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Hans Christian Andersen is my blorbo

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Kinda making me emotional but there is in fact a higher res image of this portrait with accurate colors in the Odense Museum archives. Is it christmas😭 i swear I've looked at this a thousand times and now I can finally see the real colors and brushstrokes up close 🥹🥹

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Color studieess ☺️

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I’m on a brain blast

(Edvard was Andersen’s proofreader for much of his life)

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I only have brain power for lineups that go nowhere rn damn it

Slow picking away at andersen related animation ideas 🔨

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the only mf who can smoke a cigarette in the rain with his hands tied behind his back

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I’m sorry for not posting art, art school kidnapped me to make art so I stopped being productive at all if that makes sense🫩

Recently I’m trying to be on instagram as minimal as possible for my physical and mental health but tumblr is fine cuz it’s only fandom going on…! I still find nothing to post except random bad doodles of Chase and my persona cuz I need him for mental support lmao

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Character design practice of Jonas Collin the younger, during the 1863 trip with Andersen. Honestly a short film about it would be really cool !!

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I was just reading Alan Walker's Liszt biography and was like hmm well Andersen was kinda friends with him. I wonder what his letters say.

We both heard Thalberg yesterday and I have to admire his masterful playing, but I was still cold about it, I don't find him as interesting as Liszt , but he is handsomer and looks so much like Baron Rosenkrans who came to the Student Association.

-Andersen to Jonas Collin, Nov 28, 1840

Unexpected Thalberg moment. I know descriptions about people's appearance are pretty common during this time but it feels like Andersen is just extra about it lol.

As far as I know, he didn’t really write about Liszt having a great face (just his overall effect). Who knows, maybe Thalberg is more his type 😌❓️

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Horace Vernet - Bertel Thorvaldsen (1768–1844) with the Bust of Horace Vernet - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This double portrait is a nod to the celebrity of Horace Vernet, who painted it, to Bertel Thorvaldsen, who is shown completing a clay bust

I like thorvaldsen because he looks exactly like this former hippie bus driver I know, and they probably aren't that different personality wise 😌

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I have run into stories about him that give him hippie vibes (but 1800s style, if that makes any sense), so I see where you're coming from.

I kid you not, this guy (unintentionally) went walking with a Danish Queen in his morning smock and mismatched socks, lol.

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Zamn what a chill guy 😌

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Horace Vernet - Bertel Thorvaldsen (1768–1844) with the Bust of Horace Vernet - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This double portrait is a nod to the celebrity of Horace Vernet, who painted it, to Bertel Thorvaldsen, who is shown completing a clay bust

I like thorvaldsen because he looks exactly like this former hippie bus driver I know, and they probably aren't that different personality wise 😌

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Okay I don't know how I haven't found this before now, but there's actually a website that comprehensively compiles all of andersens work from his plays to his novels??? And annotations to explain who everyone is and for out of date language 😭 i could seriously cry from joy‼️‼️

Anyways I was wrong in my last analysis because I haven't been able to get a readable version of Agnete and the Merman (basically tried to screen translate the scanned fraktur text and failed miserably), Hemming is in fact not the merman, oops. He's just Some Guy on land, which makes more sense as a self insert but is also pretty sad.

I am pretty sure he's written these lines in letters multiple times lol. He's so silly.

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Andersen bday post. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BEAUTIFUL BLORBO <33

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Exploration for those domesticated creature fanfics 😭

I do think Adam would have to cut his hair off realistically to blend in (wasn’t able to find many photos of long haired men in 1860s) but I get that long hair is important for his design…I’m compromising with hair that reaches below the ears since it seemed like a popular hairstyle for young men.

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Mental image of @prettymuchteddy ‘s fanfic Death Begetting Life, vicreature is the only thing getting me through this month ☺️ also mostly an excuse to research mid to late Victorian men’s clothing

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Keep forgetting to post this. But it’s from either Inga Collin’s or rigmor stamp’s book about Andersen, I’m too lazy to check. Either way an anecdote told by Louise Collin (her daughter) who haaated it 😆 This is why I love Mrs Collin, she’s so patient🥹

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Fuck it here’s my improvisatore dump that I keep putting off posting. Took me like 4 months of on and off reading to finish this book.

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Pt ii