea gonna put it out there haha man, the Wolfman taking on other werewolves. Including some of the films are ether PG-13 or R depends of what character their focusing on. Also the idea of all the monsters fighting like the Frankenstein Monster fighting the Wolfman also this silly idea the Frankenstein Monster hits the Wolfman sends him flying towards a person taking a selfie of the fighting whether they got seriously injured or killed yet mainly injured. Also Dracula fighting the Mummy two powerful monsters. Seriously I expect Dracula to be like the biggest asshole like he thinks he's the king ha man. Yet...... honestly not a good start to a cinematic universe so took out the haha before the last ha in the last paragraph and cinematic kept turning to cone lol and cone to come lol.... Sorry but yeah not a nice start. Also when looking up the Creature From The Black Lagoon's name my Nana said bye and we bugged a bit ha man gonna chill out. Also just theirs this thing on Google nice marketing for the movie like saying The Mummy on Google and it's some gif ha, but theirs a article talking about five things wait man damn smiling man. Yes five reasons why it looked again disinterested in the box office no disintegrated there looked again but not going on the screen....ha I don't normally go check stuff like that online yet I wanna see this seems interesting and wanna know more stuff okay smiling a lot cause my thumbs type fast yet press the wrong buttons man. So wanted to say if you wanna see a movie pick what you want yet I recommend Wonder Woman which I saw last week that's a nice start to Summer in a way, a beautiful and amazing film I've even made a post well review reaction some what of that too man
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