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ohmelinoe · 1 year ago
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The Invisible Empire by Juha Arvid Helminen
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energeticwarrior · 11 months ago
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Safe to say the best night of my life :,)
And thanks to @goldenhowell I realized I just met Dan on the anniversary of the Phil Video that (predicted dan) gave me my url that I so carefully chose seven years ago😭😭😭😭😭😭
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wavesoutbeingtossed · 9 months ago
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holding onto the idea of "invisible string" keeping the relationship alive when things got hard and confusing like...
The point of "invisible string" isn't necessarily that they're fated, it's that it's nice to pretend that was the case. They're a series of coincidences that made them the people they are that happened to land them in the same spot at the same time where they met and hit it off and the rest is history. Taken on their own they don't indicate some cosmic link drawing them together, but they're a series of thousands of minute choices throughout their lives that tell their individual stories and now they're joined for their story together.
So what happens when the choices you continue to make are hurting you? But, those choices once led to the greatest joy of your life (or so you thought), so surely that could once be your fate again. You hold on for dear life (until old habits die screaming, ahem). You make more choices to try to get back to when it was just so pretty to think that you were fated to be together.
(And that's how "invisible string" ends up on the set list for your world tour while you're desperately trying to keep that relationship alive because isn't it just so pretty to think that this could work out.)
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kryptidcreative · 9 months ago
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Godzilla / Pinkzilla
my husband and I saw the new movie recently!
Good times. Drew this because I've never really drawn this king of monsters
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withlovebinnie · 1 year ago
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Are we really even a fandom if we don't have an animatic? Well, doesn't matter, I made one!
Unfortunately, it is very sad...
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ftwkcomic · 9 months ago
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The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog #2 page 12
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passerine-parable · 10 months ago
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Death to Empire // Death to those who would rewrite our histories // Death to those who would crush our free will and pierce our limbs with their golden teeth
Authority is an illusion. Hierarchies are doomed to collapse. Objectivity is the enemy.
We will win this turn.
Red WILL prevail
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This piece of writing utterly changed my life and continues to do so. https://suspended-annihilation.com/greyface
This art is the product of accumulated emotions amidst my continuing apprenticeship with its author.
(Apologies to my friends who are used to seeing the calmer side of me- I hope you find this sudden ferocity amusing)
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bothzangetsus · 1 year ago
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@mondengel moving to a new post for ease, but you make a good point. I'd assumed that their desire for glory was the way a child was to please their parent (continuing the Father of All Quincies thing) (and I think for some it is? like as nodt), but it makes sense if they were simply unaware. In which case I can see the argument of them as having chauvinistic-to-the-max ideals much more easily.
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skyler-reads28 · 2 years ago
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Have a little pride stack before June wraps up 🌈🩷
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justinempire · 2 years ago
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(Justin Empire) The Cities Of Invisible Signs
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immaculatasknight · 4 months ago
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The ugly genocidal reality
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bluehydrangeasss · 6 months ago
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My roman empire is my future husband. I wonder what is he doing rn. Does he also think of me oftenly? Does he also feels like no one likes him? Is he dating someone? Is he younger or older than me, I hope he's the same age as me. Have I ever met him or talked to him, but idts any guy I have talked to till now is good enough or understands me to be my future husband. Btw is he also writing smth abt me rn? Is there any invisible string theory b/w us?
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literaryvein-reblogs · 1 month ago
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more words for characterization (pt. 4)
Age
adolescent, afresh, ancient, antiquarian, antique, big, childish, crude, doddering, elderly, fresh, full-grown/full-fledged, green, hoary, immemorial, infant/infantile, junior, late, medieval, mint, modish, new, novel, older, old-fashioned, originally, outdated/out-of-date, passé, quaint, refreshing, secondhand, stale, state-of-the-art, undeveloped, up-to-date, well-preserved, youthful
Appearance
adorable, aesthetic/esthetic, artistic, beautiful, comely, crisp, dapper, decorative, desirable, dressy, exquisite, eye-catching, fancy, fetching, flawless, glorious, good-looking, graceful, grungy, hideous, homely, irresistible, natty, ornate, plain, pretty, refreshing, resplendent, seductive, spiffy, striking, stylish, ugly, unbecoming, willowy, with-it
Genuineness
abstract, actually, alias, apocryphal, apparently, arty, authentic, baseless, beta, bona fide, circumstantial, concrete, contrived, credible, deceptive, delusive, dreamy, ecclesiastical, empirical/empiric, enigmatic/enigmatical, ersatz, ethereal, factual, fallacious, fantastic, far-fetched, fictitious, foolproof, fraudulent, good, hard, historical, honest-to-God, illusory/illusive, imitative, indisputable, invisible, just, lifelike, made-up, magic/magical, make-believe, matter-of-fact, metaphysical, monstrous, mystic/mystical, mythical/mythological, nonexistent, openhearted, ostensibly, paranormal, physical, positive, pretended, quack, quite, realistic, right, sincerely, specious, spurious, supernatural, synthetic, tangible, true, unearthly, unnatural, unthinkable, unvarnished, unworldly, valid, veritable, wholehearted/whole-hearted, wrong
Movement
ambulatory, brisk, clumsy, fleet, fluent, frozen, gawky, graceless, immobile, indolent, itinerant, leisurely, lifeless, liquid, lithe, maladroit, migrant/migratory, motionless, moving, nomadic, oafish, passive, pendulous/pendent, portable, restless, roundabout, sedentary, slow, speedy, static, vibrant, winding
Style
adorable, baroque, becoming, black, bold, brassy, cheap, class, classy, contemporary, country, cultural, dashing, dowdy, eat high on the hog, exquisite, featureless, flamboyant, floral, flowery, formless, futuristic, garish, gay, glamorous, gorgeous, grand, graphic, hot, improvised, informal, innovative, kinky, loud, lush, luxurious, mean, meretricious, modish, neat, new, obsolete, old-fashioned, orderly, ornamental, ostentatious, outdated/out-of-date, palatial, picturesque, plush, posh, prevalent, quaint, refined, resplendent, rustic, scruffy, sharp, simple, sleazy, smart, snazzy, spiffy, spruce, stately, state-of-the-art, stylish, swank/swanky, tacky, tasteless, tousled, two-bit, unbecoming, unworldly, up-to-date, vogue
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The above are concepts classified according to subject and usage. It not only helps writers and thinkers to organize their ideas but leads them from those very ideas to the words that can best express them.
It was, in part, created to turn an idea into a specific word. By linking together the main entries that share similar concepts, the index makes possible creative semantic connections between words in our language, stimulating thought and broadening vocabulary.
Source ⚜ Writing Basics & Refreshers ⚜ On Vocabulary
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sad0nion · 2 years ago
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i had a dream i was watching this weird mcyt battle royal thing and charlie slimecicle was just running around as 2 slime blocks holding a wooden sword😭
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city-of-ladies · 5 months ago
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"Here’s what we know about Julia Felix: she lived in Pompeii from at least 62 CE. She was possibly illegitimate but was definitely not a member of the social and cultural elite. She worked for a living setting up and running a very interesting business and, by 79 CE, she had planned to shift her focus from managing a business to owning property. We know all these things because twentieth-century excavations at her business uncovered an advert, carved in stone and attached to the external wall of her huge building. It reads:
"To rent for the period of five years from the thirteenth day of next August to the thirteenth day of the sixth August, the Venus Bath fitted for the nogentium, shops with living quarters over the shops, apartments on the second floor located in the building of Julia Felix, daughter of Spurius. At the end of five years, the agreement is terminated."
This find illuminated the building it was attached to, bringing what otherwise looked like a very large anonymous domestic house into dazzling focus. With this description of the purpose of each room written by the owner herself, archaeologists and historians could see the site through a whole new lens and they realised that they had discovered a Roman entertainment space for the working middle classes. It is, so far, a completely unique find and it is magnificent. It offers us, as modern viewers, two amazing things: a little glimpse into the lives of the commercial classes of the Roman Empire who are so often completely and utterly invisible, and a brutal reminder that so much of what we ‘know’ about Roman women in the Roman world comes from rules concerning only the most elite.
We’ll do that second part first, because it’s the least fun. Roman written and legal sources are pretty universal in their agreement that although women could own property, they could not control it; they had no legal rights, could not make contracts and were to be treated as minors by the legal system for their entire lives. In order to buy or sell property women required a male guardian to oversee and sign off on any transactions. This is a basic truism of women in the Roman Empire, repeated ad nauseum by sources both ancient and modern including me, and it is undermined by Julia Felix’s rental notice. 
The rental ad makes it pretty clear that Julia Felix is the owner-operator of a business complex including public baths, shops and apartments (there’s more too, as we’ll see), and she doesn’t seem to require anyone else to help her rent it out. She names her father – sort of; ‘Spurius’ might just mean that she is illegitimate – but this is effectively a surname, a personal identifier to differentiate her from other Julia Felixes in the area. It doesn’t mean her father was involved. Furthermore, the use of her father’s name as an identifier suggests that Julia didn’t have a husband and was either unmarried or widowed in 79 CE. The strong implication of her advert is that Julia Felix was an independent lady, a honey making money and a momma profiting dollars who could truthfully throw her hands up to Destiny’s Child.
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We will never know if Julia escaped the flames and choking ash of 79 CE, fleeing as it swallowed her business and her home, but one discovery, made on 28 January 1952, suggests that she didn’t. The archaeologists, led by Amedeo Maiuri, uncovered on that day the skeleton of a woman who had fallen while running across the garden during the disaster. It’s clear this fallen woman was well off, because she was wearing a lot of gold jewellery. She carried four gold half-hoop earrings and wore four gold rings. Two of these rings were particularly expensive; both contained a red carnelian gem, one carved with a figure of Mercury, the other with an eagle. Around her neck she wore a necklace of gold filigree, dotted with ten pearls and hung with a green pendant. Someone stole both the necklace and earrings from the Pompeii Antiquarium in 1975 and no one, somehow, had ever bothered to photograph them so all we have are descriptions but the rings that survive are fine and expensive. The woman who wore them – was wearing them when she died – had real money to buy these objects and the woman who wore them did'nt leave Pompei in time.
 Moreover, when she was found it was clear that at the moment of her death she was heading not towards the street or towards safety, but towards the shrine to Isis in the garden where all the most valuable possessions were kept. The valuable possessions that Julia Felix grafted for and maybe couldn’t bear to leave behind. There’s no way to tell whether this skeleton is Julia Felix, whether these bones once stood and looked at the plots of land Julia bought and made plans, or whether they belong to a looter or a chancer or someone just caught out. But it’s nice to pretend that Julia Felix, who shaped the city’s roads around her dream and offered respite and luxury to workers and made a tonne of money doing it, died and was buried with the place that still bears her name."
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire, Emma Southon
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blessphemy · 22 days ago
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there’s a thing about Breq’s POV where she will notice the specter of servant/household labor. which makes sense considering that back when she was a ship she was the one to do the work. invisibly and without recognition. cleaning and mending and tending. We see though her eyes how much of her time was this menial labor. Comparatively little of her time was the explosive brutalism of military violence. The real exercise of power is the exercise of who sits back and who does the work.
- the perfectly white uniform of the immigration officer coming into the Radch, which she described as indicative of either a servant, or a great deal of time invested in an effort to look like there was a servant
- the impressive wall of household plants in Skaaiat’s home, speculated to be the full time job of one of the household’s occupants
There are more of examples, probably. And there’s something in here about Seivarden acting as servant to Breq in book 1.
I’m having a half-baked thought about how, even with the POV character being a millennia-old warship, with the arc of the story being about galaxy spanning imperialism and political maneuvering. this is a story about the overlooked and taken-for-granted daily work, which is what that empire invisibly hinges upon. man I love this series. And this first book in particular. It’s put together so clean.
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