not yr great-great-great grandma's suggestion blog

[girlfleeshouse]

The house is symbolic of the rotting core of imperial ambitions.

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[gothhabiba]

English writers in the 19th century complain so much about garlic lmfao, they HATED it

[gothhabiba]

hater compilation

[gothhabiba]

hater compilation part 2

[grimdr]

tag yourself:

which melodramatic 19th-century garlic hate are you

so highly impregnated with garlic

the nauseous effluvia of oil and garlic

the abhorrent garlic

a nefarious mixture of pounded garlic and pestiferous gruyère

reeking of filthy garlic

some indescribable compound teeming with garlic

a villainous smell of garlic

Voting ended onDec 13, 2025

[pauljpeg]

"I want molly" "I want percs" well you're getting leeches

[suzalulubf]

reframe your thinking. start using victorian language again. you’re not “chopped and broke” you’re “cursedly hard up”

[victoriansuggestion]

believe yourself afflicted with a spine disease, which necessitates reclining all day long on the sofa

[victoriansuggestion]

be a young law-student of no particular legal aptitude and Bohemian proclivities

[victoriansuggestion]

achieve some literary distinction, of which you are disproportionately proud

[victoriansuggestion]

be intensely selfish, yet pass with most of your acquaintances for a jovial good-hearted fellow: be thoroughly, though goodhumoredly, unprincipled

[yvesdot]

Image ID: An "anti-bloomerism" political cartoon from Punch Magazine showing several women smoking at a bar with a man patiently pouring them more alcohol. Title reads No. VI. - SOMETHING MORE OF BLOOMERISM. Subtitle: (behind the counter there is one of the "inferior animals.")

[lesamis]

are you a Byron or Wilde apologist?

concerned citizens from 1895 are messaging me

[victoriansuggestion]

be a vain, thoughtless, dressy slattern

[victoriansuggestion]

be a very busy and pushing young Whig

[yesterdaysprint]

The Boston Weekly Globe, Massachusetts, May 29, 1889

[victoriansuggestion]

[ID: A newspaper headline reading “Women’s pockets” with subheading “Most Mysterious of All Places on Earth.” End ID.]

[victoriansuggestion]

rather than going to bed, sit up reading, by the light of a couple of candles, an old book of last-century fiction

[victoriansuggestion]

crochet an antimacassar

[girlfleeshouse]

The false bride is her mortal enemy.