#because it's the 19th century

[black-rose-writings]

Dear Saints, I forgot how much I hate trying to write Alina.

Shit's not good for my mental health.

#grishaverse #grishaverse fanfiction #anti alina starkov #just in case #sweetie is giving me anxiety attacks #not really #but I do have to get close to get her right #alina's particular brand of overthinking overreaction hits way too close to home #I'm actually in a pretty good place right now #I would not even try this if I was in a bad place #writing Bloom's fucked up mind is cathartic #because I feel like I'm guiding her through a journey into getting better #writing Alina's fucked up mind is horrible and depressing #because she has an entirely wrong idea about what getting better means #and even if I wanted to guide her there I will have to fight her every fucking step #at least in the other fic her fears are kinda valid #here she's just wantonly paranoid trapped in a hell of her own making #like baby I want you to go to therapy #but you can't #because it's the 19th century #this shit aint healthy #for her or for me

[sableeira]

whoever edited that bsd official art to make it look like chuuya is holding onto dazai’s arm will be put on trial for irrevocably changing my brain chemistry and making me so much worse

the original and the edit in question. this artwork really makes me crave a mid to late 19th century historical au where Chuuya is a swordsman struggling with changes to his job due to the meiji restoration and with Dazai as a detective/private investigator who hires Chuuya as his bodyguard when a seemingly harmless investigation turns dangerous. they kind of hate each other (as per usual) but Chuuya needs the job and Dazai, while he proclaims to dislike chuuya, is also very smitten with chuuya’s fighting style and temper (as per usual).

#also the person who edited that bsd dead apple official art to make it look like they are holding hands will be put in jail without a trial #the red ribbon tangled around their intertwined hands 😵‍💫 #<- does that person know the impact and damage that edit did to society? #oh yeah btw I’m not sure if the clothes fit mid - late 19th century but those decades make for a cool setting #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #soukoku #skk #bsd dazai #chuuya nakahara #osamu dazai #bsd chuuya #my art #bsd #I need more skk historical aus :( if I had the time and a solid story idea (more than just the vibes) I would write this #although I feel like I wouldn’t be able to do that setting justice with my current knowledge about mid to late 19th century japan #I finished this one a month ago and just didn’t post it because there was stuff that I wasn’t happy with (finally managed to fix them lol)

[therepublicofletters]

26.10.23 || Having a caffeine-induced archive high from the tiramisù I had at dinner, hoping it lasts me the next three years

#i honestly had such a good day in the archive today it was very refreshing #this doc above ^ was cool because it referenced a statue that we actually know #which is the bust of maestro giovanni chellini by antonio rossellino #and i didn't realise that the pazzi owned it in the 19th century which is super funky #archive posting #phdblr #gradblr #dissertating #also if anyone has recs for milan i am here for another four days two of which will be free

[stheresya]

Daenerys' storyline in ADWD is a good way to complexify heroic narratives without invalidating the idealism of the savior. What is in question isn't the morality of freeing slaves (because that's already indisputable), but how to integrate them in society in a effective way when that goes against ancient traditions of subjugation. It offers an honest portrayal of power struggle, how the oppressing class does not give up their power easily, and in order to make a revolution stick you must give the oppressed the necessary tools to keep themselves empowered, the oppressed must be able and willing to reign fire on those who seek to put them in chains again. With heroic narratives there's always an extraordinary someone saving people from certain doom and everyone is happy. the end. But with Dany there's an exploration of the aftermath. Her storyline explores her struggle of wanting to do good, on trying to keep her people safe while dealing with powerful people who seek to maintain their hierarchies. It's an exploration of what power can mean to different groups. Power can be about subjugation but it can also be a way to prevent yourself from being subjugated. The great masters would not have behaved differently if Dany had proposed gradual and peaceful reforms on slavery, because they cared first and foremost about their status as a ruling class, and that status was only possible through the exploitation of other people, because for a group to be above requires all others to be below, stepped on by those above.

#last semester i studied about the process of slavery abolishment in my country during the 19th century #which was a process done mostly through gradual and peaceful reforms #and yet the slave owners still did ALL they could (increasing violence against enslaved ppl + human trafficking) to maintain the system #people who truly believe in slaving others are vile in any scenario. because slavery is vile. there's no way around it. #daenerys targaryen #a dance with dragons #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #cw slavery

[edoutft]

Hi people! I released my graduation movie on vimeo, link here! It's about gay men being sad on the sea, feel free to watch and maybe tell me what you thought about it :)

#art #animation #graduation #graduation movie #age of sail #early 19th century #the terror #tagging the terror girlies because it might be relevant to y'all interests 👀👀

[artemisyates]

Some more artwork of Henry Jekyll, wearing a corset based on this advertisement for men's corsets circa 1880 as I quite like the more natural shape of it:

#remember corsets historically were worn over your shirt/chemise #you only wore your corset against your bare skin if you wanted discomfort and regret #jekyll and hyde #henry jekyll #I will never stop the Henry Jekyll is pretty propaganda because Robert Louis Stevenson himself started it #dr jekyll and mr hyde #dr jekyll and mr hyde art #strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #dr jekyll #henry jekyll art #jekyll and hyde weekly #jekyll and hyde art #gothic literature #classic literature #19th century fashion #1800s fashion #victorian fashion #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #victorian mens fashion #art #my art

[finnlongman]

Working theories about the processes at work in the Babyfication of Cú Chulainn in the 17th-19th century Ulster Cycle tales:

All of these late stories position themselves as taking place before Táin Bó Cúailnge. This is obvious from the fact that Fer Diad is present in lots of them, but is also just narratively convenient for them, I think.

Cú Chulainn is 17 in TBC, so our starting point is that he must be younger than that.

Generally these stories position themselves as occurring after Tochmarc Emire/Foglaim Con Culainn. Again, this is partly evident from the presence of Fer Diad. Some of them overlap slightly with it.

Cú Chulainn's age in TE isn't stated outright, but following the Boyhood Deeds, he might be as young as about 6.

He must therefore be aged between 6 and 17 when all these stories take place.

Tóruigheacht Gruaidhe Griansholus, the oldest of these stories (1679), states that he is 15 -- presumably with the primary intent of firmly locating the story before TBC. The Ulaid are concerned about the idea of him going off an international road trip alone because of his age, and express this concern, but he does it anyway. His youth is occasionally referenced, but on the whole he is much as he appears in earlier texts: a skilled and precocious warrior.

Eachtra na gCuradh and Coimheasgar na gCuradh come next (early 18th cent). They notice this detail in TGG and decide to elaborate on it further: Cú Chulainn is younger than 15, and is going on adventures only in the company of other warriors; it is occurring pre-TGG, making that his first solo adventure.

Because he is too young to go on adventures by himself, and because those responsible for him are frequently concerned for him, this gives the impression that Conall et al are babysitting him.

Eachtra na gCuradh appears to take place before Coimheasgar na gCuradh. CnC introduces Láeg and by the end of the story, he and Cú Chulainn have teamed up, ready for TGG. Conall appears slightly less protective of Cú Chulainn, so we can conclude he is slightly older than he was in EnC, when he is very baby (and when Láeg wasn't yet on the scene).

His age is not stated outright in any of these, but I would guess he's aged between 10 and 14. This is based purely on relative chronology and may not hold up to close scrutiny.

Sgéalta Rómánsuíochta are the latest stories (maybe 18th century but preserved in 19th century version). They're not super interested in Cú Chulainn, preferring to foreground other characters. His babyfication makes this easier, since he can appear as a child sidekick (to Ailill Fionn, in the first story), or in a similar capacity to EnC and CnC -- the youngest/most junior member of a group of warriors. Across the four stories, he could be anything from about 7 to about 14 again.

Theories about intertextuality:

Tóruigheacht Gruaidhe Griansholus and Coimheasgar na gCuradh both provably draw on the Stowe version of Táin Bó Cúailnge. There are details that can't have come from any other version of TBC (or any other text that survives). They are not the same details in both texts, so it's not that CnC drew on TGG: both drew on Stowe.

Since EnC is probably by the same author as CnC, we can assume he also had Stowe.

EnC's inclusion of Manannán mac Lir might suggest knowledge of Serglige Con Culainn.

CnC alone of the very late tales (i.e. EnC onwards) includes Láeg, with characterisation details that obviously come from Stowe TBC. Again, it doesn't seem to derive directly from TGG (there's a detail I'd expect to see there if it did); both go back to Stowe and so have similarities but have developed them differently.

All of them are probably drawing on Foglaim Con Culainn; in some places it seems like there might be some reliance on Oidheadh Con Culainn as well. There might be some evidence of drawing on Oidheadh Chonlaioch, particularly the attribution of teaching to Aífe rather than Scáthach, although I know there are also late verse versions of this that might be a source rather than the prose.

SR may be more distant from its source material with heavier reliance on these intervening texts -- there are lots of phrasal similarities between EnC/CnC and SR, but Ó hUiginn disputes the earlier proposal that they were all by the same author and thinks SR are definitely later.

That's what I've got so far. I doubt anyone has suggestions because I don't think anyone has cared about these texts for a couple of centuries, but if you do, hit me.

I am partly writing this post so I can keep track of these thoughts for later, although my PhD corpus ends with TGG, so I won't be talking at length about the others there. (They may come up in passing, though.)

#finn is not doing a phd #ulster cycle #now corrected because i got confused between EnC and CnC in terms of which one contained Manannan #i have read so much 18th-19th century irish lately

[tortarepostera]

Crowley doesn't remember an angel who worked with him in a nebula nor a demon who fought side by side with him, but he remembers easily a human surgeon in 19th century Edinburgh he saw like 5 minutes.

#maybe because Aziraphale was with him #and because 19th century was boring to him and slept through it #so he remembers the only fun thing #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #aziraphale #crowley #sorry for my english #ineffable husbands

[anglerflsh]

robots

#[.art] #[.oc] #Adam #dnd #automaton #android #he is a bit like a dress-up doll to me. I keep making his outfits fancier and fancier the more I look into 18th/19th century fashion #I'm glad of how my artstyle has evolved since the first time I drew Adam because I feel like he's well-suited for this kind of drawing. #1700s automaton boy in his historically inaccurate clothing. He's so special to me. In his non-dnd version he's so passive agressive #in dnd too to be fair. But at least in dnd he's gotten less attatched to the idea of his government being absolutely perfect #character development: the robot built to praise and impersonificate the city of progress is no longer a fan of the city of progress. #he's still very much a lawful-aligned character but so is almost every character I make.

[stealingpotatoes]

sometimes you just have to paint your pseudo-historical ocs old timey portraits because you're deranged

(commission info // kofi)

#PAINTING YOUR OCS IS VERY HARD BECAUSE WHERE DO YOU FIND REFERENCES. YOU MADE THEM UP. #YOU HAVE TO JUST MAKE UP WHAT THINGS LOOK LIKE BUT REALISTICALLY AND ITS DIFFICULT #realism #semirealism #semi-realism #oc #original characters #regency era #19th century fashion #my doods #laurel tsirn #nyssa perseffon #the dead prince #p&add

[crepegosette]

have you ever drawn Chile? I think he/she'd be a great design!

Yeah, I have. I'm still reworking his design, so he always changes when I draw him but I do have a idea of how he is

here's an old comic

#if you're wondering why arg's hair is different is because i hc he had natural curly hair during the 19th/early 20th century #he straightens it nowadays to look more handsome #but if his hair's wet the curls naturaly appear #that's a indicator he and uru are brothers #curly hair and blue eyes #hetalia #hetalia world stars #hetalia fanart #hetalia fan art #my art #hws brazil #hws argentina #hws chile #aph brazil #aph chile #aph argentina #hetalia brazil #hetalia argentina #hetalia chile #if youre wondering why the two last panels look different is because they were drawn one year appart #lol #also act about me: argchi is one of my fav latam ships :>

[jugendmagazineart]

untitled - unknown, M. V., 1897

#I actually went crazy trying to find the artist #I think the M. V. must be their initials but I can't find this illustration anywhere else #This COULD be Max Vogel #Because he did a few drawings in the late 19thC for the magazine #But I can't be sure! Could be someone else. Any entries under M. V. don't list this drawing #19th century #19th century art #art #jugend magazine #vintage illustration #art nouveau #jugendstil #circa 1897 #bugs

[daguerreotyping]

Daguerreotype portrait of Richard Fletcher Jameson showing off three patterns of plaid to great advantage, photographed in Montrose, Pennsylvania in 1846

#after much googling the difference between plaid and gingham I think this counts as plaid because of the varying stripe widths? #either way an eyebrow-raising amount of square-on-square action #19th century photography #daguerreotype #19th century fashion #fashion history #historical fashion #men's fashion #1800s #1840s

[malbenita]

14 yo (short) and 16 yo (a guy)

#messy doodles again because it seems like I will have way less time in the next month #anya forger #damian desmond #damianya #spy x family #spy family fanart #long story short - dropped out of college and now apply my documents to another #they said they will accept me here but I have to somehow finish and pass semester in one month #ahahah help plz #it’s a cool place at a 19th century building in the old city centre and I finally escaped math and IT but #not like I expected that dropping out in the middle of the year would make life easy #but semester in one month sobs sobs

[amygdalae]

Ok kava really does give you vivid dreams. Tried some kava candy my dad gave me one evening and in my dreams I had a long conversation with some guy abt the classical piano works of Erik Satie. The gnossienes specifically. No. 2 was his favorite but I'm more partial to No. 1. his T shirt was blue. Also my pubes were gone for some reason

#there was a transphobic guy in my dream who silently got up and left the building after i mentioned being nonbinary it was funny as fuck #also a sulky guy with shaggy black hair who kept being a dick to me because he had a crush on me #and two girls with purple dyed hair who were so sweet when i complimented them #also a tall slutty guy in a V neck who unbuttoned my shirt halfway and then wandered off #also a very kind 19th century poet man who slept in a barn #and a 19th century serving girl looking lady who kept stalking me

[marzipanandminutiae]

tfw you're at a ball and someone asks if you know how to waltz and you say yes but then you get on the floor and discover that she knows only modern waltz and you know only 1860s waltz

there is no box step in 1860s waltz

#historical dance #ballroom #ballroom dance #the basic idea is the same but. there's me following and trying to start with a step straight forward onto my right foot #and banging into her knee because she is not doing the diagonal step to the side with her left foot that I was expecting #I know so many cool variations! ...assuming we're doing a mid-19th-century waltz! and if we're not I will step on your toes like a beginner #I could learn. I just...haven't had a reason to yet.