#the 19th century

[aduckwithears]

The early 19th century sure was something for our boys (gn). They were taking things at a FAST pace. (If, of course, you’re immortal and need to layer everything under 6 layers of deniability).

Whatever you do, don’t think about how in 1793 Crowley rescued Aziraphale and then they got lunch, in 1800 he brought chocolates to the bookshop then saved Aziraphale from a heavenly promotion, then in 1827 they went on a date to a cemetery in Edinburgh(prime date spot at the time esp for non-trad couples) and Crowley seemed to be having the time of his life.

Then especially don’t think about Crowley getting lightning-sanded down to Hell and showing up 35 years later in a much grumpier mood and with a request for Holy Water as “insurance”.

And don’t think about the context of their last interaction being attempted suicide by poison drink after a partner was lost… no wonder Aziraphale didn’t take the request well and they fought. No wonder Crowley was offended by fraternizing - they’d been way beyond that. Nope, don’t think about any of that.

#I know you can take A’s journal entry in a way that means they met up sooner #but I like this interpretation #lol the whole thing is such a departure from book omens #when Crowley slept thru the 19th century #from a doylist perspective it’s almost certainly to be able to dress the lads in amazing costumes #I approve #the 19th century #good omens #good omens headcanons #good omens s2 #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2 #good omens meta #aziracrow #a duck talks

[ineffable-suffering]

What really happened during the 19th century?

So, we all know Crowley slept through a good chunck of the 19th century. But we know very little about the surrounding circumstances (or! maybe we do know and someone else can help me out here).

Here’s what I keep wondering about:

Did Crowley let Aziraphale know about his Big Sleep? It was definitely his longest one yet, so it would have been worth mentioning. Or did he simply sulkily snooze off without another word after their argument about the Holy Water?

If he didn‘t tell Aziraphale about it, did Aziraphale eventually come looking for him? I‘m pretty convinced that at this point in time, they were used to seeing each other a lot more frequently than the flashbacks in S1 & S2 let through. At least every other month or so, if not even weekly, at times. If Crowley hadn’t told Aziraphale about vigorously hitting the hay (or at least left him a note), I‘m pretty sure Az would have started worrying at some point and would‘ve come looking for Crowley. Especially since the Holy Water convo heavily featured the theme of just how big the consequences of Heaven and Hell finding out about them would be. Crowley suddenly disappearing for longer than a couple of months certainly would have stirred Aziraphale‘s fear suspicion.

On that note: Did Hell simply grant Crowley a century-long sabbatical? Because last time I checked, an employee can‘t just fuck off without any notice to their boss. And ngl, Hell doesn’t strike me as the lot to grant such a long sleep-cation.

If Hell did for some reason know about and grant it (possibly because Crowley is sort of the Employee of the … Month? Year? Eternity? down there), did they organize a replacement for him? Did one of the other Demons stationed somewhere on Earth do all his wiles and temptations? Or was it all just put on hold? No foul fiend-ing in the Europe-ish region for almost a hundred years? Seems a little hard to believe.

Or, did Hell not know at all and a certain infernal trainee by the name of Aziraphale, who‘d been taught by Crowley himself, took over for him for the time being? („They don‘t care how it gets done, they just want to cross it off their list“ or however exactly Crowley phrased it)

If so, how would Aziraphale have known about the exact wiles and temptations on Crowley‘s future To Do list? Pretty sure he can‘t intercept the infernal instruction channel or pop down to Hell real quick to look at Crowley‘s upcoming tasks. Or did he just do random wiles every now and to then thwart them himself? His own self-preserving Arrangement system? Like an ethereal-occult oroborous? Keeping the scales even all by himself? After all, Crowley was clearly able to sell all the horrid things the humans came up with themselves as his own work without Hell checking whether or not he‘d done any corresponding miracles. They don‘t check the source material, only the result. So mabye all Az had to do was fake some reports, overselling Crowley‘s evil achievements and all was settled.

If not so, well, see question 4.

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #the 19th century

[ryan-is-a-god]

I could never be this silly and goofy in the 1800s.

Even though it was out of fashion for several centuries, I'm sure they'd have found a way to try me for witchcraft.

#silly #but also #goofy #silly goofy things #like me #the 19th century #truly a good time though #for the most part #well... for the vibes at least #unintelligible goblin noises #chaoscore #screams into the abyss #goblincore #bastardcore

[swforester]

Miss Marcy Sheldon who "died of a consumption" in 1806. Consumption is actually tuberculosis, a disease caused by bacteria infecting the lungs. It would be another 100 years or so from when Marcy was buried until America started to control this disease. It was also called "the Great White Plague" because it turned the victims a deathly pale color. I found 5 graves here from people who had died from consumption, all from the early 1800's.

Laurel Hill Cemetery 11/11/23

#consumption #tuberculosis #the 19th century

[alexandria-is-my-firstname]

A concept doodle i did yesterday to help back-up a photoshop movie poster design, characters in the doodle are my OCs,,,

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OCs' story (except Iseksen he is a writer from another story) sets in 19th century, noblewoman is travelling to New England but got her ship wrecked on a demon island, got her jaw Homelandered & fixed by a survivor, and after the noblewoman wakes up with mild memory-loss, she searches for the survivor's whereabouts via journal while surviving against monsters,,,

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For the poster design, the woman and man are Isabelle Laurent and John McBride from the 2021 film The Cursed. And for the red monster, it's a wendigo concept art from the 2021 film Antlers,,,

#oc #original characters #original story #oc doodles #quick doodle #quick sketch #photoshop #movie poster #the cursed 2021 #antlers 2021 #march 2023 #tbh it's based on The Isle of Demons story #how some woman was #marooned on a phantom island. fought monsters. and survived #in my version tho #it's the The Forest video game but it sets in #the 19th century

[postcard-from-the-past]

Restoration works of the 19th century Château Bouffémont, Parisis region of France

French vintage postcard

#works #historic #bouffmont #chteau #photo #briefkaart #château bouffémont #vintage #region #th #restoration #sepia #photography #the 19th century #carte postale #postcard #postkarte #france #postal #tarjeta #ansichtskarte #french #old #ephemera #postkaart #century #parisis

[zegalba]

Now abandoned, La Petite Centure is a 19th century railway that loops over 30km around Paris

#La Petite Centure #19th century #railroad #abandoned #moss #green #nature #overgrown #scenery #paris

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Odalisque by Delphin Enjolras (19th Century)

#delphin enjolras #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #french art #french artist #orientalism #concubine #odalisque #figurative #classic art

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Conradyn Cunaeus (Dutch, 1828–1895), "Allegorical Depiction of Loyalty and Love" (detail)

#Conradyn Cunaeus #art #painting #dutch art #19th century art #animal painting #animals in art #birds #bird painting #birds in art #art detail #allegory #allegorical art #pigeons #pigeon #loyalty #love #aesthetic #art history #19th century

[die-rosastrasse]

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

#art #painting #classical art #women in art #art detail #fine arts #art history #french art #François Martin-Kavel #pink aesthetic #pink #19th century art #19th century #fashion history #historical fashion #textiles #art lover #historical art #painting detail #light academia

[ao3commentoftheday]

#option 11 is reciting 19th century gothic poetry

[swforester]

The impressive Civil War memorial of George Marsh. He was a bugler for Co. A 1st US Cavalry which was very important at the time. He took part in 31 battles and was wounded at Cedar Creek. When he was discharged in 1865 he was 18. He would die at 53 in 1899. His wife Catherine would live on until 1915. They had a daughter Estella who only lived to be 2.

"A Hero of the Civil War"

Forestdale Cemetery

Springfield MA 8/3/23

#the civil war #the 19th century #infant mortality

[kustavglimt]

Alexandre Dubois-Drahonet: detail of Female nude, back view (1831)

#oil on canvas #paint #art #painting #alexandre dubois drahonet #classicism #art history #canvas #gallery #museum #aesthetic #french art #artist #french artist #art on tumblr #19th century art #19th century #paintings #fine art #academicism

[mapsontheweb]

An antique 1870s Cashmere Shawl that's also a map of Kashmir.

#maps #kashmir #shawl #19th century

[frostedmagnolias]

Cape

Late 1890s

The John Bright Collection

#historical fashion #history of fashion #fashion history #1890s fashion #1890s #19th century fashion #Victorian era #Victorian fashion #victorian #19th century #cape #fashion #history #vintage #vintage fashion #frostedmagnolias