/lit/ - Literature

>>11048926
I think looking at the current state of the internet/4chan will give you an idea.

>>11048957
Most of us prefer feminine males, not masculine female.

>>11048926
I've read most of his poetry. My honest guess is that Lizzie Siddal was the only girl he ever actually liked (see: The Blessed Damozel is basically his only good love poem) and that Rossetti was a chronic nice guy (see: every single other love poem that are just melodramatic descriptions of men being friendzoned). He probably got depressed and resorted to finding companionship with his male friends.

>>11048926
well actually in this case it was more that he had a thing for his friend's wives

bc he had a boner for his sis

He married pic related, model and pre-raphaeilte paintress

>>11049426

And here's his sister, Christina

ask Erik Gray

>>11048926
Slightly mAnnish women with husky voices have a lot of testosterone. Because of this they gave a high sex drive. And if you’re into getting pegged with a strap on, they are usually game

>>11048926
cause he's patrician

The Pre-Raphaelites were responding to both ideas of the female in the Victorian era, including the very Queen herself and her round face, as well as Reinassance art, by blurring the lines between the sexes, and sorrounding themselves with models having manlier jawlines than those of 1980s action movie heroes.

>>11048926
I don't really get it either.

We peaked with Waterhouse.

>>11049440
Portrait with her in it. You could have picked a better photograph for Christina. She was actually fairly attractive.

>>11050457
As was Lizzie S and a few of the others he painted. What he did more likely was 'masculinize' them himself. Artistic license..