#1700 romantic

[divorcedwife]

i saw these cute costumes from the 1920s and i just had to draw them

[enlitment]

Which Underrated Woman from History are You?

Finally got around to making a uquiz featuring six of my favourite women from history! You can either get someone from the French Revolution, Roman Republic (I know, how unexpected!) or from 1700s/early 1800s.

Featuring scientists, writers, politically active icons and a few poets whose lives were intertwined with theirs, as a treat!

Enjoy and thanks everyone for sharing! ✨

[peggy-elise]

Breathtaking Vivien Leigh as Emma Hamilton in That Hamilton Woman 1941 🤍

[diemelusine]

The Artist's Studio (1760) by Hubert Robert. Städelsches Kunstinstitut.

[verademialove]

[medea-of-colchis]

Robe à la française, c. 1760-70

[robinthetiredartist]

I know for a fact this isn’t going to get any attention, Because algorithms are annoying. But, I’m out of options and I’m finding I can’t get much traction for my art anywhere else. So, Here we go.

I really want to start showing off my prettier art pieces that I’m proud of! This definitely being one of them! I recently found the musical based on the original novel and I absolutely fell in love with it. The characterization, the twists and turns, things that were changed, it was beautiful. In the end I decided: “fuck it I got spare time, imma make a spin off story centered around the ending” so I did just that. And as a result, My Dead Beating Heart was created. A Tragic yet beautiful side story about Frankenstein’s creature (Adam) and a Terminally ill woman (Rose). Taking place a while after the ending (of which I’ve seen). They spend the story discovering the beauty in life and death, and how looks are not to be the judge, but the heart.

I ain’t spoiling nothing else tho, soooooo enjoy!

[nickysfacts]

Thank you Scotland for gifting lumberjacks and school girls everywhere a stylish pattern to wear no matter the circumstance!📚🪓

💙🤍💙

[louisetaylor]

Picrew: Bright's picrew hell

Meet Lirie. She lives in the Highlands, where magic runs wild in some people's blood. Her date with Lord Evander has been unexpectedly interrupted by an eclipse of moths, who are more attracted to Lirie than Evander's romantic candles.

[smokeys-house]

btw I've never had anywhere to include it yet and nobody's asked but puukko cannot dance. 0 rhythm. absolutely flailing on the beat. out there shimmying like a weirdo and definitely spilling a drink. 100% certified white dad moves.

[milo-the-crotonian]

To Julia

-Thomas Moore

A Juvenile Poem

[enlitment]

Top 5 underappreciated historical figures!

Thanks for the ask! This one was super fun, but also super difficult to answer. I've purposefully avoided mentioning the ladies of the French Revolution, since I have another question specifically about them lined up.

With that being said, in no particular order:

Fulvia

Anyone in the classics circle likely knows much more about her than I do, but I'm so glad I've discovered her through Tumblr! All of the things I've learned about her so far have been so interesting. It's incredible to see how much political (and military) power a Roman woman was able to yield despite living in a deeply patriarchal society.

(also, the part of me that loves drama really appreciates the story about her stabbing Cicero's tongue with hairpins after the proscriptions and Octavian's atrocious poem about her)

2. Émilie du Châtelet

Also hardly a surprise for anyone who's been following me for a while. Again, the fact that I've only relatively recently found out that there was a female mathematician and physicist in the fist half of the 18th century with such significant contributions to the field makes me almost feel as if I've been lied to.

She is special to me both because she was incredibly smart (she was able to understand Newton like few other people in her time and she spoke so many languages!) but there's also something about her writing that makes her feel deeply human and relatable. I've read some of her texts, and not only are they written in a beautiful prose but they're also incredibly moving. Her view on how to achieve happiness in life is one of the best I've ever came across, and her arguments for the education of women always make me feel so emotional...

...when she says that it was only after she realised that the circle of (male) French intellectuals accepted her among themselves and treated her as equal that she realised she too "might be a thinking creature"... I don't know, there's something about it that always gets to me.

Okay, time to introduce some male historical figures as well! This one is a residue from the time when I was really into the American Revolution.

3. Peter Stephen Du Ponceau

He was probably the only one in Baron von Steuben's original group that was able to speak decent English when they first arrived in the US to join the revolutionary war, which a) makes him quite important b) is kind of funny to think about.

But what I especially like about him is that he was a talented linguist who seemed to have genuine respect for other cultures, which let's face it, was quite rare in his times. While taking part in the American Revolutionary War, he recorded and studied the languages of Native American People. How cool is that?

(He was also potentially queer and I do have a soft spot for queer history)

Okay, guess should bring up someone interesting from Czech history as well. I fully confess that my own country's history is not necessarily my favourite area of study, but for her, I'll always make an exception:

4. Milena Jesenská

Probably most well known as Kafka's (kind of?) girlfriend/pen pal, but there is so much more to her story!

She was a writer and a journalist during the first half of the 20th century. She was really talented and soon made a reputation for herself, which let's face it, wasn't an easy thing to do for women in her time.

After Czechia became occupied by Nazi Germany, she joined the resistance movement and helped Jewish families to escape. She was later transported to a concentration camp, where she worked as a nurse and was said to have been "a moral support for other prisoners". She unfortunately died there when she was only 47. Still, what a life!

5. John Polidori

He's not necessarily my number one favourite person but I'd argue he is one of the most unappreciated figures. Vampires in fiction are massively popular but he rarely gets credited as one of its first authors. (Also the theory that Lord Ruthven, the charismatic, immoral aristocrat featured in The Vampyre is heavily based off on Lord Byron is not only entirely plausible but also quite funny).

Whenever I read something about the Geneva Squad, I always end up feeling kind of bad for him. As a foreigner, someone who was of a lower social status and - since he technically came along as Byron's personal physician - a paid employee, it just seems to me like he was never actually fully part of the group. Maybe I'm wrong, but to me, he felt kind of like a perpetual outsider. Lord Byron also got the credit for writing The Vampyre that should have gone to Polidori.

He was of course far from a perfect saint, with his drug and gambling addiction, but I still can't help but feel that he deserved better.

[peggy-elise]

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as Lady Hamilton and Horatio Nelson in That Hamilton Woman 1941 ⛲️

[verademialove]

[prokopetz]

A selection of promotional art for Violet Core, a forthcoming self-described "Romantic High Speed Sapphic Mecha TTRPG" by artist and writer @sarahcarapace, author of Death Spiral and visual designer for @cavegirlpoems' Dungeon Bitches. Violet Core takes its cues from Heaven Will Be Mine, Zone of the Enders and Knights of Sidonia, and plays like a tabletop dating sim with giant robot fights.

The game is currently entering the final 24 hours of its crowdfunding campaign, fully funded and having knocked down two substantial stretch goals in the last days: one for extra art (i.e., more of the above), and one to add an asymmetric play mode in which some but not all players pilot giant robots, explicitly including provisions for, in the author's own words, "handler and pilot toxic yuri" – a particular interest for many of this blog's followers, I'm given to understand!

With just under a day left to go, there are several additional stretch goals within striking distance; I've seen a lot of noise about the one for rules for combining robots (presumably also for yuri purposes), though the one I'm most keen on – a big stack of random encounter and event tables by the aforementioned @cavegirlpoems – is presently just $1700 AUD away. (Yes, I know I'm predictable; my love for Big Stupid Tables is well established.)

I'd love to see this one go the distance, so whether or not you're interested in supporting its campaign, if you happen to know anyone who might be in the market, please pass the word along!

(Art credit: excerpted pieces by @sarahcarapace, @portentous-offerings and @cryskir)

[robinthetiredartist]

WHO WANTS MORE OF THE BABIES?! CAUSE Y’ALL ARE GETTING FED!!

When your monster boyfriend doesn’t know how to handle affection but you want him to know how pretty he is to you <3