Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · Nov 11 Meanwhile, on twitter, did you know that Mary Shelley never could have written Frankenstein (which is about magnets as you know) because her boyfriend was really into magnets? In fact, when you think about it, that's why women in general don't write great literature (chicks aren't into magnets).
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People on Twitter wake up and just lie. lol
The only magnetism in the book is between Victor and the captain who rescues him from the ice…
She definitely wrote it and she definitely was a genius. Her mom was Mary Wollstonecraft, so she grew up in an environment of women writing important things. Is it possible Percy collaborated? Yes, but she was also a collaborator in his work too- but she kept writing good stuff after he died.
Its almost as if couples never have shared interests!
Here's who Syd is:
Sounds like there’s something nasty in the woodshed.
Stella Gibbons made fun of pseudo-intellectual sexist dudes a hundred years ago by having a dipshit character in Cold Comfort Farm who was writing a book about how all the novels of the Bronte sisters were secretly written by their brother Branwell. Kind of delightful to see it happen in real life
Women wrote none of those novels which comprise most of the rise of he novel. Men wrote them and gifted them to the women. Men are very generous that way. Hooray for men!
There's just so much I could say here that I don't even know where to start... (I'm a chick, though, and maybe that's the problem.)
Frankenstein, famously about magnets.
Thank god my literature professors weren't academics. 🙄
If only Trump had a partner as smart as Percy Bysse Shelley!
Mary Shelley was related to her boyfriend? 🤨
I mean the reality is he was into all those things, and wouldn't shut the fuck up, so she wrote a book using everything he said. She eclipsed his own work in the process. Which is why men should never speak.
these types are into magnets because they have no magnetism
Also the monster wasn't animated by electricity? like i dont get the connection
i searched a frankenstein ebook for magnet and there is exactly one instance lmao
It couldn't possibly be that Mary was commenting on her husband's fledgling turn into a techbro... 🙄
Frankenstein is about magnets? What book did I read then?
Percy Bysshe Shelley was into opium, alcohol, infidelity, and little else. Meanwhile, Rosalind Franklin woke from her grave just to tell that dude to STFU.
Ah yes. The pressing status quo and influentional lobby of the feminist movement from... *check notes* the 1810's.
Reminds me of this bit in Cold Comfort Farm
Poe's law is constantly there, staring at me, waiting for me to choose how serious I take a post. My autism is a -50 social awareness debuff.
Syd Steyerhart is an INCEL.
is this why chad-likes and beta chads have moved away from the term "chick magnet", because obviously women have no magnetism?
The romantic movement is famous for having exactly one(1) person be really into prometheanism
then why are there chick magnets
Man it’s a good thing her mom was not a woman who did anything notable at all, certainly nothing remotely feminist
Very few people reading War and Peace manage to persist long enough to get to the chapters on magnetism.
I'm sorry...does he have ANY evidence whatsoever?
I have been on social media for 15 minutes today. My brain as wanted to implode 5 times due to misogynistic moronic men. Wtf is it spreading or something, is it airborne?
"Prometheism"
It's almost like people are attracted to those who have common interests Or something
Who ever heard of husbands and wives having similar interests? Clearly the rough draft manuscript in Mary's handwriting with Percy's notes and suggestions in his handwriting is an elaborate fraud
Why does he refer to her husband as "boyfriend"?
The thing about Frankenstein is it doesn’t really feature any electricity or magnetism, what it has a lot of is regret, existential dread, and megalomaniacal continental aristocrats shaped by their class position and gender relations.
...and Truman Capote wrote to Kill a Mockingbird....🙄
Gals, if you're looking to attract a beau, here's a little expert advice from a man: Magnets. Eat at least 3-5 magnets before you even think about approaching a man or writing literature.
Honestly? Mandatory lobotomies for every incel alive. I'm talking full, drooling on themselves messes afterward grade. Woodchipper is too good for em I say.
I heard people are saying nobody knows what magnets are.
Just like Branwell Brontë wrote all the Brontë sisters novels
Couples famously never share any common interests. That's why the fine folks of Twitter all need AI girlfriends.
Mary wrote a shit-ton of stuff, much of it after Percy's death. To be fair to Syd there, I don't know how much of it was about magnets.
I have encountered this bullshit before and well read Mr. Shelley’s prose and it’s obvious
This is even funnier given there's a specific INCREDIBLY FAMOUS ANECDOTE of how, when and where it was written. To which other multiple incredibly famous people were witnesses. ALSO, she edited and promoted HIS works, not the other way round.
The original tweet comes off as a joke to me, so dunking on it seriously runs the risk of painting Bluesky as humorless scolds, but I know how "it's a joke son" is used as an excuse to pass off genuinely questionable politics...
Percy Bysshe Shelley did write a horror story on the same trip to Switzerland (which they took in a futile attempt to escape the Year Without a Summer), but it was about a vampire named Dracula
this is why Insane Clown Posse songs are secretly all written by women,