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mirroredmemoriez · 6 months

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Amanda's misguidance.

I was doing bad- Then I saw a THIRSTY ass post and began giggling (if you can assume who you are, thanks I guess!) but I'll still speak my weewoo brain. (Ok! I never posted this back then, this has been sitting for maybe a week, but the thirsty post was someone's dream.) (WEEKS NOW) I think uh, one of the things that really gets to me about Amanda's character is truly how misguided she was. I know a lot of what I'm going to say has been talked about and all that jazz but I don't really care... This is my rambling not yours. Anyway, she didn't have any solid parental figures even before John. We know that her dad was abusive/neglectful and her mother is never mentioned, not to my knowledge. I've kinda headcannoned her parents as addicts as well, obviously addiction and things such as it can run through families. (Saw X has now highlighted how terrible her father is even more) The wiki page for Amanda Young

This is where her self destructive nature began developing, the lack of care and love but an abundance of neglect and abuse resulting in her not really knowing how to take care of herself or others. I'm not saying she can't love or care for things either, but she doesn't know the correct way of doing so. Amanda loved John, that is a very clear thing. I don't think she knows how to handle her love or where to pinpoint it however. In the sense that she's not experienced parental love, friendships or romantic relationships- Not ones at least that weren't with people who were as down under as her, so I don't count Cecil.

She sees John as a father figure, a leader and a teacher. John is her only guide to life, somebody who set her on a path, even if it wasn't the right one. Amanda is indebt to him for ''helping'' her, even if it's up for debate whether he truly did help, Amanda's drug addiction was by far not her only issue if you look at the bigger picture. She clung to him like a lifeline, even when he hurt her, made her do things she didn't truly believe she could. We know she feels guilt for killing Adam due to the deleted scene where she has a nightmare about him and we also have the fact it was a ''mercy'' killing in the first place. Amanda is tested repeatedly and we also have to acknowledge around the start of her becoming an apprentice, she was going cold turkey, which the symptoms for are horrible. However, she still kept loyal to John and his cause, other people going through such a thing are quick to tell their closest family members they hate them or even ''backstab'' them in pursuit of a fix. Amanda doesn't. Even later on, she never turns back to drugs, instead going back to using self harm as a coping mechanism. I don’t believe the ''love'' she has for John is one sided either, I think he does care for her in his own way, but his self righteous nature at times doesn't let him fully give the support and tenderness Amanda needs.

It makes you wonder what Amanda could of been had she found somebody else who could give her direction, a cause. Somebody prepared to have her as a first priority over their ideology. Where would she be? Could she function in society or would she crush under the pressure. She's never been ''evil'' to me or a cold hearted villain like other horror icons. Amanda is a severely traumatized mentally ill woman, one who kills and tortures due to the fact the only person she has in the world is telling her it's the right thing. Of course, some people will argue that she purposely makes her traps basically impossible, so she isn't even fully listening to John and his beliefs but that's because of how misguided she is.

She DID survive her trap and look at her. Obviously, it also comes from the fact she believes people can't change but you can't really blame her for that either. The amount of death and torment she's been subjected to lasted her a lifetime and was her death, no peace. And even in death? She was reaching for John. Because even with all the pain he put her through, mentally and physically, she loved him. Her saviour who caused so many of her wounds and left others to get infected.

Misguided to the very end.

#their relationship is my roman empire #father and daughter bonds like #stab me right in the chest #do i have daddy issues? now i dont want to be the cliche....#yes #amanda young #john kramer #saw #saw franchise #saw movies #sawposting #saw 2004 #saw 2 #saw 3 #saw character study #character study #headcanons

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asterdust · 6 months

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BEST FUCKING QUEER HORROR SHOW I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE WITH A REALLY GOOD CAST

#shadow the series #WHERE IS SINGTO'S OSCAR WHERE IS SINGTO'S OSCAR #as a gay horror fan this is my new roman empire #CANT WAIT FOR PART 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!#and then there was one bed??? old and cliche #and then There Was Monsterfucking. innovative. never seen before. advanced.#singto prachaya #fluke natouch #fiat patchata #shadow 2023 #queer metaing #on homosexual repression: a study

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jaxie101 · 6 months

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the hunger games has been my roman empire since i read when it when i was 10 and here are all of my smaller empires bc this has always been my favourite series ever:

the tributes being treated to a life of luxury both as a “last meal” sort of thing and as a way to make them more vulnerable for the games. keeping them well fed before the games so the starvation hits harder

peeta repeatedly calling himself a mutt after katniss does :(

katniss’ ptsd

katniss being such an unreliable narrator

when cato realised he’s just as much of a toy as the rest of the kids

when gale says he should’ve volunteered in peeta’s place. NOT for peeta, not to save him the trauma, the injuries or his torture, and not to save katniss and to be there for her, PURELY bc he knew that getting hurt would get her attention.

GALE GETTING MAD AT KATNISS FOR KISSING SOMEONE TO STAY ALIVE. EVEN 10 YEAR OLD ME WAS LIKE ??

peeta’s “real or not real” and how easily katniss accepts it as his way of recovery

how perfect katniss’ character was. i was a little girl and i wanted to be exactly like her when i grew up. she wasn’t the cliche “doesn’t need anyone accepts this specific guy that will always save her” she saved peeta, and some times peeta saves her

probably the overdramatic english lit nerd in me but katniss’ hair going from intricate braids to messy ponytails

(tw sex assault) in the books katniss was terrified that peeta was going to be r&ped, for some reason that’s always stuck with me

what happened to finnick

how well written and realistic the books were. peeta loses his leg to the infection, katniss loses her hearing in one ear, finnick suffers from extreme ptsd and it shows in district 13, peeta not being an easy fix. he still suffers years later, but he slowly pieces himself back together. Johanna’s anger, people often don’t like the fact that ptsd DOES make you angry, haymitch’s backstory and effie’s growth.

the mutt’s have the dead kids eyes in the first games

#when i was 11 i asked for a second copy of the first book and sat and highlighted my favourite parts #little me was HOOKED #the hunger games #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #finnick odair #effie trinket #haymitch abernathy #johanna mason

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de4dlyniightshade · 3 months

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could you do spencer giving reader his shoes when he notices how her feet started hurting from wearing heels for a while? i hope this makes sense

(this is my first time requesting lol but i really love your work 💗)

꩜ PAIRING: spencer reid x afab!reader

꩜ RATING: none

꩜ WARNINGS/CONTAINS!: none, just domestic fluff

A/N: matthew offering that girl his shoes is my roman empire and i did cry.

you should've listened, you really should have but you just hated when he was right, which was already a score of about 2763547-1 to him so just this once you wanted to prove a genius wrong and now you were experiencing the consequences of your own actions.

you thought you were playing off your pain well and disguising the very obvious limp you had going on but truthfully, spencer noticed about fifteen minutes ago, he wasn't ignoring your pain because he didn't care, he did, very much, he just wanted to see if you would admit that he was right. he really should've known better, you would never admit he was right, especially when it was such a cliche.

"spence, hold on, i need to fix my shoe" you lied, slowing your hurried footsteps to keep up with him to a stop and leaning on a wall for support as you adjusted your heel, forcing your foot off the bottom to alleviate some of the throbbing pain.

you heard spencer let out a heavy sigh, looking uo at him to see him looking back at you with an "i told you so" look on his face but you refused to crack.

"i'm fine, it was just wonky, my feet are fine" you lied again, spencer deepening that look on his face before shaking his head and crouching down on his knee, reaching for his already tied shoelace and beginning to untie it.

"spence, i mean it, i'm fine" you tried to bargain but he just wordlessly continued, moving onto the other shoe before standing to step on the heels to get them off, revealing one pink sock and one with cats on it.

"nice socks" you joked as spencer picked up his shoes and held them out to you, "put them on, please" he asked softly.

"i do not need your shoes, i am fine." you said, enunciating every word to sound sure of yourself but he saw right through it, sighing again as he moved to stand right in front of you, dropping on one knee again and grabbing your ankle to lift your foot.

"you don't have to admit i was right but i won't see you in pain" he mumbled as he unbuckled your heel, sliding it off your foot and you had to resist sighing in pure relief as you felt the heavenly material of his beat up converse slide onto your foot.

spencer stood up and brushed down his pants after putting his other shoe on your foot and trying them both so they wouldn't go anywhere, offering you a sweet smile.

"thanks..." you mumbled, practically admitting he was right and he had to hold back that shit eating grin he always gave you when he was right, instead offering his hand that wasn't holding those evil shoes to you.

"come on, we're almost home anyway"

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ur-dad-satan · 2 months

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Subby OM bois are my Roman Empire 😔

I need to make them beg. On their knees. Flushed. Pleading to let them cum. Damp hair and a layer of sweat painting their skin.

I want to tease Lucifer until he lets go of his pride and beg me to let him cum.

I want to edge Mammon until he's gasping for air; every touch lighter than a feather but making him jump because he's so fucking close.

I need Levi to whimper for me like the little slut I know he is. Make him look at me and just smile and watch him try to hide in overstimulation.

I need to bend Satan over and use him like a fuck toy. Put him in the cat maid outfit and make him scream.

I need to fuck Asmo till he screams. Make him cum oh so many times. I'm talking sweat covered, toe curling, eyes watering, sheet gripping, needs a minute to catch his breath, body shaking, orgasms.

I want Beel on his knees, hands behind his back, face buried between my legs. Spit dripping down his chin and onto his chest because he's such a good boy who will do anything for MC.

I need Belphie's face buried in the sheets as muffled moans and a bit of drool drip from his mouth. I need him overwhelmed and begging so loudly for me.

I need -and I cannot stress this enough- Diavolo to be in his demon form, in nothing but a thin layer of sweat, on his knees, worshipping me.

I know this is cliche, but I want to see just how much I can order Barbs around. I want to push him to his limit and see just how I can make him BEG.

For Solomon, I feel like you just need to praise him a little bit. He's already pretty subby, but just butter him up a little bit and he'll be at your every beck and call in the best way. Anything for his cute little apprentice.

I want to break Simeon in the unholiest way possible. I want to be the cause of his sin. I want to make him sweat, make him moan, make him swear. I want to have him on his knees, around my pinky. I need him in the most carnal way possible. I want him so bad.

I wish they were real 😔

#obey me smut #obey me!#obey me brothers #obey me undateables #obey me lucifer #obey me mammon #obey me leviathan #obey me satan #obey me asmodeus #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphegor #obey me diavolo #obey me barbatos #obey me simeon #obey me solomon #hornyposting

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collapsedsquid · 2 months

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Got a little recent local landmark that was destroyed by some weather recently, there were some calls by people to replace it but the answer from the city was "I'm not going to pay for it."

Landmark isn't really that important, can see the argument that it's not worth replacing, wasn't really important to me personally but feels little sad to me when that happens. Get the sense that would it really be that much of a burden to replace it? Get the cliche "fall of the roman empire" vibes whenever something like that happens, could build it before but not now, guess we're all poorer.

So I think I've decided when I am president I want to assure my voters that I will set aside a national fund to fund replacements for your local large animal sculptures and world's largest household objects.

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productofaritual · 5 months

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My Roman Empire?

AI writing.

And I don't mean that in the "it should die and it's stealing jobs and faking schoolwork" Way. (Tho that too)

I mean when you get a writing AI to write a part of a story.

And you can tell how dead it is.

(Larry's about to go on a poetic ramble so explanation under cut :D)

I don't really know how to explain it okay. You just look at this text that's supposed to have life and it doesn't. And it's fucking horrifying.

I've been on ao3 okay. I've been on wattpad. I have a three door closet and like four boxes of books that I've read. I know. How writing feels. When a person does it. Professional and published or random author on ao3, they're all people. It sounds poetic and cliche yes, but there's truth to the whole "you leave a bit of yourself when you write". You do. In every character, every environment every interaction every description that you write? In every small mistake you make? There's a bit of yourself hidden between the lines. You use set words and rules for grammar and whateverthefuck to express yourself but in the end it's you who gives those words meaning. Who makes them come to life. Without a person, words have a definition, sure. But they don't have a true meaning. They are supposed to mean something, but it's those feelings of people who write them that make the words truly alive.

And AI can never replicate the feelings of a person who's writing their story. It uses words, but it doesn't understand what they mean. It uses words because their definition fits the scene, but it can never make those words feel alive. It uses words, but to it, those words mean nothing.

Sure. At some point it might be perfected so much that we won't be able to tell the difference between something a human wrote and something an AI wrote. But there will always be a difference.

The words of AI can never be alive because it's us, the writers, the people, who can give them life.

#i told you it was a poetic ramble #also #fuck ai everything #fuck ai #fuck ai writing #ai #ai writing #and fuck ai art too that mf can go die in a ditch #im w the artists on this one gen ai out of our jobs #rambles #my roman empire

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mask131 · 10 months

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Simple facts about Ancient Egypt (1)

Since I am making posts about the gods of Ancient Egypt, I realized maybe some of my followers were unfamiliar with how Ancient Egypt worked - or maybe their head was still filled with Hollywood-projected stereotypes and cliches about this ancient realm. So I decided to make this little series in parallel - where I will present to you several basic, fun, bizarre or fundamental facts, trivia and anecdotes about Ancient Egypt.

Note that these are MASSIVELY oversimplified facts and trivia. I am not an expert on Ancient Egypt and I am not giving a class here - I am just sharing some basic facts and trivia, simplified to better have a grasp of the topic. Some things may be inaccurate, or others may be outdated (my source stop at the early 2010s). So be warned.

Ancient Egypt roughly stayed the same shape during its entire history because it has a set of natural frontiers. In the north, the Mediterranean sea. in the south, there were the cataracts of Nile. In the east, it was the Arabian desert, and in the west, the Lybian desert. Egypt was stuck right in the middle.

We could begin Egypt’s history with its prehistory, in 9000 BCE. Nomads were living then in what is today Egypt - but it didn’t look like the Egypt we know today. In this time heavy rains fell regularly, there was a true savannah where the desert is today, and lots of animals were living here - allowing men to survive through hunting. Around 6000 BCE, there was a sudden climate change. The rains stopped falling, there was a massive drought, the savannah slowly turned into a desert, and the anmals fled to more southern areas of Africa. Men had to find another way of surviving and began agriculture - they stopped their nomading ways, settled around the Nile river, and started creating their first buildings and creating their first fields. From this point on, it took them eight centuries roughly to get out from “prehistory” and enter into “history”, as they created their own writing system, their own architectural style, and their own irrigation system.

For the Egyptians of old, Egypt was divided into two areas, each with their own color. There was Kemi, the Black Land, which was the fertile area surrounding the river Nile ; and there was the Red Land, which was the more desertic areas of Egypt. Ancient Egypt was basically perceived as an 800 kilometers long oasis, right in the middle of an even bigger desert. This cultural division also echoed another division of Egypt: a political one. For a very long time, Ancient Egypt was divided into two different countries: Upper Egypt in the south, which was the area of the Valley of Egypt, and organized around a small patch of cultivable lands surrounded by the desert. In the north, you had Lower Egypt, which was the Delta, a swampy triangle where the papyrus grew. It might confuse people as to why the “lower” is in the north and “upper” in the south - but it was because these divisions were made based on the Nile and how it flowed. Since it took its source in the south and then flowed all the way to the north, for the Egyptians the south was the “upper” area and the north the “lower” one.

The first real towns in Egypt only appeared around 3500 BCE. Before that, Egyptians lived n huts of mud, straw and reeds, clustered in small villages on mounds (to avoid the floodings).

According to scientific studies, Egypt had 1,5 millions inhabitants in 3000 BCE, 3 millions under Ramses II, and 5 millions under Cleopatra.

In 3032 BCE, the prince Narmer managed to unify Upper and Lower Egypt into one same realm - this is the start of what we know as Ancient Egypt, which lasted for three thousand years, all the way until the Roman conquest of 30 BCE. Egypt’s history is divided into three main eras of peace and prosperity: the Kingdoms as they are called in English (fun fact, in French we call them “Empires”). Between each Kingdom, there were periods of political and social troubles, usually called the intermediate periods. In total there were 31 different dynasties of pharaohs that ruled over Egypt.

The chronology of Ancient Egypt roughly goes as such (I will avoid datation because nobody agrees on them): Early Dynastic Period (the first dynasties and the first times of a unified Egypt), then the Old Kingdom, then a first intermediate period, than the Middle Kingdom, then a second intermediate period, then the New Kingdom, than a third ntermediate period (the biggest of the three), followed by the Late Period and Egypt, which then gave place (without any intermediate period) to the Greco-Roman era of Egypt.

The Old Kingdom ended because there was a period of several years where the annual flooding was too weak, causing bad harvest and famines. The nomarchs, the leaders of the 42 provinces of Egypt (we’ll talk about them later) took over the power, each becoming the absolute lord of their own regon, and fought against each other for the stocks of wheat. It was a true chaos, that only took end when a new pharaoh took over the power and managed to bring back peace between the different provinces: it was the start of the Middle Kingdom. A Middle Kingdom which fell when the Hyksos, ferocious warriors coming from Syria, invaded Egypt - a new Kingdom could only form once they were banished and pushed away out of Egypt’s frontiers. As for the New Kingdom, it was often said to be a “colossus with clay feet”, becaue it was the most brilliant, splendid and famous era of Egypt - the one of Ramses II and Tutankhamun... But all of Egypt’s riches at the time came from its neighboring lands, various nations Egypt had colonized and was stealing from: Nubia, Lybia, Syria... In 1000 BCE, Egypt lost all of its colonies, and thus lost all of its wealth, marking an end to the New Kingdom. The state couldn’t pay its staff and employees anymore - and they had a LOT, since the state was the one who paid the priests, the craftsmen and the scrbes of the land. Since people weren’t paid there were massive strikes - if you forgive the anachronism - and the state officials even went as far as to steal from the peasants, or to crack open the graves of the pharaohs to pillage their treasures!

And all of that is without counting the numerous troubles when it cames to the dynasties. The rule was that, when the pharaoh was dying, the political power would go to one of his sons, or to a member of his family. But very often army generals, province governors, or vizirs made a move to take the crown for themselves - resulting in the thirty or so different dynasties ruling over Egypt. The third intermediate period was the worst of them all, with up five different pharaohs ruling simultaneously!

The pharaohs were the rulers of Ancient Egypt, controlling the government, the justice system, the armies and religion. Their crown went from father to son, and they were considered by their subjects to be living gods - the pharaohs were each the direct descendants of Ra, the creator deity and sun-god, and they were thought to be the embodiments of Horus, the king-god and sky-god. In the Egyptian mind, the pharaohs was the guardian of order on earth, and their presence (and job) was all about bringing happiness, safety and prosperity to the Egyptian people. The pharaoh was so feared and so respected people did not dare touch him, believing it would cause them misfortunes. However, in echange for such a power, the pharaoh was made responsible of the various disasters and events of meteorological natures. For example, it was considered that the flooding of the Nile depended of the power and actions of the pharaoh, and if there was a drought, he was held responsible.

The pharaoh had a given set of items he was supposed to wear during official ceremonies - the most famous of them being the crook and the flail he had in each hands. The crook, originally used by shepherds to guide their flock, was his scepter and the symbol of royalty, while the flail, which was an agricultural device, symbolized fertility (that the pharaoh was supposed to bring). The pharaoh also had a large number of crowns to chose from. You have seen all the crowns pharaohs are depicted with: the one entirely red is the crown of Lower-Egypt (in the north), while the entirely white one is the one of Upper-Egypt (in the south) - and there was one double-crown, uniting these two crowns in one, worn by the pharaoh to symbolize the united Egypt. But the Upper-Egypt crown wasn’t to be confused with another white crown, which had a round and golden tip, which was the atef crown, the usual symbol of the god Osiris - plus there was alaos a blue crown, which was a war-crown. And on most of these crowns you will find a little ornament depicting a cobra - it was the uraeus, which was supposed to be the divine protection offered by the gods to the pharaoh. If anyone tried to attack him, it was believed this little snake would breathe fire on the assaillant or jump on them to bite them with a deadly poison. Oh yes, and who could forget the fake beard that all pharaohs tied with strings to their chin - this was supposed to symbolize the divine origin and divine nature of their power.

The pharaoh wasn’t the only one governing Egypt of course: he usually delegated his powers to his ministers. The most important member of the government after the pharaoh was the vizir - a sort of “super-minister” whose job was to take in charge the budget and wealth of the state, take care of the taxes and their payment, control the annual production of the peasants, overseeing the courts of justice and the national archivs, as well as being the chief of the “police” of the time. It was many, many jobs for one man - so much that Egypt soon switched from one to two vizirs, one for the north and one for the south. Beyond the vizir, there were also numerous other ministers - one for the taxes, one for the collect and storage of grains and cereals, one for the cattle, one for messages, one for foreign business, etc, etc... Of course, the stereotype of the “evil, scheming, ambitious vizir” doesn’t come from nowhere - many times in Egyptian history vizirs have tried to control young or weak pharaohs, or to usurp the pharaoh’s place, sometimes going as far as to kill a pharaoh and marry his widow.

To help the pharaoh govern Egypt, the land was divided into 42 provinces called the “nomes” (not to be confused with L. Frank Baum’s fictional creation), and each nome was under the control of a powerful nobleman, called the “nomarch” (not the monarch, the nomarch). Each nomarch was chosen by the pharaoh to rule for him each nome - but with time, the nomarchs ended up transmitting their title from father to son, instead of waiting for the pharaoh to choose a new nomarch. This made them grow more and more powerful, until they ended up declaring themselves the kings of their own provinces. As I said before, this is why the Old Kingdom fell, as it was fragmented into 42 little kingdoms that kept feuding and bickering between each other.

When it comes to justice, criminals were usually punished by being beaten up by the police with sticks. For the first crimes and lesser crimes are least... If a criminal was caught several times doing a same crime, or was guilty of a major offense, they were sent to work in mines, quarries or construction sites. The worst part was that, in such a case, their entire family was sent with them to work alongside them - their wife, their parents, their aunts, their cousins, even their children! But in return, no mistake or corruption in the justice system was tolerated: if the pharaoh ever discovered that an innocent was declared guilty, the judges would be punished by having their ears or their nose cut off.

The palace of the pharaoh was at the same time a personal place for him to live, his house, but also a public and official building where he received the various princes and ambassies of foreign powers. It was also of course where all of the advisors of the pharaohs lived - alongside the great magistrates, the higher ups of the army, the scholars, artists and architects of the pharaoh, as well as the great priests. We know the palaces were superb and beautiful, with magnificent paitings everywhere, columns all red, blue or green, with colorful statues and gold ornaments everywhere - but unfortunately not much of it survived today. Of course, the pharaoh never had just one palace: each pharaoh had several palaces throughout the land, and if one wanted to entertain himelf, he just had to go on his gold-and-gem incrusted boat and travel through the Nile to one of his other palaces. And of course, no need to say that the pharaoh had to be VERY careful around his court - as many plots and schemes took place, trying to usurp him. Vizirs were often the guilty parties, but sometimes other members of the palace attempt to harm the king’s life or power - for example one of his concubines of the harem! Rumor says that Ramses II, having grown invalid with age, was murdered by one of his concubines who wanted to put her son on the throne...

Each pharaoh had in his palace a harem, a place where the secondary wives of the pharaoh lived. For each pharaoh had multiple wives: there was one official wife, the queen that ruled alongside the king and played an active and important part in the court, and a host of secondary wives who lived in the harem. Interestingly, while the “harem” conjures up the image of young and naked women piled up on beds for the pharaoh’s sexual pleasure, in truth this was the living place of all the concubines of the pharaoh... an of their children! Yep, the kids of the concubines and secondary wives of the pharaoh were raised in the harem and lived alongside their mothers.

Interestingly, while the tradition was that a pharaoh could only have ONE “great wife”, “grand wife”, “official wife”, “queen of Egypt”, call her however you like, some pharaohs broke the rule from time to time - most notably Ramses II, who had eight official wives co-ruling alongside him at the same time as queens of Egypt. And some of them... were his daughters. I think this is a good way to end this quick reminder post: the thing everybody should know about Egyptian pharaohs is that they practiced incest. On a theological level, it was because the pharaohs were like the gods, descendants of the gods, gods incarnate, and thus could do just like the gods, marry in their family. On a more practical level, it was a tradition to “keep the power inside the family” and strengthen each dynasty by it having only one bloodline. This resulted in many, MANY pharaohs actually taking as wives either their sister, or one of their daughters! And in return, the widow of a pharaoh could very easily take in a second marriage her husband’s brother, without any problem whatsoever.

#ancient egypt #pharaoh

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skitskatdacat63 · 10 months

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are there any other historical figures you like I'm intrigued 👀

Okay buckle in, somehow this post will be weirder than any of my f1 stuff bcs for some reason I'm very intense about historical figures, I think I just have a tendency to treat them like blorbos

Mostly I'm endeared to powerful figures, idk why, it's the way it is. Okay so obviously you already know I like Napoleon(and Wellington to an extent), that really doesn't need to be emphasized anymore

Since being in Austria, I feel super endeared to Maria Theresa. She just seemed like such a boss! I think she's just really cool. Her father changed the plan of succession so she'd become Empress(rather than her cousins), but immediately upon taking power, she was immediately embroiled in war over her being the new ruler(everyone who had signed the treaty of succession suddeny reversed) But she defended her rule of the Habsburg monarchy! I think the coolest part about her is that her husband, who married into the Habsburgs, was supposed to be in charge, but she wouldn't let him be involved at all practically and was the de facto ruler of the Holy Roman Empire for like 20 years. She had 16 children and was basically constantly pregnant and having kids while involved in war, yet still held power and guided Austro-Hungary through it all 🥹 I think it's very funny also that she was laying out so many reforms, guiding the country basically just herself, and still found time to write letters to all their kids and be an overbearing mother. Also she was Marie Antoinette's mother?? I'm still shocked by how many important kids she had. If you've been to any part of the former Austro-Hungarian(+ Bohemian) Empire, she really left her mark, there's soooo much stuff named after her. The statue of her in between the Kunsthistorisches and the Natural History Museum in Vienna is really cool, and that she has a whole Platz named after her with her giant statue!!! I think it's just really admirable that a woman at that period of time had so much power and ruled so efficiently. (MY god sorry I wrote so much)

Okay now I'll try to refrain from the historical rambles, I also like: Julius Caeser(cliche sorry I know), Dmitri Shostakovich(my favorite composer ever), Pyotr Tchaikovsky(pls read about his sugar mommy patron), Erwin Rommel(I like his nickname: The Desert Fox), J.C. Leyendecker(favorite artist, I am obsessed with his work), Alphonse Mucha, Calvin Coolidge(not the best president by far but the anecdotes about his social awkwardness and quietness are hilarious to me), Ernst Gideon von Laudon(not completely insane about him, but it's like with the Napoleon Crossing the Alps painting, I saw a painting and bust of him and now feel weirdly endeared.) And then there's probably some others I can't recall atm because it's 3 am

I think my top three though are Napoleon, Julius Caesar and Maria Theresa. They're all just very: "Catie saw a painting/statue and is now very weird about it." And then being in the vicinity of so much history made it 1000x worse. Things I saw in Vienna that made me go "oh my god it's blorbo from my history book": Napoleon Crossing The Alps painting(I seriously sat in that room for probably 20 mins just staring at it, I didn't want to leave) + some other various Napoleon artifacts in the Heeresgesichtliche, a very nice bust of Julius Caesar, and literally the entirety of Vienna had Maria Theresa everywhere

#i said before but i do think its funny to have historical blorbos bcs it makes people go 'what is wrong with you'#all my friends on that trip soon learned my napoleon obsession once we stepped in that museum....#you guys are learning too much about my psyche between this and the OC posts #you thought I was unhinged only about F1? dont worry. it gets worse.#i just like reading and then holding info i guess so i can go on random rants #and history is the best to read about!!#mostly though im incapable of being normal about anything i have to be unhinged about it #but gahhhhhh im having actually a lot a lot of fun with all the napoleon stuff lately #thank you guys for encouraging me <3 #for some reason that era imprinted on my brain and its always there and i cant escape #so being able to use it and indulge in it is so much fun #also i found this random person's blog and they are way more knowledgeable abt Napoleon than me #i was having so much fun reading through their blog and learning!!!!#anyways yes here pls take my rambling this one is especially bad #why did you have to ask 😭 you dont know what you unleashed in me 😭😭😭#* gotta add #the napoleon thing is sooooooo bad #like ill see a tiny ref to him and ill get all 😍 about it #like i think one time in Russian we were reading names of historical figures in cyrillic #and i saw napoleon and i like had such a 'gasping maiden' moment #WHY AM I LIKE THIS WHY DID MY BRAIN DO THIS TO ME #i dont get it either so dont question it JDKFLGLG #i mentioned but someone asked me 'so why do you like napoleon so much' and im just ?????? i dont choose what i brainrot over.#catie.asks.#catie.rambling.txt #sorry its late and i feel deranged #no FPs for me! too busy and too tired

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salvatoreren · 6 months

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I finally watched AOT's last episode and frankly, I am not okay, I have been sobbing a river oh my fucking god.

Anyways, it was really good, as expected of MAPPA anyway, I was pretty much crying the whole episode actually.

I have complaints, mostly because of the not included anime, little things like not having the flashbacks of Armin of reading a book in the rain, the squirrels etc. etc. I would have love to see them in the market and the way to the boy who sought freedom, goodbye was not implemented, I WAS WAITING FOR THAT COME ON

The anime only scenes were good too, like Levi giving food to the refugees, falco and gabi, i wish we saw their outfits tho, they slayed with that one.

the way they played 13 no fuyu, im killing myself, ive been listening to that shit since 2022 which mind you was when i was active once more in aot, the fucking flashbacks my god, that was so tragic RAHHH

i also saw aot's op, EREN WITH A BOW? EREN WITH A BOW!!! MIND YOU I JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE HUNGER GAMES SO IMMEDIATELY IM LIKE YES YES IT'S GIVING KATNISS EVERDEEN, WITH WHAT HIM BEING HUMANITY'S HOPE, ESP WITH THE FIRE COMING OUT OF IT FORMING A BIRD

THE SAME BIRD WE SAW ON S4 ENDING 1, oh my god, the opening was really cool omg, it perfectly showcased eren's journey, what he went through, despite being absent in the final chapters, it still showed Eren was still the protagonist...Which isayama did not understand when he made 139

Yes, I am bitter still with the ending, no, I am not hearing anyone out and no, I am not going to pour my disappointments with it STILL, here because yeah.

It's such a shame that's the last and final time we'll ever see it, devastating tragedy omg.

ARMIN AND EREN'S FINAL INTERACTION, IM GLAD THEY MADE THEM HOLD HANDS, THANK YOU MAPPA, PLS THE WAY THEY'LL BE TOGETHER FOREVER AND WILL BE WAITING FOR EACH OTHER IN HELL, GAGGED, IM DEAD, MY ROMAN EMPIRE FOR REAL

Now that's out of the way.

It's been a long and fun ride, regardless, the final season has been going for what three years, i've been with this series for three years, it was fun really it was, this series took such a simplistic and cliched approach then twisted into something more complex and truly gutwrenching. 2020 was nothing without AOT, in my opinion, watching AOT broadened my media consumption, yanked me into the anime world and i already have so many fandoms i'm in.

2020 was a hard time too, i couldn't have done it without this bloody series, god, i remember aboarding the train hype, everything was everywhere, fics, art, videos, memes etc. All those I read influenced my writing style, all those theories made me think more critically, those memes and videos of it made me laugh. It's funny how a series like this one comforted me so much.

I remember being so traumatized by the first episode i'm like who the fuck would ever like this series with this much blood and that night i immediately searched for eren fics because i was like who is this boy i like him, i fucking dreamt of the beast titan, all those nights racing with my sister who could finish the series first, i literally woke up at 4 just to watch it before she could.

Fucking terrified which of my favorite characters were going to die next, literally sobbing over armin's death, god and the mindfuck with Marley and Eldians and Subjects of Ymir in the fray oh my god.

Can I just say, I wouldn't be who I was without AOT? Even with my cynical behavior, it's all because of it.

2021 who i never fail to reiterate and think fondly is good because of AOT as well, I figured wow, the final season is coming back, I should rewatch it again and so the hyperfixation began, i was sick too, almost dying too actually, dengue is dangerous and it was just a fond memory because i was watching aot and i acted like i never had watch these scenes in my life and despite feeling like dying i felt okay.

I was so batshit crazy when part 2 came out, that was the one that was actually peak AOT don't lie, I was literally screaming like i was giving birth OVER AN OPENING AND AN ENDING, i'll never forget any of it.

When I cried watching the whole episode, it really just occurred to me that this is really the end for AOT, i was only ever able to go through it because I have the anime and it what really kept the whole fandom alive, the anime's honestly the reason why it had this many fans as you can see.

And again the way it's heartwrenching for it to just be a simple series and then it's full blown war, jean and reiner holding out to each other, remembering how they used to be close and comrades then betrayals and war happened and it's all ruined.

The devastating realization of seeing the last few panels animated, watching the end flash through the screen, realizing there was nothing out of this now, no more next episodes, no more hype, it's gone and it's so devastating because how happy it made you, the way you'll never see these characters again, only in rewatches or art. But it's not the same.

I admit I don't feel as hyperfixated over it now, after getting burnt out of it last year, even good things go badly sadly and i was just here for eren now, but doesn't change the fact this series has nurtured my quarantine, i grew up with this series even if it was only recent, who changed the trajectory of my life and had me find my paths.

I'll never forget these characters who made my life, who brought life to the story, even if they were just moved by the plot now, i'll always have a soft spot for AOT, i will always love it, regardless how much i hate it, there will always be fondness within it.

It's kind of weird, really to see Levi who has done so much to the fandom just by existing and being drawn and animated now cease to exist? I suppose, looking at him feels weird like imagine comparing 2014 levi to 2023 levi now omg, that's where you really begin to realize how much time has passed and how much AOT has evolved AGAIN JKSDHJ

well, i'm still on eren's side, still hate what happened to him but i'll always love him, he is such an important character to me, i don't think i truly ever loved someone like him despite representing the total opposite of me, he just had that charm i suppose, his views are so hauntingly beautiful, idealistic, him representing hope, despite what he did, in the end he did what he could for himself and for his people IN MY HUMBLE ONION

eren yeager i'll always love you

i'm kinda scared what would happen to this fandom now, will it die now? Will it live? I doubt, I haven't even finished my eren fic and lol, either way i hope someone will still enjoy AOT, i hope still there will be new watchers.

This is long but this is just how I really feelt about AOT which I wholeheartedly do love and cherish with all the memories and the pain it gave.

Thank you Isayama for this world, for these characters, for these mindblowing revelations about war, life and freedom, for the heartaches and the joy.

Thank you WIT for raising AOT and truly breathing life to it, for garnering fans for it to be more appreciated.

Thank you MAPPA for continuing WIT's legacy, you are not the same but still delievered, thank you for carrying the final season and the fandom on your back, may you sleep well and have your deserved pay.

Thank you for the voice actors who breathed those memorable lines to be used in edits.

Thank you Linked Horizon for coming back, aot was iconic because of your openings.

Thank you AOT for everything.

#shingeki no kyojin #snk #aot #attack on titan #thank you aot #thank you isayama

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jiminrings · 7 months

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Hi hi! Honestly my Roman Empires lately have been nine to five and take five, I need more if the “why are we together” angst even though I just reread the patreon extensions (and cliche Drabble for ntf) and just cried lol you just write angst so well!!! Also let them grovel, no forgiveness for the near future haha

i’m sorry for making u cry but at the same time it warms my heart THANK YEWWWWW <3 this is noted i Will make them grovel .

#answered #ntf feed

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tsarisfanfiction · 1 year

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Okay so i didn't see the questions i was looking for or missed so original questions ahead

~If you could slap someone from TOA (not Zeus) who would you pick? If you could hug someone from TOA (not Apollo) who would you hug?

~Which overused cliches ot tropes you can't get enough of?

~If protagnists' of the last book you read was put in the last game you played how much trouble they would be in?

~If any other god/godess from Greek/Roman pantheon could get their own version of TAO which god/godess you would pick?

~You find yourself 30 years into future and you're allowed to google one thing before going back to your time, what would google?

Well those are some unusual and unexpected questions - but also fascinating ones!

Let's go through these in order...

If I could slap someone from TOA (who isn't Zeus), who would I pick? Immediately narrowed this down to the Triumvirate because they're all assholes who would deserve it. I think I'll go with Nero, though - he's the most persistently irritating one (although Caligula comes very close with his Jason-killing)

If I could hug someone from TOA (who isn't Apollo), who would I pick? Will. I mean, if I can have more than one answer I'm adding Austin and Kayla to the mix, but come on, Will needs that hug so badly. So badly. And I know he has Nico to provide them already but that isn't going to stop me from supplying more.

Which overused tropes/clichés can't I get enough of? Hurt/Comfort in general, especially on the whump front, but someone getting hurt shielding someone else with their body and the panic that comes after it is so, so good. I need to do more of that it's been a while... eyes my newest potential victim. You. You fit.

If the protagonists of the last book I read were put in the last game I played, how much trouble would they be in? Okay, last book I read was Rick Riordan's Daughter of the Deep (which is absolutely fantastic 10/10 highly recommend). Last game I played was Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. ...It would depend what map the kids were on, really. Any of the land-based maps (which is most of them), then they'd probably struggle a little but they're resourceful, tenacious and very intelligent so I figure they'd manage to conquer the map given enough time. Any of the sea-based maps they would thrive - after all, that's basically the same premise as their canon book!

If any other god or goddess from the Greco-Roman pantheon could be included in Riordanverse, which would I pick? Actually a hard question because Rick's covered most of the ones I know pretty substantially. The one that springs to mind for me is Eris, the goddess of discord and in some versions of mythology, Ares' sister. It would be very interesting finding ways to integrate her into the existing dynamics we know exist, especially with Ares himself!

If I was sent 30 years into the future and was allowed to google one thing before being sent back, what would I google? Hmm... That would be 2053 which is certainly a decent chunk into the future! I don't think I'd want to google anything about events or anything because then I'd be stuck with future knowledge I can't do anything else about. I might just google some niche osteoarchaeological question to see what the future makes of it compared to now. That seems like a safe enough thing to have foreknowledge of, right..?

#Anonymous #ask me #not fic

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kookaburra1701 · 1 year

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I was tagged by @thana-topsy thank you friend<3<3<3

RULES: answer the questions then tag some folx you want to get to know better/catch up with.

Last Song: Because I am a cliche I pretty much exclusively listen to Synthwave while working (coding.) I was in the middle of listening to Casio Love by Paul Collider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQcX6ih9tFk

Last Show : Cells at Work! Code Black - let me tell you I have NEVER been invested in a dude getting a boner as I was by the climax (HEH) of episode 3 and I write and read a lot of M/M fics.

Currently Watching: I'm working my way through all of Max Miller's Tasting History videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlQZ3NPnoLk&list=PLIkaZtzr9JDkNXTsFck0w9CFVF0U-zPlV

Currently Reading: I have ADHD, so I'm almost always reading more than one thing. Non-Fanfic: I'm reading a fan translation of the BL LN "The Otherworld's Books Depend on the Corporate Slave." It's kind of a send-up of the isekai genre (which I usually avoid like the plague) where the main protagonist is a boring accountant who accidentally got dragged along when the Beautiful Magical Teenage Girl was sucked into a portal to the other universe. He's very genre aware and is very exasperated at the teenage girl who keeps falling for all the tropes of the isekai genre. He ends up saving the otherworld with his awesome accounting skills, and must have a lot of sex with the other love interest who in a normal isekai would be the one romancing the Beautiful Magical Teen Girl. It's absolutely bananacrackers and I'm having lots of fun reading through it. Fanfic: Hollow Men by @thana-topsy Tells the story of a Thalmor POW's escape from the clutches of the LDB, and his road to recovery. Like Lightning by JottingProsaist - this fic is single-handedly changing my mind about second-person POV. It's incredibly well-done, and gives the reader a fantastic, intimate insight into different characters' thoughts and motivations. The Prodigal Dragonborn by @ms-katonic-of-tamriel A delightful Lucien Flavius/Miraak romp around Solstheim and Skyrim. If anyone can make Miraak Be Better it's Our Dear Cinnamon Roll Lucien Flavius. Stumbled across this one while desperately searching for M/M fic featuring Lucien. The Bonds of Civility by @nientedenada - Just started this one, but super-enjoying the hasty decision-making by the LDB having massive political fallout, and all of the intrigue that goes along with it.

Current Obsession: The Elder Scrolls. Uh, if we're getting more specific I'm deep into plotting and outlining a massive Lucien Flavius/Kaidan Chivalric Romance trilogy. I'm also polishing up the first draft of a prequel focusing on Lucien and his first few days in Skyrim, so I guess Lucien is my current TES obsession?

Unrelated Obsession: Fiber arts - but this ends up being related to my TES obsession, lol, since I'm currently working on charting out some Elder Scrolls designs for knitting and Tunisian crochet, and also traditional embroidery samplers that might have been done by various cultures in TES. I also love history, especially Roman Empire history, but not in the weird "Julius Caesar did nothing wrong" crypto-fash way but in the "ha ha Diocletian's big naturals (are cabbages)" way. (shoutout to @dwellerinroots for that joke) Also in the "I need to figure out if subligaculae can be untied with one's teeth for historical smut purposes" way. I also have an entire subdirectory on my computer of all the dicks Ancient Romans drew everywhere they went.

Uh, I'm actually writing this while waiting for a pipeline script to finish troubleshooting so no time to sort through and see who's already been tagged, but if you want to do it please do! I love learning more about people. :)

#tag game

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ughmyreality · 2 months

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do you have any tips to share on writing?

Hey, thank you for asking. I'm no stickler for grammar or a linguistic expert, so keep that in mind. This will also be a lowkey long post because I genuinely appreciate that you asked! It makes me feel like I know what I'm doing. I will say however, just start writing. Don't worry if something isn't "correct" because the reality is many of the so-called rules of grammar aren't even rules, but rather suggestions. People who truly enjoy what you write aren't going to be in utter shock because you made mistakes. I'm sure this post is littered with mistakes but it's the thought that matters.

I think it's also important to develop your own writing style. For example, I personally don't like wasting time writing things like, This person said "this" or "blah blah blah" she said. Because if you know who's in the conversation, I feel there's no point and it gets overly redundant repeating who's speaking. Decide what you like to do and stick to it. Others, much to my dismay, might not put quotations around anything. I think as long as someone can tell you know what you're doing then everything else can be put on the back burner.

If your goal is to be a professional writer on the other hand, just know that there are certain things you'll need to know and others that are irrelevant. Try not to get bogged down by the endless information you'll find. Like how 'dog' is the morpheme of 'dogs', how they advise that you don't end a sentence with a preposition, or don't split an infinitive even though it's done all the time (to quickly go) which is not inherently incorrect. Instead, I'd suggest looking at someone else's work and analyzing that. If you can detect things then you will be able to write them. Try identifying the parts of speech and how it's being used. You might even find that somethings come naturally, especially if what you're reading is in your native tongue, because it's apart of your innate grammar.

As far as coming up with ideas, don't shy away from getting inspiration from else where. I feel like there's a lowkey negative connotation to the idea of getting inspired by other's work but that doesn't equate to flat out stealing. If not that, despite how cliche it is, try listening to music. Often music can invoke such strong emotions, that the ideas will come naturally. If all else fails, gain inspiration from your own life. Even the most mundane things can sound extraordinary if you have the will to write it correctly. For instance, if you've never read the poem "We are Seven", its a girl explaining that there are seven siblings including herself despite the fact two are dead. Just hearing that on it's own sounds boring but I personally think it's really thought provoking when you read it. It makes you question whether or not you agree with the girl or the man. What becomes of you in the eyes of society when you die?

Lastly, don't worry too much. Your average Joe probably won't notice a problem in your writing and those who are "highly" skilled writer's won't mind. Everyone has to have a starting point so even if in your head it sounds bad, it might be someone's Roman Empire. I find that a lot of the people who harshly criticize are have a warped perspective. They simply want to say something under the guise of being constructive to be mean. All in all, the most important thing is that you enjoy what you've written and the process of writing. Don't write for the people, write for you.

#writing #creative writing #fic writing

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