Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts
LightNews LightNews
banner
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts
@smbeaumont.bsky.social
36 followers 54 following 350 posts
Tales of the Beaumont women of the Low Country, and the fictional 'Radio Free Dixie.' Here, a tapestry of words woven with neurotic cadence and theatrical flair. A tribute to the glorious and grotesque, the flamboyant souls of our shadowed world.
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 5h
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #nonsequitur
1
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 12h
#AIArt #ArtHistory #WarriorWoman

Tina Modotti, photographer & activist (1896-1942), captured the dignity of the Mexican working class.. Blending modernist art with revolutionary politics, she championed social justice & workers' rights. Her impact endures. Images are AI Created based pn her work.
Inspired by Tina Modotti's powerful social realism and stark compositional style, depict modern-day exploitation and marginalization. Focus on the dignity and resilience of indigenous communities and the working poor worldwide. Use strong contrasts, deep shadows, and an unflinching, empathetic lens to highlight themes of labor, inequality, and cultural preservation against encroaching industrialization or global capitalism. The image should evoke a sense of quiet struggle and enduring spirit. Black and white, documentary style with a touch of poetic realism. Inspired by Tina Modotti's powerful social realism and stark compositional style, depict modern-day exploitation and marginalization. Focus on the dignity and resilience of indigenous communities and the working poor worldwide. Use strong contrasts, deep shadows, and an unflinching, empathetic lens to highlight themes of labor, inequality, and cultural preservation against encroaching industrialization or global capitalism. The image should evoke a sense of quiet struggle and enduring spirit. Black and white, documentary style with a touch of poetic realism. Inspired by Tina Modotti's powerful social realism and stark compositional style, depict modern-day exploitation and marginalization. Focus on the dignity and resilience of indigenous communities and the working poor worldwide. Use strong contrasts, deep shadows, and an unflinching, empathetic lens to highlight themes of labor, inequality, and cultural preservation against encroaching industrialization or global capitalism. The image should evoke a sense of quiet struggle and enduring spirit. Black and white, documentary style with a touch of poetic realism.
2
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 18h
"The only thing worse than a hypocritical Christian is a bland piece of fried chicken; they both need a little bit of witchcraft to be truly satisfying."
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters
1 2
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 1d
He must have heard about the Nigerian Prince with a lot of money.
1
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 1d
#AIArt #ArtHistory #WarriorWoman #DorotheaLange

Dorothea Lange used documentary photography (1930s, California/US) to expose the struggles of Depression-era migrant workers and Japanese American internees. Her iconic work spurred reform, making her a timeless champion for economic and human rights.
1
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 2d
As God is my witness, if I die and chose to haunt somewhere and one of these douchebag tough guy "ghost hunters" come into my haunt yelling and acting like a fool, I will grab them by the balls, twist them and teach them to respect the dead. #Halloween
2
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 2d
The fermented #UK Douches #JKRowling and #PiersMorgan is proof #Liberals didn't create #Cancel Culture. Stop asking the #VillageIdiots their opinion. #Trans
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 3d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween
Happy Halloween
1
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 3d
"Put your bra on... there's trouble nextdoor!"
Pls. Read and share...
drive.google.com/file/d/1uHOu...
#tRump #Fascism #Nazi #Activism #Resist #snap #WIC #SouthernWomen #DollyParton #WarriorWomen
Women's Warrior Spirit_ A Rallying Cry.pdf
drive.google.com
1
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 4d
#FreeSpeech #tRump #Fascism #Nazi #Activism #Resist
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 5d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween #TennesseeWilliams
Mrs. Beaumont, having always depended on strangers, finds her sanity crumbling in the asylum's damp halls, while her common-law husband drowns in the sweet poison of guilt.
1
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 6d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween
Vengeance ain't served cold in the Delta, it's red hot as gumbo. Sugar Hill (1974)—Diana "Sugar" Hill's reckoning is rising from the swamp, bringing the zombies with her. She's got a dark appetite for justice.
The true darkness at the heart of the Southern Gothic is not the decaying mansion of the planter, but the terrible, repressed history buried beneath its foundation. The genre's obsession with inherited sin, grotesque secrets, and the past refusing to die is utterly dependent upon the African-American experience, which turned the entire region into a site of profound horror. Slavery and the subsequent tyranny of Jim Crow were not merely themes but the very haunting that defined the South: a system where violence was law and human bondage created a spiritual corruption so deep it curdled the land itself. When African-American authors like Toni Morrison took up the Gothic framework, they didn't invent new ghosts; they simply named the ones the white canon had always tried to ignore, proving that the only true monstrosity was the failure to acknowledge the suffering that built the whole crumbling edifice. This inherent, spectral quality is often channelled through the powerful traditions of African and Afro-Caribbean spirituality. The Low Country of the Carolinas, steeped in the Gullah-Geechee culture, and the humid, secretive streets of New Orleans, where Vodou took root, supplied the Gothic with its most potent form of supernatural resistance. Unlike the European ghosts who merely mourn, the spirits and deities born of the Diaspora are active agents of justice and vengeance. They are the means by which the powerless can reach beyond the earthly courts of law, which consistently failed them. The invocation of figures like Baron Samedi, the Lord of the Dead, turns the very institution of death from a passive end into a righteous weapon, transforming folklore into a declaration of war against generational oppression, often represented by the old, morally bankrupt white aristocracy. The 1974 blaxploitation horror film, Sugar Hill, seized this subversion and amplified it with a stylish, unapologetic fury. The protagonist, Diana “Sugar” Hill, is not a fainting heroine trapp…
4
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 6d
#maga #facists #LGBTIA
Sorry, but the Rainbow Alphabet people do not hand out letters to bigotted c--ks--kers in white sheets and stupid Red Hats!
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 6d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween

Southern Secrets & Sin
Which Mrs. Beaumont is wearin' the blacker veil of malice, darlin'? One's a serpent in silk, the other a wolf in woe. Tell me who holds the Devil's own claim.
1 1 3
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 7d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween
That sweet little dress hides a soul as dark as the bayou swamp, where secrets sink and the bad seed always blooms. The gators know.
4
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 8d
#FreeSpeech #tRump #Fascism #Nazi #Activism #Resist #Boycott #Cancel #Tennessee #NorthCarolina #SouthCarolina #CSA
Heritage? That's laughable.
I'm proud to be a Southerner. You're proud to be a Racist Bigot. We are not the same.
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 9d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween
The air here is thick with regret and lace. Her eyes hold the secrets of generations of crones. Sometime being a Witch is all a Woman has to cling to.
2
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 10d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween
I have today's Halloween pic, but I can't remember the story. DAMN #MS BRAIN
4
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 10d
#FreeSpeech #tRump #Fascism #Nazi #Activism #Resist #Boycott #Cancel #Tennessee #NorthCarolina #SouthCarolina
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 11d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween
Just Run!
2
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 12d
FEEDBACK NEEDED #writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters #HIV #AIDS

AI made me ugly cry. I wrote this and loaded it into AI to polish the style and it went in an unexpected direction. It wasnt meant to be a scary ghost story but it wasn't supposed to be gut wrenching. Not the final draft!
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 12d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween
Southern mansions, secrets, and a mad Southern belle. The "old biddy" films are pure Southern Gothic: decay, delusion, and Mrs Beaumont with an axe. Don't you dare leave Charlotte alone! #HushHushSweetCharlotte #SouthernGothic #Horror
1
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 13d
one of the easiest ways to verify information is google it... if the majority of results are X and facebook links... it is a garbage post.
34
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 13d
based loosley on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_S...
Grace Sherwood - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
smbeaumont.bsky.social
Absurd Truths & Blatant Lies of the Beaumonts @smbeaumont.bsky.social · 13d
#lgbtq #aiart #photoediting #photography #queerwriters #halloween
She haunts the high ground, she haunts the low. The land's her own, and the debt is paid, by the children of those who her spirit betrayed. Hush now, listen... that scratching sound... Is Elsbeth's curse on the bitter ground
1 1