The dead bird cards seem to be making the rounds more than usual this year. I haven’t seen any new write ups about them (yet),
Category: victorian
Gnew Year Gnomes
The New Year cards are just chock full of gnomes. You might even say it’s an infestation. I mean, sure, there are a lot of
New Year Pigs
You’re gonna see a lot of pigs on the New Year cards. They’ll stop seeming weird after the first twenty or so, I promise. There’s
The Rabbit of Questionable Contentment
Sometimes I think far too much about these cards. This is one of those times. Fair warning that I really, really enjoy taking over analysis
Christmas Frogs
I’m not going to pretend like I know why the Victorians liked frogs on their Christmas cards. But they did. They liked cats more. And
Jellyfish Debunked!
I finally talked to the guy who made the jellyfish cards, John Holbo. They are not, as I had really really really wanted to believe,
