Hmm… Never thought of Charles Dickens as a social butterfly. Or Hans Christian Anderson as… The House Guest From Hell! Mwa-ha-ha

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Why is anyone wasting their breath arguing that a “mermaid shouldn’t be black” when instead you could be talking about the time Hans Christian Andersen showed up as a guest at Charles Dickens’s house and absolutely ruined his life for a month straight

— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) September 16, 2022