#victorian london
Pity those who struggled through the C19th London fog! This atmospheric 1872 image is from The Graphic.
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“If ever I lie in the cool grass at night-time it will be to write sonnets to the moon.” (O. Wilde, De Profundis)
Victorian London
Ah, Victorian London, a place of technology and squalor, of progress, and a form of civilized barbarism. A place of high class nobles… and ruthless backstreet brawling. A place where people of all walks of life found themselves, and a place where all manner of cultures could be found. Indeed, there is much to be found here in London.
“She was anonymous: a woman with a mutable story, a changeable history, someone who recognised that the world didn’t care about her, and chose to use that as a weapon in order to survive.”
- Hallie Rubenhold, ‘The Five’
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Look how the river flows with movement, ships and merchants. And we’re going to strike.
Smiling as they go around the London streets. As brothers, as friends, comrades and brothers in law.
A Study in Sherlock Comics
A Study in Holmesian Comics
#Sherlock #graphicnovels
There’s an old adage in the Ghostbusters/ Real Ghostbusters fandom that dictates that when writing fanfiction, you can crossover GB/RGB with any fandom. I’m beginning to thing this adage may apply to Sherlock Holmes as well.
There are so many pastiches and variations surrounding Sherlock Holmes. He’s met Dracula, Jack the Ripper, Scooby Doo, The Real Ghostbusters (it all ties in!). He’s been…
“We’ll serve anyone, and to anyone at all!”
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (dir. Tim Burton; 2007)
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Two Victorian aesthetic mood boards to coax my friends into reading The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. My love for this, and all works by Natasha Pulley runs very deep. I wish there was more of a fandom to crawl into.
Being quarantined has taken away a lot of things but has also given those at home time, a precious thing. Its allowed for my third read of this book, a silver lining to say the least.
Image © El Kane
21/04/2020
