[ID: Three vibrant gifs of Beth Harmon from The Queen’s Gambit as she plays chess. 1: Beth and Mr. Shaibel sit in the basement together with a chess set in front of them; Beth moves a black pawn. In the center of the gif is the outline of the piece in a pink and yellow gradient with the word “pawn” overlaid on top in an italicized serif font. Text in a smaller sans-serif font underneath reads, “Beginnings, defense.”
2: Beth takes a black piece with her knight and then moves to strike the clock beside her. The word “knight” is overlaid over the outline of a knight piece and the words, “Grace, battle” are written underneath. 3: Beth moves her queen to the side in her game against Borgov; over the outline of the queen piece, text reads, “queen,” and underneath: “Power, independence.” End ID.]
THE EVOLUTION OF BETH HARMON, TOLD WITH CHESS PIECES
The moves they applaud the loudest are the ones you make rather quickly.
All the cute nicknames Victor Frankenstein called his son throughout the book:
catastrophe
miserable monster
demoniacal corpse to which I have so miserably given life
an ugly mummy
a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived,
the filthy daemon to whom I have given life
no human
the wretch whom I had created
sight tremendous and abhorred
unearthly ugly being
too horrible for human eyes
miserable head
vile insect
abhorred monster
wretched devil
you, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world
too horrible for human eyes to behold
the filthy mass that moved and talked
wretch whom I dreaded
villain
monster of my creation
fiend
figure most hideous and abhorred
+ bonus - all the cute ways captain Robert Walton described Victor’s son on 1 page:
a form which I cannot find words to describe
never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness
tremendous being
scary and unearthly in his ugliness
Tag yourself I’m “the filthy mass that moved and talked”