Oscar on set

Okay, Hamlet!

While looking at fashion articles from La Belle Assemblée published around The Last Man’s release, I found these two little mention in its February and April issues. (babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ny...)

I had a dream that someone stole my books and didn’t even read them, what the hell.

New trailer for Del Toro’s Frankenstein today. Happy October. 👀

Hey, it’s another Grove cousin/in-law of the Shelleys painted by Romney!Elizabeth Chafyn-Grove, aunt of diarists Harriet and Charlotte Grove, was the sister of Shelley’s uncle Thomas. Her nephew, Capt. William Grove, also happened to be her sister-in-law’s husband… 😬

The lion actually does concern himself with the politics of his home country while aboard in Italy, he read about a violently suppressed demonstration in the papers and was so concerned that he wrote an entire poem about it. 🦁⛓️‍💥

I’ll never be able to top this, it was too good.

I hate putting a meal on my plate and then finding an ingredient I could’ve added in. It’s too late now, maybe next time.

I’m rereading the Westbrook years of Holmes’ and Bieri’s Shelley biographies to refresh my mind over their separation, and 1813 was a YEAR. Shelley’s slow detachment from Harriet to the Bracknell set /with/ his weird behaviour over being financially insecure and unstable is a tough read.

Day ago, I put on American Horror Story for background. I was already familiar with the older seasons. I didn’t pay much attention to Cult until I heard the name “Oz”, and then my neck twisted once I heard “Ozymandias” being the kid’s name and I locked-in. The Jim Jones imitation scene was crazy.

Hello, American Horror Story: Apocalypse! 😃

I saw this Tiktok on Paine and thought of @rezekjoe.bsky.social. That is all, goodnight.

Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, and What the Brontës’ Read and Wrote. Thank you Shelleyan-Brontëan rabbit holes! 👀

I found the Shelleys in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition! I was gifted it months ago, but never had the chance to skim it.

Is this what’s called the golden hour? ☀️

Dicks’ Standard Plays!

Could anyone here give me their full opinion on The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley? I’ve only read excerpts from the “Shelley and Women” chapter, looks promising. Reading multiple past writers on Shelley compared and contrasted against each other is very exciting.

The Last Man @ Frankenfest. 🌿⚡️

A duck in the clouds?

Today, September 12th, is the day Lionel Verney from The Last Man (1826) finds a vacant cottage following his leave of Ravenna. Recalling his stay, Verney remembers turning thirty-seven during his first week as the last of his kind. Happy Birthday to the survivor of Mary Shelley’s distant future. 🎂🌿

The Last Man in…a video game? Yes, an edition of Mary Shelley’s novel appears in DayZ, a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a post-Soviet country. The online multiplayer game from 2018 was published by Bohemia Interactive, a Czech video game developer with a focus on military simulation.

I put on The Mill (2013–2014) for background sound, but I wasn’t paying attention until I heard The Mask of Anarchy being quoted directly to a crowd. 👀🦁

Good afternoon to my Shelley mug, something I barely use.

Shout out to the eight (yes, eight!) fanfics about The Last Man on AO3. The first three are poems (2016), the next are a crossover with Frankenstein (2021), two slash Lionel x Adrian (2023, 2025), one canon divergent Evadne x Lord Raymond (2025), and one Lionel x Idris turned Lionel x Adrian (2025).

L’enfer!

Ohhh, reeling me in with Something Awful and Ozymandias parodying. I see your game.

Adapting a new fully faithful Frankenstein that begins with Margaret Walton receiving a 120 page long letter from her estranged brother and being like “what the ever-living fuck?!?”

Those pages from Y: The Last Man #17 for @eileenmhunt.bsky.social

“It went on through a lot of, what seemed to me to be, neurotic rambling. ‘Can you at least tell us how to pronounce 'Ozymandias'?’ [Another of the vigilante characters in Watchmen.]” Good Lord. 🙃 (Source: t.co/0aBNG8BHJa)

Personally, I think Frankenstein Day should’ve been on June 16th or January 1st instead of Mary Shelley’s birthday.

Happy 228th Birthday to Mary Shelley! ♍️🖤

I think it’s cool that ghosts and spirits are “real” supernatural entities, the concept of another life after death is widespread, but a vampire or werewolf are commonly seen as too abnormal to be real or accepted worldwide like ghosts.

I’m so fucking nervous. I haven’t watched the original Paranormal Activity films in years, I have no exact idea when or where the big scares are. 😭

I’m watching Paranormal Activity and I’m only now remembering the bedroom-hallway jumpscare, I paused it to prepare myself. My bedroom lights aren’t working so I have to watch it in the dark.

A splinter in the eye?! 😟

He did it four minutes and twenty five seconds ago. He'll do it in four minutes and twenty five seconds.

Gotta finish it tomorrow

Good morning!

The covers for Y: The Last Man are a personal favourite. Yorick initially wore his mask to protect himself from disease, but it unintentionally became a disguise that hid his gender after the sudden pandemic left him and his capuchin monkey as the only “males” (XY Chr. are specified) on Earth.

Hail to the king

John Carter’s getup in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is one of the sickest looks of all time. You can improve any design by adding a gas mask to it. You gotta have that in your back pocket

I was looking at potential universities to transfer to with classes on Romanticism in case I do actually get accepted into cc, along the way I came across one of Michael Scrivener’s papers from WSU. Sorry, this is one of the only things pushing me forward right now. ❤️

Now on the BARS Blog: John Clare Society - Ronald Blythe Fellowship See all details on this funding opportunity here! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6107 And please share widely.

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

Oh, wow. What a coincidence that Lionel’s choice of food in Rome is known to survive freezing disasters.

Marvel Comics that were on sale with cover dates of June 1968.

Did you know that there was a colour posthumously named after Lord Byron? I didn’t until I went looking for fashionable Regency colours.