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A very happy birthday salute to Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE, etc. etc. – born #OTD, 5 May, 1822. As his extraordinary entry in WHO’S WHO (c.1908, below) shows, Sir Harry embodied all those qualities that built & sustained the British Empire 🇬🇧 🫡

@bookstodon

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Sir Harry’s storied career is too long for the ALT-text, but you can read it here:

https://sblazak.wordpress.com/sir-harry-flashman/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #NeoVictorian #Flashman #humor #BritishEmpire

An absolutely, impeccably, definitely genuine page from WHO'S WHO, c. 1908, listing the tremendous achievements of one of Britain's great Imperial heroes.

“The Architecture of Imagination”
A portrait that defies gravity and reason—where a serene face becomes the foundation for a fantastical cityscape of wireframe structures, domes, and airborne dreams. Airships and floating balloons orbit like thoughts in a mind filled with invention. This artwork fuses elegance with engineering, turning fantasy into form.
Let your thoughts take flight! What would your dreamscape look like if your imagination became architecture? Share your take and spread the wonder!

#SurrealElegance #Mindscape #ArchitecturalDreams #SurrealPortrait #BalloonArt #FlightOfFancy #WhimsicalDesign #VisualAlchemy #DigitalSurrealism #FloatingStructures #ArtisticVision #SketchFantasy #DreamWorlds #CreativityUnleashed #VisionaryArt #ElegantImagination #DigitalCollage #TonHaex #ArtThatInspires #SurrealFusion #NeoVictorian #FantasyPortrait #ImaginationTakesFlight 🎈🖋️🏛️

#ASByatt is famous for her intertextual novels. How she used the #Melusine #serpent #mythology and played with it in her 1990 #NeoVictorian novel #Possession is analysed in this study by Gillian M. E. Alban

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=35865727X

#YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature

The book "Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A.S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology" by Gillian M. E. Alban in front of a red background

"The Essex Serpent" by Sarah Perry is a 2017 #NeoVictorian #Gothic novel set in 1890s Essex, detailing a woman's search for a mythical sea-serpent. The #EssexSerpent was made into a 2022 TV show with Claire Danes & Tom Hiddleston

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1627743480

#YearOfTheSnake #EnglishLiterature

Holding the novel "The Essex Serpent" by Sarah Perry in front of a red background

October 25 is Punk For a Day Day! Does include a steampunk rebelling for 19th Century workers' rights in our "Clocky Horror" musical parody of the cult classic movie? 🤣

The CWRU Film Society's Voyeuristic Intentions is doing the Time Warp again with a live RHPS shadowcast tomorrow night! And we're planning more fun in 2025 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Rocky Horror"!

#steampunk #NeoVictorian #NeoVic #improv #improvisation #theater #parody #musical #RHPS #RockyHorror #RockyHorrorPictureShow #Marcon #MarconOH #SciFiCon

Not bad for a couple hours of work. #blender3d #blender3dart #steampunk #neovictorian

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2024/06/26/not-bad-for-a-couple-hours-of-work-blender3d-blender3dart-steampunk-neovictorian/

Modular support craft from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now adult children. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetics

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2024/06/24/modular-support-craft-from-the-neovictorian-steampunk-bedtime-stories-i-used-to-tell-my-now-adult-children-blender3d-blender3dart-design-aesthetics/

Details for a modular mid-range scoutship, from the #steampunk #neovictorian bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children. #blender3d

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2024/06/12/details-for-a-modular-mid-range-scoutship-from-the-steampunk-neovictorian-bedtime-stories-i-used-to-tell-my-now-adult-children-blender3d/

#FlashBackFriday to our second musical "The Clocky Horror Steampunk Show" at Marcon 2011! #FBF

Next year is the 50th anniversary of the cult classic film so we should explore another "Rocky Horror Picture Show" parody!

#improv #improvisation #theater #parody #musical #RockyHorror #RHPS #RockyHorrorShow #RockyHorrorPictureShow #steampunk #NeoVictorian #Tesla #Marcon #MarconOH #SciFiCon

"I decided to follow my dreams and my passions and to always have an adventure, no matter what it is." --Gabrielle Union

#MondayMotivation

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #parody #SteamPunk #NeoVictorian #NeoVic #ClockWork

This essay collection, ed by Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Marlena Tronicke & Julian Wacker looks at #NeoVictorian re-imaginings of Black people in the 19th c in novels, film, TV series& drama, incl & beyond #Bridgerton 🖤

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1772460192
#BlackHistoryMonth #FilmStudies #BlackStudies #biofiction

Today's #BlackHistoryMonth #bookstack is on the topic of #BlackVictorians: covering Black lives in history & fiction in the long 19th c in the UK & the US, & in #NeoVictorian fiction!

#VictorianLiterature

a bookstack of 4 books on Black people in history & fiction of the 19th century, resting on a vintage chair

#FlashBackFriday to "Dr. X. P. Leurer’s Treatise on the Most Fungus Amongus Abnormalus" at Ohayocon 2011! #FBF

This steampunk parody was an adaptation of the kyōgen "Kusabira" which we may encore in Columbus again this April!

#steampunk #NeoVictorian #NeoVic #improv #improvisation #theater #AnimeConvention

Six actors perform a play inspired by Neo-Victorian steampunk in a hotel conference center panel room during an anime convention portraying a 19th Century explorer with an airship aviator and an occult mystic investigating three large mushrooms in a lost land.

The ConFusion 2024 sci-fi convention is this weekend near Detroit, MI!

#ThrowBackThursday 2011 when we attended ConFusion without an intent to perform yet performed twice debuting a new Neo-Victorian steampunk short "The Manual Automation of Dr. A. P. Pliance"! #TBT

See more about the con: https://2024.confusionsf.org/

#improv #improvisation #theater #steampunk #NeoVictorian #NeoVic #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ConFusion #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon

Two actors in colorful patchwork costumes perform a short steampunk inspired play in a hotel conference center panel room during a science-fiction convention.

“Ironically, the problems inherent in the game design establish a distinctly immersive adaptation, as the player experiences the repressive frustrations of being Henry Jekyll and the cathartic joys of being Edward Hyde”

—“A Strange Case of Angry Video Game Nerds: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde on the Nintendo Entertainment System”, Neo-Victorian Studies 12/1 (2019)

#Scottish #literature #gothic #horror #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #neovictorian #videogames #Nintendo
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https://neovictorianstudies.com/article/view/18

A Strange Case of Angry Video Game Nerds:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the Nintendo Entertainment System

Marc Napolitano
(United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, USA)

Abstract:
Regarded by many gamers as one of the worst video games of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the Nintendo Entertainment System is simultaneously a unique adaptation of a Victorian text. The frustrating design of the game is based upon an attempt to translate the relationship between Stevenson’s characters into an interactive experience. Ironically, the problems inherent in the game design establish a distinctly immersive adaptation, as the player experiences the repressive frustrations of being Henry Jekyll and the cathartic joys of being Edward Hyde. By ‘legitimising’ Hyde, and by promoting an active reengagement with the Stevenson text through gameplay, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ironically succeeds as a neo-Victorian adaptation by failing as a video game.

“[A] slow-paced side-scroller with obnoxious enemies, useless weapons, unclear instructions and deaths that came at random; an unholy abomination that would have better banished into obscurity”

—The Angry Video Game Nerd revisits the 1988 NES game “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”

#Scottish #literature #gothic #horror #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #neovictorian #videogames #Nintendo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjXn5qiM8Zw

Clocky Columbine - the clockwork automaton from our Neo-Victorian steampunk harlequinaid parodies - knows that December 29's Tick Tock Day comes a reminder to finish up all those tasks we've been putting off all year!

https://nationaltoday.com/tick-tock-day/

#clockwork #steampunk #NeoVictorian #parody #RockyHorror #RockyHorrorShow #RockyHorrorPictureShow #RHPS #Marcon #MarconOH #improv #improvisation #theater #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon

An actor poses for a publicity photograph outdoors near a park dressed as a parody of Columbia from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in green and purple sequins as a steampunk clockwork maid with goggles, a giant wind-up key, and 19th pantomime make-up.

#FlashBackFriday to "The Phantasmagorical Contraptions of Dr. A. P. Pliance" in 2009, our first Neo-Victorian steampunk harlequinade - which ended with a cheeky cameo from our Dalek Skarino and Dottore Who's TARDIS, introduced earlier that same year! #FBF

Did you enjoy the recent "Doctor Who" 60th anniversary specials?

#improv #improvisation #steampunk #NeoVictorian #clockwork #DoctorWho #Dalek #TARDIS #parody #ScienceFiction #SciFi #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve

Two actors perform a Neo-Victorian steampunk parody play in a university classroom. One actor plays a steampunk mad scientist inventor; the other is inside a green & purple parody Dalek from "Doctor Who". In front of them is a chaotic steampunk contraption prop; behind them is a fabric TARDIS from "Doctor Who" set piece.

Completed uniforms for the officers and crew from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my now-adult children. #unity3d #blender3d

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2023/12/10/completed-uniforms-for-the-officers-and-crew-from-the-neovictorian-steampunk-bedtime-stories-i-used-to-tell-my-now-adult-children-unity3d-blender3d/

#ThrowBackThursday to "The Phantasmagorical Contraptions of Dr. A. P. Pliance" in 2009, our first Neo-Victorian steampunk harlequinade - which ended with a cheeky cameo from our Dalek Skarino and Dottore Who's TARDIS, introduced earlier that same year! #TBT

Are you enjoying the ongoing "Doctor Who" 60th anniversary specials?

#improv #improvisation #steampunk #NeoVictorian #clockwork #DoctorWho #Dalek #TARDIS #parody #ScienceFiction #SciFi #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve

#NeoVictorian

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