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Of Poets and Supermen Propaganda Posters

Persephone

Mishima Themboy
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What's this?

A graphics thread from an otherwise unremarkable member on this forum and the other place who joined twelve days ago? It's more likely than you think.

Anyway, memes aside, I figured I'd make a dedicated thread where I can show off store the various wikiboxes, propaganda posters, graphics, future compasses, and various odds and ends I make for my current timeline/story on the other place (Of Poets and Supermen) as well as stuff I just make for fun. To start things off, here's a couple quick and dirty propaganda posters I made recently with paint.net for said timeline, as well as a chapter image that I made with Ribbet, all of which I'm really proud of. I hope folks like them!

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A recruiting poster for the Black Star Party's (name subject to change) paramilitary wing, the African Legion. Based off of this OTL Nigerian propaganda poster during the Biafran War.

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A French (or German, haven't decided yet) political cartoon depicting Marianne murdering a woman (presumably representing Germania) with the factories of the Ruhr in the background. The caption reads "The law is dead, long live the brutality!" and it's based off of this OTL German political cartoon from Kladderadatsch.

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An image for the upcoming chapter on Carnarism, my timeline's Blue-and-Orange *Fascist ideology that violently seizes power in Italy after a bloody three-sided civil war that's based off of the Charter of Carnaro, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto and the Manifesto of the Italian Futurist Political Party, Valentine de Saint-Point's Manifesto of the Futurist Woman and Futurist Manifesto of Lust, Enrico Corradini's Theory of Proletarian Nationalism, and more. Naturally, the movement is led by Gabriele D'Annunzio himself as well as the colorful band of conservatives and radicals who followed him in his grand venture.
 
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Of Poets and Supermen Ideology Images
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Another image for Carnarism for my timeline, this time based off of a portrait of D'Annunzio himself by a friend and contemporary of his, Romaine Brooks. While I liked the first image I made, I felt like using an actual OTL depiction of D'Annunzio rather than the cover of Bruce Sterling's excellent Pirate Utopia was the better artistic choice.

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Another chapter image for an alternate ideology in my timeline, this one being the Volkssturmbewegung, a rather different form of German nationalist ideology that comes to power in place of the Nazis, which become something of a non-entity following TTL's version of the Beer Hall Putsch. I made two of these, with this first one using the Nietzschean phrase "The Will to Power", an appropriate phrase given the Nietzschean origins of the ideology.

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The second chapter image for the Volkssturmbewegung! Both of these are based off of this poster for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. While the first one featured the phrase "The Will to Power", this one features the infamous title/phrase "The Triumph of the Will", best associated with Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 propaganda film of the same name. I chose this name so it could serve as a "false friend" to the OTL term, since the phrase is heavily associated with the Nazis in OTL.
 
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Of Poets and Supermen Petrosianism Ideology Image
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Here we have a pair of chapter images for another alternate ideology in OPAS, namely the dominant form of Communism within the timeline, Petrosianism! It's named after and promulgated by Simon "Kamo" Ter-Petrosian, Lenin's successor ITTL and an early OTL companion of Ioseb Djugashvili (Stalin). These images are based off of a 1921 Soviet poster celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Paris Commune.

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On a similar note, part of the reason I'm posting these ideology chapter images here rather than on the other place is in order to get some feedback on how they look and which ones look better from an outside perspective, so I can figure out which ones I want to use. With that in mind, please feel free to comment or ask questions about anything I post!
 
On a similar note, part of the reason I'm posting these ideology chapter images here rather than on the other place is in order to get some feedback on how they look and which ones look better from an outside perspective, so I can figure out which ones I want to use. With that in mind, please feel free to comment or ask questions about anything I post!
Good stuff, it seems the battle will between Italian Futurism vs. Soviet Futurism if anything. Joking aside, I would say if you can maybe do some Rodcheko style stuff, always love a good montage.

Also Simon Ter-Petrosian is an interesting pick for Lenin’s successor. I guess he’ll be very different from Stalin in both good and really bad ways.
 
Parti Français Recruitment Poster
Good stuff, it seems the battle will between Italian Futurism vs. Soviet Futurism if anything. Joking aside, I would say if you can maybe do some Rodcheko style stuff, always love a good montage.

Also Simon Ter-Petrosian is an interesting pick for Lenin’s successor. I guess he’ll be very different from Stalin in both good and really bad ways.
Ha! I'm not sure if I'd be able to do something in Rodchenko's style on my own with my meager skills, since all these are are modified OTL posters using paint.net and Ribbet, but I could give it a shot. If I wanted to make them in English (for chapter images or as Soviet propaganda in the West), that's feasible, but if I wanted to make Russian ones that might be a bit trickier with the characters and the translation.

As for Kamo being Lenin's successor, he's going to be similar in some respects (mainly in a few coincidental ways, nothing too major) but very different for the most part, yeah. In some ways a lot softer than Stalin both personality-wise and policy-wise, and in other ways a lot worse than Stalin.

Anyway, here's another poster, probably my best one to date!


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Recruitment poster for the Parti Français, a revisionist socialist offshoot of the French Section of the Workers' International. The message here is roughly translated (read: I used Google Translate plus the original poster's text) as "No more bad days! Papa is making money once again!" "Join the Parti Français!" "Long live France and Hail to the Chief!"
 
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Ha! I'm not sure if I'd be able to do something in Rodchenko's style on my own with my meager skills, since all these are are modified OTL posters using paint.net and Ribbet, but I could give it a shot. If I wanted to make them in English (for chapter images or as Soviet propaganda in the West), that's feasible, but if I wanted to make Russian ones that might be a bit trickier with the characters and the translation.
Tis the problem given the distinctive style of those folks, though looking up on various Soviet artists I could see Vladimir Lebedev being rather prominent and much of his images are on White Backgrounds so easy to edit, also a Children's illustrator becoming a prominent proganadist tickles me;
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Anyway, here's another poster, probably my best one to date!

Excellent poster there, very old school Socialist propaganda in feel.
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I honestly don't know what I might use this for. A Japanese-aligned, Ungern-Sternberg-led Far Eastern Republic? Manchukuo? Some unholy combination of the two? Your guess is as good as mine.
It's obviously a post card from Yoshiko Kawashima's Chinese Puppet state really is really just Japanese Qingdao with some extra bits and fighting the Populist-Socialist Keding-Jingwei regime.
 
Why does the dude on the horse look like he's vibrating?

Anyway, this stuff looks interesting. Futurism is always a fun time--why did you go for Carnarism as a name?

Edit: NVM, have just found out about the Charter of Carnaro. I like that the movement's named after the town where their founding document was signed--it feels a bit more natural that calling it Marinettism or Accelerationism or Iwanttofuckacarism or whatever.
 
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Tis the problem given the distinctive style of those folks, though looking up on various Soviet artists I could see Vladimir Lebedev being rather prominent and much of his images are on White Backgrounds so easy to edit, also a Children's illustrator becoming a prominent proganadist tickles me;
Lebedev's work might actually be good material, now that I think about it. Might have to look into that some more.
It's obviously a post card from Yoshiko Kawashima's Chinese Puppet state really is really just Japanese Qingdao with some extra bits and fighting the Populist-Socialist Keding-Jingwei regime.
"Hello, Kenpeitei? Yes, that's him, over there. Yes, yes, long live the Emperor and all that."
Why does the dude on the horse look like he's vibrating?
As with many things in life, I blame the Japanese for that one.
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Anyway, this stuff looks interesting. Futurism is always a fun time--why did you go for Carnarism as a name?
Three reasons for that one, in descending order of importance:
  1. The movement as a whole originates from Gabriele D'Annunzio's Italian Regency of Carnaro in Fiume, with the Charter of Carnaro being the precursor document to the Charter of Rome (the ideological manifesto written after the tumultuous Italian Civil War), therefore Carnaro -> Carnarism.
  2. Carnarism was the most voted for option on the poll I made (the original name was Chartism and that felt lacking the more I wrote).
  3. Carnarism sounds cool and has a nice ring to it.
 
Carnarist Exercise
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This one's a bit of an experiment in what I could do with my limited skills. A Carnarist propaganda poster promoting athleticism and physical fitness among the youth. Roughly translated, the message reads: "You wanna look like that? Exercise!". Based off of this 1951 Soviet poster from OTL.
 
"Hello, Kenpeitei? Yes, that's him, over there. Yes, yes, long live the Emperor and all that."
"You can't kill me, I'm right!" I scream.
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This one's a bit of an experiment in what I could do with my limited skills. A Carnarist propaganda poster promoting athleticism and physical fitness among the youth. Roughly translated, the message reads: "You wanna look like that? Exercise!". Based off of this 1951 Soviet poster from OTL.
Not bad, I would maybe try and blur the symbol as well because it doesn't blend as well as the rest but otherwise good stuff. I suspect that Carnarism will be split between the 'Realist' school of Art and the 'Futurist' school of art in terms of propaganda.

Like this would work well as Carnaist Poster:
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Parti Français Work Poster
Not bad, I would maybe try and blur the symbol as well because it doesn't blend as well as the rest but otherwise good stuff. I suspect that Carnarism will be split between the 'Realist' school of Art and the 'Futurist' school of art in terms of propaganda.
I made an attempt to blur the symbol after adding the pixels to the poster through paint.net, but by that point, it was really too small to be distinguishable and the blur didn't help.

Anyway, here's another Parti Français poster.

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Parti Français propaganda poster encouraging hard work among the populace. The rough translation is: "By working diligently, you will show the world French excellence!"
 
La Disperata Recruitment Poster
Here we have another Carnarist poster, directly based off of the poster that @Time Enough posted upthread. Enjoy!

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Recruitment poster for La Disperata ("The Guard of Desperate Men/The Desperate Ones"), the elite personal guard of the Commandant and a new form of military order in their own right. Roughly translated, the sentences in the upper left reads, "Rush toward the Future! Embody the New Order! Protect the Commandant!". "Eia! Eia! Eia! Alala!" and "Quis Contra Nos?" are mottos coined by D'Annunzio, with the former being a war cry to replace the barbaric (in his view) "Hip, Hip, Hip, Hooray!" and the latter being a Latin phrase meaning "Who is against us?".
 
Populace Allocation Postcards
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A pair of postcards promoting Premier Kamo's policy of "Populace Allocation", in which displaced ethnic minorities were given full government support in exchange for voluntarily settling in underdeveloped and underpopulated locations of the Soviet Union in order to help develop them for the continued prosperity of the Motherland. These two postcards are in Polish and German respectively, roughly translating to "Greetings from the new Soviet frontier!" Based off of this OTL postcard.

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Join the Ragged Guard!
I'll admit, this one's a bit low-effort compared to previous ones, but it's also simple and straight to the point.

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Hungarian recruitment poster for the Rongyos Gárda ("Ragged Guards"), a royalist Hungarian paramilitary formed by Regent Pál Prónay following his violent seizure of power from former Austro-Hungarian Admiral and Regent Miklós Horthy. They would be instrumental in securing Prónay's power after Horthy's downfall and helped pave the way for Prónay's 1921 restoration of King Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen to the Hungarian throne as King Charles IV. The text (from top to bottom) reads: "For Crown and Country!", "You are a traitor! If you do not serve King Charles!", and "Join the Ragged Guard!" Based off of this OTL poster by Miltiades Manno.
 
Hypothetical Syrian Personalist Party
These two were trickier than usual, because of the nature of Arabic and making sure I was able to fit everything onto the rather small posters in order for them to be large enough to be legible, which required splitting up the phrases on two line. Anyway, these are for a hypothetical Syrian Personalist Party led by Antoun Saadeh. Not sure if I'm gonna use that concept or not, but we'll see.

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Propaganda poster for the Syrian Personalist Party. From top to bottom, the text reads (as always, roughly translated) "The Whirlwind of Syria will sweep away the Colonial Oppressors", "Embody the Three Theories of Syrian Personalism", and "We will reclaim Natural Syria for the good of our people". Based off of this OTL Syrian Social Nationalist Party poster.

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Syrian Personalist Party propaganda poster. Roughly translated, the text reads as "The Eagle and the Whirlwind shall liberate Natural Syria and guide our people to greatness". Based on this OTL Syrian Social Nationalist Party poster celebrating the 81st birthday of the SSNP's founder, Antoun Saadeh.
 
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