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"And now once again I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper." - Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley wrote those words in the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein. The original edition, published anonymously in 1818, had no introduction from the author, leading many to believe that the novel was penned by Shelley's husband. In this later edition, published after Percy Shelley's passing, Mary Shelley owns her work for the first time and recounts the origins of the tale that has come to haunt so many. She ends her introduction with the above words, words that have moved me since the day that I read them.

Asdflkjaertvlkjasntvkjn (sits on keyboard). Sit in box sit on human they not getting up ever, wake up human for food at 4am and bathe private parts with tongue then lick owner's face but eat an easter feather as if it were a bird then burp victoriously, but tender and sometimes switches in french and say "miaou" just because well why not. Play with twist ties scream for no reason at 4 am, hunt anything. Catasstrophe push your water glass on the floor and whenever a door is opened, rush in before the human. Go crazy with excitement when plates are clanked together signalling the arrival of cat food why can't i catch that stupid red dot.

Frankenstein is about so much: it is about monstrosity and humanity, about our capacity for greatness and our capacity for harm. Shelley's wish for her work, that it will prosper after her creation of it, in all its "hideous" glory, is so moving to me. The novel itself is so concerned with not just the hideous looks of the monster, but is more interested with the hideous aspects of our society, the ugliness of how we can treat one another. To acknowledge the darkness Shelley explores in the novel, in naming it hideous, but wishing it well anyways, having hope that we all might learn something from this monstrous child of a book is crushingly hopeful. So here I am, teaching myself to code and building a website so I might make a monstrous child of my own, a hideous progeny of my own obsessions. Welcome. I hope you stay awhile.