#romaniticism

[the-lit-in-literature]

whoever is writing my life like a shakespearean tragedy pls stop. you have amazing skills but for the love of god pls stop.

[notmanthelessbutnaturemore]

#OnThisDay in 1818 Mary Shelley writes in her journal: 'S. spends the evening with Albe'. The Shelleys are in Venice and 'Albe' is Mary's nickname for Lord Byron.

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[the-lit-in-literature]

Introduce yourself as a line from your favourite book

[the-lit-in-literature]

I'm just a violently swinging pendulum between "god I'm so gorgeous it's unreal" and "i don't want anyone to look at my form and would like to hide behind a rock"

It's giving the underground man ✨

(tho he doesn't rlly say he's gorgeous but you get my point)

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (6/18/18) Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824) Man with Delusions of Military Grandeur (1819-22) Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm. Private Collection

Géricault is best known for his dramatically composed and brilliantly colored portrayals of cavalrymen charging into battle upon their noble steeds, but he also left us one of the more interesting set of portraits from the 19th century.  Through his friend and patron, the psychiatrist Dr. Georget, Géricault gained access to the Parisian "lunatic asylums" -- as they were then called -- in 1820 and there painted ten portraits of the doctor's mentally ill patients.  Five of these, including this one, still exist.  On one level, the painter saw them as representative victims of various forms of social trauma, exposing through their compulsions -- gambling mania, kleptomania, delusions of grandeur, and the like -- the particular social maladies of the age. It would also appear that for Georget -- and perhaps Géricault -- they were thought to have scientific value as visual "case histories" from which hypotheses could be formulated or general conclusions drawn.  As Michel Foucault has documented in "Birth of the Clinic," starting in the late 18th century there was a concerted effort on the part of the "authorities" to define "mental illness," classify its various forms, and "identify" those afflicted through tell-tale features, such as shape of the head or facial expression.  This pseudo-scientific enterprise would culminate in the 1870s with the work of the Italian criminologist Lombroso, whose typologies would hold sway for several decades and lead to a lot of unnecessary misery before finally being rejected.

[imaginarylandscapescjsr]

Image credits: Lady of Shallot by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Lady of Shallot by Lizzie Siddal; Ophelia by John Everet Millais; Self-Portrait by Lizzie Siddal

08/09/16 Seance for the spirit of Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and muse, Lizzy Siddal

Decayed Honey - Shiny Microbe Face (Vehicles)  This Mortal Coil - The Last Ray (It'll End In Tears) HTRK - Look At Her (Nostalgia) Scattered Clouds - Enchanteresse (The First Empire) Dalis Car - Cornwall Stone (The Waking Hour) Mushy - (Let Me) Go Away (Mushy/Meddicine Split EP) Javād Ma'roufi - Fantasia in La Minor (Golden Dreams & Other Romantic Melodies) Tara Vanflower - Opal Star/Pink Fingers (This Womb Like Liquid Honey) Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll (Blue Bell Knoll [Remastered]) Cockatoo - Lost in My Own Sound (Present) Tasseomancy - Braid. Wind Is Coming (Palm Wine Revisited)

https://www.mixcloud.com/caitlin-sian-richards/august-9-2016-imaginary-landscapes-seance-for-lizzy-siddal/

[the-0thers]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOuIyEJnbE)

So many youth are questioning the traditional wisdom of Capitalism for our economic models. I think more people should begin to question Romanticism as the dominant model for interpersonal partnerships.

[cammileerodgers-blog]

The Sublime shakes us, but none so shaking as the Sublime found in the imagination and Nature.