Summer of Darkness

Strange Familiars

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Alison and Timothy discuss The Year Without a Summer – 1816 – which found Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (soon to be Shelley), Claire Clairmont, Dr. Polidori, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron together in Switzerland. The eruption of Mount Tamboro in Indonesia caused clouds of ash to darken the skies over Europe. These remarkable events birthed the creation of Polidori’s story, The Vampyre (which inspired Dracula), and the incredible novel, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25 Our Strange Familiars / Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, t-shirts, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lostgrave Strange Familiars t-shirts and other designs are available here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/strange-familiars?ref_id=14000 Episode 324 notes and links: The artwork for this episode is The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Edouard Fournier. Riverbend Comics: https://www.riverbendcomics.com Riverbend Comics Instagram: @riverbendcomics 90 Days to the Perfect Puppy: https://perfectpuppies.sithappens.us/90-days Karmic Garden: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KarmicGarden Strange Familiars Curiosity of the Week #47: Uranium Glass You can purchase one or more of these glasses at our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1242172762/uranium-glass-strange-familiars Timothy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5 Strange Familiars ‘Awoken Tree’ t-shirts are available in our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/739690857/strange-familiars-podcast-awoken-tree Alison: https://www.etsy.com/shop/odpeacock Chad’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad’s channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.) Chad’s etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RuckRabbitOutdoors To help with the Capuchin Day Center’s work with the homeless you can donate here: https://www.capuchindaycentre.ie and here: https://www.cskdetroit.org Contact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars Join the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/ instagram: @strangefamiliars http://www.strangefamiliars.com Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com The closing song is Up-Hill by Timothy. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	EPISODE 3
0:02.7	They came to our eyes because they'll see greater than sight different than the horror we've been talking to, she came to our world.
0:32.7	Welcome to Strange Familiars. How are you doing tonight, Allison?
0:53.7	I'm great. It's the day with the most sunlight, so I'm pretty excited.
0:57.7	What an interesting day to be recording this.
1:00.7	I didn't even think about that because this is basically about an extended summer without summer-like conditions which led to some of the earliest and most well-known science fiction.
1:14.7	A very, very dark summer indeed. Before we get to that story, I want to thank our patrons. Thank you patrons. Thank you for everything you do.
1:23.7	We could not make Strange Familiars without you. If you want to help us make Strange Familiars and get more content besides, you can become a patron at Patreon.
1:32.7	It's patreon.com slash Strange Familiars.
1:35.7	Our patrons get two full extra episodes of Strange Familiars every month, so you're helping us make the show, you're getting extra content as well.
1:43.7	There's all different tiers of support there, all different options, and there are payment options.
1:48.7	You can either pay monthly or yearly. If you choose the yearly option, you get a discount.
1:53.7	You can check it all out again at patreon.com slash Strange Familiars.
2:00.7	I was working on a project that deals with William Rosetti, who was one of the pre-rapheolate brotherhoods. If you're unfamiliar with the pre-rapheolate brotherhood, they were a group of artists who formed in the late 1840s and are responsible for...
2:25.7	What's probably more well known are these beautiful pictures of classic...
2:31.7	It's often like medieval maidens. It's a very beautiful...
2:34.7	Yeah, and in this earliest incarnation of the classic seven pre-rapheolate artists, a lot of them have to do with working conditions too.
2:42.7	They're pretty ahead of the curve as far as they're thinking they were derided by a lot of critics at the time.
2:47.7	But their works sort of extended and the generations of people became enamored with the pre-rapheolates and went on to work in that sort of style.
2:56.7	That became popular. Well, it has its ups and downs. It was popular in the 70s and popular in the 90s and sort of fell out of favor.
3:03.7	And I'm hoping to bring the pre-rapheolates back for the 20s because I've missed them and so I was working on this project.
3:10.7	We were at the Philadelphia Museum of Art recently and they had a few of these pre-rapheolite paintings there.
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