#The Empire's Ruin

[plushtive]

when the hyperfixations hyperfixate

[lovelooksgudonu]

doodle korrasami

[hai-nae]

do you even lift bro? (i keep havin to set my pen down to giggle at this wip so it's slow goin)

[wandering-italy]

The ancient ruins of the Baths of Caracalla.

Rome

Dec. 2019

[drbtinglecannon]

The way in Knives Out that the entire Thrombey family constantly subjected Marta to racism for years ranging from micro aggressions to outright threats of deportation, that she knew all their fucked up dirty laundry and how they all were constantly exploiting Harlan's wealth, that they excluded her from Harlan's funeral and each blamed everyone else for it, and that they immediately dropped all pretenses of condescending civility when the will was read, yet she spent almost the entire movie sympathetic of them and wanting to gift them the fortune Harlan left her before finally standing up for herself in the last hour

Vs

The way in Glass Onion that Helen outright hated the entire "disrupters" group for at least ~10yrs before the movie even took place and made her opinion explicitly known, that her acting as her twin sister being jilted was so easy to maintain because she hated the entire group so much, that she didn't at all humor their extremely conditional "comradery" with her cause against Miles, and that in the end when everything was said and done she didn't stick around to watch them all turn on each other because it didn't matter anymore if they did or didn't

Marta's kindness got her the house.

Helen's justified fury burned Miles' down.

[ruubesz-draws]

Wholesome brother moment :)

I literally have no idea what some of these words even mean and I don't want to know

Idea from:

[badwolf-burningsuns]

What I’m not seeing anyone talk about is the fourth wall break implying….WE GAVE IMPORTANCE TO RUBY’S MOM.

As a fandom, we were ENTHRALLED. WHO IS SHE??? So every “fan” complaining about the end and saying “why did Sute care so much about Ruby’s mom??” and my response now is “well why did you care so much??”

And then they say “we didn’t know who she was” and I’m like…..”yeah neither did Sutekh. And just like us, the mystery was killing him.” Ruby’s mom may not have been important but we made her important as a fandom obsessing over the mystery.

I don’t know how to explain it?? Like does that make sense to anyone else?? I was practically screaming at the tv “WHO ARE YOU?!” I was giving her that power over me just like Sutekh was.

[annymation]

They didn’t include this scene in the anime…

[sh3rox]

[kingwuko]

No thoughts only Ruins of the Empire sauna scene

[tibby-art]

it's them

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Inscription And Dedication Stones, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

[crownspeaksblog]

Oh just korrasami holding hands <3

[thatshowthingstarted]

The library of Celsius, Ephesus, Turkey 

The library of Celsius is considered one of the most beautiful surviving structures of the time of Roman Empire. The Library was built from 114-117 AD. It was capable of storing 12,000 scrolls, making it the third largest library in the ancient world, behind Alexandria and Pergamum.

It was named after Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, a Greek Roman citizen who served as a senator of the Roman Empire and was a consul in Rome in 92 AD, governing the Asian province.

His son, Gaius Julius Aquila, constructed the library as a tribute to his father, and Celsus was allowed to be burried in a sarcophagus beneath the ground floor of the building honoring him and his contributions to the political and cultural life of Ephesus, which was one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire at the time.

1000libraries Photography

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

The Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy

The Baths were unprecedented in size: 1600 Romans could bathe at the same time. Apart from the bathing facilities, there were two libraries and there were shops, offices, gardens and even an area for sport. It simply didn't fit inside of Rome, and that is why it was built just outside of it, by the Appian Way (Via Appia).

[dougielombax]

I imagine that the Jedi temple was haunted after Order 66.

It was bound to be the case.

Even after Palpatine turned it into his palace. (Which I like to think he eventually abandoned after a while)

I like to think whole sections were left to decay, closed off to the public and kept under guard by stormtroopers and imperial patrol troops.

Save for some areas like the hangar perhaps. Most of it simply being left to gather dust.

Visits are probably allowed but only under strict supervision and only at certain times.

Some visitors, workers, imperial troops and cleaners report hearing strange noises.

Blaster fire, screams, random voices speaking to them (“have you been to the archives? They’ve got some fascinating new books on xenoarbology.”), children laughing, hushed whispers around the corner, barely audible.

Sometimes those imperials report getting lost or claiming to get stuck in areas not on the map or walking the same hallway with no memory of how they got there.

Imperial banners keep falling down or being blown away by the wind, sometimes even bursting into flames.

Some even claim to see living Jedi wandering the halls, even speaking to them. But nothing shows up on the security cameras.

“But he was right there!”

“Well there’s nothing on the camera.”

“I saw him! Clear as day!”

I imagine that even Palpatine heard and/or saw things and found them so terrifying that he preferred to stay in his office instead.

Some visitors and imperials find the place to have an unsettling aura. Even without knowing what happened, they feel overwhelmed and think they’re being watched or something.

“Did you see that? In the corner. Is that a child?”

A chill in the air. A smell of burning, blaster smoke, cauterisation.

“It’s too quiet…”

“Not to me, I swear sometimes I can hear this screaming…”

“We have to leave….the noises, it’s too much.”

I’d love to see future Star Wars content delve into this idea.

Make it happen!