#smp of the emperors

[susie-dreemurr]

Yeas shelby summon demons to cause trouble at the academy with Mr alternative dimension guy surely this will not backfire

[ahllohehn]

i feel like gem would give random cryptic messages to people to scare them

Gem, a few seconds after realizing everyone would have to double take on everything she says out of context

Happy Pride

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[joifee]

“Dance with me tonight?”

WOHOO here we gooo! My first art piece for @captain-writes fic "Masquerading as Strangers", which is yet another awesome fic written for the @hermitshippingbigbang!! I was so hyped when I saw the describtion of the fic, featuring my favorite ship - i just had to. The fic is amazing, i have read it multiple times already and at this point i am honored that i was able to draw for it^^ (there will be a second art piece for a later chapter from me as well)

[iris-the-illustrator]

Family picture

[lemonz4all]

Emperor Grumbot has a special place in my heart

[d0not-disturb]

would you be willing to draw Hermes?

If this is anything

Man I haven’t drawn either of those fuckasses in a while

[incorrect-esmp-quotes]

Katherine: Listen up. I’ve got one good reason why you should listen to me, instead of Gem. Look at what I can do!

Katherine: *does a one-armed handstand*

Gem: What does that have to do with anything?

Shelby: No, no, she's got a point.

[where-are-the-emperors]

The seablings are getting eateded.

[vpofcookies]

Have y'all heard the story where hair was a symbol of peace because rulers would cut their hair when they declared war - so long hair represented a peaceful empire, a powerful group that no one dared to threaten, or a ruler that was slow to anger?

Consider: antarctic empire where philza's hair is short to show that he is constantly prepared to battle the threats around them with full military force vs Techno with long hair as a sign that the enemies around them will have no impact on the peace within the empire because the threat they pose is so insignificant he won't even acknowledge it. The threat would be gone before he would finish cutting his hair and so he doesn't.

[susie-dreemurr]

Owen is literally a trained war soldier, in fact, one of the best. Not just counting brutal force, but he has calculated strategy and little to no issue fighting dirty. My man didn’t take down basically an entire army in one of the animations for nothing!

Shelby is a good option, too, even if not a winner. She has Literal Magic on her side and even if not a war soldier, she can still beat the shit (read: Joey) outta people with her scythe. With that said, in most the series, I don’t remember her using magic much to win any fight, so she’s not gonna be better than the professional soldier.

[susie-dreemurr]

UM………….

[ahllohehn]

Emperors of Olympus; PJO/HoO AU Character Illustrations

Non-text / Non-transparent versions of every portrait I've drawn for Empires members so far for this AU (including smp doubles)

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[allay-uxini]

Ok, Ok, so you know how Lizzie and Joel got married and then Joey and Shelby saw the goodies and were like “You wanna get married?” “Just for the gifts?” “Yeah!”

….well what if they ACTUALLY got married

It’d be a platonic marriage (obviously) for convenience, forming an alliance and resources (both from each other and from the wedding gifts). At first when referring to each other as spouses to the other empires they’d be weirded out but after a while they wouldn’t even bat an eye at the romantic connotations from the status and refer to each other as spouses with ease. They don’t call each other husband or wife when talking to each other however they will play the spouse card on the other when they want something.

For Example:

“Hey Joey what are you doing rummaging through my chests?”

“Ah, Shrub! My what a coincidence, I was just…”

“You were trying to steal from me weren’t you”

“I wouldn’t call it that. I was just….. borrowing some things AND as your husband I feel like this already belongs to me. You know ‘What’s yours is mine’ so really I’m not doing anything wrong”

“I don’t remember that being in my vows”

“Ahem! ‘I shall support you and your empire in order for us to become stronger’. This is just……supporting my empire’s builds!”

“You know what, sure! I’ll let you ‘borrow’ as much stuff from my chests as you like”

“Gre-”

“Only if I get to do the same after all I am your wife so it’s only fair”

“…well I suppose that could be arranged”

“That includes your totem farm”

“What, do you want me to make a special wife chest in my farm”

“Yes”

Their marriage is actually REALLY good and healthy to the surprise of EVERY SINGLE EMPIRE as they were all sure they were going to be awful (the perks of marrying your best friend I suppose). Then Xornoth gave Joey the crown.

You see the best thing about a platonic marriage between Shelby and Joey is that it makes Jornoth infinitely funnnier because the entire arc Joey was after Shelby and she’s like:

“Is this REALLY how you want to treat your wife”

*gasp* “Shelby are you, jealous? Oh Shelby, don’t you remember our marriage is strictly political and I can love whoever I want”

“What! No, I just think that my husband should have better taste in men!”

And then you also remember that Xornoth was mostly targeting Shelby so Joey is like “Xornoth! Are you flirting???? With my wife???? Instead of ME???????” Though after the whole Xornoth situation I feel like they’d still have a pretty good marriage just with more teasing, bickering and banter.

Joey and Shelby's friendship in season 1 is underrated and just thinking about all the hilarities this marriage can create is making me giddy. Or maybe I’ve just been reading too much of Rain’s marriage of the state au and Mochi’s secret husbands au that I also wanted to make a marriage au.

(If this gets enough traction I might open up my ask box for this au and maybe talk about some fairytale trio shenanigans for this)

[iris-the-illustrator]

I’ve been playing Mario and Luigi brothership a lot since I got it for Christmas, then this idea just came to me

[i-am-creacheur]

okay listen. I get the urge to talk about my favorite life series ship like it's Canon in every season...BUT. THAT HAS NEVER ONCE BEEN THE CASE.

Yes, Jimmy would be upset if Tango canaried (technical scientific term for that). Everyone would be- even I would be, and I've never watched a single one of his videos. Canarying sucks, and it hurts. Of course I would be upset. THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT I THINK JIMMY WOULD BREAK DOWN SOBBING FROM A CHARACTER STAND POINT. They have had only like... THREE on screen interactions. One is Tango murdering a man infront of Jimmy and another is Tango cheerfully burning down something one of Jimmy's teammates worked very hard on. WildLifeChara!Jimmy has more reason to hate or be afraid of WildLifeChara!Tango than to be madly in love with him.

I promise you, if Tango had offered Jimmy a life instead of Ren, people wouldn't shut up about for MONTHS. But, because it's Ren, somehow the interaction isn't NEARLY as homoerotic??? I understand having NOTP's, but the Jimmy/Ren ship doesn't even show up ONCE on ao3. Zero fics. ZE-RO. There's no reason to hate something that doesn't even exist.

This same concept applies for Flower Husbands as well- not just in Wild Life, and Secret Life and Limited Life and Last Life and Real Life though- in Empires.

I have no clue about Empires Season 1, but they barely interacted in Empires Season 2- and yet the amount of ship art I sift through on a weekly basis for my side blog is actually insane. Yeah, the few interactions WERE important, but I think Scott only flirted (in video) with Jimmy maaybbeeee three times. I have no idea what the count of that for streaming is, but I swear it is not enough to keep that number so inflated.

Although, honestly, this problem might just be affecting me because of my personal view on shipping- if it's in a context where it doesn't make sense for the characters to be romantically engaged, I won't read it or write it.

For example, my beloved Solidwood! I mostly get their vibes or read their fics from the following series: Evo, Last Life, New Life, Empires2, Secret Life. That's because those settings make sense! They are active, they are engaged, they have near constant interactions or very close base locations. It makes SENSE for them to be shipped. However, if you showed me art or fic of them in, say, Limited Life, I'd furrow my brow and tilt my head and say "no, that doesn't do anything for me." BECAUSE THEY HAVE ZERO REASON TO BE INVESTED ROMANTICALLY IN ONE ANOTHER THERE, AS A STAND ALONE SETTING.

Most of the major Jimmy ships, though, don't follow this rule. I can understand loving a ship so much you want to see it everywhere- but, I promise you, stepping back and looking at which characters actually have chemistry regarding the new setting and social system will do wonders... you won't have to think of new Au's to insert your favorite ship into a new setting... all ships will be your favorite ship (unless they give you the ick). Join the multishiper hivemind /j

No but honestly it's gotten to the point where I will like or dislike a creator/character of theirs by what ship is their most popular given the context of the setting. Like, Tango in Double Life? Awww the sweetie!! I love him :) and then Tango in Empires2 sets off alarm bells in my brain screaming at me. He is NOT meant to be here bringing that ship here, this is NOT its territory. Same problem for Scott in nearly damn near every SMP both Jimmy and him are in... except Wild Life because he's actually been pretty nice and not condescending or forcing on Jimmy. I guess also power imbalances in how fans view them is a major no-go for me...

Idk if you read this whole thing thanks I guess... for anymore needed context I am a Jimmy rarepair obsessed multishiper.

TLDR; Lots of popular ships are inserted into settings without a thought for what that would mean for the setting and any changes in the established social connections, which gives OP the ick. I'm also not policing ships I'm just begging people to please either understand more ships using in setting context or list their AU details in the summaries of the fics. This goes hand in hand with misinterpreting characters in writing also... the more ships you like the more characters you will get to get good at writing!!!!

[marabelle5]

I read some of my fics to my brother who is younger than me and has never watched Empires smp. He said to me after I read them to him

"can you write more stories about the Copper King?" His favorite character is the Copper King. Not the one who blows up stuff, not the assassin, not the godly fighter, not the king who kills horses.

No

The Prophet of Death who just wants to hang out with his friends but is stoped every time by other people's crap while also telling people to do better pranks.

Yep that guy! Breed them young with Pix propaganda!