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Honestly, this had been sitting on my computer for quite a few months now, waiting for me to maybe doing something with it digitally, but nah. I probably won't. Maybe someday, but I'm still submitting this because it's not the worst sketchy sorta thing I've ever done.

This is probably one of my biggest non-sex/love/romance ships. Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Dickens. Both men admired each other's work. They met one day and Andersen thought Dickens was one of the greatest writers of their time. The two wrote back and forth for a while.
One day Dickens thought it'd be stellar to invite Andersen to stay with him and his family for a little while. Andersen was all "Åh min Herre, jeg ville elske at!"

Andersen ended up staying for five weeks. This was more than Dickens or any of his family had intended and as they got to know him, they probably wish they never invited him in the first place. One of his daughters described Andersen as weird and a "bony bore". And I have to imagine customs of the Danish and the customs of the Victorian English were a bit different. Andersen was unique anyways. Not to mention Andersen's grasp of the English language wasn't the best. (He fared better with French and especially German, from what I've read.) Dickens did do his best to politely hint that his awkward, lanky friend should leave but I imagine the language barrier and Andersen just enjoying experiences made the hints hard to get across.

It's becoming more and more accepted than Andersen was bisexual, since there's plenty of proof he had deep feeling for multiple men and women in his life. If he crushed on any of Dickens' family that probably made things even more awkward since none of them ended up liking him much. When Andersen finally left, Dickens wrote "Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks - which seemed to the family AGES!" on the mirror of the guest room. Yeah.

Poor Andersen tried writing to Dickens after but didn't seem to get the other man didn't want to be friends with him anymore. Aw.

I feel for Andersen though. In my ever deepening research on him, I find we're very alike in many ways. And I feel we'd at least be great friends who would get each other (I'd glad learn Danish or German just to communicate well with him. Oh hell I plan on learning those languages anyways).
I mean I love Dickens too. Both men are in my top 5 favorite authors of all time, easily. Andersen ahead of Dickens though. Besides I get the impression Dickens was more of a jerk than I'd want to be around so much. I'll go with the guy who's a lot like me, any day.

ANYWAYS like the title says, this was before Andersen had outstayed his welcome. Sorry for all the babbling. I babble.

Description
Honestly, this had been sitting on my computer for quite a few months now, waiting for me to maybe doing something with it digitally, but nah. I probably won't. Maybe someday, but I'm still submitting this because it's not the worst sketchy sorta thing I've ever done.

This is probably one of my biggest non-sex/love/romance ships. Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Dickens. Both men admired each other's work. They met one day and Andersen thought Dickens was one of the greatest writers of their time. The two wrote back and forth for a while.
One day Dickens thought it'd be stellar to invite Andersen to stay with him and his family for a little while. Andersen was all "Åh min Herre, jeg ville elske at!"

Andersen ended up staying for five weeks. This was more than Dickens or any of his family had intended and as they got to know him, they probably wish they never invited him in the first place. One of his daughters described Andersen as weird and a "bony bore". And I have to imagine customs of the Danish and the customs of the Victorian English were a bit different. Andersen was unique anyways. Not to mention Andersen's grasp of the English language wasn't the best. (He fared better with French and especially German, from what I've read.) Dickens did do his best to politely hint that his awkward, lanky friend should leave but I imagine the language barrier and Andersen just enjoying experiences made the hints hard to get across.

It's becoming more and more accepted than Andersen was bisexual, since there's plenty of proof he had deep feeling for multiple men and women in his life. If he crushed on any of Dickens' family that probably made things even more awkward since none of them ended up liking him much. When Andersen finally left, Dickens wrote "Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks - which seemed to the family AGES!" on the mirror of the guest room. Yeah.

Poor Andersen tried writing to Dickens after but didn't seem to get the other man didn't want to be friends with him anymore. Aw.

I feel for Andersen though. In my ever deepening research on him, I find we're very alike in many ways. And I feel we'd at least be great friends who would get each other (I'd glad learn Danish or German just to communicate well with him. Oh hell I plan on learning those languages anyways).
I mean I love Dickens too. Both men are in my top 5 favorite authors of all time, easily. Andersen ahead of Dickens though. Besides I get the impression Dickens was more of a jerk than I'd want to be around so much. I'll go with the guy who's a lot like me, any day.

ANYWAYS like the title says, this was before Andersen had outstayed his welcome. Sorry for all the babbling. I babble.