#as if the Empire isn't there

[juney-blues]

For the last time, the Diamond Authority in Steven Universe isn't a stand-in for actual fascism, it's a vehicle for the queer power fantasy of getting your transphobic grandma to understand.

#juney.txt #steven universe #you just wanted the show to be something it isn't. to focus more on the cool space empire rather than interpersonal relationships #and are then refusing to meet the show where it's at. #this is also why people dislike the episodes that focus on the people who live in beach city. and decry those episodes as ''filler''

[agir1ukn0w]

sorry but snow is such a well written iconic villain and donald sutherland performs him so fucking good it's almost hilarious how i start practically foaming at the mouth every time the man opens his mouth to say something deplorable in those movies, like he's so utterly and despicably wrong about almost every crucial thing from katniss and peeta's relationship to human nature as a whole and yet the second he starts talking about how hope is the only thing stronger than fear and how you have to allow a little hope but control it so its spark doesn't grow into revolution and how it's the things we love the most that destroy us you bet your ass i am on the floor screaming crying throwing up because that is my psychotic mustache-twirling villain RIGHT THERE

#every scene he's in is so delicious and i want it injected into my veins like heroine #as you can tell i'm quite fond of masterfully crafted villains whose monologues leave you breathless #also that part where he just tells seneca 'i like you...be careful' *EPIC CHEF'S KISS*🔥 #'hope...it is the only thing stronger than fear' #'a little hope is effective. a lot of hope is dangerous. the spark is fine as long as it's contained' #he isn't my roman empire but i do dwell on him from time to time and get shivers down my fucking spine #coriolanus snow #president snow #snow #president coriolanus snow #hunger games #the hunger games #the hunger games trilogy #thg #mockingjay #catching fire #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #seneca crane #suzanne collins #donald sutherland

[tea-bird]

Another sketch vs. finished build comparison!! ✌️ (First post is here~)

That middle sketch sure is something... lmao

#minecraft #mineblr #minecraft build #* #the 4th one isn't technically finished #and I never posted number 5 on here bc I didn't really like how it came out #that one was made using the block palette cubfan got by collecting blocks from the empires members btw #edit: I added IDs #I forgot that's something you can do!!! #I'm pretty sure they're bad though lol

[ghosted-jazz]

Local dwarf recruits a princess and a queen to overthrow the monarchy

#hermitcraft #empires smp #impulseSV #geminitay #pearlescentmoon #theres only 3 hermits who are on empires. only two have given themselves royal titles. And they just so happen to be part of the soup group #I just think it's funny. I want to see the crossover fics so badly #LOOK- famer queen Pearl is 100% down for some fighting Princess Gem isn't but will get dragged along. But Wizard Gem would be down to fight #my art

[currentlyonstandbi]

#what if i just never emotionally recovered from this . wouldnt that be something #star wars #sw rots #revenge of the sith #rots novelization #anakin skywalker #darth vader #you know what. it's the fact that after everything that has happened anakin still chooses to stay with sidious #even after he knows all he's ever done is lie to him. is use him. is be yet another person on a list of people #who've only ever wanted him for his power #anakin HATES sidious by this point. he despises him. he wants him dead. and yet he stays #because he has no reason not to #he's destroyed everything and everyone who he's ever loved and has loved him in return #and as twisted as it is.. sidious is all he has left now. sidious and all of his anger and all of his terrible grief #so he stays . because he has no reason to leave #and it's not until rotj that anakin finds himself faced with a choice which isn't really a choice at all #because from the moment he realised luke would never join him in overthrowing sidious and ruling the empire #there was only ever one decision anakin could make #because in that moment he looked upon the last reminder of the love that existed once between him and padme and he found his reason #to finally break the cycle of violence #he couldn't kill luke because he loved him ! even among all the anger and pain and regret. anakin loved his son #and just as anakin's love drove him to the dark so too did it help guide him to the light #whatever. this novel destroyed me. gonna have 'this is how it feels to be anakin skywalker forever' on my mind for 3-5 business days

[theminecraftbee]

i find myself occasionally thinking of empires 1 flower husbands again. and you know what dynamic with them is really funny: scott seems to remember the whole third life past life with jimmy, but jimmy... doesn't do much with it? and like. i know you can play this for angst but actually i don't remember enough COMEDY about scott remembering jimmy as his Tragic Doomed Lover He Is Falling Tragically In Love With Once More. and then there is jimmy. he is a fish in a swamp. he doesn't understand what this elf guy wants with him. scott is writing entire elaborate fanfics in his head and jimmy is just vibing. going "oh neat! anyway time to kill some salmon." i think there's great comedy potential here,

#flower husbands #empires smp #jimmy solidarity #scott smajor #it's been a while since i thought about flower husbands but i'm writing a jimmy fic so it's coming up in my head #and i'm thinking about the potential COMEDY FACTOR of this #the important thing to keep this funny is that jimmy isn't like. UPSET scott is dramatically in love with him #he just Doesn't Really Get It But Sure He Supposes #Why Not

[chaos-and-all]

and if you get rid of every depressed scrawny british boy hopelessly in love with his best friend, who's going to be the glue to your fucked up little maze experiments, ava paige?

#newtmas #guys this boy is literally my roman empire #i am newt newt is me #newt maze runner #like the maze runner as a story isn't even incredibly impactful but i think just about newt at least 50 times a week #hes so babygirl #hes just like me fr #the maze runner

[barissoffee]

:(

#mine #barriss offee #tote #tales of the empire #barriss look at me...this isn't you #someone get her out of there NOW

[mayasaura]

I think the best possible time travel fic would be to slingshot Harrow from the end of Harrow the Ninth back to the beginning of Gideon the Ninth. Highest hilarity potential, highest angst potential, highest pining potential

Things Harrow knows now that she didn't before:

Who Alecto was

The names of God and his lyctors

The secret of lyctorhood

That the lyctor trials are a death trap

Gideon could be easily persuaded to die for her

Gideon dying for her is the worst thing possible

She would do almost anything to prevent Gideon from dying

Gideon's sword is haunted by a very angry and oddly familiar-looking woman who bears a remarkable resemblance to Gideon

Things Harrow still doesn't know:

What Alecto is

Gideon's parentage

Jackshit about BOE

Mercy and Augustine are both traitors

Things Harrow knew then and still knows now:

Gideon—this Gideon here and now—hates her

She owes a debt of two hundred lives and a future to the Ninth

The survival of the Ninth depends on her becoming a lyctor

#like. what does she DO?? #Gideon isn't going to listen to her without some MAJOR legwork to win her trust #she doesn't even know how she did it last time and she can't afford to wait until canaan house to replicate the successful scenarios #should she even bring Gideon with her this time? #what are her alternatives? #let Gideon go to join the Cohort and die gloriously for the empire? #leave her here on the Ninth alone with Crux who wants her dead and has killed before? #should she even go herself? #stupid question she owes it to Pent and Quinn and the Sixth and everyone who risked their souls for her #most of all tho #I really really wanna make pre-canaan house Gideon have to deal with Harrow in her 'first flower of my House' 'saving the last dance' era #like. harrow basically got snatched by a pod-person who cares about strangers and looks at Gideon like a dream she expects to dissolve #gideon would lose her MIND #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrow nonagesimus #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #htn spoilers #time travel #peggy sue fic #op

[rhapsoddity]

its been a while so have a refreshed interaction/relations chart!

#added names this time bc i know not all my designs and characters are recognisable #vigilante au #vigilante sheriff au #vsau #interaction chart #empiresblr #hermitblr #hermitcraft #empires smp #rhaps art #sobbing i had to move them around so much and it still isn't perfect lmao

[flipside-phoebe]

Phoebe Spengler headcanons post-Frozen Empire

The soul-separation experiment had some weird side effects that only became apparent later on. Sometimes Phoebe felt like her soul was misaligned with her physical body, or she'd have out-of-body experiences in her sleep. This combined with her already lacking coordination made things difficult and frustrating for her. Sometimes she'd miss objects she tried to grab hold of.

To help correct this, Callie suggested some physical therapy like yoga sessions. Janine offered to take her to play racquetball. Winston even suggested she take up martial arts or boxing. Phoebe was reluctant to all of this, but eventually gave them all a try. The whole family ended up doing yoga sessions together and it was a nice way to bond, sometimes Phoebe would go to her room to meditate by herself though. Racquetball and Boxing were fun, and she did gain some self-defense skills, but yoga was the one practice that really stuck.

Phoebe had some sessions with Venkman to make sure her soul, and her mind, were in the right place. (she was a little annoyed by some of his methods, especially the ones involving shocks, but was thankful for the help.) He also recommended her a good therapist to help with any non-supernatural problems she had.

It took a little while, but Phoebe did continue to call Gary "Dad" and spent more time with him. He'd earned the title.

Sometimes Phoebe had nightmares about being controlled by Garraka again. One night she went to sleep with her parents in their bed because of this. They were able to comfort her. Despite how non-nonchalant they act about their own possessions, it effected them negatively too. It's something they understand and relate to and they were able to console her.

Ray lent her a few books, salt lamps, and stuffed animals for her room. They helped him get through some rough times, so he figured they'd help her too

Phoebe worked with Lars to make sure the soul-extraction device would have stronger security measures. What she did to herself will never happen to anyone else. It's not worth the risk.

She definitely tried to spend more time with Podcast, Trevor, and Lucky after the big freeze. She felt guilty for going off on her own and not confiding in her team more. Podcast was a little hurt that she kept Melody a secret, but they talked some more and were able to reconnect. Trevor was just concerned for her mental health and wanted his little sister safe. Lucky offered all the support and advice they could. In the end, the four of them are still the Summerville Squad, not matter where they are.

Cold weather bothers her more than it did before, I think it's safe to say everyone in New York has some newfound discomfort around wintertime & freak storms. The snazzy new red jackets help a little.

She keeps Melody's matchbox in a special place in her room, in a hidden box. She also adds other mementos from other ghosts that she helps peacefully cross over. Partially for recording research but also for sentimental reasons. The matchbox remains at the top since it was her first.

She's unsure what her relationship to Melody was, exactly. Whether it was romantic, platonic, or something else. She is upset that she was betrayed, but glad they were able to reconcile and help each other in the end. It takes her a long time before she's able to move on and try having a close relationship like that again with anyone else. In the meantime she focuses on her education, her friends, and her family.

#long post #phoebe spengler #Mera's headcanons #gbfe #ghostbusters #ghostbusters frozen empire #melody ghostbusters #uncles tag #trevor spengler #callie spengler #gary grooberson #lars pinfield #lucky domingo #podcast ghostbusters #janine melnitz #so many characters and most of them are just mentioned #sorry hope this isn't considered spamming! #see queue on the other side

[hualianschild]

let's talk abt hua cheng and the way his entire *almost* existence relates back to xie lian cuz it's been my current roman empire, his name having the word 'hua' which means 'flower' can be seen as relating to xie lian's god name (the flower crowned martial god), also he's called crimson rain sought flower cuz he was shielding a lone white flower (also represents xie lian) from the blood rain (he can be the said 'flower' in that rain too actually), that red coral pearl on his hair braid ? it belongs to xie lian, that red string tied around his finger, xie lian tied strands of his hair around that finger which represents marriage and ofc the red-string-of-fate soulmate trope, he has xie lian's name tattooed on him in his terrible writing, made an entire city just so his love can come there and rest and build a temple there so he can worship him and remained his only devotee when xl lost everything (that thing abt gods being in existence as long as there is someone to worship them) he gave up on becoming a god cuz then who will be worshipping his god ?? isn't afraid to show his true form to xl which he never did to anyone, destroyed those thirty three gods cuz they ridiculed his gege, took lqq along with him to qi rong's den so he can clear the false accusations even if xl didn't want him to CUZ YOU WILL NAWT BE HATING HIS DIANXIA OVER THINGS HE NEVER DID i mean his entire existence is because xie lian said 'if you can't find any reason to live, make me your reason to live' and oh isn't that level of devotion and love so devastating ?

#this doesn't mean that hc isn't his own person and have his own personality but most importantly he's his gege's fav person ^^ #i remember once xl said ' it's been a while someone listened to me won't you stay ' to hc and OH I LOVE THEM #guys i love hua cheng so much idk if i want to be like him or be with someone like him :( #and i rarely call him san lang cuz that's a name only his gege is allowed to call him by and I feel like I'm intruding #hualian my roman empire every other week ever since i read tgcf back in 2021 #I'm writing this before going to bed hope hualian blesses me in my dreams and my exams go well tmrw #okay good night hualian forever 🗣️ #tgcf #heaven officials blessing #tian guan ci fu #san lang #hua cheng #hualian #xie lian #heaven official's blessing #mxtx #crimson rain sought flower #mo xiang tong xiu #hualian meta #tgcf meta

[spyglahass]

a little thing I did for a friend I got for a secret santa 👉👈

something something, they signed a treaty and have to take part in an official celebration

issue:

fwhip has no idea how to dance AND is a gay mess about it

#jimmy is extremely smug about it #because he is decent at dancing and loves making fwhip embarrassed and or flustered #I DEMAND FOR FICS OF THEM!!!! #I'm very glad people write for s2 too but my boys :((((( #i still don't understand how s1 fwhimmy is not more popular #it got enemies to lovers. mutual pinning. denial. two idiots not knowing they are in love. doomed by the narrative. #isn't it like???? what people always use as aus for other ships???? #and u got it canon right here????? #also you can do arranged marriage and all that #who can i pay to write me more fwhimmy s1 /srs #anyway #KAHIDJSJDBSUA rant over #fwhimmy #empiresshipping #fwhip #jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #empires smp season one #fish husbands #my art

[horreurscopes]

four days ago on monday my (radical queer black) therapist told me they were an adult when 9/11 happened, and not only is the current zionist propaganda being pushed by the united states the exact same playbook, but they said it was "hundreds of times more intense" due to social media. they said it was surreal to experience it again. i said being overwhelmed with feeling makes me feel like i'm making it about me, someone with no ties to the middle east. they said it's the most natural, human thing to experience horror and grief when being made to witnesses a holocaust of innocent people.

three months from turning 30 i thought i knew everything there is to know about the evils of the world, and yet i find myself surprised to realize there was still a last sliver of innocence within me left to lose. history will remember the short-lived american empire as the single most sadistic, brutal, barbaric, monstruous and bloodthirsty sovereign state to ever plague our species, and i can only hope to live long enough to see it burn to the ground. هي فلسطين من النهر إلى البحر

#the empire survives in part because we believe its survival to be inevitable #but it isn't

[bucket-of-amethyst]

HAPPY FLAT FUCK FRIDAY!!!!!! GET FLATTED IDIOT!

#u cant tell me he isn't a flat fuck after that #bucket of random #empires #empires x hc #scott smajor #mcyt

[uncanny-tranny]

I think when people conceptualize pain and disability, what they think of is something like this:

It's conceptualized as something you are cured from, that pain can be only temporary, and you will one day "get better."

In reality, it's something more like this:

Pain is often non-linear in nature. When you see somebody in low-pain days, weeks, or perhaps longer, that doesn't mean that they have "healed." Not all pain is curable, and the idea that it is is only hurting people who experience pain. Yes, it is uncomfortable to imagine that we might not be able to heal, that we might, in fact, become disabled by pain that will never heal. But running from this possibility is not the solution.

#disability #chronic pain #described images #image description in alt #sorry about my handwriting i was using an art program on my phone <3 #plus it isn't a graph based on like... empirical data. it's illustrative of an attitude i see from often abled people #i'm having a good-ish week so far with my pain but that doesn't mean it is gone #i know i have talked about this before but i wanted to do it more as an image than text #i think it can help people understand better (at least it does for me) #man i don't think i've made a graph since mid high school LMAO