I wish I could watch this movie for the first time again and again.

I want to be able to create something that speaks to the ghosts in my mind, and soothes the monster that is my heart.

Ego and complete and utter admiration of Del Toro's adaptation of Shelley's crowning acheivement aside, I'm doing to hold this heartwrenching beauty close to my heart. I'm going to hold it close, and continue to create.

I want to leave a mark on the world, a world full of people that can be so unkind to so many. I want to craft a thing so dark that light and hope have no choice but to shine through it.

Seeing how much care and passion Del Toro poured into this production of my childhood comfort, which I was always scared of showing my love for, has renewed a spark within me.

I want to create. Selfishly, I want to leave a legacy that people will hold close and either cherish or weep for.

Y'all, I bark a shitton about vampires and demons and biblically accurate angels and don't talk about my original, all-consuming love: Frankenstein and Frankenstein's Creature. Like Elizabeth in the most recent film, I've been in love with the story, themes, and the creature since I first met him.

All I know is that like Victor, I must create something that feels alive. I won't lie, as an author, I can have a big ego that is mostly stunted by my insecurities. So on I go. To keep creating... and, unlike Victor, hopefully not wreck everything around me too in the process (bite me, VIctor).

The amount of feelings I'm going through cannot be described at the moment.

That sounds so dreamy.

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*lit magazines

I swear, I can type.

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