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Children have always been children (reddthat.com)
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[โ€“] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except it's not a kid messing with a dead body, the Victorians were morbid, not deranged.

I don't know why the person you responded to claimed it was...

[โ€“] egrets@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This actually was a thing that happened sometimes (trigger warning - dead bodies) but assuming that there's a corpse in every Victorian portrait is not reasonable.