#Victorian View

[business-as-usual-bats]

Hilarious to me that in fannon so many people decided to give Tim Drake allergies. Thousands of people saw him and said, "This twink looks like he'd be allergic to clam chowder."

[weirdlookindog]

John Martin (1789-1854) - Satan viewing the Ascent to Heaven, 1824

from 'The Paradise Lost of John Milton with illustrations by John Martin', 1846

[thesobsister]

"Night" and "Day," purportedly by Lewis Carroll, as reproduced in View, vol.2, iss.2, 1942.

If you hadn't told me these were by Carroll, I'd have guessed "West Coast homoerotic magickal surrealism" ca. 1957.

[sealochs]

[dozydawn]

[retropopcult]

New York, 1900. "Hotel Netherland, Fifth Avenue and 59th Street."

[erinsvintageemporium]

It's Fashion Plate Friday! (On This Day: 6th June, 1836)

Fashion plate from Le Charivari, unsigned.

Le Miroir des Dames

Robe d'Organdi de Mme Camille, Rue de Choifeul, N. 15. Chapeau de sparterie de Mme Lejay. Fleurs de Ch. Millery, R. de Ménars. Ombrelle de Mr. Cazal, Bréveté, Rue Montmartre, 167.

1836-06 LCH77-309

[vox-anglosphere]

Knightsbridge - 1896

[friendofmossandbones]

Every time someone does an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde where Hyde and Jekyll are two separate people an angel fucking dies.

[sylviegirly]

*　　⤷　　the churn of desire and longing ﹙ zhongvie ﹚﹒　⑅

[immediatebreakfast]

It's Renfield day! (Spoken by Jack!)

When It comes to Renfield, and Seward, one has to pay attention to the language used in these entries because it reveals a lot of Jack's biases for Renfield that he, in theory, should work on since the older man is his patient. Examining again, I found a lot of tiny yet important vocabulary choices that tells us how Seward isn't approaching Renfield with the medical eye he should be using in this situation.

I wish I could get at what is the object of the latter. He seems to have some settled scheme of his own, but what it is I do not yet know. His redeeming quality is a love of animals, though, indeed, he has such curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel

This is a report for Renfield's progress, and (even if Seward can speculate about the approach he should be taking with him) the vocabulary Jack uses is a little informal, and focused on his thoughts about Renfield's actions instead of Renfield's words along with his actions.

A lot of questions that Jacks asks himself about Renfield. The fact the focus of the entry is not Renfield the patient, but the idea of the older man skewed through the eyes of Seward, how apparently the only line of Renfield's dialogue worth recording was his request for three days.

To my astonishment, he did not break out into a fury, as I expected, but took the matter in simple seriousness. 

Jack is astonished that Renfield can act like a normal human being at a simple request. Of how the patient is a civilized person who responds politely, and asks for a simple time frame to complete a task. It's really interesting how Seward is letting his ableist biases cloak his medical opinions, but at the end, we did read his statement of how he is "particulary" interested in Renfield atfer all.

[stellastra-scribbles]

Hey, it is so great to see a fellow Arcanum fan in the wild! Thank you for all the art. Virgil is the best!

And it's so wonderful to know that there are still Arcanum fans out there! I'm filled with so much fervor to make fanart!

And Virgil is the best! Here's a WIP of something I've been working on for him~ 💛

[somedudewithantlers]

what if Ford got gender envy from Bill. Is this anything

[faeriegirl]

Vision.

[prismaticxchromatics]

A Room with a View (1985) Director: James Ivory

“A far off the towers of Florence and she wandered as though in a dream through the wavering golden sea of barley touched with crimson stains of poppies. All unobserved he came to her. Isn't it immortal? There came from his lips no wordy protestations such as formal lovers use, no eloquence was his, nor did he suffer from the lack of it. He simply unfolded her in his manly arms… What is it about Italy that makes lady novelists reach such summits of absurdity?”

[fictionadventurer]

Potential November Reads

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton

Something by Charles Dickens

A nonfiction book

A piece of classic Russian literature