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✧ ALASTAIR • 25 • he/him • gay ✧WWI battalion boytoy. History enthusiast, illustrator, reenactor, and writer. ✧If your blog is only for erotic/kink you might like my sideblog better @my-dear-private.Terfs/radfems, ddlb/g, thinspo, transmeds, racists, nazis, etc NOT welcome here. Society6
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Illustration from Documents Decoratifs by Alphonse Mucha (1901)
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Artefact No. 1 — Musical figurine, 1916
Found in the attic of a house belonging to an elderly woman long since passed. The figurine looks to be custom made, possibly meant to resemble the recipient’s son depicted in a small photograph tucked away in the base. However, its maker is unknown as well as why it was in the woman’s possession. It is thought to be a memento commissioned to remember her son Pte. T. J. Belrose when he went overseas in 1916. The inscription on the bottom reads, “My heart is always with you”. Pte. Belrose died on the 12th of April 1918 at 22 years old. The young couple who moved into the house noticed a strange melody coming from the attic at night and soon discovered the musical memento thankfully intact. Though the figurine no longer spins, it continues to mysteriously play music on its own without winding the key, most notably at 12:04 just after midnight.
#part of an unplanned series of Great War objects I’ve imagined#I arranged the music myself too!#I want one irl so bad#wwi#illustration#world war one#great war#wwi art#Edwardian#my art
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Harrisburg Daily Independent, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1907
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good on ya for snagging those prosthetics, i see a bunch of ww1 antiques that aren't lamps get turned into lamps (why is it always lamps?), usually helmets.
Fr like when I first got the arms I was like aw people held their partners with these and this dude was out here like what an exquisite pair of lamps like WHAT
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POST THOSE DRAWINGS!! I can't wait to see how your art style has developed!
Yeah! Also I do have some spicy shit Instagram would take down so there’s that
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Me on a mission to save all the rare WWI prosthetic limbs from the “”upcyclers””
So a very unique purchase I made during hiatus… a pair of antique prosthetic arms I basically saved from being sold as lamps?? They were most likely made between 1900-1930, though one professor I reached out to says they might specifically be WWI era or thereabouts which is grand cos I’ve been getting very into WWI medicine, specifically prosthetics and plastic surgery, these past two years. Definitely a great addition to my collection regardless! They are two left arms produced for two different people but by the same maker in France and came with a swivel joint and hook, ring, and brush attachments.
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So a very unique purchase I made during hiatus… a pair of antique prosthetic arms I basically saved from being sold as lamps?? They were most likely made between 1900-1930, though one professor I reached out to says they might specifically be WWI era or thereabouts which is grand cos I’ve been getting very into WWI medicine, specifically prosthetics and plastic surgery, these past two years. Definitely a great addition to my collection regardless! They are two left arms produced for two different people but by the same maker in France and came with a swivel joint and hook, ring, and brush attachments.
#you wanna buy just one but then you think well i can’t separate them they’re friends#the wild thing is they were being sold as LAMPS like they were holding bulbs and attached to bases and everything#and I messaged the guy being like Hey Uh would you consider de-lamping those and selling them to me#had to have the little fellas WWI or not#rare to find them these days#wwi#world war one#antiques#prosthetics
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Queer WWI Literature
This is a very niche and limited category, so I’ve been trying to throw together a list of what I can find out there for anyone else who might also be interested. What follows are all books that contain LGBTQ+ rep of any kind, that also involve the First World War as a central theme.
Titles with an asterisk* are the ones I have personally read, and would be more than happy to talk about/answer any questions about their content/rep!
Written in the 20th Century
Alf, by Bruno Vogel (1929)
Despised and Rejected, by Rose Allatini (pseud. A.T. Fitzroy) (1918)*
Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches, edited by Martin Taylor (1989)
The Memorial, by Christopher Isherwood (1932)
My Father and Myself, by J.R. Ackerley (1968)
The Prisoners of War: A Play in Three Acts, by J.R. Ackerley (1925)*
The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road), by Pat Barker (1991, 1993, 1995)*
A Scarlet Pansy, by Robert Scully (1932)*
Strange Meeting, by Susan Hill (1976)
Written in the 21st Century
The Absolutist, by John Boyne (2011)
Across Your Dreams, by Jay Lewis Taylor (2016)
Alec, by William di Canzio (2021)
Ashthorne, by April Yates (2022)
Awfully Glad, by Charlie Cochrane (2014)
Bonds of Earth, by G.N. Chevalier (2012)*
The Boy I Love, by Marion Husband (2005)*
The Daughters of Mars, Thomas Keneally (2012)
Eleventh Hour, by Elin Gregory (2016)
The Fallen Snow, by John J. Kelley (2012)
Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars, by Stephen Bourne (2017) – (I know I said fiction, but I’m going to leave this one here anyhow)
Flower of Iowa, by Lance Ringel (2014)*
The Great Swindle, by Pierre Lemaitre (2013)*
The Indian Clerk, by David Leavitt (2007)
The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing, by Mary Paulson-Ellis (2019) *
In Memoriam, by Alice Winn (2023)
The Lie, by Helen Dunmore (2014)
The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters (2014)
A Pride of Poppies, short story collection published by Manifold Press (2015)
Promises Made Under Fire, by Charlie Cochrane (2013)
The Shell House, by Linda Newbery (2002)*
Spectred Isle, by K.J. Charles (2017)
The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst (2011)
The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden (2024)
Whistling in the Dark, by Tamara Allen (2008)*
Wild with All Regrets, by Emma Deards (2023)
The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon (2023)
This is a dynamic list, which I will continue to update whenever I find something new. If you know of anything that isn’t on this list and needs to be, please let me know!
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Concept for a character of mine named Everett
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Paul Burty Haviland - Florence Peterson nourrissant le poisson rouge, New York, 1910s
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how’s glasgow? are you well? i hope you’re having a wonderful time
Doing a lot better, the hiatus really made a difference. Mostly it’s been coursework but I’ve managed to do quite an array of things? Traveling about, reenactments, even dabbling in some burlesque stuff which has been very fun?? The latter I have an ig for if anyone wants to see that (@iheartbillievalentine). Hoping to post more art now cos my style has changed A LOT since I was more active on here! I did miss the fun interactions I have on here and the art and niche content… but now I’m back :)
I also have to sorta refresh who I’m following after being away so if anyone’s got recs for active history or aesthetic blogs that fit the vibe, feel free to share!
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