#byron goth

[rudhira]

Second old age death of my Uberhood, I think! Mortimer is going out, surrounded by his kids (Cassandra, Phoebe) and grandkids (Blaire, Byron). And Darren.

[burningvelvet]

a twitter thread that actually killed me

[grapefruit185]

orpheus morpheus go eat some walruseses.... ORIFICES... Orpheus drinkin a 40 in a death basket! AH

[redbloodrosary]

"So, we'll go no more a roving

So late into the night

Though the heart be still as loving

And the moon be still as bright"

Lord Byron, 1817

[unamazing-sheep21]

How every Gothic Heroine is a little neurodivergent in some way

This is how I imagine Byronic heroes have to take care of their girls

[namedvesta]

Hugo Höppener, “Scene im Äades”, Jugend magazine, 1896.

[bl00dline]

hi!! the list of blogs i’m following these days is essentially a graveyard and my dash is honestly sort of dead. i’d like to find new people to follow, so if you post about any of these, please interact with this post and i’ll check your blog out!

80s music, especially post punk, new wave, and goth. bonus points if you’re as obsessed with depeche mode as i am

19th century and early 20th century history

romantic era poetry, especially lord byron/percy shelley/their circle of friends

silent movies and old hollywood

classic horror movies, especially the universal monsters

bbc ghosts

the titanic

anything macabre really

i think that’s it??

i’m not looking for followers at all but i’d love it if people could interact with this so i can find new blogs :)

[invisible-woe]

for everyone who's blessed to be in a trio of friends like this

[bidotorg]

Ah, dear reader, let me regale you with a tale from the annals of literary history, steeped in mystery and enshrouded in the ominous mists of 1816—a year oft referred to as the "Year Without a Summer." This macabre moniker arose from the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Tambora in distant Indonesia, a volcanic fury so immense it cast a pall over Europe and North America, plunging the world into a chilling gloom.

Now, picture, if you will, the illustrious Mary Shelley (#Bi2), her brooding paramour Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her enigmatic stepsister Claire Clairmont, taking refuge in the stately Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva. They were joined by none other than the illustrious and scandalous Lord Byron (#OneOfUs) and his enigmatic physician, the somber John Polidori.

The heavens wept incessantly, and the relentless rain imprisoned our intrepid creatives indoors. To stave off the encroaching ennui, they turned to the dark allure of German ghost stories. It was during one such eerie evening, under the pallid light of flickering candles, that the diabolical Lord Byron proposed a challenge most fiendish: each guest was to pen their own tale of the supernatural.

Inspired by the electrifying discussions of galvanism and the reanimation of lifeless flesh, our dear Mary Shelley found herself birthing an idea so monstrous it would rattle the very bones of literary tradition. Thus, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" began to claw its way into existence, a tale of creation and despair that would haunt the corridors of time.

Meanwhile, the enigmatic Polidori, not to be outdone, conjured "The Vampyre," a work that would cast a long, sanguine shadow over the burgeoning vampire genre.

Ah, that fateful summer, with its cursed weather and the alchemical blend of minds at Villa Diodati, became a crucible of dark creativity, giving rise to masterpieces that would forever alter the landscape of Gothic literature and beyond. #HotBiSummer 💀

Mary Shelley, the teenage inventor of modern science-fiction and part of Lord Byron's road-tripping disaster bisexual crew, has often fallen victim to the "gal pals" effect, which overlooks her romances with women.

Lord Byron is regarded as one of the greatest English poets, one who was immensely popular during his time and remains influential today.

Polidori created the Romantic literary vampire by basing him on Byron himself. Polidori’s vampire is exactly the destructive bi stereotype we’re tired of — though in Polidori’s defense, he was trapped with the living embodiment of it at the time.

[marlocandeea]

I could no longer tell revenge apart from forgiveness. I wanted to go up to his room and rip his bad star from his chest, the only heart he had. To keep it with me forever, encased in a glass bell jar. Maybe eat it. And if I had to go, go to hell then, and go with him. There were no human words for what I wanted.

We Knew Damui, M. Candìa

[reno-matagot]

Mari Shimisu's Dolls ~ Byron's Muse

[vanalex]

[burningvelvet]

it is a lovely coincidence that june is pride month as well as the anniversary of the time lord byron, percy and mary shelley, claire clairmont, and john polidori all gathered around at the villa diodati on lake geneva in 1816 to tell each other ghost stories and write some of the greatest literature in history while waiting out the nightly summer storms during what was known as “the year without a summer” due to a volcanic winter event after the eruption of mount tambora a year prior

[grapefruit185]

pete white is an oldhead goth and introduces orpheus to bauhaus! this show is so full of music refs, i am FEASTING

[stranger15]

When you have finished reading "The Vampyre" tale by G. G. Byron, (J.W. Polidori) press the "back" button...

[ellejellehell]

this probably won't get much of a response but I trust the whims of fate more than I trust Google. I saw a post earlier about him and now I'm curious what are the best works by Lord Byron. Or more particularly your favorites. I want to get more into old literature and he seems aspirational. As if Tumblr is to be believed he was a slutty slutty goth man. But I am really looking for your favorites rather than what Google would send me. Biographies are great too.