My Romanticism iz pastede on.

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• I've decided that I'm not just growing out my hair, I'm growing it out to a ridiculous--nay, pre-Raphaelite--length. And not fucking with the color anymore, except maybe adding a bit of red.


• Have calculated that it will take three years to grow it to the length I want. It's worth it. (And within a year it will be long enough to put in ringlets.)


• I found a vintage 1870s-ish pattern for a petticoat with a nice bustle. It looks doable.


• Speaking of pre-Raphaelites and Victoriana, definitely want to make some of those Artistic Dress movement pseudo-medieval dresses.


• Waterhouse is love.


• So is Gorey.


• We finally have the cashflow to furnish and decorate my room, which has had no furniture but a bed and a sort-of desk since we moved into this house two years ago. You fucking bet I'm going all-out with Victorian gothic fripperies.


• Painting the walls either purple or dark red. Haven't decided yet.


• I can't get rid of the fucking bags under my eyes and this upsets me.


• I own six pairs of boots and only one pair of shoes. And they're sneakers. Dammit, I need a couple of decent pairs of shoes.


• I made myself a veil. It's pretty.


• My corset is falling apart. I've mended it as best I can, but I have the feeling that steel bones that want to poke out will do so, no matter how heavy-duty the thread I used to darn it.


• Have had the oddest urge to learn knitting and embroidery lately.


• Other things I've been wanting to learn lately include Latin, ancient Greek, Italian, and pyrotechnics. I should also take up lessons again in French, piano, voice, and violin.


• Actually, I want to do a French immersion program.


• Have developed a mild crush on Lord Byron. (Incidentally, our birthdays are almost exactly two hundred years apart, to within a two-week period.)


• Have also been slowly delving into more Romantic literature. I like it. A lot. I should have been born two hundred years ago, damn it.


• Oh, and bel canto. Have fallen in love with bel canto. I want to be a coloratura. *weeps*


• Actually, does anyone have any bel canto? I'd be willing to trade for it. Pleeeeease.

...er, I think that's it. For now.