#historical shitposting

[unicornsaures]

#ill just. leave this here #john laurens #amrev #historical shitposting

[maliciouscigarette]

The sack of Rome, August 24th 410 CE, colourised.

Art by Psicochurroz

#196 #196 migration #apartmentofawesome #r/196 #/r/196 #historical shitposting #art history shitposting #historyposting #HISTORY LESSON INCOMING #Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410 C.E. #Joseph-Noel Sylvestre #depicted this in a famous painting #The Sack of Rome by the Barbarians in 410 #this artist #psicochurroz #has spoofed this artwork #replacing the big beefy barbarians with cute goth girls #hope this helped! until next time

[jackgoodfellow]

[image description under the cut]

Image Description:

An iteration on a popular meme format, edited to include figures from Roman history. The original version of the meme is a crudely drawn MS paint illustration of a sad looking dude standing in the corner of a party looking on as people dance and have a good time. The meme always includes the text "they don't know" over the man's head, showing his thoughts. And then when someone edits the meme, they add onto that phrase. In this iteration, the heads of the illustrated people have been replaced with cropped photos of heads from ancient Roman sculptures of famous people.

The man in the corner is now Augustus (Octavian) Caesar and he is labeled "Octavian about to absolutely wreck everyone's shit." The text above his head reads "They don't know I'm the scariest bitch in the Mediterranean." His eyes are glowing red.

At his feet lays the dead body of Julius Caesar, cropped from a painting and covered in crudely-added digital blood. A label pointing to the body reads, "Julius Caesar (super assassinated)".

The crowd of people that Octavian is looking at is labeled, "Lepidus Antony, Cassius, Brutus, Decimus, and half of Rome fighting for control," with arrows pointing to the respective images of those men. A separate label points to the man in the middle of the group and says "Cicero attempting to preserve the Republic".

Next to Octavian is small red text with hashtags that read "hashtag gonna go full Michael Corelone on these motherfuckers" and "hashtag Your Asses Delenda Est." (This is a play on "Karthago Delenda Est", which means "Carthage Must Be Destroyed" in Latin and was a very memorable political slogan in Roman history leading up to the utter destruction of the city of Carthage. This phrase was so memorable, in fact, that the English speech-to-text program I use recognized the phrase and spelled it correctly on my first attempt! Which is very unusual for a Latin phrase that has absolutely no modern-day uses!)

#original #meme #memes #roman history #augustus caesar #Julius Caesar #cicero #marc antony #brutus #gaius julius caesar #image description #historia civilis #overly sarcastic productions #shitposting #history shitposting #historical shitposting #history memes #ancient rome #roman empire #roman republic #it's Augustus time so I can use both of those tags back to back. because spoiler alert bye-bye Republic and HELLO EMPEROR AUGUSTUS #this kid was a goddamn teenager when Caesar died and I don't think anyone expected him to become king of the world #he killed antony. he killed cleopatra. he killed the republic. he killed a horrifying amount of civilians. he fought EVERYONE and he WON #ruthless. brilliant. terrifying. truly more cruel than he had to be and Extremely Good at propaganda. #i am both fascinated by him and relieved he is dead. #[Caesar voice] Ya know that's a real nice Republic ya got there. Sure would be a shame if somethin' were to uhh....... HAPPEN TO IT. #wait jack - i hear you say - is that a julius caesar or an augustus caesar voice? and to that i say.... yes. #i mean the republic probably would've died eventually anyway but MAN OH MAN DID THE CAESARS DELIVER SOME KILLSHOTS #IMAGINE U R WAR HERO POLITICIAN GENERAL MARC ANTONY AND THIS 17 YEAR OLD SHOWS UP AND THEN YOU PLUS EVERYONE YOU KNOW LOSE TO HIM SO SO BAD #he truly is sitting in the corner quietly waiting to tear open your jugular with his... well tbh he'd probably get agrippa to do it.

[historicalshroe]

1630s fashion save me.

1630s fashion..

Save me 1630s fashion.

#art history #fashion history #historical fashion #1630s #baroque #baroque fashion #historical art #17th century #history memes #old paintings #historical shitposting

[tintenspion]

This is why I wont get married

#manfred von richthofen #red baron #ww1 aviation #ww1 #history memes #shitpost #historical shitposting

[redsixwing]

Average conversation with @dreamsatdusk

With apologies to XKCD.

#historical shitposting #nonrecycled content #hey dreams #alexander the great

[nostalgia-tblr]

he's called cnut and the famous story is about whether he's going to get wet???

#historical shitposting #queue #history fandom

[dyscomancer]

an internet joke that gets me every single time is when someone is telling a story in a historical context (usually by greentext format) and they find a way to append a time-period-accurate file extension to something

like "myfacewhen.papyrus" for ancient Egypt, "ohshit.cavepainting" for stories about cavemen, "ohgodno.parchment", et cetera. gets me right in funnybone without fail

#from the desk #history #historical fiction #historical shitposting #history shitposting

[dougielombax]

The Crown of Gondor.

According to JRR Tolkien. He drew it looking like this.

Very Ancient Egyptian.

He writes "I think the crown of Gondor (the S. Kingdom) was very tall, like that of Egypt, but with wings attached, not set straight back but at an angle.” (the Letters of JRR Tolkien. Page 281)

The illustration makes it look almost like a shitpost.

In my kind….

Idk.

I prefer the version we got in the film (see above) tbh.

Much less impractical.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #literature #films #cinema #jrr tolkien #middle earth #crown #royalty #gondor #aragorn #king elessar #aragorn elessar #viggo mortensen #illustration #it looks like a shitpost #historical shitposting #accidental shitpost #third age #drawings #not my drawing #deep lore #egypt #ancient egypt

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

You heard him... Or maybe u can't from up there 💀

#philip ii of spain #Philip ii #16th century #Historical shitposting #tudor memes #my art #History art #I am aware there is no tudor here but this is for the crowd ((if any)) sorry phil 🤡 ik youre a #Habsburg #Manlet monday

[unicornsaures]

Yeah John, that shit kills you.

#alexander hamilton #john laurens #amrev #historical lams #lams #my art #historical shitposting

[maliciouscigarette]

I love the panopticon and its idea of constant self regulation stemming from constant observation as a metaphor for the state of constant surveillance and erosion of privacy the internet age has created 💕

#me and who #196 #rule #panopticon #historical shitposting #the internet is a modern day instrument of self policing #capitalism bad #r196 #r/196 #/r/196

[type1lemonade]

yes

#vincent van gogh #van gogh #vincent van Gogh fanart #historical shitposting #fanart

[historicalshroe]

So.. I drew my favourite historical gays with water colours! + The reference image on the side, it matches their dynamic tbh.

#fanart #frev #saintspierre #saint just #robespierre #historical shitposting #frev shitposting #ship art

[tintenspion]

Historical proof that Manfred von Richthofen was thicc

So uh I feel like sharing this to the emptiness of the internet but a lot of people described MvR as “chubby” so ill just list those accounts here.

First of all, he himself said he is “as big as a barrel” after gaining some weight in the trenches.

Then apparently Wilhelm II called him chubby when they first met “Sie sehen so dick und munter aus” (You look so chubby and happy). Essentially he called him a heckin’ wholesome chonker. [Edit: Yes, in the text he is talking about a meeting with Ludendorff, however he compares his meeting with Ludendorff with his meeting with Wilhelm II.]

Third is that apparently a family friend saw this picture and said “Das ist aber ein Moppelchen” (Moppelchen ist kind of a cutesy word for a chubby person) And my source is “trust me bro” because someone I trust a lot told me lmao.

#manfred von richthofen #ww1 #red baron #history #historyfacts #historical shitposting #big chungus #extra thicc #i dont know how to use tags on tumblr lmao #i want to kms #things no one asked for #richthofen #wilhelm ii #kaiser wilhelm ii

[habitudes-du-coeur]

It's time for us to start a petition to switch out Chester A. Arthur's official presidential for this one by Japanese artist Toshitsugu Nakayama.

According to a family myth, Nakayama travelled all the way to D.C. to create this. However, what's more likely is that he was sent a photo as reference and then sent the painting to Arthur as a gift sometime between 1881-1885.

#Chester A. Arthur #Toshitsugu Nakayama #19th century #the gilded age #meiji era #japanese art #historical shitposting