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aesthetic posts & victorian literature | occasional other topics | mainly reblogs | mostly queued | let me know if you need me to be more vigilant or consistent with tagging for triggers, etc | functional pronouns: she/her

[carriedawayphotography]

Sunlit Poppies

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[clytemnestraaa]

one of my creative writing professors once said that to evaluate a work as good or not, first you ask what the work is attempting to do, and then you evaluate how well it does it. and this is how to judge everything from critical essays to romance novels to snack packaging to theory tracts.

[love-for-carnation]

Pietra Dura 18k Gold Carnation Flower Earrings, 1870

[geopsych]

Misty morning in late May

[lesbianestellahavisham]

first time editing in probably three years! every time I hear this song I think of her </3

[bitchenpagan]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 3.5/5

Summary/thoughts: A mysterious and unsocial woman and her son show up to a town. We learn the hard truth of her origins.

Red and Black ink on an index card.

Disclaimer: I draw images by hand for novels I've read. I've been doing this since 2010. I used a variety of references from posters, movies, book covers, art, old paintings. I am not trying to claim the ideas are original by me.

[summertimenoir]

Design for Living (1933) - dir. Ernst Lubitsch

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Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836) - Thème Varié dans le genre moderne for Piano in G-Major. Performed by Edna Stern, 1860 Pleyel concert grand piano.

[whateverhappenedtomarymary]

The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins

I love this book to death and I need more like it

[eleftherian]

"haaaa the famous biting boy" god how i wish that were me

[random-brushstrokes]

Hugo Charlemont - A Walk (1897)

[herpsandbirds]

sorry it’s a bit blurry, but here’s two adult sandhill cranes with their baby and a redwing blackbird! (taken in wisconsin)

[a-drifting-boat]

Bleak House is such a funny name for a Gothic novel in general. Really drilling the genre down to its bare essentials here.

[bugshroom]

Antique Czech Glass Charms

(c. 1890s-1930s)

[socialpants]

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

[razzlebathrobe]

Basil Rathbone as Marquis St Evremonde in A Tale of Two Cities (1935)