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Romantic Poetry and promiscuous Escapades | Unapologetic Byron shipper | stuck in the 20s of the 1800s | 24

[burningvelvet]

I've been considering different ideas for historical fiction novels about the Romantics and one of my concepts teeters into the realm of the alternate history subgenre. As a result, I decided to start doing some preliminary research on the history of the subgenre itself. Then I find this...

Of course I've known that there have been a bunch of historical fiction & alternate history novels made about the Romantics throughout time (maybe most famously Henry James' Aspern Papers in 1888). BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR INSPIRING THE WHOLE SUBGENRE!!!

The Romantics/Georgians were so iconic they inspired their fans to invent historical fanfiction over a hundred years ago & we're still writing it... their impact...!!!

But tbf I should have known Byron would be involved somehow because most roads of modern literature often point back to him & his cult of personality — & practically everyone who knew him or was inspired by him ended up writing books about him, whether fiction or nonfiction.

[semi-sepultusviator]

Might I interest you in Elinor Wylie's Edwardian Shelley fanfic "The Orphan Angel" which asks "what if instead of drowning to death in the Bay of Lerici Shelley had actually been rescued by an American schooner, taken to America, and then went galavanting through the country with the intention of saving a damsel in distress but not before taking every possible side-quest"? Oh, and his name is Shiloh?

A few gems.

[burningvelvet]

Glorious

[semi-sepultusviator]

May I enlighten you all on the existence of Twink Byron in the Ashmolean museum at Oxford

[byronfucks]

New Twink Byron just dropped

[1816musical]

NEW MUSICAL ABOUT THE ROMANTIC POETS AT LAKE GENEVA

1816 is a brand new comedy-drama musical based on the happenings at the Villa Diodati, where Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Polidori and Claire Clairmont met, leading to the creation of Frankenstein and the first modern vampire novel. The first show will be on the 6th August in Camden, London.

with less than two weeks to go, now is your chance to ask the team anything!!! about the show, the romantics, the music, whatever it is you'd like to know about us...

[noturbysshe]

read the Shelley biography by Dowden, blacked out and found this mysterious illustration after regaining consciousness

[burningvelvet]

ATTENTION ALL BYRONISTS! in honor of this being the 200th year of byron's death, newstead abbey (byron's historically preserved estate) released videos showing off some of their artefacts earlier this year! they can be seen on the nottingham museums youtube channel here

they recently released a video about some of the clothing byron purchased in albania and wore in his most famous portrait!

i also found this amazing project where a student recreated some of byron's clothing to great effect. the clothes are (or were recently) at newstead abbey and available to be tried on by guests. this might be of interest to you who are into historical costuming recreation.

[byronfucks]

Held a presentation about the US Elections and said Lord Byron instead of Biden... The intrusive thoughts won

[aletheyass]

i hate gay halloween what do you mean you’re percy bysshe shelley’s funeral pyre on a beach in italy as lord byron watches

[noturbysshe]

Classic lit content on this classic lit blog??? It’s not as unlikely as you might think!

Tried my best to get their heights right but I couldn’t find a definite answer to how tall Mary was :(

[byronfucks]

Doing overtime at work, Ao3 is down and there's not one but two (2) mosquitos in my room. It can only go up from here (crying)

[byronfucks]

Got a Hannibal nbc (silence of the lambs is next) tattoo done but none of my friends watched it so ill share it with you guys i hope thats okay 👉👈

[morggo]

Bound

Pen, ink, and gouache on Arches paper

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Part of WOWxWOW's Undercurrents show, starting February 2nd.

[byronfucks]

Oil on canvas

My Lord Byron portrait copy finished! Took me quite a few months. Will get it framed once it's varnished and hang it over my bed xo so happy with how it turned outtt

[byronfucks]

How many books of the Hannibal Saga have you read?

None

All of them

Just a select few (drop it in the comments)

Voting ended onAug 16, 2024

[sandmandaddy69]

[alltangledupinblue]

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone...

[nonasuch]

[windsweptinred]

Let's return to Pendle we said. Let's go revisit its infamous hill we said....

Holiday in England, see the sights... Possibly, maybe. Honestly it's 80/20. 😆

[byronfucks]

Actual mood. Spend my holiday in Cornwall. Foggy whenever we left the house and it cleared right as we went home (:

I think that was a church on this pic

[byronfucks]

In my Will Graham era (wearing plaid shirts and getting no sleep)

[byronfucks]

Am in Cornwall rn and just found out Byron wrote a poem while he was here. I cannot escape him.