Unhinged Victorian Greeting Cards: Valentine's Day Edition
February 14, 2022 7:29 AM Subscribe
"Alright my darlings, it’s time.
Time for this next installment of Unhinged Victorian Greeting Cards: VALENTINE’S DAY EDITION. ❤️ Let’s start with some tamer ones. Previously featured fish and leek / Cannibal cottage / LOBSTER / Sentient boots (ft. straw and coins)" (Twitter thread, images courtesy of museum of London archives)
Tag urself. I'm the champagne that soothes all pain.
Tag urself. I'm the champagne that soothes all pain.
Cursed memes from a century ago JFC i'm creeped
posted by seanmpuckett at 8:03 AM on February 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by seanmpuckett at 8:03 AM on February 14, 2022 [2 favorites]
Isn't lovely when a society explores a new medium of expression? This is Victorian England's badger mushroom moment.
posted by ocschwar at 8:29 AM on February 14, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by ocschwar at 8:29 AM on February 14, 2022 [3 favorites]
What a pity the Victorians didn’t know about snotworms and isopods. Terrific valentine potential.
posted by Phanx at 8:36 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Phanx at 8:36 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
this array of abominations makes me think.. they had Twitter too, it just happened at a different speed?
posted by elkevelvet at 8:40 AM on February 14, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by elkevelvet at 8:40 AM on February 14, 2022 [4 favorites]
>Cursed memes from a century ago JFC i'm creeped
>this array of abominations makes me think.. they had Twitter too, it just happened at a different speed?
Right? I was thinking there's something about the sign/signifier instability along with the casual sadism that feels like a emerging neural network trained on a strange, unfiltered set of subreddits. Though I suppose this is all what memetics as originally conceived actually is.
posted by youarenothere at 8:51 AM on February 14, 2022 [3 favorites]
>this array of abominations makes me think.. they had Twitter too, it just happened at a different speed?
Right? I was thinking there's something about the sign/signifier instability along with the casual sadism that feels like a emerging neural network trained on a strange, unfiltered set of subreddits. Though I suppose this is all what memetics as originally conceived actually is.
posted by youarenothere at 8:51 AM on February 14, 2022 [3 favorites]
Some of those look like they actually killed, stuffed, and mounted small songbirds? Like, actual birds, not fake ones.
posted by aramaic at 9:15 AM on February 14, 2022
posted by aramaic at 9:15 AM on February 14, 2022
AI-generated Valentine's Cards
You're the snail's poise!
posted by indexy at 9:15 AM on February 14, 2022 [6 favorites]
You're the snail's poise!
posted by indexy at 9:15 AM on February 14, 2022 [6 favorites]
Ouch:
"Your soul is in a fiddle-case,
Yourself a half-cracked fiddle;
To find your beauty, sense, or wit,
Would be a monstrous riddle."
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 9:31 AM on February 14, 2022
"Your soul is in a fiddle-case,
Yourself a half-cracked fiddle;
To find your beauty, sense, or wit,
Would be a monstrous riddle."
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 9:31 AM on February 14, 2022
LillyAutoInjector Android 1.1.0 Verification Readiness Review
"Happy Day of the Year" is a perennial favorite!
posted by Gelatin at 9:54 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
"Happy Day of the Year" is a perennial favorite!
posted by Gelatin at 9:54 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
I have been using this to upscale some of these in order to print out posters. Is there a better upscaling program? Wonderful stuff.
posted by craniac at 11:18 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by craniac at 11:18 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
I'm the champagne that soothes all pain.
I mean, given the era it was probably laced with a rockin' quantity of opium tincture.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 12:28 PM on February 14, 2022 [5 favorites]
I mean, given the era it was probably laced with a rockin' quantity of opium tincture.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 12:28 PM on February 14, 2022 [5 favorites]
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i suppose i'll be embalmed ex-missus, dearest pet tempting a new woman to embrace my former love and a grimaced future in a bell jar, though i was also tempted to claim bondage cupid and insensate wife who murdered her family on election day.
posted by youarenothere at 8:00 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]