today in a fact i learned after an hour of doing research for a story and falling into a rabbit hole; in order to make this famous ophelia painting, John Everett Millais had his model float in a bathtub FOUR MONTHS and she got pneumonia and almost died

the model, elizabeth siddal, later married rosetti, and then later overdosed on laudanum after being depressed for years and died with a note pinned to her nightgown; the pre-raphaelites really did a number on women tbh

i mean imagine your whole life having to be surrounded by dudes who had formed a "brotherhood" gang because they believed some italian guy ruined art three centuries before

apparently i have to watch Desperate Romantics immediately; thank you all for this rec

ok wait now all of you amazing scholars of romanticism are telling me that rossetti buried siddal with a book of poems and later he wanted the book back so he dug up her grave? these fucking guys

well now i must read 10 books about this. pls tell me your favorites.

victorianist twitter is one of the better twitter subcultures along with costume historian twitter (there is great overlap) so i am happy to briefly collide with it

my big question is when does florence welch do a film about elizabeth siddal and somehow it is a musical

i had no idea how many people were into the pre-raphs; i have stumbled into an entire wormhole of people who know the most obscure facts about victorian horniness and are sending them to me and this is gonna be a good day

sorry but this is what happens when you start wearing nap dresses