honor
☞to whom it may concern
☞fascinations
☞creations
to whom it may concern...
☞ two-and-twenty
☞ girlcreature; she/her
☞ recent grad & current Master's student at the University of Chicago, studying English
☞ aspiring Pre-Raphaelite
fascinations
general freakery
☞ the Victorian era, specifically social anxieties and fascination with disease and death
☞ Ancient Greece & Rome
☞ aaand the Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan, and Romantic eras
☞ garment history, largely Victorian but other centuries & decades as well (ask me about my ability to identify Victorian decades based on dress sleeves)
☞ disasters, maritime or otherwise (the Franklin expedition, the whaleship Essex, the Donner party, etc)
☞ former U.S. President Warren G. Harding's affairs and love letters
☞ Greco-Roman & Norse mythology
☞ Agrippina the Younger & Caligula
☞ Dr. John Argentine, court physician to Richard III, Edward V, and Henry VII
☞ Napoleon & Josephine Bonaparte
literature & poetry
☞ Dracula
☞The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
☞ The Catcher in the Rye
☞ Les Misérables
☞ Frankenstein
☞ Lolita
☞ The Metamorphosis
☞ The Gashlycrumb Tinies & anything Goreyesque
☞ Catullus & Sappho
film
☞ Amadeus (1984)
☞ The Shining (1980)
☞ The Favourite (2018)
☞ Harold & Maude (1971)
☞ The Shape of Water (2017)
☞ Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
☞ Sleepaway Camp (1983)
☞ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) & Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
☞ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
☞ The Room (2003)
☞ The Wicker Man (1973)
☞ Singin' in the Rain (1952)
☞ The Lighthouse (2018)
☞ The VVitch (2015)
☞ Ravenous (1999)
☞ Blue Velvet (1986)
☞ O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
television
☞ Twin Peaks
☞ The X-Files
☞ Yellowjackets
☞ Gentleman Jack
☞ Community
☞ Arrested Development
☞ Over the Garden Wall
☞ Derry Girls
☞ The Terror (season 1)
☞ Our Flag Means Death
☞ What We Do in the Shadows
☞ Doctor Who (classic series and new!)
☞ Riverdale (semi-ironic. do not come for me. I am cringe but I am free)
☞ Game of Thrones & House of the Dragon
☞ My Lady Jane
theater
☞ Shakespeare's plays (special favorites include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and King Lear)
☞ Les Misérables
☞ Sweeney Todd
☞ Little Shop of Horrors
☞ Carrie: The Musical
☞ Gilbert & Sullivan (especially H.M.S. Pinafore)
☞ The Importance of Being Earnest
☞ Almost, Maine
☞ Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, and Stravinsky's Firebird
☞ The Crucible
music
☞ Kate Bush
☞ Regina Spektor
☞ Simon & Garfunkel
☞ David Bowie
☞ The Smiths
☞ The Talking Heads
☞ The Decemberists
☞ Joni Mitchell
☞ Peter, Paul, & Mary
☞ Oingo Boingo
☞ Mozart
☞ Vivaldi
☞Stravinsky
☞ Mendelssohn
☞ Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
☞ shanties (sea or otherwise), madrigals, opera, early polyphony, classical, and folk!
pastimes
☞ sewing
☞ knitting & crochet
☞ jewelry-making
☞ sculpting
☞ embroidery
☞ Victorian hair art
☞ surfing Wikipedia
☞ Google Maps & Google Calendar
☞ roller skating
☞ performing
☞ piano & ukulele
☞ attempting to learn Scottish Gaelic on Duolingo
☞ contraptions
creations
writings
☞ My Immortal President: Annotated Edition (footnotes and introduction written for a class on "filthy" literature)
craftings
☞ the Lolita Peepshow (created as a final project for a class focused entirely on a close reading of Nabokov's Lolita
☞ the Franklin Expedition Paper Theater (created as a final for a class on race, gender, and sexuality in 18th and 19th century maritime literature)
☞ knitting/crochet on Ravelry under fridaynitelaundry