#set in the 1890s

[random-brushstrokes]

Adolfo Hohenstein - A Paris street - set design for Act II of La Bohème (1896)

[thatsbelievable]

[haveyouheardthisband]

[starzknight]

Disney princess with a bit more accurate outfits...

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[chiropteracupola]

Poverty, poverty knock / Keeping one eye on the clock / I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle / Go poverty, poverty knock...

...so I read @nothwell's novel 'mr warren's profession' at approximately light speed the other day and felt like drawing some of the cast.

[wacky-nameless-inventor-24]

omg Dracustein au lore?? :3

describing it as Frankenstein but what if it was actually Dracula instead. telling the story through the character introductions let’s see if this works

GYRO- is an aspiring scientist/professor who meets Fenton at a university, where they’re both super interested in science and medicine. Gyro one day gets the crazy idea of wondering if he can create life, which he goes about doing so by using part of his own DNA to grow a clone of himself. One night when it finally wakes up and comes to life he’s so completely horrified of it that he completely rejects it, spending the night hiding around the house from it before remembering another invention he has. He was attempting to make some kind of taser for self defense but the creep he used it on just like. evaporated into nothing when he zapped him. However with this thing what he wants is to get rid of it like that so as dawn comes he hits it with the Disappearing gun. He’s distraught over the failure of years of work and still terrified of the thing that he’s made he spends the winter recovering while Fenton takes care of him.

GANDRA- comes to visit them that summer! She's an old childhood friend of Gyro's, they lived really close to each other so they've known each other for most of their lives. She's been studying abroad all over Europe for the past few years, and comes to see them just as Gyro is getting better. They're the same age and still single so their parents are like. waow crazy idea what if you two just got married!!! and they like each other so they agree to that idea and technically get engaged just when Gandra gets there (<- They Don't Know meme the distinction between romantic and platonic affection). Gandra spends a lot of time telling Gyro and Fenton about all of the crazy things she'd seen while out of England.

FENTON- just kind of like. moves in with Gyro while he's taking care of him that spring, and that summer he gets invited out on this great cool fun business trip!!! (not sure for what though because he wouldn't be a solicitor) Upon arriving at the castle of the count he's there to help it only takes him a few days to realize that this count is insane and that he's being trapped there until the count decides to kill him. After like a month of this he climbs out a window and braves the Transylvanian countrysides to get out of there. He makes it back to England where it's now Gyro's turn to take care of him.

MADS- (Madison Darlington) wasn’t evaporated when hit by Gyros ray, what that thing actually does is throw the target through time. So Mads, less than like six hours old, is suddenly yeeted all the way back 200 years to the renaissance where he comes to realize he has a taste for human blood. Once he like. registers what’s going on and realizes what just happened to him he gets incredibly angry at Gyro for rejecting him and creating him to be like this so. he wants revenge. he waits around 200 years and slowly getting angrier until finally it’s back to 18— and Gyro now exists so he can kill him. He actually doesn’t know Fenton when he comes to visit, and only learns his connection to gyro through the letters he sends. He follows Fenton back to London and quickly realizes the best way to enact his revenge is by killing everyone Gyro cares about >:3 However it doesn’t take him long to notice the growing relationship between Fenton and Gandra and just how jealous Gyro is of that, so he quickly switches tactics and starts trying to widen a gap between Gyro and the two of them. Gyro doesn’t want them to know that he created Mads, so Mads starts bothering him in a variety of interactions that Gyro is forced to hide, creating bigger secrets between them.

Endings???

[teasetsotw]

--- Designer/Manufacturer: Unattributed [X] Region: Japan Time period: 1880-1910

[c0rvidski]

take a moment to consider this norman rockwell study of my lightkeeper oc mattie

and also this shitty doodle of her and her selkie gf

[corallapis]

James Jebusa Shannon: portraits of Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland, and four of her children: Lady Marjorie Manners (later Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey); Lord John Manners (later 9th Duke of Rutland); Robert Manners, Lord Haddon; and Lady Diana Manners (later Cooper, Viscountess Norwich); 1895, 1900.

[themetaphorgirl]

I was doing so well with whumptober but the past two days have been an absolute shitshow ahahahha

let’s see if I can bust out two posts today real quick!!

(Also I have to make two dresses and a petticoat for the show that I’m in in two weeks whoops, half my fabric is currently in the washer right now)

[jessicas-pi]

She did not shrink back, though the pupils of her eyes dilated. Was it the wildest thing in the world which happened to her—or was it not? Without warning—the sudden rush of a thought, immense and strange, swept over her body and soul and possessed her—so possessed her that it changed her pallor to white flame. It was actually Anstruthers who shrank back a shade because, for the moment, she looked so near unearthly.

“I am not afraid of you,” she said, in a clear, unshaken voice. “I am not afraid. Something is near me which will stand between us—something which DIED to-day.”

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behold: my artistic contribution to the small but enthusiastic You Should Totally Read The Shuttle (1907) By Frances Hodgson Burnett campaign

[practically-an-x-man]

I'm really eager to start writing more for Spider and Vivienne because, being from horror movies, the tone of their pieces are a lot more pure horror and I'm eager to write it

[gilfrespecter]

for the character asks... 7 and 17 for billy :DD

7:What is an aspect of their appearance that you like the most?

Never having a haircut that doesn't look Kind Of Bad. Always a little too long/a little too short/ choppy but not in an intentional way. Also I really love the Fancier hat but unfortunately he doesn't get that until her daughter's older and then in the setting where they WOULD have it they lost it when she died, and in that game we haven't had a chance to go back there. 17:Are there any motifs or symbols associated with the character? How are they represented, in their design, personality or in some other way?

OOOOh yeah, i mean first the evil eye imagery, which is kinda self explanatory. I based the colors off a bracelet i had when I was little it was SO pretty i kept it after it broke. It's also very fun to use as a third expression but im not sure if i draw cartoony enough that that reads. and then the sun/fire motif which started out a necessity of the system(Everyone Play Firmament by Veil's Edge Games) but its also like. so deeply part of him. Then from that in a bunch of stuff I haven't posted canaries, but also songbirds in general. Personality wise accidentally put some dog stuff in as well but its an accident. Sometimes i lean in on it for Joaks but like. its not strong. Also she doesn't like dogs at all. Music wise looking at it's playlist ALOT of strings, which is funny, because my character who CAN actually play string instruments has a significant more focus on bass guitar.

[niamhthefae]

you know what would've been really fun? if like how the dracas speak Norwegian, and the vamalia speak German, the Lycana had irish as their first language. I know it would've probably been "too much effort" or something to find native speakers either as the actors or to provide things for the script. but i would've loved to hear ivy and seymore speaking in gaeilge, even just turning up and saying "dia dhuit" instead of "hey" or muttering things others can't hear under their breath and them even implying that they were speaking irish would be been so fun.

especially since this is the late 1800s but it's been implied that they were around for a while so they would've been born to gaeilge speaking families,but probably forced to speak English while the english were over causing trouble in ireland. so we can still have them beleivably speaking english on the ship but speaking irish in private.

they probably won't do this if they make another season,but I really want them to

[tozettastone]

SUCH an uncivilised place

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

The Many Illustrators of A Tale of Two Cities 8: Edmund H. Garrett (2/2)

Vignettes for Vol. 2

I'm going to be jumping right in on this one, except for one small thing!

1 / 2 || 2 / 2

As I mentioned in the previous post, I sourced the images for vol. 1 and vol. 2 of this edition from different places. One interesting thing about this source that's different from that of the previous (besides the fact that the scans are better) is that some - but not all - of the full-page illustrations actually have captions! I will of course add those underneath them where applicable. Sadly, this likely means that the full-page illustrations from vol. 1 also had captions that simply were not included in the scan. Ah, well - perhaps they'll show up one day, making for yet another mystery solved on its own!

Anyway, here are Garrett's illustrations for vol. 2 - enjoy!

The gaoler opened a low black door.

"English?" asked Madam Defarge, inquisitively raising her dark eyebrows.

I hope you enjoyed this set as much as I did!🌟

As a bonus, here's a gif showing the difference in quality between my original source and this new source - I'm so glad I found it!

& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:

This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫