#when rome falls

[pulledrounder]

The Mountain Goats, Going to Scotland // @heavensghost, “Yves Olade, When Rome Falls” // Ethel Cain, Strangers // Mitski, Square // Liz Lochhead after Euripides, Medea

#web weaving #the mountain goats #going to scotland #heavensghost #yves olade #when rome falls #ethel cain #preacher's daughter #mitski #square #parallels #webweaving

[fairydrowning]

"You look like you've eaten the sun, like you drank so much sunlight you're drowning in it."

– Yves Olade, from Bloodsport; "When Rome Falls"

#dark academia #light academia #excerpts #fragments #poetry #quotations #when rome falls #yves olade #bloodsport #words #literature quotes

[wingedbeings]

— Yves Olade, in "When Rome Falls" ✶ from "Bloodsport"

#poetry #art #literature #quotes #words #poems #yves olade #bloodsport #when rome falls #(not my writing! just particularly enamoured with this work and wanted it on my blog) #prey-natured #radio signals #fave

[laylaslibrary]

I say,

I promise I won’t do anything awful,and he says, you are something awful,

—Yves Olade, “When Rome Falls” from Bloodsport

#quotes #yves olade #when rome falls #literature #poetry #books #lit #love quotes

[canisalbus]

I've got to say, I've been doing a lot of research on Italy recently and I literally can't stop thinking about your boys. I'm over here trying to read about whatever Crusade and my brain is just a constant loop of "isn't Machete a cardinal? And Vasco was from like Verona, right?" Not super conducive to learning anything, but I am enjoying myself and thought you should know.

Thank you for your lovely art and for sharing your darlings <33

That's adorable ;^; But also sorry the lads keep distracting you, hah.

I'd argue that getting invested in your characters and their stories and having to do background research for them is actually a great way to accumulate knowledge about various subjects. Often it's stuff you probably would never get around to reading about otherwise. I'm not saying it's always information you'll have many practical uses for, but learning about new things is fun and it's beneficial to you and your brain in the long run.

Vasco is from Florence actually! It's usually considered to be the birthplace and the main hub of the entire Renaissance movement. Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Michelangelo lived and influenced there and Dante Alighieri (author of The Divine Comedy/Dante's Inferno) was florentine as well, albeit he lived several centuries prior to them.

#Verona is a stunning historically significant city as well but it's a bit too far from Rome in this case #nowadays the fastest train ride from Rome to Florence takes around a hour and a half it looks like #travelling was slow and took a lot of effort in the 1500's but it was still a manageable distance #answered #nnnnnnnothingtoseehere #for real though the stuff you end up googling when you try to piece together a character is pretty funny #like #the evolution of breeches #history of bathtubs #history of sofas #timeline of peach cultivation #the cost of gyrfalcons #winemaking techniques #ear infections on dogs #how Italian surnames are formatted #the rise and fall of the Medici dynasty #are there any beaches near Venice #can you survive being stabbed in the liver #can you survive a hemlock poisoning #can you survive severe malaria

[jikimo-world]

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"Please save him from what I could do to him"

#tw blood #tw child murder mention #hetalia #aph france #hws france #hws prussia #aph prussia #hws austria #hws switzerland #aph austria #hws hre #hws holy roman empire #aph hre #aph holy roman empire #aph switzerland #All these characters (Not France) belong to the Germanic stock but for me they aren't biologically related! #Germania isn't the biological father of any of them but chose to adopt them so they lived all together (there were also other kids) #Headcanon: After the fall of the latin empire Germania felt sorry for the terrible condition of the Rome's descendants but #was able to rescue only France #“May I save at least one of them” #Fun fact: The green sharpie oxidized in blue so the drawings have different linearts #You can distinctly see which are older or younger #When I wrote the Wolf line I didn't think about this simbolism but a friend interpreted in this way: #Wolf is a simbol of the Roman empire so France is talking about himself and how dangerous he could be for the baby #“Prussia looks like he saw the face of death” #“Oh but he just did it”

[spinninglightning]

whenever i read fics i always end up thinkin of a song for the fic or like, th chapter and then i canr stop associating the fic w/ those songs

#i listen to sm fckn music tht all the songs end up bein wildly diff too #ong i cld make playlists for multi ch fics #*stares at electric rebels* #actually u know what #i will #here r some songs: #our song by matchbox twenty is (early ch) electric rebels treemina coded #butterfly by bts (song is abt the fear of losing a person and in electric rebels this is very much true #everyone has the fear of not only losing their lives but losing their family(+found) as well #time is very much sacred n stuff like that) #humming by turnover (thr lyrics “with you ill make it out alive” sold me on this one) #viva la vida by coldplay specifically for the capital students because of how disillusioned theyve become due to the games #and forming relationships w/ their tribute #really good examples are vipsania and hilarius #rhythm of love by plain white t's makes me think of all the good moments treech n lamina have had despite their circumstances #(its also just a them song in general) #young volcanoes by fall out boy for the tributes!!! it seems light a more lighthearted victory song almost? #a “we will persevere” thing but more full of complete happiness #think abt the scene of teslee mizzen n treech running down the hill in jubilation (obvs before shit went down) #would that i by hozier just makes me think of when treech first met lamina up in the tree #which witch by florence + the machine is definitely for vipsania just before & after the bombing (aspen too but to a lesser degree almost) #“whos a heretic now” “im miles away hes on my mind” yeahhhh #love grows (where my rosemary goes) by edison lighthouse is jst a rlly good treemina song #rousseau by nerina pallot is a good fpr one of the main questions in the fic “are we really born free?” #(no. theyre not they have to work for that freedom. rousseaus main theory specifically the idea of it works really well for this fic #and the hunger games in general) #the promise by when in rome seems to work especially for treech and how he interacts with the others #he always seems to make promises - that theyll live - that he wont leave - that hell take care of the living for the deceased #this ended up sm longer than intended i reached the TAG LIMIT #basil.txt

[thebreakfastgenie]

Storm Front Rankings

Leningrad

I Go to Extremes

And So It Goes

The Downeaster "Alexa"

Shameless

That's Not Her Style

State of Grace

Storm Front

We Didn't Start the Fire

When In Rome

#i would die for leningrad i am obsessed with the cold war #he also hates when in rome btw #he literally just flipped past it in the book at the new yorker festival and said 'that was a stinker' #yes i know i spent weeks melting down about we didn't start the fire when fall out boy did theirs #yes i am obsessed with that song #yes it is low #billy joel #billy joel rankings

[tolerateit]

kendall is like if the eldest daughter was an only child

#meg talks #Like shiv and rome always have each other's backs and kendall keeps falling back on logan when he needs family #Succession

[blueiskewl]

When did Rome fall?

Many historians consider the fall of the Western Roman Empire to have been when the emperor Romulus Augustulus abdicated, but not all historians agree.

The "Fall of Rome" usually refers to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. But historians don't agree about the exact date, nor about its causes. And some historians argue that the Roman Empire lasted until it fell in the East, centuries later.

At its height around A.D. 100, the Roman Empire stretched from modern Britain, France and much of Germany in the northwest to Egypt, Israel and Jordan in the southeast, and from what are now Morocco and Spain to Romania, Armenia and Iraq. Later emperors divided it into more manageable pieces, resulting in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. But by the end of the fifth century A.D., the Western Roman Empire, from Britain to Italy, had collapsed and been replaced by a patchwork of "barbarian" kingdoms.

"Part fell to invaders, and part disintegrated," Bryan Ward-Perkins, a historian at the University of Oxford and author of "The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization" (Oxford University Press, 2006),said in an email. "What difference this made to people on the ground is disputed."

SACK OF ROME, A.D. 410

Some historians regard Aug. 24, 410, as the decisive date of the fall of Rome. On this date, an army of Visigoths sacked the city of Rome — the first time since it had been overrun by Gauls during the early Roman Republic, almost 800 years earlier. The Visigoths (Western Goths) had fled the Huns' invasions of Eastern Europe in the fourth century. But in 378, after defeating a Roman army at the Battle of Adrianople (now Edirne, Turkey), the Visigoths were given lands on the empire's northern border to control and guard themselves from invaders. However, a few decades later, they again began marauding the empire; in 408, they invaded Italy, and in 410, they besieged and sacked Rome.

By this time, the Roman Empire was centered in Constantinople in the east, and even Western Roman emperors lived in Milan (then called Mediolanum) or Ravenna in northern Italy. But Rome was the "eternal city" and the sacred heart of the empire, and many of the empire’s inhabitants saw this as the end. "The cultural shock was resounding … but the practical impact seems limited," William Bowden, a professor of Roman archaeology at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, said.

As city sackings go, it doesn't sound too bad: Many famous monuments and buildings were untouched, and because the Visigoths were Christians, they allowed people to take refuge in churches. The Visigoths withdrew from Italy a few years later.

ABDICATION OF ROMULUS AUGUSTULUS, A.D. 476

Some historians regard the formal end of the Western Roman Empire as taking place decades later, on Sept. 4, 476, when Odoacer, the first barbarian king of Italy, forced the young emperor Romulus Augustulus to abdicate. Odoacer had been a Roman general of Germanic descent who professed loyalty to the Eastern Roman emperor, and he took Romulus captive at Ravenna after defeating the 16-year-old's father in battle. Odoacer didn't kill Romulus, however; because of his youth, he was instead given a pension and sent to live with relatives. (Odoacer ruled from Ravenna until 493, when he was killed by an invading Ostrogoth — Eastern Goth — army under their leader, Theodoric the Great, who established a powerful new kingdom in Italy.)

"It's kind of an important moment," Peter Heather, a historian at King's College London and author of "The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians" (Oxford University Press, 2007) said. "Odoacer sent the imperial vestments of the West back to Constantinople, along with delegation from the Senate of Rome, and the delegation says, 'There's no longer any need for an emperor in the West.'"

By this time, many regions of the Western empire were already effectively independent kingdoms, but "if you're looking for a symbolic moment, it's a pretty good one," Heather said.

EMPIRE IN THE EAST

By the fifth century A.D., however, the focus of the empire had shifted east to Constantinople, now Istanbul. Once the Greek city of Byzantium, the city was rebuilt in A.D. 330 by the emperor Constantine the Great, who transferred the imperial capital to his "New Rome."

"My own view is that the eastern half of the Roman Empire is still the Roman Empire," Heather said. "It's not unchanging, but there is a sort of continuity of change, not any great rupture."

Although Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, Heather sees its decline in the Arab invasions from 632 until 661, when they captured Egypt, the Levant, and parts of Anatolia from the Eastern Roman Empire. "The Arabs take about three-quarters of the empire's revenue and about three-quarters of its territory," he said. "It's a totally different kind of entity after the Arab conquest. … it reduces the empire from a global power to a regional power."

By Tom Metcalfe.

#When did Rome fall? #the fall of the roman empire #emperor Romulus Augustulus #Visigoths #Constantinople #eastern Roman Empire #western Roman Empire #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient rome #roman history #roman empire #long reads

[thecalciumcollector]

new post, WHAT THE FUCK? HUH? WHAT. THE SHIT.

#its all falling apart #When in Rome I guess #ninjago dragons rising #I loved season 2 so much #But WHYD IT END LIKE THAT???

[carbondated]

My Roman Empire is the Pond Era 🥰

#out of character. #actually my roman empire is ppl that say 'the fall of the roman empire' when they actually mean #'the fall of rome' bc the eastern roman empire lived tf on. but thats a different story

[barbiegirldream]

Holy shit I’ve heard of crusader kings but I didn’t know it was that detailed! Do you control the characters like a point and click game?

it's like basically you have a character who's a ruler small as a county or large as an empire. anywhere from iceland to north africa to india. And you get married have kids. Get murdered try to murder people. Wage wars. Etc etc. Once you die you move on to your heir. You can fiddle with lots of settings and make like gayness totally possible everywhere in 800 AD whatever you want. They throw in historical stuff and let you go ahistorical. Right now I'm going a what if Alfred the Great's older brother never died young without an heir and he never gained control of Wessex playthrough.

I recommend checking out a gameplay video to get a better sense.

#the answer is you see your sister's son at age 14 in charge of Mercia and ring down to Rome and ask the pope for a claim #and he gives it to you cause fuck them kids and you're Alfred the Great of Mercia House of Wessex #and you send your son oops died in a battle okay next one oh he died of cancer #okay your eldest daughter will marry your annoying nephew #and then when you move to play your third son you endlessly fuck with that now cousin/brother-in law of yours #but it doesn't matter because for some reason in this universe Lotharingia is going to take over all of Europe #and Wessex falls to them with only Mercia holding on to freedom

[officialgleamstar]

"hows the hyperfixation treating you travis" i bought a chapbook just because theres three lines that remind me of lark

#when rome falls by yves olade you are SO lark-core #mine

[van-goghs-smoking-skull]

its not about kink you fucking moron

So you honestly believe someone is going to give his slave [someone made to work against their will and considered to be the slave-owner's personal property, which is a horrible thing and should ALWAYS be illegal as a violation of basic human rights] an engraved golden collar worth more than any other Roman citizen, even the richest ones, could hope to add to their own wealth in a year? And that they would never possibly give such a valuable piece of jewelry, essentially, to their Slave [willing participant in certain adult activities, which is the business of consenting adults in their own private places and sometimes parties or shows for that sort of thing and should not ever be illegal, as the government should not be in the business of dictating anyone's consent in those activities]?

Let me guess, kink hadn't been invented yet back then, which I'm sure somehow explains some of the rather kinky historical art from that time. Have you considered that there may be cultural differences between, say, plantation owners using slaves to pick cotton in the US/POC arrested and imprisoned under some absolutely clown-ass laws and worked for free under the US prison system vs. the system in ancient Rome in which entertainment in the arena were frequently done by slaves, in fact MOSTLY by slaves, who had signed up for that work? See, it simply meant someone who wasn't getting paid directly in coin, however, training and fame were payment options. Back under that system, if you wanted to gain fame and other perks in the arena, you could sign up as a slave to one of the richer citizens of Rome in exchange for training under other famous Gladiators. And it was even common enough for the highest earning Gladiators who had won enough fights to be presented with a wooden sword by their master, symbolizing freedom, and they could choose to retire or keep fighting as a free man, either as a trainer for their former master, for another slave-owner, or on their own if they could afford the villa, equipment, food, services and entry as an owner of Gladiators. Generally, you wouldn't call gym membership, training, and a chance to become a world-famous wrestler slavery today, but it's much the same thing now, minus the guaranteed food, shelter, medical care, and other perks they used to get as slaves.

The Greeks were popular slaves back then, too, as they were considered to be very highly educated and quite good at accounting, speech writing, and excellent at political science. As slaves, they were given rooms in the family home, food, fine clothing, and other perks, including the ability to discuss politics with their master, if perhaps their master happened to be in the Senate, similar to unpaid interns and activists in Washington, DC, only now they don't live with politicians or get gifts for their work (instead the politicians get gifts, usually referred to as bribes by people outside of politics). Imagine the looks you'd get if you claimed Obama started off as a slave on his path to becoming President, and yet he was an activist at one time, and as an activist, worked for others, sometime voluntarily (unpaid).

Sex work was also done by slaves, and if a rich guy who could afford it found a woman or man particularly interesting and they were willing, he could very well buy their contract out and add them to the household. Slavery meant different things in different cultures and has changed in meaning over time.

Maybe go study World History using credible sources and stop getting all your information from booktok.

#politics #history #one of the major things that caused the Roman Empire to fall #was too much reliance on slavery #by the end you were born a rich citizen of Rome #you born born a citizen of Rome and the city showered you with riches and titles and maybe a foreign land #you had earned patronage (possibly a former slave #may or may not be a citizen) #or you were a slave or freed man who had not won fame #and likely had nothing to your name except a very short life expectancy #what happens when most workers don't get paid? they don't buy anything and the market stagnates and dies #while the collar in the post you're fussing about was very valuable it wasn't coin #there's a high chance she was a Slave and possibly a slave #but depending on her circumstances she didn't HAVE to be a slave #for the difinitive answer I suppose you'd have to ask her personally #but unless she kept full documentation of every little part of her day on her own and we find it all #it's too late to ask her #so the sheer value of the gift is our evidence as to the form of relationship they had #consider she could have sold it. hired her own fighters #and booked it out of the Roman Empire for that kind of cash easy enough #not exactly like they had international policing or instant communications by phone #so perhaps she had another reason to stay #if he's willing to hand over that much gold why not stay for more esp. if she's enjoying the job #working a job they enjoy for wealth (even if not in the form of cash) - who would possibly choose to live like that?

[catilinas]

i get why they do it but WHY do penguin And oxford world's classics separate the parallel lives into the greek and roman lives. in separate books. not even always in a way that matches up. i do get why but also WHY! they are supposed to be. parallel. let them hold hands

#no i haven't read the life of phocion. im just grumpy bcs neither the Makers Of Rome or fall of the roman republic penguin volumes #contain the life of cato the younger. but crassus is there! who is making these decisions #idk maybe he's in a newer edition. mine are Old. but also nihfunjefcnjsnjnjsfjnsfjnsfnjenajcinehuncuaeifhcaeuf #plutarch's perpendicular lives When #beeps