#rome for president!

[slutforsilverfoxes]

who is at the wheel in this fandom keeping it from going offroad?

And a similar anon ask: who would you elect as president of this fandom?

An excellent question, anon 🤔

Now, I am but a baby here in the tumblrverse and therefore have yet to meet many of the lovely humans in our cm fandom

That being said I would nominate @criminalskies

Aside from being the kindest soul who’s so super supportive and never fails to make me smile, I think they keep us all sane and tbh would be level-headed enough to run our batshit lil fam/country

As an American, I declare that Rome would win the popular vote AND destroy the electoral college

#rome for president! #President Rome #dare I say.. the Roman Empire? 👀 #no but actually #you’re the best #a real one #and I would trust you to lead our people #anon ask #anon answered

[brookheimer]

one of the saddest parts of succession ending is the end of these terrible video essay thumbnails. honest to god will easily be one of the most devastating disappearances of an art form in modern history

#my personal favorite might be the one with no text just an arrow coming from rome’s blazer pointing to a blurry nondescript picture #what does it MEAN??? #Is Becoming President Too Much To Ask? yes. yes it is. why are we asking that question #want to put these in a museum #succession #succession spoilers #ish #long post #100 #500

[fireofamockingjay]

I am the funniest person alive

please accept my humble offering ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

#thg memes #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #president snow #coriolanus snow #catching fire #mockingjay #ides of march #julius caesar #ancient rome #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #lucy gray baird

[worstloki]

Loki surveilling the skyline of New York from the top of Stark Tower and clocking that his favorite paired set of buildings are gone. sad

#everyone wants thor and loki to have visited earth a bunch of times and obviously they wouldn't be too invested in earth politics #but i think the concept of much time passing between visits should be taken advantage of #like what if one of them missed seeing the statue of liberty on their past 3 visits and now that's 'suddenly' a famous historic landmark #Loki like wow I sure hope that restaurant in the Soviet Union is still around! #and Natasha's head whips around so fast like you mean Russia or one of the surrounding countries that used to be part of the USSR #Loki: uhm. well. what's the difference #Natasha: here is a map of the countries does this help #Loki: it does not help but thank you for trying #Thor: what do you mean Rome is gone???? Rome was HUGE????? #Tony: well it's been a few centuries since then Europe is very different now #Thor: (visibly distressed) so the the sweet effeminate men enjoy the streets no more?? #Tony: ...I don't keep track of foreign border laws about that #Thor shows up after 3 years and there's a new president and he's very confused through the entire meeting #brodinsons being so detached from the political scene but being so used to realm politics they come to correct conclusions about things #even though the timeline and how long things stay the same on midgard still messes with them #Loki: at least Egypt is still around #Thor: China also #Brodinsons visiting New Zealand(Aotearoa)/Australia/various British mandate islands before the British formally showed up #returning 2 centuries later and 'the gene pool has altered drastically' 'must've been a war' #well it's either that or since Asgard seems spared of colorism they treat all humans as the same and don't notice. which might be worse #on the colonisation and liberation side of things

[mouthmoodz]

thinking about this. why did he say this

#missingno.exe #he seems genuinely to believe that the decline of ancient rome was caused by homosexuality #most normal president

[navree]

am once again negatively polarizing myself against a historical event because people don't know what they're talking about (sorry to the ides of march this time)

#personal #the amount of people who think this was some brave class struggle against tyranny makes me go insane #i may have said this before but the equivalent action to the ides in the modern day #would be if bernie sanders declared himself president of the senate forever so a gang of the richest senators murdered him #like that's how it would read based on caesar's role in rome and the conspirators' backgrounds and everything #to the people of rome (and specifically rome because the people in the areas rome colonized were screwed no matter who was in charge) #caesar was a man of the people who worked his way up and repeatedly had their best interests at heart #(not due to any goodness but just political pragmatism) #and a group of very rich nobles decided to take the law into their own hands and commit an extrajudicial murder #and were then surprised that this extrajudicial murder of a man of the people done for nebulous lofty reasons only they were privy to #didn't go over well with the actual people

[angelx1992]

#horror #movies #pennywise #stephen king #rome #atlanta #memes #marjorie taylor greene #evil gop #Qanon morons #president biden #horror movies #maga morons #balloons #chinese spy balloons #evangelicals #clown car republicans #evil clowns #it #horror movie

[absentmoon]

I FORGOT to talk about the legion....i only know a little about it from what ive seen in game but caesar did a bad job. he did a bad job

#daisy.txt #GODDD HE DID SO BAD. OKAY #ooh oohhjh the ncr president is worse bc he was electedYOU DUMB FUCK . THE GUY YOUR EMULATING GOT ELECTED. WGAT ARE UOU ONNN . #ohh ohhh vegas needs a homogeneous cultureTHE ERA OF ROME YOUR EMULATING WAS NOT HOMOGENEOUS 💥💥💥💥💥💥THE REGIONS THEY TOOK OVER AT THAT TIME #WERE ALLOWED TO KEEP THEIR CULTURE + ELECTED OFFICIALS #im also reasonably sure crucifixion wasnt comon in julius's era at all ? i Think #its been awhileee #god. godd hes so STUPID #guy who skims the rise and fall of the roman empire + julius's diary on a war one time Oh i know what this was about (GETS IT ALL WRONG #also his military tactics are dumb.They are dumb . soldiers in this era were treated way better than this. fuck you #cant stand him or his larp squad.Die.

[frc-ambaradan]

2nd June: Italy's National Day

Military parade along Via dei Fori Imperiali and tribute to the Unknown Soldier at the Altare della Patria in Rome. Source: www.quirinale.it

Buona Festa della Repubblica a tutti gli italiani!!! 😃😃

#have a nice day! #2 giugno #festa della repubblica #italy's national day #2nd june #military parade #rome #president of the italian republic #sergio mattarella #quirinale #frecce tricolori #italy

[mejomonster]

This book is making me want to read a history book on the cultural revolution period.

#rant #lb #three body problem #i mean history books and historical fiction if it had historical details #i know i usually consume 1920s-1940s cdramas but nothing set newer #except one 1980s set one Our Times which was very mm Steve Jobs esque #its very recent historu #but u know american history classes. WE didnt even cover anything past vietnam war in the 2000s in american history class #so of course outside america we covered ww2 rhen vietnam then pretty much nothing outside of america #except a slight touch on cold war and iron curtain but a Really small mention #cause as i said we really barely cover presidents from the last 50 years or us historu that close #world history class mostly focused on mesopotamia then greece and rome and mayan and aztec and holy roman empire and byzantine

[scientia-rex]

When I was in ninth grade I wanted to challenge what I saw as a very stupid dress code policy (not being allowed to wear spikes regardless of the size or sharpness of the spikes). My dad said to me, “What is your objective?”

He said it over and over. I contemplated that. I wanted to change an unfair dress code. What did I stand to gain? What did I stand to lose? If what I really wanted was to change the dress code, what would be my most effective potential approach? (He also gave me Discourses on the Fall of Rome by Titus Livius, Machiavelli’s magnum opus. Of course he’d already given me The Prince, Five Rings, and The Art of War.)

I ultimately printed out that phrase, coated it in Mod Podge, and clipped it to my bathroom mirror so I would look at it and think about it every day.

What is your objective?

Forget about how you feel. Ask yourself, what do you want to see happen? And then ask, how can you make it happen? Who needs to agree with you? Who has the power to implement this change? What are the points where you have leverage over them? If you use that leverage now, will you impair your ability to use it in the future? Getting what you want is about effectiveness. It is not about being an alpha or a sigma or whatever other bullshit the men’s right whiners are on about now. You won’t find any MRA talking points in Musashi, because they are not relevant.

I had no clear leverage on the dress code issue. My parents were not on the PTA; neither were any of my friend’s parents who liked me. The teachers did not care about this. Ultimately I just wore what I wanted, my patent leather collar from Hot Topic with large but flattened spikes, and I had guessed correctly—the teachers also did not care enough to discipline me.

I often see people on tumblr, mostly the very young, flail around in discourse. They don’t have an objective. They don’t know what they want to achieve, and they have never thought about strategizing and interpersonal effectiveness. No one can get everything they want by being an asshole. You must be able to work with other people, and that includes smiling when you hate them.

Read Machiavelli. Start with The Prince, but then move on to Discourses. Read Musashi’s Five Rings. Read The Art of War. They’re classics for a reason. They can’t cover all situations, but they can do more for how you think about strategizing than anything you’re getting in middle school and high school curricula.

Don’t vote third party unless you can tell me not only what your objective is but also why this action stands a meaningful chance of accomplishing it. Otherwise, back up and approach your strategy from a new angle. I don’t care how angry you are with Biden right now. He knows about it, and he is both trying to do something and not doing enough. I care about what will happen to millions of people if we have another Trump presidency. Look up Ross Perot, and learn from our past. Find your objective. If it is to stop the genocide in Palestine now, call your elected representatives now. They don’t care about emails; they care about phone calls, because they live in the past. I know this because I shadowed a lobbyist, because knowing how power works is critical to using it.

How do you think I have gotten two clinics to start including gender care in their planning?

Start small. Chip away. Keep working. Find your leverage; figure out how and when to effectively use it. Choose your battles, so that you can concentrate on the battle at hand instead of wasting your resources in many directions. Learn from the accumulated wisdom of people who spent their lives learning by doing, by making mistakes, by watching the mistakes of their enemies.

Don’t be a dickhead. Be smarter than I was at 14. Ask yourself: what is your objective?

[pressnewsagencyllc]

Italy, UAE aim to jointly address political and humanitarian crises in Middle East

ROME  Italy and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) aim to jointly resolve political and humanitarian crises in the Middle East, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday. Tajani, in a statement following his meeting with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Rome, said they discussed further strengthening the bilateral partnership. Mentioning the situation in the Middle…

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#Anadolu Ajansı #Antonio Tajani #G7 presidency #gaza #Middle East #rome #uae #United Arab Emirates

[mihotose]

my mum freaked out when she saw kendall holding the door for those waystar higher ups in 2x01 she was distraught bc hes meant to be the prince of the company

#her ranking is shiv rome con ken rn but i think thats her ranking from logan's pov #con is above ken bc 'he has a vision' (he decided to run for president like two days ago) #gemitus

[agentfascinateur]

Thank you Judge Donoghue for your fair turn at the ICJ presidency 👏🏼👏🏼💜

#icj #palestine #palestinians #genocide #judge donoghue #icj presidency #rule of law #international law #world court #rome statute #free palestine #gaza invasion #israeli apartheid #israeli occupation #war crimes #justice #south africa #usa #the hague #new york #uc berkeley

[ifidiedinadream]

I went to the christmas market today and it just wasn't my vibe. Too many people, terrible music and the mulled wine wasn't that great either. Well, I guess I'll never go there ever again.

i think the last time i went to a christmas market i was 5 years old. however yesterday i went to the city center and it felt like the whole world was there. they even had to echelon the people who were trying to use the subway, i waited outside the metro station for half an hour while i was trying to go home 👍🏻 so yeah i feel you there are WAY too many people around during this time of the year

ive never had mulled wine though. it really isn't much of a tradition here i think. im curious. also i kind of have this desire to see a christmas market after all. i blame tiktok and all the christmas markets from finland it shows me

#rome is not equipped for all the tourism it has #if i were president everything would be perfect. #gen

[fromevertonow]

Suzanne Collins is one of the few contemporary writers who realizes the importance of names in her stories and the significance they bear. They add so many layers to the story, additional meanings that otherwise would not have existed.

The original trilogy:

Katniss: named after a plant of which you can eat the roots. Her father taught her where to find it and told her that “as long as you can find yourself, you’ll survive” (quote may be a little bit off, but it’s from one of the early chapters in THG). Additionally, the leaves are in the shape of an arrowhead, referencing her skills with the bow which her father also taught her how to use.

Peeta: literally bread lmao. But bread is one of the basic nutritions humans need, a little bit goes a long way to keep you alive. Peeta’s presence in Katniss’s life also kept her alive, literally and figuratively—the burned bread he threw her in the flashback and their complicated relationship.

Primrose: a plant with medicinal purposes, even more significant in light of her work as a medic in Mockingjay.

Gale: literally means “strong wind” and considering that in every encounter with Katniss he’s caused some reaction, he pulls her into directions she maybe initially doesn’t want to go in. Additionally, his name also represents his determination and steadfastness in his beliefs.

TBOSAS

Lucy Gray: named after William Wordsworth’s poem “Lucy Gray” which is about the titular character of the poem who got lost during a blizzard. She literally got lost in snow. Rachel Zegler sang this poem in two parts on the original soundtrack of the movie. When Snow asked who the girl in the song is, Lucy answers that she’s a mystery, just like her.

Snow: aside from the obvious snow references, I think his name is most significant in relation to Lucy and the poem. The only one who knows what caused her disappearance is Snow. He is the reason that Lucy is gone. But her traces in the snow are still visible. He will always remember her because the memory of Lucy has manifested itself in every part of his life.

Coriolanus: named after the Roman general (and also the titular character of Shakespeare’s play), Coriolanus wanted to attack Rome and become its ruler. He was scorned and celebrated by the people, only to be later exiled from the city by them. In TBOSAS, Coriolanus is the star pupil at the Capitol’s academy but sent into exile to the districts after he won the Games with Lucy through cheating.

Volumnia: Coriolanus mother who played a part in his ascent to power. In TBOSAS, she almost serves like a mentor to Coriolanus, teaching him how to think in terms of power.

(Edit) Sejanus: a roman soldier who was betrayed by the roman emperor Tiberius, just like the future president betrayed him.

(Edit) Plinth: got this info from here, but it was too good not to include here. A plinth is a base for a statue or vase to stand on. After Sejanus’s death, all of the Plinth fortune was given to Snow for being such a good to friend him. It was this money that skyrocketed the Snow family from poverty to filthy rich. The Plinth money was the foundation upon which Snow built his power.

There are so many other names that have historical (mostly Roman and Greek) connotations—Plutarch, Seneca, Cinna—but also regular names like Trinket and Beetee bear meanings that represent the character beautifully.

Names are important. For any lover of literature or (aspiring) writers, please look closely at them. They can shape your story into something unique.

Feel free to correct me if I’ve said something wrong. I know there are many names missing, but I can only add so many examples ✊🏻😔

#tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #thg #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #gale hawthorne #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #suzanne collins #literature