#falling empires

[thashining]

Trump in SHEER TERROR as Damascus QUICKLY FALLS

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump facing the reality that his dictator bros are falling across the world.

[stil-lindigo]

in case you missed it, the US recently vetoed a UN ceasefire resolution for the THIRD TIME in 137 days.

[mrghostrat]

oh my god i finally thought of a vampire au that i'm completely unhinged for. i am about to be so insufferable about this

vampire aziraphale x vampire hunter crowley. and no, neither of them realise they're hereditary enemies when they hook up. they're dorks and idiots your honour.

edit: fic is here c:

[arrimorr]

OH MY GOD.....

[swedenis-h]

His name’s Luke Skywalker and he’s here to rescue you!!

June 15th prompt: Luke and Grogu save Din from Moff Gideon ( @dinlukeweek )

(I switched this days prompt out for this one!)

Bonus:

[lightaphorism]

Media with immaculate vibes:

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix show)

Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated (show)

Gravity Falls (Disney show)

Treasure Planet (Disney film)

Mystery Files (YouTube)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (film)

The Spiderwick Chronicles (film)

Ghost Files (YouTube)

Atlantis the Lost Empire (Disney film)

Lockwood and Co (Netflix show) (please save it)

[columboscreens]

[judasisgayriot]

devastating hand-on-knee comforting him moment

[fallauween]

The Grand Dutchess Inn, Red Hook, New York by mattyzeephotography

[gffa]

I'm about a fifth of the way through Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire and I am chewing so hard on this book. It's my favorite genre of "fictional history told through an in-universe lens" (sort of along the lines of the Propaganda book or the Scum & Villainy book) and so far it is working so hard to pull everything together and put it into one coherent narrative and doing a surprisingly good job of it so far. There's so much going on that all has to be woven together--not just the events of any given novel/comic/game/show, but the unreliable nature of Star Wars as a universe, that the Empire didn't just erase knowledge of the Jedi, they were erasing anything they didn't want people to know about, so how can you parse out the truth of things? You can't, not fully, but you can make your best guesses, based on the evidence you do manage to dig up. It starts off by looking at Palpatine as a man (and has a really great take on him that I feel fits with what it means to be a dark sider, where you can see the cackling villain that Ian McDiarmid clearly had a blast with, but also the dissatisfaction and desperate dark hunger for something more and how he seemed to have a surprisingly thin skin on certain things, like you see how this guy was a brilliant villain, but also how he was not living a satisfying, happy life), as well as an Emperor, it theorizes about how he wanted to rule the galaxy and yet seemed completely uninterested in actually ruling it, and tied it together really well with the sequels. I'm now getting into the minutiae of how the various Moffs and Admirals and Governors ran the Empire, how it was set up to make them compete against each other, and showing how it sucked even good people in (by forcing them into impossible to choose circumstances, so that they would be complicit in the actions of the Empire) and I continue to want to chew on every single page of it. It's written by a historian--and you can tell, there's so much affection for the process of trying to understand the shape of the history of the galaxy--and really shows Star Wars as one big continuous narrative, from the prequels to the originals and to the sequels, and does some deep fucking diving, like I recognized characters from the Titans Rebels comics even! Like, goddamn, Dr. Kempshall, did you actually read all of this stuff or did you lean hard on the story group? Because, either way, this book is trying to pull in absolutely everything of the story of how the Empire rose, how it operated, and how it fell, and why that's important as a story.

[wasyago]

he's my idiot and i get to make him unnecessarily dramatic

[dilfmobius]

loki + finding comfort

[jacketinthebox]

deleted scenes from anatomy of a fall (dir. 2023) as you can see I’m trying to stay normal.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” - Marcus Aurelius

[victusinveritas]

Sack of Rome by goths, 410.

[weedgummies420]

sweater weather 🍁☕️🍄‍🟫