#Beautiful Epoch

[pazzesco]

The Great Binge: The Drug-Fuelled “Belle Epoque”

The Belle Époque or La Belle Époque; French for "Beautiful Epoch" is a period of history, usually considered to begin around 1871–1880 and to end with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It was a period characterized by optimism, peace, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific, and cultural innovations. In this era of France's cultural and artistic climate (particularly within Paris), the arts markedly flourished, and numerous masterpieces of literature, music, theatre, and visual art gained extensive recognition.

The Bar At Maxim's, Vintage Artwork By Pierre-Victor Galland

The Great Binge refers to the same period spanning 1870 to 1914 in North America. It was coined by modern historian Gradus Protus van der Belt to describe a time when drugs like cocaine, heroin, opium, absinthe, laudanum, and many more were freely available not just from your local pharmacy, tobaconists or the neighbourhood bar, but also from the barbershop, the stationers, and even confectioners.

Morphine by Albert Matignon - 1905

Georges Moreau de Tours - Les Morphinees The Morphine Takers - 1886

Between 1827 and 1842, over 27,000 pounds of opium came into the ports of the United States alone, where the drug found an unexpected distribution network of businessmen, presidential parents, and even Ivy League schools, which all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century.

The Illustrated London News print of the clipper steamship Ly-ee-moon, built for the opium trade, c. 1859

“Princeton’s first large benefactor, John Green, funded his contribution through the opium trade […] Yale University’s infamous Skull and Bone society was funded by the most successful family of opium dealers in America,” reveals Harvard’s magazine, The Crimson, adding that as America’s gateway institution for the drug that soon spread to other Ivy Leagues along the East Coast, “Opium once pervaded campus life at Harvard […] throughout the 1800s, its black smoke kept the university’s veins flowing with green and its faculty and students perpetually dazed.”

The term “pipe dream” actually originates from the opium dens of turn of the century America where people smoking an opium pipe would come up with ideas, theories and fantasies whilst hallucinating.

In 1908, President Roosevelt appointed Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner in the United States to begin targeting opium dealers. The irony here is that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s grandfather, Warren Delano, was an opium peddler, and his drug trade was responsible for the bulk of the family’s fortune. Roosevelt’s mother, Sara Delano, travelled to Hong Kong with her family to join her opium-trading father in the 1860s.

Warren Delano (FDR's grandfather & Opium King)

Sara (FDR's mother) & Philippe Delano in 1864, following their return home from Hong Kong. (Franklin Roosevelt Library)

The crackdown on the Great Binge inevitably began with the signing of the 1912 International Opium Convention to suppress opium smoking and to limit it to medicinal purposes. In the 1920s, in the US, an anti-drug crusade also saw heroin cough drops and cocaine tablets to slowly disappear from stores and bathroom cabinets.

In the 1920s, in the US, an anti-drug crusade also saw heroin cough drops and cocaine tablets to slowly disappear from stores and bathroom cabinets.

During the Great Binge, the most notable drink in circulation was the Vin Mariani, an alcoholic beverage that combined both wine and cocaine.

Angelo Mariani, a French chemist who invented a very popular beverage in 1863.

Mariani tonic Wine — lithography by Jules Cheret

The French "Tonic" Wine received endorsements from Pope Leo XIII as well as many of the Belle Epoque’s most famous names, Sarah Bernhardt, Jules Verne and even Queen Victoria were all fans of the drug-infused cocktail.

Pope Leo XIII even allowed his face to be used in Vin Mariani’s marketing campaign. He was very much a brand ambassador, citing that it strengthened him “when prayer was insufficient”.

Mariani's "Tonic" would spent the following century cleaning up its act & rebranding itself to become the world’s most iconic household brand: Coca Cola

#belle epoque #Beautiful Epoch #paris #Great Binge #cocaine #opium #Morphine #Albert Matignon #Les Morphinees #Georges Moreau de Tours #ivy league schools #Ivy League #Opium trade #princeton #yale #harvard #pipe dream #franklin d. roosevelt #fdr #Warren Delano #Sara Delano #Angelo Mariani #Vin Mariani #Pope Leo XIII #jules verne #queen victoria #coca cola

[fortunaestalta]

#artists on tumblr #ai artwork #alternative #fantasy art #belle epoch #“The Artist's Model” #beautiful woman #?

[mumblelard]

saving the world one couch nap at a time and also happy friday imaginary constructs

i dreamt i got hired to do public relations for a collective of sentient alleyways. in the course of interviewing them for their press release i discovered something startling, then i woke up

#blue moons #new moons #epic epochs #imperfectible prosody #jelly elephants #reborn as a vending machine i now wander the dungeon #i am not a number #i watched the collapse of a delvian death cult #i saw a man so beautiful i started crying #i remember damage #i remember it all too well #i want to be a turtle when i grow up #i was there for some of the beginning most of the middle and all of the end #you throw a rotten pear under the hanging tree for the squirrels to fight over #and that would fix everything #mumblelard's legs #battered old wooden desks #boba #second blue moon epoch #first autumn #end of messages

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

I had this weird fuckass dream were like you started posting about how your health issues got incredibly bad to the point your skin started peeling and your hair falling down and so you decided to start writing a will and a memoir so that your memories and experiences could live after your passing and went into this whole like backpacking journey to comes to term with it and so every 3 months or so you'd post an update but eventually all the updates stopped and everyone assumed you had passed away but 9 months Fter that you came back with an announcement that it they had discovered all.pf the issues came from a enigmatic pregnancy and you were due in the next week, once the day came you were liveblogging the birth but instead of giving birth to a baby you like turned into it or it turned into you and became a 15 year old boy because your ages met halfway between 30 and well 0 and you two got fused because you still had the memories and consciousness of being Ella but at the same time you acquired a second consciousness which was aware of being your son and having melted with youand then I woke up, I think it might have to do with being reborn and like a second growth spurt or something like that anyway lots of love

.

#i have no further comment i feel like this just needs to be a stand alone post #a beautiful epoch #also im feeling way better today healthwise i think slimbo accidentally fed me some slightly rancid meat a few days ago and thats what caus #caused this 0:) #(there was a tiny hole in the plastic wrap covering the meat apparently) #but now im way more normal #and not pregnant yay❤️

[epochthedragon]

Goth, if goth was a Rainwing

#glory #wings of fire #the dragonet prophecy #dragonets of destiny #WoF #queen glory #based on the covers because the coloring is beautiful #extra fins because I said so #her book slapped #epoch draws #my art #rainwing

[kalahs-beautiful-realm]

Bride Menorah.

Bride Groom Flowers Butterflies

Bride and Groom blue

Art by, Revelations In Art.co.za

#art #paintings #epocholpys art #bride #7 candle stick #butterflies #religious art #christianity #spiritual concept #beauty #symbolic art #loyalty #love #apocalypse art #six epoch

[thecinematicshots]

#cinematography #movies #cineshots #beautiful shots #Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)

[jolchen]

Für eine schöne, ausgeglichene Haut.

Ob tief in deinem Inneren, dem Wohlbefinden deiner Haut oder in der Welt um dich herum: Ausgeglichenheit steht für Schönheit – etwas, was wir alle anstreben. Das Pflegeritual der Epoch Yin and Yang Mask kann dir dabei helfen, diese Ausgeglichenheit zu finden. Nimm dir einen Moment Zeit für dich. Lass deine Gedanken schweifen und entspanne dich, während diese Spezialmaske deiner Gesichtshaut eine Detox-Kur und Pflege gönnt. Danach wirst du sowohl von außen als auch von innen mit einer perfekten Ausgeglichenheit strahlen.

#the epoch times #beauty #skin treatment #skincare #beautiful #wellness

[isolationaroundus]

Johnnie Walker, pizza, joints, dungeon synth playlist and Last Epoch.

Talk about a quality Saturday night 💥

#TIME TO BLAST #I'm gonna remember this night for a long time #it's all about the small things #cheers homies #hope you have a beautiful night #last epoch

[tatahbelline]

📷 ★3828 por ༺❀༻ Tatah ༺❀༻ Via Flickr: Set - epoch. - bella @Mainstore - New Headset - Manson - VR @Mainstore More details in my blog. Info page for link

#epoch. #Manson #Best #Tatah #Second #Life #Avatar #Fashion #Girl #Photographer #Blog #Blogger #SL #Virtual #Girls #Beauty #Living #Virtuallife #Snapshot #Photography #Slphotography #spam #spammer #retrato #Secondlifeblog #secondlifefashion #Picture #Photo #People #Portrait

[ghelgheli]

The epoch of hysteria between 1656 and 1658 found its catalyst in the spontaneous, detailed testimony of someone who I solely re-member here with her chosen name, la Estanpa. Once a linda niña (pretty girl), the now seventy-year-old mestiza found herself apprehended by court magistrates for suspected sodomy in 1656. After initially denying the accusations, an elderly and fatigued Estanpa relented, admitting to having dressed ‘like a woman’ since she was seven and committed the nefarious sin for ‘more than forty years’. Encapsulated within her testimony and larger trial are glimmers of an underground trans feminine world in seventeenth-century Mexico City, of which Estanpa served as a pillar. Coinciding with Catholic feast days, Estanpa and her friends organised parties at changing secret locations, ranging from the secluded countryside to individuals’ homes in the neighbourhoods of San Juan de la Penitencia or San Pablo. Facilitated by trans feminine hostesses, these lively parties consisted of illicit dancing, singing, drinking chocolate and of course inevitable quarrelling over guapos (what they affectionately called the men who loved them), with whom they would eventually retire into rooms for sex. For elders like Estanpa, these parties were also an opportunity to recall ‘the deeds and the conquests of their far-away youth, their lost beauty, and old-time pleasures’.In each other’s company, this cohort referred to one another as niñas (girls), each taking on feminine names following the same convention as ‘la Estanpa’, a title said to have originated from a ‘very graceful lady’. What is certain is that the trans feminine figure held a distinct and explicitly threatening place in the Spanish colonial imaginary. Within underground Mexican subculture, these individuals shared myriad cultural signifiers – in naming practices, celebration of holidays and their habitation in the same neighbourhoods and sometimes homes – that suggest they also established deep-rooted community networks. Perhaps most importantly, despite coordinated and unrelenting legal suppression, trans feminine people would continue to exist and resist across colonial New Spain.

Jamey Jesperson, Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive: Re-membering Trans Feminine Life and Death in New Spain, 1604–1821 [doi]

#reading #gender

[sytharia]

3942: Mid-Day Stroll

F E A T U R I N G

| EPOCH | Beautiful Dirty Rich |  Lelutka | INITHIUM | tres beau | Velour 

//EXCLUSIVE ITEM//

Outfit:: EPOCH Apparel Addison @MarketPlace

Leg Bands:  B.D.R  Hailey Bow Garter - @Vanity Event

//FEATURED BODY COSMETICS//

Mesh Head: Lelutka EvoX Briannon 3.1

Mesh Body: INITHIUM Kupra v.001/4

Skin: - Tres Beau Jessica 2.6 

Body Skin: Velour Brownie

Hair: Stealthic  Intrepid

Hair Base: FEM BEAUTY Cali Pony Hair Base

Nails: 1990 Kitten Set Stiletto

//FEATURED ACCESSORIES//

Head Jewelry: Ysoral  Luxe Lips Piercing Lida

  Ysoral Luxe Nose Chain Ear Piercing Lana

Rings: Ysoral  Luxe Set Rings Amber

Ear Jewel: EA Studio Uzumaki Female Elf Evox

Leg: MAZE.mods Soft Thighs

//FEATURED BACKDROP OR BACKGROUND//

BACKGROUND: Synnergy//Fall Pathway BackdropPoses: BellePoses Emma

#Epoch #Beautiful Dirty Rich #Mainstore #Vanity Event #secondlifeblogger #second life blogger #secondlifeblog #second life #slfashion #inithium #lelutka

[melodux]

The aqua is ? Because like yeah we can marry if you want homie (romantically), but can also be in a "we can marry for government reasons nd get benefits and I'd be chill with that" way too

IDAEHFG NO U

But hell yeah! Benefits here we come!

From the What Color am I to You meme

#melo answers #All my moots are beautiful and have many bitches #I'm also a good person to just hang and do our own thing with together #epoch-smog

[kalahs-beautiful-realm]

Honey Bee

The Vine

Four Horses.

Art by, Revelations In Art.co.za

Horse Riders New Life Flowers.

Art by, Revelations In Art.co.za

#art #apocalypse art #religious art #paintings #horses #bees #grape vine #symbolic art #symbolism #spiritual concept #beauty #beautiful #christianity #prophecy #flowers #new life #death #six epoch

[todayontumblr]

Wednesday April 5.

Antiques: A celebration of the finer, older things in life.

And the urge to make one, neigh, several, yo mama is so old jokes here is strong, but we should resist it. Should, but won't: Yo mama is so old, she did a quite breath-taking job in the design and creation of several of the following antiques compiled for this post, and we have nothing but admiration and respect for her craft and skill! Try that on for size. Yo mama is so old, she bartered fairly in the interests of both parties while selling these beautiful pieces at markets across every epoch! The urge was simply overpowering, only we hope you enjoyed this fresh, new, more wholesome spin on a comedy classic. And yo mama, though she may be a little older in years, nonetheless remains exceptional in her craft—as the following #antiques will attest. And long may yo mama continue. 

#today on tumblr #antiques #yo mama #history #beauty #artefacts

[suresne]

while we're talking about mayakovsky and disco elysium, i think the suicidal themes are very important, too.

mayakovsky died by suicide in 1930 (shot himself). his poetry is rife with suicidal imagery. it is essential to his poetic persona.

mayakovsky was also a devoted communist up to his death--"the greatest poet of our soviet epoch" according to stalin (there's a lot i can say about that quote itself and what it means for mayakovsky's complicated legacy, but i won't).

mayakovsky believed in the power of communism--especially through poetry--to fundamentally change the world.

he believed that the ideal communist state would eventually achieve actual resurrection of the dead (no, that's not an exaggeration).

he had SO much hope in the communist project. he believed that a better world could exist. at the same time, he suffered extreme disillusionment in the face of NEP communism and literary censorship by the soviet state and personal despair that he ultimately could not overcome.

these facts about him resonate a lot with characters in disco elysium.

there's kras mazov, who shoots himself after becoming disillusioned with his own revolution.

and, of course, there's harry du bois, who is often only a couple of dialogue options away from talking about suicide or even attempting.

mayakovsky wrote: "more and more often, I think / would it not be better to place / the period of a bullet at the end of my sentence?" (the backbone flute)

and eventually, he would. but he also wrote some of the most hopeful words ever written about art, about love, about human ingenuity. those contradictions lived inside him and made his art revolutionary and so utterly him.

i'm not really sure how to end this beyond saying that despair can overtake even the most hopeful and future minded of us all, but there is beauty and hope alongside darkness. disco elysium embodies that perfectly, imo.

#vladimir mayakovsky #disco elysium #harry du bois #kras mazov #de meta #suicide tw #suicide cw