#red is history

[dirafames]

#lana del rey #sylvia plath #the silence of the lambs #female hysteria #hannibal #ethel cain #ultraviolence #kafkaesque #red academia #lobotomy chic #love as consumption #cannibalism as a metaphor for love #woman moment #raw #female rage #the sacred feminine #me and the devil #twin peaks #the secret history #poetry #fleabag #divine female #femme fatale #femcel #female manipulator #bones and all #david lynch #delusional #hannigram #clannibal

[bebs-art-gallery]

The Lament for Icarus (1898)

— by Herbert James Draper

#painting #art #art history #oil on canvas #oil painting #classical art #dark academia #mythology #classic academia #goth #gothic #gothcore #artblr #artist #red academia #renaissance painting #chaotic academia #religious painting #religious art #religious imagery #renaissance art #icarus #artists #art community #art gallery #museum date #museum aesthetic #museum

[catilinas]

The wind blows their ghosts to the ground

line (loosely a translation of iliad 6.146-9) from memorial by alice oswald, embroidered onto a ginkgo leaf i found on the ground

#desk lamp lighting because it is dark and i Would take a photo tomorrow but i am Sure it will shrivel overnight #and it's in red for iliad book 3 reasons :-) #oh embroidery as somewhere in between the ideas of historical memory as presence and historical memory as a series of puncture wounds #we're really in it now!!!!!! #like leaves who could write a history of leaves #trees instead of gravestones #embroidery #alice oswald #iliad #beeps

[whalehouse1]

Dick: Damian what are you doing?

Damian, carrying a lead pipe: Breaking legs. Todd told me it’s traditional.

Dick: JASON!!!???

Jason: I told the brat it was traditional for wishing good luck in a play, not something you do. Don’t blame me for him not getting something that simple.

Damian: Don’t be a fool Todd, I clearly understood what you meant. However, the lead went to that fool Chris and I will not be a mere understudy.

Duke: This is why we get along.

#dick grayson #damian wayne #damian wayne al ghul #jason todd #duke thomas #nightwing #Robin dc #red hood #the signal #Damian might have gotten into figure skating history recently

[pippin-katz]

“Taylor and Nicholas aren’t gonna have any chemistry.”

Bitch they invented the periodic table

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwrb movie #alex claremont diaz #taylor zakhar perez #henry hanover stuart fox #nicholas galitzine #firstprince #history huh #bet we could make some

[flowersforfrancis]

#Red academia #I’m bored #red aesthetic #dark red #dark aesthetic #dark academia #gothic aesthetic #red wine #cigarette aesthetic #red roses #black cats #classic academia #dark romantica #books and literature #romanticism #academia #the secret history #chaotic academia #if we were villains #academia aesthetic #dark souls #night aesthetic #evening aesthetic

[07170]

vintage buttons via the arquives, canada's lgbtq2+ archives inspired by @sweatermuppet

#the arquives #canadian gay history #canada #red #pins #uploaded #gay history

[leclercari]

It's like there's a rope attached to my chest and it keeps pulling me towards you.

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023)

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwarb #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #rwrbedit #myedits #HISTORY HUH 🥹🥹🥹 #i can't believe alex and henry are really here y'all. and they're perfect <3

[dani-dabbles]

“Occasionally vulgar”

Henry looking at Alex like “DONT SAY ANYTHING YOU ABSOLUTE MENACE”

#rwrb #rwrb movie #red white and royal blue trailer #red white and royal blue movie #red white & royal blue #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #rwrb on prime #rwrb memes #history huh? bet I can post some

[couldvebeenus]

(inspo - screenshots)

#isnt this how their dialogue went? #firstprince #rwrb movie #rwrb #red white and royal blue #taylor zakhar perez #nicholas galitzine #alex claremont diaz #alexander claremont diaz #henry fox #hrh prince henry #hrh prince dickhead #prince henry of wales #henry fox mountchristen windsor #henry george edward james fox mountchristen windsor #prince henry rwrb #history huh #alex x henry #alex and henry #couldvebeenus

[creature-wizard]

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

They talk about a shadowy group of people supposedly manipulating everything behind the scenes. They might refer to them by terms such as globalists, bankers, international bankers, secret rulers of the world, the elite, the cabal, Kabbalists, Talmudists, satanists, satanic pedophiles, pedophiles, generational satanists, satanic bloodlines, the Illuminati, the Babylonian Brotherhood, lizard people, Reptilians, Orions, regressives, regressive entities, Khazarians, Marxists, cultural Marxists, or leftists. Sometimes, very rarely, they'll just come right out and say "Jews."

They claim that the conspiracy has been working to conceal historical and spiritual truths from humanity.

They claim that the conspiracy uses stuff like food, entertainment, and medicine to control the masses. For example, "additives in food suppress our psychic abilities" or "Hollywood films contain subliminal messages" or "COVID vaccines were actually created to alter your DNA to make you more docile."

Also, claims that the conspiracy controls people via spiritual or technological implants, 5G, or alter programming, with or without explicit mention of Project Monarch (a conspiracy theory promoted by far right cranks such as Mark Philips and Fritz Springmeier, who used hypnosis to respectively convince Cathy O'Brien and Cisco Wheeler that they'd been put under mind control by a global satanic conspiracy).

They claim that this conspiracy is controlling the media, has fingers in every institution they disagree with, and is generally behind everything they disagree with. (EG, the conspiracy created the Catholic Church; that other New Ager they disagree with is actually controlled opposition, etc.)

They claim that the conspiracy is trying to keep people in fear.

They claim that the conspiracy harvests something from people. Blood and adrenochrome are common ones. Loosh is somewhat less common. Expect to see something else pop up eventually.

They claim that the conspiracy practices genetic engineering; EG, creating animal/human hybrids, using vaccines to genetically sever people's connection to God, etc.

They claim that true spiritual wisdom can be traced back to places like Atlantis, Lemuria, or Mu.

They claim that world governments have secretly been in contact with extraterrestrials for years.

They appeal to known frauds and cranks, including but not limited to Erich Von Daniken, Zechariah Sitchin, David Icke, David Wilcock, Graham Hancock, Jaime Maussan, Bob Lazar, Steven Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Fritz Springmeier, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.

Appeals to forged documents, including but not limited to the alleged diary of Admiral Richard Byrd, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, and The Urantia Book.

Appeals to channeled information, such as that provided by Edgar Cayce, Carla Rueckert, or George Van Tassel.

"But all of this has to come from somewhere, doesn't it?"

Oh, it all comes from somewhere, all right, but the where isn't what most people imagine.

A lot of the stuff above is just a modern spin on the content of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a Russian hoax created to justify violence against Russian Jews. The Protocols itself was plagiarized from a political satire and incorporated a lot of the post-French Revolution conspiracy theories about Freemasons and Jews being behind the French Revolution. I wrote a summary of the conspiracy tropes found in The Protocols over here.

The stuff about Satanic sacrifices and the consumption of blood, adrenochrome, loosh, or whatever are simply just variations on blood libel, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews practice ritual cannibalism. Blood libel can be traced back to ancient Greece. (With the Greek version, I really can't help but notice the similarity to modern urban legends of gangsters kidnapping random people for initiation rituals.)

Many of these tropes can also be linked back to the early modern witch hunts. It was believed that witches sacrificed babies to Satan, practiced cannibalism, and put people under mind control by way of diabolical magic. It was also believed that some witches didn't even know they were witches; they'd go off to attend the Devil's Sabbath at night and come back in the morning without remembering a thing. In the late 20th century, this witch hunter's canard would be reinvented as the alter programming conspiracy theory when media such as the 1973 book Sibyl and its 1976 television adaptation put DID (note: the woman who inspired Sibyl did not have DID) into the public consciousness. For a more complete list of witch panic and blood libel tropes, I wrote a list over here.

Lemuria was a hypothetical landmass proposed to explain the presence of lemur fossils in Madagascar and India while being absent in continental Africa and the rest of Asia, because if lemurs evolved naturally, they wouldn't be in two separate places with no connection to each other. The discovery that India and Madagascar were once connected not only made the hypothesis obsolete, it precludes the existence of Lemuria.

The whole notion of Mu began with a horrendous mistranslation of the Troano manuscript. A man named Augustus Le Plongeon would link the mistranslation with the story of Atlantis, and use it to claim that Atlantis actually existed in the Americas. (For Plongeon, Mu and Atlantis were one and the same.) And then other people (like James Churchward) got their hands on the whole Mu thing, and put their own spins on it, and the rest is history.

Le Plongeon's ideas influence modern Atlantis mythology today; EG, the idea that it was in the Americas. Another guy who helped shape the modern Atlantis myth was Ignatius L. Donnelly, an American politician. Dude claimed that Atlanteans spread their oh-so-superior culture far and wide. He also claimed that Atlantis was the home of the Aryan people, because of course he did.

The idea that all of the world's wisdom can be traced back to Thoth/Hermes goes back to Hermeticism, a product of Greco-Egyptian syncretism. Hermeticism produced a fascinating body of mythology and an interesting way to consider the divine and its role in shaping human history, but that doesn't mean it was right. And the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a modern text that has fuck-all to do with ancient Hermeticism and more to do with HP Lovecraft.

This idea that the conspiracy uses pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for evil also has roots in Nazi Germany. The Nazi government, wanting to reserve real medicine for their soldiers, told the general populace that said medicine was the product of evil Jewish science and prescribed alternative healing modalities instead. (Said alternative healing modalities did not particularly work.) It also echoes the old conspiracy theories about Jews spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells.

The idea that the conspiracy uses genetic manipulation to create subhuman beings or sever humanity from the divine is a permutation of the Nazi conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through race mixing. The idea of evil reptilian DNA goes back to the ancient serpent seed doctrine, which is indeed old, but no less pure hateful nonsense for it.

"But there's got to be somebody up to something rotten out there!"

Oh sure. But these people aren't skulking around in the shadows. They're acting pretty openly.

The Heritage Foundation has been working to push this country into Christofascism since the early 1970's. They're the ones responsible for the rise of the Moral Majority and the election of Ronald Reagan. They're also the ones behind Project 2025, which intends to bring us deeper into Christofascism. (Among many other horrible things, they intend to outlaw trans people as "pornographic.")

The Seven Mountains Mandate is another movement pushing for Christofascism. They intend to seize the "seven spheres" of society, which include education, religion, family, business, government/military, arts/entertainment, and media.

There's also the ghoulish American Evangelicals who support Israel because they think that current events are going to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus and cement the formation of a global Christofascist empire. Don't let their apparent support of Jews fool you - they believe that the good Jews will become Christians and the bad ones will go to hell.

All of these people are working toward monstrously horrific goals, but none of them are part of an ancient megaconspiracy. In fact, these are the kinds of people pushing the myth of the ancient megaconspiracy. From the witch hunts to Nazi Germany to the American Evangelical movement, if history has taught us anything, the people pushing the conspiracy theories are always the bad guys.

#conspiracy theories #conspiracy theory #conspiracism #conspirituality #conspiracy theorists #conspiracy theorist #spirituality #spiritual community #red flag #red flags #spiritual red flags #spiritual red flag #atlantis #lemuria #antisemitism #witch hunts #history #pseudohistory #religion #witchblr #paganblr #occultblr #discernment

[bebs-art-gallery]

Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning (1920)

— by Milton C. Winternitz, Robert A. Lambert

#illustration #illustrations #art history #historical #painting #art #drawing #dark academia #medical whump #whump #whump art #hannibal aesthetic #hannibal lecter #hannibal #nbc hannibal #aesthetic #red aesthetic #illustrated book #artist #artists #anatomy #art community #chaotic academia #goth #gothic

[2kcore]

vampire slaying kits from the 19th century

#goth #aesthetic #gothic #emo #edgy #vampire #vampires #vampire aesthetic #19th century #vampire kit #mine #antique #vintage #history #red and black #dark #oddcore #weirdcore #dracula #those are replicas btw

[linipik]

6000+ years, together

#good omens #good omens s2 #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #good omens fanart #fanart #yall never guess my favorites #this could be the most annoyingly LONG post in history but i decided to be mildly normal about it #i was eating the new seasons hair so much #crowley has a more red-red tone and curls it back #aziraphale is the same but he is perfect so i love him and his WHITE hair ...it was whiter tho but it could be more the lightning on set #i'm still missing some.... if we get s3 i might add them #a group of two is a - couple -Crowley called them a couple in the most non-commitment way possible im crying

[transmultiphobia]

"I've been thinking recently about the first ever trans space I was ever actually a part of, Bigender.net. My experience was primarily with these forums in ~2009, but I came back to peek in later years, and am trying to regain access now. There's a lot of bigender cultural things there that would probably never be known about or archived somewhere easily accessible unless someone talked about what they saw there, and I wanted to share some things.

+ A Lot of people used two or more names that they switch up, use in different contexts, and that often align with specific genders. Names are essentially changed like pronouns are for many people.

+ Most bigender people seemed to experience some kind of fluidity or flux of gender, and it was rarer for people to feel like 100% both at all times. This seems to be more often where people label themselves androgynes.

+ The language of "en femme" and "en homme" was used to describe both how one was presenting (similar to the modern boymoding/girlmoding) and to how one felt their gender on a specific day, which is what makes it different from girlmode/boymode. It wasn't just about presentation regardless of gender, but presentation as related to gender.

+ Plurality became so common over the years as a framework of bigender expression that a whole subforum for plurality emerged on these forums. Lots of plural bigender folks would experience having a "girl side" and a "boy side" in a dual system.

+ There were just as many bigender folks who experienced a neutral/other/middle gender experience besides just being male/female. It really wasn't limited to 2 genders, even if at the time it was very male/female bigender focused."

Aster, Bigender Culture

#I LOVE YOU BIGENDER CULTURE I LOVE YOU BIGENDER HISTORY (EXPLODES) huge shoutout to aster for documenting this! #bigender #genderfluid #multigender #trans #lgbt #queer history #multigender history #trans history #transgender #androgyne #genderfuckery #red speaks #<- not really me speaking but it's my original post tag so..

[flowersforfrancis]

#red academia #bacchanal #dark academia #books and literature #classic academia #academia #romanticism #chaotic academia #dark romantica #aesthetic #the secret history #if we were villains #Shakespearean #dark red aesthetic #darkest academia #classic literature #classic lit aesthetic #Old money #pomegranate