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PROCESSION OF POWER IN THE IMPERIAL ERA -- 0 BBY.
PIC INFO: Spotlight on a panel of Emperor Palpatine and Moff Trachta, followed by a regiment of the Emperor's Royal Guard, making ready to depart Imperial Center (formerly Coruscant), from "STAR WARS: Empire" Vol. 1 #2. October, 2002. Dark Horse Comics.
Story/script by Scott Allie
Pencils by Ryan Benjamin
Inks by Curtis Arnold
Colors by Dave Stewart
Source: www.pinterest.com/pin/668643875950336287.
#STAR WARS#STAR WARS: Empire Vol. 1#STAR WARS: Empire#Emperor Palpatine#Emperor's Royal Guard#Imperial Guard#First Galactic Empire#Galactic Empire#Sci-fi Art#Darth Sidious#The Emperor#Dark Lord of the Sith#Dark Horse Comics#Dark Horse Books#Sci-fi Fri#Dark Horse#Imperial Center#Expanded Universe#STAR WARS Expanded Universe#Sith#Imperial Era#Sci-fi fantasy#EMPIRE#Sith Lord#Dark Side#Moff Trachta
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western marxists have more favorable view of trotsky because they were not ones he harmed and targeted the most by his revisionism but soviets.
#liz.txt#rejecting trotsky isn't just 'useless sectarianism' to me bc of it#like just say you're self centered imperial corer
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@ my fellow white americans i suggest picking up a history book and educating yourself on our country's involvement in korea's history and the korean war before you start running your mouth about SK's military practices or saying fuck SK as a whole.... cause it's not a good look 😳
#mposting#hot take of the morning#i'm not saying i support mandatory conscription but i AM saying#if you live in THEEEE center of imperialism and colonialism#maybe sit this one out and don't talk#cause white ppl thinking they know what's best for koreans is quite literally how we got here so uhhhhh#ANYWAY
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Do you guys want to see the deeply cursed Star Wars image i made for my tabletop group
#it is an in universe poster for a family center#during imperial times#if you want context first#Star Wars
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#western imperialism#colonization#state violence#military violence#racism#child abuse#anti blackness#human rights violations#detention centers#abolition#acab#free palestine#child prisoners#child prosecution#terrorism#liberalism#mass incarceration#anarchism#nation state#child kidnapping#apartheid#prison industrial complex#colonialism#us history#slavery#israel is a terrorist state#west bank#palestinian genocide#knee of huss#social justice
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Is anyone overtaken by anger whenever they think of Hollywood's tendency to remake whole ass foreign movies instead of subbing of even dubbing the damn thing because god forbid the average yankee is exposed to a non anglo culture
Or is it just me?
#malu.text#this post was inspired by me watching the original ringu#and being reminded of the speak no evil remake of the dannish movie of the same name from 20-FUCKING-22#like. I'm Brazilian#I've been watching american movies since forever cause they saturate our market#but even with the success of parasite 2019 hollywood still insists on coddling its viewers#by continuing to center usamerican views in foreign movies#the double standards and cultural imperialism is fucking ridiculous
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The more time goes on, the more I think we (= westerners, especially white westerners) are just so fucking bad at guilt. I feel like guilt is among the most pernicious and dangerous emotions out there --not because guilt is literally deadly in isolation, it is an excruciating emotion but it will not kill you in itself, but because we have been trained to associate guilt with worthlessness (I partially blame christian values, the idea of impurity and sin --not to downplay, of course, the danger of a community judging you or being expelled from that community on the basis of being considered a danger to its other members due to the thing you've done that has been generating this guilt), and so we must, absolutely must, protect ourselves from simply feeling that guilt and processing its cold indifference washing over us, and we must do so through any means necessary. This can involve defensiveness, denial or reject of that guilt altogether so we are mentally protected from having to reevaluate ourselves and our place in the world, or can involve wallowing in and using it to self-harm --focusing on the pain and on self-hate rather than on what the guilt is telling us about ourselves and our heritage; blinding ourselves to it still in a twisted way.
I think it's also complicated to know how to manage guilt in a world where we're generally (as a whole) deeply powerless. It feels unfair to be called out about not doing enough when you know that pulling even mediocre heroics on your own will most definitively do almost nothing, hurt you, and be buried in a way that might be extremely unhelpul --not to mention, that it would actually hurt you in a very real and final way and lead to entirely thankless results, even if it was the morally correct thing to do. I do not want to pretend that it's not, very often, the results that awaits even serious and well-practiced activism --or even mild activism, major shoutout to everybody who got maimed or arrested or even killed on zero basis simply because they happened to be at or even near a protest, when they were not brutally attacked for no reason even outside of activism because an officer was racist or sexist or queerphobic or simply bored that day. There are genuinely good reasons to be scared.
So we feel guilt because of this fear, because of our isolation from any serious movement and the fact that we privilege our comfort over letting action taking over whatever else we have going on, and because fear and comfort knowingly keep us into inaction --or action that doesn't feel like enough, or that we feel doesn't achieve much of anything (which I think is never true: even giving someone a glimpse of hope for a second because we made an effort towards them is always always worth it in my opinion, it's not nothing and it's not a cop-out --of course it's not enough and we collectively need to find ways to do more, but it's not nothing and it should never discourage people from taking action --but I digress). But I think we start making a mistake when we point at this very real powerlessness as a shield from the guilt. Both can coexist. Both have to coexist. It isn't fair that some people are being forced to be courageous when we can afford to remain cowards. It is not even a moral judgement that condemn our souls forever, weakness is human and lack of individual reach against an overwhelmingly powerful and removed system even more so; it is a simple fact that we *have* to acknowledge if we want to take a clear look at the actual situation instead of camouflaging it behind self-justifying walls to give ourselves temporarily relief from that awful feeling. And I'm not saying it's not a constant effort, to keep those instincts of self-preservation at bay, or that some people don't have really good reasons that they cannot act more than through social media or miniscule donations or by talking about it around them, or being powerless to even do that without putting themselves into real and concrete danger --or that letting guilt in will be pleasant or even healing. It won't be. But it's also not the point.
Yeah, I get that it's hard to truly reckon with the fact that almost everything that made us (= westerners, especially white ones) is soaked with blood, imperialism, white supremacy, sexism, queerphobia, and a whole sweve of truly rancid ideologies that we cannot afford to passively accept as our lot. We were not given a choice in that legacy, and we don't have a ton of leverage over reorienting our haunted civilizations into something that isn't a horrible nightmare; but it is a fight that is happening right the fuck now.
I genuinely think guilt is a feeling we are not taught to handle in a healthy way; and because we have essentialist, pseudo-religious and punitive justice concepts terminally untangled with that feeling, guilt governs our politics and our private lives in the most rabid and unchecked way imaginable. But guilt will not kill us, unless we allow it to, and it will help literally nobody if it does. Guilt isn't evil in its soul-crushing pain as much as it is informative. Guilt is unbearable, unfliching clarity. But fever boils us alive because there is an infection that needs to be destroyed.
#thoughts#personal#not zelda#palestine#free palestine#guilt#cw self harm#(not graphic and really in passing)#sorry it's quite different than usual and it's a lot and I don't know if I'll agree with everything in five seconds#but I feel like we don't talk enough about the impact of guilt on our lives and psyches (and politics)#I am not great at guilt either (tho tbh I don't know many people who are)#but I'm trying to get better at simply... shutting up and Feeling It#I'm sure there's a way to face guilt that isn't destructive or self-pitying or generally useless#but I am.... I am so pessimistic about the future#not in a: let's all give up and cry but in a: we must fucking brace ourselves and look after one another#and put our foot in the sand right now because everything is unnacceptable and we need to acknowledge it much harder#if we let it fester it will only get uglier and uglier#and it doesn't mean we won't win or that hope isn't an absolutely essential component to it all#I am ultimately optimistic that there is an After to capitalism and imperialism and that brand of self-centered preservation and brutality#and this general oozing of toxic and unprocessed guilt#But#let's say that we'll all have to lead our own fights against it at some point#and I think that time should be right now#tl;dr imo there's no hope for justice and genuine resistance without facing guilt and resisting the urge to deny or fret against its ache#which doesn't have to equate with allowing guilt to rule us and use it as a tool of self-torment#anywayyyyy#saw a LOT of very weird reactions to the gaza genocide in my personal circles#some that really disappointed me even though they came from people I know to be better than this#so#yeah
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i was watching a music video for a japanese song and it had built in youtube english captions so i went to turn those on but then i saw that there was like an option for "English" and then a second option for "English (Canada)" and i realized in a few seconds it was just a workaround to having two sets of english captions, one with colour changes in the lettering and one without for accessibility (the canada one was the non-fancy lettering) but for a moment i was living in a world where they were making dedicated canadian english translations for things..... measuring temperature in celsius and height in feet...... paying with loonies and toonies... going to the WASHROOM
#pencil crayons for colored pencils is a favourite but its mostly just an ontario thing tho from what ive heard LOL#calling electricity hydro is another good one. although that also depends on province <3 ontario and i think BC? and maybe more#sorry im ontarian. you can make fun of me for it its okay.#you know sometimes i think about attempts at 'canada english' settings in word processors and stuff#they always suck ass. because every person in this god damn country uses whatever word and spelling they want LOL#like theres some general likelihoods like colour and favourite are common. but centre or center? its like 50-50#i personally use both. depending on i dont know. context? the phase of the moon and stars?#theatre and theatre i see both as well and also personally use both but i have like specific rules for myself for some reason#i use theatre for playhouses and theater for movie theaters. i dont know why#and dont get me started on measurements. thats another combo of context and personal preference#people who work more in like trades switch a lot because of product labels but tend to lean more imperial#people who work in like i dunno. chemistry or something probably use a lot of metric#the average person working in neither? honestly they'll probably say both in the same sentence at least where i live#when installing art basically everyone uses both inches and cms depending on which ones more convenient on the ruler LOL#our drivers licenses in ontario say our heights in cm but literally no one can picture it with the cm measurement because#colloquially everyone says heights in feet and inches. its fine. its fine#edit: WAIT i got so distracted by measurement bullshit i forgot to mention the song. it was insomnia by eve#good tune as usual of eve and also a really beautifully animated and emotionally intense music video
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First details emerge of rapidly filling Nauru detention centre | ABC News
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#nauru#detention center#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia#refugees welcome#nobody is illegal#immigrants welcome#fascism#racism#statism#imperialism#colonialism#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government#racist#human rights#humanrights#class war#oppression#repression#capitalism#free all oppressed peoples#pedagogy of the oppressed#oppressive
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x. average sci-fi milf
#he's so star wars imperial. so star trek starfleet command uniform. to me.#myevilposts#pete wentz#he just looks like he's five seconds away from giving a monologue made up of mostly dumb sci-fi jargon for me to spend#five hours at least dissecting relative to the rest of the then lore vs current lore/the recontextualized emotion behind his character#that wasn't established for at least another decade. tbh!#or rip this tunic off to reveal a white tank top underneath and go crawling through a fucked up insane looking#computer room looking ass engine room on the space ship he was stationed as second or third command on. tbh.#in an effort to save his co-workers/co-habitants/friends/family/humanity itself from the ship going down by sabotage and#he winds up having to dig deep into his psyche and confront some hard truths about himself and the horrors#of capitalism before whipping out a blaster and shooting up the shape shifting monster that was hiding itself as a crate in the corner.#the monster shape shifts into his dead/ex lover/friend and begs for mercy as it begins bleeding out. pete bites back tears#and gives a one-liner worthy of arnold. like 'you're appealing to emotions that i simply do not have.' single tear rolls down his cheek#as he fires a second shot at the monster killing it for good this time. it changes back to its normal form that is like some#weird blue tentacle puppet monster. pete wipes sweat off his forehead and shrugs his tunic back on as a kind of cape and#walks off. credits roll as he returns to command center and takes his rightful spot as captain because like only a couple/maybe none#of the other people lived.#pete probably being so hyped to be in a weird sci-fi thing vs his acting skills. fight!
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Once again suffering from the urge to write a comparative essay discussing the usage of American imperialism as narrative and societal inspiration between the Masquerade book series and the Helldivers video game series, and I'm not kidding
#personal#is Helldivers as deep as the Masquerade? no#but it does undeniably use American imperialism as inspiration (specifically to make fun of it)#while the Masquerade specifically centers the impact it has on exploited peoples#but it would be interesting
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ocd getting worse and worse and i'm trying very hard to find the balance between "staying informed and somewhat active regarding world events" and "spiralling because i feel so guilty for not being utterly miserable while people suffer"
#like idk why am i going to disney with my parents+brother for christmas instead of singlehandedly ending all violence on earth#and i'm sharing resources and donating to causes etc etc#and i'm just trying rlly hard to remind myself that my personal feelings have no moral value or material impact#like me feeling guilty for being arguably middle class in the imperial core wont make those things not true yk#and then like talking about my own feelings and centering myself while this is all going on ....#anyway i'm just!! idk venting? idk idk#my ocd has been getting worse steadily for like a year now and it's vv much hitting a wall lmfao#rye.txt
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Thinking aloud here, but that one post going around taking the piss out of fandom critique of children's media for being about the power of friendship instead of Marxism: it's not lost on me that the op is a popular mangahood blogger lmao
#babe is it terminally online to critique an anime about genocide and imperialism for being a juvenile ''power of friendship'' take#on resolving genocide and imperialism?#surely these idiots get that it's super cringe to want anti-imperialism in their funny cartoons about imperialism 🤪#thing is: the association of that blogger w/fma doesn't necessarily mean that post implicates critique towards mangahood per say#but i find it pretty funny all the same#(this isn't a vent post but more a bemused way of pointing out how fandom brain erases imperialism in media#while also completely centering political discourse on entertainment media instead of news media state media & material reality)#but i digress#vent
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People are much bigger than their sphere of activity
A person with a good heart. The simple father's wish which can't be done so easy💔
This is Yulia Seniuk, whom I mentioned in the first post with the same title:
- I'm about to start crying, to be honest.
- I'm sorry, Yulia, but it seems to me...
- The situation there is such that I was touched by the fact that the guy. He has no legs and no arms, he has a little girl, a daughter. And he wants to take her on his feet, not in a stroller, on 1 September. I want to help him. And I understand that he doesn't have prostheses yet and most likely he won't because prostheses require a very long rehabilitation. That is, he will most likely not make it by 1 September. I was very touched by this situation, even to the point of tears.
- Could you please bring some water?
- And napkins, if possible, please.
- And napkins, please.
- It's very painful. Thank you. I'm a very sentimental person in general.
- I'm sorry for these tears and for making you cry, but I think we have to talk about this. We have to talk because they cannot be left behind.
#ukraine#russia#arm ukraine#stand with ukraine#українськи�� tumblr#stop the genocide#genocide#russia is a terrorist state#russo ukrainian war#russian invasion of ukraine#rehab center#rehabilitation#support ukraine#support#important#veterans#no limbs#russian terrorism#stop russia#russian imperialism#укртамблер#український блог#україна#укртумбочка#український тамблер#war in ukraine#war is real#music video#video#unmute
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When you're not spreading the rumors but are amused by them all
#v: imperial au#Must be terrible to be the center of all these rumors!#Souji go back to being unconscious
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“More of you already? I suppose I should be flattered.”
#swtor#swtor screenshots#aka 'cipher nine can't catch one fuckin break from the galaxy trying to implode with them at the center'#not even in sith intelligence#it's really kinda wild like nine's entire career is so utterly supernova explosion in scale#no wonder tyr's constantly on the run - from the treachery of a dark councilor to a galactic-scale conspiracy then the revanites#can you imagine most ciphers probably don't deal with nearly that level of constant fuckery#and nine's in the thick of it every time they turn around whether they like it or not#absolutely fascinating how that just completely dominoes their career and life#fuck i love imperial agent...#ch: tyr#anyway sorry not sorry i have so many screenshots i'm going to try to plug into the queue lmao
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