#civiliance

[dailykugisaki]

Day 278 | id in alt

At least one of the students is a horrid menace to both curses and curse users. I was beginning to lose hope.

[jackgoodfellow]

[image description under the cut]

Image Description:

An iteration on a popular meme format, edited to include figures from Roman history. The original version of the meme is a crudely drawn MS paint illustration of a sad looking dude standing in the corner of a party looking on as people dance and have a good time. The meme always includes the text "they don't know" over the man's head, showing his thoughts. And then when someone edits the meme, they add onto that phrase. In this iteration, the heads of the illustrated people have been replaced with cropped photos of heads from ancient Roman sculptures of famous people.

The man in the corner is now Augustus (Octavian) Caesar and he is labeled "Octavian about to absolutely wreck everyone's shit." The text above his head reads "They don't know I'm the scariest bitch in the Mediterranean." His eyes are glowing red.

At his feet lays the dead body of Julius Caesar, cropped from a painting and covered in crudely-added digital blood. A label pointing to the body reads, "Julius Caesar (super assassinated)".

The crowd of people that Octavian is looking at is labeled, "Lepidus Antony, Cassius, Brutus, Decimus, and half of Rome fighting for control," with arrows pointing to the respective images of those men. A separate label points to the man in the middle of the group and says "Cicero attempting to preserve the Republic".

Next to Octavian is small red text with hashtags that read "hashtag gonna go full Michael Corelone on these motherfuckers" and "hashtag Your Asses Delenda Est." (This is a play on "Karthago Delenda Est", which means "Carthage Must Be Destroyed" in Latin and was a very memorable political slogan in Roman history leading up to the utter destruction of the city of Carthage. This phrase was so memorable, in fact, that the English speech-to-text program I use recognized the phrase and spelled it correctly on my first attempt! Which is very unusual for a Latin phrase that has absolutely no modern-day uses!)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Wenceslaus Hollar, Civilis Seditio, 1643.

[greenbloods]

actually i want to talk about the jon snow-julius caesar parallels more. at the end of the day both are stories about institutions. both are characters who politick within increasingly rotting institutions (the nights watch and the roman republic), who implement much needed reforms within the systems but whose reforms threaten the very foundation of the system itself (jon interferes in northern politics while the nights watch is supposed to take no part, and caesar increasingly erodes the supposedly democratic institutions of the republic for increasingly authoritarian and monarchical aims) and are betrayed by those they thought allies and friends in the hope that through their assassination the institution itself is saved. but it doesnt work. in caesar's case the death of the dictator was the death of the roman empire: despite the immediate cause of the fall being caesar himself, brutus and the conspirators' daggers and the mob's outcry dealt the killing blow. we dont know how the fallout of jon's assassination will go, but its not going to be as simple as melisandre coming over and reviving him. the fallout may be the death of the watch itself, and maybe the replacement of the old rotting institution with something new.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

LETS GOOOOOOO

[canopiancatboy]

What? Tyranids? Why would I be posting tyranids? Clearly my next, most important project was printing a full 256 man Macedonian Phalanx. Historia Civilis binges will do that to you, unfortunately

[der-papero]

Ma dove cass siamo, da Cannavacciuolo? 😮

[brb-on-a-quest]

Ok so reading Redwall for the maybe first or second time?

Pretty sure I either read it or a diff book in the series and remember nothing at all except I liked it and I'd read it again. Found it at my local bookstore (my beloved) for 3 dollars and picked it up.

Enjoying it so far. But I wanted to ask how....ethics work here.

Because Redwall is an abbey that's run by mice who are very peaceful and loving and don't take lives and they're extremely "we take no lives and even predatores will leave monks of our abbey alone out of respect for us"

Except then, they kill a fish and eat it for the abbot's jubilee anniversary, where there's been a bunch of animals invited and stuff.

And Im just like... wait a minute.... do fish not count? How do small mammals vs other groups of animals work in this world? Am I over thinking a children's book? probably. Should I be doing homework? also probably.

[gregor-samsung]

" In genere c’è uno strato di sottoproletariato, di proletariato, di iperevoluti di una società che non ha più bisogno di associazione, che, essendo libera dal bisogno ha già superato ogni forma e necessità di organizzazione: ma qui siamo in Sicilia, senza gli iperevoluti. Anche il nobilotto di questa zona lo considero un sottoproletariato perché non si è ingranato in questa società. Vede, non ce n’è di associazione, o è troppo scarsa, neanche nei sindacati, in nessun sindacato: nella Coltivatori diretti, ad esempio, uno va per avere il concime, per avere l’assistenza, per ottenere le cose Per me non dovrebbe esistere la CISL, la UIL, la CGIL, la CISNAL e via dicendo, ma il sindacato apolitico e apartitico. Sono bacati tutti, manca la maturità perché manca la cultura, manca cioè la scuola. Io di cooperative ne ho fondate a decine, a decine, io al cooperativismo ci ho creduto, ma praticamente sono fallite tutte. Organizzazione religiosa? Quella è un’altra cosa. Sono cattolico se i miei genitori mi hanno inculcato i sentimenti cattolici. La religione viene dalla convinzione, dalla tradizione, mentre l’associazione non ha qui una sua tradizione: in Sicilia vivono solo le forme clientelari. Nei partiti il 90 per cento ci si mette perché la DC dice: «Io ti garantisco questo», il PC dice: «Io ti garantisco quest’altro», gli altri partiti dicono: «Io ti garantisco quest’altro». Allora chi entra, aspetta per giudicare e quindi per convincersi, altro è dare adesione formale e altro è dare adesione sostanziale. Se uno non ottiene, cambia, uno passa da un partito all’altro, sbanda; se uno non vede raggiunti i suoi desideri immediatamente, immediatamente cambia partito o organizzazione perché ha bisogno. Nella iperevoluzione c’è la libertà dal bisogno, qui no. "

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Brano tratto da L’onorevole Calò, testo raccolto in: Danilo Dolci, Racconti siciliani; prima edizione Einaudi, 1963.

[sebruciasselacitta]

"Abbiamo approvato in Consiglio regionale la legge per diritti Lgbtqia+ e contro la violenza di genere. [...] Abbiamo fatto quello che il governo nazionale non ha voluto fare bocciando la legge in Parlamento. Abbiamo voluto una legge contro le discriminazioni e contro la violenza, affinché ciascuno e ciascuna si sentano liberi di amare chi vogliono e vedano riconosciuti gli stessi diritti."

Fonte: Loredana Capone, Presidente del Consiglio Regionale della Puglia

Fonte della foto: Arcigay Bari - Varichina

[decarabiandivorce]

If decarabian had ultimate power and authority, and was the one in charge of most laws, then he theoretically could have quite literally asked amos to get a divorce, she could say yes, and he could legally just. Be divorced without any complications. do you have any ideas on some reasons why he just. didn’t do that (look where their relationship ended up smh)

Yes he could However he is full of delusion and can not think of a reason why they would ever be separate :D

"iThe ruler had believed that he had given his subjects a city free from the bitter cold, and to the end, he believed that they had loved him as he loved them." - Venti's Character Story #4

My interpretation of the guy is one who couldn't understand other people. This was his dream! "He tried so hard to make his dream come true, and so the fragments of that dream are still mighty." - Scattered Piece of Decarabian's Dream.

"He once was her love, but the unforgiving winds could never understand the softness of mortal flesh." No matter what, Decarabian was wrong. He was wrong to believe that his people loved the 'protection' he provided. He was wrong to believe that ignoring his wife wouldn't cause her to fall out of love. He was wrong to believe that a city surrounded by a never-ending storm would bring peace. Sure he had his reasons and for that I love to poke at him, but at the end of the day it dosen't erase what he did.

My own interpretation of him was much like Havria and Ei, gods who tried their hardest to protect the citizens they adored but ended up bringing them suffering. Like the electro archon he clipped the wings of his city and I do think he didn't realize how bad his own city was until it was too late. It's said that the outside world was covered by a certain wolf's blizzard, so the constant swooshing of wind(in his mind) should have protected his city from the chill.

This strays a little in hc territory, but I do think he had some relationship (PLATONIC) with the shade of time. The thousand winds temple was in his territory after all and I don't think he would have allowed another god- even one as powerful as a higer being, into his lands without some familiarity. And it is this familiarity is one of the reasons why I think Decarabian is Like This.

Sure it takes a bit of creative interpretation but god dam it im making a sandcastle out of these specks.

.

So you got this immortal who's friend (Isaroth) is MIA while he needs to take care of a city while a war is going on. A war that is being started by Celestia. A place that your friend used to live in but is now being owned by the presumed killer of your missing friend's creator. AND there is this wolf outside that is just waiting and watching, trying to get in. Get to where your children are.

You can't loose anyone else.

He dreams of his city being happy. His city. A "dream of prosperity [that] was created entirely by his divine might". The "capital city he had raised." A dream that "would have gone on forever." He thought everything was fine. Everything was perfect. That he was loved and they loved him right back

What a delusion

He would never have asked for a divorce. He wouldn't see the reason to have one. He was living in a dream world with a person he adored like the sun. The apple of his eye. His equal.

So even when she dreams of a time before this all. Dreams a different dream than him. Wishes for things that he wouldn't want. She's just being silly! She's just confused! This is what's for the best!

What a delusion

She has always held his divine gaze. Even when she aims an arrow at his fabricated heart. She may have his heart, soul, and eyes- but she never had his ears. His dreams.

Were they ever equals? Friends? Lovers?

...

What a delusion

[blackat-t7t]

[riprachel]

if i squint it's because if i swap jade for rachel, and keep that josie force switched jade's (rachel's) humanity back on -- yeah, rachel would not like that or her after, lmao.

[ferociousconscience]

For years I've been showing people Historia Civilis' nonfiction Congress of Vienna video series ( Prologue - Peace? / Congress, Part 1 / Congress, Part 2 ) to try and set the scene and lay down the political landscape of europe during les mis... ONLY FOR THE LATEST VIDEO IN THE SERIES ( Year Without a Summer ) TO HEAVILY IMPLY HE'S COVERING THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONS OF THE 1830s NEXT

[darktimemachinechaos]

[quando la droga ti fotte il cervello]

È indispensabile fumare cannabis a scopo ludico? NO - e quindi problema col codice della strada e con la mafia che guadagna sulle droghe illegali risolto ✔️

Sono i Diritti Sociali e Civili il problema da risolvere e non le istanze puerili dei bimbiminkia che fumano canne.

La droga fa male? Si, e tutta! (la legale, come l'alcol e anche quella illegale, come la marijuana): rende così dipendenti (intossicati) al punto da rompere il cazzo, un giorno si e l'altro anche, perché rendano legale quella per la quale lo spaccio non sia ancora regolamentato.

Quando pensi solo alla droga, lo fai perché sei tossico mica perché ti interessa la Libertà.