#how often they think about the roman empire

[tommy-kinard-is-a-beast-kitty]

Okay but why am I grieving this ship like a lost pet. I can't even enjoy my vacation. I just realised how often I think of bucktommy. Like they're my roman empire. Everytime I used to think of them and automatically smile. "Such good bi rep in a primetime tv show" "life sucks but at least bucktommy is canon". I can't even bear to open ao3. Like I haven't even gotten to the point where I can read a fix it fic. The most heartwarming thing about this ship was that it made me feel so seen. It made me take more pride in my identity because it was a beautiful perfect canon queer ship.

[rubiscodisco]

I think about the Roman Empire a fair amount but NOT in a boy way just so y'all know

[steviesbicrisis]

All these two lovesick homosexuals did was go for a walk in a monster-infested forest for 5 minutes, share clothes and one very wrong hetero-dating advice for my brain to stop functioning for 14 months and still counting.

[krystal-prisms]

"average person thinks about the Roman Empire once a day" factoid is just a statistical error. The average person thinks about the Roman Empire zero times a day. Ides of March Georg, who lives on tumblr and thinks about the roman empire for 24 hours straight on March 15th, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[duxfemina]

It's the late Roman Republic...

Now put in the tags what you selected and who you THINK it's referring to... Because I sneakily had at least two people in mind when I made each option and when the poll is over I'll reveal who I had in mind for each option

[chocolate-mallowmelt]

peeta mellark is my roman empire actually

[lemonwisp]

Jedediah thinks about the Roman Empire everyday, but that’s cause he’s gay

[dekusleftsock]

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I’m obsessed with the new mitski album… and this song specifically. I mean cmon, it’s the one with the most hype around it for a reason.

I think what makes this album and specifically this song so “them” isn’t even necessarily the romantic subplot they have, but rather the realization that the love they have is truly beautiful, and that it’s something of value. It’s the only thing they truly have for the rest of their lives; the ability to love someone so deeply.

And that’s kind of what this entire album is about right? Love and loss, mitski herself literally saying that this album is about her realization that her greatest accomplishment was no material item or physical action, but rather the ability and the action to love someone.

And to be honest, Ochako’s unrequited love of Izuku and then required love of Himiko shows this. All of her heroics matter, and she will always be more than just another man’s wife (a title she would honestly be stuck with were her and Izuku to get together), but the fact that her feelings were able to change the entire world is astounding.

The title of the album “The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We” is actually a joke, referencing those welcome signs between states on highways and such. Things like “Welcome to Delaware the first state” or “Welcome to Pennsylvania the keystone state”. And through this reference this album also becomes a commentary on the political hellscape that the US has become.

I just love it. I can’t stop thinking about it.

Oh and also here’s a version with a SH warning bc her wrist is cut

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[187o]

what do you mean " how often do you think about the Roman Empire" ? bold of you to assume it's multiple times a day and not continuous toughts that have no begining and no end, going on forever.

[swampthingking]

the thought of cracking the spine of a book makes kevin nauseous. he like opens it just enough to see the words and holds the book at such uncomfortable angles to read— anything to keep the book pristine and intact. he does not let people borrow his books because he is a control freak (as a term of endearment) and does not trust them to take care of them the way he does.

and andrew is the complete opposite, cracking the spine as soon as he opens it. he annotates in pen. he dog ears the pages because who the fuck has time to find a bookmark. he throws books out of anger. he throws them at aaron for fun. he lets them get smashed and torn in his bag. he always keeps them, he just prefers them to look like they’ve been read.

[sigridstumb]

The fall of the Western Roman Empire gives me such hope.

Empires fall. There is not one single empire that has lasted more than, hmm, maybe eight centuries? (Don't quibble me on that, I'm not checking Wikipedia while I write this.) Cultures last, sure, but they change, enormously, over time.

What lasts through empires, what lasts through cultural upheaval, what lasts through paradigm shifts, is people.

Small groups of people, working together, last through everything.

When the WRE crumbled under the combined weight of internal conflict, over-reliance on mercenaries, and pressure from people displaced by the Hun expansion, small groups of people were still ... everywhere. Small groups of people illuminated manuscripts. Small groups of people sailed the entire Mediterranean, trading. Small groups of people opened trading posts up and down the Volga and Dnepier. Small groups of people sailed the Indian Ocean. Small groups of people farmed, and cleared land, and kept animals, and spun and wove, they lived and lived and lived and lived.

Either worlds never end, or they end all the time, but either way, people continue.

I do not know the shape of what will come as this world's ending rolls on, but I know people will be there.

[theupstairskid]

My boyfriend's Roman Empire is the Roman Empire...and also *checks notes* The Aristocats?

[duxfemina]

If you were going to pin the BEGINNING of the downfall of the Roman Republic on the actions of one Roman

[rambleonwithrosie]

Okay of these three characters (all historical and real) who would you most be interested in reading novel/s about?

Pompeius Magnus - rule breaker, golden boy, literally the most likable guy, builder of great buildings and most successful general ever pretty much. He also respects women which is just unheard of in his day to the point people make fun of him for it. He's also got a lot of tragedy and loss and the most poignant and cinematic death in all of history

Sextus Pompeius - "pirate", rebel, heart of absolute gold, honorable even to the people who deserve it least. Savior to hundreds, lord of Sicily. Dutiful son of a slain father. Also experiences a lot of loss. The last resistance to the totalitarian triumvirs. Very successful against them for years and largely forgotten by history. He was given the libelous title of "pirate king" but that just makes him sound cooler if you ask me

Pompeia Magna - fatherless at age six, tumultuous childhood that ends with her being put in the care of her uncle (this is where history ends and my made up story for her begins) used as a pawn to curry favor with a man she despises who was responsible for the ruin of her family, proud in spite of her humiliation. Taken under the wing of the "empress" who knew her as a child. She brushes shoulders with some of the big names of her day including the eventual successor to the governing of the empire. Without any true family to guard and protect her she is both more exposed to danger but also capable of more freedom of movement. She navigates the deadly waters of Rome to outlive all her enemies and see the men who put her in harms way brought to justice and to finally achieve her lifelong goal of living in security on her family's ancestral lands

Definitely put any further thoughts in the comments and tags

[indycarnocontext]

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

It’s been a while, Tumblr. How’s it going?

Anyway, remember ages and ages ago I shared the start of a murder mystery set in Ancient Rome?

It’s a thing now! It’s a new name for a new genre. This one is not a romance, but there is a very, very slow burn mm subplot.

It’s out on November 28, and would make the perfect Saturnalia present!

Rome, 58 AD.

The dinner party didn’t turn out the way Aemilius Valerius expected. He didn’t expect a place at the main table. He didn’t expect to drink that much. He didn’t expect to hook up with one of the scarier dancers. And he most certainly didn’t expect to trip over the bloody corpse of his host on the floor of the informal dining room.

One man’s grisly murder is another man’s opportunity. Valerius teams up with the investigator, a plebeian with a chip on his shoulder, to discover the killer. Mad Uncle Maro promised it would be a smart career move, but that was before a second senator turned up dead. Now everything points towards a corrupt legion, an imperial assassin, and the emperor’s mother. It might have been smarter to accept that honorary priesthood, stupid hat or not.