#glass town

[aquitainequeen]

I went to the Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibit at the British Library last weekend. Among other jewels, I got to witness these:

#Scribblemania #The bronte siblings #Charlotte bronte #Glass town #Inspiration #Gotta get through this #And keep scribbling!!!

[re-readingcomics]

Comics Read 07/01-15/2023

A little over a year ago I did a post about reading two comic book biographies of Artemisia Gentileschi back-to-back. I wrote some lines about how the inclusion of them in my collection helps makes the act of collecting semi-autobiographical. Consider this a sequel to that post.

Over the two weeks I am writing about I read Glass Town written and drawn by Isabel Greenberg and The Brontës Infernal Angria written by Craig Hurd-McKenney and art by Rick Geary. Different takes on the same subject, how the Brontë children had a shared alternate universe which they all wrote stories about. I have owned a copy ofThe Juvenilia of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë from when I was a child, but I never read it. I probably should. The names of Angria and Gondal were familiar from reading about the Brontës. But because of not actually reading the Juvenilia, I first encountered Glass Town by name in Die, where it was treated as a proto-multi-player role playing game. Which, seems fair enough. Die wasn’t much interested in the subject of their writings, so this is all new to me.

Greenberg’s art in Glass Town is crude in the same way ND Stevenson’s and Gus Allen art work is. If anything it’s more childlike and inconsistent. I don’t love it, but I like how the lines work the limited pallet with a lot of dark, cool reds. It hints at the early industrial feel of their time period as well as the harsh climate of their surroundings. 

The narrative starts in the aftermath of the the eldest Brontë sisters, Elizabeth and Maria, deaths. The creation of Glass Town is an escape from the trauma of their final illnesses at a poorly kept boarding school.

Charlotte narrates her tale of Glass Town, to a minor character from her stories who appears as her imaginary friend. They talk through the plot she worked on, which as presented here seems more related to Wuthering Heights than Charlotte’s actual novels. The story includes how while the children started sharing Glass Town, they split with Charlotte and Bramwell writing about Angria while Emily and Anne created Gondor. (Less of Emily and Anne’s writing on Gondal survives to the modern day than Charlotte’s work on Angria, hence why less of it is included in either of these accounts.) Probably because of this shared fantasy world with her brother, Charlotte is shocked by his decent into alcoholism while Emily catches early warning signs. It’s a rumination on the building of escapist fantasy in the face of tragedy and the creation of art. I don’t think it entirely works, but it makes me want to get back to reading the Brontë’s and writing about them. 

Infernal Angria takes the shared fantasy world and creates an actual portal fantasy. The Brontës literally go between worlds and get used in political machinations in an alternate world’s monarchy. I hated it. The text is something of an apologia for Bramwell for being such a failure. He didn’t really fail, he was manipulated by much more mature people from a world he loved. Also it takes the “artists don’t die, they live through their art” to the extreme of the Brontës didn’t all die at shockingly young ages, they relocated to the other side of a portal. It’s silly and also unclear. It shouldn’t be both. The end had the author talking about his long love of the Brontës as well as a suggested reading list. Everyone in a while you find someone who has some shared enthusiasms but seem to 

At first glance, I would think that Geary’s art style is more my type than Greenbergs. But eventually I hated it because the shading was made with a crosshatching that got too easily confused with patents used for fabrics or wood grains. It’s the shorter of these two books and the one that felt more like a chore to read. 

The contrasting treatments of the the worlds of Angria/Glass Town is pretty interesting. The character in both have essentially the same back story, but as presented in Infernal Angria I didn’t feel like the narrative came off as a rough draft of Wuthering Heights. Glass Town treats the alternate world as a reflection on contemporary colonialism, while Infernal Angria approaches it as a pastiche of Medieval fantasy. It makes me wish I had read the source material even more. 

Despite finding these books lacking, there will be more comic book takes on the Brontës in my reading future. 

#comics #comic books #what i'm reading #Glass Town #The Brontës Infernal Angria #The Brontës #charlotte bronte #Bramwell Brontë #emily bronte #Anne Bronte #Isabel Greenberg #Craig Hurd-McKenney #Rick Geary

[ademella]

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#glass town #bronte #brontes #graphic novel #isabel greenberg #art #Illustration #reading #books #book cover #october

[bordersbookthirst]

Happy 2023 epic readers. I have been noodling on and off on some books, and due to this, not completed a single one of them until now.

Finished the Night Circus at the request of a friend begging me to read it. I liked it. But there's something about it holding me at arms length. I think my favorite part was the stylistic choices Morganstern used, but I felt the story... The contest itself was a bit ephemeral. The whole thing was a bit ephemeral. Maybe it's like the French filmmakers inciting ennui in the viewer and we're just supposed to deal with it. Perhaps it's supposed to feel gossamer and like a dream, one that we could go to. Something more about the reader almost than the story?

Then the second is a graphic novel, Glass Town by Isabel Greensburg, which is a retelling of the Bronte sibling's juvenilia as it intersects with their real lives. I found this part was discussed in Glass Town particularly poignant.

The Wikipedia page on Glass Town is fascinating. Charlotte really thought she was going mad.

Also I find the art of Glass Town so simple but yet when you have these really complex human moments (like Charlotte taking off her glasses) you feel like you're there. I've never had that feeling more so than with this graphic novel specifically.

I've been reading Jane Eyre since December or so and I'd really like to finish that up. Additionally, for a total change in tone I'm reading Chelsea Manning's memoir and it's a fucking page turner. I'll have a LOT to say about that, I'd imagine.

#2023 reading journal #2023 reads #night circus #erin morgenstern #glass town #isabel greenburg

[lucabyte]

Taking pride in One's own appearance.

#you people are becoming my guinea pigs for my finally learning how to communicate information via comics. a thing ive needed to practice at #also BLEGH. YUCK. andrew hussie was right candy makes you sick. this is a little too saccharine for me. yeesh. let me get back to the meat. #isat #isat spoilers #in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #isat siffrin #isat loop #sifloop #doodlebyte #'let me get back to the meat' i say eyeing something similarly sickly in my sketches. at least it's mildly tormented as a counterbalance... #you people have no idea how much im having to stay my own hand. oh i can draw miserable nudity but the most basic of fluff? visceral #anyway i dont know the logistics of picking up a glass eye or where loop got money (besides pilfering from siffrin) & ive previously drawn #sif with a vague blank middle-grey eye as either being scarred over or a blank occular prosthesis put in quickly at the nearest town #i dont know that they'd have a glass eye during the game but considering prosthesis are reccomended to keep the skull etc from deforming #id imagine it would probably come up postgame as something to do now theyre not on a time limit trying to save the country #plus i assume that having it gouged at by a sadness wasnt exactly a clean wound by any measure #all this to say. idk i just wanted to get some information across in comic form to Test my Abilities #and we're far enough down now to say my absolute most wretchingly sweet fluff headcanon that actually inspired this #which is that i think siffrin gets into the habit of not wearing the eyepatch around loop so they kinda match. #and as a signifier to the other that they're letting their guard down around them. vulnerability etc. #just kinda wearing it around their neck so they don't lose it

[silver-peel]

Lord Valens in his workshop! He's cooking! something!?🤔

This month is this yellow guy birthday so I try to tackle one of wip that lies in my folder for a very long time :)

#oc #original character #illustration #artists on tumblr #medieval fantasy #my art #I LOOVE GLASS #please look at my bird oil lamp #I've always joking in my head about medieval br-aking bad but the potential is tempting ngl lmao #best med(icine) lab in town

[politedemon]

SAINT MAUD (2020) dir. Rose Glass

#saint maud #rose glass #morfydd clark #movieedit #moviegifs #horroredit #tvandfilm #cinemapix #myedit #personally i think more horrors should be set in seaside towns in northern england

[morganbritton132]

Eddie posts a Tiktok of old home video. In the video, Steve is standing in the kitchen at the trailer with the phone wedged between his shoulder and his ear as he made coffee for two.

Someone must’ve answered because Steve perks up and says, “Hi, yes. I’d like to request a song. It’s - yes, the new Corroded Coffin song called….well, how was I supposed to know you have caller ID, Christine? Can you play the song or not?”

Steve hangs up the phone and immediately picks up his walkie-talkie like, “Earth to Dustin, use *67 when you call. They’re memorizing phone numbers. Over.”

Eddie behind the camera says with so much amusement, “You do this often?”

Steve smiles at him, finally bringing the coffees over to Eddie, “Every day. Gotta get your song out there so more people can hear it.”

#people seeing 1987 Steve Harrington with his messy bed head hair his glasses wearing one of Eddie’s tshirts and boxers and are like: damn #Steve called the radio station in town everyday after CC got their first single on the radio #until the radio station started screening his calls #then he used Max’s phone #eddie munson tiktok saga #steve harrington #eddie munson

[maxsix]

#song mingi #mingi #ateez #yunho #jeong yunho #ateez gif #mingi gif #yunho gif #Ateez Youth mv #okay but why did they have to put him in this outfit ugh #if you ever feel stupid #just remember that i broke up with a bf who looked like him #i'm the president of Stupid Town #its a fresh trauma every time i see Mingi in glasses #tall vision impaired males with dark hair are my weakness i guess lol #ateez stylists know his best style is MINGI+SUIT+GLASSES #like they know it and they're right

[arc-hus]

Wolterslaan Row house, Ghent - Raamwerk

#Raamwerk #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #interiors #house #minimal #house design #contemporary architecture #metal cladding #cinder block #industrial #glass #timber #kitchen #courtyard #town house #cool homes #belgium

[sesiondemadrugada]

Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass, 2024).

#love lies bleeding #rose glass #mark towns #Ben Fordesman #Katie Hickman

[midnight-madonna]

Churches in Toruń

#churches #architecture #gothic church #gothic architecture #stained glass #sightseeing #traveling #old buildings #old town #cities #homeland #church photography #poland #toruń #my photos

[tenspontaneite]

Building pixel art of dragon Suns out of different walls in Terraria like a normal person 👌

#my art #dragon iterators #seven red suns #terraria #i did actually use my graphics tablet pen for this #made a big canvas out of glass walls first so I'd be able to 'draw' freely #then went to town #if you zoom in you can see the individual walls #walls used were red and yellow stained glass. regular glass. and a few others from calamity

[germanpostwarmodern]

Town Hall (1963-65) in Fredericia, Denmark, by Halldor Gunnløgsson

#1960s #town hall #concrete #glass #architecture #denmark #architektur #halldor gunnlogsson

[balalaka]

oh shit they used ponynator

#scp #scp art #scp fandom #scp foundation #doodle #dr glass #dr simon glass #agent diogenes #dr bright #scp 963 #scp 4231 #francis wojciechoski #mlp #my little pony #pony town

[sysig]

Hiya :) I've been getting into DSMP animatics, and I love seeing the different interpretations of the character designs even though I only have a vague sense of the lore so far. It's all got cool vibes!! Can I request a drawing of Ranboo or Wilbur, or maybe even both? I'm not sure if they actually ever interact in the story or not, but I'd say interpret the prompt however you want and have fun??

Day 19 - Stuck inside

#My art #Requestober #DSMP #Ranboo #Yeah I don't think I've seen any instances of Wilbur and Ranboo meeting either :0 #Well they did meet when Ghostbur came into town after the whole thing with Techno and Phil was still under house arrest #But I don't think they had any particularly hard-hitting moments just pleasant greetings haha #Which is a shame! Then again everything is a missed opportunity with what Ghostbur didn't get to do huh haha #I never really got into Alivebur so I opted for Ranboo for this one :) #See! He and Ghostbur would've both had to hide from the rain! Lore-wise anyhow haha #In this case I was thinking of Ranboo going to visit Michael and then it starts raining #Although it would only snow where Michael is wouldn't it? Ahhh just don't sweat the details too much lol #I don't think I ever saw Tubbo's house either - and Ranboo kinda moved in with Techno too didn't he? #At least at one point he was next door I think - man it's been a while since I brushed up on my half-learned lore lol #Point is! Rain outside Ranboo inside! #Hopefully someone will come to visit him soon :) Or it'll stop raining so he can go run around some more haha #Also the kinda ghosting effect on the glass was not intentional! :0 I actually didn't notice until now haha #I think I like it though :D